Picture Perfect

The below is a news article lifted directly from the BBC, and can be found here, if you so have the inclination to read it. It was placed on the web today (Thursday, 14 July, 2005, 23:07).

Soon after the barrage, Palestinian police, reportedly acting on orders to stop further rocket fire, clashed with Hamas members in northern Gaza.

The barrage being terrorists firing rockets from Gaza, into Israel.

Five militants were wounded when police fired at their car, Hamas said.

Surely a good thing? If the London bombers were not suicide bombers and had been caught, wouldn't everyone be extatic? If they were killed during arrest, wouldn't that be some sort of justice? And just why is the press giving publicity to terrorists?

The Palestinian Authority says large numbers of Hamas activists then poured into the area, attacking a security force post and setting fire to two jeeps.

Fair enough, though slightly alarming: how did "large numbers of Hamas activists" get there in the first place, on such short notice? They were placed there? No. They live there, is how. They were probably the local unit, or something.

"We will not keep silent," Mushir al-Masri, a Hamas spokesman, told Reuters, calling the police's action "unacceptable".

This is laughable. Nowhere else in the world do terrorists call the actions of police "unacceptable" for merely enforcing the law. I laugh in the face of Israel for tolerating such things. I salute Hamas for their sheer audacity. And lastly, I weep at the world which so lacks justice.