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Anticipating protests following the Palestinian Authority’s declaration of statehood next month, the IDF has planted additional anti-personnel mines along the border on the Golan Heights that it hopes will prevent infiltrations into Israel.
The army experienced its first taste of the demonstrations on May 15, when more than 100 Palestinians from Syria crossed into the Israeli side of the Golan Heights.
According to Syrian and Lebanese reports at the time, more than a dozen protesters were killed
The Ottawa Treaty or the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, otherwise known as the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction, is a treaty aimed at stopping the effects of anti-personnel landmines (AP-mines) around the world. As of August 2011, there were 156 States Parties to the treaty.
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Originally posted by adifferentbreed
Let them defend their borders as they see fit.
Matters not one bit to me.
Miracle do happen!! Finally, they are doing something PROACTIVE and lifesaving-for us!
Go IDF! Let the mines explode.....explode......explode.....
Adina Kutnicki, Israel
Originally posted by sevensheeps
PS
This is madness that this still continues, the wests foreign policy is killing this world.
Originally posted by adifferentbreed
Let them defend their borders as they see fit.
Matters not one bit to me.
Originally posted by buster2010
Originally posted by adifferentbreed
Let them defend their borders as they see fit.
Matters not one bit to me.
Putting mines on their boarders is fine. But there is a problem when you put them on stolen land and land that is a UN demilitarized zone. Israel needs to be kicked out of the UN and sanctions placed on them.
Originally posted by Lemon.Fresh
reply to post by JennaDarling
Banned by whom, exactly? The UN? The UN has no authority to tell anyone to do anything. You can hem and haw all day long, but when it comes down to it, the UN is a toothless dog. All bark, no bite.
As for sanctions . . . laughable. When has sanctions ever worked?
Originally posted by CasiusIgnoranze
reply to post by ManBehindTheMask
Then I wonder why 4 Israelis were celebrating the destruction of the twin towers in 9/11?
edit on 14-8-2011 by CasiusIgnoranze because: .
Originally posted by adifferentbreed
Let them defend their borders as they see fit.
Matters not one bit to me.