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The True Character of Pro-Palestinian Protesters (Warning: Lots of Pictures from Around the World)
Yahoo! News ^ | 4/6/02 | Pyro7480

Posted on 04/06/2002 8:11:51 PM PST by Pyro7480

I know most of you have some idea of the character of the pro-Palesinian protesters around the world, particularly those in the U.S. (hardcore leftists, Fifth Columnists, etc.), but I think we to be reminded that we don't see many pro-Israel protests, or if there are, the press doesn't cover them. Some of the pictures from pro-Palestinian protests around the world are pretty disgusting, to say the least. Here are some examples from only this month.

AROUND THE WORLD, APRIL 1ST...


A child holding a poster of Yasser Arafat rests outside the Israeli Consulate in the central business district of Sydney on April 1, 2002. About 1,000 chanting people, waving banners and flags, held a peaceful demonstration to protest against Israel's crackdown on Palestinian militants and called for Australia's conservative government to take a stand against Israel by calling for the withdrawl of troops from the West Bank. REUTERS/Tim Wimborne


Bangladeshi school children march on a Dhaka street Monday, April 1, 2002, protesting against Israeli attack and calling for an end to the siege of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at his headquarters. (AP Photo/Pavel Rahman)


Palestinians burn an Israeli flag during a march outside the Greek Parliament in Athens on Monday, April 1, 2002. About 2,000 Greeks and Palestinians who live in Greece marched to protest recent Israeli military action in the West Bank. (AP Photo/Aris Messinis)

IN THE UNITED STATES...


Hundreds of people march in Dearborn, Mich., Monday, April 1, 2002, to protest the recent Israeli military action in the Middle East. Signs and banners proclaimed Palestinian freedom and urged the United States to support an Israeli withdrawl. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

BACK TO THE REST OF THE WORLD, APRIL 2ND...


Members of the Democratic Youth Front of India (DYFI) shout slogans during a rally near U.S. Consulate in Calcutta, India, Tuesday, April 2, 2002, protesting against Israeli military action against Palestinians. DYFI is youth wing of the Communist Party of India-Marxist. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)


Veiled Islamist protesters hold a picture of Osama Bin Laden during an anti-Israel rally on Amman's main street April 2, 2002. Thousands of Jordanians took to the streets to demand that ties with Israel be severed, piling pressure on the government to take firm action in protest against Israeli attacks on Palestinians. Photo by Ali Jarekji/Reuters

APRIL 3RD...


Pro-Palestinian demonstrators protest in front of the United Nations office in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, April 3, 2002. The government of Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, has sharply condemned Israel's attacks on the Ramallah headquarters of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and other military incursions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Acronym "Kammi" on poster means "Action Groups of Indonesian Muslim Students." (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)


Leftist youths chant anti-Israeli slogans as they carry a banner reading "Imperialism get out of Middle East" in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, April 3, 2002. A group of leftist students marched in downtown Istanbul to protest Israeli incursions into Palestinian territories. (AP Photo/Orsal Orsal)


Protesters carry an anti-Israeli poster during a demonstration near the U.S. Embassy in Aukar, Lebanon, a suburb north of Beirut, Wednesday, April 3, 2002. Thousands of Lebanese and Palestinians, protesting what Arabs see as U.S. support for the Israeli invasion of Palestinian cities in the West Bank, clashed with security forces outside the U.S. Embassy, and witnesses said at least 25 people were injured. (AP Photo)


Protesters carry Palestinian, Communist Party flags and a portrait of the Latin American revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara are sprayed with water as Lebanese forces block them from reaching the U.S. embassy in Aukar, a suburb north of Beirut, Lebanon on Wednesday April 3, 2002. Thousands of Lebanese and Palestinians protesting what Arabs see as U.S. support for the Israeli invasion of Palestinian cities in the West Bank clashed with security forces outside the U.S. embassy. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)


Lebanese and Palestinian students burn a poster of President George W. Bush during a protest march near the U.S. Embassy in Awkar north of Beirut, April 3, 2002. Baton-wielding Lebanese police beat demonstrators and sprayed them with tear gas in an attempt to break up a protest against U.S. support for Israel in its raids on Palestinian cities. Photo by Mohamed Azakir/Reuters


Belgian Palestinians protest against the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories on a main shopping boulevard in Antwerp, 50 km (30 miles) east of Brussels, Wednesday, April 3, 2002. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)


Members of the Landless Farmworkers Movement (MST) burn an Israeli and American flag during a protest in front of the U.S. embassy in Brasilia, Wednesday, April 3, 2002. The protesters demanded that the Israeli military halt its offensive in Palestinian territories.(AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

IN SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO OF ALL PLACES...


Rahha Hamdan holds a sign saying "Islam is Peace" in San Juan, Puerto Rico Wednesday, April 3, 2002. Hundreds of Palestinians and anti-U.S. Navy Puerto Rican activists joined together for a protest against Iraeli military action . (AP Photo/ Tomas van Houtryve)


Protesters wave Palestinian, Puerto Rican, and Vieques flags while Imam Mohamed Abdul, center speaks to a crowd in San Juan, Puerto Rico Wednesday, April 3, 2002. Hundreds of Palestinians and anti-U.S. Navy Puerto Rican activists joined together for a protest against Iraeli military action . (AP Photo/ Tomas van Houtryve)

AND THE PACIFIC RIM, APRIL 4TH...(Do these people have anything better to do?)


A man wearing a mask of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon menaces blindfolded and gagged other members of Peace Boat, a Japan-based non-governmental organization human rights group, portraying Palestinians during their silent protest in front of Israeli Embassy in Tokyo Thursday, April 4, 2002. About 35 Peace Boat members participated in the demonstration, demanding immediate withdrawal of Israel from the occupied territories and an immediate halt to all military activities. (AP Photo/Chiaki Tsukumo)


An Indonesian Muslim protester carries a copy of the Koran and wears fake bombs around his waist as the Israeli flag burns during a rally outside of the United Nations office in Jakarta, April 4, 2002. Some 2,000 Indonesian Muslims hit the streets of Jakarta on Thursday, protesting Israeli military action against Palestinians in the third consecutive day of demonstrations in the world's most populous Muslim nation. REUTERS/Darren Whiteside

BACK TO THE MIDDLE EAST...


Protesters carry a portrait of the Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, Palestinian and Lebanese flags during a demonstration in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon on Thursday April 4, 2002. Up to 30,000 people, mostly Lebanese schoolchildren and university students took to the streets of to protest Israeli actions in the Palestinian territories. (AP Photo/Ahmed Mantash)

AND IN WASHINGTON, DC...


A group of demonstrators gathers near the Israeli embassy in Washington Thursday, April 4, 2002, to protest Israeli actions in the West Bank. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

THE REST OF THE WORLD, APRIL 5TH...


An Indonesian woman carries an anti-U.S. president George W. Bush's poster during a protest in front of the U.N. office in Jakarta, April 5, 2002. The street rallies over recent Israel military action against Palestinians took place in several other cities of the world's most populous Muslim nation on Friday following midday prayers, marking the fourth consecutive day of protest. REUTERS/Darren Whiteside


Protesters carry Palestinian, left, Lebanese flags and pro-Arab banners near the U.S. Embassy in Aukar, a suburb north of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, April 5, 2002. Some 1,000 members of trade unions, including doctors, journalists, lawyers and engineers, staged a protest against Israeli actions in the Palestinian territories. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)


Palestinian activists of the Hamas Islamic militant group wave Hamas green flags while they protest against Israel during a demostration in Jabalia refugee Camp, northern Gaza Strip on Friday, April 5, 2002. (AP Photo/Marco Di Lauro)


Palestinian activists of the Islamic militant group Hamas wave Hamas flags as they surround their spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, sitting in the car, during a protest against Israel's military offensive at the Jabaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip, Friday, April 5, 2002. Sheikh Ahmed Yassin said during the demonstration: "The Americans and the enemies of Allah are trying now to sabotage our holy resistance and to end the Intifadeh. They are trying to pressure President Arafat to surrender and give up, but this will not happen."(AP Photo/Marco Di Lauro)


A Chrysler, an American-made car, burns during a protest against Israeli and American products in front of the Palestinian Legislative Council in Gaza City, Friday, April 5, 2002. In the background a poster of Arafat and the Al-Aqsa mosque reads: "No.. my dream can't be completed with out Jerusalem." (AP Photo/Adel Hana)


Protesters carrying yellow Hezbollah flags and Palestinian flags shout anti-America and anti-Israeli slogans in front of the U.N. House in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, April 5, 2002. Thousands of demonstrators from various Lebanese political parties marched to the U.N House to protest the Israeli military offensive in the Palestinian territories. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Tawil)


Masked Palestinians carry pictures of Yasser Arafat and fake bombs strapped to their waists during a protest at the Khan al-Shih refugee camp in Syria, near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, April 5, 2002. Thousands of Palestinian refugees from camps across Syria joined the protest, demanding their right to return to the land they lost when the state of Israel was created. REUTERS/Khaled al-Hariri


South African Pro-Palestinian Action Group members protest outside the Israeli Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, Friday, April 5, 2002. The demonstration took place to protest the current Middle East crisis. The photograph right on poster shows an incident where a young Palestinian child was killed by Israeli gunfire after being caught in a clash of crossfire while his father tried to shield him. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe) (probably not true)


A young man burns an Israeli flag during a protest against Israel's military offensive in Palestinian territories Friday, April 5, 2002, in front of the Israeli consulate in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (AP Photo/Renzo Gostoli)


Masked Palestinian Hamas members carry a Jewish Star of David that reads in Arabic, "Israel was born to die," during a protest against the Israeli military offensive after the Friday prayers at the Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, Friday, April 5, 2002. The headbands read "No Gods, only one God, Mohammed is Prophet of Allah." (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)


Smoke billows from the American Embassy in Manama, Bahrain as a pro-Palestinian demonstrator holds a yellow Hezbollah flag, Friday, April 5, 2002. Thousands of Arabs protested Friday against Israeli's offensive with the most violent protest occurring in Bahrain. Bahrain is a key U.S. Gulf ally and home of the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet, where about 10,000 demonstrators called on the U.S. troops to leave. Molotov cocktails were thrown inside the U.S. Embassy compound, setting alight a satellite dish and a sentry box. (AP Photo/Ali Fraidoon)


Palestinian Fatah militia hold their guns during an anti-Israeli protest in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip, Friday April 5, 2002. U.S. envoy to the Middle East Anthony Zinni became the first official permitted to meet with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat since Israel confined him to a few rooms in his headquarters last week, at the start of a major military offensive against Palestinian militants. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)


A group of Palestinian women demostrate outside of the United Nations offices in Managua, Nicaragua, Friday, April 5, 2002. Hundreds of demonstrators gathered Friday in Managua to protest against Israeli incursion into Palestinian territories. (AP Photo/ Javier Galeano)

BACK IN THE UNITED STATES, A.N.S.W.E.R. HOLDS A RALLY IN TIMES SQUARE, NYC, AND PROTESTS OCCUR IN OTHER PLACES...


Pro-Palestinian protestors march in New York's Times Square, April 5, 2002. An estimated two thousand protestors called for the end to what they called the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territory and Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people. (Mike Segar/Reuters)


A man who identified himself as Khalid waves a Palestinian flag in New York, Friday, April 5, 2002, to protest Israeli operations in the occupied territories and U.S. support for the Jewish state. (AP Photo/Robert Mecea)


Three unidentified women, part of a group of demonstrators in New York's Times Square Friday, April 5, 2002, voice their opposition to the current military campaign undertaken by Israel against the Palestinians in the occupied territories. (AP Photo/Robert Mecea)


Protestors scream slogans during a demonstration and march by pro-Palestinian demonstrators in New York's Times Square, April 5, 2002. An estimated two thousand protestors called for the end to what they called the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territory and Israeli aggression againt the Palestinian people. REUTERS/Mike Segar


(That one sign in this picture is particularly disgusting.) Protesters line the street in front of the Israeli Consulate in New York, Friday, April 5, 2002, to voice their opposition to the current military campaign undertaken by Israel against the Palestinians in the occupied territories. (AP Photo/David Karp)


A young boy waves a Palestinian flag as he wears a sweatshirt with the flag and a likeness of Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat on it during a demonstration by several hundred pro-Palestinian protestors outside the Israeli Mission in New York City, April 5, 2002. Protestors called for and end to what they called the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territory and Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people. REUTERS/Mike Segar


A group of pro-Palestinian women demonstrate outside the Israeli Consulate in Philadelphia, Friday, April 5, 2002. Groups on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute have been protesting across the country. (AP Photo/H. Rumph Jr.)


Pro-Palestinians demonstrate outside the Israeli Consulate in Philadelphia, Friday, April 5, 2002. Groups on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute have been protesting across the country. (AP Photo/H. Rumph Jr.)


Muslim women hold a protest signs during a pro-Palestinian rally in Paterson, N.J., Friday, April 5, 2002. About 400 protesters heard speakers call on President Bush to intervene in the Middle East and end the bloodshed against Palestinians. (AP Photo/Mike Derer)


Demonstrators kneel and depict blindfolded Palestinians Friday, April 5, 2002, in Seattle as they take part in a silent vigil to provide community awareness and protest current events taking place overseas between the Israelis and Palestinians. (AP Photo/Ron Wurzer)

AND IN CANADA...


An angry group of protesters shout outside of Calgary City Hall Friday April 5, 2002. About 1,000 pro-Palestinian protesters marched to the Harry Hays federal building from the City Hall to protest the situation in the Middle East. (AP Photo/CP, Calgary Herald, Dean Bicknell)


Pushing and shoving breaks out among some members of a group of about 1000 pro-Palestinian protesters in front of the U.S. Consulate in Calgary on Friday April 5, 2002. The group was protesting violence in the Middle East. (AP Photo/CP, Calgary Herald, Grant Black)

THE REST OF THE WORLD, TODAY, APRIL 6TH...


Some 2,000 members of the Syrian National Socialist Party(!!!), some carrying party flags(notice the vague similarity of their logo to the swastika), march Saturday, April 6, 2002, to protest against the Israeli offensive against the Palestinian people. The marchers converged on the U.N. offices in Damascus. (AP Photos Bassem Tellawi).


Hundreds of demonstrators march in downtown Milan, Italy, Saturday, April 6 , 2002, to protest against Israeli's military incursions into Palestinian territories. Banner in foreground reads "Against Israeli terrorism, intifada through the victory." (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)


A young demonstrator holds a placard during a pro-Palestinian march in Pau, southwestern France, Saturday April 6, 2002. Some 400 demonstrators gathered Friday in Pau to protest against Israeli's military incursions into Palestinian territories. The placard, with a photo showing palestinians hurling stones, reads : "Israel, keep off the occupied territories." (AP Photo/Bob Edme)


About 4,000 people gather in heavy rain in downtown Ankara, Turkey, Saturday, April 6, 2002 to protest Israel's campaign in the Palestinian territories. People gathered in a downtown square Saturday despite heavy rain, chanting: 'Down with Israel!" and burning Israeli and American flags. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

BACK IN THE UNITED STATES, IN LEFTIST BASTIONS...


Protesters march across New York's Brooklyn Bridge to City Hall in lower Manhattan to demonstrate against Israel's action in the occupied territories, Saturday, April 6, 2002. In a second day of protests, the protesters called for peace in the Middle East, saying that the United States should do more to help stop the Israeli occupation. (AP Photo/J. Stephen Moses)


Protesters outside New York's City Hall demonstrate against Israel's action in the occupied territories, Saturday, April 6, 2002. In a second day of protests, the protesters called for peace in the Middle East, saying that the United States should do more to help stop the Israeli occupation. (AP Photo/J. Stephen Moses)


Nour Kablawi, 18, chants during a protest against the Israeli military offensive Saturday, April 6, 2002, near the Holocaust Memorial in Miami Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)


TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fifthcolumn; leftists; muslims; palesinians; protests; terrorists
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ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! It's time to stand up to these people! (particularly those in our own country) We need to find out when they're organizing, and FReep them! (Man, is it just me or are the Islamists/jihadists EVERYWHERE!?)
1 posted on 04/06/2002 8:11:52 PM PST by Pyro7480
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To: Pyro7480
In that next-to-last picture, my family happened to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge with several of my grandchildren, one in a stroller, while the bridge was blocked with protestors. They said that it was a most unpleasant experience. The riot police were out, with the plexi faceguards, and some of the protestors were real nut cases.
2 posted on 04/06/2002 8:16:57 PM PST by Cicero
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To: Pyro7480
Wow. Quite a collection.
3 posted on 04/06/2002 8:24:42 PM PST by ipatent
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To: Pyro7480
Wonder why some of these folks aren't WORKING!
4 posted on 04/06/2002 8:25:02 PM PST by isthisnickcool
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To: Pyro7480
Satans busy folks, real busy.....
5 posted on 04/06/2002 8:25:50 PM PST by Islam is a religion of piece
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To: ipatent
Yeah. I just spent a good part of the evening doing the HTML for the collection. It took forever because the low amount of RAM on this computer, the 56K connection, and the computer crashing once, making me lose a half hour of work, but it could have been worse. I'm glad I did it though because everyone here should see these pictures.
7 posted on 04/06/2002 8:26:56 PM PST by Pyro7480
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To: Pyro7480
Thank you for the (painful) thread. Evil did not go away with the fall of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany--It just changed its face.
8 posted on 04/06/2002 8:27:28 PM PST by kristinn
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To: Pyro7480
what a disgusting assortment of jihadists hiding behind some alleged desire to "free" the ancient, ancient pallies. Show me a single Arab country that is free! So what's the rush to "free" the ancient pallies? Those jihadonazis only want to destroy the sovereign Jewish state.
9 posted on 04/06/2002 8:29:30 PM PST by CanadianFella
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To: Pyro7480
In the background a poster of Arafat and the Al-Aqsa mosque reads: "No.. my dream can't be completed with out Jerusalem."

One thing in Arabic, another in English....
10 posted on 04/06/2002 8:29:43 PM PST by July 4th
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To: Pakistani-secularist
Here's one from today. Sorry about the omission.


Pakistani protesters chant slogans in Karachi, Pakistan, Saturday, April 6, 2002, to protest against Israeli incursions into Palestinian territories and the siege of Yasser Arafat's headquarters. (AP Photo/Zia Mazhar)

11 posted on 04/06/2002 8:30:46 PM PST by Pyro7480
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There was a pro-Pali rally in Teaneck, NJ this past Friday, with about 200 demonstrators. We organized a counter demonstration to support Israel right next to it that very morning, and had close to 400 pro-Israel supporters.

BTW, I was going to the pro-Israel rally, but decided to use my press pass and spend most of my time with the vermin on the other side of the barrier. I spent 1.5 hours in the belly of the beast, interviewing Arabs, asking pointed questions. I'll be writing it up later, but I'll tell you, these people are totally divorced from reality. Not one would acknowledge that Arabs were the cause of 9/11. Some even claimed "the Jews" did it

12 posted on 04/06/2002 8:31:16 PM PST by Ziva
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To: Cicero
some of the protestors were real nut cases.

Kinda goes without saying...

14 posted on 04/06/2002 8:37:57 PM PST by Terriergal
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To: Pyro7480
I hope that the US government is assembling a list of these protestors as very possible participants in the crime committed against this country on September eleventh 2001. They obviously have no love of this country but wish to destroy it. If not then, they certainly have the intention to do so in the future.
15 posted on 04/06/2002 8:41:48 PM PST by thatcher
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To: thatcher
Caption for all pics "we are arab here us roar"
16 posted on 04/06/2002 8:55:15 PM PST by rbmillerjr
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To: Sniglet
I don't either, but it just shows how hypocritical and hateful these people can be.
17 posted on 04/06/2002 8:55:22 PM PST by Pyro7480
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To: Pyro7480
Houston (read: Crawford), we have a problem. Best we deal with it before it deals with us.

Mitchbert

18 posted on 04/06/2002 8:55:43 PM PST by mitchbert
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To: monkeyshine; ipaq2000; Lent; veronica; Sabramerican; beowolf; Nachum; BenF; angelo...
Great photos of the wackiest people on earth.

PINGING!   ) ) ) )  

If you want on or off me Israel/MidEast ping list please let me know.  Via Freepmail is best way.............

19 posted on 04/06/2002 9:02:55 PM PST by dennisw
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To: Pyro7480
So many savages, so little time.....
20 posted on 04/06/2002 9:05:47 PM PST by Not now, Not ever!
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