Drowning Palestinians

I borrowed this piece from my buddy Noyam because it captures my own thoughts on the matter. I added in a few comments at the end.
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Where's The Outrage?

I was reading Metro on the subway into work this morning...(by the way, I can really see every blog post starting with that line from now on. In fact, I may change the blog's tagline to that.) and I caught this line, "Egyptian border guards shot dead one palestinian, and three others, who did not know how to swim, drowned after jumping in the ocean."I was both pissed and cracking up at the same time.

First, why I was pissed (the cracking up you can probably guess, if you aren't already laughing to yourself):

If the Palestinians who stormed the Egyptian border to celebrate their new freedom, had stormed the Israeli border instead, and the one who got shot dead was shot by an Israeli and not an Egyption soldier, that item isn't part of a compound sentence, buried in middle of a paragraph, in an article "Gazans celebrate first day of freedom" (Metro uses lowercase in the headline, so do I).
No, no, that's front page news, under some headline reading something like, "Violence Mars Israeli Pullout" or "Border Skirmish in Gaza." So why is it thrown away here? Why does Egypt get to protect its border from storming Palestinians without world reaction, but Israel doesn't?

That's why I'm pissed. Remember this next time a Gazan is killed by an Israeli soldier returning fire at the border crossing. Just remember it.

As for why I'm laughing? Well, my sick sense of humor finds something terribly amusing, in that "skimming the Darwinian gene pool" sort of way, in three people who can't swim jumping into the ocean.By the way, the juxtaposition of the two deaths just serves to lighten the border shooting.
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Palestinians drowning is always funny... you see what they did to the leftover Synagogues in Gaza?

Ridiculous.

Truth is it's Israel's own fault for not taking them down before evacuating and handing over.
Big mistake. They had to know it would happen.

My Mom said it best yesterday when I spoke to her: There is something ironic about the fact that European nations that find old Synagogues and Jewish burial sites take care to protect them and ask Israel's advice on how to go about dealing with these places (mostly out of fear of political fallout), yet Israel herself can't protect her own sacred places from desecration by those animals. Just a thought...