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Aimstraight
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| | Posted on Monday, December 18, 2006 - 08:19 pm: | 
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By Tom Harper and Ben Leapman
LONDON SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
December 18, 2006
LONDON -- Jewish people are four times more likely to be attacked in Britain because of their religion than Muslims, according to figures compiled by the police.
One in 400 Jews, compared with one in 1,700 Muslims, are likely to be victims of faith-related hate attacks every year. The figure is based on data collected over three months in police areas accounting for half the Muslim and Jewish populations of England and Wales. The crimes range from assault and verbal abuse to criminal damage at places of worship.
Police forces started recording the religion of faith-related hate-crime victims only this year. They did so on the instruction of the Association of Chief Police Officers, which wanted a clear picture of community tensions around the country, following reports of Muslims being attacked after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the July 7 London bombings last year.
However, the first findings, for the July-September period, obtained by the Sunday Telegraph under freedom of information legislation, show that it is Jews who are much more likely to be targeted because of their religion.
In London and Manchester, where Muslims outnumber Jews by four to one, anti-Semitic offenses exceeded anti-Muslim offenses. The figures do not record the faith of the offenders.
The figures also suggest that many faith-related hate crimes remain unsolved, contrary to the picture painted by the government prosecutors' office. The Crown Prosecution Service, in a report this month, said that only 43 persons were charged with "religiously aggravated" offenses last year, and concluded that the large rise expected after the July 7 bombings had not materialized.
Police figures suggest, however, that hundreds of faith-related hate crimes are being committed, with very few ever reaching court.
The prosecutors' report revealed that not a single person accused of an anti-Semitic crime had been prosecuted on a charge of religiously aggravated offense.
A report by members of Parliament in September said British Jews were more vulnerable to attack and abuse now than for a generation.
Iain Duncan Smith, a former Conservative leader, who was part of the parliamentary inquiry, said it was "perverse" that not all police forces recorded anti-Semitic incidents and said that some forces "verge on the complacent."
Rabbi Alex Chapper, 33, was the victim of a faith-related hate crime in July 2005.
He was returning from a synagogue in Ilford, East London, with three Jewish friends after conducting a service. Seven Asian teenagers followed them down the road shouting "Yehudi," which means Jew in Arabic and Urdu. One of them shouted, "We are Pakistani, you are Jewish. We are going to kill you," before punching Mr. Chapper in the face and hitting one of his friends over the head with a bottle.
The youths ran off when someone threatened to call the police. Mr. Chapper and his friends identified the youths to the police, but they were never prosecuted.
"They just did not seem interested. I feel very let down," he said.
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Jennifer03801
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| | Posted on Monday, December 18, 2006 - 09:18 pm: |
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Woman beaten on Jerusalem bus for refusing to move to rear seat
By Daphna Berman
A woman who reported a vicious attack by an ad-hoc "modesty patrol" on a Jerusalem bus last month is now lining up support for her case and may be included in a petition to the High Court of Justice over the legality of sex-segregated buses.
Miriam Shear says she was traveling to pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City early on November 24 when a group of ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) men attacked her for refusing to move to the back of the Egged No. 2 bus. She is now in touch with several legal advocacy and women's organizations, and at the same time, waiting for the police to apprehend her attackers.
"America counts millions of Muslims amongst our citizens, and Muslims make an incredibly valuable contribution to our country. Muslims are doctors, lawyers, law professors, members of the military, entrepreneurs, shopkeepers, moms and dads. And they need to be treated with respect." - GWB
After all, the Shoah did not start with ovens. It began with words of hate. - M.J. Rosenberg
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Jennifer03801
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| | Posted on Tuesday, December 19, 2006 - 12:57 pm: |
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Worse Than Apartheid
by Chris Hedges
Israel has spent the last five months unleashing missiles, attack helicopters and jet fighters over the densely packed concrete hovels in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli army has made numerous deadly incursions, and some 500 people, nearly all civilians, have been killed and 1,600 more wounded. Israel has rounded up hundreds of Palestinians, destroyed Gaza’s infrastructure, including its electrical power system and key roads and bridges, carried out huge land confiscations, demolished homes and plunged families into a crisis that has caused widespread poverty and malnutrition.
Civil society itself—and this appears to be part of the Israeli plan—is unraveling. Hamas and Fatah factions battle in the streets, despite a tenuous cease-fire, threatening civil war. And the governing Palestinian movement, Hamas, has said it will boycott early elections called by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, done with the blessing of the West in a bid to toss Hamas out of power. (Remember that Hamas, despite its repugnant politics, was democratically elected.) In recent days armed groups loyal to Abbas have seized Hamas-run ministries in what looks like a coup.
The stark reality of Gaza, however, has failed to penetrate the consciousness of most Americans, who, when they notice the Israeli and Palestinian conflict, prefer to debate the merits of the word “apartheid” in former President Jimmy Carter’s new book, “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.” It is a sad commentary on the gutlessness of the U.S. press and the timidity of the Democratic opposition that most Americans are not aware of the catastrophic humanitarian crisis they bear so much responsibility in creating. Palestinians are not only dying, their olive trees uprooted, their farmland and homes destroyed and their aquifers taken away from them, but on many days they can’t move because of Israeli “closures” that make basic tasks, like buying food and going to the hospital, nearly impossible. These Palestinians, after decades of repression, cannot return to land from which they were expelled. The 140-plus U.N. votes to censure Israel and two Security Council resolutions—both vetoed by the United States—are blithly ignored. Is it any wonder that the Palestinians, gasping for air, rebel as the walls close in around them, as their children go hungry and as the Israelis turn up the violence?
Palestinians in Gaza live encased in a squalid, overcrowded ghetto, surrounded by the Israeli military and a massive electric fence, unable to leave or enter the strip and under daily assault. The word “apartheid,” given the wanton violence employed against the Palestinians, is tepid. This is more than apartheid. The concerted Israeli attempts to orchestrate a breakdown in law and order, to foster chaos and rampant deprivation, are on public display in the streets of Gaza City, where Palestinians walk past the rubble of the Palestinian Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of National Economy, the office of the Palestinian prime minister and a number of educational institutions that have been bombed by Israeli jets. The electricity generation plant, providing 45 percent of the electricity of the Gaza Strip, has been wiped out, and even the primitive electricity networks and transmitters that remain have been repeatedly bombed. Six bridges linking Gaza City with the central Gaza Strip have been blown up and main arteries cratered into obliteration. And the West Bank is rapidly descending into a crisis of Gaza proportions. The juxtaposition of what is happening in Gaza and what is being debated on the U.S. airwaves about a book that is little more than a basic primer on the conflict reinforces the impression most outside our gates have of Americans living in a distorted, bizarre reality of our own creation.
What do Israel and Washington believe they will gain by turning Gaza and the West Bank into a miniature version of Iraq? How do they think people who are desperate, deprived of hope, dignity and a way to make a living, under attack from one of the most technologically advanced armies on the planet, will respond? Do they believe that creating a Hobbesian nightmare for the Palestinians will blunt terrorism, curb suicide attacks and foster peace? Do they not see that the rest of the Middle East watches the slaughter in horror and rage—its angry, disenfranchised young men and women determined to overcome feelings of impotence and humiliation, even at the cost of their own lives?
And perhaps they do see and understand all this. Israel and Washington probably do get the recruiting value of this repression for Islamic militants. But these Israeli attacks, despite the rage and violence they breed against Israelis and against us, also create conditions so intolerable that Palestinians can no longer reside on their land. More than 160,000 civil servants have not received full salaries for almost nine months. These government employees support families that number more than a million Palestinians. And a United Nations report states that more than two-thirds of Palestinians are now living below the poverty line. The unemployment rate is more than 50 percent. The Palestinian Foreign Ministry says 10,000 Palestinians have emigrated in the last four months and almost 50,000 others have applied to leave.
Israel, with no restraints from Washington, despite the Iraq Study Group report recommendations that the peace process be resurrected from the dead, has been given the moral license by the Bush administration to carry out what is euphemistically in Israel called “transfer” and what in other parts of the world is called ethnic cleansing. Faced with a demographic time bomb, knowing that by 2020 Jews will make up only 40 to 46 percent of the overall population of Israel, the architects of transfer, who once held the equivalent status in Israeli society of the Ku Klux Klan, have wormed their way into positions of power in the Israeli government.
Washington and Israel, I suspect, know the cost of this repression. But it is beginning to appear as though they accept it—as the price for ridding themselves of the Palestinians.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has installed in his Cabinet a politician who openly calls for the expulsion of the some 1.3 million Israeli Arabs who live inside Israel. Avigdor Lieberman’s “Israel Is Our Home” Party, part of Olmert’s governing coalition, proposes involuntary transfer in a region populated mostly by Arab citizens of Israel, shifting those people to a future Palestinian state that would include Gaza, parts of the West Bank and a small slice of northern Israel. All Israeli Arabs who continued to reside in the territory of transfer would automatically lose their Israeli citizenship unless they took a loyalty oath to the state and its Jewish symbols. The inclusion of Lieberman, the David Duke of Israel, into the Cabinet is an indication to most Palestinians that the worst is yet to come.
The debate over Jimmy Carter’s book, one that dishes up a fair number of Israeli myths about itself and states a reality that is acknowledged even by most Israelis, misses the point. The question is not whether Israel practices apartheid. Apartheid is a fond dream for most Palestinians. The awful question is rather will Israel be able to unleash a policy so draconian and cruel that it will obliterate a community that has lived on this land for centuries. There are other, far more loaded words for what is happening to the Palestinians. One shudders to repeat them. But unchecked, unstopped, the current wave of violence and abuse meted out to the Palestinians will echo down the corridors of history as one of the greatest moral and tactical blunders of the early part of this century, one that will boomerang on Israel and on us, bringing to our own doorsteps the evil we have allowed to be delivered to the narrow alleys and refugee camps in Gaza. When it was only apartheid, we had some hope.
"America counts millions of Muslims amongst our citizens, and Muslims make an incredibly valuable contribution to our country. Muslims are doctors, lawyers, law professors, members of the military, entrepreneurs, shopkeepers, moms and dads. And they need to be treated with respect." - GWB
After all, the Shoah did not start with ovens. It began with words of hate. - M.J. Rosenberg
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Njaeok
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| | Posted on Tuesday, December 19, 2006 - 01:26 pm: |
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Lay down with dogs, get up with fleas. Encourage the crazies suffer the crazies disease.
Born with the gift of laughter, aware that the world is mad. -- Jimbo
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Jennifer03801
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| | Posted on Wednesday, December 20, 2006 - 12:46 pm: |
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Play by the wall and get shot like a dog. I'll leave it to you to figure out who's got the "crazies disease" and shot two innocent children 100 metres away.
Two Israeli soldiers suspended
The Israeli army has suspended two soldiers involved in the death of a Palestinian girl, believed to be 13-years old, near the West Bank town of Tulkarm.
Witnesses said the soldier opened fire when the girl was playing with a friend near the barrier Israel has built to separate the West Bank from Israel.
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Unicef has said that 123 Palestinian children have been killed in 2006, which is more than double the 2005 figure. In Gaza alone, 103 children have been killed.
Dan Rohrmann, Unicef's special representative in the occupied Palestinian territory, said: "This has been a tragic year for Palestinians living in Gaza and the West Bank.
"It's been one of the deadliest years that we have seen."
"Senator, in everything I said about Iraq, I turned out to be right and you turned out to be wrong and 100,000 (600,000)(650,00)people paid with their lives; 1600 (2952) (2954)of them American soldiers sent to their deaths on a pack of lies; 15,000 (22,032) (22,401) of them wounded, many of them disabled forever on a pack of lies." George Galloway
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Njaeok
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| | Posted on Wednesday, December 20, 2006 - 02:02 pm: |
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I'm not surprised but I am saddened.
Hamas has been brain washing childred to act as shields and suicide bombers for years and the poor kids die before they are old enough to think for themselves.
Born with the gift of laughter, aware that the world is mad. -- Jimbo
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Jennifer03801
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| | Posted on Wednesday, December 20, 2006 - 05:56 pm: |
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Your statement about Hamas supposedly brain washing children has absolutely nothing to do with what happened. Throwing it into the discussion is just another one of your rather feeble and extremely offensive attempts to demonize the innocent, in this case two innocent little girls. Those Israeli soldiers murdered an innocent child, an innocent unarmed child. They took away not only her right to make up her own mind, they took away her life.
"Senator, in everything I said about Iraq, I turned out to be right and you turned out to be wrong and 100,000 (600,000)(650,00)people paid with their lives; 1600 (2952) (2954)of them American soldiers sent to their deaths on a pack of lies; 15,000 (22,032) (22,401) of them wounded, many of them disabled forever on a pack of lies." George Galloway
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Njaeok
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Username: Njaeok
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 20, 2006 - 06:43 pm: |
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Oh my! Why didn't you explain that you were there and knew for sure that those evil jews gleefuly murdered an innocent child?
I mean if you witnessed it yourself rather then read it in some "hate jews" blog, you should say so.
Born with the gift of laughter, aware that the world is mad. -- Jimbo
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Jennifer03801
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| | Posted on Wednesday, December 20, 2006 - 07:05 pm: |
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These are your point counterpoint debating tactics. Jimbo? Look more like cheap shots totally mischaracterizing what I said with a little inflammatory language tossed in making it nothing more than a poorly disguised personal attack. I'm very disappointed, Jimbo, I really expected better from you.
"Senator, in everything I said about Iraq, I turned out to be right and you turned out to be wrong and 100,000 (600,000)(650,00)people paid with their lives; 1600 (2952) (2954)of them American soldiers sent to their deaths on a pack of lies; 15,000 (22,032) (22,401) of them wounded, many of them disabled forever on a pack of lies." George Galloway
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Njaeok
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Username: Njaeok
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 20, 2006 - 07:25 pm: |
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Hehehe--
You don't like a taste of your own swill do you?
When you are ready to agree to a rational debate with rules of procedure on which we can agree blondie, let me know. In the meantime I will proceed as you do with what ever rules I am in the mood for at the moment.
Oh--- thanks for the entertainment. I do appreciate it.
Born with the gift of laughter, aware that the world is mad. -- Jimbo
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Jennifer03801
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Username: Jennifer03801
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 20, 2006 - 07:36 pm: |
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Sorry you're having problems with the old bifocals, Jimbo. (I suppose I could strike back and call you baldie, but name calling is your forte, not mine). Anyway, I agreed to debate you on your terms anytime, as soon as you provided just one credible source for your rather incredible statement that Iraq took in 41 billion dollars in oil revenues last month.
Let me know when you find it, probably on the same site where you said Muslims called Nancy Pelosi the Whore of Babylon. And thanks for the giggles I got from that one.
(Message edited by jennifer03801 on December 20, 2006)
"Senator, in everything I said about Iraq, I turned out to be right and you turned out to be wrong and 100,000 (600,000)(650,00)people paid with their lives; 1600 (2952) (2954)of them American soldiers sent to their deaths on a pack of lies; 15,000 (22,032) (22,401) of them wounded, many of them disabled forever on a pack of lies." George Galloway
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