Radman,
Thanks for your posting of the large protest in San Francisco
against the Israeli massacre of Palestinians. For those who feel the
term "massacre" is to strong, I propose a thought experiment: Suppose
that Palestinian police had employed the same tactics against rock
throwing Israeli settlers. What word do you think the U.S. media use to
describe such a hypothetical event?
The size of the protest is most encouraging because I can't
recall any previous Israeli massacre that generated a single large
protest in the U.S.
Tom Nagy
radman wrote:
> For Mr. Bill "Feh!" Mandel:
>
> October 6, 2000: San Francisco. Over 3500 protestors gathered in
> front of the israeli consulate in san francisco for yet another
> awesome protest against the genocidal activities of the israeli
> government and its killing machine. The protest started at civic
> center plaza in front of city hall where friday prayer was attended
> by over 2000 muslim brothers and sisters--it was an incredible site
> to see and hear, very moving and very powerful. Marchers made
> there way to the israeli consulate and were joined by another 1500
> demonstrators and the entire street in front of the consulate was
> closed. we marched in a circle chanting "stop killing children" and
> "palestine will never go", etc. The tension was very high. Speaker
> after speaker denounced the atrocities and murders of palestinian
> innocents and children. There was extensive media coverage from
> major tv, radio, print media.
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