HELLO-OOOO...Where is everybody????

[PCIntern]

This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by hlthe2b (a host of the General Discussion forum).

So two miscreants enter a synagogue with a gun and a MEAT CLEAVER and this is not worthy of discussion here? Too busy posting about about what...the snow in Buffalo (shocking!) or Walmart business practices (even MORE surprising!)...or Bill Cosby's sex life (who didn't know about that for like, twenty years?). Really.

All the usual suspects are gone for now. Oh yes...I forgot...there WERE a few posts blaming the Jewish worshipers on LBN...I guess that was enough. After all, it's NOT anti-Semitism, it's dissatisfaction with the OCCUPIER. Yep....that must be it.

[JustAnotherGen]

1. For reference

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/jerusalem-synagogue-attack-four-worshippers-killed-at-har-nof-temple-by-terrorists-with-knives-and-axes-9866774.html

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to "respond with a heavy hand" after at least four people were killed and eight injured in what Israeli police described as a "terrorist" attack on a synagogue in Jerusalem.



Mr Netanyahu condemned Tuesday's violence as a "cruel murder of Jews who came to pray and were killed by despicable murderers”.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas denounced the bloodshed in a statement, saying: "The presidency condemns the attack on Jewish worshippers in their place of prayer and condemns the killing of civilians no matter who is doing it."

A British-born man has been identified as one of the four killed in the attack.

I don't have a wide enough scope of knowledge - in Israel/Palestine to post a topic like this as an OP. But if you ask me . . . That's as bad as the gun man that opened up on one of our churches (I'm a Unitarian) down in Tennessee a few years ago. I make no distinction between mad men who can't live and let live.

[maced666]

2. Nope.

I went after them and got my post locked. Guess I said the wrong thing?

[demwing]

3. Clearly you know how to start your own thread

You could be in the midst of a discussion on the topic of your choice.

I guess thread shaming is what you wanted to discuss?

[randome]

4. I know, it's been more quiet than usual here. A mass migration to warmer climes, perhaps?

[hr][font color="blue"][center]No squirrels were harmed in the making of this post. Yet.[/center][/font][hr]

[Blue_Adept]

5. Could not care less to be honest

What's to really say? Nut jobs kill people in tense area, things going to get worse no matter what because of how the response will be.

It made all the headlines on the news networks last night, but still.

When it comes to issues in this particular area, it's something that feels like it's been the same for pretty much all my life. Nothing is going to change with it unless something radical happens.

[PCIntern]

6. Thank you for the humanistic response...

at least you're honest. I'll take that FWIW.

[Blue_Adept]

8. Pretty much

I used to be a lot more engaged about this issue years ago, but after decades of seeing it either in a holding pattern with it slowly getting worse, like a roller coaster ride that's always angling downward, I'm just worn. So I tend to stick to things that are a bit more local and areas where I can nudge the dial even a touch alongside others.

When it comes to this, all the outrage in the world won't change a thing. We saw that with the last campaign this year.

[malaise]

7. The silence re the hanging of the Palestinian bus driver

which precipitated this latest round of 'an eye for an eye' was also deafening.

[oberliner]

14. Palestinian coroner agreed Arab bus driver hanged himself

The Palestinian forensic examiner who took part in the autopsy of a Palestinian bus driver, who was found hanged Sunday night, agreed with the initial findings that the death was a suicide, according to the director of the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute

Police and officials from the institute announced on Monday that the examination had found no signs of foul play. Director Dr. Chen Kugel explained that, in the absence of signs of violence to the neck or body, it was highly unlikely that Yusuf Hassan al-Ramouni, 32, could have been murdered.

“It is very hard to hang a conscious person against his will without leaving signs (of violence) other than those caused to the neck by the actual hanging,” Kugel said, according to Israel daily Haaretz.

He added that Palestinian examiner Dr. Saber al-Alul concurred throughout the process.

“From a medical standpoint, this is a very easy case to analyze, and we analyze dozens of such cases every year,” Kugel said. “What’s different in this case is not a medical issue, but the fact that somebody threw a claim, with no factual basis, that has the potential to ignite the region.”

http://www.timesofisrael.com/palestinian-coroner-agreed-arab-bus-driver-hanged-himself/#ixzz3JW9aMAfE

[leftynyc]

9. Not sure what you're expecting

Another thread proving Bill Maher was right (which he clearly was)?

[Violet_Crumble]

12. What's Bill Maher got to do with this? n/t

[Orrex]

10. A quick glance shows 7 threads about it in the I/P group, so there's that.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/113487902
http://www.democraticunderground.com/113487854
http://www.democraticunderground.com/113487812
http://www.democraticunderground.com/113487774
http://www.democraticunderground.com/113487897
http://www.democraticunderground.com/113487916
http://www.democraticunderground.com/113487866

It seems pretty clearly a terrorist attack, though I've seen nothing to link it to Hamas, so that changes the overall tenor of the story.

In any case, blaming the victims (or Israeli civilians in general) is obviously stupid.


What kind of discussion would you hope to take place in GD?

[RiverLover]

11. If you want to discuss it, why not just post an article about it & discuss?

Rather than post to put ppl down for not doing what you didn't want to do? I'm new here, so maybe that's why I don't get it.

[Shankapotomus]

13. I'm not taking either side

Both sides are stupid fighting over land this long because you think it's "holy." Subjecting the world to a constant grievance. Dragging everyone into this war of egos. When is one side going to just give up and move on for the the good of themselves and humanity? Leave, build a man-made island somewhere, take up a hobby, anything. Just figure it out already.

[hlthe2b]

15. Locking

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025307978
Host consensus is that this thread violates GD restrictions on meta discussion of DU and its members, meant to limit disruption of GD. Sorry....