Maybe. But that's what they do.

I don't know enough about bomb disposal to say more about it.

You're wrong. It's:

1. Bang!
2. Bang!
3. Bang!
4. ... just to be sure...
5. Bang!

It's slashdot editors' choice. HaAretz reports every time Palestinians are killed.

Oh but don't worry, at least now you have the chance to start a pointless 500-comment thread about how Israel (no! Palestine! no! Israel! etc. etc.) sucks.

Yes, it's exactly the same!

You know what you should do? You should get a nice sword, go to the nearest airport, and show those assholes you can fight back!

Yeah, it's better to pick on a single sentence while ignoring the rest of the comment, and even then, to have nothing interesting to say about it

Dude, wtf. When was Ben Gurion Airport bombed? Certainly not in the past 20 years I've been here. And I order pepperoni pizza all the time. And "muslim en route to a prayer"? Unless he's a violent psycho (you have those in every culture), there's no reason why he should bother you.

Unclear to you - because you're obviously ignorant on the subject.

There's a very clear border - the green line, after which the Israeli law doesn't apply. That area is not part of Israel, and most Israelis, except for some right wing extremists, don't want it ever becoming a part of Israel.

As for the "Berlin Wall" or the other crap you're spouting - I don't feel like educating you about the basic facts of this conflict. Read a little about it, doesn't even matter if it's from a pro- or anti-Israeli perspective. But now you're just bullshitting.

And it's not just because I disagree with you. If you knew the real reason why Israel isn't willing to annex the territories (because it doesn't want to undermine its Jewish majority), you'd have a lot more venom to spew than the incoherent crap you have now.

Sderot is not a settlement, and it's well within the Green Line, just like Ashdod and Ashkelon. So you learned two new things today, ok?

In a universe where terrorists smuggle bombs in ambulances and baby carts.

Unfortunately, that world happens to be our own.

That a huge political debate in Israel. Basically, the (extreme) right wing wants to annex it, the left wing wants to get out, and the center doesn't really know what to do.

More like by winning wars that said Arab neighbors started in order to annihilate Israel.

Aah, that map again. The one where "Palestinian land" can mean "the part of Mandatorial Palestine (a British-colony-type entity, that included all of that area) that the author decided was more "Palestinian" than the rest", "a plan that was accepted by the Jews, but rejected by the Arabs", "parts of Jordan and Egypt" or "the first time the Palestinians had any kind of autonomy, ever".

I won't try to deconstruct that moronic attempt at propaganda piece-by-piece - I'll just note that each step after 1947 could have been avoided if the Arabs accepted Israel's existence, instead of trying to take the whole territory by force.

The Merkava tank, btw, was first used in 1982.

There's a simpler solution - don't feed the trolls.

Wow, trolling both pro- and anti-Israelis, and getting +4 Insightful.

Kudos, old chap, kudos.

Or maybe they were following strict, but reasonable (under the circumstances) procedures.

Bullshit - it's not rare to hear in the Israeli news about Israeli Jews who left their bags unattended and got them back with some bullet holes. Unlike you, I don't claim to be an expert on Israeli bomb disposal protocols, or on the details of this particular case, but it's clearly not limited to that girl.