Hamas came out and said this was a good idea. Dumbasses. The Israeli forces now know where you work. Expect some dead Hamas legislators within the next 48 hours. Stupid tools.
Don’t you mean “Homicide Bombers?” Funny how FoxNews uses the same exact term as conservatives in Israel. Wonder how much FoxNews gets paid by AIPAC to use it.
Suicide bomber = person blows himself/herself up and NO-ONE else gets hurt …
Homicide bomber = person blows himself/herself up and one or more other people get murdered … (and, yes, it’s “murdered” because it’s premeditated and extra-judicial) …
Just cuz FoxNews chooses its words more carefully than the MSM doesn’t mean Fox is wrong to do so …
Isn’t the intent of all bombers to commit homicide? It’s redundant, like a homicidal murderer. In the process, you totally miss the point that the guy committed suicide. Besides, when Fox started using it, they explained that some would consider suicide honorable and worthy of pity, so that’s why they adopted AIPAC’s usage, which emphasizes the cold-bloodedness of the act. My problem is I don’t know why any “news” organization would editorialize a term like that.
A&A - nope - there have been a number of groups over the decades that were very careful to blow up places and things only *after* giving advance warning that a bomb was about to go off … with such groups, fatalities tended to happen only when someone chose to ignore the warning, whether from stubbornness or to prove a point (usually with the life or lives of other(s)) …
There are also those who committed suicide publicly and messily with great care not to harm anyone else … the Buddhist (I seem to remember) monks who set themselves on fire to protest violence spring to mind …
Recently, I have only heard of 1 Palestinian suicide bomber - the one who blew himself up, prematurely, and didn’t actually manage to murder anyone else when he did so …
This is an archived post. Comments are closed.
To leave a comment on a newer post, please visit the homepage.
April 17th, 2006 at 9:49:07 am
Happy Passover.
Assholes.
April 17th, 2006 at 12:45:47 pm
I wish I could say I was surprised that this happened - rather than simply being surprised it took ‘em so long to get back to atrocity as usual …
April 17th, 2006 at 7:51:50 pm
Hamas came out and said this was a good idea. Dumbasses. The Israeli forces now know where you work. Expect some dead Hamas legislators within the next 48 hours. Stupid tools.
April 17th, 2006 at 11:59:58 pm
Random question. When CNN says the suicide bomber killed 5, does that mean 4 plus himself or five and he doesn’t count in the death toll?
April 18th, 2006 at 6:13:04 am
Was this bomber 17 years old? I don’t believe that the bomber counts in the death toll…..I could be wrong.
April 18th, 2006 at 9:55:36 am
Don’t you mean “Homicide Bombers?” Funny how FoxNews uses the same exact term as conservatives in Israel. Wonder how much FoxNews gets paid by AIPAC to use it.
April 18th, 2006 at 2:59:32 pm
A&A … concepts time …
Suicide bomber = person blows himself/herself up and NO-ONE else gets hurt …
Homicide bomber = person blows himself/herself up and one or more other people get murdered … (and, yes, it’s “murdered” because it’s premeditated and extra-judicial) …
Just cuz FoxNews chooses its words more carefully than the MSM doesn’t mean Fox is wrong to do so …
April 18th, 2006 at 3:19:27 pm
Isn’t the intent of all bombers to commit homicide? It’s redundant, like a homicidal murderer. In the process, you totally miss the point that the guy committed suicide. Besides, when Fox started using it, they explained that some would consider suicide honorable and worthy of pity, so that’s why they adopted AIPAC’s usage, which emphasizes the cold-bloodedness of the act. My problem is I don’t know why any “news” organization would editorialize a term like that.
April 19th, 2006 at 2:41:58 am
A&A - nope - there have been a number of groups over the decades that were very careful to blow up places and things only *after* giving advance warning that a bomb was about to go off … with such groups, fatalities tended to happen only when someone chose to ignore the warning, whether from stubbornness or to prove a point (usually with the life or lives of other(s)) …
There are also those who committed suicide publicly and messily with great care not to harm anyone else … the Buddhist (I seem to remember) monks who set themselves on fire to protest violence spring to mind …
Recently, I have only heard of 1 Palestinian suicide bomber - the one who blew himself up, prematurely, and didn’t actually manage to murder anyone else when he did so …