Protesters decry Israeli air strikes in Gaza [first two commenters get it right]

Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | Allison Steele

[Clive]

200 protesters.

Awesome!

This Philly place must be a village because any good sized town could produce more than that number of protesters for just about any issue or even just for the hell of it.

The reporter taking crowd interviews comes up with two Palestinians and a semi-retired university professor. It says something about the make-up of the gathering.

Note the overwhelming pro Israel tenor of the comments. Comments usually reflect the readership and the readership usually reflects the editorial stance of the paper. Yet the tone of the article was not particularly friendly to Israel.

[Alia]

I had misunderstood which comments you had referred to; another poster set me straight.

Yes, your Monday morning is going to be "interesting". :)

Granted, I believe the Israeli govt. has done a lot to irritate the situation as well...The everyday Israeli and Palestinians are not as contentious as one would be led to believe, but during times like this, those very people do tend to give each other some space to work things out, till the time comes that the forces arrayed against each other get the kinks out and settle down...

I guess I must not have been following this as closely as yourself, however, it seems to me that Israel in giving up the Gaza to the Palestinians has FAR more generous and to the 1964 Treaty than any other nation involved. Which makes the Israelis quite generous from my perspective. Yes, yes... Hamas militants do not see this quite the same way. And nor do their American professional protestors....