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This time, instead of frogs and locusts and hail, we have snipers and suicide bombers and Molotov cocktails. And while terrorism and mob violence are reprehensible actions, not glorious acts of God, Israel should take them as signs that there is an imbalance of power that it as a nation has the ability to remedy. Until Israel ceases its latest military campaign of closure and terror and treats the Palestinians in the territories and within Israel as dignified human beings, the plagues are not going to stop...
...which the following caption appeared: "An Israeli policeman and a Palestinian on the Temple Mount." In fact, it was later revealed that the "Palestinian" was actually an American Jewish student, Tuvia Grossman, who had been visiting the Old City with friends when their cab was stopped by a Palestinian mob, and the boys were dragged out, beaten and stabbed. Grossman broke free and ran for protection to the policeman, who, wielding his baton to ward off the attackers, probably saved the boy's life...
...from a simple, understandable calculation: Reporting on events considered harmful to the Palestinian side results in immediate restriction of access to Palestinian Authority sources and even jeopardizes the physical safety of correspondents in the region. Events surrounding the Oct. 12, 2000 lynching of two Israeli reservists by a Palestinian mob in Ramallah illustrated this intimidation perfectly. RAI, Italy's state television news network, which the Palestinian Authority believed had released the now-famous footage of the murders, attempted to reassure Arafat's government, claiming in a letter, "We always respect the journalistic rules of the Palestinian Authority for work...
...next morning around 5 a.m., those deputies, along with other white mobs, invaded Greenwood, the black section of Tulsa, and left it in ruins. The authorities arrested every Greenwood resident and took them to detention centers (what the newspapers called “concentration camps”) around the city. After the arrests, the mob, special deputies and uniformed police officers looted and burned the vacant buildings. By noon, more than 1,000 homes had been burned to the ground and thousands were left homeless...
...first intifadeh suffered the ill p.r. effects of pictures of their soldiers firing on rock-throwing protesters, have learned that a measured message of victimhood is important to the well armed too. In the early days of this intifadeh, the Israeli government benefited from horrific images of the mob lynching of two Israeli soldiers...