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Israel celebrates its 60th birthday, a miracle then and now (05.16.2008)


Opinion

The state of Israel gained its independence from Great Britain in 1948, 60 years ago.  Real Clear Politics (www.realclearpolitics.com) has published a great article by Charles Krauthammer.  The Palestinian Islamic Jihad ("Holy War"), Hamas and most Arab/Muslim states call the Independence of Israel "The day of the catastrophe"" (in Arabic, "The Nakba day") - Mr. Krauthammer says:

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The Israeli flag wrapped by the arms of a Holocaust survivor and her grandchild

[...] Palestinian suffering is, of course, real and heart-wrenching, but what the Arab narrative deliberately distorts is the cause of its own tragedy: the folly of its own fanatical leadership -- from Haj Amin al-Husseini, the grand mufti of Jerusalem (Nazi collaborator, who spent World War II in Berlin), to Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser to Yasser Arafat to Hamas of today -- that repeatedly chose war rather than compromise and conciliation.

Palestinian dispossession is a direct result of the Arab rejection, then and now, of a Jewish state of any size on any part of the vast lands the Arabs claim as their exclusive patrimony. That was the cause of the war 60 years ago that, in turn, caused the refugee problem. And it remains the cause of war today.

Six months before Israel's birth, the U.N. had decided by a two-thirds majority that the only just solution to the British departure from Palestine would be the establishment of a Jewish state and an Arab state side by side. The undeniable fact remains: The Jews accepted that compromise; the Arabs rejected it.

With a vengeance. On the day the British pulled down their flag, Israel was invaded by Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Transjordan and Iraq -- 650,000 Jews against 40 million Arabs

[...] Israel's crime is not its policies but its insistence on living. On the day the Arabs -- and the Palestinians in particular -- make a collective decision to accept the Jewish state, there will be peace, as Israel proved with its treaties with Egypt and Jordan. Until that day, there will be nothing but war. And every "peace process," however cynical or well-meaning, will come to nothing.

Mr. Krauthammer is correct: as long the Islamic Fascists reject the existence of the State of Israel, there will be war.  Israeli Jews will simply not just give up on living.  In the meantime the war against Islamic Fascists and other racist and intolerant morons continues.  I copy the full article below.

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After supporting the butcher from Baghdad, Palestinians surprised at Saddam's collapse (04.10.2003)


NewsThe Jerusalem Post (www.jpost.com) reports that Palestinians are once again surprised and shocked that the butcher from Baghdad has fallen:

There was shock and disbelief in the West Bank and Gaza Strip Wednesday as Palestinians gathered around TV sets to watch US Marines and Iraqi residents knock down a giant statute of Saddam Hussein in Tahrir Square in central Baghdad.

"I'm stunned and appalled. I can't understand what is happening," said Rustum Abu Ghazalah, a 30-year-old shopkeeper in the center of Ramallah.

He and grim-faced fellow shopkeepers zapped from one Arab TV station to another with the hope of discovering that what they were hearing and watching was nothing more than a US-produced Hollywood film.

"This can't be true," grumbled Abu Ghazaleh. "Where are the suicide bombers? Where are the Fedayeen of Saddam? Where are the heroic Republican Guards?"

Saddam Hussein has given over 15 million dollars to the families of homicide bombers making the butcher from Baghdad very popular among the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hamas and Arafat's murderers from the Al-Aksa brigades. [...]

Since the beginning of the war, many Palestinians have been staging daily demonstrations in support of Saddam. The protests have often turned into anti-American and anti-British rallies where Palestinians burned effigies of US President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

At least two Palestinian groups, Fatah and Islamic Jihad, announced that they had dispatched suicide bombers to Iraq to join in the fight against the US and British troops. Hundreds of Palestinian volunteers from Lebanon, Syria and the West Bank and Gaza Strip are reported to have arrived in Iraq to participate in the fighting.


Just like they did in 1991, these delusional Palestinians fully supported the Iraqi dictator, and now they simply can't understand how the American coalition forces have crushed the Baghdad butcher.

Unfortunately, just like in 1991, Palestinians will probably not have to face the consequences of their mistakes. After the war in Iraq is over, the British will try to make amends with the UN, France and other Arab countries by sacrificing Israel's security through a so called "roadmap" to peace.

After refusing peace and murdering hundreds of Israeli women and children, Yasser Arafat and the Palestinians will be offered an independent Palestinian State. I just hope the U.S. will not forget how Palestinians burned American flags and effigies of president Bush (remember the Palestinians celebrating the death of 3,000 Americans after 9/11?).

As an Israeli, I can say that if this Palestinian State comes attached with terror and an existential threat to my family, my friends and my country, this roadmap will go nowhere. If on the other hand, the Palestinians dissolve the Islamic Jihad and Hamas, give up their dream of destroying Israel and committing genocide against her Jewish citizens, we might get somewhere.

But I doubt it.

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British Labout MP accuses J-E-W-S of controlling English foreign policy (05.04.2003)


Anti-SemitismThe Telegraph (www.telegraph.co.uk) reports that a British MP has accused the J-E-W-S of convincing Tony Blair that a war with Iraq was necessary:

Tam Dalyell, the Father of the House, sparked outrage last night by accusing the Prime Minister of "being unduly influenced by a cabal of Jewish advisers".

In an interview with Vanity Fair, the Left-wing Labour MP named Lord Levy, Tony Blair's personal envoy on the Middle East, Peter Mandelson, whose father was Jewish, and Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, who has Jewish ancestry, as three of the leading figures who had influenced Mr Blair's policies on the Middle East. [...]

Ned Temko, the American-born editor of the Jewish Chronicle, said: "I just think these sort of comments are offensive and are a profound misunderstanding of the way foreign policy is made in the United States or here."

A spokesman for Lord Levy said he was not available for comment. A spokesman for the Foreign Secretary said: "If these reports are accurate, these remarks are too unworthy to be worth a comment."


Racist and intolerant bastard - it seems that some British Labour MPs have replaced the English skinheads in their hate of Jews.

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Islamic leader tries to blow up Holocaust Museum in Hungary (04.13.2004)


Palestinian TerrorismThe Jerusalem Post (www.jpost.com) reports that an Imam (Muslim "Priest") in Budapest, Hungary, had plans to blow up a Holocaust Museum:

Police arrested the spiritual leader of a small Islamic community in Budapest Tuesday during a visit President Moshe Katsav and suggested he was planning to bomb the city's Jewish museum. Two Syrians also were detained on related charges. [...]

Police identified the suspect as a 42-year-old dentist of "Palestine origin" and said he was the spiritual leader of a small Islamic community in Budapest. He is a naturalized Hungarian citizen. [...]

The suspect began making phone calls in November to friends "to get explosives," said Petofi. On one occasion "he asked an acquaintance to use the explosive to blow up a Jewish museum," he added. [...]

This year is the 60th anniversary of the deportation of the Hungarian Jews. More than 600,000 Hungarian Jews lost their lives in the last years of the WWII.


A few months ago, U.S. President George Bush called Islam "the religion of peace". When Islamic priests (Imams) spit their venom and hate every Friday across Saudia Arabia, Egypt, and Ramallah, and when one actually tries to destroy a Holocaust Museum, it seems like a part of Islam is more like the religion of hatred, explosives and mass murder.

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Stop the racists from divesting from Israel (11.22.2002)


OpinionN.Z. Bear from "The Truth Laid Bear" has posted an entry describing how some are getting organized to oppose the racist "divest-from-Israel" movement:

Upon hearing that Yale was the latest campus to suffer from a divest-from-Israel movement, I reached out to Yale Friends of Israel, a group quoted as (not surprisingly) opposing divestment.

Last night, YFoI updated me on their efforts: they now have their website up and running with a petition urging their University to reject the call for divestment: www.yaledontdivest.org

An excerpt from the petition:

"We, Yale University students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community members who support peace in the Middle East, oppose the misguided divestment petition calling for punitive action by our university against the State of Israel...Calls for divestment are, in effect, synonymous with calls for the dissolution of the state of Israel. We therefore denounce the divestment petition, and appeal to those who signed it to reconsider..."

Also on their site is a list of links to other anti-divestment campus groups, including those at Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard/MIT, the University of California, and the University of Michigan.

If you are affiliated with any of these schools in any way, I urge you to sign the appropriate petition and show your support for Israel. And if not, consider donating to one of the sponsoring groups --- or at least, drop them a message of support.


This "divest-from-Israel" movement is racist and anti-Jewish. There are dozens of hotspots around the World - just a couple of days ago Muslim fanatics murdered 50 people in Nigeria in one day because of an article that was published in a local newspaper mentioning that Muhamed might have married one of the Miss World contestants. Over one million people have died as a result of armed conflict in Angola - but do we hear from these groups on a "divest-from-Angola" movement?

The racists from the "divest-from-Israel" movement have one issue on their minds: hostility and discrimination against the State of the Jews. They are rabid anti-Semites, and their pitiful racist movement will go nowhere.

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14-year-old and 21 young Israelis murdered by the 'Palestinian Hizbullah' (09.17.2002)


VictimsFaces of the Victims has published the story of Maria Tagilcheva, a 14-year-old Israeli kid who was deliberately murdered by a genocide bomber from the "Palestinian Hizbullah".



Maria Tagilcheva, 14
Murdered by a
Palestinian terrorist


On June 1, 2001, 21 people were killed and 120 were wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a disco near Tel Aviv's Dolphinarium along the seafront promenade just before midnight.

The Palestinian terrorist mingled with a large group of teenagers, who were standing in line to enter the disco. While still in line, he detonated the explosives strapped to his body. The explosive charge contained a large number of metal objects - including balls and screws - designed to increase the extent of injuries.

Maria Tagilcheva, 14, of Netanya, was one of the 20 people killed.

Maria immigrated to Israel from the Ural Mountains in Russia with her mother, Olga. Maria was an eighth-grader at the ORT Leibovich school, and was still having trouble with Hebrew, but had many friends.

Just two days before, a car bomb exploded outside her school, while she was still inside. She decided to go to the Dolphin disco on Friday night to relieve the tension.

Maria was buried in Netanya. May God bless her memory.

To send condolences or to donate to Maria's family, please click here.

Here are the names of the 21 young Israeli victims deliberately murdered by the Palestinian terrorists:

Jan Bloom, 25, of Ramat Gan (d. June 3)
Marina Berkovizki, 17, of Tel Aviv
Roman Dezanshvili, 21, of Bat Yam
Yevgenia Haya Dorfman, 15, of Bat Yam (d. June 19)
Ilya Gutman, 19, of Bat Yam
Anya Kazachkov, 16, of Holon
Katherine Kastaniyada-Talkir, 15, of Ramat Gan
Aleksei Lupalu, 16, of the Ukraine
Mariana Medvedenko, 16, of Tel Aviv
Irena Nepomneschi, 16, of Bat Yam
Yelena Nelimov, 18, of Tel Aviv
Yulia Nelimov, 16, of Tel Aviv
Raisa Nimrovsky, 15, of Netanya
Pvt. Diez (Dani) Normanov, 21, of Tel Aviv
Sergei Pancheskov, 20, Ukraine (d. June 2)
Simona Rodin, 18, of Holon
Ori Shahar, 32, of Ramat Gan
Liana Sakiyan, 16, of Tel Aviv
Yael-Yulia Sklianik, 15, of Holon (d. June 2)
Maria Tagilchev, 14, of Netanya
Irena Usdachi, 18, of Holon

I copy below an article with more information on the attack and additional links to sites that covered this barbaric murder of kids.

Also, please click here to check a video that covers how some families coped with the consequences of this massacre.

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Islamic Fascism built on hate, racism, intolerance and violence; only force will defeat Muslim terrorists (09.10.2004)


OpinionNational Review (www.nationalreview.com) has a great article by Victor Davis Hanson that shows how Islamic fascism is not only Israel's problem:

Chechen Islamicists burn up Russian airliners and shoot schoolgirls — and say they are victims, deprived of the chance for their own autonomous theocracy. Beheaders in Iraq decapitate Americans, Pakistanis, Koreans, Japanese, and Nepalese — only to claim that these are infidels guilty of trying to build roads and bridges. Italian humanitarians and charity workers are kidnapped by Islamicists. In the "holy" city of Najaf, religious extremists bomb innocents, not only without gratitude for those who freed them from Saddam, but full of hatred for those who would bring them consensual government.

Islamic terrorists kidnap French journalists and threaten them with execution, demanding that a sovereign nation previously known for its appeasement of radical Middle Eastern rogue regimes overturn a law protecting secular life in its schools. Hamas "freedom fighters" blow up buses inside Israel and call the dead children Zionists who belong in the sea.

Islamic fascists incinerate dozens in Madrid, and claim they have a right to do so because of the Spanish role in ridding the world of the Hussein clan — or was the real rub the Reconquista? Australians in Bali are engulfed in flame by car bombers for the felony of being Western visitors in an Islamic enclave.

[...] Ask yourself: What do a Russian ten-year-old, a poor black farmer in Darfur, an elderly pensioner in Israel, a stockbroker in New York, and a U.N. aid worker in Afghanistan have in common? In the last three years, they have all died in similar ways: Unarmed and civilian, they were murdered by a common cowardly method fueled by a fascist ideology.


In the rest of the article Mr. Hanson makes the excellent point that being more "sensitive" to the Islamic Fascists from Al-Qaeda, the Muslim Chechnian child-killers, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, or Arafat's Al-Aksa brigades will not help.

The solution: get rid of the Islamic fascists. One by one, until these mass murdering bastards are gone.

As Mr. Hanson correctly points out "not every Muslim is a fascist terrorist, but almost every fascist terrorist is a Muslim. Killers are not screaming 'Hail Mary' when they machine gun children in the back, slit the throat of airline stewardesses, or blow pregnant women up on buses across the globe".

I copy the full article below, read it - it's excellent. Found the link on the now insanely popular (over 140,000 unique visitors in one day!) LGF.

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Israel's fight against Palestinian terrorism is working (06.10.2002)


NewsThe Jerusalem Post (www.jpost.com) reports that two Palestinians who were ready to murder unarmed Israeli civilians (including kids) in homicide/suicide operations were arrested yesterday by the IDF (Israel's army).

Two would-be Palestinian suicide bombers, the head of Islamic Jihad in Ramallah, and 30 Palestinians affiliated with Hamas, Tanzim, and Islamic Jihad were arrested by soldiers and border policemen operating inside Ramallah since early yesterday morning, the IDF reported.

Yesterday afternoon security forces also discovered two cars rigged with tens of kilograms of explosives ready to be used in a terrorist attack against Israeli targets. Inside the vehicles were found Israeli identity cards and Palestinian Authority documents.


Hamas and Islamic Jihad are two Palestinian terrorist groups whose only purpose is to destroy the State of Israel and create an Islamic Palestinian State instead. The Tanzim is one of Arafat's terrorist groups.

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Video: Tariq Aziz, racist Iraqi foreign minister, refuses to answer Israeli journalist (02.16.2003)


MultimediaI just heard an interview on Israeli radio with Menachem Gantz, an Israeli journalist who was humiliated by Tariq Aziz, the racist Iraqi foreign minister. The Boston Globe (www.boston.com) reports:



Racist Iraqi foreign minister
refuses to acknowledge the
existence of Israeli journalist


Touching off hoots and boos, a top Iraqi official snubbed an Israeli journalist yesterday, refusing to answer the correspondent's question about whether Baghdad might attack Israel in case of a US military strike on Iraq.

At a news conference here, correspondent Menachem Gantz, based in Rome for the Israeli newspaper Maariv, asked Tariq Aziz, Iraq's deputy prime minister: ''Are you considering any kind of attack as a possibility against Israel in case of an American attack?''

Aziz, invited by the Foreign Press Association, responded:

''When I came to this press conference it was not in my agenda to answer questions by the Israeli media. Sorry.''

Journalists whistled and booed.

The association's president, Eric Jozsef, a French journalist, urged Aziz to respond. ''No, I'm not going to answer,'' the Iraqi official said.

The room was packed with about 100 journalists. Twenty of them, including Gantz, walked out.


Iraq is the only country that has never accepted or signed a cease fire with Israel, even though it attacked and lost many wars against the Jewish state (see the history page for details).

Iraq also fired dozens of Scud missiles, directly aiming at women and children in Israeli cities during the gulf war in 1991. I spent many nights in the bomb shelter, or in a sealed room, wearing my gas mask and hoping the next missile would not kill me, my family or my friends.

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Call to action for progressive activists of Europe or North America (05.28.2002)


OpinionStefan Sharkansky (http://www.usefulwork.com/shark/)wrote an open letter and call to action for progressive activists of Europe and North America who demand that Israel unilaterally end the violence. He brings up some very good points:

"The key to the whole conflict is really very simple. The Israelis don't like being subjected to terrorism. Once the Palestinians stop the terrorism, the Israelis will stop the military operations and will be prepared to return the occupied territories. The Palestinians will get their country and Sharon will retire to his ranch in the desert. It's not that Sharon would necessarily want to retire, he would simply cease to have a useful purpose. So what you can and must do to solve the problem is to help the Palestinians shift their tactics from terrorism and murder to non-violent resistance and nation building.

If you are truly concerned and passionate about the Palestinian cause and are willing to make a commitment to help them achieve statehood, the good news is that what you want to accomplish is easier than you might think."


If you are a progressive activist from Europe or North America, read on, you might hold the key to make the above work.

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Something to cheer us up (10.01.2002)


OpinionOne of our readers, Paul H., was kind enoug to send us a great message from Naomi Ragen, an Israeli who lives under the threat of daily Palestinian terrorism but keeps her head high. As Paul correctly points out, this great message puts things into perspective and is certainly worthwile to be published on FactsOfIsrael.com:

I am not the least afraid to go any place, by bus or to a mall. I didn't change or stop doing ANY thing I used to do before this mess began! People tend to forget that twice the casualties from terror get killed on the roads! More people still die from heart attack, cancer, and other things; they just don't show them on TV.

Don't understand me wrong, there is a war going on, it's not pleasant, but lets face it.. WE HAVE NEVER BEEN BETTER!!!! It's only TV and media that make people think it's the end of the world coming. [...]

We have today a country, and an army, and a strong air force, and hi-tech economy, exporting millions, Intel-Microsoft-IBM develop their stuff here, our doctors win world prizes for medical developments, we made the desert flourish, selling oranges and vegetables to the world.

Israel has sent its own satellite!! In space (three satellites all together!!), we sit proudly with the U.S. (250 million people), Russia (200 million people!), China (1.1 billion), the Europeans -- France-England-Ge rmany (350 million), as the only countries in the world to shoot something into space!!


Israel's population is a bit over 6.5 Million (as you can see from the Stats page).

I particularly like her message since Naomi is a women - I find that many Arab readers go mad after seeing how free women are in Israel and how they stand up to the macho Palestinian terrorists. I copy below the rest of this inspiring message - thanks Paul.

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Racist bastards spray Jewish cemetery in Poland with Nazi symbols (08.06.2007)


Anti-SemitismThe International Herald Tribune (www.iht.com) reports that racist bastards have sprayed dozens of gravestones in a Jewish cemetery in Poland with Nazi symbols:

WARSAW, Poland: Vandals spray painted swastikas and other Nazi symbols on about 100 gravestones at a large Jewish cemetery in Poland, police said Monday.



Visitors to the cemetery in the southern city of Czestochowa discovered the damage on Sunday and police have not yet found the culprits, said Silesia regional police spokesman Andrzej Gaska.



"This is one of the biggest acts of destruction in years," said Jan Gebert, spokesman for the Jewish community in Warsaw. "In fact, I can't think of any other cases in Europe that have been this big."



The vandals used black spray paint to tag the gravestones with the letters SS, swastikas, and the slogan "Jews Out" written in German.


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New York Times "mistakes" are always anti-Israel (08.26.2002)


OpinionThe Jerusalem Post (www.jpost.com) has a good article that shows the leftist anti-Israel bias of the New York Times, the Washington Post and National Public Radio (NPR).

Consider the following items from the corrections columns of The New York Times:

Correction: An article yesterday about peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians referred incorrectly to United Nations resolutions on the conflict. While Security Council Resolution 242, passed after the 1967 Middle East War, calls for Israel to withdraw its armed forces "from territories occupied in the recent conflict," no resolution calls for Israel to withdraw "to its pre-1967 borders." (January 23, 2001) .

[4 more New York Times corrections. All corrections fix an error or omission that was detrimental to the State of Israel]

In a more normal world, a newspaper's mistakes, particularly in its political and diplomatic reporting, would more-or-less be randomly distributed. One could, for example, expect a correction in which it was the Israeli position on Resolution 242 that had been cited in the original story, not the other way around. Or again, the story about Quneitra might have been faulted in the correction for reporting the Israeli version of history as uncontested fact. Yet while a search of NYT corrections over the past two years discloses the usual measure of forgivable bloopers, not once has the paper erred on the side of Israel. A pattern of bias, maybe?


Bret, not "maybe" but definitely a pattern of rabid anti-Israel bias. Most New York Times (and NPR) journalists are liberal leftists who have an agenda. Their agenda today is to discredit Israel's efforts in stopping Palestinian terrorism - and it shows.

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Nazis in Germany firebomb Jewish museum (09.06.2002)


Anti-SemitismHa'aretz (www.haaretzdaily.com) reports that neo-Nazis in Germany are raising their ugly heads once again.



German police officers walk past a defaced
memorial for victims of a Nazi concentration
camp in Below, some 120 kilometres northwest of Berlin


German authorities have posted a 10,000 euro reward for clues leading to an arrest in the worst anti-Semitic attack on a Holocaust memorial in a decade, the fireboming of a museum honoring the victims of a Nazi death march.

The attack Thursday night destroyed the main exhibition of the death march museum in the Belower Woods, which detailed how the Nazis drove concentration camp inmates deeper into Germany as the Soviet Army advanced at the end of World War II.

Outside the museum, vandals painted a big red swastika and two SS symbols on a memorial, and an anti-Semitic slogan one meter high and six meters long along the base of a large memorial column.

More than 45,000 prisoners were forced to march from Ravensbrueck and Sachsenhausen, both in Brandenburg state, were gathered in the Belower Woods near Wittstock, 100 kilometers )65 miles( northwest of Berlin, where 700-800 died of exhaustion and hunger within a few days.


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SF Chronicle's coverage of anti-Semitism is as biased as its reporting on Palestinian terrorism (05.29.2002)


OpinionThe San Francisco Chronicle (www.sfgate.com) covered up and minimized anti-Semitic death threats from SFSU (San Francisco State Univeristy) pro-Palestinian demonstrators against Jewish students.

On May 7, a pro-Palestinian crowd swarmed a pro-Israel rally, and using physical violence, they shouted "Get out or we will kill you" and "Hitler did not finish the job". Administration officials on the scene did nothing.

The San Francisco Chronicle described the above as follows:

"Each side said the other was responsible for the hostility during the May 7 rallies. Pro-Israeli students said pro-Palestinian students yelled "die Jews" among other things, while pro-Palestinian students said they were called "camel jockeys" and other names. "


Benjamin Epstein, a Jewish student who was present at the rally tells the real story:

"And that's when they followed us.

The Palestinians slipped around the barricade. Screaming, waving their flags, yelling insults. Women with their turbans pressed forward, yelling horrible things. Some of us tried to ignore them, or be friendly. But some got angry and argued back. More pressed forward, and I can see that most of the Palestinian movement was there in the middle of the plaza, pressing against us. I remember saying to them: "We were quiet at your rally. We were quiet at your rally." I repeated it like a broken record."

"I went back to the table, and heard more obsecenities. One black man shouted: "Burn Fuckers Burn!" We took up our flags and signs, and started singing Oseh Shalom, while they yelled at us, pushing up against the police who stood between them and us."


The San Francisco Chronicle blurs the lines and continues to minimize Palestinian violence, this time by placing at the same level a mob of pro-Palestinian thugs and Jewish students who were singing peace songs.

The same SFSU pro-Palestinians have printed a vicious poster that shows a baby with the label "Palestinian children meat, slaughtered according to Jewish rites." (Click here to see the poster and my original article). Can we really expect anything less than an attempted pogrom by such anti-Semitic thugs?



Pro-Palestinians from SFSU printed this poster of hate
The label reads 'Palestinian children meat, slaughtered according to Jewish rites.'


I also find there's a similarity in the Chronicle's bad coverage of this incident with their biased coverage of Israel's war against terror: while the Islamic Jihad, the Hamas, and Arafat's terrorist groups continue to murder unarmed Israeli civilians, the San Francisco Chronicle reprints Arab propaganda from the Cairo Times, portraying Israel as the aggressor, and the Arab leaders as "men of Peace". See this article for more details.

I can only comment on one or two facets of the travesty of the Chronicle's coverage or what happened at SFSU. For other dimensions of this incident and the alarming trends it represents, check out the SFSU Blog Burst Index at Winds of Change.

I copy the Chronicle's full article as well as the real story from Glenn Reynolds from FoxNews.com. I strongly suggest you cancel your San Francisco Chronicle subscription, just call Dick Rogers, the readers' representative, at (415) 777-7870 or email him at readerrep@sfchronicle.com.

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