Friday, January 2, 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.
Power Line: The Conflict's Root Cause - 'We've seen similar photos before, but these seem especially shocking, and especially revealing, in the context of the disaster into which Hamas has plunged Palestinians living in Gaza. Here, a group of Palestinian boys who live in a "refugee camp" in southern Lebanon demonstrate against Israel's attack on Hamas. They have been raised from birth to view mass murder as a high calling and religious duty...'
You won't believe this, or perhaps you will all too readily. Marty Peretz - blogging on a demonstration here in the good ol' USofA, in Fort Lauderdale - a post aptly titled To The Ovens, excerpt:
It was a demonstration by, say, 200 Muslim immigrants in Fort Lauderdale against the Israeli air strikes over Gaza. Now, the first amendment protects such demos, and I would not for a moment want to curb them. But I ask each of you to pay attention to the details of what was being shouted. Especially by the young women screaming, "Jews to the ovens."
The link enclosed in the excerpt is to a supportive youTube video, it is, shall we say, educational. Lovely stuff, the USofA, c. Dec. 2008.
Btw, Peretz also has a very good post on Durban II, Should America Go To Durban II?