THE BLACK KETTLE: Peace and hate

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Monday, January 12, 2009

Peace and hate

Melanie Phillips:

Looks like there was a great pro-Israel demonstration today in London ( I am not there at present). The Times says that according to the organisers, about 15,000 people turned up. No doubt they were not just showing solidarity with Israel but demonstrating their determination to stand united in public disgust against the tidal wave of hatred and lies about Israel and sanitising of Islamic fascism in which the British media and much of its intellectual class are now drowning. And of course, by contrast with the thuggery and violence of the ‘we are all Hamas’ jihad rally yesterday, this one was entirely orderly.

As blogger Edgar Davidson says:
Today's rally will, of course, be given only a fraction of the media coverage of yesterday's pro-Hamas hatefest. But I'd like to think that anybody who witnessed both rallies will have been struck by the difference in the message today (Peace for Israel and Gaza by stopping Hamas terror) with that of yesterday (‘Peace for Palestine by destroying Israel’). Today: dignified with compassion for all victims. Yesterday: violent, with compassion and love for the terrorist perpetrators and hatred for the real victims.
Now look at this video posted up by Israel’s foreign ministry:

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