Wednesday, January 7, 2009
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
JTA: Blood smeared on New Zealand Rabin memorial - 'A Catholic priest desecrated a memorial to slain Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in New Zealand’s capital. Father Gerard Burns reportedly smeared red paint and drops of his own blood over the memorial plaque in Wellington Tuesday to mark the deaths of more than 500 Palestinians killed by the Israel Defense Forces in the Gaza Strip, according to the New Zealand Press Association. Several hundred demonstrators marched from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade in the central business district to the Rabin memorial bearing placards with slogans such as “Zionism is racism” and “Gaza’s Holocaust: Israel’s peace initiative.” The protest was organized by the Wellington Palestine Group...'
