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.
Present!
So what are they gonna do next? Call him the n-word?
“Hey, we sent him millions and made calls, blogs & emails from Internet cafes for him: He owes us!!”
Gaza Man Works Phones for Obama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXWudu3kUPs
Yeah.
‘There’s no there there.’
YA think they want thier 133 MILLION DOLLARS in illegal campaign contributions back?
ah so that is why the TSA has been checking the little old ladies.
0_-
Ya gotta love the pics of the man golfing, of all things, while a war has broken out in the Middle East. Wow. I didn’t think his ineptitude would be so obvious so soon.
Sun coming up in morning angers Arabs.
This is an A.N.S.W.E.R. ‘leader’ /Jew hater...
PSL candidate for Mayor of Los Angeles
Carlos Alvarez, 22, is running for mayor of Los Angeles. He is a member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation.
Carlos is an anti-war activist and leader of the ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism). He has helped bring tens of thousands of people to the streets to stop the Iraq war and most recently, to fight California’s bigoted, anti-LGBT Prop. 8.
Carlos is a seasoned community organizer and principal leader of the immigrant rights movement. He mobilized support for the largest pro-immigrant protests in L.A. history.
Hummmm, being as this is illegal, maybe 0bama is procrastinating just 'till Israel eliminates all the witnesses.
Is it possible that they actually believe that there should be no retaliation?
They have fired more than 10,000 rockets into Israel?
They set up their rocket launching sites in neighborhoods, among homes, schools and hospitals and actually expect the Isreali's to not destroy these sites because of their locations.
Their logic escapes me.
Hundreds of Palestinians and sympathizers in Philadelphia rallied yesterday to protest the airstrikes, which began five days ago when Israel retaliated after rockets fired from the Gaza Strip began landing in southern Israel.
The local effort comes as protests rumbled across the world.
Starting about 4 p.m. outside the Israeli Consulate, on John F. Kennedy Boulevard near 18th Street, participants waved Palestinian flags and chanted “George Bush you will see, Palestine will be free. Israel, Israel, don’t you cry, Palestine will never die!”
“We want to show the fact that military action doesn’t accomplish anything,” said * Marwan Kreidie, executive director of the Arab American Development Corp. and an organizer of the rally.
http://www.philly.com/dailynews/local/20081231_Center_City_rally_supports_Palestinians.html
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* (Marwan) Kreidie rejects law-enforcement counterterrorist efforts as “massive intrusions on civil liberties” that “enraged” Arab and Muslim Americans. He even characterized anti-terrorism efforts as “unconstitutional.”
Second, Kreidie viciously attacks the Bush administration. He condemned what he called the “assaults on human rights mounted by President Bush and his Attorney General, John Ashcroft.” He accused President George W. Bush of “a litany of anti-Arab and Muslim actions.” He on one occasion referred to the attorney general (who, among his other jobs, oversees the FBI) as “that lunatic Ashcroft.”
Third, Kreidie denies American Muslims have anything to do with terrorism.
Kreidie has said that for American Arabs and Muslims, working with the FBI is “a waste of time.”
Kreidie photo
http://www.danielpipes.org/pics/new/large/243.jpg
This should be filed under no kidding.
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