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Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Marchers in Center City decry Israeli raid

Protestors march down Market Street on Tuesday afternoon to protest the Monday raid on ships attempting to deliver supplies to to Gaza Strip. (Wendy Warren / Philly.com)

A noisy march of people opposed to Israel's action in Gaza briefly closed west Market Street in Philadelphia at 6 p.m. Tuesday.

The marchers - holding signs that read "Free Gaza" and similar slogans - were marching toward City Hall, chanting "Hey hey, ho ho, the occupation has got to go." They were accompanied by police in cruisers and on motorcycles - and by a smaller group of pro-Israel demonstrators, who chanted their own slogans from the sidewalk.

Nine people were killed on Monday when Israeli armed forces stormed a flotilla of ships attempting to deliver supplies to the Gaza Strip.

Posted by Philly.com Staff @ 6:34 PM Permalink | 58 comments

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 7:02 PM, 06/01/2010

Well you tend not to get killed when you don't attack the members of a military force like say the Israeli Army. Turkey wanted this provocation, and they got it. The last thing the extremists want is for the meeting that was supposed to occur with Obama the day of this to have gotten a peace deal. Then the favorite bugaboo of dictatorial regimes that don't use a rule of law or honor basic human rights dissipates; the Muslim run nations then have these same people wake up and turn their attention on their home countries.

— CleanupPhilly

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 7:04 PM, 06/01/2010

I think these dictatorships are terrified Obama will truly advance peace in the Middle East when he was to meet with Netanyahu. As long as they can show footage of Gaza, they don't have time to show footage of what is going on at home in the Islama-panorama.

— CleanupPhilly

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 7:05 PM, 06/01/2010

Funny how there were no marchers protesting women accused of adultery getting shot in the head in Iran, or girls who go to school getting poisoned in Afghanistan, or genital mutilation in Somalia, and I could go on. Just no reason to get upset about that for some reason.

— CleanupPhilly

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 7:08 PM, 06/01/2010

Cleanup, you are dumber than a Mets fan, which I didn't think was possible.

— bjps1353

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 7:10 PM, 06/01/2010

More morally confused left wing hacks.

— Kaiser Sosa

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 7:11 PM, 06/01/2010

Hamas lays down their guns; we have peace. Israel lays down their guns; every Jew in Israel is murdered. Does anyone want to disagree? Any of you left wing fools?

— Kaiser Sosa

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 7:14 PM, 06/01/2010

What's the point here? Only thing these "marchers" achieved was to get a little exercise. Israel or any other country could care less if people marched on Philadelphia.

— Taxpaying Voter

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 7:33 PM, 06/01/2010

Kaiser is right about the protesters being left-wingers. As I was walking down Market Street I was handed a position paper on the incident from a harmless-looking 20-something young woman. The red paper decried America's support for the "Zionist rogue state" and argued for a "total worker's blockade of Israel." The organization behind the paper: something called the "International Secretariat of the League for the Fifth International." So yeah, it was just a bunch of unemployed commies (who probably live in comfortable homes in the 'burbs with their parents) causing a ruckus on a busy street corner.

— CC19102

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 7:34 PM, 06/01/2010

Israel is once again demonstrating that it thinks it is above the law. If any other country did what Israel does, the U.S. would be screaming. Instead, Israel, is allowed to strangle Gaza. This is a continuation of Israel colonization of Palestine.

— teacherma

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 7:49 PM, 06/01/2010

the sign that says "end the occupation" is intriguing to me. The is ONE JEW in Gaza; the kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit. The 9,000 Jews that were once in Gaza were pulled out by Israel. How is this an "occupation"?

— uefa81glory

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 7:52 PM, 06/01/2010

Apologies for my inaccuracy - it was a chant against "the occupation", not a sign that I should have referred to

— uefa81glory

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 7:56 PM, 06/01/2010

First time I ever saw "peace activists" hitting soldiers with metal pipes and stabbing soldiers with knives. I think my dictionary needs updating. Either that, or it's 1984 doublespeak of some sort.

— dglass1

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 8:07 PM, 06/01/2010

Philly.com should learn and then report the real story.

— PKoenig

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 8:12 PM, 06/01/2010

Even the Israeli government knows they blew it - you defenders of this brutality are ridiculous. Now ending the Gaza blockade is a mainstream position and you're the extremists.

— housingright