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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (89164)	12/3/2004 1:43:08 PM
From: carranza2	Respond to of 794038

I listen to NPR and read the NYT in order to remain mentally nimble. It's fun thinking about the retorts to the various things that are said. And they are both genuinely entertaining, Click and Clack and G. Keilor are excellent, as is the NYT's Sunday crossword and the Lifestyles section, which I find hugely amusing.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (89164)	12/3/2004 3:04:21 PM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794038

AFP: Terrorist = Activist LGF Agence France Presse labels an Islamic Jihad terrorist an “activist:” Islamic Jihad activist killed in West Bank. And no AFP report is complete without the usual raft of lies from Palestinian “security sources.” Interesting how these “activists” never seem to be armed when the IDF comes for them. <<<< The soldiers, who arrived in twenty jeeps, opened fire in his direction as he was giving himself up, the Palestinian security sources said. The owner of the house in which Hammad had taken refuge said the militant had first been wounded by Israeli fire as he was trying to flee the scene, and then killed. “He tried to escape. They opened fire at him in front of the house and wounded him. Once they got confirmation he was the man they were after, they finished him off,” Suleiman Qasrawi told AFP. An Israeli military spokesman confirmed the death, adding that soldiers who were surrounding a house “opened fire on a suspect who was fleeing, armed with a pistol,” the spokesman said. >>>> by Charles littlegreenfootballs.com

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (89164)	12/3/2004 3:09:38 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 794038

The Violin and the Guitar LGF Last week we were barraged with propaganda from the world’s terror sympathizers and their media enablers, focused on an incident in which a Palestinian at a checkpoint was asked to remove a violin from its case and play, presumably to make sure it was not rigged with explosives. This piece by anti-Israel Guardian columnist Chris McGreal typifies the almost comically exaggerated outrage: Israel shocked by image of soldiers forcing violinist to play at roadblock. guardian.co.uk But here’s a reminder from Frimet Roth that cuts through the propaganda fog and puts this incident in sharp perspective: The Violin and the Guitar. (Hat tip: WriterMom.) <<<< The story of the soldier and the violinist has been blown way out of proportion to its significance. I too would like it removed from the media burner. But not before another musical instrument gets its deserved mention. I’m referring to a guitar. One that also grabbed a few headlines on 9th August, 2001. On that morning, Izzadin Al-Masri, the newly-religious son of a well-to-do Palestinian restaurateur, passed through a machsom — a checkpoint — on the edge of West Jerusalem. Accompanied by a Palestinian women dressed as an Israeli to allay suspicions, he strode into the center of the city. A guitar case was slung over his shoulder. At 1:45 pm, he reached the intersection of King George and Jaffa streets. The restaurant was packed with mothers and children. This was lunch time, and the country’s schools were closed for summer vacation. Al-Masri entered easily — there was no security guard. Seconds later, he activated the explosives in his guitar and murdered fifteen Israelis in cold blood. My daughter Malki, 15, was one of them. Has Machsom Watch forgotten that terror attack? Did Haaretz as well? And what about the apologetic IDF spokesperson? Or does the meddlesome Machsom Watch have them all shivering in their pants? The person who truly ought to make them shiver is Abdullah Barghouti. On Tuesday, this senior Hamas operative was sentenced to 67 life terms in prison for his responsibility in terror attacks that resulted in the deaths, by murder, of 66 Israelis. Barghouti lived in his native Kuwait until five years ago when he moved to Ramallah. An engineer, he built the bomb that murdered the Sbarro fifteen as well as the victims of two other lethal attacks in Jerusalem and another in Rishon Letzion. I watched him on television confessing that, yes, he did fill a guitar with explosives. “In a guitar? Why in a guitar?” a shocked TV interviewer asked. “This is war,” the stone-faced Barghouti answered. It seems to me that far too many people have forgotten that basic truth. This is war. We are under attack. Machsom Watch volunteers have a problem acknowledging that. It is a dangerous problem. One day, an IDF soldier on machsom duty, distracted and intimidated by those camera-clicking, note-scribbling activists, is going to cut short a routine security check to appease them. The results might be very far from routine. web.israelinsider.com >>>> by Charles littlegreenfootballs.com