Small group of American activists head to Palestinian territories to act as human shields

AP | 3/30/02 | MALCOLM FOSTER

[Prysson]

He believes the suicide bombers are "desperate and hopeless" and that that ultimately "all the heartbreak flows directly from Israel's policy" of occupying the Palestinian territories.

That is all the idiot needed to say. It is despicable that he can sit there in his ignorance and justify suicide bombers killing civilians. He shows his utter lack of understanding of even the most basic history of Israel. He claims to be a Jew...well he should be ashamed of himself for not knowing the history of that poor country. The jews have been attacked time and time again. He acts like they started and caused this problem. It makes me so mad I want to wring his stupid scrawny neck. People like this make me want to vomit. When are people going to wake up and realize that these people want the Israelis dead, exterminated, run into the sea and beyond...mor ethan that even these terrorist wouldnt be satisfied with that. this whole mess is nothing more than the resumption of the holy Wars that the Arabs started 1400 years ago when they swept across north africa slaughtering the christians. These people can not be reasoned with they can not be negotiated with. You do not negotiate with someone whose sole demand is your death. God protect Israel from idiots like this.

[tdscpa]

Run, spot, run see spot run Die Steve, die see Steve die

[wardaddy]

Man what a long dream list...sigh..

[GeronL]

More Martyrs... these idiots are dumb enough to be talked into blowing themselves up in a few minutes.

[tdscpa]

Crap. How come what I preview ain't what I get?

[doug from upland]

For your enjoyment, I found this on a google search.

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 17:28:44 -0800 (PST)
From: Steve Quester
To: spt31@columbia.edu
Subject: Jews Against the Occupation

I am writing to you today as a member of Jews Against the Occupation (JATO). Elizabeth Wilson gave me your address, and said that you could forward this message around.

JATO is an organization of progressive, secular, and religious Jews of all ages throughout the New York City area that is actively organizing and advocating around issues of peace and justice for Palestine. We bear witness to the fact that the Jewish community does not have one monolithic voice of unconditional support for the Israeli government. Rather, there is a growing national movement of American Jews who oppose Israeli oppression, and support Palestinians’ right to self-determination.

If you are planning any public events around the current crisis in Palestine, we would be delighted to provide a speaker who could address the issue from a Jewish, pro-Palestinian perspective. We can usually meet requests for speakers on evenings and weekends, and can sometimes meet requests for daytime speakers.

We can be contacted at jatonyc@yahoo.com, or at (212)539-6683.

Yours truly,

Steve Quester
for Jews Against the Occupation

from www.jewsagainsttheoccupation.org:
Jews Against the Occupation
Our Mission

NO OCCUPATION IN OUR NAME

We as American Jews reject the Israeli government assertion that it is "necessary" to subjugate Palestinians for the sake of keeping Jews safe. We assert that security can only come from mutual respect, and that the occupation of Palestine is only worsening the position of Jews in the Middle East and around the world.

RESTORE HUMAN & CIVIL RIGHTS

The Israeli military fires bone-crushing rubber bullets and live ammunition at unarmed Palestinian civilians engaged in peaceful protest, failing to distinguish between peaceful and violent resistance. The Israeli government has been demolishing Palestinian houses and crops in the Occupied Territories, while allowing Jewish settlers -- many of them American -- to illegally occupy the same land.

STOP ECONOMIC ATTACKS ON PALESTINE

The Israeli government has attacked the Palestinian economy by: closing Palestinian banks; imposing extreme taxes on business; withdrawing operating licenses; destroying industrial equipment; bulldozing farmland and banning fishing; restricting workers' movement; controlling the export of Palestinian goods; closing the borders of the Occupied Territories; and refusing to fund infrastructure like water and electricity -- even in Arab villages within Israel.

LET PALESTINIANS RETURN HOME

Thousands of Palestinians were driven out of their houses and off of their farms during and after the creation of Israel. They must be allowed to return to their homeland.

NO COLONIZATION OF PALESTINE
SAY YES TO THE RIGHT OF RETURN

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"As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such a twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air—however slight—lest we become unwitting victims of darkness.”
William O. Douglas
U.S. Supreme Court

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If the nitwit makes it back alive, perhaps we can send him on a wild goose chase for a speaking engagement that doesn't exist. We could have some fun with this guy.

[A CA Guy]

I predict they'll go get the press and run home fast with very little shielding done.

[mrustow]

seamole, you're amazing! You are an indefatigable, one-man intel center!

[bybybill]

You`ll be sorry when these heroes start dropping over from holding their breathe. I have lots of problems with Sharons strategery,but these bozos haven`t got a clue. What they need to do is get the Rev. Jackson to lead their group.

[Nam Vet]

As an old man who has lived many years, your depiction of the soldiers is exactly correct. I will never understand nor abide these dimbulbs wwho are totally lost.

Nam Vet

[mrustow]

ACORN (The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now)

ACORN is a racist orgaznization promoting "community control" (black supremacism) and the elimination of standards at New York's elite, public high schools (Stuyvesant, Bronx Science, and Brooklyn Tech). Those schools require candidates to take the nation's most competitive exams, in order to gain admission. Back in 1996, I believe it was, ACORN organized sit-ins by black mothers in the lobby of Stuyvesant H.S. (in Battery Park in lower Manhattan, then in the shadows of the World Trade Center). ACORN organizers claimed the sit-ins were to protest the racism inherent in predominantly black junior high/middle schools' failure to provide the sort of high-level math classes required to prepare students for the Stuyvesant (& Co.) exam. But that was just a cover story.

Who could argue with the demand for upper-level academics? I got ACORN to send me a packet. Their demand wasn't for upgrading the curricula at black schools; it was for eliminating the Stuyvesant (et al.) entrance exam, and accepting incompetent black kids, based on the qualification of pigmentation.

The ACORN lady I'd spoken to, was proud of ACORN's support of "community control." It all made sense, but not in the way ACORN wanted people thinking. Community control was the '60s black apartheid movement that had banished high-octane academics (along with white teachers) from black schools, and condemned black achievers as being guilty of "acting white." It wasn't the white "racists" who dashed black hopes, it was the black racists.

[InfraRed]

Quester, a public school teacher, is joining about 20 other American activists who are traveling to the Palestinian territories to act as human shields for Palestinians as the Israeli military mounts retaliatory strikes for a series of suicide bombings against Israeli civilians.

I have not read all of this rather long thread yet, but...

These idiots are obviously "with the terrorists", and their U.S. citizenship should be revoked immediately.

Then, let the Israelis deal with them as necessary.

What an embarrassment. These sorry traitors show zero respect for the risks and sacrifices my father accepted during WWII to safeguard their freedom. Our world is currently being attacked by suicidal (Kamikaze-like) animals that have no respect for their own lives, much less the lives of innocents. Now we have "Americans" seeking to support the effort of the murdering savages? These are not Americans, and they should never, ever, be welcomed back into our country.

[mjaneangels@aolcom]

Only 20 are going from around the world? Is Alec or Barbra in the group? I could have sworn we had more anti-self-defense people just here in this country.

I say let them go. They are liable to get shot by the very heathens that they are trying to protect. If they survive, maybe they will wake up and smell the coffee. Israel is doing what they are doing for a very good reason, to try and protect themselves. It is the Palistinian suicide bombers and their leadership that is trying to destroy others out of a deep-seated hatred.

Anyone that hates that much will kill anyone. They do not see any distiction between friend and foe. To them all are foe, and they will kill them.

[The Great Satan]

NPR is completely abuzz with these freaks and nutcases right now. Funny, for a few weeks after 9-11, it's almost as if they were cowed into reason. For a while, I almost respected them -- I won't get fooled again. Funniest thing I heard was some douche bag, high-pitched hysterical whiny holier-than-though self-righteous sanctimonious prig liberal caller going on about how we put the squeeze to South Africa with sanctions, why can't we do the same to Israel? There was no way that the liberal-induced human catastrophe unfolding in South Africa could ever penetrate his brain, not until it's too late to do anything about it. Shades of "Uncle Joe" Stalin, leftist pinup Chairmain Mao, "Paris-educated agrarian reformer" Pol Pot, "democrat" Fidel Castro, etc., etc. A liberal is never happier than when he has his tongue shoved up some mass-murderer's butt. Ever noticed that?

[dreadme]

"We U.S. citizens have a special responsibility to stop the madness that's going on there," (Quester) said.

we as Americans have that responsibility. we need to stop the madness.

let's stop it by telling Israel, "hands off, defend your country as you will. do what you need to do to be safe from terrorists. we will prevent any non-ME country from deploying its military against you. go with God Israel and do what is right."

[dreadme]

IDIOTNOBRAINSTUPIDMORMONS

you meant morons, right?

[glory]

Completely morally bankrupt. Wonder if Quester ever thought of protecting his fellow Jews being innocently slaughtered with NO warning. Oh that's right, you can't tell when a Palestinian suicide nut is coming. What a fool. Maybe he'll get his wish to be a shield.