Israeli army demolishes $150,000 Palestinian playground

Because he's an idiot. His posting history is a catalogue of face palm.

Why do people refer to it as ''acts of Israel'' and not as the ''acts of the people of Israel''?

so the fact that palestine is semi-developed now justifies the fact that the israeli government just victimized a whole bunch of children and threatened a village with demolition?

I use the term Israel because I am referring to those who represent/control the country. If I said Israeli people it would insinuate that I believe all Israelis carry out these disgusting acts which is just an ignorant statement. It is the state of Israel which does this.

Who are the people that control the country?

Santa Clause, Who the **** do you think?

Santa Clause, Who the **** do you think?

so the fact that palestine is semi-developed now justifies the fact that the israeli government just victimized a whole bunch of children and threatened a village with demolition?

A claim by a propaganda source which is either made up or completely taken out of context, and everyone rushes to compare Israel to the worst of the worst and laud Hamas. Lovely.

Not surprised in the least.

Strange how they're treating the Palestinians in the same manner that they themselves were treated by the Germans in the early thirties - segregated, poor access to health and education, imprisoned and intimidated...

What's next? Gas chambers for the Palestinians?

You are disgusting! I am Jewish myself and i also don't agree with everything that the Israeli gov't does, but to say this of them? no evidence, no sense to it, its just pure anti-semitism drivel!

Firstly the source is Ma'an news which will put a heavily pro-palestinian slant on the story, also its common sense that the playground could not have cost anywhere near $150,000, the funding for that is certainly not avaliable.

Really you must take the situation into perspective, there is another side to this story! The fact that you are presented with anti-israel and therefore anti-semitic propaganda should not make you dispose with common sense, perhaps there was a security threat? or it was built illegally? there are plenty of viable and reasonable reasons as to when the israeli gov't decided to do this.

Also the israeli gov't cannot always be seen as the agressors, rockets are fired on israeli towns on a daily basis terrorising thousands of residents, children grow up running to a shelter during school, these people lead broken lives and they always have the fear that the next rocket will hit them or their family, they live in a constant state of worry, it is simply not fair and its anti-semitic not to look at the israeli side of the story as well!

Take a second to imagine if rockets were to be fired on your neighbourhood every day for years on end, wouldn't you try to do something about it???

Semi-developed? $150,000 on a playground would make the Sheikhs of Dubai blush.

Either Palestine isn't the blighted country we've been led to believe, and is in fact a 21st century land of milk and honey, or this story is horse ****.