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An IDF soldier has lost sight in his eye after a palestinian woman threw acid in his face, exploiting more lenient security measures at the checkpoints as part of our Ramadan good gestures.

This is likely the same woman who did the same thing a few weeks ago.

Meanwhile, this is how the “peace-loving” ISM folk have reported the attack.

Israeli army open fire on civilians at Huwarra checkpoint

Israeli soldiers opened fire on civilians at Huwarra checkpoint at 8am on Monday 22nd September.

The gunfire followed an alleged attempt by a Palestinian woman to pour acid on Israeli soldiers, echoing an attack that took place at the checkpoint two weeks ago. There are mixed reports as to whether any soldiers were injured in the attempt, with some eyewitnesses claiming that most of the unknown substance was thrown on the ground, some inadvertantly splashing a nearby Palestinian man.

The young woman reportedly ran into the crowd, who were passing through the checkpoint, and was chased by Israeli soldiers. Soldiers then opened fire on the crowd of innocent civilians, using live ammunition. Four people were reportedly injured by the gunfire, with two requiring hospitalisation.

There’s a great combination of dishonesty and moral bankruptcy right there.

You have to love Summer. The heat…frolicking in the sun….water-related violence.

Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said Wednesday he would allocate funds to repair water well in the Bethlehem area a day after a man was seriously injured following water-related violence in the city.

Palestinian Authority (PA) forces used teargas and bullets to disperse demonstrators from Aida Refugee Camp who were demanding water from local PA authorities.

A drought, a broken well, and a reduction of water supplies by the Israeli company Mekorot, have resulted in a severe water shortage in Bethlehem this summer. The city’s three refugee camps have been worst affected by this. Camp residents say that they have gone without water at times for up to two weeks.

The Popular Committee of Aida Refugee Camp urged Fayyad on Wednesday to open an investigation into Tuesday’s clashes, which took place near the Intercontinental Hotel, adjacent to the camp, as the prime minister was arriving in the city.

Camp resident Jadallah Abu Srour was seriously injured in the violence, the committee said. In a statement the committee also urged Fayyad and the PA to resolve the water crisis, which it called “urgent.”

Bethlehem governor Salah At-Ta’mari briefed Fayyad on Wednesday about the clashes, which he later told Ma’an were “unfortunate.” The governor also met with residents of the camp, who demanded legal action against the security personnel who opened fire on the demonstrators.

I think it is pretty telling that groups like the ISM - who are very quick to.. err.. raise a stink about our protest dispersal methods - are silent on this. Which just goes to show that they are more about hating Israel than about loving the palestinians.

My blog had some excitement yesterday, as a Free Gaza moonbat named Anis threatened to sue me for my song parody of his Free Gaza absurdity that Dave blogged about here. I responded to Anis thusly:

I’m considering a parody of Simon and Garfunkel’s “Richard Cory” as “Rachel Corrie,” calling her an idiot and a tool of terrorists. Would that pass your muster or would you try to find a reason to take that one down as well? Just wondering what your definition of “free speech” includes, Anis!

His response was “This is your level.” I think he meant it as an insult.

Anyway, the idea stayed in my head, so this morning I wrote the song:

I hired Rachel Corrie to help bring Israel down
She was young, she was stupid, didn’t know her way around
She was the perfect patsy, do anything I asked
But even I didn’t know how well she’d perform her last task

Yes I – recruit peacenik wannabes
And I brainwash them for terror
Teach them to hate Israelis
And I wish they all could be
Oh I wish they all could be
Yes I wish they all could be
Rachel Corries.

“Peace and terror are the same” is the lesson that I taught
I told her that the underdog was right no matter what
Killing Jews in Israel is demanded by my god
The ISM is just another arm of my jihad

Yes I – recruit peacenik wannabes
And I brainwash them for terror
Teach them to hate Israelis
And I wish they all could be
Oh I wish they all could be
Yes I wish they all could be
Rachel Corries.

She learned to hate America, the freedom made her gag
She was thinking she was peaceful as she burned her country’s flag
The bulldozer came slowly but I’m glad she hadn’t fled
As good as Corrie was in life, she’s worth much more when she’s dead

And now she’s a propaganda factory
Her death has been the best thing since the SS Liberty
And I’m glad she didn’t flee
Her death was a victory
And I wish I had ninety
Rachel Corries!

If anyone wants to sing and record this, I will be happy to make an appropriate accompanying video.

If the photographs of Free Gaza “activists” mingling, hugging, and smiling with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was not enough to convince you that we are dealing with terrorist supporters and enablers - not pro-peace campaigners - here is what you ought to know about some of the more notable members of their group.

Yvonne Ridley - convert to Islam and former wife of a PLO colonel, who wrote an infamous eulogy to Shamil Basayev, architect of the Moscow theater hostage crisis and the Beslan school massacre (who proudly claimed responsibilty for the massacre of hundreds of innocent children at Beslan).

Huwaida Arraf - Co-founder of the ISM, who is on record as supporting palestinian terrorism, and has herself acted as a human shield for terrorists.

Paul Larudee - Infamous ISM tool who is on record as supporting palestinian terrorism and is proud of the fact that he once slept in the bed of a suicide bomber.

Roberta Seid reviews Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie.

Excerpt:

..what is most curious about Corrie’s Journals is that hard as she tried to impose the ISM narrative on what she saw, her reports constantly contradicted this narrative, though she didn’t recognize the contradictions.

She wrote that decades of occupation had oppressed Palestinians, yet Gazans kept saying that their difficult situation was due to the Intifada and to Israel’s subsequent counterterrorism measures, not to a decades-old occupation. One Gazan said, “There was a peaceful time in the late seventies and early eighties…things were better before Sharon”—that is, before Sharon became Prime Minister in 2001. (253) Another told her: “Before—no tanks, no bulldozers, no gunshots. Quiet….No noise. After Intifada, daily. Gunshots daily.”

She even confirmed that conditions in Gaza worsened only with the Intifada. She wrote that 60,000 people from Rafah had worked in Israel in 2001, but that the number had dropped to 600 by 2003. But she never drew the logical conclusion that her Gazan informants kept repeating—the terrorist campaign had forced Israel to take defensive measures.

Similarly, Corrie demonized the Israeli soldiers, but they hardly appear demonic. When she and other internationals stand in front of the tanks, the soldiers “open their weird tank lids and wave at us.” The Israeli district command officer worked to “ensure the safety of Palestinian workers.”

Nor, to her surprise, were Palestinians afraid of the soldiers. When a Gazan runs from his home with his two children after ISM mistakenly informed him that his house was to be demolished, she “was terrified to think that this man felt it was less of a risk to walk out in view of the tanks with his kids than to stay in his house.” She tried to interpose herself between him and the tanks, yet he clearly did not need her protection. Children play in full view of the tanks, apparently unafraid. (She was stunned to find that despite tanks and bulldozers passing by, “all of these people are genuinely cheerful”—even though this did not fit into her preconceived notions. When IDF soldiers entered a house to position themselves on the roof, no one was bothered or harassed. The children just watched cartoons on TV.

You can read the rest here.

Huwaida Arraf, ISM founder and wife of self-hating Jew Adam Shapiro, has written a letter to the Jerusalem Post to refute claims that the ISM is connected to terrorist organizations. However, her letter betrays the ISM position that palestinian terror operations are not really “terrorism”.

Every nation that has ever been occupied has had the right to protest that occupation. The Americans fought against the British, the French resisted the Nazi occupation, to name just two nations who fought for their freedom. Palestinians have the same right to resist occupation via “legitimate armed struggle,” peaceful actions, or a combination of the two. The ISM is committed to peaceful actions as part of that equation. The violence in this struggle has been the violence against us, not perpetrated by us.

Rather than tackle the specific claims that her organization has met with and protected known terrorists, Arraf launches into the usual ISM propaganda:

A tactic of the Israeli government has been to label every Palestinian man, woman and child a “terrorist” in an attempt to justify its brutal actions against an occupied people. Now the tactic is to also try to vilify peace activists from all over the world who are raising their voices against an evil occupation that is the root cause of violence in Israel/Palestine. The terrorism that we have seen has been directed at us: the Israeli Military terrorism against Palestinian civilians and against internationals like Rachel Corrie, Tom Hurndall, and Brian Avery.

I think we can all draw the necessary conclusions as to what exactly the ISM stands for.