Western Wall guns, part 1
Western Wall guns, part 2
Western Wall guns, part 3
I shot the three pictures above in the half hour before Mitt Romney arrived at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Sunday, even as the place was crawling with U.S. Secret Service men.
Everyone who goes into the Western Wall plaza has to go through a metal detector, but presumably these three guys with guns were let in because they’re soldiers, or reservists, something.
The first and third guys are carrying semi-automatic rifles. The guy in the middle, dressed in black, has what looked like a semiautomatic pistol strapped to his hip. I hope you can see it.
Romney arrived a few minutes after I took these pictures.
I don’t want Obama to visit Israel, or occupied East Jerusalem, where the Western Wall is located, because there are too many folks walking around with guns. And a lot of Israelis hate Obama because he made the grave political mistake of calling for an end to settlements and then talking about the 1967 borders.
It only takes one lunatic and it’s just not worth the risk. Remember, an Israeli killed the prime minister in 1995. And two international figures who sought to limit the Jewish/Israeli claims to land in Palestine in the 1940s were also killed by crazed Zionists– Lord Moyne of Britain and Folke Bernadotte of Sweden, who was working for the U.N. All these assassinations worked; they cut down opposition to Israeli expansion (just as the Arlosoroff murder worked in 1932).
A friend tells me that the Secret Service would clamp down for a president in ways that greatly outstrip the Romney security. I don’t know– why risk it?
I don’t know either-Why to stir paranoia?
i agree
…and what about the purported attempt on Hilary Clinton which rapidly disappeared
from the news?
The 1948 assassinations were carried out by a well disciplined militia, FFI, Lechi, freedom fighters of israel. The rabin assassination was carried out by an individual in a large crowd, think George Wallace shot by Arthur Bremer. (True, Sirhan, I mean Yigal Amir had a political motive and had told one or two others, whereas Bremer was just a nutcase trying to impress his girlfriend.)
I think the Secret Service can protect Obama. I expect him to visit if he gets reelected.
Especially not after the attempt on Clinton was deep-sixed. That only serves the right wing/extremist agenda. Reference the ECI ad that came out after that, decrying Obama’s failure to visit the country – it’ll be taken at face value by the millions who are left completely unaware of the very real dangers.