Today's Pix - Saturday, Aug. 12th, 2006

[Kaplanr]

http://www.haaretz.com/hasite/images/iht_daily/D110806/fightingcow.jpg
Israel Defense Forces reserve soldiers walking along the Israel-Lebanon border as they return from south Lebanon on Saturday. (AP)

Sorry HE, couldn't resist.

[MoFo]

Todays pic p-)

[Elemental666]

p.o.w cow?
hehe nice thread.woot

[Blackburn]

nice camo!

Delta Cow?

[Wamba]

I like your avatar Kaplanr....and the cow too....

[larryzou]

nice pic for today

[Kaplanr]

Bernstein, Goldstein, Holstein - it's the same family sort of.

[Wamba]

Bernstein, Goldstein, Holstein - it's the same family sort of.

Have I missed something?????

[Switek]

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An Israeli soldier wounded during fighting in southern Lebanon is wheeled for treatment into the Rambam hospital in the city of Haifa northern Israel Thursday 12 August 2006 EPA DORON GOLAN

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An Israeli soldier exhales smoke from his cigarette before taking up positions on the southern Lebanon border with Israel Saturday 12 August 2006 Israeli troops and tanks pushed deep into Lebanon Saturday in what was described an open ended offensive despite a unanimous UN resolution to end the war Troops in tanks and armoured vehicles were rolling towards hilltops overlooking the Litani river where they were meeting fierce resistance from the Lebanese Shiite guerrillas Hezbollah Lebanese police said EPA ANCHO GOSH JINI EPA ANCHO GOSH JINI

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Israeli soldiers rest before taking up positions on the southern Lebanon border with Israel Saturday 12 August 2006 Israeli troops and tanks pushed deep into Lebanon Saturday in what was described an open ended offensive despite a unanimous UN resolution to end the war Troops in tanks and armoured vehicles were rolling towards hilltops overlooking the Litani river where they were meeting fierce resistance from the Lebanese Shiite guerrillas Hezbollah Lebanese police said EPA ANCHO GOSH JINI

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Israeli soldiers prepare their equipment before taking up positions on the southern Lebanon border with Israel Saturday 12 August 2006 EPA ANCHO GOSH JINI

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An Israeli soldier prepares his equipment before taking up positions on the southern Lebanon border with Israel Saturday 12 August 2006 EPA ANCHO GOSH JINI

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Israeli soldiers take positions inside southern Lebanon after they crossed the border from Israel Saturday 12 August 2006 EPA ANCHO GOSH JINI

[Karo]

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[Kaplanr]

Have I missed something?????

The calf is a Holstein, the world's primary dairy cow; as opposed to a Jersey, Hereford or Guernsey cow.

Holsteins make terrible meat.

[Aerosoul]

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Pfc. Heath Stachar, from the 101st Airborne Division, provides rooftop security in Tikrit for a ceremony marking the 4th Iraqi Army Division’s assumption of security for the provinces of Salah Ad Din and Kirkuk.
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At a zero angle of attack, better known as a “No Lift Dive,” Sgt. 1st Class Cheryl Stearns, from the U.S. Army Parachute Team Golden Knights, holds her position to build enough air speed to execute the “style set” in a competitive amount of time.
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Soldiers and Marines from the 1st Armored Division and Iraqi soldiers chase insurgents who attacked them with mortar and small-arms fire in Ramadi.
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THREE SHIP FORMATION – U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Lance Cheung photographed a three-ship formation of F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft from Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England, Aug. 3, 2006. The fighters, with 492nd Fighter Squadron, are practicing basic surface attack techniques. Cheung is a photojournalist for the Air Force News Agency in San Antonio, Texas.
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A U.S. Navy SEAL surfaces with his weapon drawn during a combat swimmer training dive on May 18, 2006. DoD photo by Senior Chief Petty Officer Andrew McKaskle, U.S. Navy.
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U.S. Army soldiers run towards a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter as they are extracted after completing an aerial traffic control point mission near Tall Afar, Iraq, on June 5, 2006. The soldiers are from Bravo Company, 4th Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team and the Black Hawk aircrew is from Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 207th Aviation, Alaska National Guard.

[D-gin]

Nice HiRes photos today. Thanks. :)

[Aerosoul]

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A US soldier secures the area where a suicide car bomb exploded near a police station in the northern city of Mosul in July 2006.
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A US soldier stands alert with a machine gun mounted on an armoured vehicle as he takes part in a patrol in Kabul in January 2006.
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raqis gather at the site of a roadside bomb attack in Bahgdad August 12, 2006. Two civilians were killed and three were wounded in a roadside bomb attack aimed at a police patrol in central Baghdad, police said.
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An Iraqi Army soldier mans a checkpoint in central Baghdad. Iraqi Sunnis and Shiites gathered to pray at their respective mosques under the spectre of sectarian war, a day after a deadly bomb attack on the holiest shrine of the Shiite faith.
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An Israeli reserve soldier marches with others after crossing the border into southern Lebanon from northern Israel Saturday Aug. 12, 2006.
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An Israeli tank advances by the Israel-Lebanon border.
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A Lebanese soldier inspects the damage after a convoy carrying Lebanese security forces and civilians was struck by Israeli warplanes the previous day on a road near Kefraya in the eastern Bekaa Valley.
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Israeli soldiers prepare to march into Lebanon near the border in northern Israel Saturday, Aug. 12, 2006.
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An Indian Muslim man walks past a picture of U.S. President George W. Bush on an Israeli flag during a protest against Israeli attacks on Lebanon and Palestinian territories, after afternoon prayers in Mumbai August 12, 2006.
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Israeli paratroopers walk along a dirt path as they approach a Lebanese village after crossing the border from northern Israel Saturday Aug. 12, 2006.

[D-gin]

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Do you by any chance have these two in HiRes???

Thanks.

[Aerosoul]

Nope, sorry.

[Karo]

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:lol:

[D-gin]

Nope, sorry.

It's all good. nice pic's and thanks for posting.:)

[Aerosoul]

You're welcome...figured I'd try and start contributing a bit more outside of OT&H.

[ClydeFrog]

Some of them are reposts from about four weeks ago, like that dude with the suppressed M4.

[Aerosoul]

i jsut found them on yahoo's photos today...hmm. sorry. all the rest should be current.

[merk]

[/URL]
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ISRAEL LEBANESE BORDER, ISRAEL - AUGUST 12: An Israeli artillery piece fires towards southern Lebanon August 12, 2006 on the Israel-Lebanon border. Israel continues to expand its ground offensive ahead of Sunday's planned vote by the Israeli Cabinet to accept a UN resolution to end hostilities with Hezbollah. (Photo by John Moore/***** Images)
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ISRAEL LEBANESE BORDER, ISRAEL - AUGUST 12: An Israeli tank drives past a UN checkpoint August 12, 2006 on the Israel-Lebanon border. Israel continues to expand its ground offensive ahead of Sunday's planned vote by the Israeli Cabinet to accept a UN resolution to end hostilities with Hezbollah. (Photo by John Moore/***** Images)

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ISRAEL LEBANESE BORDER, LEBANON - AUGUST 12: An Israeli soldier rests in southern Lebanon August 12, 2006 after crossing over the border from Israel. Israel continues to expand its ground offensive ahead of Sunday's planned vote by the Israeli Cabinet to accept a UN resolution to end hostilities with Hezbollah. (Photo by John Moore/***** Images)
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Haifa, ISRAEL: A wounded Israeli soldier is taken from a helicopter on arrival at Rambam hospital in Haifa, 12 August 2006. Israeli forces took a key hilltop village overlooking the strategic Litani River Saturday and engaged in fierce fighting with Hezbollah as the army expanded its ground offensive after more than a month of fighting. AFP PHOTO/RONI SCHUTZER (Photo credit should read RONI SCHUTZER/AFP/***** Images)
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ISRAEL LEBANESE BORDER, LEBANON - AUGUST 12: Israeli troops walk deeper into southern Lebanon August 12, 2006 after crossing over the border from Israel. Israel continues to expand its ground offensive ahead of Sunday's planned vote by the Israeli Security Council to accept a UN resolution to end hostilities with Hezbollah. (Photo by John Moore/***** Images)

[3rdMillhouse]

Can I get high res of this one?

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[AirForceOne]

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Wtf??? is that what i think it is????...

[Aerosoul]

Wtf??? is that what i think it is????...
omg, long hair!!!111

[Elemental666]

Wtf??? is that what i think it is????...

His a reservist.they are allowed.

[3rdMillhouse]

Wtf??? is that what i think it is????...


He's Lion-o, from Thundercats, fighting for the IDF.

[GiladS]

I'm going to give this pictures thing a shot...

http://i.today.*******.com/Pictures/galleries/newspictures/2006-08-12T061129Z_01_FOR09_RTRIDSP_2_MIDEAST.jpg
*******/Finbarr O'reilly
An Israeli tank stops to allow a dog to pass on the Israel-Lebanon border near the northern town of Metula, August 12, 2006.

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Israeli soldiers walk in Lebanon after they crossed the border from northern Israel August 12, 2006. The Israeli army said on Saturday it had started broadening its ground offensive in south Lebanon and its forces were pushing towards the Litani river.

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*******/Eliana Aponte
Israeli soldiers take position in Lebanon after they crossed the border from northern Israel August 12, 2006. The Israeli army said on Saturday it had started broadening its ground offensive in south Lebanon and its forces were pushing towards the Litani river.

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*******/Finbarr O'reilly
Israeli troops return from Lebanon at dawn to the northern town of Metula on the Israel-Lebanon border, August 12, 2006.

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*******/Finbarr O'reilly
A lone Israeli soldier returns from Lebanon at dawn to the northern town of Metula on the Israel-Lebanon border, August 12, 2006.

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*******/Finbarr O'reilly
Israeli tanks drive along the Israel-Lebanon border near the northern town of Metula, August 12, 2006.

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*******/Eliana Aponte
An Israeli soldier speaks on a radio as comrades walk in Lebanon after they crossed the border from northern Israel August 12, 2006.

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*******/Eliana Aponte
Israeli soldiers walk in Lebanon after they crossed the border from northern Israel August 12, 2006.

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*******/Eliana Aponte
Israeli soldiers walk in Lebanon after they crossed the border from northern Israel August 12, 2006. The Israeli army said on Saturday it had started broadening its ground offensive in south Lebanon and its forces were pushing towards the Litani river.

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*******/Eliana Aponte
Israeli soldiers take position in Lebanon after they crossed the border from northern Israel August 12, 2006. The Israeli army said on Saturday it had started broadening its ground offensive in south Lebanon and its forces were pushing towards the Litani river.

http://i.today.*******.com/Pictures/galleries/newspictures/2006-08-12T063258Z_01_EAT06_RTRIDSP_2_MIDEAST.jpg
*******/Eliana Aponte
Israeli soldiers take position in Lebanon after they crossed the border from northern Israel August 12, 2006. The Israeli army said on Saturday it had started broadening its ground offensive in south Lebanon and its forces were pushing towards the Litani river.

http://i.today.*******.com/Pictures/galleries/newspictures/2006-08-12T063332Z_01_EAT07_RTRIDSP_2_MIDEAST.jpg
*******/Eliana Aponte
Israeli soldiers take position in Lebanon after they crossed the border from northern Israel August 12, 2006. The Israeli army said on Saturday it had started broadening its ground offensive in south Lebanon and its forces were pushing towards the Litani river.

http://i.today.*******.com/Pictures/galleries/newspictures/2006-08-12T081215Z_01_CAB06_RTRIDSP_2_MIDEAST.jpg
*******/Carlos Barria
Israeli soldiers march inside Lebanon near the southern town of Markba during a ground operation August 12, 2006. The U.N. Security Council's authorization to deploy 15,000 foreign troops to help Lebanon's army halt the month-long war in the Mideast offers the first real hope for a reduction in violence after a month of bloodshed in Lebanon and Israel.

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*******/Carlos Barria
An Israeli soldier takes up position inside Lebanon near the southern town of Markba during a ground operation August 12, 2006. The U.N. Security Council's authorization to deploy 15,000 foreign troops to help Lebanon's army halt the month-long war in the Mideast offers the first real hope for a reduction in violence after a month of bloodshed in Lebanon and Israel.

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*******/Carlos Barria
An Israeli soldier walks in a plantation inside Lebanon near the southern town of Markba during a ground operation August 12, 2006. The U.N. Security Council's authorization to deploy 15,000 foreign troops to help Lebanon's army halt the month-long war in the Mideast offers the first real hope for a reduction in violence after a month of bloodshed in Lebanon and Israel.

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*******/Str
A convoy of Lebanese forces and civilians evacuate from Marjayoun in the south to the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon August 11, 2006. Picture taken August 11, 2006.

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*******/Yonathan Weitzman
An Israeli soldier takes up position inside Lebanon territory near the southern town of Markaba during a ground operation August 12, 2006.

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*******/Yonathan Weitzman
An Israeli soldier takes up position inside Lebanon near the southern town of Markaba during a ground operation August 12, 2006.

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*******/Yonathan Weitzman
Israeli soldiers walk at the Israel-Lebanon border during a ground operation in northern Israel August 12, 2006.

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*******/Carlos Barria
An Israeli soldier takes up position in the southern Lebanon town of Markaba during a ground operation, near the Lebanon-Israel border August 12, 2006.

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*******/Yonathan Weitzman
Israeli soldiers walk inside Lebanon near the southern town of Markaba during a ground operation August 12, 2006.

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*******/Carlos Barria
Israeli soldiers take position inside Lebanon territory near the southern town of Markba during a ground operation August 12, 2006.

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*******/Carlos Barria
An Israeli soldier smokes at the Israel-Lebanon border before a ground operation into Lebanon August 12, 2006.

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*******/Petr Josek
Israeli soldiers say their morning prayers at the Israel-Lebanon border in northern Israel August 12, 2006.

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*******/Yonathan Weitzman
An Israeli soldier takes up position inside Lebanon near the southern town of Markaba during a ground operation August 12, 2006.

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*******/Carlos Barria
An Israeli soldier rests at the southern Lebanese town of Markaba during a ground operation August 12, 2006.

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*******/Carlos Barria
An Israeli soldier waits as he takes up position inside Lebanon near the southern town of Markaba during a ground operation August 12, 2006.

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*******/Petr Josek
An Israeli soldier surveys the terrain as he takes up position in Lebanon after crossing the border from northern Israel August 12, 2006.

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*******/Petr Josek
Israeli soldiers rest before a mission into Lebanon at a gathering point near the Israel-Lebanon border in Israel August 12, 2006.

[Aerosoul]

good set, thanks.

[Snoshi]

Nice pics!!!

[Elemental666]

Yea thanks man.woot

[Aerosoul]

anyone know who these guys might be/belong to?
http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,682481,00.jpg

[Elemental666]

Hezzis of course.

[Aerosoul]

i assumed so. ok.

[Rictor]

So Hezbollah has gone all Gucci now. Bastards, here I was thinking they were a badass guerilla force, and they start parading around like they just walked out of a nightclub.

[Elemental666]

So Hezbollah has gone all Gucci now. Bastards, here I was thinking they were a badass guerilla force, and they start parading around like they just walked out of a nightclub.

This is how you go to a night club bro? p-)

[SdWaRrIoR]

Nice pix t'day

[GiladS]

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I wonder if ******* added that puppy... you can never know nowadays. :)

[Switek]

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Israeli soldiers take positions along a dirt road inside southern Lebanon after they crossed the border from Israel Saturday 12 August 2006, EPA PAVEL WOLBERG

Just curious, what do IDF expect, is this just just anti bunker stuff?

[RP]

Just curious, what do IDF expect, is this just just anti bunker stuff?
Maybe it's a Gil (Spike) with an anti-personal warhead...

[Franky]

anyone know who these guys might be/belong to?
http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,682481,00.jpg
Palestinians militiamen from a northern refugee camp in Lebanon. Read the caption at Spiegel online...

[Darth Vidar]

IDF armor unit:

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IDF artilley unit on the border with S-Lebanon.

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[Macs.]

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Trincomalee, SRI LANKA: A Sri Lankan military helicopter release flares as it flies over the naval base in Trincomalee,12 August 2006. Sri Lankan troops launched fresh artillery attacks against Tamil rebel positions,Tamil Tiger rebels attacked a Navy base in Sri Lanka's east and fought artillery duels with troops in the north before dawn. AFP PHOTO/Lakruwan WANNIARACHCHI (Photo credit should read LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI/AFP/***** Images)

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Israel-Lebanon Border, ISRAEL: An Israeli rocket is launched by the Israel-Lebanon border, 12 August 2006. Israel poured thousands of extra troops deeper into Lebanon Saturday after launching a broad "open-ended" offensive despite a unanimous UN Security Council call for an end to the month-old war. Israel said it had tripled its troop numbers in Lebanon and warned the expanded ground operation could last for weeks as it struggled to deliver a knock-out blow to Hezbollah guerrillas. AFP PHOTO/HAIM AZULAY/ISRAEL OUT (Photo credit should read HAIM AZULAY/AFP/***** Images)

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ISRAEL-LEBANON BORDER, LEBANON: An Israeli tank advances by the Israel-Lebanon border, 12 August 2006. Israel's new widescale offensive in Lebanon is open-ended, a senior government official told AFP this morning. Israeli troops backed by tanks and war planes pushed deep into south Lebanon only moments after the UN Security Council agreed to demand a cessation of hostilities. AFP PHOTO/DENIS SINYAKOV (Photo credit should read DENIS SINYAKOV/AFP/***** Images)

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LEBANESE BORDER, ISRAEL - AUGUST 12: In this photo released by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Israeli army Chief-of-Staff Dan Halutz (R) talks with Division Commander Gal Hirsch (C) as they watch troops advance from Israel into Lebanon August 12, 2006 from an observation point along Israel's border with its northern neighbor. (Photo by Abir Sultan/IDF via ***** Images)

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LEBANESE BORDER, ISRAEL - AUGUST 12: In this photo released by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Israeli troops board a helicopter before being flown to the head of the Israeli advance into Lebanon August 12, 2006 from an airfield along Israel's border with its northern neighbor. (Photo by Abir Sultan/IDF via ***** Images)

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Israel-Lebanon Border, ISRAEL: Israeli tanks sit at a staging ground for military armored vehicles close to the northern Israel-Lebanon border, 12 August 2006. The Lebanese government, which includes Hezbollah representatives, today approved unanimously a UN resolution calling for an end to hostilities with Israel, Finance Minister Jihad Azour told AFP. AFP PHOTO/DENIS SINYAKOV (Photo credit should read DENIS SINYAKOV/AFP/***** Images)

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ISRAEL-LEBANON BORDER, LEBANON: Israeli soldiers prepare to cross the Israel-Lebanon border, 12 August 2006. Israel warned Saturday that its new widescale offensive in Lebanon could last weeks in spite of a UN Security Council resolution for a ceasefire. An army spokesman said the new ground operation, launched after a security cabinet decision last Wednesday, could extend up to the strategically important Litani river which runs up to 30 kilometres (19 miles) from the border. AFP PHOTO/DAVID FURST (Photo credit should read DAVID FURST/AFP/***** Images)

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ISRAEL-LEBANON BORDER, LEBANON: Israeli soldiers march in formation as they conduct a foot patrol across the Israel-Lebanon border, 12 August 2006. Israel warned Saturday that its new widescale offensive in Lebanon could last weeks in spite of a UN Security Council resolution for a ceasefire. An army spokesman said the new ground operation, launched after a security cabinet decision last Wednesday, could extend up to the strategically important Litani river which runs up to 30 kilometres (19 miles) from the border. AFP PHOTO/DAVID FURST (Photo credit should read DAVID FURST/AFP/***** Images)

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Israel-Lebanon Border, ISRAEL: Israeli tanks wait for orders to enter Lebanon, 12 August 2006 at the Israel-Lebanon border. Israeli forces took a key hilltop village overlooking the strategic Litani River today and engaged in fierce fighting with Hezbollah as the army expanded its ground offensive after more than a month of fighting. AFP PHOTO/DENIS SINYAKOV (Photo credit should read DENIS SINYAKOV/AFP/***** Images)

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ISRAEL-LEBANON BORDER, LEBANON: Israeli troops wait the order to advance at the Israel-Lebanon border, 12 August 2006. Israel's new widescale offensive in Lebanon is open-ended, a senior government official told AFP this morning. Israeli troops backed by tanks and war planes pushed deep into south Lebanon only moments after the UN Security Council agreed to demand a cessation of hostilities. AFP PHOTO/DENIS SINYAKOV (Photo credit should read DENIS SINYAKOV/AFP/***** Images)

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ISRAEL LEBANESE BORDER, LEBANON - AUGUST 12: Israeli troops cross over the border into southern Lebanon August 12, 2006 from northern Israel. Israel continues to expand its ground offensive ahead of Sunday's planned vote by the Israeli Security Council to accept a UN resolution to end hostilities with Hezbollah. (Photo by John Moore/***** Images)

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ISRAEL LEBANESE BORDER, LEBANON - AUGUST 12: Israeli troops walk deeper into southern Lebanon August 12, 2006 after crossing over the border from Israel. Israel continues to expand its ground offensive ahead of Sunday's planned vote by the Israeli Security Council to accept a UN resolution to end hostilities with Hezbollah. (Photo by John Moore/***** Images)

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South Lebanon, Lebanon: An Israeli soldier talks on the radio while advancing into south Lebanon, 12 August 2006. Israel warned Saturday that its new widescale offensive in Lebanon could last weeks in spite of a UN Security Council resolution for a ceasefire. An army spokesman said the new ground operation, launched after a security cabinet decision last Wednesday, could extend up to the strategically important Litani river which runs up to 30 kilometres (19 miles) from the border. AFP PHOTO/DAVID FURST (Photo credit should read DAVID FURST/AFP/***** Images)

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South Lebanon, Lebanon: Israeli soldiers take positions as they conduct a foot patrol in south Lebanon, 12 August 2006. Israel warned Saturday that its new widescale offensive in Lebanon could last weeks in spite of a UN Security Council resolution for a ceasefire. An army spokesman said the new ground operation, launched after a security cabinet decision last Wednesday, could extend up to the strategically important Litani river which runs up to 30 kilometres (19 miles) from the border. AFP PHOTO/DAVID FURST (Photo credit should read DAVID FURST/AFP/***** Images)

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South Lebanon, Lebanon: Israeli soldiers march in formation as they conduct a foot patrol in south Lebanon, 12 August 2006. Israel warned Saturday that its new widescale offensive in Lebanon could last weeks in spite of a UN Security Council resolution for a ceasefire. An army spokesman said the new ground operation, launched after a security cabinet decision last Wednesday, could extend up to the strategically important Litani river which runs up to 30 kilometres (19 miles) from the border. AFP PHOTO/DAVID FURST (Photo credit should read DAVID FURST/AFP/***** Images)

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Southern Lebanon, Lebanon: Israeli troops take a rest as they advance into southern Lebanon, 12 August 2006. Israel's new widescale offensive in Lebanon is open-ended, a senior government official told AFP this morning. Israeli troops backed by tanks and war planes pushed deep into south Lebanon only moments after the UN Security Council agreed to demand a cessation of hostilities. AFP PHOTO/DENIS SINYAKOV (Photo credit should read DENIS SINYAKOV/AFP/***** Images)

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Southern Lebanon, Lebanon: An Israeli soldier watches a road while advancing into southern Lebanon, 12 August 2006. Israel's new widescale offensive in Lebanon is open-ended, a senior government official told AFP this morning. Israeli troops backed by tanks and war planes pushed deep into south Lebanon only moments after the UN Security Council agreed to demand a cessation of hostilities. AFP PHOTO/DENIS SINYAKOV (Photo credit should read DENIS SINYAKOV/AFP/***** Images)

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ISRAEL LEBANESE BORDER, LEBANON - AUGUST 12: An Israeli soldier rests in southern Lebanon August 12, 2006 after crossing over the border from Israel. Israel continues to expand its ground offensive ahead of Sunday's planned vote by the Israeli Cabinet to accept a UN resolution to end hostilities with Hezbollah. (Photo by John Moore/***** Images)

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ISRAEL-LEBANON BORDER, LEBANON: Israeli soldiers sleep before advancing across the Israel-Lebanon border, early 12 August 2006. Israel warned Saturday that its new widescale offensive in Lebanon could last weeks in spite of a UN Security Council resolution for a ceasefire. An army spokesman said the new ground operation, launched after a security cabinet decision last Wednesday, could extend up to the strategically important Litani river which runs up to 30 kilometres (19 miles) from the border. AFP PHOTO/DAVID FURST (Photo credit should read DAVID FURST/AFP/***** Images)

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ISRAEL LEBANESE BORDER, ISRAEL - AUGUST 12: An Israeli artillery piece fires towards southern Lebanon August 12, 2006 on the Israel-Lebanon border. Israel continues to expand its ground offensive ahead of Sunday's planned vote by the Israeli Cabinet to accept a UN resolution to end hostilities with Hezbollah. (Photo by John Moore/***** Images)

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ISRAEL LEBANESE BORDER, LEBANON - AUGUST 12: Israeli troops walk deeper into southern Lebanon August 12, 2006 after crossing over the border from Israel. Israel continues to expand its ground offensive ahead of Sunday's planned vote by the Israeli Security Council to accept a UN resolution to end hostilities with Hezbollah. (Photo by John Moore/***** Images)

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ISRAEL LEBANESE BORDER, LEBANON - AUGUST 12: An Israeli soldier rests in southern Lebanon August 12, 2006 after crossing over the border from Israel. Israel continues to expand its ground offensive ahead of Sunday's planned vote by the Israeli Security Council to accept a UN resolution to end hostilities with Hezbollah. (Photo by John Moore/***** Images)

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ISRAEL-LEBANON BORDER, LEBANON: Israeli troops await the order to advance by the Israel-Lebanon border, 12 August 2006. Israel's new widescale offensive in Lebanon is open-ended, a senior government official told AFP this morning. Israeli troops backed by tanks and war planes pushed deep into south Lebanon only moments after the UN Security Council agreed to demand a cessation of hostilities. AFP PHOTO/DENIS SINYAKOV (Photo credit should read DENIS SINYAKOV/AFP/***** Images)

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ISRAEL-LEBANON BORDER, LEBANON: Israeli troops await the order to advance by the Israel-Lebanon border, 12 August 2006. Israel's new widescale offensive in Lebanon is open-ended, a senior government official told AFP this morning. Israeli troops backed by tanks and war planes pushed deep into south Lebanon only moments after the UN Security Council agreed to demand a cessation of hostilities. AFP PHOTO/DENIS SINYAKOV (Photo credit should read DENIS SINYAKOV/AFP/***** Images)

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south lebabon, LEBANON: An Israeli soldier reads a prayer book on Lebanese territory at an unspecified location in the south of the country, 12 August 2006. Israel's new widescale offensive in Lebanon is open-ended, a senior government official told AFP this morning. Israeli troops backed by tanks and war planes pushed deep into south Lebanon only moments after the UN Security Council agreed to demand a cessation of hostilities. EDS NOTE: CLARIFYING THAT SOLDIER IS PRAYING AFP PHOTO/YOAV LEMMER (Photo credit should read YOAV LEMMER/AFP/***** Images)

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south lebabon, LEBANON: Israeli troops take position inside southern Lebanon, 12 August 2006. Israel's new widescale offensive in Lebanon is open-ended, a senior government official told AFP this morning as Israeli troops backed by tanks and war planes pushed deep into south Lebanon, only moments after the UN Security Council agreed to demand a cessation of hostilities. AFP PHOTO/YOAV LEMMER (Photo credit should read YOAV LEMMER/AFP/***** Images)

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south lebabon, LEBANON: Israeli soldiers advance inside southern Lebanon, 12 August 2006. Israel's new widescale offensive in Lebanon is open-ended, a senior government official told AFP this morning as Israeli troops backed by tanks and war planes pushed deep into south Lebanon, only moments after the UN Security Council agreed to demand a cessation of hostilities. AFP PHOTO/YOAV LEMMER (Photo credit should read YOAV LEMMER/AFP/***** Images)

[Macs.]

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south lebabon, LEBANON: An Israeli soldier gives a photographer the finger as Israeli troops advance inside southern Lebanon 12 August 2006. Israel's new widescale offensive in Lebanon is open-ended, a senior government official told AFP this morning. Israeli troops backed by tanks and war planes pushed deep into south Lebanon only moments after the UN Security Council agreed to demand a cessation of hostilities. AFP PHOTO/YOAV LEMMER (Photo credit should read YOAV LEMMER/AFP/***** Images)

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ISRAEL LEBANESE BORDER, ISRAEL - AUGUST 12: An Israeli tank drives past a UN checkpoint August 12, 2006 on the Israel-Lebanon border. Israel continues to expand its ground offensive ahead of Sunday's planned vote by the Israeli Cabinet to accept a UN resolution to end hostilities with Hezbollah. (Photo by John Moore/***** Images)

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Haifa, ISRAEL: Ambulances await the arrival of a helicopter with wounded Israeli troops at Rambam hospital in Haifa, 12 August 2006. Israeli forces took a key hilltop village overlooking the strategic Litani River Saturday and engaged in fierce fighting with Hezbollah as the army expanded its ground offensive after more than a month of fighting. AFP PHOTO/RONI SCHUTZER (Photo credit should read RONI SCHUTZER/AFP/***** Images)

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Haifa, ISRAEL: A wounded Israeli soldier is taken from a helicopter on arrival at Rambam hospital in Haifa, 12 August 2006. Israeli forces took a key hilltop village overlooking the strategic Litani River Saturday and engaged in fierce fighting with Hezbollah as the army expanded its ground offensive after more than a month of fighting. AFP PHOTO/RONI SCHUTZER (Photo credit should read RONI SCHUTZER/AFP/***** Images)

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Haifa, ISRAEL: A wounded Israeli soldier is taken from a helicopter on arrival at Rambam hospital in Haifa, 12 August 2006. Israeli forces took a key hilltop village overlooking the strategic Litani River Saturday and engaged in fierce fighting with Hezbollah as the army expanded its ground offensive after more than a month of fighting. AFP PHOTO/RONI SCHUTZER (Photo credit should read RONI SCHUTZER/AFP/***** Images)

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BEIRUT, LEBANON - AUGUST 12: The sun sets over a dark Beirut August 12, 2006 in Beirut, Lebanon. While major hurdles still need to be cleared, the UN Security Council has voted for a ceasefire plan to end the month-long conflict between Hezbollah militants and Israel. Despite the talk of peace, Israel has not let up on its bombing campaign throughout Lebanon. (Photo by Spencer Platt/***** Images)

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Sidon, LEBANON: A column of black smoke rises from a destroyed electricity plant located to the east of the southern Lebanese port of Sidon, 12 August 2006. Several people were killed early today after Israeli aircraft staged raids throughout Lebanon, targeting northern roads leading to Syria and destroying the electricity plant just outside Sidon, police said. AFP PHOTO/MAHMOUD ZAYAT (Photo credit should read MAHMOUD ZAYAT/AFP/***** Images)

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Beirut, LEBANON: Lebanese army commander general Michel Sleiman (R) arrives to attend a government meeting in Beirut 12 August 2006. Hezbollah said today that it would respect a ceasefire as Israel poured thousands more troops into an open-ended offensive on Lebanon, despite a unanimous UN Security Council call for an end to the month-old war. AFP PHOTO/Haitham MUSSAWI (Photo credit should read HAITHAM MUSSAWI/AFP/***** Images)

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Haifa, ISRAEL: A wounded Israeli soldier is taken from a helicopter on arrival at Rambam hospital in Haifa, 12 August 2006. Israeli forces took a key hilltop village overlooking the strategic Litani River Saturday and engaged in fierce fighting with Hezbollah as the army expanded its ground offensive after more than a month of fighting. AFP PHOTO/RONI SCHUTZER (Photo credit should read RONI SCHUTZER/AFP/***** Images)

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Haifa, ISRAEL: A dead Israeli soldier is taken from a helicopter on arrival at the Rambam hospital in Haifa, 12 August 2006. Israeli troops and tanks poured deep into Lebanon on Saturday in a broad "open-ended" offensive unleashed despite a unanimous UN Security Council call for an end to the month-old war. Israel warned the operation could last for weeks as it struggled to deliver a knock-out blow to Hezbollah guerrillas, although it hailed the UN resolution adopted late Friday after days of diplomatic wrangling. AFP PHOTO/RONI SCHUTZER (Photo credit should read RONI SCHUTZER/AFP/***** Images)

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Haifa, ISRAEL: Wounded Israeli soldiers are seen to on arrival at the Rambam hospital in Haifa, 12 August 2006. Israeli troops and tanks poured deep into Lebanon on Saturday in a broad "open-ended" offensive unleashed despite a unanimous UN Security Council call for an end to the month-old war. Israel warned the operation could last for weeks as it struggled to deliver a knock-out blow to Hezbollah guerrillas, although it hailed the UN resolution adopted late Friday after days of diplomatic wrangling. AFP PHOTO/RONI SCHUTZER (Photo credit should read RONI SCHUTZER/AFP/***** Images)

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Haifa, ISRAEL: An Israeli soldier arrives by helicopter at Rambam hospital in Haifa, 12 August 2006. Israeli troops and tanks poured deep into Lebanon on Saturday in a broad "open-ended" offensive unleashed despite a unanimous UN Security Council call for an end to the month-old war. Israel warned the operation could last for weeks as it struggled to deliver a knock-out blow to Hezbollah guerrillas, although it hailed the UN resolution adopted late Friday after days of diplomatic wrangling. AFP PHOTO/RONI SCHUTZER (Photo credit should read RONI SCHUTZER/AFP/***** Images)

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Tyre, LEBANON: Smoke rises from the southern Lebanese city of Tyre following an Israeli arstrike, 12 August 2006, The Lebanese government was set today to approve a UN resolution calling for an end to Israel's month-old onslaught, after Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said his ministers would not stand in the way of the approval. AFP PHOTO/SAMUEL ARANDA (Photo credit should read SAMUEL ARANDA/AFP/***** Images)

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BEIRUT, LEBANON - AUGUST 12: A couple rides a scooter in a destroyed neighborhood that has been repeatedly bombed by Israeli planes over the past weeks August 12, 2006 in Beirut, Lebanon. While major hurdles still need to be cleared, the UN Security Council has voted for a ceasefire plan to end the month-long conflict between Hezbollah militants and Israel. Despite the talk of peace, Israel has not let up on its bombing campaign throughout Lebanon. (Photo by Spencer Platt/***** Images)

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HIGH WYCOMBE, UNITED KINGDOM - AUGUST 12: Police Officers stand guard outside a house in High Wycombe whaere a man was arrested in connection with the planned terrorist attacks on American airline planes on August 12, 2006 in High Wycombe, England. British Airports were thrown into chaos as Airport security was been heightened to critical after a terrorist plot to blow up planes in mid-flight from the UK to the US was disrupted by police. (Photo by Bruno Vincent/***** Images)

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New Delhi, INDIA: An Indian security official mans a machine gun mounted on a jeep at the entrance to Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, 12 August 2006. India's capital New Delhi and financial hub Mumbai have raised security levels amid US warnings of possible Al-Qaeda attacks, but the government dismissed the threat as "innocuous". One day after Britain said it had foiled a major plot to bomb trans-Atlantic airliners, the US embassy said militants may be planning a series of blasts in the run-up to Independence Day 15 August. AFP PHOTO/Prakash SINGH (Photo credit should read PRAKASH SINGH/AFP/***** Images)

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Paris, FRANCE: Security forces frisk a passenger at the Gare du Nord's Paris North-bound railways station, 12 August 2006. France said it was tightening security across all airports, ports and rail stations ahead of a long holiday weekend, in response to an alleged plot to blow up US-bound planes from Britain. Justice Minister Pascal Clement told regional authorities to "take all necessary measures to seek out any criminal offence related to a terrorist enterprise". AFP PHOTO JOEL SAGET (Photo credit should read JOEL SAGET/AFP/***** Images)

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Karachi, PAKISTAN: A Pakistani Airport Security Force soldier patrols at the entrance to Karachi International Airport, 12 August 2006. Pakistani investigators questioned several suspects linked to the Al-Qaeda network in Afghanistan, including a British national, over a plot to blow up transatlantic passenger planes. AFP PHOTO/Asif HASSAN (Photo credit should read ASIF HASSAN/AFP/***** Images)

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Karachi, PAKISTAN: Pakistani Airport Security Force soldiers stand alert in a bunker outside Karachi International Airport, 12 August 2006. Pakistani investigators questioned several suspects linked to the Al-Qaeda network in Afghanistan, including a British national, over a plot to blow up transatlantic passenger planes. AFP PHOTO/Asif HASSAN (Photo credit should read ASIF HASSAN/AFP/***** Images)

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Manila, PHILIPPINES: Members of elite airport police patrol outside the terminal building of the international airport in Manila, 12 August 2006. The Philippine government is to ban passengers from carrying liquids on all domestic and passenger flights following a foiled plot to blow up passenger jets leaving Britain for the United States, the head of the country's transport security said. AFP PHOTO/Jay DIRECTO (Photo credit should read JAY DIRECTO/AFP/***** Images)

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Narathiwat, THAILAND: Soldiers conduct house-to-house search following an overnight shooting in Thailand's restive southern Narathiwat province, 12 August 2006. Four Thais, including a two-year-old boy, have been shot dead by suspected Islamic militants in the kingdom's insurgency-torn south. More than 1,400 people have been killed in the mainly Muslim provinces since the latest violence erupted in January 2004. AFP PHOTO/ MADAREE TOHLALA (Photo credit should read MADAREE TOHLALA/AFP/***** Images)

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Moscow, RUSSIAN FEDERATION: A Russian soldiers look at a picture of the submarine Kursk at the Museum of Russian Army in Moscow, 12 August 2006. Russia marked today the sixth anniversary of the sinking of the nuclear submarine Kursk with the loss of all 118 aboard, a traumatising accident that shattered the nation's trust in its leaders. AFP PHOTO / VIKTOR DRACHEV (Photo credit should read VIKTOR DRACHEV/AFP/***** Images)

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Kourou, FRENCH GUIANA: An Ariane 5 rocket launcher takes off, 12 August 2006 at the Kourou space center in French Guiana, with a Japanese TV satellite JCSAT-10 and a French military satellite, Syracuse 3B, which will allow to increase the communication capacities of French army. It is the third Ariane space launch this year and the 172nd since the company was founded in the 1980s. AFP PHOTO JODY AMIET (Photo credit should read JODY AMIET/AFP/***** Images)

[Mountain Man]

http://i.today.*******.com/Pictures/galleries/newspictures/2006-08-12T061129Z_01_FOR09_RTRIDSP_2_MIDEAST.jpg

I wonder if ******* added that puppy... you can never know nowadays. :)


hahahahahahahahahaha

[GAFES]

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060812/capt.ef9e0d35e63e4265a83cd8bb0d51595d.mideast_israel_lebanon_fighting_jrl139.jpg?x=380&y=253&sig=WqwlgQJ1doneTYx0tmarPQ--

:lol:


Wow. I just hope the enemy doesnt catch him, because the first thing they are going to do is grab him from that women like pony tail.rofl

[GAFES]

http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,682358,00.jpg

Wow. This is the first time i see a black jew.

[Ratamacue]

Wow. This is the first time i see a black jew.How do you know he's Jewish?

[TheArmenian]

http://i.today.*******.com/Pictures/galleries/newspictures/2006-08-12T061129Z_01_FOR09_RTRIDSP_2_MIDEAST.jpg

I wonder if ******* added that puppy... you can never know nowadays. :)

Or maybe they added the tank rofl

[gaijinsamurai]

Actually, there are a lot of Israeli Jews who are Black. Most are of Ethiopian origin.
That's the first time I've seen IDF wearing US-style Kevlar helmets.

[Polyshot]

Can I get high res of this one?

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X2....... looks like he taped-on a cheapo Red Dot onto the handguard??

[Combatbookworm]

Wow. I just hope the enemy doesnt catch him, because the first thing they are going to do is grab him from that women like pony tail.rofl
I could not possibly imagine how grimy his hair would be after a few days in the feild. Would not want to be his fireteam partner.

[spoiledEgg]

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An Israeli soldier gives a photographer the finger as Israeli troops advance inside southern Lebanon 12 August 2006. Israel's new widescale offensive in Lebanon is open-ended, a senior government official told AFP this morning. Israeli troops backed by tanks and war planes pushed deep into south Lebanon only moments after the UN Security Council agreed to demand a cessation of hostilities. AFP PHOTO/YOAV LEMMER (Photo credit should read YOAV LEMMER/AFP/***** Images)

This one is funny. But I wouldn't be surprised if he was showing the peace sign and the good folks in the media did a little Photoshop again.

[akd]

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This one is funny. But I wouldn't be surprised if he was showing the peace sign and the good folks in the media did a little Photoshop again.

http://80.179.149.150/~hnn/images/albums/1067_17414.jpg

Oh look, the pro-Israeli media have been using the photoshop clone tool to make ISRAEL STRONG1!1!

[/sarcasm off]

Joke is far past old now.

[DanteXavier]

How do you know he's Jewish?

Because the only blacks in Israel are the Black jews from ethiopia who were airlifted there during the 90's.

[soRaw]

http://80.179.149.150/~hnn/images/albums/1067_17414.jpg

Oh look, the pro-Israeli media have been using the photoshop clone tool to make ISRAEL STRONG1!1!

[/sarcasm off]

Joke is far past old now.

#1. It isn't a joke. People are all the time uncovering new photoshopped images, just take a look http://www.eureferendum.blogspot.com/

#2. This pic you posted isn't PRO-Israeli media, it's ISRAELI media. Choose a better source next time.

[akd]

#1. It isn't a joke. People are all the time uncovering new photoshopped images, just take a look http://www.eureferendum.blogspot.com/

There is not a single photoshopped or forged image in the link you provided, nor have I seen a single example in the endless parades of blogger "exposes" (their general knowledge of the subject matter, photography and journalism is disgusting to say the least).

Please show me a photoshopped image from the current conflict other than the two blatant hack jobs that were pulled by ******* and were from a single photographer, who was fired.

Furthermore, besides the bloggers' interchangeable use of "photoshopped," "forged," and "staged" as if they mean the same thing, the bloggers also seem to have a poor grasp of what "staging" really means. A "staged" photograph would be one that portrays an event that did not actually happen in real life.

In the case of nearly every single blogger "catch," what is portrayed in the photograph is what actually happened (civilians were killed and their bodies recovered), but there is evidence of the subjects posing for the cameras and instances of photographers playing an active role in this posing. This is not a good thing and the majority of professionals are aware when it is going on and try to avoid it (as subjects behaving as if they are aware of the camera does not make for a good image anyways). And it appears some local wire stringers are not entirely professional on this point, and I think this quote from a professional photographer found in the linked blog is fair and gets straight to the real issue, rather than the pages and pages of blogger pattering and grasping speculation:


I have been working in Lebanon since all this started, and seeing the behavior of many of the Lebanese wire service photographers has been a bit unsettling.

While Hajj has garnered a lot of attention for his doctoring of images digitally, whether guilty or not, I have been witness to the daily practice of directed shots, one case where a group of wire photogs were choreographing the unearthing of bodies, directing emergency workers here and there, asking them to position bodies just so, even remove bodies that have already been put in graves so that they can photograph them in peoples arms. These photographers have come away with powerful shots, that required no manipulation digitally, but instead, manipulation on a human level, and this itself is a bigger ethical problem.

Whatever the case is — lack of training, a personal drive as a photographer to show what is happening to your country in as powerful a way as possible, or all out competitiveness, I think that the onus is on the wire services themselves, because they act as the employer/filter of their photogs work. Standards should be in place or else the rest of us end up paying the price. And I'm not against the idea of local wire photographers, but after seeing it over and over for the past month, I think it is something that is worth addressing. While I walk away from a situation like that, one wire shooter sets up a situation, and the rest of them follow...

Endless reams of blogger BS before they just found the more relevant informed statement from a professional on the ground.

Just for reference:

http://www.newsday.com/media/photo/2001-09/658493.jpg
subject posing

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4640/388/1600/*******%20Qana%2002.jpg (GRAPHIC)
subject posing



#2. This pic you posted isn't PRO-Israeli media, it's ISRAELI media. Choose a better source next time.

You missed the sarcasm part.

[He219]

Great pix!
:)



couple more:

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Head of Operations for the Lebanese Civil Defense in Tyre, Salam Daher, 39, sits to be photographed in the town of Tyre in southern Lebanon Friday, Aug. 11, 2006. Salam Daher's green-helmeted head digging beneath bombed out buildings to retrieve the dead has been seen in news photographs from two wars, in 1996 and again in 2006, both times after Israeli bombings in the village of Qana. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
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Head of Operations for the Lebanese Civil Defense in Tyre, Salam Daher, 39, looks out of the window of a Lebanese Civil Defense truck as he drives off in the town of Tyre in southern Lebanon Friday, Aug. 11, 2006. Salam Daher's green-helmeted head digging beneath bombed out buildings to retrieve the dead has been seen in news photographs from two wars, in 1996 and again in 2006, both times after Israeli bombings in the village of Qana. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
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The wreckage of cars that came under attack during an Israeli air raid are seen abandoned at a road near the town of Chtaura in the Western Bekaa Valley, Lebanon Saturday, Aug. 12, 2006. An Israeli drone fired at a convoy of refugees fleeing southern Lebanon town of Marjayoun on Friday night, killing at least seven people and wounding 22, an Associated Press photographer said. The Israeli military said it was investigating the incident. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
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Israeli's wish each other good luck as they prepare to march inside southern Lebanon from Israel Saturday, Aug. 12, 2006. Israel stepped up its airstrikes and continued its incursions across the border early Saturday, not long after the U.N. Security Council voted on a resolution to halt the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
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Israeli paratroopers gather near the border before advancing inside southern Lebanon from Israel Saturday, Aug. 12, 2006. Israel stepped up its airstrikes and continued its incursions across the border early Saturday, not long after the U.N. Security Council voted on a resolution to halt the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
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Israeli paratroopers walk along a dirt road as they make their way to a Lebanese village in southern Lebanon after crossing the border from northern Israel Saturday Aug. 12, 2006. Israel stepped up its airstrikes and continued its incursions across the border early Saturday, not long after the U.N. Security Council voted on a resolution to halt the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
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Israeli soldiers patrol along a dirt road inside southern Lebanon after they crossed the border from Israel, Saturday, Aug. 12, 2006. The U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution Friday that calls for an end to the war between Israel and Hezbollah, and authorizes 15,000 U.N. peacekeepers to help Lebanese troops take control of south Lebanon as Israel withdraws. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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Israeli paratroopers walk through a field as the approach a village in southern Lebanon after crossing the border from northern Israel Saturday Aug. 12, 2006. Israel stepped up its airstrikes and continued its incursions across the border early Saturday, not long after the U.N. Security Council voted on a resolution to halt the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
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Israeli paratroopers take cover as they approach a Lebanese village after crossing the border from northern Israel Saturday Aug. 12, 2006. The U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution Friday that calls for an end to the war between Israel and Hezbollah, and authorizes 15,000 U.N. peacekeepers to help Lebanese troops take control of south Lebanon as Israel withdraws.(AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
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Israeli paratroopers rest along a dirt path as they approach a Lebanese village after crossing the border from northern Israel Saturday Aug. 12, 2006. The U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution Friday that calls for an end to the war between Israel and Hezbollah, and authorizes 15,000 U.N. peacekeepers to help Lebanese troops take control of south Lebanon as Israel withdraws. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
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Israeli paratroopers take cover as they approach a Lebanese village after crossing the border from northern Israel Saturday Aug. 12, 2006. The U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution Friday that calls for an end to the war between Israel and Hezbollah, and authorizes 15,000 U.N. peacekeepers to help Lebanese troops take control of south Lebanon as Israel withdraws. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
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An Israeli soldier walks at a staging ground for military armored vehicles along the northern Israeli border with Lebanon Saturday, Aug. 12, 2006. Israel stepped up its airstrikes and continued its incursions across the border early Saturday, not long after the U.N. Security Council voted on a resolution to halt the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
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Israeli reserve soldiers returning from operations in southern Lebanon are followed by a calf at the Lebanese-Israeli border in northern Israel early Saturday, Aug. 12, 2006. Israel stepped up its airstrikes and continued its incursions across the border early Saturday, not long after the U.N. Security Council voted on a resolution to halt the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner)
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An Israeli soldier stands as a military helicopter carrying soldiers, wounded during fighting in southern Lebanon, approaches the Rambam Hospital in the northern city of Haifa. Saturday Aug. 12, 2006. Israel stepped up its airstrikes and continued its incursions across the border early Saturday, not long after the U.N. Security Council voted on a resolution to halt the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas.(AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
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An injured Israeli soldier, wounded during fighting in southern Lebanon, is escorted to an ambulance after being evacuated by helicopter at the Rambam Hospital in the northern city of Haifa Saturday Aug. 12, 2006. Israel stepped up its airstrikes and continued its incursions across the border early Saturday, not long after the U.N. Security Council voted on a resolution to halt the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
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An Israeli soldier applies camouflage make up to a face of another as paratroopers gather near the border before advancing inside southern Lebanon from Israel Saturday, Aug. 12, 2006. Israel stepped up its airstrikes and continued its incursions across the border early Saturday, not long after the U.N. Security Council voted on a resolution to halt the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
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U.S. military vehicle, part of a convoy, drives down a main highway,in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Aug. 12, 2006. U.S. forces raided a funeral gathering and detained 60 men suspected of links with an al-Qaida cell blamed for a spate of car bomb attacks in Baghdad, the U.S. military said Saturday. Meanwhile, U.S. commanders are rushing nearly 12,000 American and Iraqi troops into the capital. The military has not said how many reinforcements have arrived in Baghdad, but some soldiers of the Army's 172nd Stryker Brigade have been seen on the city's streets.(AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
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A U.S. military vehicles form a convoy down a main highway , in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Aug. 12, 2006. U.S. forces raided a funeral gathering and detained 60 men suspected of links with an al-Qaida cell blamed for a spate of car bomb attacks in Baghdad, the U.S. military said Saturday. Meanwhile, U.S. commanders are rushing nearly 12,000 American and Iraqi troops into the capital. The military has not said how many reinforcements have arrived in Baghdad, but some soldiers of the Army's 172nd Stryker Brigade have been seen on the city's streets.(AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

[He219]

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Air Force Maj. Brian Willits readies his A-10 Thunderbolt jet before a demonstration, Saturday, Aug. 12, 2006, during the first day of the Pueblo Air Show, in Pueblo, Colo. (AP Photo/Pueblo Chieftain, Chris McLean)
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An Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt jet banks into a turn in the sky above Pueblo Memorial Airport, Saturday, Aug. 12, 2006, during the first day of the Pueblo Air Show, in Pueblo, Colo. (AP Photo/Pueblo Chieftain, Chris McLean)
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Mark Devany of Fairview Heights peers into the nose of a World War II era B-25 bomber during the Scott Air Force Base AirFest, Saturday, Aug. 12, 2006, at Scott Air Force Base, Ill.(AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dsipatch, Jerry Naunheim Jr.)
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Devin Throngard, left, sits in the front gunner area of an World War II era airplane as he takes a tour of the plane with his son Domnic Throngard, 4, middle, and nephew Hank Jenkins, 6, right, at the B-25 Bomber Days at the Warhawk Air Museum, Saturday, Aug. 12, 2006, in Nampa, Idaho. (AP Photo/Idaho Press-Tribune, Greg Kreller)
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Five U.S. Navy Blue Angels pilots fly their F/A-18A Hornets around Anchorage, Alaska, Thursday, Aug. 10, 2006 as they an approach Elmendorf Air Force Base following a brief low altitude practice demonstration. The Blue Angels and numerous other military and civilian aircraft, parachutists and hang glider acts will perform this Saturday and Sunday at the Elmendorf Arctic Thunder airshow in Anchorage. (AP Photo/Mark Farmer)

[GiladS]

ISRAEL STRONG1!1!


In Israel there's a sticker with this sentece in Hebrew floating around.

Yisrael Chazaka ="Israel is strong".

But if you translate it word by word then it says "Israel strong".

[Elemental666]

In Israel there's a sticker with this sentece in Hebrew floating around.

Yisrael Chazaka ="Israel is strong".

But if you translate it word by word then it says "Israel strong".

Hehe never thought about that :)
Thats cool,i got one my window p-)

[B25Hmitchell]

http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,682358,00.jpg

Wow. This is the first time i see a black jew.

Surely you have seen Sammy Davis Junior before.

[frenchy]

Because the only blacks in Israel are the Black jews from ethiopia who were airlifted there during the 90's.

It seems to me that there are a lot of black foreign workers in Israel, perhaps some of them get israeli citizenship.

[GiladS]

There are 90,000 black Jews living in Israel, it always makes me laugh seeing how people outside of Israel are amazed at this.

[Tamerlan]

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For me his is not the way a winnig army looks like! Poor lads! After the shooting has subsided, Israel has to start some very serious discussion!

[callous]

What's a winnig army look like?

[Ratamacue]

What's a winnig army look like?Evidently they're all supposed to be clean, freshly-shaved, smiling, singing, and dancing.

[DanteXavier]

There are 90,000 black Jews living in Israel, it always makes me laugh seeing how people outside of Israel are amazed at this.

Well, it's just that when you think about Israel you think Jews which are almost always light skinned. People just dont expect to see black ones, thats all.

[akd]

Well, it's just that when I think about Israel I think Jews which are almost always light skinned. People like me just dont expect to see black ones, thats all.

Corrected above.


Semitic is a linguistic term referring to a subdivision of largely Middle Eastern Afro-Asiatic (http://www.answers.com/topic/afro-asiatic-languages) languages (http://www.answers.com/topic/language), the Semitic languages (http://www.answers.com/topic/semitic-languages), as well as their speakers' corresponding cultures (http://www.answers.com/topic/culture), and ethnicities (http://www.answers.com/topic/list-of-ethnic-groups). Although there is much debate about the scope of the word's "racial" use in the context of population genetics (http://www.answers.com/topic/population-genetics) and history, as a linguistic term the language family (http://www.answers.com/topic/language-family) is well-defined to include ancient and modern versions of Amharic (http://www.answers.com/topic/amharic), Arabic (http://www.answers.com/topic/arabic-language), Aramaic (http://www.answers.com/topic/aramaic), Akkadian (http://www.answers.com/topic/akkadian-language), Hebrew (http://www.answers.com/topic/hebrew-language), Maltese (http://www.answers.com/topic/maltese-language), Syriac (http://www.answers.com/topic/syriac), Tigrinya (http://www.answers.com/topic/tigrinya-language), etc.


By sheer numbers, the overwhelming majority of Jews fall into only a handful of communities. The largest ethnically Jewish community, constituting the majority of world Jewry, are the Ashkenazim (http://www.answers.com/topic/ashkenazi) (historically meaning "German (http://www.answers.com/topic/germans)" in Medieval Hebrew (http://www.answers.com/topic/hebrew-language)) who can ultimately be traced back to Jews who migrated from Israel to Italy in the first and second centuries"[1] (http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/01/12/jewish.descent.ap/index.html)[2] (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=16404693) and from Italy to southern Germany in the 7th-8th centuries, spreading thereafter to central and eastern Europe (http://www.answers.com/topic/europe). The Sephardim (http://www.answers.com/topic/sephardi-jews) (Hebrew for "Spanish (http://www.answers.com/topic/spanish-people-1)") are those descended from Jews who migrated from the Middle East to the Iberian Peninsula (http://www.answers.com/topic/iberian-peninsula) in the 8th-9th centuries, and scattered since 1492 (http://www.answers.com/topic/1492) throughout North Africa (http://www.answers.com/topic/north-africa), south-eastern Europe, back to the Near (http://www.answers.com/topic/near-east) and Middle East (http://www.answers.com/topic/middle-east), and parts of the Americas (http://www.answers.com/topic/the-americas). Together, Ashkenazim and Sephardim comprise 90-95% of the world's Jewish population — though the Ashkenazim alone constitute around 80% of Jews worldwide...

...
Although the Jewish population was severely reduced after the Arab invasions of the 7th century (http://www.answers.com/topic/7th-century), Jews were always present in Palestine (http://www.answers.com/topic/palestine). Over the centuries following the Crusades (http://www.answers.com/topic/crusade), Jews from around the world began returning in small numbers. Upon arrival, these Jews adopted the customs of the Mizraḥi (http://www.answers.com/topic/mizrahi-jews) and Sephardi (http://www.answers.com/topic/sephardi-jews) communities into which they moved. With Baron von Rothschild (http://www.answers.com/topic/baron-rothschild)'s philanthropic land purchases and subsequent efforts to turn Palestine into a verdant Jewish homeland, and the subsequent rise of Zionism (http://www.answers.com/topic/zionism), a flood of Ashkenazi immigration brought the Jewish population of the region to several hundred thousand, the majority of whom were Ashkenazi (http://www.answers.com/topic/ashkenazi) by the time the State of Israel (http://www.answers.com/topic/israel) was proclaimed.
Following the declaration of the State, a flood of Jewish refugees entered Israel from the Arab world, most of whom were Sephardim and so-called "Arab-Jews" from the Maghreb (http://www.answers.com/topic/maghreb), Yemenite Jews (http://www.answers.com/topic/yemenite-jews), Bukhorim (http://www.answers.com/topic/bukharan-jews), Persian Jews (http://www.answers.com/topic/persian-jews), Iraqi Jews (http://www.answers.com/topic/history-of-the-jews-in-iraq), Kurdish Jews (http://www.answers.com/topic/kurdish-jews), and smaller communities, principally from Libya (http://www.answers.com/topic/libya), Egypt (http://www.answers.com/topic/egypt) and Turkey (http://www.answers.com/topic/turkey-1). More recently, other communities have also arrived including Ethiopian Jews (http://www.answers.com/topic/beta-israel) and Indian Jews (http://www.answers.com/topic/indian-jews). Because of the relative homogeneity of Ashkenazic Jewry, especially by comparison to the diversity of the many smaller communities, over time in Israel, all Jews from Europe came to be called "Ashkenazi" in Israel, regardless of whether they were Ashkenazim (http://www.answers.com/topic/ashkenazi), while Jews from Africa and Asia have come to be called "Sephardi", regardless of whether or not they are actually Sephardim.

[John Reid]

There are 90,000 black Jews living in Israel, it always makes me laugh seeing how people outside of Israel are amazed at this.

Most Americans can't point out Israel's general location on a map, never mind know about the Falasha/Beta Israel (whatever you want to call them). History is not taught very well in the US. For about 9 of the 12 years of school all they learn is American history and then they cram the entire world's history into 3 years.

[John Reid]

Corrected above.

So you don't buy the Khazar theory? Because that would obviously make the term anti-semitic a total misnomer, and also, it would make Israelis (who are already mostly atheists) merely culturally Jewish, e.a. not religiously and not ethnically. Anyway, let's not get into that discussion as it's a very long and dull one. :|

[DanteXavier]

Most Americans can't point out Israel's general location on a map, never mind know about the Falasha/Beta Israel (whatever you want to call them). History is not taught very well in the US. For about 9 of the 12 years of school all they learn is American history and then they cram the entire world's history into 3 years.

I know all about history, WAY more than any other kid in that daft history class I have to sit through at school. I am perfectly capable of pointin out the location of Israel on a map; I even went to the National geography Bee.
Dont insult my intelligence please, thank you.

I knew about the presence of Black Jews, and I knew where they came from, I just hadnt really SEEN THEM in action before, hence i commented. Do you understand now?

[AussieJohnDoe]

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. p-)

[GiladS]

So you don't buy the Khazar theory? Because that would obviously make the term anti-semitic a total misnomer, and also, it would make Israelis (who are already mostly atheists) merely culturally Jewish, e.a. not religiously and not ethnically. Anyway, let's not get into that discussion as it's a very long and dull one. :|

DNA studies have proven this theory to be wrong.

The Khazar monarchy may have converted to Judaism, but the majority of the common people didn't follow.

Anyway, just felt that I had to mention this...

[Herrmannek]

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This one is funny. But I wouldn't be surprised if he was showing the peace sign and the good folks in the media did a little Photoshop again.


http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/7950/71633398ew6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

An Israeli soldier gives a photographer encouragement to come by and get a chocolade chips coookie as Israeli troops advance inside southern Lebanon 12 August 2006. Israel's new widescale offensive in Lebanon is open-ended, a senior government official told AFP this morning. Israeli troops backed by tanks and war planes pushed deep into south Lebanon only moments after the UN Security Council agreed to demand a cessation of hostilities. AFP PHOTO/YOAV LEMMER (Photo credit should read YOAV LEMMER/AFP/***** Images)

[narin44]

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those blokes in pink scaff are Thai Border Police not army the one in the left wearing tennis shoes is volunteer form Ministry of interior.

[Switek]

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those blokes in pink scaff are Thai Border Police not army the one in the left wearing tennis shoes is volunteer form Ministry of interior.

Pink is a color which symbolizes love... rofl

[REMOV]

Pink is a color which symbolizes love... roflTell me, what is the colour of a "childish sense of humour"?

[Switek]

Tell me, what is the colour of a "childish sense of humour"?

From psychological point of view, human's sense of humor is, irrespective of age, childish reaction... p-)

[Ravage]

Tell me, what is the colour of a "childish sense of humour"?

Yellow p-) :hug:

[DanteXavier]

http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/7950/71633398ew6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

LOL, another doctored photo.rofl