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-- The red words on the glass read:

The red words on the glass read:

The red words on the glass read:

Since the creation of Israel in 1948

200,000 Palestinians have been killed
5,000,000 refugees have been created
21,000 square kilometers of land have been annexed
385 towns and villages have been destroyed
200,000 settlements have been built
300 billion military dollars have been spent
100+ WMDs have been manufactured
65 UN resolutions have been ignored

The Herald Sun verifies (under the unfortunate headline 'Art Offends Jews') that public funds paid for the exhibit:


A spokeswoman for the City of Melbourne said the art was part of a rotating exhibition at the Flinders St window space, called 24seven. She said the council provided $8,000 to curator Mark Hilton to fund different art in the space throughout this year.
While the singling out of democratic Israel for a publicly-funded harangue is itself outrageous, HonestReporting will focus on the numerous factual errors:

?� Independent analyses by SIPRI, B'Tselem, and other agencies indicate that no more than 20,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since 1948. Meanwhile, Israel has lost 20,297 military personnel since the War of Independence.

?� The actual number of Arab refugees in 1949 was, according to Israeli sources, 538,000. (The UN puts the figure at 720,000.) Due primarily to neglect by Arab leaders, their descendents have reached over 4 million.

?� The 21,000 square kilometers of land that the exhibition claims Israel 'annexed' apparently refers to the actual size of Israel itself - without considering disputed territories. This is a clear indication that the 'artist' considers Israel's very existence illegitimate.

?� '200,000 settlements'?! Even if one includes the Golan and eastern Jerusalem, there are no more than 350 disputed settlements.

Ultimately, it's up to Melbourne residents to decide if their public funds are to be used for political statements. However, they should not have the right to publicly promote gross factual inaccuracies.

so are you going to post a linkage to the art or what?

give some sources for those facts... i donno but it feels like they shouldn't lie about something as obvious as facts... (so it's probably just a matter of how you calculate it?)

btw, great to see that some other coutries had discovered anti-semite art j/k

SOURCE - http://theage.com.au/articles/2004/...3436541739.html

As someone who actually lives in Melbourne, I'm already well and truly sick of this - surely there are more important things to talk about than some irrelevant artwork? The opinion pages of all the local newspapers have been flooded with fundie Jews and fundie Muslims ranting about how the display is either an accurate and unbiased portrayal of an evil regime, or a Nazi-esque attack on god's people.

I'm usually happy to argue about anything to do with religion - but please, god, make it stop!

Well there's 2 sides to everything, so why not.

That's art?

It looks like someone put a Star of David and some times new roman print-outs on the side of a cubicle. I could probably do that.

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Originally posted by NeoPhono That's art? It looks like someone put a Star of David and some times new roman print-outs on the side of a cubicle. I could probably do that.

Exactly why I can't stand modern art. It's crap that 5 yr. olds can put together, yet sells for tens of thousands of $s (or more).

I'd say that modern art is getting reduced to the point where it is making nothing more than lame political pamphlets.

I ALWAYS find it hiiiiilarious that people ask for sources on figures like those...as if it makes a difference to those people if 2500 have died or 2427 have died

Or the ones that ask for sources as if it is a big surprise about Israel or something.

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Originally posted by sufee_b I ALWAYS find it hiiiiilarious that people ask for sources on figures like those...as if it makes a difference to those people if 2500 have died or 2427 have died Or the ones that ask for sources as if it is a big surprise about Israel or something.

obviously there was a big difference between the figures, and therefor it would be interesting with sources to see which one is biased and which is not.

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Originally posted by MisterOpus1 Exactly why I can't stand modern art. It's crap that 5 yr. olds can put together, yet sells for tens of thousands of $s (or more).

Go make some and get rich then.

Et tu Australia?

wtf were you victorians thinking artic

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