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Thread #117294   Message #2530569
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
03-Jan-09 - 01:07 PM
Thread Name: BS: Waiting for protests... (Gaza)
Subject: RE: BS: Waiting for protests... (Gaza)
You keep on accusing critics of Israel of wanting Hamas to keep on firing rockets, bruce. You have no grounds for assuming that whatsoever.

From a report today about a demonstration in the town of Sahknin in norhern Israel, where tens of thousands of Israeli Arabs gathered to protest against the attacks on Gaza:

"...Demonstrators waved Palestinian flags, and chanted slogans denouncing Israeli leaders, including 'Gaza will not surrender to the tanks and bulldozers' and 'Don't fear, Gaza, we are with you'.

Following a minute's silence, Sakhnin mayor Mazen Ghanaim said the Israeli military was 'committing crimes in Gaza before the eyes of the international community', but also called on militants to stop firing rockets into Israel..."