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To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (12238)	4/11/2003 12:05:40 PM
From: paret	Respond to of 21614

Thank you for the quote from the site that wants the US and Israel wiped out.

To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (12238)	4/11/2003 12:09:07 PM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

Orthodox Jew attacked outside crowded Berlin cafe; received no assistance from onlookers Jerusalem Post ^ \| Mar. 24, 2003 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - BERLIN An American Jew in traditional Orthodox dress was assaulted by four men late Sunday afternoon on the capital's main shopping boulevard, police said Monday. One of the assailants swung at the 21-year-old rabbinical student, striking him in the face, and another threw an object at him, police said. The men, described as Middle Eastern in appearance, have not been identified or detained. The student was not hurt, but was shaken up by both the incident and the fact that no one at a crowded outdoor cafe where the attack took place intervened, said Rabbi Yedudah Teichtal, who runs a rabbinical school in Berlin where the young man has been studying for about six months. "You always have wild people, you always have people who are uncontrollable. What was really shocking was that no one responded when he wanted to call the police," Teichtal said. When the student, who was wearing a traditional Fedora hat and black suit, asked to use one man's mobile phone, he responded, "I didn't see anything," according to Teichtal. The student reported the incident at the nearby Fasanenstrasse synagogue, where he was going to attend a wedding. It's the second time in less than a year that an Orthodox student was attacked on the Kuefuerstendamm Boulevard. "I hope the police do everything they can to give us proper security, and make sure this doesn't happen again," Teichtal said. Security has been stepped up at Jewish sites in Germany since the Sept. 11 terror attacks in the United States. In Berlin, authorities have proposed permanently upgrading security around the city's restored New Synagogue, including concrete barriers to prevent a car-bomb attack and a narrowing of the street to leave a 4.7-meter (15-foot) exclusion zone along the front of the building.

To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (12238)	4/11/2003 12:20:43 PM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

GOTCHA! How Reuters transformed an accidental death into homicide March 24, 2003 \| David Bedein jewishworldreview.com More truth is emerging about the "murder" of the "peace activist," shown above burning a mock U.S. flag during a rally in the southern Gaza Strip on Feb. 15, 2003. Now that Reuters, a supposed "objective" news service, has been caught, will it make an effort to correct its damage? Rachel Corrie, the "peace activist," is shown in the above burning a U.S. flag during a rally in the southern Gaza Strip on Feb. 15, 2003 On March 16th, college friends Joe Smith and Rachel Corrie came to Gaza to protest against terrorist home demolitions as part of the former's activity with the International Solidarity Movement. Both Joe and Rachel had studied at Evergreen College in Olympia, Washington. Joe witnessed Rachel's tragic death late that afternoon, and described what he saw to my colleague. He recounted that Rachel "was sitting on a mound of earth in front of the bulldozer. The earth started to move under her when the bulldozer digs in. You have a couple of options you can roll aside --- you have to be very quick to get out of the way. You can fall back, but she leaned forward to try to climb up on top. She got pulled down, and the bulldozer lost sight of her …Then, without lifting the blade, he reversed and she was underneath the blade." Joe Smith did not sound accusatory nor vindictive against the Israel Defense Forces bulldozer driver. So why did the world have a different impression of what had happened? Well, a picture is worth a thousand words. The picture distributed by the Reuters News Agency showed Rachel Corrie standing in front of the bulldozer with a megaphone. That is the picture that appeared on page three of the New York Times on March 17, 2003. The Reuters caption stated what the picture said that this picture was taken before Rachel Corrie was crushed by this bulldozer, giving the reader the distinct impression that Rachel Corrie had been standing with a megaphone in clear sight of the bulldozer. That would have made this act some kind of homicide. The next photo distributed by Reuters showed Rachel lying in front of the bulldozer. And then I began to notice something. The lighting of the Gaza sky was different in both pictures of what were supposed to be sequential shots.. The landscape in each picture was different. I checked with Reuters to find out about the discrepancy of the picture sequence. The Reuters photo editor said, however, that these were NOT their pictures. They were sent by the International Solidarity Movement. Indeed, these pictures did appear on the ISM web site at www.palsolidarity.org. The Reuters photo editor assured me, however, that the pix were clearly labeled as ISM pictures. A check with the Reuters web site showed that they were labeled as Reuters pix. A call back to Joe Smith about the sequence of the pix revealed another unknown fact. Smith said that no one was on the spot with a camera before Rachel Corrie was mauled by the bulldozer, and that the picture of Rachel with the megaphone had been taken many hours earlier.. I placed a call to Tim Heritage, bureau chief of Reuters, and asked him about Reuters policy in using pictures from political groups that might manipulate the media.. I gave him a heads up about the fact that Reuters had issued the photo of Rachel Corrie standing alongside the bulldozer with a megaphone. Heritage said that he would look into the matter and asked for a call back. I called back an hour later. Heritage was not available. However, all of the Rachel Corrie/bulldozer pix had been wiped off of the Reuters web site. Yet the damage was done. The indelible image of a mauled "peace activist standing with a megaphone" will not leave people's minds for many years to come. DECIDE FOR YOURSELF Click here to view the sequence of pictures. (Pay particular attention to pictures #15-17.) While now noting -- at least at Yahoo -- that these pictures were the work of non-Reuters employees, they still don't identify the source as a political group. The pictures were obviously NOT a sequence. The landscape was different and the bulldozer was different. The leftist activists continue to use lies to try to influence world opinion.