Friday, March 30, 2012

"Global March to Jerusalem" Fizzles

Mike L.

A series of rallies across the Arab world that were meant to draw two million participants for a so-called “Global March to Jerusalem,” and which had Israeli authorities heavily deployed at potential border hotspots, fizzled on Friday to localized demonstrations in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.

While Israel’s northern and eastern borders remained unthreatened, and the rallies in neighboring countries were largely peaceful, there was violence at the Jordan event: Local media reported that four American ultra-Orthodox rabbis from the extreme anti-Zionist Neturei Karta movement were beaten and verbally abused by local participants at the start of the event. They were rescued by other participants. Neturei Karta members also joined a rally in Lebanon

The gatherings — of thousands of Arabs and international solidarity activists marking “Land Day” — were kept in check by police forces in Jordan and by the army in Lebanon.

Even the anti-Semitic anti-Zionists on Daily Kos do not care about this.

The point of these kinds of events, such as the flotilla nonsense from over a year ago, is to provoke the Jewish state into a response and then to scream bloody murder about how mean the Israelis are and then get western "progressive" counterparts to do likewise.

This time, though, it doesn't seem to have worked.

Is it possible that "progressives" are awakening to the transparent nonsense that are efforts to delegitimize Israel? I wouldn't count on it, but I suppose that it is possible.

I certainly hope so.

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