ALL LIES!
This is REAL Adam Shapiro...
OUR LATEST TRAITOR MUST LIVE WITH HIS VILE CHOICE
New York Post | 4/02/02 | ANDREA PEYSER
Posted on 4/2/02 12:28 AM Pacific by kattracks
Adam Shapiro
April 2, 2002 -- LIKE a bad dream, he appeared from nowhere.
Live from Ramallah - Adam Shapiro!
I was on the air with Bob Grant on WOR, 710 AM, yesterday. All of a sudden, the electronic gods and a mischievous producer conjured up the man I'd referred to in my column as the "Jewish Taliban."
Adam Shapiro. The kid from Brooklyn who spent Saturday night holed up in Yasser Arafat's compound as Israeli troops attacked, then ate breakfast with the terror-monger in the morning.
I asked him what he thought of American Jews who consider him a traitor.
"I really don't see how I'm a traitor. I want peace, an end to all violence."
Luckily, I had in hand my smoking gun - a transcript of Shapiro's Sunday interview on CNN, a network otherwise known as the Palestinian Liberation Organization's friend.
You called Israelis "Nazis!" I virtually shrieked. He chuckled, the arrogant putz. Never called Jews Nazis, he said.
I confronted Shapiro with his own words:
Israeli President Ariel Sharon's government "does not apologize for raping the [Palestinian] cities and for going in and carrying out terrorist action, going house to house, much like the Nazis did in World War II."
Well?
"I have seen them go house to house, in camps, here in Ramallah," he said, before slipping in the "fact" that Israelis carried out "summary executions." Like Nazis.
Whoa. Executions?
"A British observer working with CNN saw . . ."
Have you ever seen an Israeli execute an individual?
"I have seen the dead bodies," he tried.
How did you know how the "bodies" died Adam?
Adam Shapiro, 30-year-old American Jew, works in Ramallah with "humanitarian" groups sympathetic to the PLO.
"I'm here to work as a human shield for the Palestinian people," he said.
I had to ask one more thing. When you were breaking bread with Arafat, Adam, did you look him in the eye and ask him to stop the killing?
"I didn't have to," he said. "Yasser Arafat told me that he ordered a cease-fire."
You mean you sat down with Arafat, and you did not ask him to try everything? To beg families of suicide bombers to stop celebrating insanity?
"I'm not going to defend President Arafat." He calls him president.
Shapiro has deeply upset his Brooklyn hometown. Childhood friend Justin Cantor told me that when he heard his old pal's words on TV, "I thought I was stabbed."
"He is a traitor. He's Sheepshead Bay's John Walker Lindh."
Israel is at war for its existence. In America, we must chose sides.
Shapiro chose his.
Adam Shapiro's parents(both public school teachers) hold Adam's picture.
Half a world away in Brooklyn, Shapiro's parents fretted over when they next would see their son and answered questions about how a boy who once dreamed of being a rabbi could be holed up with the man many Jews consider a terrorist.
"My son works for peace,” Doreen Shapiro, Adam's mother, said at the family's home.
"What has he really done?” asked his father, Stuart Shapiro, who fears his son will be compared to American Taliban John Walker Lindh. "Tried to bring peace in any small way he can? That's bad?”
Adam Shapiro, a Hunter High School graduate and former Jerusalem director of Seeds of Peace, a camp for Palestinian and Israeli children, entered Arafat's compound Friday night after hearing reports of injuries.
Though not medically trained, he had spent the day in a Palestinian ambulance, using his U.S. citizenship to cajole Israelis to allow paramedics to treat wounded Palestinians.
Shapiro calls himself an atheist, according to his parents, who themselves are not observant Jews. He plans on coming back to the United States for his wedding in May, and to enter a graduate program in Washington, D.C., in September.
Despite some initial skepticism, Adam Shapiro's parents -- both public school teachers -- have embraced his cause, even though they are criticized. His mother calls his work "bearing witness,” and says Jews have strayed from being vigilant against persecution.
"It's a lot of difficulty talking about this, a lot of arguments,” Stuart Shapiro said. He said colleagues have questioned him about Adam, asking, "How can he do this? What is he doing? Let him help the Jews.”
To them, Stuart Shapiro said, his answer is, "Of all the people in the world, I believe my son.”