Fire crime: ten thousands needed to flee in Israel

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"Tens of thousands of people are being evacuated as wildfires rage through parts of the Israeli city of Haifa, the third largest in the country. 

Huge flames are being fanned by strong winds in residential areas in the north of the city of about 250,000.

Fires are also threatening homes near Jerusalem and in the West Bank.

Israel's police chief said arson was suspected in some cases and hinted that some of it could be politically motivated.

"It's likely that where it was arson, it goes in the direction of nationalistic," Roni Alsheich told reporters, adding: "I don't want to disturb the investigation."

Education Minister Naftali Bennett, leader of the right-wing religious Jewish Home party, said on Twitter in Hebrew: "Only those to whom the country does not belong are capable of burning it."

On social media, the Arabic-language hashtag #Israel_on_fire began trending, with most tweets expressing pleasure over the outbreak.

Huge flames roared between apartment blocks as residents fled

Haifa Mayor Yonah Yahav said there were indications that one of the fires started when "someone tossed a cigarette in an area full of oil and flammable fluids" in an industrial zone.

Four Palestinians have been arrested in connection with a fire near Jerusalem and are due to appear in court on suspicion of starting a bonfire negligently.

The Palestinian Authority has offered to help Israel's fire department, a senior Israeli security official told the BBC, but has not yet received a reply. 

Meanwhile, hundreds of military reservists have been called up to help battle the three-day outbreak of fires.

More than 130 people have been taken to hospital with minor injuries, mainly from smoke inhalation, but most were later discharged, Haaretz newspaper reported.

Haifa municipality spokeswoman Or Doron told AFP news agency that 50,000 of the city's residents had left their homes.

People loaded up supermarket trolleys with belongings, while schools, kindergartens, universities and an old people's hospital were evacuated.

Further south, Highway 443 - which links Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, crossing through the West Bank - was closed to morning traffic on Thursday as another blaze reached the city of Modi'in.

Several countries - including Cyprus, Russia, Italy, Croatia and Greece - have sent help and equipment, including aircraft, to help tackle the blazes.

In 2010, 42 people died in a fire on Mount Carmel, just south of Haifa"

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-38088651

 

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[lego 44,165]

 You can't post the news in neutral way, without adding your personal arabophobia in the title, ever. 

 

 

 

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/11/24/five-countries-help-israel-fight-massive-fires/

"Weather experts said the fires, which began in bush areas, had spread widely because of gusty winds following the dry summer months."

So ... which is it then? 

 

 

[Melech 9,900]

Some twitter posts:

 

 

 

[LuMetal 68]

thanks for the reminder that arabs hate jews, i almost forgot

this part should be bold as well

"The Palestinian Authority has offered to help Israel's fire department, a senior Israeli security official told the BBC, but has not yet received a reply. "

 

hope the israelis are ok though. i wonder what the weather is like in the area rn, wind can be awful for fires and help it spread quickly

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1 minute ago, lego said:

 You can't post the news in neutral way, without adding your personal arabophobia in the title, ever. 

 

 

 

The article says it and it has nothing to do with arabophobia. 

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1 minute ago, LuMetal said:

thanks for the reminder that arabs hate jews, i almost forgot

this part should be bold as well

"The Palestinian Authority has offered to help Israel's fire department, a senior Israeli security official told the BBC, but has not yet received a reply. "

 

hope the israelis are ok though. i wonder what the weather is like in the area rn, wind can be awful for fires and help it spread quickly

because it also begins to threat palestinian land. 

[lego 44,165]

Just now, Simon said:

The article says it and it has nothing to do with arabophobia. 

 

The article has shorter headline, the addition is all yours.

And then you and your buddies complain when I bring up Israeli posts on FB and Twitter which were celebrating burning of Palestinian family. 

Double standards. 

 

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4 minutes ago, doppelganger said:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/11/24/five-countries-help-israel-fight-massive-fires/

"Weather experts said the fires, which began in bush areas, had spread widely because of gusty winds following the dry summer months."

So ... which is it then? 

 

 

That doesn't speak against each other. The dry weather is just a reason why it can spread so easily. 

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2 minutes ago, Simon said:

because it also begins to threat palestinian land. 

still not a bigger threat than the israeli government

 

  i see where this thread may go, should be fun. have a nice one y'all

 

edit: the proper title to this article: Israel fires: Tens of thousands flee as fires hit Haifa

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Just now, lego said:

 

The article has shorter headline, the addition is all yours.

And then you and your buddies complain when I bring up Israeli posts on FB and Twitter which were celebrating burning of Palestinian family. 

Double standards. 

 

Well, rn you are the one complaining

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The bias in the article 

And what are you trying to prove with those tweets ? I can very easily pull out tweets of Israelis celebrating with the IDF slaughters children. 

 

 

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1 minute ago, Simon said:

The article says it and it has nothing to do with arabophobia. 

The article did not say it was a "fire crime". Even if it was arson, as the Mayor suggested, why would anyone immediately assume it was politically motivated?

Bushfires happens a lot in Australia too (in similar dry, windy weather) by the way...

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2 minutes ago, Simon said:

because it also begins to threat palestinian land. 

All the land is Palestinian land, boy.