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Purveyor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-19-11 03:30 PM
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Israel Braced For Further Palestinian Protests
Israel is bracing for a fresh confrontation on its borders after a Facebook campaign urging Palestinian refugees to march on Jerusalem on Friday got tens of thousands of supporters.

By Adrian Blomfield, Jerusalem 5:48PM BST 19 May 2011

Activists urged their supporters to mass on all of Israel's frontiers at the end of noon prayers as they seek to force the issue of Palestinian refugees back onto the world agenda.

Launched last Sunday, the campaign began with bloodshed as 14 refugees and their supporters were shot dead as they attempted to force their way through Israeli border fences from Lebanon and Syria.

In anticipation of a second attempt to storm the borders, Israeli troops laid new barbed-wire along its side of a fence marking the ceasefire line between Syria and the occupied Golan Heights, seized by Israel during the Six Day War of 1967.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/8524356/Israel-braced-for-further-Palestinian-protests.html
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libodem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-19-11 03:46 PM
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1. Barack-O
My soul in the bosom of Abraham. Bracka- my soul...Pray for
Peace in the mid east. Abraham is our common ancestor. Dammit.
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classysassy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-20-11 02:09 AM
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2.  How many of the Israeli citizens
were born in Israel as compared to the Palestinians who were born in their homeland?The outsiders such as Lieberman( The Russian) are nothing more than intruders/trouble makers that want Palestinian land for themselves and their friends and we help them gain land,SHAME on us for supporting criminals.
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oberliner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-20-11 03:53 AM
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3. About 75 percent of Israeli citizens were born in Israel
What percent of US citizens were born in the US?
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libodem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-20-11 12:10 PM
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4. Remember
The lessons of values clarification in the 70's. Values and beliefs
Should be honored but the do not define what makes us brothers in the
Human race.
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