Paul Sand of the Tacoma News Tribune reports today that the Israeli flag flying with an American flag outside the home of Rebecca and Keith Yale of Northeast Tacoma, has prompted malicious harrassment.
Monday night, a rock labelled "Jew" broke one of their windows (left), calling attention to a burning cross in their yard.
Several days earlier Rebecca was dealt an anti-Semitic slur and spit at by a passenger in a passing vehicle as she retrieved her mail. The couple's son is a veteran wounded in Iraq.
I'd like to report this is the first time recently that the Israeli flag has sparked ugliness in Puget Sound. But I can't.
Posted by Matt Rosenberg at August 16, 2006 11:12 AM | Email ThisWatch the media try to blame the "religious right" for this. I suspect the cross burning was done as a deliberate diversion.
Posted by: Bill Cruchon on August 16, 2006 11:14 AMMatt, my initial reaction is why would someone fly the flag of Israel unless they wanted to invite some reaction and why wouldn't they just want to get along?
But, I quickly realized my type of thinking was the reason we are in this situation anyway. Bury our heads in the sand (Buchanan and his wing of the Democratic party- isolationism) is not going to help. We need to confront the enemy peacefully as the brave soul did. On second thought, then, kudos to Rebecca and family.
Posted by: swatter on August 16, 2006 11:28 AMI will also say this: Although not an exclusive purview of the left (can't forget those nice guys in Idee-ho), most of the Jewish hate that I see & hear comes from the leftists among us.
It seems to me that somebody with a proper education wouldn't be susceptible to it. "Proper" being the operative.
The Jews vote Democrat, but it is the Democrats that want to wipe Israel off the face of the earth.
Yes, that was a broad brush, but if you take the Ds view on the War on Terrorism, it isn't that much of a stretch in logic.
Posted by: swatter on August 16, 2006 12:13 PMnecessary reading for combatting islamic fascism.
Posted by: hi on August 16, 2006 12:30 PMWe live in the 27th, the leftist leaning district in Washington if not the country. Tacoma is welcoming home to the Homeless, Welfare Moms, Meth Labs, Open Prostitution, Pimps, Drug Dealers, Pedophiles, Gangsta's, Raise our Taxes Politicos, Token Black Employment, Viva La Rasa Hugging, Potholed Streets, Broken Bridges, Graffiti Art, Child Molesting Cop (name redacted), LESA 911 Porn Swapping Operators, Child Porn Loving (law rnforcement official, name redacted), Police Chief Brame, Police Chief Javonovitch, New Horizon's Swinger Club Members, Gay Bathhouse and Hotel for 12year old boys across the street from City Hall, Nude Hot Tubing (former city employee, name redacted) with Subordinates on City Time, City Council Members that change Spouses more often than their underwear, all sought after and prized residents for the City of Diversity...ERR...I mean Destiny.
Defend Israel...BLASPHEMY!
Remember, if you dial 911 in Tacoma, they only respond if it is a sexual emergency!!!
The Bush administration (and previous Republican administrations) have been consistent and strong in their support of Israel and it's right to exist. IIRC, the majority of the time the U.S. uses its veto in the UN Security Council is to block anti-Israeli resolutions.
While the Tacoma (and other) incidents are sad, they are by no means common, much less committed at government behest.
What parallels?
Posted by: Hoplophile on August 16, 2006 01:15 PMYou should have said back "At the risk of sounding racist, blacks do bring a lot of it on themselves", and see if his understanding for that kind of statement holds up.
Another shining example of tolerance from the left!
Posted by: Fred on August 16, 2006 01:35 PMThank You... I meant to say "ALLEGED" retired Tacoma Police Officer Pedophile...
Posted by: Pacific Grove Phlash on August 16, 2006 01:51 PMThe Pierce County Sheriff in question was convicted and removed from office, why are you blocking his name???
"The City Official" was "retired" with a $109,000 a year pension and the Hot Tube incident came out in court documents...why redact his name???
Posted by: Pacific Grove Phlash on August 16, 2006 02:02 PMPosted by: Huey on August 16, 2006 02:05 PM
Of course, there is NO WAY that *anybody* in NE Tacoma would have thrown that rock...nope, musta been a yahoo from out in Puyallup, or Lakewood.
All those folks in the Northeast are too progressive, too enlightened, and too tolerant to do such things. Why, they probably even think that they aren't terrorist targets! (unless, of course, they're one of those violent, genocidal, baby-killing Joooos....) Posted by: pseudotsuga on August 16, 2006 02:08 PM
I'm mainly referring to the "peace at any price" mentality in the West, coupled with a striking rise in the apparent acceptability of anti-Semitism.
Posted by: libertarianobserver on August 16, 2006 02:09 PMThen, a touch of Charles Bronson neighborhood policing would suit the perps. Take the perps 'aside' BEFORE the police come. "well...he/she must have slipped on a bar of soap..!"
Posted by: Jimmie-howya-doin on August 16, 2006 02:22 PMI could tell you stories about overt anti-semitism in modern-day Chermany. Who woulda thunk it 60 years after the Holacaust?
Posted by: Hoplophile on August 16, 2006 02:27 PMa vice, a workbench & a garage; perp gets caught red-handed; taken to neighborhood garage (before police come); hand/fingers in vice; turn, turn, turn till whine & crack & pop; tossed back in street; end of problem; cheaper and more effective than 'community service' picking weeds;
sounds medeival, but after you've cleaned up your own glass and damage, you will agree--
Posted by: Jimmie-howya-doin on August 17, 2006 08:02 PMThat sort of response didn't work out too well for the European Jews in the 1930's. A somewhat more vigorous response may be necessary. Hint - one of the Third Reich's first laws was registration of personal firearms - followed of course by registration of Jews, and then confiscation, followed by extermination. We can learn from history - or repeat it. Posted by: Steve on August 18, 2006 08:48 AM