Post in Peace calendar for 5/9/08

May 11 16:25 UTC

Charles Underwood wrote:

>Saturday, 5/17, 1 pm, demonstration remembering Al-Nakba ("the catastrophe")
>expulsion of 750,000 Palestinians and other massacres of Palestinians, most
>recently in Gaza, Loring Park, next to the bridge, Mpls.
>http://www.antiwarcommittee.org or 612-437-0222 or
>http://www.coalitionforpalestinianrights.wordpress.com or 612-827-5364.

Perpetrating a fraud against the Jews by advertising a march by jihadist
sympathizers is not a legitimate use use of the Minnesota E-Democracy list.

I remember a march and rally last March in Loring Park. Representative Keith
Ellison (DFL-CD5) spoke about our priorities: instead of the war, we should
fund health care, et. al., and that we need peace for various constituent
groups. No sweat there.

After his appearance, however, a female ³Palestinian² gave a speech trying
to connect the Iraq War to Israel. According to the speaker, the trouble in
the Middle East is due to Israel. She leveled the usual charges of
apartheid; that a poll showed people believe that Israel is the problem by a
wide margin; Israel has violated United Nations resolutions; there is
dissent in the IDF; that Jews such as Norman Finklestein and Noam Chomsky
(to the applause of the crowd) are against Israel; there is the question of
a Palestinian Arab right of return (but no mention of a concurrent right of
return for the 850,000 Jews expelled from Arab countries); and decried the
security wall (which has drastically reduced suicide bombings of Israelis by
Arab terrorists).

I noticed there were Palestinian Arab flags, a Free Palestine banner, a
³Israel out of Palestine² sign, and that Farheen Hakeem was present. She is
a member of the Anti-War Committee and is the perennial Green Party
candidate for whatever political office she can apply for.

The Socialists were there, Obama supporters marched, clearly identified.
Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer was in the march. There were two 911truth signs, and
one ³Israel is a terrorist state². The turnout was probably a few hundred
for the march. I think a good number were there to hear Rep. Ellison. I
didn¹t stick around for long after the mujaheed-in-waiting spoke. The rally
concluded at about 3:45.

Jews - my co-religionists in the 5th CD - who voted for Keith Ellison should
know that he appeared on the same stage before an Israel-bashing
³Palestinian². The march and was to be about the Iraq War, but turned out to
be just another excuse to bash the Jews.

Zionism is the national movement for the return of the Jewish people to
their homeland and the resumption of Jewish sovereignty in the Land of
Israel, Whether it is political Zionism or religious Zionism, the belief is
central to Judaism and to Jews.

The following assertions are false:

1. "expulsion of 750,000 Palestinians". "Palestinians" were called "Arabs"
in 1948, and Jews were just as much "Palestinians" as any other ethnic group
that lived in the area. Arabs left the area, either at the behest of their
religious leaders, or because of the outbreak of war by Arab armies against
Israel.

2. "and other massacres of Palestinians, most recently in Gaza". There have
been no "massacres" of civilians in Gaza. There have been, however, unending
rocket attacks against Israel and the Jews by Hamas in Gaza. When jihadists
commence military actions from civilian areas, the world should not be
surprised when civilians are killed. The amount of attacks, purposeful
murder of civilians, wars, atrocities, bus bombings, dissemination of crude
anti-Semitic propaganda and blood libels in the Arab media and by their
sympathizers over the past 60 years has had the effect of turning the
incident at Deir Yassin into an exception in history of the Middle East. A
dubious achievement by the Arab jihadists and their sympathizers, and a
shameful one at that.

The Anti War Committee believes that "Israel as an illegitimate apartheid
state, and we stand in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for justice
and self-determination". It requires no stretch of the imagination the AWC
is calling for the destruction of Israel and murder of the Jews. These are
the people that will be marching in the streets of Minneapolis.

The progeny of Grand Mufti Haj Muhammed Amin al-Husseini will again defame
Minneapolis. Starting at Lake and Lagoon, they will slither up Hennepin
Avenue, with their Palestinian jihadist flags and kuffiyehs, bleating about
how horrible the Jews are for defending their country. The march will end up
at Loring Park, where the anti-Semitic excrement will once again spew their
filth. You just may see the "End All Occupations Now" banner at the front of
the march, with the map of Israel designated as "Palestine". The Jews? Inked
out of existence. No mention of Jordan, the other part of the British
mandate, populated with millions of "Palestinian" Arabs. The propagandists
of the Anti War Committee and Palestine Solidarity Committee do not mention
this fact.

G-d shall eventually cause the rains to fall and the Park will be cleansed.
The trees and flowers will bloom, the grass will grow, and the birds will
sing.

Neal Krasnoff
Minneapolis