Palestinians call on Iraqis to rise up against US

[drdon326]

Thousands of Palestinians staged pro-Iraq rallies Friday to mark the first anniversary of the fall of Baghdad, calling on Iraqis to rise up against the United States in a holy war.

Following Friday prayers, thousands of protesters in the West Bank and Gaza Strip burned Israeli and US flags and chanted slogans against US President George W. Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

In Gaza City, about 2,000 Islamic Jihad supporters, including children holding the militant group's black flags, chanted "Death to America," and burned effigies of Bush and Sharon.

"Our message to the world, to our brothers in Iraq, we are fighting against the same enemies, the same occupation, we are fighting in the same battle," Mohammed al-Hindi, an Islamic Jihad leader, told reporters. "Our people in Palestine and our brothers in Iraq are slaughtered by the knife, the knife of Bush and Sharon," he said.

In the West Bank city of Nablus, about 400 Palestinians from various groups marched through the city chanting "Bush and Sharon are terrorists."

Preachers in Nablus mosques spoke out against the current American military operation in Iraq and called on Iraqis to unite against America.

more about "DEATH TO AMERICA" here

[bemildred]

1. Hmmmm, they don't seem to be on our side, do they? nt

[Muddleoftheroad]

2. So what else is new

Israel is our ally. The PA is our enemy.

[Orangeone]

3. Israel is not our Ally

Unless by ally you mean a country that has to be constantly subsidized by US.

[Muddleoftheroad]

4. Britain?

We subsidized the hell out of them in World War II. The same with all the other allies in that war.

So? Israel has resources it brings to the table. We have ours.

[Orangeone]

11. It's not the same thing

Israel is constantly asking for handouts from US so it can be the big bully in the Middle East. It has so much more weaponry than is needed for self-defense. I think that as a country, it has a false facade of prosperity, because it uses American tax money to prop itself up.

[Muddleoftheroad]

13. Israel is seeking to survive surrounded by enemies

Just like Britain was during WWII.

[Tinoire]

6. The PA may be your enemy. They are not mine

and I refuse to allow Israeli land theft to turn me into their enemy. Thank God enough of us are speaking out against Israel's injustices, demanding that Israel be held accountable for its crimes, going with the ISM, supporting the Refusniks, and getting shot out, bull-dozed by the Israeli Occupying Forces for the Palestinians to realize we are not all their enemy.

Israel is not my ally & will never be until it rectifies the evil it did to the Palestinians.

[Muddleoftheroad]

14. They are if you are American

I doubt Palestinian terrorists will ask you which side you are on.

[Gimel]

20. The new PA

is combining with Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

[Violet_Crumble]

9. Who's 'our'?

The US govt? Want to point me to any document that says the PA is the enemy of the US?

Or are you talking about the people of the US? While I'm sure there's a bunch of folk who love thinking in simplistic 'they are like us therefore they are our friends. The others generally follow a different religion and look different to us and don't pay us the correct amount of respect, so therefore they are our enemies', there's a great many people who don't think either Israel or the Palestinians are their enemies. They're smart cookies as far as I'm concerned, and probably more capable of understanding the complexities of the conflict than the first group I talked about...

Violet...

[Muddleoftheroad]

15. Arafat supported Iraq not once, but twice

[Violet_Crumble]

16. You didn't answer the question..

Go back and read the post and try answering what yr asked. Saying a leader supported Saddam doesn't mean jackshit, especially when the US was such a big buddy of Saddam while he was carrying out ethnic cleansing of the Kurdish population. Hell, we had a healthy trade relationship with Iraq. Does that make us an enemy of the US as well?


Violet...

[Djinn]

17. Muddle how many times did YOUR govt support Iraq?

Govt's (and others) support people/organisations because for whatever reason it suits their goals.

Why anyone finds this article even remotely newsworthy is beyond me - when your family/friends are murdered by US donated attack helicopters it probably doesn't foster warm fuzzy feelings towards the US administration, that and the 3 billion a year without which Israel would never have been viable.

[SOS]

18. So did George H.W. Bush

1. US backed Hussein aginst Iran.
2. US rewarded Hussein after Halabja gas massacre by doubling aid to Saddam.

[Aidoneus]

10. You are not speaking for me here

But you probably knew that already.. Israel is not my ally, Palestinians not my enemy (don't much care for the PA, so I'll concede that point, but for greatly different reasons than you would give).

[number6]

12. Israel is is not my ally.

..;)

[newyorican]

5. hmmm..

"They" in this case appears to be fungible.

[legin]

7. I like fungible

Pronounced probably not fungi-ball, which is how I'm going to pronounce it.

I am fungible with an orc.

Dotty. :-)

[legin]

8. I had to look up the meaning of course n/t

[dArKeR]

19. Bush about-turn fuels fears of violence - MG

Washington's surprise policy shift on the Middle East was criticised on Thursday amid fears it would fuel further violence in the volatile region, as the outraged Palestinian leadership called for an emergency meeting of Islamic nations.

United States President George Bush signalled his administration's unprecedented backing of Israel's plans to hold on to some parts of the West Bank captured in 1967 in a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Wednesday.

Flouting successive United Nations resolutions, Bush said it is "unrealistic" to expect Israel to pull out from all land captured in the 1967 war and added Palestinian refugees should not be allowed to return to land lost to Israel in 1948, when the Jewish state was created.

http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=34182