Eli Ashkenazi, Haaretz Correspondent, News Agencies and Haaretz Service: IDF troops kill third Palestinian fire-bomber within 3-day period
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Title:re #5 Chanah S `A more pertinent question`
Name:Colin Wright
City: RichmondState: California
You ask why he was throwing his fire bomb at the soldiers. `A silly thing to do.`

It apparently never occurs to you that he may well not have. After all, the IDF had to present some justification for shooting him. `He threw his firebomb at us.`

Might have. Might not have. Either way, the IDF would certainly claim he had. The essence of the matter is that the Arab has to be shot -- and a pretext for doing so provided. So he threw his fire bomb at the troops. That was sure to be said.