After Killing 780 Protesters Since March – Syria Condemns Israel For Firing on Protesters Today
Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, May 15, 2011, 4:49 PM
Human rights groups claim 780 protesters have been gunned down in Syria since the start of the democracy protests in March.
Syria sent in tanks to quash the democratic uprising this week.
But that didn’t stop the Assad regime from condemning Israel today for firing on protesters who stormed across their border from Syria. 16 protesters were killed today as they tried to storm the Israeli border for Nakba Day.
The Jerusalem Post reported:
Syria condemned on Sunday Israel’s “criminal activities” in the Golan Heights,Gaza, the West Bank and southern Lebanon where Israeli forces had fired to disperse pro-Palestinian protests.
Israeli troops shot at protesters in three separate locations to prevent crowds from crossing Israeli frontier lines.
State news agency SANA quoted the foreign ministry as saying it called on the international community to hold Israel responsible for the incidents, the deadliest such confrontation along the borders in years.
UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon (UNIFIL) urged the parties involved in the shooting incident on Sunday at the Lebanese-Israeli border to show “maximum restraint” to prevent casualties.
Spokesman Andrea Tenenti said UNIFIL was in contact with the Lebanese army and the Israeli military. Security sources said four people had been killed after Israeli forces fired in the air to repel Palestinians demonstrating at Maroun a-Ras on the border.
“Hundreds of Lebanese and Palestinians approached the fence at Maroun a-Ras. The Lebanese army did not stop them. When IDF saw them attempting to destroy the fence, they took steps to stop them,” Brig.-Gen. Yoav “Poli” Mordechai told Channel 10 News.
Related… American Power blog has more video and photos from today’s Arab protests.
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Published May 23, 2012 at 4:57 am - 63 Comments
wolf t. commented:
The Israelis should have machine gunned all those attempting to cross the current ceasefire lines.
There is currently no border. There has never been a border! These are ceasefire lines established after the ’48 and ’67 war. In effect, the host countries have abrogated the current ceasefire. Israel has the right to attack and decimate Lebanon and Syria for this breach.
That said, less arabs were killed by Israels today than the amount of arab women killed through honor killings in the same time frame.
Gman commented:
Sometimes I wish Israel would just say “screw it” and unleash hell on all those countries around it.
invisibledude commented:
#2 May 15, 2011 at 5:26 pm
Gman commented:
Sometimes I wish Israel would just say “screw it” and unleash hell on all those countries around it.
YES. THAT. ^^^^^^^^^^^^
vagabond trader commented:
Deliberate organized provocation. They want fatalities,it enhances their victimhood. I also want Israel to give the jihadis their wish.Israel will always be in a no win situation,world opinion be damned. DO IT!
Bob commented:
To paraphrase “Animal House”: You can’t shoot at our citizens; Only we can shoot at our citizens!”.
alk commented:
Well, since Isreal can’t win in the opinion catagory..I’d say ..to he ll with it….Let’s end this NOW!
#1AMERICAN commented:
F*** ‘em up Israel… just start blasting away and say STFU to everyone else
#1AMERICAN commented:
Just start blasting away at anyone who continues to advance on your country….stand firm Israel
Taqiyyotomist commented:
Apparently Syria has heard of Saul Alinsky.
Rule #4: “Make the enemy live up to it’s own book of rules.”
Then again, maybe — just maybe — Syria and Alinsky have the same Father in Hell.
Redwine commented:
The Syrians didn’t “try” to infiltrate the Israel border, they actually did infiltrate the border, as this video shows: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekgkuAaTjPg . They were aided by traitors from Majdal Shams, on the Israeli side. I understand that the IDF is flushing them out. The major problem is that Israel has a very liberal and weak Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, who is a big appeaser and has a history of failure. (Never trust anyone with “Barak” in their name!)
Spike commented:
F_ _K Syria and the whole middle east…minus Israel!
Donald Douglas commented:
Huge roundup: ‘Nakba Violence Erupts in Middle East — Analysts: Iran, Syria Leveraging Arab Spring to Destroy Israel (VIDEO).’
Taqiyyotomist commented:
OT
Yet another reason why we should pressure West to run for president:
http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2011/05/allen-west-nail.html
sablegsd commented:
Typical inbred, mush brained islamic hypocrisy and violence.
tommy mc donnell commented:
i see a spot on the UN human rights commission in syria’s future.
jay meyer commented:
No other country in the world is as relentlessly vilified, targeted and attacked as Israel – and no other country shows such extraordinary restraint and virtue in defending herself.
Bottom line…
Disarm the @rab world and Israel will leave them in peace.
Disarm Israel – and the @rabs will destroy her.
Syrian commented:
Long live Palistaine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BaconBits commented:
I find NO PROBLEM with Syria’s hypocrisy, just figure the more Syrians their own government kills the less Israel will have to kill. Actually, this is a money saving move on behalf of Israel from my point of view – bullets and jet fuel is exspensive! I wouldn’t mind seeing the entire country melt down into chaos – it would keep them out of Israel’s hair.
As for Nakba Day…. What is that, the Palestinian version of Kwanza? It seems awfully heroic for the Syrian government and Hamas to have a bunch of women and children crossing the Israeli border un-armed! Can anyone say ‘Cannon Fodder’? It’s just the typical Muslim pussy strategy trying to provoke a confrontation with the Israeli’s. My big question is WTF is the matter with you IDF? Can’t you shoot just a little straighter the next time? This was a target rich environment and you didn’t send hardly anyone to Paradise! Mohammad (PB&J) is getting tired shoveling coal in hell, he might like a few little kids to bug*er in his free time.
daveinboca commented:
Syria is marching to the Iranian mad mullahs’ orders and their hypocrisy only makes them appear more an international pariah—except for the honor-killing crazies in the Arab dog universe.
contessa61 commented:
apparently it is okay if muslims kill 800 other muslims but not okay if jews kill one muslim.
dunce commented:
Can anybody cite anything that the UN peace keepers have done in Lebanon or anywhere that actually kept the peace?
Andreas K. commented:
“Syria sent in tanks to quash the democratic uprising this week.”
Amusing. You guys are falling into the same trap over and over again. Heck, you differ between a radical and a moderate islam FFS.
There is no democratic uprising. There is only the jihadis pushing for a more islamic leader of Syria. They don’t want democracy, they want more sharia.
Geert Wilders called all of this the “Arab winter”.
To quote from his speech in Tennessee:
“A recent poll in post-revolution Egypt found that 85 percent of Egyptians are convinced that islam’s influence on politics is good, 82 percent believe that adulterers should be stoned, 84 percent want the death penalty for apostates. The press refers to the events in the Arab world today as the Arab spring. I call it the Arab winter.
Islam and freedom, islam and democracy are not compatible.”
Same thing will be in Syria if those “democratic protesters” win.