Right after Ramle was conquered the commander chose a building in the city and put the flag of Israel on the top of it. “The soldiers told me that the city’s Arab elders and notables wish to report”. The room was full of great fear. Finally the eldest of them all opened his mouth and said: “We request to know what do you intend to do to us”.

The Israeli officer chose to reply with this sentence: “We will do to you exactly what you would have done to us”.

The elders immediately burst in tears.

NABLUS, West Bank (AP) - Hundreds of Palestinians demonstrated in Nablus against violence by armed men after gunmen shot and killed a young mother and a teenager died in an explosion.

Demonstrations against fellow Palestinians are rare in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, though marches and rallies protesting Israeli occupation take place almost daily.

About 500 people rallied in downtown Nablus, demanding an end to the virtual immunity from prosecution or punishment for crimes ranging from robbery to murder.

The violence came to a head on Wednesday.

Three gunmen went into a pharmacy to abduct another man. On the way out, witnesses said, one of the gunmen fired randomly on the street, killing Amnah Abu Hiljah, 36, who was holding her 2- month-old baby.

In the second incident, a 14-year-old boy was killed when a bomb he was playing with exploded, security officials said, adding that the device was like those planted on West Bank roads against Israeli vehicles.

After the woman's funeral, Palestinians held banners that read, ``stop the killers.''
A protester who identified himself only by his first name, Hassan, said: ``The people must rise up against them, because all of them are responsible for the mess in this city.''

Quote from Offended: "it would have been wise to realise that Muslims reading his blog would sooner or later come across links to that offensive Israeli blog"

Offended is right Jeff. Think of your brainless, impressionable, thin-skinned, knee-jerk Muslim readers, they might get offended by accidently clicking a link on your blog that takes them to musings/rantings a JEW that might confound their image of Jews as disgusting, degenerate, Muslim hating, arab killing, money grabbers. Do you want to be responsible for that Jeff?

And Jeff, you are being really irresponsible by only titling this Jew's blog as "Isreali Guy". I mean, how often have we all "mistakenly" clicked through on a link with the title "naked hot chicks" & be surprisingly confronted by images of undressed women?

After all, the last thing your Muslim readers will expect when clicking through on a blogrolling link titled "Isreali Guy" is to find a blog by an Isreali Jew. I myself really expected pictures of naked hot chicks when I clicked on "Isreali Guy".

So in conclusion, either remove the link completely or put it in a special restricted area (with triple flashing warnings) because its not nice for a Muslim to be confronted by Jews blogging on the Arab-Isreali conflict.

Offended has a choice not to click on the said link. The views of all, be it left wing or right wing Jewish views, are just as legitimate as views sympathising with Palestinians. Just because the Malaysian government doe not recognize the Israeli administration, it does not mean that Malaysians cannot read about the views of the Israeli people concerning the peace process.

I am a Muslim. Like Offended, I disagree with the opinions of Israeli Guy. However, unlike Offended, I am not offended.

We should learn to listen to opposing views and counter them in a polite and rational manner.

”while I realise what the Israeli blogger writes is not of Ooi’s responsibility and neither is it under his control, but perhaps it would have been wise to realise that Muslims reading his blog would sooner or later come across links to that offensive Israeli blog.

What is his point in linking to that blog? I can think of nothing short of it being an indirect way to insult Muslims who are generally opposed to Israel's Zionism. I don't care if Mr Ooi really believes that Israelis are God's chosen people or if he resents Islam - ask him to keep whatever ill thoughts he harbours for other people's religion to himself.

And before I am accused of being anti-Semite or narrow minded, just look at the following entry from that Israeli blog and then judge if I really have been narrow-minded or unreasonable: (here follows a quote of this rather in favor of the Road Map post)

"I don't hate the Jews - most prophets in Islam were Jews. Even some present day Jews oppose what Israel is doing to the Palestinians - Allegra Pacheko, Noam Chomsky, Jack Bernstein, Israel Shahak, Gideon Levy, to name a few prominent Jews.