Christine Stuart of CT News Junkie was one of the few (or, more accurately, the one) reporters who thought it might be worthwhile to write about Friday's peace protest in Hartford.From the CT News Junkie story:
More than 40 people braved biting cold temperatures Friday afternoon to protest Israel’s offensive against Gaza’s Hamas rulers.It kind of bothers me that this event wasn't important enough for Connecticut's corporate media to cover. I don't know when it became OK for us to turn our backs on a people who are suffering at the hands of one of our allies, but it strikes me as simply very, very wrong. Read the rest of the article at CTNJ.
Shouting “Gaza, Gaza don’t you cry. Palestine will never die,” the protesters waved a Palestinian flag as they paraded down Main Street for a meeting with US Rep. John Larson’s District Chief of Staff John Rossi.
Margaret P. Levy of West Hartford said the demonstration was planned several days ago, despite the freezing cold temperatures. “People are getting killed everyday. We don’t want it to be said we stood silent.”
About 12 of the protesters made their way up to Larson’s Main Street office a few blocks from where they started their protest and were ushered into a conference room where they discussed their strategy while they waited for Rossi to join them.
“It’s so hard to get our voices heard,” Liz Aaronsohn, the daughter of a Rabbi, said as she turned to the lone reporter in the room.
BTW, Liz Aaronsohn was that nice lady who I interviewed at the New Haven protest on another freezing cold day a couple weeks ago. Here's my video report with Liz's interview.
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"I don't know when it became OK for us to turn our backs on a people who are suffering at the hands of one of our allies, but it strikes me as simply very, very wrong." True, but when was it OK for us to turn our backs on the people of an ally who were suffering at the hands of an enemy?
>>True, but when was it OK for us to turn our backs on the people of an ally who were suffering at the hands of an enemy?
Ever since the so called "new left" decided that it was time to put the Jews back in the barrel.
Apparently 5000 years with the past 30 or so "off" wasn't enough.
Stay tuned - the global recession will be their fault too any time now.
Right, and we'll let the oppressed become the oppressors.
Because they've earned the right.
It's time to protest this:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ioi_0jtO9RjMwPNRoXNCndRPRq3gD964SJM80
8,000 rockets fired on Jewish communities in Israel by the Hamas gterrorists in Gaza. Hamas Charter calls for the annihilation of world Jewry. These phony "jews"cum
communist-anarchists from ANSWER are opposed to US and Israel in support of everything from Saddam Hussein and Castro to all teh terroists in the world. Liz Aaronsohn is mentally ill, rabbi's daughter getting even with daddy. Gaza attacks by IDF in self-defense.
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