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To: average joe who wrote (8258)	5/10/2005 12:25:26 PM
From: Yaacov	Respond to of 22250

if his mom knew how he will turnout, she would have strangled him at birth!

To: average joe who wrote (8258)	5/10/2005 12:27:39 PM
From: Yaacov	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22250

Look here Joe, nobody expected Gus to become an El-Kaida operative when he started. Something went wrong with Gus, he red the 7 Pillars of Wisdom too many times, or maybe he was mislead by Len and Dung!

To: average joe who wrote (8258)	5/10/2005 2:33:32 PM
From: Emile Vidrine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22250

BEITUNYA, West Bank --Israeli motorists sprayed a group of Palestinian high school students with bullets from American-issued assault weapons on Thursday, Sept. 17, killing one youth and wounding another, witnesses and doctors said. The eyewitnesses said the motorists shot without provocation. The shooting occurred around noon in the West Bank village of Beitunia. Witnesses said about 10 high school students were walking along the main road on their way home from school when a vehicle with Israeli license plates pulled up near them. The passengers rolled down their windows and began firing from a pistol and an assault rifle, said Raed Abdel Rahman, 17, one of the students who escaped injury. "Everybody started to jump and take cover," said Rahman. A high school student who was also on the scene, Hassan al-Qadi, told reporters, "They were shooting randomly." The wounded were taken to nearby Ramallah Hospital. Iyad Rahwa Qarabsi, 17, a high school senior described as an outstanding student, was shot in the stomach. He died at the hospital about an hour later, according to Ramallah hospital director Shauke Harb. A doctor described the cause of death as bullet wounds from an M-16, an American-made, military assault rifle that Israeli settlers and soldiers carry. 15 year-old Mahmoud Issa Jabarin was in stable condition; also with a stomach wound, hospital officials said. At the family home, Qarabsi's mother collapsed on the floor and wept over the murder of her teenage son. "My beloved, you didn't come home with your schoolbooks today!" she sobbed. Ibrahim Murar, the principal of Beitunya's 700-student Palestinian high school said, ""He was one of the very best students in the school. School was more important to him than anything else." After being held in custody for three days, the Jewish gunman, Avshalom Ladani, 35, a member of the West Bank settlement of Dolev, was released by Israeli authorities. Ladani immediately joined a party at a Jerusalem hotel where he was feted as a hero. "We call on all [Jewish] residents to view Avshalom's behavior as upstanding citizenship," declared an advertisement placed in Israeli newspapers by the Yesha Council, a settlers' group. The ad said the Jewish killer was being "persecuted." Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu refused to condemn the shootings of the Palestinian students. According to the Sept. 21 Washington Post, "His aides pleaded extenuating circumstances..." They said the killer had been "provoked." Israeli officials said the shooting was not an act of Jewish terrorism; they termed the settler's action merely "carelessness," and "violence that was disproportionate." "This sounds to me like it was really an act of self-defense, if perhaps a careless one," said David Bar-Illan, an adviser to Netanyahu. A second Israeli gunman remains at large. This is the second shooting within two days in which Israelis killed or wounded Palestinian youths. On Tuesday, Sept. 15, a Jewish settler shot and wounded 16-year-old Mohammed Musa Dweik in the Palestinian village of Zatara.

To: average joe who wrote (8258)	5/12/2005 4:11:24 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 22250

Parler et offenser, pour de certaines gens, est précisément la meme chose. Ils sont piquants et amers; leur style est melé de fiel et d'absinthe: la raillerie, l'injure, l'insulte leur découlent des lèvres comme leur salive. Il leur serait utile d'etre nés muets ou stupides: ce qu'ils ont de vivacité et d'esprit leur nuit davantage que ne fait à quelques autres leur sottise. Ils ne se contentent pas toujours de répliquer avec aigreur, ils attaquent souvent avec insolence; ils frappent sur tout ce qui se trouve sous leur langue, sur les présents, sur les absents; ils heurtent de front et de coté, comme des béliers: demande-t-on à des béliers qu'ils n'aient pas de cornes? De meme n'espère-t-on pas de réformer par cette peinture des naturels si durs, si farouches, si indociles. Ce que l'on peut faire de mieux, d'aussi loin qu'on les découvre, est de les fuir de toute sa force et sans regarder derrière soi. La Bruyère, Les Caractères, De la société et de la conversation, 27 (v). For the English translation, see: ourcivilisation.com