Day of Catastrophe
Nabka Day – The Palestinian Day of Catastrophe this year even has some fireworks of sorts.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday responded to the events of Nakba Day, particularly attempts to infiltrate Israel’s borders with Syria, Lebanon and the Gaza Strip, saying “we are determined to defend our borders.”
Netanyahu stated that he had instructed the IDF to act with restraint, but to stop all attempts at infiltration and challenges to Israel’s sovereignty.
In a separate and almost laughingly ironic story:
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.
There’s a background piece over at the American Thinker:
What is the disaster Nakba Day commemorates? Nothing less than the day on which Israel Declared Independence in 1948. And to add insult to injury, the Palestinians commemorate their national disaster day every year to coincide with Israeli Independence Day, around 15 May.
Category: Historical, Holidays, Pointless blather, Politics
Re: the second quote, isn’t that what you do when people try to invade your country, shoot at them? Too bad the US has abandoned that concept.
Seems to me that Syria has cornered the market on shooting protesters this year.
AW1 Tim – respectfully disagree: China has been the winner in that category for several decades.
Agreed, DaveO, with one caveat. Syria doesn’t try to hide it, China apparently is trying.
But, you gots to admire the chutzpah of the Syrians, complaining about “criminal activities” by Israel. It either takes big balls, or brains like Bite-Me or Baghdad Bob.