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German Police Removed Israeli Flag 'To Calm' Muslims
Arutz Sheva ^ | January 14, '09 | Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

Posted on 01/13/2009 2:09:53 PM PST by lizol

German Police Removed Israeli Flag 'To Calm' Muslims

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

A German youth said police broke into his and his girl friend's apartment to remove a Jewish flag in order to calm screaming Muslim protesters.

"Today, 10,000 people demonstrated against Israel here in my hometown of Duisburg and to express their solidarity with Hamas," said the writer in his report, originally posted on the Muqata blog site.

He said he and his friend responded by placing two large Israel flags in the windows of their third floor apartment.

"During the demonstration, which went through our street, the police broke into our flat and removed the flag of Israel," he wrote. "The statement of the police was to de-escalate the situation because many youth demonstrators were on the brink of breaking into our apartment house.

"Before this they threw snowballs, knives and stones against our windows and the complete building. We both were standing on the other side of the street and were shocked by seeing a police officer standing in our bedroom and opening the window to get the flag…. The police acquiesced in the demands of the mob."

The mob cheered and applauded when the Israeli flag was whisked away.

The Arabic-language satellite network Al Jazeera reported that many of the demonstrators were from the Turkish community.

Hundreds of thousands of others protested throughout the world against Israel's counterterrorist campaign and burned dozens of Israeli and American flags.

A crowd in London was estimated at 100,000, and tens of thousands in Paris chanted, "We are all Palestinians."

A Toronto pro-Hamas demonstrator screamed at pro-Israel supporters, "I want the war to continue because I want Hizbullah to wipe the state of terrorism off the planet....You're being wiped off the planet! That's a promise."

Muslims in Denmark chanted, "Down, down Israel, down, down USA, down, down democracy, down, down Denmark." One Muslim executed the Nazi salute and shouted, "We want to kill all the Jews, all the Jews should be slain, they have no right to exist!"


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Germany; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dhimmi; dhimmis; eurabia; germany; israel
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1 posted on 01/13/2009 2:09:54 PM PST by lizol
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To: lizol
See video of this event

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb7HwukSXKw

Europe is really going crazy
2 posted on 01/13/2009 2:12:30 PM PST by lizol
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To: lizol

I’m sure that was all that the Muslims needed all along and everything will be peaceful now ever after. /S


3 posted on 01/13/2009 2:13:14 PM PST by steelyourfaith
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To: lizol
Muslims - the new century Nazi Murderers!
4 posted on 01/13/2009 2:13:18 PM PST by Gaffer
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To: lizol
Lunatic Fringe, we all know you're out there.
5 posted on 01/13/2009 2:13:28 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (revolution is in the air.)
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To: lizol

We should fly Israeli flags here in the US, draw them out in the open.

Muzzie-bait them.


6 posted on 01/13/2009 2:13:50 PM PST by Eye of Unk (How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! SA)
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To: SJackson; Alouette

Ping


7 posted on 01/13/2009 2:14:18 PM PST by lizol
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To: lizol

The Germans are starting to bow down to their new masters like good little dhimmis. I imagine the jizya will be official in a few years, too.


8 posted on 01/13/2009 2:16:22 PM PST by MahatmaGandu (Remember, remember, the twenty-sixth of November.)
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To: lizol

bump


9 posted on 01/13/2009 2:16:28 PM PST by ellery (It's a free country.)
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To: lizol

Why stop there? Why not burn the flags? that would really have thrilled the crowd.


10 posted on 01/13/2009 2:17:17 PM PST by montag813 (www.FreepShop.com)
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To: Eye of Unk
We should fly Israeli flags here in the US, draw them out in the open.

The sad thing is that in this twisted upside-down PC world it would be interpreted as a form of 'hate speech'.
11 posted on 01/13/2009 2:17:33 PM PST by contemplator (Capitalism gets no Rock Concerts)
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To: the invisib1e hand

When are we going to realize there is no lunatic fringe it is the majority of left. IMHO


12 posted on 01/13/2009 2:17:46 PM PST by GoCards
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To: lizol
goebbels would be rabid with glee.

the information age has made spreading insanity so easy.

13 posted on 01/13/2009 2:18:38 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (revolution is in the air.)
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To: lizol

So let’s ban Christmas and the Cross from public places - ban all things that hurt the sensitivities of Muslims .... yep, that’ll satisfy them ..... /s off


14 posted on 01/13/2009 2:18:58 PM PST by SkyDancer ("Talent Without Ambition Is Sad, Ambition Without Talent Is Worse")
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To: MahatmaGandu

Removing a Jewish flag isn’t anything new for the German police, so they may not have required too much encouragement.


15 posted on 01/13/2009 2:20:30 PM PST by Arguendo
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To: lizol

Some things never change.


16 posted on 01/13/2009 2:20:34 PM PST by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: lizol

The tinkling a tiny glass fragments...


17 posted on 01/13/2009 2:21:29 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: lizol

PS - notice how all these events are in Eurostan? I wonder what would happen if they tried the same thing here? True, there were demonstrations in FL and CA but no rioting ... I wonder what would happen if they demanded we do the same things like banning anything that would hurt their feelings ... maybe our democracy first? It’s one of the things they hate.


18 posted on 01/13/2009 2:21:41 PM PST by SkyDancer ("Talent Without Ambition Is Sad, Ambition Without Talent Is Worse")
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To: lizol

Absolutely uncivilized barbarians. Islam is a cancer on humanity, IMO.

The religion of pieces.


19 posted on 01/13/2009 2:21:57 PM PST by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion)
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To: Arguendo
Removing a Jewish flag isn’t anything new for the German police, so they may not have required too much encouragement.

Aren't they more used to painting Jewish starts ON windows?

20 posted on 01/13/2009 2:24:27 PM PST by montag813 (www.FreepShop.com)
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To: lizol

.."oh our Germany trip has been canceled?"

21 posted on 01/13/2009 2:24:52 PM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: SkyDancer
Be careful, what you're asking for

(...) Unfortunately Christmas, which should be about peace and good will to all, has become a culture wars battleground, with radical secularists relentlessly stepping-up their campaign to drive Christmas from the public square, contending that things like crèche displays, Christmas trees, or even poinsettias on public property somehow represent a violation of their human rights.

Consequently, many businesses and government institutions, including schools, now react to any linkage of Christmas to Christianity like Superman recoiling from kryptonite, one result being that more and more seasonal observances are purged of Christian references for fear of annoying or offending someone by actually mentioning the person whose nativity Christmas commemorates. Christmas concerts are no longer an annual fixture in many schools, and carol-singing banned. Christmas trees on public property are renamed "holiday trees," and the early winter celebrations itself rebadged as "Winterfest", "Green Holiday", "Winterval" or some such fatuous euphemism.(...)


http://timestranscript.canadaeast.com/opinion/article/521072
22 posted on 01/13/2009 2:27:15 PM PST by lizol
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To: Arguendo

Their grandparents burned synagogues in the ‘30s.


23 posted on 01/13/2009 2:35:15 PM PST by reg45
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To: lizol

Keep up the good work Israel. Your check is in the mail.


24 posted on 01/13/2009 2:36:07 PM PST by RC one
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To: lizol

It would have been easier to release the police dogs and fire hoses on the protesters rather than to have to walk up three flights of stairs and take flags out of the windows.


25 posted on 01/13/2009 2:37:29 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Gaffer

Why not- they collaborated with the Nazi regime during the “old century”. Haj Amin al-Huseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, was a personal friend of Hitler who chided the Fuhrer in a speech in Berlin for not killing the Jews quickly enough. Also, the SS established an all-muslim unit in Yugoslavia.


26 posted on 01/13/2009 2:38:40 PM PST by Squawk 8888 (TSA and DHS are jobs programs for people who are not smart enough to flip burgers)
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To: lizol
"During the demonstration, which went through our street, the police broke into our flat and removed the flag of Israel," he wrote. "The statement of the police was to de-escalate the situation because many youth demonstrators were on the brink of breaking into our apartment house.

"Before this they threw snowballs, knives and stones against our windows and the complete building. We both were standing on the other side of the street and were shocked by seeing a police officer standing in our bedroom and opening the window to get the flag…. The police acquiesced in the demands of the mob."

I guess the police never thought to arrest those throwing knives, stones, snowballs against the windows.

28 posted on 01/13/2009 2:43:03 PM PST by Azzurri
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To: Arguendo
Take the flag into protective custody and segregate from other flags for its own welfare. Issue receipt for flag in form of yellow cloth badge suitable for pinning/sewing onto jacket. "Do a little dance; break a little glass; get down tonight . . . get down tonight. . . ."

WAKE THE H#LL UP WORLD. THIS IS FOR REAL.

29 posted on 01/13/2009 2:43:56 PM PST by shoutingandpointing (Just say, "nn-nn-NO!" to Campbell's soup.)
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30 posted on 01/13/2009 2:51:45 PM PST by SJackson (The American people are wise in wanting change, 2 terms is plenty, Condi Rice)
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To: lizol

Germans taking down the Star of David. I guess old habits are hard to break.


31 posted on 01/13/2009 2:53:08 PM PST by Spok (Now is the time to cling to faith and freedom, while we still can.)
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To: lizol

Well it’s not what I’m asking for but the possibilities ... I know that there’s a lot of anti-Christianity going on esp. in schools what with the ACLU and all -but- it’s what one group (i.e. Muslims) want and will get if we don’t do something about it. When the backlash happens it might be too late as in Europe .... the governments are giving their countries away to these people ....


32 posted on 01/13/2009 2:53:45 PM PST by SkyDancer ("Talent Without Ambition Is Sad, Ambition Without Talent Is Worse")
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To: lizol

This is nuts. Pallys act like Nazis and the German Police accomodate them?

1939: Brown Shirts

2009: Keffiyehs


33 posted on 01/13/2009 2:54:48 PM PST by Doctor Raoul (It's no longer the Press Van, it's a "Tanker" Truck!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

A neutron bomb would have been a better solution


34 posted on 01/13/2009 2:55:06 PM PST by Concho (Bitterly Clinging to Guns and Religion)
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To: Eye of Unk

I like how you think.


35 posted on 01/13/2009 3:02:01 PM PST by manic4organic (We Are S0 Screwed)
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To: Eye of Unk

One step ahead of you. Got Israel Air Force caps and shirts being shipped to me as I type this. :0

http://www.judaicawebstore.com/


36 posted on 01/13/2009 3:07:29 PM PST by kingpins9
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To: lizol

Germans set up camps to clam Muslims too.

How’d did that turn out for them?


37 posted on 01/13/2009 3:09:52 PM PST by NoLibZone (Islam must be completely eradicated from the face of the Earth.)
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To: lizol
Much of the current story and topic of this thread can be found VERBATIM in the testimonies/accounts from 1938. What will it take for people to wake up? Are we REALLY going to do this AGAIN? God help us.

READ:


http://www.hmd.org.uk/resources/cat/3/ (scroll down for Kristallnacht eye witness accounts)

http://www.holocaustandhumanity.org/kristallnacht/Cincinnati%20eyewitness%20Testimonies.html

http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/site/pp.asp?c=gvKVLcMVIuG&b=394831

http://www.24dash.com/news/Communities/2008-11-10-Graphic-accounts-of-Nazi-horror-translated-into-English

38 posted on 01/13/2009 3:14:45 PM PST by shoutingandpointing (Just say, "nn-nn-NO!" to Campbell's soup.)
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To: montag813

Don’t blame the cops; riotous mobs can be tricky to handle. Blame the politicians for not immediately announcing that all muslims in Germany would be forcibly deported.


39 posted on 01/13/2009 3:19:11 PM PST by vikingd00d (chown -R us ./base)
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To: Spok

Looks to me the Germans are taking down the Star of David to save Jewish lives, am I wrong?

Atonement for their fathers sins?

Either way about it I would say its almost open season here in the US against Islam.

Only thing better would be a bounty.

Imagine the detainees getting out of Gitmo and then move into our neighborhoods, trying to re-educate them failed. ones that were released are right back into terrorism.

Like the old story about one animal asking the scorpion to carry him across the river or he would drown, the scorpion though stung his friend which asked why, “It in my very nature, I cannot help myself”


40 posted on 01/13/2009 3:19:15 PM PST by Eye of Unk (How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! SA)
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To: lizol

If the German police had eliminated the Jews rather than just the flag, the demonstrators would have been much happier.


41 posted on 01/13/2009 3:43:54 PM PST by tvdog12345
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To: lizol

Try that here and we’ll show you “upset”!


42 posted on 01/13/2009 3:51:35 PM PST by CodeToad
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To: lizol
German police broke into his and his girl friend's apartment to remove a Jewish flag

Like grandfather, like grandson.

43 posted on 01/13/2009 3:56:16 PM PST by Centurion2000 (To protect and defend ... against all enemies, foreign and domestic .... by any means necessary.)
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To: Arguendo

Too right.


44 posted on 01/13/2009 4:02:36 PM PST by MahatmaGandu (Remember, remember, the twenty-sixth of November.)
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To: lizol
We want to kill all the Jews, all the Jews should be slain, they have no right to exist!"

Well, little forkers, we feel the same about y'all. Only we could do it if we really wanted to play "Cowboys and Muslims", you pissants can only shout about it.

45 posted on 01/13/2009 4:12:29 PM PST by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: lizol
German Police Removed Israeli Flag 'To Calm' Muslims

I'll be Ma could have calmed them down a lot more quickly and effectively. Ma-Duece that is.


46 posted on 01/13/2009 4:16:23 PM PST by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: Azzurri

Oh no... that might upset the Muslims.

*BARF*


47 posted on 01/13/2009 6:33:17 PM PST by gogogodzilla (Live free or die!)
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To: El Gato
I like that.

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48 posted on 01/13/2009 6:38:33 PM PST by magslinger (I talk to myself but sometimes I like a third opinion.)
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To: lizol

Absolutely sad pictures. Thankfully the responsible police president will be forced to step down.


49 posted on 01/15/2009 1:31:07 PM PST by avid ("DU DUMME SAU!" - Klaus Kinski)
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To: dennisw; watchin; VOA; timestax; xJones; justshutupandtakeit; TopDog2; ThomasMore; Publius6961; ...
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50 posted on 01/16/2009 7:46:18 AM PST by knighthawk (We will always remember We will always be proud We will always be prepared so we may always be free)
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