[Coxy]

Unreal

[speedy]

Guess "Give Peace A Chance" doesn't go down so well on the West Bank, huh?

[RichInOC]

"FREEEEBIRRRRD!!!"

[Pit1]

"This is the not time to have parties like this in Nablus," said one of the masked gunmen, who would not give his name. "We lost a lot of martyrs and lost a lot of friends, and this is not appropriate for Nablus."

Isn't that what a martyr does? Like die! I don't think you can be a martyr unless you buy the ranch.

[prophetic]

move along folks, nutting unusual to see here except the "gunman" was masked.

So what does it matter if the gunman/gunmen were masked or not? Arent they ALL TERRORISTS GUNMEN to start with??!!

[claudiustg]

---"This is the not time to have parties like this in Nablus," said one of the masked gunmen, who would not give his name. "We lost a lot of martyrs and lost a lot of friends, and this is not appropriate for Nablus."---

The time to celebrate will come when these masked gunmen are dead.

[kezekiel]

These guys have quite a party in store for the new Palestinian state. Should be quite the vacation destination.

[Thinkin' Gal]

They must have gone berserk when they realized it was a rock *music* concert, not a rock-*throwing* kill-Jews-for-@llah event.

[SJackson]

If you'd like to be on this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

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The concert was the opening of a festival meant to bring normalcy to the largest city in the West Bank,

Welcome to normalcy!

[theFIRMbss]

>Less than an hour later, however, guards ushered him off stage

Well, for what it's worth,
when Joan Jett tried to open
for Sting at Sox Park,

Chicagoans threw
so many crumpled up cups
Joan was forced to leave . . .

[SupplySider]

He opened his show with a song about "Holy Jerusalem" in an apparent effort to appease the gunmen.

Then followed up with the Bob Dylan classic "Everybody Must Get Stoned".