Vandals spray-paint 'Death to the Jews' inside Israeli El Al plane
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Tel Aviv - Despite the Israeli airline's tight security, unknown vandals spray-painted anti-Semitic slogans inside the cargo bay of an El-Al passenger plane, probably as it was docked in Milan, an Israeli newspaper reported Tuesday. The slogans, in Arabic, included "Death to the Jews," the Yediot Ahronot daily said. El-Al staff members discovered them as they were loading luggage onto the plane at Milan's Malpensa Airport before it was heading back to Tel Aviv. The perpetrator spray-painted the graffiti in the plane's cargo bay earlier, probably shortly after it landed in Milan and as luggage was being unloaded. But it could have been carried out earlier, while the plane was at another destination, said the daily, which quoted Malpensa's airport police and Italian and Israeli police and security officials. A team of Italian inspectors launched a thorough investigation and questioned all ground staff that had been in contact with the plane. El-Al is considered one the most secured airlines in the world. A spokeswoman for the airline would not give details about the incident because it was a security-related issue. "Since El-Al was founded, security constitutes a top value for it and a corner stone on which the company's activities rest on all flights in Israel and abroad." "The company does not compromise on the issue of security in any way, also not regarding the current incident," she said in a written statement sent to Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. El-Al demanded an investigation into the incident as soon as it learned of it, the statement added.
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re: Vise Versa?
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John ,
Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:02:19 GMT
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I thought the "Vise Versa" comment was kind of funny. It's as if the guideline for judging world conflicts is the presence or lack of graffiti on commercial airliners.
Because, of course, as we know, an Israeli kid has never been reported to grafitti a slogan on board a Palestinian commercial jet (which there are none of to begin with), we know that their state has the moral high ground.
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Michael and Others
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Dylan ,
Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:51:55 GMT
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Michael- shut up. You obviously know nothing about who has REPEATEDLY been the aggressor in the Arab-Jew conflict. You would best spend the time reading a book instead of demonstrating your stupidity on here.
"Why The Hate"- The Jews are hated for many reasons- mostly driven by the backward-thinking Islamic beliefs of needing to kill infidels. Consider the success the Jews have had ALL OVER THE WORLD in MANY societies and comapre that to the dismal condition of the Arab world. The Arabs have billions in oil money but are, for the most part, still poor backward countries. The Jews, meanwhile, have no oil but continue to flourish in many areas from science to economics to entertainment. Basically, the Jews are successful and the Arabs would rather pull the Jews down to their level than aspire to be at the level of the Jews.
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Oh come on...
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Heath ,
Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:43:51 GMT
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Do some fact checking... If you check out the article at Reuters they say the vandals used what was probably a marker of some sort and wrote "long live Palestine". I would be interested to know who the owners of this website are. I guess some people just love playing the victim.
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Who cares?
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Robot Philosopher ,
Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:56:47 GMT
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Why is it that things like this make the news? If this happened on some other airline, it wouldn't make the news. I guess when you own the news you can publish whatever suits your own agenda.
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el al
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joe blow ,
Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:27:16 GMT
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Why in the world would anyone do such a thing? I wonder.....
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Graffiti is common in cargo bins
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Kenny ,
Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:04:55 GMT
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Having worked on the ramp for a major airline I can tell you that most of the cargo bins inside plans have some sort of graffiti on them. The graffiti more than likely wasn't done in spray paint (not a good idea with the fumes in a closed area that you would be working in plus the fire danger), rather it would typically been done with a simple black marker.
What really should be the concern is not the graffiti but rather the motivation of the person who did it and the threat they may pose.
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Seems embellished
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Kev ,
Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:20:00 GMT
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The whole story, as posted by Reuters:
"It was something like 'Long Live Palestine'," written with a marker pen, Raffaele Veri of the Malpensa airport police told Reuters on Tuesday. "It has happened once before."
So, that's a MARKER, not spray paint. And it said, "Long Live Palestine" not death to anyone.
These embellishments and hyperbole, it's like a bad rumor. This is the type of thing that fans racial fires.
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Vise versa?
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Michael ,
Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:13:22 GMT
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I'm interested to know if there has ever been a documented case of an Israeli writing "Death to Arabs" on an Arab airplane, or anything Arab for that matter? I think not. Proves who the bully and the victim are? no?
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jewdeath
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JAMES ,
Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:03:23 GMT
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I generally like Jews, and support Israel's right to defend herself... but somehow this graffiti made me laugh hard enough to shoot coffee out my nose.
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Why the hate?
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Melissa in NorCal ,
Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:04:37 GMT
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They are raised on hate for Jews from birth. Watch some Al Manar or Al Jazeera sometime. Go to www.memritv.org and watch some videos.
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Why the hate?
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Doug Markell ,
Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:39:15 GMT
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What possible reason could the Arab peoples have to hate the Israelis so much?
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