Free Republic

OAKLAND, Calif. – Hundreds of protesters condemning Israel's recent raid on an international flotilla bound for Gaza are picketing at the Port of Oakland, where an Israeli ship is due to arrive. The demonstrators gathered Sunday to prevent the incoming ship from being unloaded. The dock's day shift of longshoremen agreed to not cross the picket line. Meanwhile Sunday, Israel said it will immediately allow all goods into Gaza except weapons and items deemed to have a military use under its decision to ease its three-year-old blockade of the Palestinian territory. Israeli officials had decided last week to ease the...

<p>Strasbourg, France -- The Great Jewish Cemetery curls like a wave of tranquillity around the edge of this bustling university city, its lawns clipped, its tombs well tended.</p> <p>But it takes only a few minutes to find the ugliness.</p> <p>Past two Holocaust memorials lies a long line of gravestones, each emblazoned with a freshly daubed Nazi swastika.</p>