Posted on 12/30/2008 11:37:14 PM PST by MyTwoCopperCoins
Arabs, mainly immigrants from Palestine, are expressing their frustration and anger over President-elect Barack Obama's silence over Israeli strikes on Gaza Strip and asserting that this shows that there would be little change in the pro-Tel Aviv policies of the US.
In television interviews, they did not buy Obama's argument that there is only one president at a time, pointing out that he had been speaking about what he would do about economy and on terrorist attacks on Mumbai.
But analysts say that the comparison with Mumbai attacks is not correct as currently diplomatic efforts are being made to pacify the situation and bring about a ceasefire. Obama's intervention, they say, would not be correct. Mumbai was different as it was attacked by terrorists, they point out.
Obama's victory in the presidential elections was hailed in the Arab world but several protesters said the perception might change now.
Hundreds of Arab shouting anti-Israeli slogans and pro-Israeli protesters faced off each other in counter demonstrations yesterday outside the Israeli Consulate in New York over Tel Aviv's air strikes on Gaza and, what the Arabs called, its attempts to starve Gaza.
Police put up barricades to keep them apart as Arabs protesters called for freeing Palestine and at least one banner read 'The Real Terrorists are US-Israeli War Machine.'
A smaller group on the other side of the street defended the bombing of the Hamas-ruled Gaza, arguing that every country has the right to defend itself.
Supporters of the hard-line faction of Kashmir's All Parties Hurriyat (Freedom) Conference (APHC), shout slogans during a protest against the Israeli military strikes on the Gaza Strip, in Srinagar December 31, 2008.
A member of hardliner Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) holds up an anti-Israel banner during a protest against Israel's air offensive in the Gaza Strip, in front of U.S. embassy, in Jakarta December 31, 2008. A militant Muslim group in Indonesia said on Monday it plans to recruit as many as 1,000 volunteers to fight in the Gaza Strip in response to Israeli air strikes that have killed more than 300 Palestinians.
Arab-American demonstrators hold a sign in Dearborn, Michigan, December 30, 2008 as they join hundreds of others to protest against the Israeli military strikes on the Gaza Strip.
LOL!
That’s not a woman. It’s an emo.
He will hide for the next four years.
Now Obama is throwing entire constituents under the bus. Awesome.
Is that Bill Ayers holding the large white sign in post #8
That is a teenage boy doing a well known U-Tube video saying ‘let Brittany alone’, referring to criticism of Brittany Spears. It is posted as a picture of a crybaby.
True, there is only one president at a time. But he needn’t speak out as President or even as President-Select.
He could speak out as Messiah, The One, The Benificent. That’s what’s really got the Palestinians upset. Here the Messiah has come and he won’t come to their aid.
He doesn’t have to be inaugurated as President in order to begin his Messiahship. Messiahs are always already Messiahs.
And Messiahs can walk and chew gum at the same time, so solving the Gaza crisis while playing golf ought to be a snap for The One.
An angry Arab? Stop the presses!
The bad news ... they criticized Bush for the same thing eight years ago. Bush also wanted to ignore the Middle East, and he was not permitted to do so.
Especially ironic is “This Jew Demands No US Aid to Israel”. Clearly these nice Jewish ladies have just been to Starbucks...maybe they are putting something in the coffee.
You got that right. He isnt answering because he doesnt know what to say.
He doesnt know Poop from Shinola.
I wish I had something hopeful to say about where America is and where I see it going, but I don’t, so I won’t. I’m saying goodnight to a pretty cruddy year with the almost sure knowledge that 2009 will be quite a bit worse. C’est la frickin’ vie.
I’m hoping that 2009 will be better for my family. We both lost our jobs and can’t find a thing—why? because we can’t speak Spanish. Something will happen—that’s for sure.
He wasn’t silent, didn’t they hear him?
“PRESENT”
Best check change.gov
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