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July 3, 2016 - 2:02am
Mass Demonstration in Gaza Marks Annual Al Quds Day
http://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20160702-mass-demonstration-in-gaza-mar...
"All parts of Palestine from the river to the sea are 'inseparable', including Jerusalem." - PFLP
Al Quds Day Demonstration Met With Jewish Defence League Protest
http://www.torontosun.com/2016/07/02/al-quds-day-demonstration-met-with-...
"Our objective here today is to capture Al Quds day,' Meir Weinstein, director of JDC Canada, said Saturday.
'The forces that we face thrive on fear and intimidation,' said JDL spokesman Robert Spencer*. 'We have to understand that what we are facing is a group...that is lovers of everything that is evil..."
* http://spencerwatch.com/about-robert-spencer/
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Al Quds Day Toronto: Ruptly video
https://www.rt.com/in-motion/349373-al-quds-day-demonstration/
I was at the Toronto event. The JDL were doing their thing a couple of hundred yards away. Very substatial police presence in between. At one point the JDL people came right up to the police lines with a megaphone shouting unpleasant things. What a nasty bunch.
Palestinians Form First-Ever Left-Wing Coalition
Palestinian politicians are uniting in a first-ever left-wing coalition to win the October local elections, Quds Press reported on Wednesday.
Qais Abdul-Karim, head of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, said in a press conference Wednesday that his party would form a coalition with four others in order to “overcome the mutual popularization (between Hamas and Fatah) which corrupts the Palestinian political process.”
The new coalition, the “Democratic Alliance,” would be committed to transparency and propose candidates who enjoy a wide base among left-wing Palestinians in an attempt to unite the Palestine Liberation Organization....
That is great news, e-paulo.
oldgoat, we also had them here, protesting the Social Forum. I think they drive around to various cities to make trouble. The usual crap abut "singling out" Israel for criticism, when a key them of the FSM is the rights of Indigenous people everywhere. And nobody is refraining from criticism of Saudi Arabia and ties to it, on the contrary.