Just one more little niggle... re: Contrariwise, were the Jews deprived of their high-tech paraphernalia, I bet you there're enough fanatic rabbis out there who'd call for JEWISH suicide bombers against those "Satanic Arabs"... I can't comment because it has never happened. So your point is?
You're right Joe, you don't have "suicide bombers" yet --you do have suicide shooters though:
Muslim grave desecrated in apparent revenge for Goldstein shrine
January 3, 2000
Web posted at: 11:29 AM EST (1629 GMT)
The Israeli army took down the shrine to mosque murderer Baruch Goldstein
JERUSALEM (AP) -- The grave of a Muslim cleric was found desecrated Monday with red paint and swastikas, an apparent act of revenge for the dismantling of a shrine to Baruch Goldstein, a Jewish settler who killed 29 Muslims worshippers.
A group calling itself "Friends of Baruch Goldstein" claimed responsibility for desecrating the grave of Izzedine al Qassam, who was killed in 1935 while fighting against British rule of Palestine, police spokeswoman Linda Menuhin said.
A shrine at Goldstein's grave in the Jewish West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba was dismantled last week by the Israeli army. The shrine had become a magnet for Jewish extremists who called Goldstein a hero for killing 29 worshippers in a Hebron mosque in 1994 before being bludgeoned to death by the crowd.
In response to the dismantling of the shrine, Goldstein supporters threatened to deface the grave of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in Jerusalem. Police have posted guards at the grave of Rabin, who was assassinated in November 1995 by an ultranationalist Jew opposed to his land-for-peace deals with the Palestinians.
Qassam's grave is located in a small Muslim cemetery in the town of Nesher, near the northern Israeli port city of Haifa. The Islamic militant group Hamas has named its military wing after Qassam.
Menuhin said "Baruch Goldstein" was written on Qassam's grave, which was also defaced with swastikas. Three nearby graves were also desecrated, she said.
Nouman Barieh, a member of the Islamic Trust in Israel, said that there will be no revenge attacks against Jewish cemeteries.
"We are not interested in going down to this level," said Barieh on Israel radio.
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