Israel shocked by image of soldiers forcing violinist to play at roadblock

The Guardian ^ | 11/29/04 | Chris McGreal

[LibWhacker]

It's enough to make one think the whole thing was staged and the "activists" were tipped off. Why are they never around when the real atrocities happen? Same thing we're seeing in Iraq.

[Jew4GWB]

Let's put this in context.

That part of the world has been a war zone, off and on, for more than half a century. Palestinians send their children to throw rocks at tanks and encourage their teenagers to strap bombs to their waists. Israelis send their sons and daughters into the army at extreme personal risk protecting a country smaller than New Hampshire. And The Guardian is shedding tears over a guy forced to play his fiddle for two minutes to prove it isn't a bomb? Excuse me, but I forgot to weep.

Ridiculous security measures, you say? It beats having an airport official grope your underwire bra when it sets off the metal detector in Kennedy Airport. I'll play the violin any day.

If anyone ever finds an article - nay, a SENTENCE - with a less than al-Jazeera-like attitude toward the State of Israel, do let me know.

[LibWhacker]

LOL

[MississippiMan]

My immediate thought is that there's zero difference between this and airport screeners forcing me to boot up my laptop to demonstrate that it's truly a laptop, not a bomb.

MM

[vezke]

I think your preaching to the choir about desecrating the dead Palestinian bodies. You'd be hard pressed to find someone here who will agree with that.

I believe everyone here is commenting on the main story. Making a Palestinian violinist play a violin and the worlds overreaction to it as usual. An Israeli cant give a Palestinian a cold without the world crying bloody murder.

Also, the Arabs don't need stories like this to get them riled up against our troops. If they don't have true stories like this then they'll just create their own. Jews use Palestinian children in pastries, Jews stayed home on 9/11, Mossad brought down the two towers, yadda, yadda, yadda...

[LibWhacker]

Bump!

[-=Wing_0_Walker=-]

"But after the incident was videotaped by Jewish women peace activists, it prompted revulsion among Israelis not normally perturbed about the treatment of Arabs." Filmed by Peace Activists Yecht, they are every where. I am flipping a coin to see if violin playing is as bad as panties on POW (Terrorists') heads.

Aw I don't give a damn. Do what you got to do.

[USMMA_83]

I will always support Israel...but...but...eventually the "we" all become like our enemies...thats why wars should be short and swift.

[SolutionsOnly]

agreed. short, swift, AND decisive.

[LibWhacker]

Good analogy. Of course, you and I don't look at screeners as some kind of chimpanzee (haha, or we shouldn't) who are dressed up in funny clothes and funny hats. Can you imagine how humiliating it would be to be publicly bossed around by a bunch of goofy banana-eatin' chimps in funny costumes, particularly if we had been raised our whole lives to believe that they should be our slaves and that our very manhood depended both upon them being our slaves and us being their absolute masters? That's how ragheads think about us infidels.

We'll never have peace until we force them to abandon their disgusting, racist "religion." And ultimately we'll have to do it.

[Porterville]

Oh, but hey... we are the bad guys (America and Israel) you see, Israel has a lot of independent Jews and Europe (because of some ancient hatred) doesn't like that. Europe also doesn't like a bunch of independent scrubs like us in America that laughs at their romantic ideas of kings, queens, and other homosexual types. We drive them nutz so they get mad and report what they will.

Fortunately, the winners make the rules. And the last I checked America never loses and neither does Israel.

But Europe, well, they have a long history of losers.

[Holden Magroin]

I wonder if he can play Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto.

[LibWhacker]

LOL, that IS him! :-)

[My Favorite Headache]

This is an outrage? Give me a break..makes all the sense in the world to prove he can play it.Stupid fuc-ing newspaper.

[Libertina]

Or that the violin wasn't set up with an explosive device...

[montag813]

Israelis have no backbone, it is really pathetic. They were forcing this guy to play violin to prove he was indeed a violinists, and not a terrorist posing as one. Were he unable to play, he would have been turned back, as under 30s were otherwise not let through the checkpoint.

[montag813]

I noted the reference to "Jewish women peace activists." IOW, self-hating slow-motion suiciders.

Why do they even allow these traitorous bitches access to the army?

[Cinnamon Girl]

As when Rachel Corrie was run over by a tank, I suspect that this story has been blown out of proportion and misrepresented for the sake of all the anti-Israel nuts in Europe.

[Sloth]

A violin? Oh, the humanity!

[Sloth]

Did somebody say Corrie?