Like every Friday, we gathered early in the morning in Holy Land Trust and traveled with many international and Palestinian volunteers to join the villagers, other internationals and Israeli nonviolent activists in the weekly nonviolent protest against the building of the Wall. This week’s action coincided with the International Court of Justice ruling that regarded the Wall as violating international law and UN resolutions.
Like every week, the Israeli army came with full arms to prevent a peaceful and nonviolent procession on the path where the wall will be build in the village of Um sallamona.
This is how Israelis treat Palestinian non-violence demonstrations. My friend Sami Awad who the director of the Holy Land Trust organization in Bethlehem wrote the introduction words above. Sami has been here to Humboldt County where he gave two talks on the Palestinian situation. His organization is part of the Pax Christi humanitarian groups and teaches non-violence and Palestinian culture to Palestinian activists.
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He looks ok to me. His hands are cuffed but he's seated upright and doesn't seem to have his face kicked in? >>>>>>>>> ????
eeevil jooos strike again:
In the town of Al Muqdadiyah, on the suburbs on the north-eastern Sunni-dominated Baquba province, 12 Iraqis belonging to one family were killed when a group of unidentified gunmen stormed into their houses and opened fire on them. The attackers fled immediately after the bloodbath, a police source said...
In another incident, a group of unknown militants attacked at dawn a house in Al Hilla, 100 kilometres south of Baghdad, shooting dead nine people and wounding three others. The victims included a number of women and children, according to police sources.
That's what I was thinking. They seem to have treated him reasonably well. Notice the looks on the soldiers' faces in the second picture. Some look bemused, none looks angry. Just doing their job, it seems.
Gee, anon 12:28, I bet if you'd been around in France or Poland you would have thought the Nazis were just doing their jobs too, to keep the natives in line for the occupation and eventual removal from existence.
They won't eat pork but:
The Barnabas Fund said its sources inside Iraq confirmed "a toddler was kidnapped in Baghdad in October 2006. The mother could not afford to pay the ransom, and so the kidnappers killed the child. They returned the body to the mother. The little child had been beheaded, roasted and was served on a mound of rice." [...]
More recent reports of Arab/Muslim dietary practices:
"At first, he said, they would only target Shia, but over time the new al-Qaida directed attacks against Sunni, and then anyone who thought differently. The official reported that on a couple of occasions in Baqubah, al-Qaida invited to lunch families they wanted to convert to their way of thinking. In each instance, the family had a boy, he said, who was about 11 years old," Yon continued.
"As Lt. David Wallach interpreted the man's words, I saw Wallach go blank and silent. He stopped interpreting for a moment. I asked Wallach, 'What did he say?' Wallach said that at these luncheons, the families were sat down to eat. And then their boy was brought in with his mouth stuffed. The boy had been baked. Al-Qaida served the boy to his family."
Those Muslims must have learned these practices from the Israelis.
It's not so hard to do with the Islamic theology that is already the most war centered Abrahamic religion.
Add equal measures of cultural ignorance or narcissistic hubris that Islamic Sharia solves all social problems--just like the old Commies thought Communism would do--and viola, you have modern militant Islam.
Stephen said...
Gee, anon 12:28, I bet if you'd been around in France or Poland you would have thought the Nazis were just doing their jobs too, to keep the natives in line for the occupation and eventual removal from existence.
Sure, Stephen. I (one of only a handful of people open-minded enough to do it) come to your blog to read and think about your points of view, and this is how you repay me.
Telling me I would have been one of the Good Germans who enabled the Nazis.
That is a lousy jump of imagination from my comments to your conclusions.
It lends power to your critics who see in your mental processes some sign of disease or dysfunction.
I'll tell you what. If you let this comment of mine appear on your blog, I will continue to visit here from time to time.
If you choose not to post it, I will go ahead and follow my instinct to separate myself from your blog.
Because if you only print what supports your point of view and must smear anyone whose opinion even slightly differs from yours, you are more a Nazi than you know.
By the way, the story of the roasted boy (I skimmed the story instead of reading it closely because it turned my stomach) sounds like propaganda. Have you researched it? Actually, it sounds like Greek Mythology. You allowed it to be posted here in this thread, so it must be in accordance with your beliefs. But is it true? Would you be kind enough to show us some sources, so we (your small audience) may be able to evaluate the reliability of those sources for ourselves?
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