[Bommer]

When the Israelis start using the same torture techniques that Janet Reno used in Waco, you know theres a fire not to far behind!

[tallhappy]

These noise assaults by law enforcement or military for situations like this must be the dumbest idea ever.

They did this with Noriega and at Waco.

I don't think it ever works and probably has the opposite effect.

[Romulus]

By making impossible the conduct of worship inside the church the Israelis are accomplishing something not even attempted by the Palestinians, and are badly damaging their case to the world to be the most reliable guarantors of the Holy Places.

By increasing tensions inside the church (which the Israelis are now invading in a psychological sense) this tactic heightens the danger of the clergy inside (consistent with earlier attempts to force them from the complex), and significantly heightens the risk of a violent breakout, giving the lie to the Israeli claim that they want to make peaceful arrests, and needlessly risking lives on all sides, as well as God's house.

[exdemrat]

Have they tried the new Cold Fusionweapon yet?

[conqueror]

Can you imagine the world wide reaction and the slaughter if Christians occupied the grand mosque at Mecca?

[realpatriot71]

if they were to be judged it should be before a Palestinian court

Riiiiiiiiight . . .

[Southern Federalist]

Israelis Blast Church with Invisible Weapon

Ah, yes, doubtless the work of those mad Jew scientists who have been working for years to invent Death Rays and Untraceable Poisons. Lineal successors, don't you know, of the evil Dr. Yakub, who invented white people 6000 years ago. Just ask Minister Farrakhan. Nice to see the major media finally getting on board.

[Psalm 73]

"...sounds like a car alarm."

Um, that would be the "Best of Yoko Ono" 4-disc collection.

[wingnuts'nbolts]

I wonder if they lifted this ploy out of the Waco senario?

[RippleFire]

Rock On!

The Israeli army erects a giant loudspeaker over the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem, April 13, 2002. The Israeli army is in a stand-off with the Palestinians, who fled inside the compound last week after tanks and troops entered Bethlehem and other West Bank cities following a wave of suicide bombings, which killed dozens of Israelis. Israel has promised not to damage the church, revered by Christians as the birthplace of Jesus, but it has vowed to keep it surrounded until the gunmen surrender. REUTERS/Magnus Johansson

[Revolting cat!]

So what do you guys think the Israelis ought to be blasting through those loudspeakers? The soothing voice of Mary Hart which as you might recall drove some woman viewer bananas and resulted in a lawsuit? Pig squeals? The 1969 record by Jane Birkin 'Je t'aime... moi non plus', or the greatest hits album by that screechy soprano singer that the Quick-E-Mart franchises play to scare off teenagers? I hear that Willie Nelson's latest album is particularly grating on the ears. How about the recorded chats of a million of American cellular phone users?

[savedbygrace]

I thought the Palestinian goal in life is martyrdom. Why don't they just run out of the church and get their martyr pins?

Oh, these guys must be leaders. Leaders don't do the martyr thing; they only talk about it, like Arafat.

[goldstategop]

Invisible weapon, lol. The Israelis dusted off the Americans' siege of Manuel Noriega's hide out and discovered LOUD ROCK MUSIC played from boom boxes day and night did the trick. It should drive the Palies NUTS! Bwahahaha!!!

[Centurion2000]

Probably sounds like Jericho right about now.

[gwynapnudd]

Here is a win-win situation for Israel. Announce that if the Church of the Nativity gets destroyed, The Dome of the Rock becomes the world's largest hibachi!

On my command, unleash Hell!

[Bobby777]

some Slim Whitman music would clear out that place in no time ...