Wednesday, March 04, 2009

Wait, This Story Has A Twist

If you read the first part of this story reported by Haaretz, you're missing the good part.

Here's the headline:

West Bank yeshiva calls in bomb squad over students' explosives trophies

Reads a bit ominous, right?

Let's continue:

Students at the yeshiva high school in the West Bank settlement of Elad have been collecting potentially dangerous explosives as trophies after picking them up in Israel Defense Forces firing ranges near the school, police discovered on Tuesday.


Well, as for being a "settlement", Elad is just over the Green Line and currently, it's population is over 32,000.

So, was this a new "settler underground" being formed?

The police got involved when a yeshiva official reported that several students had brought back weapons found near the school. "We immediately called the Sharon district sapper unit, and when we got to the yeshiva, it turned out the youths who had gone for a walk in the area had found a 52-millimeter mortar shell," said Elad police commander Dekel Ra'anan.


Nope, the staff and Rabbis were fully civic-minded and law-abiding.

So, were the kids intent on doing crimes?

Nope, again:

"The biggest problem is that they have no idea how dangerous it is," said Alon Assor, commander of the Rosh Ha'ayin police station, whose jurisdiction includes Elad. "No one ever explained to them what a weapon is, or a bomb, or a missile, or what damage can be caused by getting involved with that."


Well, does that end that?

Or will Haaretz continue trying to fool its readers, or, at least, those who just read headlines and maybe a lead-in paragraph.

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