Fic: Tin Man (7-8/10)

Title: Tin Man (7-8/10)
Author: Mel (eumelia)
Disclaimer: Marvel owns it all, I just like to play with other people's toys and get no money from it.
Rating: PG-13, here be some language and violent imagery
Fandom: Iron Man (Movieverse) - this happens approx. a month after the events of the movie.
Characters: Tony Stark, Pepper Potts, James Rhodes
Previous Chapters: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 and Part 6

( Part 7 )

( Part 8 )

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Feddback is ambrosia and comments are nectar.

To my readers who don't read fanfic, I apologize for my LJ being slightly "off" over the past few days... I just couldn't stop :)

well, I never thought I'd see the day

Settlers are held accountable for their illegal actions.

Remember last week, I mentioned the lynch just outside Susya - you can read about and the links that go with the incident here.

Well, two of those (and I loathe to call them that) people were arrested today.

Imagine that.
I guess when there's actual video footage of a lynch being committed, as much as they'd like to, I don't think the police can actually deny that there is actual, ya know, fucking violence committed against old ladies who just happened to be there.

And they do it for the hell of it.

It doesn't matter that these (and again, I hate using this word to describe them) people believe that what they do is right.

Objectively... these particular Settlers are pieces of shit.

All This on a Tuesday

The two alleged violent offenders that were arrested today.
Have been remanded to house arrest for three days.

A truce between Israel and Hamas is just two days away so I've been informed by Ha'aretz and Al-Jazeera.
These announcements were made just a few hours before six Palestinian militants were killed by IAF forces.
None the less, despite the ongoing carnage being pelted at Gaza and the Western Negev, a simultaneous and mutual truce is set to commence on Thursday at six of the AM.
Leaving another 36 hours in which each side can do as much damage as possible.

Oh, I'm optimistic.

What is that you say? I didn't hear you because my cynicism is laughing in the background.

Sometimes I just feel old.

The Israeli Jews living in Hebron are such charming fella's.
So charming that at one of them poured boiling water over a Meretz member on a "Break the Silence" tour through the city.
This of course comes after yesterday's News in which Hebron police department released to the medias that Leftist activities are deliberately provocative and that "Break the Silence" "Bnei Avraham", "B'Tselem" and other organizations go there for the express purpose of causing trouble.

It's nice to know which side the police takes in that area of Hell.

As for the claims of the activities being provocative; anything that goes into an intense area like Hebron with an agenda that wants to show that the Status Quo is really not of the good is going to be considered provocative.
The less legitimacy the Settlers have for what goes on there and what the IDF has to to in order to "protect" the Settlers from their Palestinian neighbors (though more often than not, the soldiers have to restrain the Settlers and protect the Palestinians), the better.