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5 freed militants vow to keep fighting Israel

usatoday.com — Five militants who were freed as part of a prisoner swap with Israel prayed Thursday at a slain Hezbollah military commander's grave, pledging to follow in his footsteps and continue fighting Israel. Wearing military fatigues, the five men walked down a red carpet laid out for them outside Imad Mughniyeh's burial spot at a cemetery south of Beirut.

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  • Maximilian000, on 07/17/2008, -16/+6and their Israeli counterparts vowed to continue slaughtering Palestinians.
    • yellowcakewalk, on 07/17/2008, -8/+3The illegal settlements go up every single day. And then there's the case of that shopping mall in Nablus. The ethnic cleansing continues. Fortunately, more and more people are reading Ilan Pappe's "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine" and beginning to understand the true nature of the state of Israel.
      • DreadPirate, on 07/18/2008, -0/+2Below is some context on Pappe's "work" that Yellowcakewalk and other will not give you, with all sources from the Wikipedia article on Pappe.

        Critiquing Pappé's 2004 book, A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples, historian Benny Morris wrote in the New Republic:

        'Unfortunately much of what Pappe tries to sell his readers is complete fabrication. [...] This book is awash with errors of a quantity and a quality that are not found in serious historiography. [...] The multiplicity of mistakes on each page is a product of both Pappe's historical methodology and his political proclivities[.] [...] For those enamored with subjectivity and in thrall to historical relativism, a fact is not a fact and accuracy is unattainable'. [14]

        Efraim Karsh considers Pappé book contains factual misrepresentations:

        'Readers are told of events that never happened, such as the nonexistent May 1948 Tantura "massacre" or the expulsion of Arabs within twelve days of the partition resolution. They learn of political decisions that were never made, such as the Anglo-French 1912 plan for the occupation of Palestine or the contriving of 'a master plan to rid the future Jewish state of as many Palestinians as possible.' And they are misinformed about military and political developments, such as the rationale for the Balfour declaration . . .'[17]

        In a review essay of "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine," Seth J. Frantzman calls Pappe's work "a cynical exercise in manipulating evidence to fit an implausible thesis." [19] Frantzman summarizes: "Pappe's book falls short, and it does so in a particularly damning way. He ignores context and draws far broader conclusions than evicence allows by cherry-picking some reports and ignoring other sources entirely."[20]
      • snea, on 07/18/2008, -0/+2@Max
        That's kinda hard to do when you're dead, dude.
    • JimmySpaza, on 07/18/2008, -2/+5"and their Israeli counterparts vowed to continue restraining any use of force against Palestinian terrorists who murder innocent women and children."

      There! Fixed it for ya.

      By the way, have you ever been to Israel, the Middle East, or even out of your parents' basement lately? No? Didn't think so.
  • AllINeed, on 07/17/2008, -2/+9I have 3 words in English "Bring it On!"
    and just one question in Arabic "Bit tifi wela bit tibla'ee?"
    and one lovely command in Hebrew "לך לעזאזל"
    • sungoddess808, on 07/17/2008, -1/+7Always great... a woman who speaks her mind! =)
    • DrDreyfus, on 07/17/2008, -1/+3Arabic translation?
  • BillE3, on 07/17/2008, -3/+9I hope they implanted gps chips in those guys.
  • InRussetShadows, on 07/17/2008, -3/+5Just goes to show you that terrorists are subhuman. Kill 'em all.
  • monsieurginger, on 07/17/2008, -2/+3please guys, shweya shweya, lets go partying first, then wrestle
  • yellowcakewalk, on 07/17/2008, -8/+3Until Israel withdraws behind its internationally recognized 1967 borders, as agreed to in United Nations Security Council Resolution 242, armed resistance is perfectly justified.
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