This one appeared on yesterday's Dose, but it's worth repeating.
Posted on 05/22/2005 3:22:36 PM PDT by Wolfstar
PRESIDENTIAL NEWS OF THE DAY: President Bush spent the day in Washington while the First Lady continued her trip to the Middle East. The President attended church at St. Johns this morning. In the meantime, Laura and her security detail had a few anxious moments during her visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories. Here's a bit of how the Associated Press writer, Nedra Pickler, described the situation:
JERUSALEM - Laura Bush waded into Middle East tensions on Sunday during chaotic visits to sacred religious sites, where crowds and hecklers grew so rowdy that armed guards had to restrain them.
America's First Lady said what she witnessed showed that passions are running high among Palestinians and Israelis. "The United States will do what they can in this process," she said, urging both sides to work for peace.
Before entering the ruins of an 8th-century palace in the West Bank town of Jericho, Mrs. Bush told reporters, "As you can tell from our day here, this is a place of emotion, everywhere we went, from the Western Wall to the Dome of the Rock to here."
At the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest shrine, [Israeli] protesters demanded that the U.S. release of an American Jew imprisoned for spying for Israel. At her stop nearby at the Dome of the Rock, she faced heckling from angry Palestinians. One man yelled, "How dare you come in here! Why your husband kill Muslim?"
As she moved into the Palestinian territory, she said both sides in the conflict sent her the same message. "We're reminded again of what we all want, what every one of us pray for," she said. "What we all want is peace."
[As she placed a private note in the Western Wall] dozens of protesters stood nearby, shouting, "Free Pollard now." Convicted spy Jonathan Pollard, now serving a life sentence in the United States, was a civilian intelligence analyst for the U.S. Navy.
Some visitors Mrs. Bush encountered near the Dome of the Rock, a mosque on a hilltop compound known to Muslims as Haram as-Sharif and to Jews as Temple Mount, shouted at her in Arabic. "None of you belong in here!" one man yelled as Mrs. Bush and her entourage arrived.
Despite the chaos at both sites, Mrs. Bush kept smiling and said little. As she left, visitors and media grew so aggressive that Israeli police locked arms and encircled her in a wide human chain. U.S. Secret Service agents packed tightly around her. The police yelled at those who got too close to stay back and pushed them away if they did not listen.
Later Sunday, Mrs. Bush laid a wreath at Yad Vashem, the Israeli memorial for the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis in the Holocaust of World War II. She wrote in the visitors' book at the site: "Each life is precious. Each memory calls us to action to honor those lost. We committ ourselves to reject hatred and to teach tolerance and live in peace. Thank you."
To the Israelis who want us to free Pollard, I say he should have been executed long ago. To the Muslims who are so filled with hate, I say I'm not obligated to be diplomatic. Hate is something that can very easily be turned turned against you -- in a heartbeat. Just touch a hair on her head and you'll soon learn the real meaning of hate.
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Ping to the Sunday Dose. Some scary photos this afternoon, and some nice ones, too. Please hold off posting other photos/pics until the all clear is given. Thanks.
Well said, Wolfstar. This has been troubling me all day. HOW DARE THEY!!!!
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I'm so upset about this I forgot to post the comment I was responding to.
This one appeared on yesterday's Dose, but it's worth repeating.
Kudos for Laura..from what I've seen she has kept her cool and looks amazing at the same time :-)
Thanking you in advance--wanted to get in here at the first instead of the last for a change! Look forward to seeing the pictures when I get back home from church! See everyone then!
I can't wait for Laura to return home...
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Another one of the thousand faces of our Dubya. He almost looks like Stan Laurel in this photo, LOL!
With the President looking on U.S. News and World Report photographer Chick Harrity kisses Nhanny Heil's hand during the dinner last night. Heil was the subject of one of Harrity's most famous photographs, "The Baby in the Box," from Saigon, Vietnam as an infant. She was eventually adopted by an American family and now lives in the United States. Harrity, who has photographed every U.S. President since John F. Kennedy Kennedy, and has been in the photojournalism business for 48 years, was this year's Lifetime Achievement award winner. Harrity apparently did not know Nhanny Neil would be in attendance, and was obviously moved when she was introduced to present his award.
President Bush and Nikon General Manager Steve Heiner congratulate White House News Photographers' Association Photographer of the Year Andrea Bruce Woodall (C) of the Washington Post. The woman to the left of the photo is the association's current president.
BTW! Thanks for your words! They had better not harm her! I just pray that she gets home safely. I feel so uneasy when either one of them are out of country!
Laura lays a wreath at the Hall of Remembrance at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem.
Laura Bush is followed by Gila Katsav, the wife of Israeli President Moshe Katsav, during a visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial.
Our First Lady rekindles the Eternal Flame in the Hall of Remembrance at the Yad Veshem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem.
Laura Bush, accompanied by Palestinian Legislative Council member Hanan Ashrawi, center, Jericho mayor Hassan Saleh, second left, and Palestinian Authority Minister of State Hind Khoury, left, speaks to Dr. Hamdan Taha, right, Director General of Antiquities in the Palestinian Authority, as she visits the Tree of Life mosaic during her visit to 8th century AD Umayyad palace of Khirbet al-Mafjar.
Speaking to the press.
Hi everyone! Looking forward to Sunday's Dose! Blessings to all...
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