"Facing the Wall" (Peace activists just don't get it)

Lansing (MI) City Pulse ^ | July 12, 2006 | Daniel Sturm

[Deano]

When the sound grenade detonated at her feet on June 30, Lansing resident Loretta Johnston knew that it was a sign to run. Through the two non-violent peacemaking training sessions she’d taken, the former state employee had prepared for this kind of reaction on the part of the Israeli soldiers.

She knew that when the soldiers wanted to break up a protest, they’d follow the sound grenades with tear gas, rubber bullets, stun grenades and even live ammunition. She told herself not to panic.

I met Johnston and three other members of the Michigan Peace Team in the West Bank village of Bil’in, where residents have been demonstrating against the separation wall every Friday for the last two years. I was traveling in Palestine and Israel with an educational tour group organized for journalists in northeastern Ohio, and was surprised to recognize members of the Peace Team delegation in a crowd of roughly 100 Palestinian, Israeli and international demonstrators and observers....

[Deano]

The people highlighted in this article are the same people that would call for restraint if someone firebombed their homes, or raped and killed their kids. They live in a utopia, with rose colored glasses on, and have absolutely no sense of the realities of the world we live in.

[Clint Williams]

The people highlighted in this article are the same people that would call for restraint if someone firebombed their homes, or raped and killed their kids.

I bet they wouldn't.

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

Great day to publish this :)

These folks commitment to their ideals will no doubt have them protesting on the Lebanese border today, right?

[DakotaGator]

These people are such fools! They should go back and hide in Sunday School and leave the real world to the adults.

[Seruzawa]

Heeheehee. You can't buy humor like this.

[MEGoody]

I met Johnston and three other members of the Michigan Peace Team in the West Bank village of Bil’in, where residents have been demonstrating against the separation wall every Friday for the last two years.

These people don't care about peace. If they did, they'd be all for the wall.

[MEGoody]

They should go back and hide in Sunday School and leave the real world to the adults.

They probably never went to Sunday School. . .unless maybe it was one of those leftist "unitarian" churches.

[EagleUSA]

Just send these morons over to Iran. That will serve as an attitude adjustment for them.

[cripplecreek]

They're just neo neo nazis in my book.

[mtbopfuyn]

What's the proceedure for meeting up with a bulldozer?

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Get run over...

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/03/16/rafah.death/

[kjo]

The Michigan Peace Team really needs to spend some time in Detroit waging peace. The place is a sewer; crime and drugs are rampant, families are being run out of the city by gangs.

You know if people like this spent some time looking at their own areas instead of worrying about problems half way around the world the planet would be a better place.

[gcruse]

I went to a Unitarian service once. Definitely not my gene pool. Unfortunately my gene pool... well, could use some chlorine, too.

[wita]

People with too much time on their hands, and not enough brainpower to process the info they are attempting to digest. Their definition of Peace, is the first step in defining what they are all about. So far left, they can't seem to recognize reality, but utopia is right around the corner. Maybe those video cameras will film it for them.

[goldstategop]

In particular, the ISM members have demonstrated connections to Palestinian terrorist organizations. Calling them "peace activists" is an Orwellian abuse of the language. They are pro-terrorism apologists, not suprising in view of their demand Israel lay itself open those who would commit mass murder of Jews. The stupidity of these people is a reminder there are some people in this world completely oblivious to reality. Like the editorial board of Haaretz this morning....

(The Palestinian terrorist regime is the crisis and Israel's fist is the answer.)

[BenLurkin]

Bring syrup.

[M Kehoe]

Ping.

5.56mm

[gcruse]

"The stupidity of these people is a reminder there are some people in this world completely oblivious to reality."

Some? You are too kind. Millions on New Yorkers support the Times' divulging information used to track and apprehend the people who attacked and killed thousands of people in NYC.

What we need to stop these people we offer up the country for bloodletting.

[gcruse]

Well,it was almost readable. More coffee, waitress.

[SJackson]

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