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Posted on 05/11/2002 1:26:31 AM PDT by dennisw
http://www.time.com/time/2002/jenin/story.html#
INSIDE THE CAMP (Jenin)
The Palestinian fighters had made their own preparations. Booby traps had been laid in the streets of both the camp and the town, ready to be triggered if an Israeli foot or vehicle snagged a tripwire. Some of the bombs were huge – as much as 250 lbs. of explosives, compared with the 25 lbs. a typical suicide bomber uses. On Day 2 of the battle, when the town had been secured but the fight in the camp was just beginning, a huge Caterpillar D-9 bulldozer rolled along a three-quarter-mile stretch of the main street to clear booby traps. An Israeli engineering-corps officer logged 124 separate explosions set off by the vehicle. In the camp, the explosive charges were even more densely packed, and tunnels had been dug between houses so that Palestinian fighters could move around without exposing themselves on the street. Many noncombatants had fled; Israeli intelligence believes half the camp's residents had left before the troops arrived, and that by the third day of the battle 90% of the residents were gone. Even so, that left as many as 1,300 people inside the camp. According to leaders of Islamic Jihad interviewed by Time, around 100 of those left were armed fighters...............
The street is a new one, carved by a huge bulldozer out of what was once a narrow alley. It leads to a place where gunmen and tanks forged a new, terrifying chapter in the long wars of the Middle East. The alley was just three feet wide before the Israeli army sent its heavily armored Caterpillar D-9 down what is now a rutted track; as you walk along it, up a mild gradient toward Hospital Street, your feet raise little puffs of dust from the rubble of what were once concrete homes. The path is covered with the litter of war — broken sea-green ceramic tiles, a punctured cooking-gas............
As Stan Tenen has noted, the 613 Commandments are divided into 365 negative Commandments and 248 positive Commandments.
The 365 correspond to the central number in the 27x27 Magic Square and the 9x9x9 Magic Cube.
The 248 correspond to the 248-dimensional Lie algebra E8, the 8-dimensional E8 lattice, and the (3,5) Torus Knot.
Caterpillar is another heavy industry that the globalist bushbots want to export to Mexico or China.
Toda Raba for the links!
If you believe that, I've got Salon stock for you at only a buck per share. Hurry while it lasts!
Let's take a look at how this really works... First the palestinians, armed with knives, guns, and now bombs, take on school children, housewives, and the infirm. Later, when confronted by Israeli police, they send their children with slings and stones... They are the ones who keep escallating the war... In fact, it is now a war due to the actions of the palestinians. Arafat could have chosen to have a viable state for the palestinians, but that would have meant halting the "intifada," which some, like you, insists was begun by the actions of Sharon, even thought there's irefutable evidence that it was planned far in advance of Sharon's visit to the Temple Mount, which you should be aware of, is a Jewish Holy site. BTW, the Temple Mount was off limit to Jews from 1948 through 1967, when it was liberated from Jordan (not the palestinians). Oh, and before then? Well, Jews had access to it, but if they dared pray at the Western Wall of the Second Temple, they were assaulted and sometimes killed by the arabs...
Mark
[The Allis-Chalmers HD 16M did its share of the heavy work too]
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