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   From: k8mn@frontiernet.net   
      
   On 1/13/2011 02 28, AZ TeaFascist Murderer wrote:   
   > Sarah Palin's newest Facebook page video scolds critics who say her high   
   > firepower rhetoric could have contributed to Saturday's Arizona shooting   
   > rampage. But her use of an emotionally-charged phrase has spawned a   
   > controversy all its own.   
   >   
   > Palin called herself the victim of "blood libel" — the original term for   
   > blaming Jews for the death of Christ and an anti-Semitic rallying call that   
   > led to countless deaths of Jews, primarily in Europe and Russia.   
   >   
   > Many rabbis called her remarks insensitive, ill-chosen and offensive to   
   > Holocaust survivors and other victims of anti-Semitism.   
   >   
   > Palin's new video "was like waving a red flag," said Rabbi David Sapperstein,   
   > executive director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism. "It   
   > concerns us. It escalates the intensity of the rhetoric, rather than calming   
   > it down. It seems to me she's missed an opportunity at real leadership."   
   >   
   > Palin aide Rebecca Mansour said the former Alaska governor stands by her   
   > video.   
   >   
   > "There has been an incredible increase in death threats against Gov. Palin   
   > since the tragedy in Arizona, since she's been accused of having the blood of   
   > those victims on her hands," Mansour said. "When you start to accuse people   
   > of having the blood of innocent people on their hands, it incites violence."   
   >   
   > Most of those accusations start with a map Palin posted this fall that has   
   > since been removed. It put cross-hair symbols on a map of congressional   
   > districts Palin wanted to see turn Tea Party-style Republican in the mid-term   
   > elections.   
   >   
   > All weekend, the nation watched replays of a video from this fall in which   
   > U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who police called the target of Saturday's   
   > shootings, express concern that her district was "targeted."   
   >   
   > But Mansour told a radio host Monday, "We never, ever, intended it to be gun   
   > sights. It was simply cross-hairs like you'd see on maps."   
   >   
   > "Blood libel" points to a misused biblical passage about Jews and the   
   > crucifixion of Christ.   
   >   
   > In Matthew 27:25, where the Gospel re-tells the decision to crucify Jesus,   
   > "All the people answered, 'His blood is on us and on our children.'"   
   >   
   > This passage was the pretext of anti-Semitism for 2,000 years and the motive   
   > behind centuries of mass killings, known as pogroms, in Eastern Europe when   
   > Jews were falsely accused of using Christian children's blood in religious   
   > rites.   
   >   
   > Rabbi Brad Hirschfield, president of the National Jewish Center for Learning   
   > and Leadership, said Palin's own words — that violent political language can   
   > endanger people — are "affirming exactly what her critics charge."   
      
   Read your own nym and get a grip on yourself, man.   
      
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