Posted on 12/15/2007 9:34:10 AM PST by Barte45
At least 150,000 people have turned out in Gaza City for a rally to mark 20 years since Hamas was founded.
Waving green flags and banners, crowds of Palestinian men, women and children filled a large square for the event.
Analysts say turnout is seen as a vital test of support for Hamas, which seized control of the Gaza Strip in June from its Fatah rivals.
In a defiant website statement, Hamas's leader in exile, Khaled Mashaal, vowed the group would not renounce violence.
Speaking from Damascus, Syria, he said Palestinians were capable of mounting a new uprising against Israeli occupation, like the intifadas of 1987 and 2000.
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Sure I have. In some of the old pictures of the Nazi rallies in Germany from the '30s I am sure they had at least 100,000 in attendance, if not 150,000.
Also, any picture taken of the floor of the Democratic convention where Kerry was nominated shows tens of thousands of terrorist supporters all together.
We would be totally justified in bombing the crap out of these “civilians.”
instead of giving more money to them...like condi rice wants to do.....they should be carpet bombed....it would cut out the need for them to use the money from the US to buy bombs....kinda cutting out the middle man!!!
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