August 14, 2005

Frenchman Kidnapped in Gaza

(Gaza City) A French television sound engineer was kidnapped by three gunmen outside his hotel in Gaza City and bundled into a waiting car just hours before Israel commenced its withdrawal of Israeli settlers from the Gaza Strip. The technician works for French 3 Public Television.

In another report, TurkishWeekly.net:

Palestinian security forces have said they are investigating reports that a member of a French television crew was kidnapped by gunmen outside his Gaza City hotel.
At this time, there's not much confirmation of the story. It's understandable in light of the fact that the Israelis are presently shushing settlers out of the Gaza Strip. They have 48 hours to leave or be forced out. Expect trouble.

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Posted by: Mike Pechar at 10:48 PM | Comments (4) | Add Comment
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1 And we're supposed to feel... how? The guy's French after all, and this is probably another Sgrena type publicity stunt to raise money for the terrorists.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at August 15, 2005 06:32 AM (0yYS2)

2 What I don't understand is why the Palestinians think they have made such a huge victory out of ousting 8,500 from a community of 1.5 million Palestinians. The gaza has a 50% to 60 % unemployment rate. Is that going to change now? Nope. Suha needs a new pair of shoes! This is a win really for Israel. They can now redeploy the 50,000 troops it took to protect 8,500 and make better use of them. Yet they still complain that Israel will not heed international pleas to allow Palestinians to travel to jobs inside Israel. I see. It's now illegal for an Israeli to be in Palestinian controlled Gaza, but "they" want jobs in Israel. I guess peace is predicated on "their" definition of it.

Posted by: Oyster at August 15, 2005 07:39 AM (YudAC)

3 i was watching BBC news this morning as i got my daughter ready for school, and Abbas was on....they lobbed some easy questions at him but the one i remember best was if the Palies were going to rush in once the Israelies where gone and of course he said no, that the pailies were going to take it slow and easy....yea right!!!..after seing those pics of these barbarians burning model homes, i bet they cant wait to get in there and burn down all of the empty settlements just so they can pretend they burned the Israelie settlers out of their homes...ive never seen a less unworthy people to have a state of their own, never mind even to be able to exist....what a bunch of losers they are...thats okay, the land that was all green and growing thanks to thise Israelie settlers who took care of the land will now all go back to being a dry, dusty, barren place

Posted by: THANOS35 at August 15, 2005 09:27 AM (IJ51c)

4 Once they have a state of their own they can be invaded and conquered properly if they act up, which they will.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at August 15, 2005 10:30 AM (0yYS2)

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