Banking on the Gullible
The IDF killed 3 palestinians in an operation against terrorists this afternoon. And as usual, there are conflicting reports regarding their identities.
Three Palestinians were killed and five more were wounded in an IDF operation in the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday afternoon.
The IDF confirmed forces operating in the Strip targeted a Palestinian cell en route to launch rocket attacks from against Israeli towns.
The casualties have yet to be identified, largely due to the fact that the bodies were reportedly charred. It is unclear if those killed are indeed gunmen or civilians. Contradictory Palestinian reports say the three were either Fatah political operatives unaffiliated with the movement’s military wing, the al-Aqsa Martyr’s Brigades or – according to a report by the Associated Press – three Jordanian bankers holding a picnic in an open field with the missile struck.
What a coincidence. They were my three guesses….Fatah terrorists, Al Aqsa terrorists, or… Jordanian bankers on a picnic.
I can imagine it now…
Banker 1: How about this spot over here?
Banker 2: Perfect.
Banker 3: I’m a little risk averse, so I would prefer not to sit here, right between our brothers firing rockets, and that Israeli tank on the hill there.
Banker 1: So with the US economy as it currently is, do you see a recession heading our way?
Banker 3: Incoming.
Banker 1: Me too.
Kaboom!
Yes, I know I’m being flippant about it, but color me skeptical. After all, this is not the first time the palestinians have invoked the “picnic in a warzone” story.
Update: According to this palestinian report, witness saw them “drinking tea in their field when the Israeli missile hit them.” Does that constitute a picnic? After all, is tea a meal? And isn’t it weird that witnesses would recall exactly what they were consuming at the time, to the detail of identifying it was tea and not coffee. Lucky that there were some palestinian witnesses around!
Not only that, but notice how the report also identifies them as “three youth.” What are the chances that youth would have already graduated from college and entered the Jordanian banking industry?
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About the Author: An Australian immigrant to Israel, Aussie Dave has been blogging since early 2003.
The first casualty of war is the truth.
The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them… To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies — all this is indispensably necessary.
That’s the definition of doublethink, from Orwell’s 1984.
Israel does not target civilians.
That is however a plan and approved tactic, of the non-country called Palestine.
Jeffrey Nihart
Somewhere in that picnic scenario, you have to add the line “one lump or two?”.
I think the report is a misunderstanding.
There were no three Jordanian bankers in Gaza but somebody was gazing at a tree on the banks of the Jordan.
It’s still the Jews’ fault though!
And there was no “T” but an “F”.
They also alleged that a family was “picnicking” on a Gaza beach when a mine went off, killing 4 or 5 of them a few years ago… it was alleged to be a shell from a Israeli gunboat, but Israel denied the allegation, and the victims were treated by israeli doctors who could find no shrapnel wounds as they has already dug out the metal, if i recall correctly….
http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=2&x_outlet=35&x_article=1129
I wonder if they were drinking the tea out of a teacup, a rolled up newspaper, or were they just sucking on a damp cloth?
Luxury!
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