Portland Seeks Justice for Palestinians

An estimated 750 people gathered in front of the Federal Building in downtown Portland this evening, December 30, 2008, to protest the ongoing massacre of Palestinian civilians by Israeli forces in Gaza.

This gathering was part of a world wide effort to bring these war crimes to an end.

With signs and chants the crowd vehemently demonstrated their outrage at the bombing of innocent civilians and demanded that the U.S. exert its weight in finding solutions to this long festering wound.

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• Gaza
• Israeli
• Palestinian
• war
• crimes
• Occupation
• Egypt

[Needsmoreritalin]

What crap. The real tragedy is that similar to the Irish experience in the US after the famine, the Palestinians are frowned upon by the Arab world. The Arab world looks at this as a win-win. If Palestinians kill Jews they are happy, if the Palestinians fail and are killed, they are still happy. BTW, while the Palestinians have a right to self-preservation, it is hard to take a group seriously that votes a Jihadist terrorist group into power.

[XxPrincessOfLightxX]

Falasteen will b free, BOYCOTT ISRAEL

[nicolettealkhal]

these protests have been so powerful!

i'm glad i found a video of that night on here.. i had my video camera out with me, but halfway through it.. i realized i forgot to press 'record' :/ lol.

i hope and pray this ends soon...

allah yr7amon...

[gamoonbat]

The Palestinians have the right to defend their territory. They do not have the right to lob missiles into urban areas or commit suicide bombings. That was what the intifida was about, and that is the only sort of defense which Hamas has in mind at this point.

[VronRN2]

Great protest! I wish I was there.

Great footage.

[4cats1room]

too bad i missed this

[4cats1room]

The Palestinians have the right to defend themselves under international law. And since they are being attacked, they can do nothing else but retaliate.

Granted the more Palestinian's fire ineffective rockets, the more Israel will launch attacks.

Bottom line is Israel won't stop until Palestine is gone, even if Palestinians decided to be passive.

The international community needs to grow some balls & stand up to the US & Israel in the world court.

[gamoonbat]

The intifada was also an attack against innocent people. We have to stop the violence coming from our side first. Let the Palestinians come to their own conclusions about defending their country. Passive resistance is always the most effective, in my opinion.