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Sunday, May 15, 2011

The Most Unintentionally Funny News of the Day

There is rarely anything humorous that comes in the news from the Middle East. Today, however, we have a story that is so preposterous that it has to bring a smile. On the Israeli borders with both Lebanon and Syria today, Palestinian "demonstrators" tried to breach the border fence and cross into Israel. Supposedly, the genesis of the protests are Nabkha Day, the day that the Palestinians mourn the creation of Israel. It is sort of a reverse independence day. On the Syrian border, the people managed to get past the border fence and cross into Israeli territory. On the Lebanese border, no one crossed the fence. On the Lebanese border, the Lebanese army fired shots to push the crowds back and, when the people began trying to destroy the border fence, the Israeli troops fired as well. Four people were killed in the melee, although it is unclear whether they were killed by the Lebanese or Israeli fire. On the Syrian border, the Israel troop opened fire after the crowd breached the border fence and began attacking the Israelis. Four people were killed in that fight as well. So far, nothing is funny.

The humor comes from the reaction of the Syrian government to these events. The Syrian government expressed outrage that protesters would be treated in this way. the Syrian government is calling on the UN to sanction the Israelis for their conduct. This is the same Syrian government that has killed about 750 people in the last two months for taking part in demonstrations in that country. This is the same Syrian government that has put snipers in various cities where demonstrations were taking place; the snipers carried out random killings to terrorize the people into staying off the streets. this is the same Syrian government that controls the approaches to the Israeli border and which, therefore, had to have a hand in the demonstrations at the border. So the murderous Syrian regime takes abreak from killing hundreds of its own citizens to help organize a protest that illegally invades Israeli territory and attacks Israeli soldiers, thereby provoking a response. The murderous thugs of the Assad regime then express their "outrage" that the Israelis would do such a thing.

All I can say is Ha Ha Ha. How dumb do the Syrians think the world community is?

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