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Palestinians Remove Bethlehem Monument Erasing Israel’s Existence So Obama Won’t See it

Mar. 20, 2013 12:32pm Sharona Schwartz

Manger Square in Bethlehem (File photo from Wikipedia)

The Palestinian-controlled Bethlehem Municipality removed a stone monument of historic Palestine, worried President Barack Obama would see it when he visits the birthplace of Jesus this week. The monument shows a map that negates the existence of Israel.

But the operation to hide the monument turned into a tug-of-war with local activists who insisted the structure be returned to its rightful place.

Instead of going through the usual process of appealing to the council, activists – along with some of the council members themselves – returned the monument to its original location.

The Jerusalem Post’s Veteran Arab Affairs Correspondent Khaled Abu Toameh who first reported the story writes:

Bethlehem Mayor Vera Baboun denied Tuesday that the monument, along with an olive tree, had been removed because of Obama’s visit. She said the original plan was to replace only the olive tree with a statue of a white dove – the work of a local artist.

Baboun said that the decision to remove the monument, which depicts a map of historic Palestine without Israel, had been taken unanimously by the Bethlehem municipal council.

The monument will be replaced with a statue of a white dove symbolizing peace, she said.

However, members of the Bethlehem municipal council denied that they had voted in favor of removing the stone monument. They said the municipal council would launch an investigation into the case to find out who gave the order to remove the monument.

Abu Toameh explains that monument was erected in honor of the “birth of the State of Palestine on November 29, 2012 [the UN vote] and the launching of the Palestinian revolution on January 1, 1965,” according to its inscription.

He quotes Najla al-Hajj, the director of a charity and the wife of a man serving a life sentence in Israeli prison, saying the Palestinians have the right to “set up any monument or map that represents their struggle and steadfastness.”

The tug-of-war over the monument comes on the heels – literally – of violent protests on Monday in the same city against Obama’s visit.

Protesters threw shoes at an American advance team’s vehicle as it drove near Manger Square, on its way to prepare for the presidential visit.

As TheBlaze reported, Palestinians also trampled on and set fire to a billboard of Obama as they chanted: “America is the head of the snake.”

They wanted to send a message to Obama that Palestinians have “been deprived of the right to have 3G telecommunication technology because they compete with Israeli companies.”

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shorelineliz
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 2:07pm
10 Biblical Prophecies Fulfilled Since Israel Got Back Their Territory in 1947:

1. Israel will prevail over its enemies
Bible passage: Isaiah 41:12-14
Written: perhaps between 701-681 BC

2. The ruins of Israel would be rebuilt
Bible passage: Amos 9:11, 13
Written: about 750 BC

3. Ezekiel prophesied prosperity for modern-day Israel
Bible passage: Ezekiel 36:11
Written: between 593-571 BC

4. Trees again would grow in Israel
Bible passage: Isaiah 41:18-20
Written: perhaps between 701-681 BC

5. Isaiah said Israel’s fruit would fill the world
Bible passage: Isaiah 27:6
Written: perhaps between 701-681 BC

6. Jerusalem would become the world’s most important religious site
Bible passage: Micah 4:1
Written: sometime between 750-686 BC

7. Egypt would never again rule over other nations
Bible passage: Ezekiel 29:15
Written: between 593-571 BC

8. Zechariah prophesied the Jews return to Jerusalem
Bible passage: Zechariah 8:7-8
Written: between 520 and 518 BC

9. Israel’s deserts will become like the Garden of Eden
Bible passage: Isaiah 51:3
Written: perhaps between 701-681 BC

10. Isaiah foretold of the worldwide return of Jews to Israel
Bible passage: Isaiah 43:5-6
Written: perhaps between 701-681 BC

Isaiah the Jewish Prophet: 8th Century BC. Last of the prophets of Israel. According to the Rabbinic literature, Isaiah was a descendant of the royal house of Judah and Tamar (Sotah 10b). He was the son of Amoz, who was the brother of Ki

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 2:14pm
  Another crazy zealot abusing religious beliefs for a secular purpose.
  
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- Exrepublisheep
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 2:44pm
  There are Orthodox Jews who say Israel shouldn’t exist. It’s said the current state was built by gentiles, not God.
  
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- plhutch
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 5:23pm
  Good stuff Shore…How bout we wig them out a little further. What was the land called before Canaan?
  
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- birthright
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 5:58pm
  Liz, #2,4,5,7,8,10 were all fulfilled in about 476 bc when the Jewish captives were allowed to return from the Persian empire to Jerusalem to rebuild the city. Cyrus, Darius, and Xerxes all signed orders allowing the captives to return to Jerusalem. And the “fruit of Israel” referred to Jesus and Christianity which appeared about 500 years later just as the prophet Daniel predicted.
  
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- Welcome Black Carter
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 10:48pm
  Good stuff there!
  Skip to the part where the mohammad followers attack Israel from the north. Defeated so badly, it takes Israel 7 months to bury the dead muslims and russians.
  
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shorelineliz
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:59pm
THE_JERK
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:53pm
What’s the point? There was a time before which there was no Judea, no Israel. So, your same logic would apply to those nation states too. Abram came from the area which is present day Iraq. So, let’s call the area Canaan.

@Jerk:
I would state my logic. I would even talk about history repeating itself. Cause it does. But, at this juncture, jerk, I feel it would be lost on you, ya know. Do you study history? Do you study prophecy and the prophetic books and fulfillment? Unless you do study these things, well then, the LOGIC is wasted in discussion. I got books, volumes on this stuff. And, yes, I am a scholar. But that too, makes no difference on you. I can tell. I can see.

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 2:13pm
  Could’a, would’a, should’a is your excuse to avoid the facts and history. My statement stands as historical fact. There was a time when there was no Israel, no Judea. Abram came from lower Mesopotamia, which is present day Iraq. So, using your logic, the area should be called Canaan; not Palestine, not Israel, not Judea.
  
  And, if you go to the back of the book, you’ll find out that the Jews don’t really fare too well.
  
  Use the red “Reply” button, that’s why it’s there.
  
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shorelineliz
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:56pm
THE_JERK
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:48pm
Shore, I’m not pro-Palestinian. Your adolescent-like infatuation with Israel fools you into drawing that conclusion. Israel’s just as heinous as every other nation in the Middle East.

@Jerk:
My adolescent infatuation? I married a Jew honey. My family are French Jews. I can tell you it isn’t an infatuation. It’s a full on scale Marriage. Hint. Hint. Read the back of the book. The Jews win. wink. wink. The little bully that is Philistia, and Persia, and Islam, uh, well, just read the back of the book okay? Cause a whole lot of whoop A$$ be coming down the pike. And the “flies of a thousand camels infesting the armpits’ is like, uh, well, like, just the beginning okay? Tune in for part two: If a MINYAN of Israeli Jews cut down a bogus Palestinian Nation in the forest and it doesn’t make a sound does it really exist? LMAO! Funtastic!

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 2:07pm
  You do highlight the problem. Jew and Zionist are not synonyms, but to far too many Jews, they are. This is why Jews make themselves the victim. They really are not. They reap the secular response to their foolishness. Jews establish that relationship, not others.
  
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- tzion
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:52pm
  @Jerk
  Zionist and communist are also not synonymous. Nor is Zionist and Nazi for that matter. Yet you always speak as though they were all one and the same.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 5:03pm
  Tzion, never said that they were synonyms. Zionism is like Nazism in many ways. Both are ethnocentric, racial purity, movements (Jewish State/Aryan State), and both treat a different ethnicity, race, in nearly identical fashion.
  
  As for Zionism and Communism, you’re making the same mistake many Jews make. Communism is a Jewish movement, not a Zionist movement. Don’t equate Jew with Zionism.
  
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shorelineliz
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:48pm
MOUNTAINHIKER
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:32pm
So, I am taking it that your are not a fan of Georgetown U

@Mountain:
Didn’t Sandra Fluke show us the “best” and “brightest” of Georgetown U a while back? If this is what Georgetown U is now putting out, well then, nope, not a fan. Liberal Catholic University in the style of Fordham but I am sure that Joe Biden or Nancy Pelosi will LOVE to stand on the podium this June 2013 to give the “catholic” graduation commencement speech. will it go something like this:

Nancy Pelosi to the Georgetown U Graduating Class of 2013:

Hello all you reproductive freaks graduating from Georgetown who believe that birth control and abortions should be paid by the American taxpayer. I am so right with you! And I am doing everything to make sure your, wink, wink, “reproductive rights” stay in power, with the aid, of Planned Parenthood, which I plan to triple their government subsidies, so you can have FREE health care! Yippee! Remember bitches and hos, like me, and cheats, and liars, like me, It is your RIGHT to murder your babies, even the morning after! So, go out into the bright big beautiful world and remember if you get pregnant, just murder your babies on the American taxpayer dime. And don’t forget to go to Catholic Mass this Sunday and consume the Lord’s Body and Blood at the altar okay? bye bye good little Catholics. and Peace. Love . and all that good stuff. bye. bye. now. Remember: Jesus loves you but hates your bab

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:57pm
  Shore, could you learn to use the “Reply” button. Sure would be easier to follow your postings.
  
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shorelineliz
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:39pm
Syria Palestina:

After crushing the Bar Kokhba revolt,135 AD, the Roman Emperor Hadrian applied the name Syria Palestina to the entire region, that had formerly included Judaea Province. Hadrian probably chose a name that revived the ancient name of Philistia (Palestine), combining it with that of the neighboring province of Syria, in an attempt to suppress Jewish connection to the land.

In 63 BC, Syria was incorporated into the Roman Republic as a province, following the successful campaign of Pompeius the Great against the Parthians.
During the 2nd and 1st centuries BC, the independent Hasmonean state of Judea expanded in territories of the collapsing Seleucid Empire, but from the Roman Siege of Jerusalem in 63 BC onwards, it increasingly fell under foreign influence. Judaea at first retained its independence, but an internal struggle between pro-Roman and pro-Persian heirs of the Hasmonean dynasty, eventually led Herod the Great to assume power in 37 BC, making Judaea a client Kingdom of Rome. Following Herod’s death the Herodian Kingdom became a Tetrarchy, partitioned among Herod’s sons, but in 6 AD Roman intervention made Judaea a Roman Province.

The Provinces of Judaea and Syria were key scenes of an increasing conflict between Judaean and Hellenistic population, which exploded into full scale Jewish-Roman Wars, beginning with the Great Jewish Revolt of 66-70. Disturbances followed throughout the reigon during the Qitos War in 117-118 and again in 132–135.

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:53pm
  What’s the point? There was a time before which there was no Judea, no Israel. So, your same logic would apply to those nation states too. Abram came from the area which is present day Iraq. So, let’s call the area Canaan.
  
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- tzion
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:39pm
  @Jerk
  We should call a region after the name of the vanquished inhabitants? Both the ancient Philistines and the Canaanites are extinct cultures with no one who carries their name to this day. Why should we name a region after them if they haven’t existed in over 2000 years? Perhaps you’ll tell me we should have renamed Iraq as Babylonia before we left as well. After all, no country called Iraq existed before 20th century, right?
  
  Israel declared itself to be Israel in 1948, naming itself after the ancient ancestor of the Jewish people just as the Israelites did when they created the ancient Kingdom of Israel. They then won a war earning their right to exist as Israel and not Palestine.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:58pm
  Tzion, stick with boy. I gave that in response to the nonsensical logic that was presented. To say that there was no Palestine is ignorance. Shore doesn’t know how to use the “Reply” button. So, the discussion gets drawn out.
  
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RestoreCapitalism
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:39pm
They must not realize that he hates Israel as much as they do.

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shorelineliz
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:31pm
THE_JERK
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:00pm
Why is this even a story?

@Jerk:
Why are you such a Pro Palestinian JERK? Rhetorical.

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:48pm
  Shore, I’m not pro-Palestinian. Your adolescent-like infatuation with Israel fools you into drawing that conclusion. Israel’s just as heinous as every other nation in the Middle East.
  
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malbro
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:30pm
God bless every one ……But I would not like living in Israel………

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shorelineliz
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:28pm
NHWINTER
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 12:56pm
Maybe Obama and all the Palentines should watch the Bible series to see what God gave to Moses!

@NH:
One could only hope for the following:

The Ten Plagues:
Water, which turned to blood and killed all fish and other aquatic life (Exodus 7:14–25)
Frogs (Exodus 8:1–8:15)
Lice (Exodus 8:16–19)
Flies or [5] wild animals (Exodus 8:20–30)
Disease on livestock (Exodus 9:1–7)
Incurable boils (Exodus 9:8–12)
Hail and thunder (Exodus 9:13–35)
Locusts (Exodus 10:1–20)
Darkness (Exodus 10:21–29)
Death of the first-born of all Egyptian humans and animals.

May this and more happen to all who oppose Israel.

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zoro51
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:25pm
STUPID MURDERING MUSLUMS PIGS ALL the land of ISREAL belongs to ISREAL NOT ISHMEAL… YOU SHALL LOSE PERIOD n sucking up to the MUSLUM NOT AMERICAN BORN FAKE PRESIDENT WONT HELP U NEITHER

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:32pm
  How many virgins do you get for that posting? Fanatic? Radical? Zealot?
  
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shorelineliz
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:21pm
THE_JERK
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:15pm
And, you talk about militant Muslims. No difference.

@Jerk;

it’s humor. try it some time.

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:29pm
  Okay. That was just my humor responding to your humor. Don’t be so serious.
  
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momrules
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:20pm
No matter what map they put out, no matter the memorials they put up, no matter the lies they tell, Israel will remain.

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- malbro
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:27pm
  You think…………
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:31pm
  That’s what they were saying in 722 B.C..
  
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- red_white_blue2
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:35pm
  God’s map will never change. The world will learn this someday in fire and brimstone. I just hope they know it’s God doing it, and don’t think it’s some other country. I hope he reveals Himself and says first, that this is the price you pay for disgracing my homeland.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:54pm
  red_white_blue2, your god sounds like a homicidal maniac. Better find another.
  
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grimjack3791
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:15pm
Obama probably ordered a replica that he can display in the White House.

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- chewfatlip
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:45pm
  Exactly. Why they think Obama would be offended by such a map is puzzling to me.
  
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shorelineliz
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:05pm
In other news:

Israel blew up Palestine proving it doesn’t exist.

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:15pm
  And, you talk about militant Muslims. No difference.
  
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- thetruthlives
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:38pm
  palestine….never was a coun try and it was the arabs that denied the palesintians nationhood after WW1…so why is Israel blamed for something done by the arabs?
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 2:02pm
  Thetruthlives, problem with your logic is the fact that the Zionists called the area Palestine before they formed Israel. The founder of Zionism, Theodor Herzl, called the area Palestine. The Balfour Declaration called it Palestine. Twentieth century encyclopedias called the area Palestine. On and on.
  
  You’ve become a revisionist.
  
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- tzion
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:22pm
  @Jerk
  Palestine existed at one time as a name for a region that has since fallen out of use and been replaced. The name itself was not even derived from the native inhabitants or even from a key geographical feature.
  
  The simple fact is there is not and never has been a state or country called Palestine and there is no longer any defined region of the world referred to by that name. Besides, the definition of Palestine has changed so much since it was first introduced. The British Mandate of Palestine meant two different things in 1917, when it was established, and just two years later in 1919. In 1948, the British Mandate ended and though an Arab state was proposed (no name was specified), it was never formed. Thus Palestine ceased to be anything more than a outdated name over 60 years ago.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 5:06pm
  Tzion, and you unknowingly proved my point. Palestine did exist. Thanks.
  
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shorelineliz
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:03pm
And in other news:

The flies of a thousand camels infested all the residents of Bethlehem making it impossible for them to use their cell phones. A plague of frog crapping frogs also ended up in all their flatbread bowls causing them to blame it on USA President Barack Obama and his “Big Headed Snake” of a country which no one on Glenn Beck’s “The Blaze” disputed. In order to ease the tension in the area, and to replace shoes thrown at the Presidents Motorcade, “Shoe Warehouse” has donated 1,000 pairs of shoes to the City of Bethlehem but aren’t sure whether they will get through the Gaza Port since it is still controlled by Turkish rebels. In lighter news: a suicide bomber blew herself up miles from the Presidential Motorcade when she tripped over a plague of locusts. The White House has offered to donate 666 pies for her memorial service. The White House Executive Chef was heard to exclaim: “I have never made pies out of hummus but I will try my best !”White House Press Secretary Jay Carney was unavailable for comment on these events because he was secretly boozing it up with his trial lawyer “daddy” VP Joe Biden with a bunch of bitches and hos from Georgetown U.

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- mountainhiker
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:32pm
  So, I am taking it that your are not a fan of Georgetown U?
  
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AmericaMustBeFree
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 12:55pm
Are you kidding me! When anyone does something like this for Obama I am more convinced that he is the antiChrist! If he is the Christian he says he is, then why would it even bother him?? Give me a break!

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:00pm
  Why is this even a story?
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:03pm
  Sorry, it just dawned on me. Sharona Schwartz, the pro-Israeli propagandist. All Israel, all day, everyday.
  
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- tzion
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 5:04pm
  @Jerk
  It involves Obama, the President, and what he’ll be doing in the next week. Is that not good enough?
  
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Zipit
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 12:50pm
Sounds to me to be the same thing that our liberal left, the ACLU, LGBT’s, Atheist’s, Code Pink, NAMBLA, NAALCP, La Raza, CAIR, and Westboro Baptist, would all support!

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am123
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 12:47pm
What are they worried about? Obama’s on their side. The Obama administration White House map doesn’t even include Jerusalem in the map of Israel.

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- chewfatlip
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:47pm
  They confused Obama with a real US president
  
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AvengerK
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 12:45pm
The Palestinians have been doing this kind of stuff for years now. They want to erase Jewish identity from the region. Against the law they destroy jewish antiquities around the temple mount using “construction” as a cover.
We’ve seen Hamas use Palestinian children they themselves have killed as propaganda devices against Israel.
This kind of thing is not out of character for the morally bankrupt Palestinian rabble. Besides…the left has been doing this kind of thing for decades.

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- shorelineliz
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:23pm
  Everything you said and more is Vintage PLO stuff.
  
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STREBOR
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 12:41pm
Hey Bronco, gonna do some sightseein’ in that new Volt?

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media-bias-steals-elections
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 12:41pm
Um, wait. Why can’t they make their own 3g technology, why are they blaming others? You know what the biggest concern of Americans are? Gitting you a rockin chair, puttin it on the porch, and watcin the carz go by? Y’all watch too much tv and dem smark phones is eating your brainz, don’t ja know that stuff will give ya brain bloomers?

Get me some tea if by two Martha?

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uncleherbert
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 12:40pm
There is no proof that palistine was ever a race of people!

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- Grover_Standpipe
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:35pm
  So what? The Jewish population of modern Israel are not the ancient Hebrews either.
  
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- shorelineliz
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:41pm
  No. It wasn’t. It was the “name” that ROME gave to the region and Palestine is a derivative of “Philistine” the Ancient ENEMY of Israel.
  
  SEE:
  http://www.wikipedia/syria palaestina
  
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Gonzo
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 12:39pm
Our pro gay marriage, pro abortion, pro late term abortion POTUS visits the birthplace of Christ. I hope it has an effect on you Barry, I really do.

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spirited
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 12:38pm
Do they not know?

>The Beast was to bring Barack –not Bush.

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eat-more-bacon-USA
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 12:36pm
‘White House map ‘erases’ Jerusalem, biblical territories’

http://www.wnd.com/2013/03/white-house-map-of-israel-erases-jerusalem-biblical-territories/

“The White House has released what it says is a map of Israel. The only problem is that Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and the Golan Heights are missing.”

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- AvengerK
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 12:47pm
  That’s not a coincidence…Obama’s assertion that Israel should return to “1967 borders” which in reality is 1947 borders…takes the Golan Heights and Jerusalem away from Israel. To lose the Golan Heights would be a strategic catastrophe for Israel….Obama knows this, he just won’t acknowledge it openly.
  
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- NHwinter
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 12:56pm
  Maybe Obama and all the Palentines should watch the Bible series to see what God gave to Moses!
  
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