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To: Nachum
Europeans get so terribly confused over what free speech really means.

For one it means the newspaper guy gets to accuse Jews of blood libel. Then it means the Jews get to beat the hell out of him and burn his presses.

Yes, freedom of speech and a free press must be a two-way street, and sometimes people will get fed up with the guy who owns the press.

A good example of this is going on today in America as print media is being abandoned as people take up writing their own news, putting their own opinions on the internet.

Shortly the traditional print media people will be walking the streets but that's a good thing.

One does presume the IDF knows what thermite does.

2 posted on 08/20/2009 9:32:20 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah
The Swedish gov't distanced itself from it's own Ambassador's condemnation of the Aftenbladet article even though the author of the offensive article in question is distancing himself from its most explosive charge?

From the article at the OP link:

The article, printed in the Swedish paper Aftonbladet, claims that the IDF has been removing organs from PA Arab youth killed in combat or terrorist operations since the early 1990s. The author of the article, Donald Bostrom, admitted Wednesday that he did not know whether or not the story was true.

Then again, according to this blog Bolstrom may just be creating some post-defamation CYA wiggle room for himself.

3 posted on 08/20/2009 9:52:10 AM PDT by leilani
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