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Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Stone throwing is the political expression of choice amongst Palestinian Arab youth, you've seen it on TV -- rocks raining down on worshippers at the Western Wall, highways lined with cement walls to prevent cars being hit -- rocks are a serious issue.

Of course, the PC(USA) has discovered the horrors of stone-throwing...when it's done by Jews.

Schoolgirls stoned by Israeli settlers

Of course, when you read the article, there's no testimony that the schoolgirls were attacked, only their "foreign escort" tools.

Christian Attitudes is all over this:

...This is reprehensible behaviour and I make no excuses for it, but does PCUSA make excuses for Palestinian thugs when they throw stones? Are dual standards operating here? It is anti-Semitic to launch such a news item onto the internet (where it can be picked up and passed on by other Christian news sites), while ignoring the far more frequent incidence of stone-throwing by Palestinian youths. Today, an Israeli woman was attacked and injured by Palestinian stone-throwers.

If PCUSA News is truly impartial and unprejudiced, it would also run this more shocking story. A Jewish woman travelling on her own is attacked by an Arab mob – she could have been killed. The mob of Jewish youths, on the other hand, attacked a group of cowardly foreign ‘activists’, who ran away, nursing a few bruises...

See the original for much more as well as imbedded links.

Also removed from the context presented in the article is how it is that Jews came to be "settlers" in Hebron in the first place:

Hebron, the traditional burial site of the Biblical patriarch Abraham, is home to about 500 Jewish settlers who live in fortified compounds among more than 120,000 Palestinians. The settlers, considered among the most militant in the West Bank, often are accused of harassing the local Palestinian population, foreign activists and even Israeli soldiers.

Of course, this demonizing description in effect ratifies the massacre and ethnic cleansing of Jews from Hebron by the Arabs -- where Jews had lived for millenia -- an event that occured within living memory, not the ancient past.

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