Shameful.

Some of the Palestinian firemen who fought Carmel fire in Israel were denied entry into Israel to attend a ceremony held in their honor. A comment isn't even needed here, the story speaks for itself.

I do want to say this: Palestinian firemen have the coolest uniforms I have ever seen in my life, and unfortunately there aren't any decent pictures of them if you google "Palestinian firemen." What do they wear, you ask? Purple camouflage. I always wanted to take a picture with some of them, but I would feel like an ass doing that. A Pali friend of mine and I even shopped for a few days in Ramallah looking for the uniforms, to no avail. Then again, who the hell is going to wear purple camo in public, besides firemen in Palestine? Not me. It would still be cool to have though. One of last days in Palestine I was eating pizza at al-Sultan, which literally has the best pizza I've ever had in my life, with some friends and looked across the valley to see firetrucks in front of our apartment. We thought our building was burning down. It was just a grass fire that the neighbors started. But the family we shared the building with stood outside, talked smack, and looked at the neighbors who started the grass fire like they had committed a mortal sin. While the pervasive gossip in the Arab world can get excessive, it can be really entertaining sometimes.