Yes, anti-Zionist non-Jews and anti-Zionist Jews alike (like all those "misguided" *anti-Zionist Jews* Becky alluded to in Santa Cruz) are all just motivated by wanting to kill Jews (in the case of non-Jews) or kill themselves (in the case of Jews).

Let's read about somemore human beings:

Grotesque pro-Israel bias in the U.S. media
- by Truth Warrior


The day after a Palestinian suicide bombing on February 25, the following doozies appeared in a Los Angeles Times piece titled "Attack Shatters Calm in Mideast":

"an attack against Israel ... shattered a months-long period of relative calm"
"Israelis [had been] comforted by four months of calm"

www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-bomb26feb26,0,830391.story

According to Alison Weir of IfAmericansOnlyKnew.org, the IDF killed and injured 549 Palestinians during this "period of calm" (170 killed, 379 injured). Destruction of Palestinian neighborhoods by Israeli bulldozers also continued apace, along with settler land-grabs in the West Bank.

www.ifamericansknew.org/media/relativity.html

Why then would the Times call this a "period of calm?" Could it be that, from their editorial viewpoint, massive violations of Palestinian life, limb, property, communities, and sovereignty don't count? And this comes from what's supposed to be the "most liberal" of the Big Three U.S. dailies, which probably maintain the highest standard in all of U.S. journalism. As any American with two firing neurons can tell you, television and radio coverage of such things sucks even worse, much worse.

Also, the Palestinians held their tempers for four months, not perfectly but quite well, and despite continuous extreme Israeli provocations, including wildly disproportional or totally indefensible attacks on children (see below). And yet the Zionists who constantly harass this website still want to cast the Palestinians as malevolent terrorist villains and the Israelis as beleaguered peace-seeking martyrs.

The bigotry in evidence here is palpable, and the disparities and hypocrisies that make it so have prevailed in Israel throughout its history.

It's time to wake up, folks.

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A chronology of the "period of calm," as experienced by Palestinians (copied from the excellent site www.concert4palestine.org/warcrimes/c.html ):

October 25, 2004. The Israeli army has killed 14 Palestinians in a raid on the Gaza refugee camp of Khan Younis. Witnesses and medics said overnight Israeli air strikes killed seven Palestinians in the camp, a tank shell killed two and soldiers shot dead five people, including a boy of 11 and two young men in a stone-throwing crowd.
www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml§ion=news

October 27, 2004. Salman Safadi, 16, was killed by an Israeli settler near Nablus. He was shot in the back and one of his arms was broken. Local Palestinians say the settlers have frequently assaulted them, stolen their property and systematically destroyed their olive trees.
english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/41D38B48-9DF9-470A-AAFD-5DFB0CACB229.htm

October 28, 2004. A 9-year old girl, Rania Arram, was killed when Israeli forces fired heavy machineguns on houses in the Khan Younis city neighbourhood of al-Amal. Medics confirmed that the girl was killed by a bullet in the neck.
www.albawaba.com/news/index.php3

November 5, 2004. Death seems to be the constant companion of the 140,000 people who live in Rafah and its refugee camps. Rafat Al Hums, 27, a taxi driver, was killed during an Israeli incursion while driving home in his taxi. Al Hums had been married less than a month ago.
rafah.virtualactivism.net/news/todaymain.htm

November 11, 2004. Ahmed Al Jazzar, 13, was killed by Israeli gunfire as four bulldozers continued their destruction of his neighborhood in Rafah. Fatma Al Hashash, 9, and her sister Asma Al Hashash, 10, were injured during heavy random shelling of the camp.
rafah.virtualactivism.net/news/todaymain.htm

November 24, 2004. Since September 2000, Israeli soldiers have killed at least 1,656 Palestinians who took no part in the fighting. Of those killed, 529 were children. To date, one soldier has been convicted of causing the death of a Palestinian. In the vast majority of cases, no one is ever held accountable.
www.btselem.org/English/Press_Releases/2004/041124.asp

November 29, 2004. Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian doctor and wounded three other people in the southern Gaza Strip. Samir Hijazi, 38, died of wounds sustained when the army fired tank shells and automatic gunfire towards the Rafah refugee camp.
www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200411/s1253599.htm

December 1, 2004. Israeli forces shot and seriously wounded a four-year-old Palestinian girl in Rafah, in southern Gaza. Witnesses said Shayma Hasan Abu Shammala was hit by several bullets fired by an Israeli soldier manning a military tower.
electronicintifada.net/v2/article3388.shtml

December 2, 2004. An Israeli soldier fired at two boys in Nablus, killing both of them. Montasser Hadada and Amar Banaat, both 15, had been standing in the street. Another child, Khaled Osta, 9, was shot dead in the middle of the night while fleeing from soldiers who told his father to evacuate their home.
www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm

December 3, 2004. In Rafah, 8-year-old Khalil Berika was seriously wounded by a bullet in the head while inside his home. Fathia Al Akhras, a woman of 53, was also injured by random Israeli gunfire in the Hay Al Salam neighborhood.
rafah.virtualactivism.net/news/todaymain.htm

December 7, 2004. Israeli troops killed a 15-year-old Palestinian boy while on a hike marking their graduation from basic training. Near a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip, the soldiers fired live rounds, hitting Khaled Mahdi, who was in a field at the time with his father.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/511403.html

December 8, 2004. A senior Israeli army commander said that the army has killed 148 Palestinian civilians in the West Bank this year. He said most of the people were involved in minor offenses such as stone-throwing, but at least 29 people were "innocent."
www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4661509,00.html

December 10, 2004. A 7-year-old Palestinian girl was killed yesterday as she was eating lunch in her home in Khan Younis refugee camp. Israeli troops had opened fire in response to a mortar attack that wounded four residents of a nearby Jewish settlement.
news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp

December 12, 2004. An Israeli army tank fired shells at the Khan Younis refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip, wounding seven schoolchildren. Two of the children were treated at the scene while the others, aged 8-12, suffered shrapnel wounds and were taken to hospital.
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi

December 14, 2004. Israeli bulldozers, guarded by jeeps and armored vehicles, razed large areas of Palestinian farming lands near the village of Bal'ein in the West Bank. Dozens of residents of the village clashed with Israeli soldiers who opened fire on them, wounding five.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-12/14/content_2334637.htm

December 15, 2004. Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian man, Mustafa al-Sawarka, 32, as he tried to cross a Gaza road they had sealed off near a Jewish settlement
www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp

December 17, 2004. Three Palestinians have been killed and at least 14 others injured during an Israeli raid on the Khan Younis refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. Israeli tanks opened fire as they entered the camp, followed by bulldozers that razed several houses.
www.politinfo.com/articles/article_2004_12_17_3412.html

December 17, 2004. Halla Gharib, 3, of the Rafah refugee camp has been reportedly wounded after being shot by Israeli soldiers manning the Palestinian- Egyptian border just south of Rafah.
www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_new/english/details.asp

December 18, 2004. Up to 11 Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli assault on the town of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. The entire area has been closed off as Israeli forces continue to bulldoze houses and other buildings, leaving scores homeless.
english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/B55AAB5D-3631-47A8-BB61-5E4B04C9F054.htm

December 18, 2004. Abu Shalouf, 36, was shot dead by an Israeli sniper while sitting inside his house in Rafah. He was one of seven civilians, including a 14-year-old, killed in the past few days. At night, the only light in the sky is the automatic fire from Israeli helicopters.
rafah.virtualactivism.net/news/todaymain.htm

December 21, 2004. A 14-year-old boy shot by Israeli snipers in Tal Al Sultan was taken to hospital with head and chest wounds. In Khan Younis, Ahmed Abu Mustafa, 17, his brother Fuad and their mother Ghfrah, 60, were injured when tanks at a nearby settlement fired six shells at local homes.
rafah.virtualactivism.net/news/todaymain.htm

December 22, 2004. A Palestinian policeman, Ibrahim al-Bayuk, 27, was shot dead in the southern Gaza Strip, raising today's death toll in Gaza to three. The latest deaths brought the overall toll since September 2000 to 4,638, including 3,594 Palestinians and 969 Israelis.
www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/123621/1/.html

December 26, 2004. A six-year-old girl, Tasahil Al-Hasanat, died in hospital from wounds she sustained in October, when Israeli troops stationed at a Jewish settlement attacked houses in the Al-Moghraqa neighborhood of Al-Buraij refugee camp.
www.aljazeerah.info/News%20archives/2004%20News%20archives/December/27%20n/Israeli%20Occupation%20Forces%20Kill%20Three%20Palestinians,%20A%20Little%20Girl%20Dies%20of%20Wounds.htm

December 31, 2004. Nasser Hospital in the Khan Younis refugee camp is crowded with casualties following the latest Israeli incursion. The hospital itself has become a target. Israeli bulldozers have demolished the western part of the structure and the hospital director said "Some of our patients are in danger of being hurt all over again in their hospital beds."
rafah.virtualactivism.net/news/todaymain.htm

January 2, 2005. A Palestinian cameraman working for Israel's Channel 10 television was shot by Israeli troops operating near the town of Beit Lahiya in the Gaza Strip. Majdi al-Irbid was shot in the stomach and leg without warning, following "an exchange of words."
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/521788.html

January 4, 2005. Five Palestinian children were killed by Israeli tank fire in the Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahiya. Killed were three brothers, Hanni, 16, Mahmoud, 14, and Bisaam, 13, and two of their cousins Jabir, 12, and Rajikh, 10. Eight others were wounded in the incident.
feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/

January 8, 2005. A 61-year-old Palestinian man was shot dead by Israeli army fire at a roadblock near the town of Khan Yunes in the southern Gaza Strip. Mahmoud Al-Farra was shot twice as troops attempted to get Palestinian vehicles to pull back from the roadblock.
www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11886568%255E1702,00.html

January 12, 2005. An Israeli policeman has been convicted of assaulting a Palestinian civilian. With other officers, he beat the man, stubbed a cigarette out on his hand, forced him to drink urine, kicked him in the stomach and threatened him with guns before throwing him out of a window.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/527057.html

January 12, 2005. A 23-year-old Palestinian has been shot dead by Israeli soldiers as he drove his pregnant wife to hospital in the north of the Gaza Strip. Alaa Hassuna was killed in the flashpoint Beit Lahiya area shortly after leaving the family home in a nearby Bedouin village.
www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200501/s1281534.htm

January 16, 2005. Fadda Arram, 50, and her son Abdalla, 27, were killed when Israeli tanks shelled houses in the Khan Younis refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. A third family member was critically wounded. Witnesses said soldiers prevented ambulances reaching the scene.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-01/17/content_2468747.htm

January 21, 2005. Two Palestinian boys were shot dead by Israeli troops in separate incidents today. In the West Bank, 14-year-old Salah Ikhab was shot as he played with a toy gun he had been given as a present. Several hours later, a 13-year-old Palestinian boy was shot dead in the Gaza town of Rafah while walking with his family.
www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,12005986%255E1702,00.html

January 27, 2005. A three-year-old Palestinian girl was killed when Israeli troops opened fire in the Gaza city of Deyr Al-Balah yesterday. Rahma Abu Shams was sitting at home when she was hit in the head by a bullet fired from a Jewish settlement.
www.zaman.com/

January 28, 2005. An unarmed Hamas member was shot and killed in the West Bank by an undercover Israeli police unit and two other Palestinians were wounded. Such operations are carried out every day and every night.
www.haaretz.co.il/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml;

January 29, 2005. A mentally handicapped Palestinian man was shot dead by Israeli soldiers in the southern Gaza Strip. Ibrahim al-Shawas, 36, died after being shot in the head near Khan Yunus as he approached a border fence.
english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/DB4D719B-BE0D-44C7-B6FC-6643C9C2EC13.htm

January 30, 2005. A 65-year-old Palestinian civilian was killed by Israeli army fire along the Gaza-Egypt border. The military said the man was deep inside a no-go zone, close to an Israeli army post along a patrol road near the border, when troops shot him.
www.smh.com.au/news/World/Palestinians-prepare-for-city-handoverss/2005/01/31/1107020288123.html

January 31, 2005. Israeli army gunfire killed a 10-year-old Palestinian girl today as she stood with other children in a schoolyard in Rafah refugee camp. Noran Deed was lining up to enter their school in the morning when she was hit by gunfire from an army post some 900 metres away.
www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,12113102%255E401,00.html

February 14, 2005. Israeli soldiers shot and killed Sabri Fayiz Rajub, 13, in Hebron, alleging that he tried to attack them with a sharp object. A Palestinian witness said "The soldiers were shouting at the boy, and then shot him in the leg. As he fell down shivering with pain, another soldier shot him in the chest. It was cold-blooded murder."
english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/133CA257-CE27-40A9-AE43-426519E1302B.htm

February 15, 2005. Israeli troops in the West Bank village of Beitunia shot and killed a 14-year-old Palestinian boy, Ala Hani, who threw stones at them. The troops wounded two others in the same incident. The dead boy was shot in the neck.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26226-2005Feb15.html