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Politics : The Palestinian Hoax -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas M. who wrote (1745)	7/18/2002 5:56:21 PM
From: Scumbria	Respond to of 3467

Tom, Please feel free to face a couple of dozen teenage boys throwing rocks at your head. How long do you think you will last? 5 minutes?

To: Thomas M. who wrote (1745)	7/18/2002 7:04:15 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3467

And you have the gall to toss out ad hominem attacks about my source? Why is it an attack to point out Z magazine's extreme idealogical bias? You complain about pro-Israeli sources all the time. 28 Israeli soldiers hospitalized by stone throwers? First off it was policemen, not soldiers. I assume you know the difference. Second you are wrong to discount stone throwing by a mob. All over the world mob violence cause problems for police trying to keep order. The Seattle WTO meeting was shut down and massive property and human damage was done by stone throwing punks. Sometimes police agencies have felt the need to use lethal violence in response: hinduonnet.com Genoa, however, became the scene of pitched battles televised daily around the world. The cameras caught only those demonstrators who were throwing stones or other objects. One demonstrator was shot dead by the Italian police. We had no way of knowing what the other thousands were thinking or doing. In June in Gothenburg, the situation had been even stranger. Before the summit, the Swedish Prime Minister, Mr. Jan Carlsson, had met representatives of different groups of protesters. Schools in the city were opened up for the demonstrators to stay during the summit. But when the protesters gathered in the city, they were met with real bullets, not water cannons or rubber bullets or even tear gas. The Swedish police apparently did not have any crowd control tools. As a result, three demonstrators were injured. The world's newspapers carried the memorable image of a young demonstrator raising his hand to fling a rock at the police, turn his back on them and then fall down after being shot in the back.