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Thousands rally across Mideast to protest IDF attacks on Gaza
By The Associated Press
Tags: Gaza Strip, Syria, Israel 

Tens of thousands of Syrians filled the central square of Damascus Monday to protest ongoing Israel Defense Forces operations in the Gaza Strip that have killed more than 100 Palestinians, while elsewhere in the region thousands others also demonstrated.

The Syrians chanted slogans against Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and called on Arab leaders to take a tough stand on U.S. support for Israel as it continues its air and ground offensive against Palestinians in Gaza.

"With soul and blood we sacrifice ourselves for you Palestine," the crowd
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houted in central Damascus, waving Syrian and Palestinian flags and carrying pictures of Syrian President Bashar Assad. They also carried pictures of Palestinian children killed by Israeli attacks.

The offensive, which Israel says is in response to Palestinian rocket attacks, has left over 100 Palestinians dead since the fighting erupted last Wednesday.

The Gaza attacks have been denounced by many Arab governments, while Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has suspended peace talks with Israel.

Some of the protesters' banners read in Arabic: No to Arab silence, Save the children of Gaza, Stop the bloodshed in Gaza, Death to America and Death to Israel. They burned a mock Israeli flag.

The march was organized by Syrian parties and civil society organizations, and clearly approved by the government. Students and civil servants joined the march from several parts of the capital. Anti-riot police deployed around foreign embassies in Damascus to prevent attacks.

In Lebanon, about 2,000 students, supporters of the militant Hezbollah group, demonstrated outside the UN building in downtown Beirut Monday to protest the Israeli attacks in Gaza.

Carrying Lebanese and Palestinian flags and pictures of Hezbollah leader
Hassan Nasrallah, the students, aged between seven and 15, shouted Death to Israel and Death to America. They carried pamphlets denouncing the massacres in Gaza and calling for world action to stop the Israeli attacks.

In Egypt, about 2,000 students demonstrated in al-Azhar University in the
southern Egyptian town of Assiut led by Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, praising the Hamas movement which control's the Gaza Strip and lashing out at the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

Another thousand students demonstrated on Cairo University's campus.

Hundreds of riot police deployed inside and outside both universities to
ensure the demonstrations did not reach the streets. The Israeli embassy is only a few hundred yards from Cairo University.

Elsewhere in Cairo, a group of Egyptian parliamentarians planned a rally in front the presidential palace in downtown Cairo to present a memo to President Hosni Mubarak, condemning the Israeli attacks on Gaza, but security forces prevented them from leaving the from the People's Assembly, the Brotherhood Web site said
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  1.   Humanitarian Arabian Front 17:32  |  Tex 03/03/08
  2.   No Use, 18:10  |  Ahmad 03/03/08
  3.   LOL 18:28  |  Yonni 03/03/08
  4.   Arab lip service 18:36  |  Edward H 03/03/08
  5.   A different solution - Well-being instead politics. 18:42  |  Jean Van Daem 03/03/08
  6.   Bashar, they are your missiles 19:14  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 03/03/08
  7.   backward peoples 19:17  |  frenz 03/03/08
  8.   it appears no more toy rockets 19:23  |  Robert/Montreal 03/03/08
  9.   To Funny, they never said a word when the Kurds were gassed 19:31  |  Ken Jurist 03/03/08
  10.   No use/Ahmad 19:33  |  Gary 03/03/08
  11.   Syria Must stop supplying HAMAS 19:43  |  YURI 03/03/08
  12.   Hey, Ahmad: Don`t forget the US Government 19:46  |  US CITIZEN 03/03/08
  13.   Thousands of years, maybe 19:57  |  Said 03/03/08
  14.   PAY DEMONSTRATIONS NO MIND 20:29  |  APK 03/03/08
  15.   LONG LIVE ISRAEL...LONG LIVE THE IDF!!! 20:41  |  SLAVO 03/03/08
  16.   Dont any of these guys work? How do they all get off from work 20:42  |  Stayin Alive 03/03/08
  17.   Said....perfect revisionist history...your imam has taught u well 20:47  |  spade 03/03/08
  18.   Right To Respond 20:51  |  Jack Olson 03/03/08
  19.   #7 Said, The problem is that for thousands of years 20:54  |  Max Zinger P.Chimist 03/03/08
  20.   Savages demonstrate across MidEast 21:05  |  SickOfTheBBC 03/03/08
  21.   Said#7 - thank you for admitting it 21:11  |  William 03/03/08
  22.   APK#8 - when was an Arab brought up on War Crimes? 21:15  |  William 03/03/08
  23.   7 Said,absolutely right! All sorts of tribes lived there,prior to 22:04  |  lakshmi 03/03/08
  24.   And who cares in Israel that Syrians and other terrorists take to 22:17  |  reader 03/03/08
  25.   At least this gives Arab men something else to do for a change 22:36  |  Genuine Tosefta 03/03/08
  26.   Said,what is your problem w.Land for Jews,there is Land for Arabs 22:43  |  Genuine Tosefta 03/03/08
  27.   ahmad,maybe israel should handle the palestinian problem 22:50  |  terrornator 03/03/08
  28.   "With soul and blood we sacrifice..." mostly with Jewish blood 22:51  |  Genuine Tosefta 03/03/08
  29.   Arab protests meaningless 22:53  |  MichaelF 03/03/08
  30.   #7 Well said, Said 22:56  |  hala 03/03/08
  31.   #7 - Said 22:59  |  MichaelF 03/03/08
  32.   #7 to Said, continued 23:02  |  hala 03/03/08
  33.   #8 Pay demonstrations no mind 23:08  |  hala 03/03/08
  34.   #16 "protest a Jew breathing..." 23:12  |  hala 03/03/08
  35.   high unemployment means high protestor turnout 23:36  |  Sammy 03/03/08
  36.   TO GARY!!!! WHY TELL LIES 00:27  |  ANWAR 04/03/08
  37.   Thousands are protesting across the US and it will continue 03:36  |  Dutch 04/03/08
  38.   #17 Demented Dutch 05:00  |  * BEN JABO 04/03/08
  39.   AUSTRALIANS AGAINST ISRAEL 11:04  |  VIPER 04/03/08
  40.   #15, WHAT A LOAD OF BS 11:09  |  VIPER 04/03/08
  41.   GENUINE TOSEFTA, your a disgusting animal 11:12  |  VIPER 04/03/08
  42.   #40 VIPER - There you go again!! 16:03  |  * BEN JABO 04/03/08
  43.   DEMENTED DUTCH - WHAT RALLY? 16:09  |  * BEN JABO 04/03/08
  44.   #13 & #23; Said, lakshmi 21:46  |  Doc Holliday 04/03/08
  45.   #43-2 DEMENTED DUTCH -What Rally? 12:53  |  * BEN JABO 05/03/08
  46.   #16 - of course they don`t work 18:29  |  Ron Pine 05/03/08
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