The scene in Chicago at the intersection of East Wacker Drive and Michigan Avenue was incredibly ugly in front of the business complex housing the Israeli Consulate. Prior to the march across by this angry mob across the Chicago River, the police estimated nearly 3,000 Palestinian supporters gathered at the Chicago Tribune Plaza. They had megaphones and large speakers they carried so that everyone with a 3/4 mile radius could hear their angry ranting and raging in both Arabic and English. The scene was straight from hell as this angry mob marched in a frenzied circle in the Tribune Plaza; they literally sounded like the angry mobs of fanatics who surrounded Adolph Hitler. The language was vile and repugnant from this angry mob.
Our group numbered around 100 very cold supporters of Israel who began to assemble on the side of the street opposite of the business complex around 1:30pm CST. The mood was somber, as our group was screamed and cursed in vile hate language. One of the Palestinian supporters crossed the barriers and physically assaulted one of the members in our group, before the police took this individual into custody. We had stones and coins thrown at us by this angry mob, as we stood in silence watching this angry mob.
The Chicago Police Department had to provide us an armed escort to get us out this area just before 5pm CST, as we were literally surrounded on all three sides by this angry mob and had the Chicago River directly behind us. This angry mob first took their "Israeli" flag and placed it on the ground and spat upon the flag and then later took the flag and lit it on fire...the Chicago Police Department had no idea of what they were getting into yesterday afternoon. These Hamas terror supporters were being bussed in from all over Chicago...one bus after another came to drop them off at the Chicago Tribune Plaza. Before East Wacker Drive was closed off, these buses drove through the business complex of the Israeli Complex and then reentered Michigan Avenue.
Too bad, Mossad and US Department of Homeland Security was not present taking pictures and profiling this angry mob. Since we know the percentages state that at least 1/4 of these Palestinian supporters acknowledge that suicide bombing is justifiable, this being a percentage known much earlier in 2008, we can only figure that this number is even higher at this time. The police were deeply concerned for the security of our group and took us through a special exit point to get us underneath upper East Wacker Drive. At the end of the day, we clearly know some of the enemy in our midst in the United States.
Eric Voogd
Director of Broadcast Media Relations, Israel Independent Television
US Midwest Regional Coordinator for Israel Always
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Mob mentality and "The Big Lie".
Anyone else beginning to feel like we have time-warped back to 1939?
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