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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/18/AR2005081801642.html
Gaza Protesters and Freedom Riders
(Washington Post) Eugene Robinson - On television, the tumult in the Gaza Strip looks like nothing less than a pogrom - soldiers dragging Jews out of their homes and synagogues for immediate, involuntary, permanent relocation. Does it matter that the soldiers are Jewish, too? Not to the Jews being hauled away. Does it matter that some of the most vociferous protesters don't even live in Gaza and are just there to make a point? Not if you remember all the Freedom Riders of the civil rights era who came from Massachusetts or Michigan, not Mississippi.