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Photos from 1/12/09 Cleveland rally for solidarity with Israel


As I get more in, I’ll post.  The folks who took the photo report that between 1000-1500 attended, as opposed to the Plain Dealer’s reporting of about 600.  Thanks to Daf Yomi for sending the image.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 3:52 pm January 12th, 2009 in Cleveland+, Gaza, Israel 

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12 Responses to “Photos from 1/12/09 Cleveland rally for solidarity with Israel”

  1. 1 Robert M Kraus Sr on January 12th, 2009 4:35 pm

    It’s inevitable . . . . . Palestinians will not accept Jewish domination. Jews and Muslims do not mix. And I think that the USA is on the wrong side of the fence in this matter.

    rmk, akron

  2. 2 Aneinu on January 12th, 2009 4:49 pm

    rmk from Akron – you think that the USA should side with the terrorists?

  3. 3 Chuck Butcher on January 12th, 2009 7:20 pm

    Which terrorist would that be? A 500 lb air dropped bomb is somehow less terroristic than a 15 lb vest one? In France we called them the Resistance and applauded them but now that its Arabs…

    I have no dog in this fight, I think mutual assholedom applies. I think our being on a side in this particular mess is what precludes doing anything pallative. Feel free to try to draw distinctions about explosives, explosives don’t draw distinctions.

  4. 4 Aneinu on January 12th, 2009 8:49 pm

    the 500 lb one is meant to destroy those who are sending the 15lb ones at innocent civilians

  5. 5 John Ettorre on January 13th, 2009 1:33 pm

    Well said, Chuck. Remember that the state of Israel was basically founded by concerted acts of terror, under the Irgun, which was considered a band of freedom fighters by their backers but something far different by the other side. The United States was also founded on acts of terror committed against the British, who were either unjust occupiers or the righteous, lawful rulers of the North American territories, depending on one’s point of view. So casually flinging around the word terrorists doesn’t really solve anything.

  6. 6 Aneinu on January 13th, 2009 1:39 pm

    And why don’t you remember how the Jews were thrown out of Israel in the first place?

  7. 7 Chuck Butcher on January 13th, 2009 3:05 pm

    Does this sit well with you?

    “In the night between Thursday and Friday, when the secretary of state wanted to lead the vote on a ceasefire at the Security Council, we did not want her to vote in favour,” Olmert said.

    “I said ‘get me President Bush on the phone’. They said he was in the middle of giving a speech in Philadelphia. I said I didn’t care. ‘I need to talk to him now’. He got off the podium and spoke to me.

    “I told him the United States could not vote in favour. It cannot vote in favour of such a resolution. He immediately called the secretary of state and told her not to vote in favour.”

    It doesn’t with me. Take my polite expression of how well it doesn’t sit with me as understatement.

    Like I said to start, mutual a$$holes. Exactly how far through history do you want to chase this crap? Do you want to talk about Pharohs? Apples?

  8. 8 Aneinu on January 13th, 2009 3:29 pm

    Yes, it does sit well with me (if it’s true). Although, what is wrong with the State Dept., I can’t figure out.

    The Palestinians never wanted a state until Israel was called a Jewish state. They could have went to Jordan, Egypt, Syria etc, except nobody wanted them. They could all attack the Jews this way.

    every Jewish rally was a peaceful one; not one incident – many of the pro-Palestine’s were not. They want blood – specifically Jewish blood.

    All the Jews ask for is to have their own tiny state when they won’t be bothered. Now, there’s a conflict – they will even share it. But they will not live in constant threat of rockets and suicide bombers. Is that too much to ask for?

    Everyone knows that the Un is antisemetic and is afraid of the Arabs. thye do not condemn the suicide bombings, the using of women and children as human shields, the rockets, the use of schools and hospitals etc.

    America is basically the only one that mst of the time will stick up for Israel. If Pres. Bush has to call Ms. Rice and straighten her out, then so be it!

    It sits well by me.

  9. 9 Chuck Butcher on January 13th, 2009 3:53 pm

    Then you need to go live in that nation because that nation does not tell mine what to do in this lifetime without real damn serious pushback from me and any other American that understands exactly where the hell they live and who the hell runs this country. Anyone who condones this crap in our government needs to be voted out and replaced by someone that understands that no matter what nation it is they don’t get to do this.

    You have two a$$hole governments that will not sort this out and have not ever done so. No one has demonstrated good faith or straight dealing. Not your damn side nor their damn side.

    It is not in the interest of MY nation to have this continue to ratchet up. It is not in the interest of MY nation to have this ongoing festering sore in an unstable resource rich area. It is not in MY nation’s interest to ever have an emotional attachment to any place other than its own citizenry and ludicrous to perceive a thing like a government as having emotions.

    Your human connection is none of my business and I could care less. Making your human connection a part of the cold blooded business of governmental relationships is counter to the interest of this nation.

    I’ve said nothing about this conflict other than that it needs honest brokership and YOUR position and anyone taking sides precludes that. YOU and your mindset are one of the reasons this continues. You don’t like the rockets? You are the reason it continues, just as people like you on the other side are the reason bombs are falling.

    Buy a ticket and apply for citizenship in the country you care about, but MY nation isn’t run by any other one.

  10. 10 Chuck Butcher on January 13th, 2009 3:55 pm

    I’ve now spent more time on stupidity than I should or am willing to. Expect no further engagement.

  11. 11 Aneinu on January 13th, 2009 4:22 pm

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States on Tuesday denied that a telephone call from Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to President George W. Bush forced Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to abstain in a U.N. vote on the Gaza war.

    “Some of what we’ve seen is not accurate,” White House spokesman Tony Fratto said.

    “There are inaccuracies,” he said about Olmert’s remarks Monday night in a speech broadcast on Israeli television and widely reported in the media.

  12. 12 Chuck Butcher on January 13th, 2009 8:31 pm

    Somebody is lying, there’s a big surprise.

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