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Protest hits Israel fund-raiser
Published Mar 19, 2008 9:14 PM
Hundreds of people, many of them youths from the Palestinian communities
in and around New York, picketed and chanted on Park Avenue across from the
Waldorf Astoria on March 18 to protest the $1,000-a-plate dinner to raise funds
for the state terrorist actions of the “Israeli Defense Forces”
(IDF), and the presence of Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak.
The New York fundraiser seems particularly offensive since it comes after a
week in which the IDF killed
126 Palestinians, including many children and other obvious non-combatants. The
Israeli military even attacked Palestinian schools, mosques and soccer fields,
killing children as they studied, prayed and played childhood games.
“It is incomprehensible and despicable that these war criminals—who
just murdered over one hundred Palestinian innocents and children in their
homes, in their schools and on playgrounds—have the audacity to come
raise money for their genocidal plans and stuff their greedy faces on our
streets,” says a representative of Al-Awda, the group that called for the
demonstration.
—John Catalinotto
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