ISM member Kristen Ess: Israelis terrorize Palestinian children in Manger Square

"I'm not surprised that you in the US did not see anything about Israeli soldiers shooting tear gas and lobbing sound bombs into a crowd of small children gathered in Manger Square in front of the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem."
--Kristen Ess
4 minutes, 30 seconds into the above audio

Where is the reporting on this? Palestinian children are attacked in Manger Square in front of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem and there is no reporting of this.

How long would Israel keep it's bloated aid package if the American people were shown the reality of what is happening there?

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I sincerely wish that people of the US would seek independent news sources so they can become aware of the atrocities of this terrorist state and its killer machine army. Day after murderous day, year after murderous year the killilng by these terrorists continue unabated, but let one israeli be killed, and it's front page news and the leading news story on US mainstream television. When a Palestinian is killed, and they are daily, it's just a minor detail if it's mentioned at all. How damn tragic.

Of course, we know why, don't we?

If the citizens of the US don't know about these murders and where their tax dollars are going to support same, then the Government is well aware and is saying nothing and doing nothing.

It's a "henious crime" when a suicide bomber blows himself up and takes others with him; when the killer machine drops a bomb on an apartment building at night and kills 15 people, 9 of whom are children, injures hundreds more (as was the case last summer), the US Government says "oh, it's heavy-handed". lt's a hell of a lot more than "heavy handed". It is just as "heinous" as the suicide bomber.

There is no distinction with death. An Israeli is no more important than a Palestinian, and regardless of how they are murdered the end result is the same. They are dead, and devastated family and relatives are left weeping.

And the Palestinians have become experts in weeping. It's become a daily/nightly event thanks to an army out of control, and to whom human life, especially that of children, means nothing at all unless it's their own.

If you've got IndyMedia in mind as an "independent" news reporting service, you've lost it.

Fact is, EVERY news agency around the globe is bias in one way or the other, pro-Israel or pro-Palestine, Right-Wing or Left-Wing, you name it. Everyone has a different spin on things.

This is the part where intelligence comes into question....you actually have to think for yourself.

Do the research, look at the issue from ALL angles...not just the ones people are screaming at you...and make up your own mind by actually opening your mind up.

Scary concept, eh?

Not half as scary for me as it must be for you. I don't live in the United States. Ha, ha, ha, etc., etc.

It would almost be funny if it were not so serious to see pro-ethnic cleansing pro-Israelis defaming the International Solidarity Movement which stands with one of the most terrorized people in modern history.

Pro-Israeli defamation of ISM members is especially revolting when Israel has killed two ISM members (Rachel Corrie and Tom Hurndall -- shot in the head while protecting school girls from Israeli snipers) and shot a third in the face (Brian Avery).

So Israelis use terrorism in the classic sense of the term against ISM members and then turn around and accuse ISM of supporting terrorism. This is sort of like bashing someone over the head and then pointing at your victim and screaming "murderer."

I couldn't agree with you more!

Obviously you have no idea what you are talking about.

End aid to Israel wrote the:

“International Solidarity Movement which stands with one of the most terrorized people in modern history.”

It should read:

The ISM stands with terrorists.

IDF: International Solidarity Movement hid senior Palestinian terrorist

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. March 27, 03

Israeli troops raided the West Bank offices of the International Solidarity Movement on Thursday and seized a wanted member of the militant Islamic Jihad group, the army said.

The army said the man was being sheltered in the Jenin offices of the Palestinian-backed peace group whose members often act as human shields, placing themselves between Israeli soldiers and Palestinians.

An American activist with the group was killed on March 16 while trying to stop an Israeli military bulldozer in the Gaza Strip. She fell in front of the machine, which ran over her and then backed up, witnesses said.

The group said it did not know the man was wanted. The army said the suspect was a senior member of Islamic Jihad who planned a number of attacks on Israelis, which were foiled by Israeli security forces.

The army said two women with the group, one British and the other Canadian, tried to hide the man but the group's spokesman, Tom Wallace, said the two group members were not aware of the man's identity.

The army said that during a search of the four-story building, which also houses offices of the International Committee of the Red Cross, international medical group Medicins Sans Frontieres and the Bank of Palestine, troops found a pistol in the International Solidarity Movement premises.

Wallace said the man was unarmed and that any weapon was recovered.

Israeli officials are still investigating the bulldozer incident that killed 23-year-old Rachel Corrie, a student at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington.

Five Washington State Democrats are co-sponsoring a resolution that is calling on the State Department to investigate the death. A State Department spokesman has said US officials want the Israeli government to investigate.

The Israeli army said an initial investigation showed the bulldozer incident was an accident but promised a more thorough investigation. Army officials have declined to say whether the bulldozer's operator is back on the job.

Oh, my God!

A pistol was found on the premises of the ISM! You don't say!

This explains everything, then!

This pistol might be used against a tank, and then what would happen? Or, horrors, a cruise missle might be intercepted by this pistol. The fourth largest army in the world, with every weapon known ot man, would certainly be in danger from this pistol, now, wouldn't it?

Now if the ISM could stick a bulldozer in their premises the killer army would have something to worry about, wouldn't it?

The Israeli offense army is perhaps the Most Cowardly in the world!

Look at who they end up defending themselves against:

Pregnant Woman in labor, kids shooting hoops ( basketball can be hazardous if its ends up hitting their hollow headz)
school children breaking curfew to be able to Study,,, and the list continues!

What are they so scared of? Why don't they yearn to fight against an Equally Armed populace ?

How come the Jewish settlers are supplied with thousands of ammunition yet the Palestinian victim is barred from defending His Turf?

What is wrong with this picture... when will the cowardly zionissts gather the courage to fight like real Man???

Or can they just "beat" the defenseless...

FRom vilages in Poland the Jews did not march to 'attack" palestine. The jews were marched to Aushwitz.

Thanks for the invite but we now have our homeland. If the Palestinian terror would stop I am sure they will get theirs.

There you go again. "If the Palestine terror stops".

Perhaps if the fourth largest army in the world stopped terrorizing the defenceless in Palestine, there might be peace.

We didn't all fall of the turnip truck yesterday, you know. Some of us have independent minds and can see what's happening in this bloody conflict. Where are the Palestinian tanks, and missiles, and nuclear capabilities? Some level playing field, isn't it?