Very informative - I learnt by the fourth paragraph that the author was writing about Palestine.

"Locals, upset that the local police had not intervened to protect them from the IDF, had surrounded the nearby station and showered it with rocks." was particularly amusing and believable of the Middle East.

JOKE ABOUT MIDDLE EAST

You know the story of the scorpion who wanted to cross the Suez Canal?
He asked a camel if he could ride on his back.

The camel said, “If I do and you sting me, I will be dead.” The scorpion said, “I will drown also, so you have every guarantee.”

So the camel took the scorpion on his back and they started across.

In the middle of the Canal the scorpion stung the camel and as they drowned the camel asked, “what did you do this for?”

The scorpion said, “you forgot this is the Middle East.”

Plantagenet,.

I like your joke --but in the version I heard when asked as to why he stung his benefactor the scorpion replied: 'Because it's in my nature"

My version could well explain why persons who we gave shelter and sanctuary to go back to jihad for a system that would overturn everything we stand for --it's in the DNA of their belief system.

THE RESOiLING/..OF RAM*allah..

auther/QUOTE..<<..Monday evening brings more gun fire in the distance. But the people of Ramallah remain unfazed...>>

as they should[iN THESE/times..we shall hear of runours
who knows /cause we dont get real news/who can you trust

god will be pleased..if we attain peace with just terms
just enough/that the doers of evil can be sorted

<<.Al-Manara>>
meaning the path..<<..continues to bustle with people.>>
for where else to go?

<<..For how much longer will this turmoil continue?
For how much longer will they be required to be resilient?>>

im told it will be a happy FESTIVUS xmass..[22 DEC..2016]

OR IF WE CAN SHIFT OTHERS OUT EARLIER
[all polititions under house arrest[in communicardo
if you get orders from one of the war mongering demon scum

report it to authorities
all politicization trucks must leave the holy lands

and when we need services/we will build them
all we ask it take away your war/play computa war games like the other juveniles[ignore the zionist trolls[recall the missing kids was thunk excse to re arrest those they let go/plus take away a few more/the demONS IN ISRAEL/SEEK TO BRING ON HELL/yet the big shoTS have allready hid their yid..

anyhow plan two is expel/all non believers
this is either about god/or godlessness
im leaning to the latter

secular=no god/so you dont even got gods agreement
the very natzie scum he drove out/two grand's worth/of\ years ago

who lives off past glory
lacks their own.

Q:Normal?
Q:What?
Q: Silent war?
Q:Surely you jest!?
Rhrosty.

CONTEXT?? Is the writer unaware that three Israeli teenagers were kidnapped on their way home from school on June 12 and FOR THIS REASON IDF activity in the West Bank has returned to maximum BECAUSE THEY ARE LOOKING FOR THEIR BOYS. For this crucial context to have been omitted from the article is either journalistic incompetence or deliberate obfuscation. Either way, it makes the piece unworthy of publication in Online Opinion.