So here's the latest guys... and no, this is not for Purim. Here we have a protest from Palestinian people in which a group of people decided to get all decked out in blue body paint in order to look like the N'avi, the alien people around which the film Avatar is based. They did so in order to show that they are protesting what the 'sky people' (that would be Israel and every Jew in the world,) are doing to take away their land and rights and perform ethnic cleansing. No pro-Palestinian protest would be a pro-Palestinian protest without some Israelis present of course. We're everywhere as you well know. Part of me wonders if some of the Neturei Karta crowd are underneath that blue paint, but I guess we'll never know.

Now initially, as someone who is well aware of the facts that surround the Palestinian/Israeli conflict, I found this upsetting and borderline ridiculous. But then I rethought. Seeing as most Palestinian protests tend to be more of a 'gather in the streets and wish death to all the Jews/Israel/America/other annoying people,' this one is actually a breath of fresh air. Full points for creativity from me guys! Sorry though, your 'protest' is still ridiculous.

I can't possibly rewrite what I and others much more intelligent than I have written countless times before. I just can't. There are facts. You can follow a majority of the mainstream media that portrays Israel as a big bad wolf, or you can actually study history. You can see who attacks whom. You can see how long it takes for the IDF to respond to constant rocket fire. You can see that when the IDF does actually go into Gaza, it calls the Palestinian civilians and drops leaflets explaining when and where to hide from Israeli artillery. You can see that the IDF brings humanitarian aid to numerous Palestinians who are injured, some due to Israeli fire, and some due to Hamas' fire. Oh yes, that's right. Hamas tends to kill and oppress their own people. Nice guys, no? No? How odd is it then that instead of cries along the lines of 'Free Gaza from HAMAS' - Pro-Palestinian protests tend to choose the much more catchier slogans of 'Die Zionists pigs!' Or 'Israel = Apartheid.'

I suppose it's one of those things where everyone reads their own message. Fair enough.

But it is absolutely not fair that the Palestinian Avatars are garnering headlines using this film to push their brain-washed, non-factual propaganda out onto the world stage.

"When people around the world who have watched the film see our demonstration and the conditions that provoked it, they will realize that the situations are identical." said Mohammed Khatib, one of the Palestinian organizers of the protest against the barrier.

I'll say it again. Many Palestinians live in hellish conditions thanks to HAMAS. They are the ones spewing hate, killing their own and brainwashing their children. They are the ones who maintain horrendous living conditions for their citizens, choosing to use the millions of dollars that come to fund Palestinian 'government' for suicide attacks and Qassam presents for the Israeli people.

I urge you to watch this video below and as you do, please consider the following:

1. The wall they are protesting - this is the wall that Israel built after thousands of terrorists came across the border to kill Israeli civilians. Since this wall was built a few years ago, there has not been ONE suicide attack in Israel. This wall is on the border.
   
   Dear protesters: If my neighbor kept crossing into my backyard and shooting my kids, would you protest me building a fence? Naturally I would build the fence along the legal line of my property. Oh wait, that's inhumane too? My bad. I see what you're saying, it would be much more polite to just let him kill my kids.
   
   

2. In the video, the crowd of Palestinian Avatars appear to be staging a peaceful demonstration. As I said above, I'm much more fond of this one than any of their prior protests. It's pretty cool, man. You then see them approach 'the wall.' On the other side of the wall in Israel (a separate country, remember?) IDF soldiers see them, and throw tear gas across the wall which of course, causes the PA Avatars to begin coughing and choking.
   
   A sound snippet from the movie is dubbed over this, and between the 'you cannot take OUR land' cries and the emotional score, if I didn't know the facts, I'd be completely caught up in this too. After all, the Israelis are throwing tear gas on the peaceful protest!
   
   But let's think about this for a moment. A handful of soldiers whose job is to guard the border see a big crowd approaching. A strange one as most of the crowd is blue. They are chanting in a language you do not understand and appear to be clutching weapons. (Spears, excellent props, very Avatar like.)

You know from experience that when crowds of Palestinians form, their protests seem to go more like this picture.. 

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As a precaution and to stop the crowd before it gets out of hand, the soldiers throw some tear gas. Doesn't sound unreasonable to me. Heaven knows that it's less than what some people were doing on both sides of many of the Prop8 demonstrations we had in California last year. Still, this is added to the list of 'inhumane IDF tactics.' What else is new?