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Couple with Israeli flag targeted
Hat tip: Sound Politics. For the geographically impaired Tacoma lies about 20-30 miles south of Seattle in the Peoples Republic of Washington State.Rebecca and Keith Yale say they wont take down their Israeli flag. Not after a passenger in a car driving past their Northeast Tacoma home last week made an anti-Semitic remark and spit at Rebecca, who simply wanted to cross the street to get the mail. And not after someone smashed one of their windows with a rock labeled Jew and burned a small cross on their front yard Monday night. My son fought for our freedom to do what we want, Rebecca, 50, said Tuesday, of her son, Lucas Litowitz, a soldier wounded in the Iraq war. I feel like we have a right to fly whatever flags we want. Apparently not in the Peoples Republic.... Tacoma police are investigating Mondays incident at the Yales house on Frances Avenue as a hate crime, police spokesman Mark Fulghum said. Investigators arent sure if the two incidents are related, and they havent yet identified any suspects, he said. But they think the Yales were targeted because of the Israeli flag, which flies on a pole in their front yard along with an American flag, Fulghum said. Rebecca had finished watching a TV show Monday about 9 p.m. when she heard the sound of glass breaking, she said. She rushed to check her glass front door, and then ran to her home office. She pulled the window shade, noticed the window was broken and then saw a fire burning in her front yard. She thought her house was on fire until she went outside and got a closer look at the flames, which were burning a 1-foot-by-2 foot cross. It appears whoever set the fire sprayed a flammable fluid on the cross and ignited it. I was quite puzzled by the burning cross, said Rebecca, a Messianic Jew. I felt like I was back in the early 1900s. She went next door to tell her neighbor, and then returned to search her yard. Thats when she found the first-sized rock that broke her window. It had smashed two panes of glass, but apparently rebounded off a window screen. Keith Yale, a Pentecostal minister, described his neighborhood as very quiet, peaceful. Its really unsettling to have this happen, he said. For anti-Semitism to come to my doorstep is really shocking. Not me. I know how some of our more 'tolerant' leftish neighbors can get around here. Rabid doesn't begin to describe it. Posted by: CrazyFool 2006-08-16 |
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