by Saed Bannoura, IMEMC & Agencies, 25 January 2008
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Hundreds of Arab residents of Kafer Kanna Arab town in the north of the country held a massive candle procession on Friday evening in solidarity with the Gaza Strip which is facing ongoing Israeli siege and attacks, the Arabs48 news website reported.
The news website added that the procession was organized by national and Islamic factions in Israel. It took off after Friday evening prayers in Omar Bin Al Khattab Mosque, in the center of the town.
The protesters expressed their anger over the ongoing illegal Israeli policies of cutting the power supply in the Gaza Strip, the ongoing assassinations and invasions, in addition to the harsh siege imposed on the Gaza Strip.
They also called on all Palestinian factions to unite and hold internal talks in order to end the current tension between Fateh and Hamas to enable the people stand united in facing the Israeli military aggression and illegal policies.
Arab member of Knesset, Wasel Taha, stated that the procession is part of several activities organized by Arab residents of Israel in support to the residents of the Gaza Strip.
He added that thousands are expected to join Saturday protest which will be organized by different political factions in Israel, especially the National Democratic Alliance.
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When will you cease your duplicity and stand in solidarity with the innocent Israeli victims of thousands of rocket attacks?
Do you REALLY want the seige to stop. No need to stand in solidarity to make that happen. Just stop the rockets.
I stand in solidarity with people who believe in equal rights for all human beings.
Why don’t you?
The occupation began decades before rockets were fired at Sderot, yet another racist colony that is younger than most people reading this post, and it would continue long past any ceasefire.
Why? Because the Zionists have no interest in living peacefully with Palestinians or it would have been a reality long ago, most recently, when Hamas offered to them a ten-year ceasefire.
Stop blaming the occupation. The “occupation” of Gaza ended before the rocket attacks. It gave Gazans an opportunity to prove whether their talk of an independent state was for real. They showed no interest in fulfilling their national aspirations, only in pursuing the same goal that has caused their suffering from the start: the destruction of Israel.
The minute Gazans are more interested in establishing a state than they are in destroying one, they will gain the confidence in the international community to support that state.
The “occupation” began in 1967, but the arab terrorist murder began long before that. Unless, of course, by “occupation” you also mean the state of Israel. Do you?
If the occupation ended before the rocket attacks, then why are the Gazans living in darkness today?
How is it an autonomous people could be so easily and devastatingly compromised by a neighbour that has “freed” them, unless they’ve been caged in an open prison and every entrance, land, sea and air, is controlled by that neighbour?
Gaza is dark today because as soon as Israel left Gaza, Gazans were more focused on destroying infrastructure than in building it. If they devoted half as much energy to rebuilding and peace making as they have to rocket launching and theocratic oppression, they wouldn’t need Israeli electricity.
Hamas was too concerned with violently crushing Fatah (against the wishes if its electorate) than in putting together an economy and joining the world community.
In short, all Hamas knows is violence and teaching hatred and “martyrdom.”
One country for Arab Palestinians, one country for the Jewish people. That’s all they have to acknowledge, but they’d rather have no country of their own, and that’s what they have.
If you were to spend half as much time independently researching the tragic circumstances of daily life for Gazans and the chain of events that led to this latest escalation in collective punishment, as you do swallowing whole the propaganda fed to you by Zionist war criminals and supporters, you might begin to understand the suffering of Palestinians who endure inexcusable, brutal oppression.
Perhaps your agenda, whatever it is, prevents you from doing so?