March 21, 2004

Forget the anti-US protest, let's play road hockey! 12:53:52 AM

Fake News Forever After a quick prayer, Avi Shapiro and 12 other Jewish settlers put on their religious skullcaps, grabbed their semi-automatic rifles and headed toward Highway 60. There, they pushed boulders, stretched barbed wire and set tires afire to form a barricade that, they said, would stop even the biggest of Palestinian taxis. Then they waited for a vehicle to arrive. As they crouched in a ditch beside the road, Shapiro, the leader of the group, gave the settlers orders: Surround any taxi, "open fire" and kill as many of the "blood-sucking Arab" passengers as possible. "We are doing what (Israeli Prime Minister Ariel) Sharon promised but has failed to do: drive these sons of Arab whores from the land of Israel," said Shapiro, 42, who moved here with his wife and four children three years ago from Brooklyn. "If he won't get rid of the Muslim filth, then we will." USA Today has admitted that a September 2001 report by reporter Jack Kelly of rampaging Jewish residents of Hebron who attacked Arabs was fabricated. The issue had been previous investigated in the Israeli press. One telling sign to them and eventually USA Today was that nobody could find the person by name Avi Shapiro who supposedly lead the Jewish gunmen and no Arabs stated that such attacks occurred. I doubt IndyMedia or any of the pro-Palestinian sites will every take this story down. 12:18:21 AM