As of the present, the “peaceful demonstrators” at Bi`ilin have injured 80 IDF soldiers and border guards, and have killed one. And the IDF continues to use non-lethal weapons to stop their “peaceful demonstrations.”

What makes the IDF refrain from fighting back against the people who cause Israeli causalities, while at the same time these “peaceful demonstrators” cause property damage?

Their salaries are higher, their educational opportunities are greater, their personal freedom is more extensive. Any racism that exists, exists only in the minds of the Israel bashers.

Even the Arabs in Israeli jails — both Israeli citizens and foreign terrorists — enjoy free education, including studying in and getting degrees from the Open University.

It is no surprise that when able to express themselves freely, many Palestinians declare that they would prefer to remain as at present and not to live under a Palestinian regime.

Mary, hello

I don’t know if you’ve had an opportunity to read this review of Dr. Kanaaneh’s book by Robert H. Stiver. I send it along for your perusal.

http://www.amazon.com/review/RMQQQ4IVEKWWY

It’s interesting, yet predictable, that you have never once addressed the racism and discrimination that is rampant in Israel especially, though not exclusively, against the indigneous people of Palestine living in what is called Israel. Dr. Kanaaneh is hardly the unknown you dismissed him as; he is a familiar figure throughout the region and since his book “A Doctor in Galilee” was published in 2008, he is well known and respected internationally.. .

You came here willingly and have remained, spewing your disinformation to such a degree as to be without a shred of credibility. You don’t like it here at DV? Leave.

Oh, and what the hell are “peole”?

I guess you forgot the spell check in your eagerness to continue your “I love Israel and its terrorism” blather?

Deadbeat, I see you have run out of cogent arguments and have descended to name-calling. But calling me ugly names does not make the Arab terrroists any less hell-bent on destroying me and my people.

Racism is not cogent and thus you are the one who is INCOHERENT Laser by your support and promotion of the RACIST ideology — Zionism. It an ABSOLUTE SHAME that the United States who has a long history of racism is boycotting the conference of racism because of ZIONISM.

Zionist for years has thrown the label “terrorist” around and now the United States has adopted the “Israel” mindset of “terrorism” to quash dissent. The United States has DEGRADED it own ideal of democracy by its association with Israel and Obama is SHAMEFUL as an African American for selling out African American history in order to front for this pathetic and racist ideology.

No Laser — it is YOU who is incoherent.

Poor racist Laser object to people RESISTING their oppression by racists like Laser. Laser the racist terrorist who is laughing at American who send their tax dollars to a apartheid racist criminal organization called Israel.

You are a disgrace to your own peole.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1056648.html

This little news item from Ha’aretz is, perhaps, the only explanation for the presence of those calling themselves “Laser” and “jon s” on this site.

The outrageousness of Laser’s attacks on regular posters, the sneering, the mocking, the lying — oh, how familiar it is. If Mary or Deadbeat or any of the other posters here were to visit any site which doesn’t echo the zionist doctrine, you will find the same garbage as Laser et al. Different names, perhaps, but the same garbage, verbatim even. As if they all attended the same Defending Israeli Terrorism School.

It’s an indoctrination that commences in childhood and continues into adulthood. It is not a pretty sight as we have seen here, but it’s what they do everywhere the opportunity presents itself.

Killing JOED just might not be regarded as killing a human.

Have I sunk to your level yet, Joey?

Mary, if you think you can avoid thinking by referring to a serious article as “drivel,” I think that rational discourse with you and people like you has become impossible.

And that makes the achievement of peace that much further away.

Apologies for mispelling his name previously and for hitting that ’submit content’ button too early.

http://a-doctor-in-galilee.blogspot.com/2009/04/friends-and-relations.html

Similarly, Mary, you resort to name-calling in an attempt to make us forget that you support the evil ones who launch their rockets and mortar bombs at the innocent Israeli citizens.

And, of course, you expect the Israelis to take it and not respond.

I understand that you have no problem insulting my intelligence, but do you think the entire Israeli people will be intimidated if you continue to call them bad name?

This would be amusing if it weren’t so serious. But the two of you have indeed shown that you cannot be taken seriously.

Until then this horror and preditory nation-state will be free to do what it has done since 1948.

And this was stated by an imam who participated in the “Congress of Imams and Rabbis for Peace.” A Hamas cleric who once participated in an international conference of “Imams and Rabbis for Peace” — whose delegates vowed to “condemn any negative representation” of each other’s religions — has wholeheartedly espoused Hamas’s racist ideology in a recent Friday sermon on Hamas TV. Hedeclared this on Hamas (Al-Aqsa) TV, on April 3, 2009.

Ironically, this latest profession of Hamas’s genocidal racism was preached and broadcast at the start of the month in which the UN is meeting in the “Durban II” conference in Geneva to condemn Israel as being “racist.”

According to the Hamas interpretation of Islam, the Jews are inherently evil, seek to rule the world, and are a threat to Muslims and all of humanity. They are therefore destined to be exterminated, in this evil person’s mind.

This is Eva Bartlett’s account of the death of the young Palestinian man killed by a tear gas canister.

Bassem Abu Rahme, killed in Bil’in protest against the Wall, rest peacefully

Eva Bartlett, In Gaza

(Bassem Abu Rahme, white t-shirt, photo Active Stills)

April 18, 2009

I take time to mourn the death of Bassem Abu Rahme, the 18th to be murdered, along with scores injured, while protesting against Israel’s illegal annexation Wall in the occupied West Bank. The death and injury toll at the hands of the Israeli occupation forces includes minors, countless local residents, journalists, and many Israelis and internationals. The oft- militarily-besieged village of Bil’in is one of countless villages in the path of the annexation wall Israel has constructed for so-called ’security’ reasons, stealing Palestinian lands, and lives, in the process.

(*Picture: Palestine Monitor)

According to the Bil’in village website, Basem was shouting to the (armed) Israeli soldiers, “we are in a nonviolent protest, there are kids and internationals,” when he an Israeli soldier fired a tear gas canister at his chest, from a distance of 40 m.

I met Basem on numerous occasions in Bil’in protests in 2007 and was struck by his poise, courage, and humour. He could inevitably be found at the front of the march, dancing and singing as loud as the best of the villagers. Many a time, when I’d become despondent at the brazen abuse of power by the Israeli soldiers and their lack of humanity, it was the very humanity of demonstrators like Basem which lifted my spirits anew. Like most Bil’in residents, and those of other villages non-violently protesting the stealing of their land, Basem was out every Friday, facing live ammunition, rubber-coated steel bullets, and various types of tear gas. It was the latest high-velocity tear gas projectile which bore into Basem’s chest, just as one did a month prior to Tristan Anderson’s head, rendering him critically injured.

And people, many of the whom support the rape and occupation of Iraq, Afghanistan, Haiti, and of course Palestine, but not the legitimate right to resist a military occupation, have the gall to ask why Palestinians don’t non-violently resist, when they’ve been doing so all along, alongside legitimate resistance.

:: Article nr. 53528 sent on 19-apr-2009 03:45 ECT
http://www.uruknet.info?p=53528
Link: ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/04/18/bassem-abu-rahme-killed-in-bilin-protest-against-the-wall-rest-peacefully/

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There are photos and live links on the original.

I see that Laser is continuing to spew is same old racist Zionist dribble in this site. How about Obama caving into the racist Zionists to boycott a conference on racism. Apparently Obama prefers kissing up to the racist Zionist rather than standing up to racism. This is clearly the issue to hammer home.

Don’t put astick in the lion’s ear,a nd he will not claw you!