Saturday, December 27

WORLDWIDE RESISTANCE AND BLOWBACK

WORLDWIDE RESISTANCE AND BLOWBACK

Gaza

Explosions are seen during an Israeli missile strike in the northern Gaza Strip on the border with Israel, Saturday, Dec. 27, 2008. Israeli warplanes retaliating for rocket fire from Gaza pounded dozens of security compounds across the Hamas-ruled territory in unprecedented waves of air strikes Saturday, killing at least 155 and wounding more than 310 in the bloodiest day in Gaza in decades. From AP Photo by Tsafrir Abayov.

--''My son is gone, my son is gone. May I burn like the cigarettes, may Israel burn."
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2008/12/27/world/AP-ML-Israel-Palestinians.html

--Hours after the Israeli assault, Gaza fighters fired home-made rockets into southern Israel, heeding calls by Hamas and other affiliated Palestinian groups to avenge the attacks, unprecedented in their scale. One Israeli was killed in the rocket fire, medics said.
http://mwcnews.net/content/view/27520&Itemid=1

--As for Israeli air raids, assassinations and the sort, they would only serve to help Hamas regain some popularity - and not only in Gaza, but also in the West Bank and across the Arab-speaking world.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1049778.html

A Palestinian Hamas supporter holds a toy gun during a protest in the West Bank city of Nablus against Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip December 27, 2008. Israeli warplanes and helicopters pounded the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing at least 195 people in one of the bloodiest days in the Palestinians' conflict with Israel. From Reuters Pictures by REUTERS.
Nablus
--Video (1:23m): Palestinians have taken to the streets of the West Bank following Israel's air raids on Gaza City.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7801311.stm

A Palestinian protestor holds stones to throw at Israeli security forces during a demonstration against the Israeli air strikes on Gaza in the centre of the West Bank city of Hebron on December 27, 2008. Palestinians threw stones at Israeli forces who responded with tear gas during a Palestinian demonstration in Hebron today protesting the Israeli blitz of Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip that killed at least 195 people. Israel sent a wave of air strikes against targets in the besieged enclave in retaliation for ongoing rocket fire, officials said. From Getty Images by AFP/Getty Images.
Hebron

Palestinian youths throw stones towards Israeli border police officers in the village of Issawiya in Arab East Jerusalem in protest of the Israeli air strikes in Gaza December 27, 2008. Israeli warplanes and helicopters pounded the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing at least 205 people in the bloodiest one-day death toll in 60 years of conflict with the Palestinians. From Reuters Pictures by REUTERS.
East Jerusalem

A Jordanian woman cries during a demonstration against the Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip in Amman December 27,2008. Israeli warplanes and combat helicopters pounded the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing at least 155 people in the bloodiest day for Palestinians in more than 20 years of conflict. From Reuters Pictures by REUTERS.
Amman

Egyptian activists shout anti-Israel slogans and flash V-for-victory signs as they protest in Cairo Saturday Dec. 27, 2008, against the Israeli attacks against Hamas-ruled Gaza where over 200 people were killed and almost 400 wounded. From AP Photo by AMR NABIL.
Cairo

A young woman holds a Palestinian flag as she shouts anti-Israel slogans during a candle-light vigil held outside the Egyptian embassy in Beirut in protest against Israel's deadly raids on the Gaza Strip on December 27, 2008. Hundreds of protesters demonstrated near the Egyptian embassy in Lebanon amid a greatly reinforced security presence, an AFP journalist said. Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni vowed two days ago in Cairo to strike back at the Islamist Hamas rulers of Gaza after a sharp escalation of violence in the Palestinian territory dashed hopes of a new truce. From Getty Images by AFP/Getty Images.
Beirut

Pakistani protesters burn an Israeli flag during a demonstration condemning Israel's strikes on Gaza, in Karachi, Pakistan, Saturday, Dec. 27. 2008. Israeli warplanes retaliating for rocket fire from Gaza pounded dozens of security compounds across the Hamas-ruled territory in unprecedented waves of air strikes Saturday, killing at least 155 and wounding more than 310 in the bloodiest day in Gaza in decades. From AP Photo by Fareed Khan.
Karachi


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