-Caveat Lector- Yardbird wrote: > > -Caveat Lector- > > Assalamu'alaikum, > > Christian group enters Palestinian village to shield people from Israelis Now THESE people are worthy of respect. Not like you clowns. They are putting their beliefs on the line for humanitarian reasons. This is much different than than exploiting the situation from the comfort of you home so you can justify your personal bigotry. Hey Saba. Why don't YOU get your fat old ass down to Beit Jalla? I have some cousins there who would just LOVE to see you. J2 > > The Associated Press > > http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20010802_1230.html > > BEIT JALLA, West Bank (AP) Ronald Forthofer from Colorado cowered with a > family of Palestinians in the back bedroom of their home as Israeli > machine-gun fire and tank shelling shattered the night. > Wearing a white T-shirt and cowboy jeans, blinking in the bright sunlight > the next morning, he said that's why he's here. > > Forthofer, 57, is one of 70 volunteers who believe their bodies will serve > as human shields to protect the Palestinians in this small hilltop town > battered by 10 months of gunfights and Israeli tank shelling. He left > Longmont, Colo., and came to live in a Palestinian house this week in one > of the hottest points of fighting. > > "We believe that we who are protected in America should experience and > live in the same way that Palestinians are living in the suffering," > Forthofer said as he looked across the valley at an Israeli army outpost > guarding Gilo, an Israeli neighborhood on disputed land. > > Nighttime gun battles have frequently lighted up the valley between Beit > Jalla and Gilo. Palestinian gunmen take up positions in and between Beit > Jalla houses and open fire on the Jewish apartment buildings across the > valley, drawing return fire from the Israeli military. > > Palestinians consider Gilo an illegal settlement built on West Bank land. > Israel says it is part of Jerusalem and claims the whole city as its own, > including the Arab section. > > Forthofer is one of 20 Americans from the Episcopal Church who came on a > peace mission and began living in Palestinian homes this week. Among the > other volunteers are Europeans, Japanese and Israeli peace activists. > > They've already gotten a taste of what life is like here. Fighting between > Gilo and Beit Jalla raged Tuesday night after an Israeli helicopter > missile strike killed eight Palestinians in the West Bank city of Nablus. > > Brenda Holliday, 60, from Orange County, California, rested in a home hit > by several bullets overnight. She said no part of the house was safe, and > the children wake up frightened. > > "If children live under this kind of oppression ... a vicious cycle will > be repeated," she said. "The child who was oppressed will become the adult > doing the oppressing." > > At a news conference Wednesday, the volunteers called on the international > community to intervene "to cease active support of Israeli aggression > against the Palestinian people." > > Israeli defense ministry spokesman Shlomo Dror called the group's presence > in Beit Jalla a provocation. > > "The only question I can ask these people is why they are putting > themselves as a human shield in Beit Jalla, not in Gilo?" he said. 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