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The protest footage starts off promising, with the happy chant and music. A few seconds in, the lyrics are translated from the Hebrew as "bomb a ghetto, raise a cheer". The event was attended by both New York Senator Charles Schumer and New York Governor David Paterson. If Hillary hadn't been interviewing for her new job<fn>, she would doubtless have been there, dancing. <media src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LQJOX4sUq30" caption="Pro-Israel Against Gaza" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQJOX4sUq30&eurl=&feature=player_embedded" author="Max Blumenthal" source="YouTube" align="center" class="frame"> Choice quotes from the interviewees in the street are: <bq>Nothing good is going to come of this; they've got to keep fighting until they wipe them all out. [...] They gotta go strong with this.</bq> <bq>There's only one way to deal with a cancer: you burn it out or remove it.</bq> <bq>They are forcing us to kill their children to defend our children. Yes.</bq> <bq quote_style="none"><b>Teenage girl:</b> It's a repeat. <b>Blumenthal:</b> It's a repeat of the Holocaust? <b>Teenage girl:</b> Yeah?!<fn> <b>Blumenthal:</b> How? <b>Teenage girl:</b> Umm ... we're being persecuted again?! For the trillionth time ever. <b>Blumenthal:</b> So, we're fighting a second war against ... against a Nazi? <b>Teenage girl:</b> Yeah. It's a double of the Holocaust.</bq> <bq quote_style="none"><b>Man:</b> If Hamas can't differentiate between civilians and army, then we don't have to either. I think we should go with all force and go in and get them all. <b>Blumenthal:</b> So, what if Israel just wiped Gaza off the map? What would be so wrong with that? <b>Man:</b> Ummm... (hesitates for long seconds) ... (video ends)</bq> <hr> <ft>An interview in which she dutifully rattled sabers at Iran for nuclear weapons. Plus ça change...</ft> <ft>The girl uses the oh-so-popular and highly annoying speech inflection that involves a rising nasal intonation at the end of every statement that turns it into a question, as if everything she says is obvious. I've decided to misuse the poor-man's interrobang to signify this.</ft>