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Massive demonstrations in Jordan against Israel's Gaza attack
Dec 27, 2008, 15:00 GMT
Amman - Several thousand Jordanians demonstrated Saturday in Amman and other major cities in condemnation of the Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip.
King Abdullah II was leading an effort with world leaders to ensure a speedy halt to the Israeli 'aggression', the royal court said.
The Israeli attack first sparked a demonstration in Amman by the country's professional associations and opposition parties.
The protests later spread to the cities of Zarqa, Irbid, Mafraq, other localities and Palestinian refugee camps with participants calling for retaliatory Arab action against Israel.
They also dropped strong hints that Egypt was 'colluding' in the Israeli offensive - particularly it came less than 48 hours after Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Levni visited Cairo, met with President Hosny Mubarak and declared there that Hamas' domination of the Gaza Strip would be Israel's target.
Demonstrators called for the cancellation of the peace treaties already concluded by Arab countries with the Jewish state. Jordan and Egypt are the only two Arab countries which have signed such pacts.
King Abdullah urged the world community 'to shoulder its legal and ethical responsibilities by ensuring an immediate end to the Israeli aggression', the royal court said.
'Violence will not bring security and peace to Israel and will only aggravate the crisis,' the king said.
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Israel has imposed a months long blockade on Gaza -- No Food, No Medicine, No Gas (what little gets in goes for $30/gal) -- just starve and kill the people. Either the Palestinians accept or they get attacked for resisting their opression. Israel is the foremost terror state.... and we defend them in their theft and murder, but only because the US population is deceived. We send them our tax dollars and Madoff's billions too. We are complicit in their crimes against humanity. AIPAC and their media heavyweights own our government and our sports-obsessed electorate has no idea what's going on.
the previous comment is full of the stupidest rubbish and lies and downright ugly twisted half-truths.
1. the stupidest thing there is that madoff sends his money to israel. WHAT?! WTF?!?! nobody knows what happened to him or his money and if his money is lying somewhere it's in a secret bank in the seychelles or in switzerland. cut the bull bro.
2. israel doesn't enjoy cutting off the supply from the gaza strip. israel still supplies them with electricity, DESPITE the rockets. yeah, remember those? the ones that are being fired at israel for over 8 years almost non-stop? forcing dozens of thousands of innocent civilians to live in constant fear because their government is not doing ENOUGH to stem the rockets being launched from gaza!
the reason the supplies are cut from the gaza strip is because in those supplies the terrorist groups find their raw materials with which they MAKE the rockets and bombs. JEEZ! i'm wondering if nobody thought what would have happened to the palestinians had they been sitting around in someone else's country behaving the way they do. in russia, for example, you only have to look at what the chechnians are going through. look at the kurds in iraq and turkey, and the armenians in turkey - they were actually MASS-MURDERED by their country, some of them without even having gone to the lengths of terrorism the palestinians are employing.
don't pretend to know what's going on, mr/ms 2ctruth or whatever, you lying stupid ...
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AmmanExpatDec 27th, 2008 - 22:57:15
I live in Amman and did not witness 'massive protests'. I was out in the city and even taking taxis; no worries at all. I'm sure there were protests, but 'massive'? Please. Is this sensationalist journalism?
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