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| Los Angeles Demonstrators Clash Over Renewed Middle East Violence |
| 2012-11-19 |
| Police in riot gear quelled scuffling between pro-Israel and pro-Muslim demonstrators on Sunday outside the Federal Building during a protest over renewed violence in the Middle East. About 40 officers stood on the south side of Wilshire where protesters blocked traffic at Veteran Avenue as hundreds of demonstrators waved Israeli and American flags on one side of the street and a smaller number of pro-Palestinian demonstrators stood on the other. "My family is over there. They have to sit in shelters. And they're very stressed out, but unfortunately the world doesn't realize this is a day to day reality, "said Noa Tishby, the founder of Act for Israel, a non-profit group representing Israel's interests through the use of new media. The demonstrations were held in response to renewed violence as Israel launched rockets on Gaza in response to attacks by Hamas on Israel. The Hamas attacks were in retaliation for the assassination of a top Hamas military leader. "Palestinians are struggling for liberation," said Sophia Azeb, of the group Palestinian Women of Southern California. "They're struggling for equality. They're struggling for their basic human rights, which are being violated again and again. " At one point during Sunday's protest, police were prompted to go into tactical alert, the Los Angeles Police Department said. A freeway offramp on the northbound San Diego Freeway at Wilshire was temporarily closed. Sunday's demonstration was the latest to take place in Los Angeles. Demonstrators sympathetic to both sides of the conflict gathered Thursday night near the Israeli Consulate on Wilshire Boulevard. |
| Posted by:Au Auric |
| #9 "All you have to do is leave out part of the truth." Part? The "media" leave out the whole damn truth whenever they think they can get away with it. Which is often. >:-( |
| Posted by: Barbara 2012-11-19 16:40 |
| #8 They wouldn't have gotten away with that in the States. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2012-11-19 15:41 |
| #7 The Hamas attacks were in retaliation for the assassination of a top Hamas military leader... ...which was in retaliation for continuing Hamas rocket attacks on Israel. It's pretty easy to see the bias there. You don't have to lie to slant the news. All you have to do is leave out part of the truth. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2012-11-19 15:27 |
| #6 I have a better idea: get clubs for the pro-Muslim people and M16s for the pro-Israel. Then let's them go at each other. |
| Posted by: JFM 2012-11-19 15:18 |
| #5 Get 'em some clubs and let 'em go at each other. |
| Posted by: mojo 2012-11-19 10:58 |
#4 They're struggling for their basic human rights, which are being violated again and again. And yet you clowns keep supporting the thugs who violate the "Palestinians" "human" rights. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2012-11-19 09:52 |
| #3 #3 - with the proviso that Israel cannot launch rockets at anyone or anything for any reason. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2012-11-19 09:12 |
| #2 "UN to enshrine right to launch rockets at civilians as basic proto-state right" |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2012-11-19 08:33 |
| #1 Tempest in a teapot, signifying nothing. |
| Posted by: gromky 2012-11-19 08:17 |