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Thousands of Israelis continued to queue up for gas masks or ordered them by phone, spurred on by fears that any Western military response to last week's alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria could ensnare their own country in war.
A shortage of gas masks caused a mini-melee among panicky moms pushing strollers here Wednesday, as Israelis prepared for possible U.S. airstrikes against Syria that could trigger retaliatory attacks in Israel.
At a post office distribution center in the Hadar Mall in West Jerusalem, Israelis broke through yellow security tape and clawed into boxes containing the government-issued kits. Postal authority spokeswoman Maya Avishai described the scene as "a brutal onslaught" against law and order, and police were called to calm the crowd.
Jamie Schwed, mother of a newborn, was frustrated to find that all the gas masks had been distributed. "They warned us of a possible attack, and they run out of masks? It's ridiculous," she said.
Officials reported a surge in inquiries, deliveries and people lining up for the free kits, as the United States and its Western allies
gathered support for a strike on Syria in retaliation for last week's
alleged poison gas attack outside Damascus. The Syrian government denies responsibility for the attack, which killed hundreds, including many women and children.
Comment: It appears everyone is supposed to feel sorry for the poor, scared Israels as these images of them frantically grabbing for gas masks are splashed all across the mainstream media?
The only problem with this blatant "poor pity us" campaign is that Israel issued gas masks to all their citizens, including their children, in February of 2010. In fact, they even bragged about being the only country in the world making high quality kiddie sized chemical masks.
December 28, 2009
Israel to issue gas masks to population
"We are the only country in the world that produces gas masks for children, and the children's gas mask we produce is the only one in the world that supplies prime defense for this age group," Col. Yosi Sagiv,head of the Gas Mask Administration of the Home Front Command, told bacelonanews.net."
Interestingly, the information about the Israel's distribution of gas masks to all their citizens in 2010 has been scrubbed from bioprepwatch.com. as well as several other sites, but the article was preserved by the Wayback Machine
here.
We've also archived a screenshot on SOTT just in case the Wayback Machine's version disappears too.
Soooo, either Israel's "Head of the Gas Mask Administration" is a serious slacker, or Israel is lying ....again.
Comment: It appears everyone is supposed to feel sorry for the poor, scared Israels as these images of them frantically grabbing for gas masks are splashed all across the mainstream media?
The only problem with this blatant "poor pity us" campaign is that Israel issued gas masks to all their citizens, including their children, in February of 2010. In fact, they even bragged about being the only country in the world making high quality kiddie sized chemical masks. Interestingly, the information about the Israel's distribution of gas masks to all their citizens in 2010 has been scrubbed from bioprepwatch.com. as well as several other sites, but the article was preserved by the Wayback Machine here.
We've also archived a screenshot on SOTT just in case the Wayback Machine's version disappears too.