Israel Haters (local version)

The Religion of Peace is back at it, along with fellow travelers who hate America. This is a local story of nitwits protesting the local Lockheed Martin plant for providing munitions to Israel.

Except that this plant may not do that. But who cares, right? Oh, well.

Roughly two dozen demonstrators gathered Tuesday in front of the Lockheed Martin plant in Silver Springs Shores to protest Israel's continued bombings of Gaza, claiming U.S. missiles and U.S. support are both playing key roles in the attacks.

The protest here became a platform for several groups who oppose Israel's attacks against Hamas, but for different reasons.

About a dozen Muslim women, teens and children chanted "Free Palestine" and "Hey hey, ho ho, the occupation's got to go."

The Veterans for Peace spoke against the war. And others criticized Lockheed Martin for making Hellfire missiles, which, according to some news reports, are being used in attacks on Gaza.

The protesters, who came from as far away as St. Augustine, waved at passing motorists who honked their support and shrugged off drivers who shouted obscenities. They held hand-lettered signs reading "Hellfire = Holocaust" and "Feed the Hungry, Don't Feed the War.

And some people wonder why I periodically run posts entitled "Religion of Peace My Ass."

Not one of the pricks have protested the many months and years of rocket attacks against Israeli civilians by their fellow practitioners of a dark ages religion. Screw them all.