By Angela Bertz
May 24, 2005
In the spring of 1957, two Tennessee teenagers took the song "Bye, Bye Love" and made it their first million record seller.
It was of course, The Everly Brothers.
Nearly 50 years later, the schmaltzy words of this song, which spoke sadly of pending emptiness and a life of loneliness following the demise of a romance, were hijacked for a much more ominous reason: "To help the people of Palestine".
The lyrics which had once brought tears to the eyes of teenage girls in the 1950s, were now replaced with the more sinister chorus of: "Don't buy dates, Don't buy Jaffa Fruit, Don't buy Israeli wine, There's a boycott going o-on (repeat).
At first glance, this low-level drivel looks like it could have been written by a pubescent teenager, doing a very one-sided school project on the Middle East. She would, as likely as not, probably have been exposed to Israeli university boycotter Sue Blackwell's website.
The song, called "The Boycott Israel Song" was in fact churned out by Blackwell, the English teacher at Birmingham University who recently arrived at the Association of University Teachers (AUT) conference proudly draped in a Palestinian flag.
Ms Blackwell actually has her own website and judging by the sheer volume of material, seemingly devotes 24/7, or in real terms, almost the same amount of time the Palestinians devote to inciting hatred against Israel, to her site.
It offers browsers a totally distorted version of the conflict; so narrow and biased in its content, that the only way to describe it is, as sanity and reason gone absolutely AWOL.
It devotes four pages to articles on Palestine and Israel. The titles speak volumes on the content of the pieces. "The End of a Viable Palestinian State", "Israel violating International Law by destroying Homes in Gaza", "Autopsy indicates cameraman was killed by Israelis", "Israelis to demolish entire Palestinian Village" etc, etc. Then, the befuddled Archbishop Tutu adds his pound of insightful flesh, with "Apartheid in the Holy Land".
The provocative picture gallery serves the same purpose as the articles. Who ever said the camera doesn't lie?
Check out Ms. Blackwell's website links. You won't have to look very hard to find the latest group of gormless goons riding hard and fast on the Palestinian Terrorist Apologist Bandwagon. There is now "War on Want", run by a dubious bunch of British Politicians and Entertainers.
It devotes its whole website to blaming Israel for every ill that the poor Palestinians have suffered. Like Ms. Blackwell, these narrow minded ignoramuses seem to be missing the final chromosome in the evolutionary process that would have enabled them to apply reason to their pathetic arguments, or even consider that there are always two sides to any conflict.
On Wednesday the 7th August 2002, Ms Blackwell states in her Blog (or, the diary of a witch hunt), "Sure enough, I have started to receive abusive e-mails from people accusing me of supporting terrorism with subject lines like 'Celebrate' and 'It's only Jews' with reference to reports of suicide bombings".
This cavalier attitude is beyond contempt. Celebrate! Yes indeed, whenever a suicide bomber kills and maims Israelis, the streets of Gaza are thronged with people doing just that!
In October 2002, Iris Lavi had the distinction of becoming a great grandmother for the very first time. This vibrant 68 year old Israeli woman was already mother to five children and eight grandchildren. On the 21st of October the newest addition to her family was only two months old. Iris was never to see that child again. On that day a Palestinian terrorist pulled up next to the bus she was travelling in and detonated an explosive-laden jeep. Iris and 13 other innocent Israelis were blown to pieces and 65 more were injured. Ms. Blackwell's diary for that day doesn't even mention this horrendous event.
Thankfully, the site provides some comic relief. Don't miss Dr. Andrew Rouse's rousing piece entitled "Andrew vs. the Star State Troopers". The 22-page article is comprised of his observations throughout a 17-day trip to Palestine and Israel.
This medical moron, also from Birmingham University, accuses Israel of stealing hundreds of "denims" of land daily. Ha! I guess now the media will now be accusing Israel of not only taking Palestinian land, but the clothes right of their backs, as well! Also, for anyone who didn't know that beautiful Russian girls are available from escort agencies in Tel Aviv with "24 hour rates available," you can thank Dr. Andrew for the tip.
Give the "Things to Buy" section a visit at the Palestinian Online Store. Check out the flag section which features a polyester Palestinian flag, "Made in Taiwan". You can then show your solidarity with Palestinian Women by wearing a softly enameled button portraying a woman bearing a Palestinian flag swaying in the breeze. It comes with a butterfly clutch on the backside and is imported from Australia.
Take a look at the 19" wide x 25" high poster produced by the American Education Trust with bold letters at the top reading, "Israel Targets Children". This inflammatory poster shows a teenaged Palestinian boy heroically facing an Israeli tank. It asserts that the "Israel occupied Forces" have purposely gunned down more than 400 children.
One can only wonder how such blatant bias serves any possible purpose for the Palestinians.
Why do Sue Blackwell and her ilk never consider that Israel has had to endure nearly five years of watching 100s of Palestinian men, women and children (lets not forget the scores that thankfully don't make it) smuggle weapons through their homes, fire endless mortar shells and rockets at our towns, surround themselves with their children as they shoot at ours, lynch our soldiers, board our buses and enter our cafes strapped with explosives, all because they supposedly want their own state. Five years ago the Palestinians were not only offered their own State, but by anyone's standards it was a magnanimous offer, incorporating 97% of their demands. Arafat turned it down and in the years since, both Israel and the Palestinians have suffered the tragic consequences.
What is even worse is that we have had to endure years of endless Sue Blackwells, who will go to just about any lengths to justify a society that considers these murderous acts to have been committed by heroes, martyrs, role models for their children, and the stuff of legends.
Ms. Blackwell calls her site "Sues famous pages on Palestine and Israel". In fact there is very little, if any on Israel at all that isn't either inflammatory, derogatory, or demonizing.
To its credit, Sue Blackwell's website has one decent link. It is "The Hate Mail of the Month". This allows people who wish to express their abhorrence at this shrine to terrorism, to voice their views. It is the only place on this website I would permit my writings to appear.
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