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Why Don’t Gaza Activists Support Syrian Protesters?

July 16th, 2011 |

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Here in the Middle East where I have been for about 5 days events in Syria on regional and international television stations garner less attention than a car bomb in Baghdad or a rocket attack from Gaza into Israel. …

Why Don’t Gaza Activists Support Syrian Protesters?

Protest in Syria?! Are you nuts?

Syrian Security Forces Continue To Fire On Peaceful Marchers

Mohammad Abdullah, a spokesman for the Local Co-ordination Committee (LCC), said on Saturday July 16, that as many as twenty eight protesters had been killed across Syria after security forces reportedly shot at protesters.

The latest toll included twenty two people who were killed in Damascus and its suburbs, which makes it the highest death toll for the capital so far,

Reuters news agency, quoting witnesses and activists, reported on Friday that police fired live ammunition and teargas killing five people in Damascus, and another four in southern Syria near the Jordanian border.

Three more were shot dead in the northern city of Idlib.

Reuters quoted a witness in the Rukn al-Din district of Damascus as saying that hundreds of young men wearing white masks chanted, "Down, down Bashar al-Assad", as they fought security forces with sticks and stones.

A witness said by telephone from the centre of Damascus, "We are in Midan and they are firing teargas on us, people are chanting".

In the city of Hama, which was the scene of a 1982 massacre by the military, live video footage by residents showed a huge crowd in the main Orontos Square shouting, "The people want the overthrow of the regime".

A Huge Protest In Deir al-Zour

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), an independent rights group based in London reported that at least 350,000 people demonstrated in the eastern province of Deir al-Zour, which is a tribal city in the eastern desert.

Rami Abdelrahman, head of the SOHR, said, "These are the biggest demonstrations so far. It is a clear challenge to the authorities, especially when we see all these numbers coming out from Damascus for the first time".

On Thursday, Syrian forces shot dead two pro-democracy protesters in Deir al-Zour, local residents said.

For the first time, that city observed a full strike on Thursday, an activist told Al Jazeera, with almost all businesses closed, though government offices remained operational.

Reports said military dragnets had also taken place on Wednesday and Thursday in Damascus, Idlib province, and a politically sensitive area near the Turkish border in the northwest.

Swelling In Size

Rights groups say about 1,400 civilians have been killed since the uprising began in March, but the protests have continued unabated and have swollen in size.

And The Gaza Activists?

Gazans have made it abundantly clear over the last three weeks that more imports are not needed, and have stressed that they need is to start exporting more.

So even though their cause died during the last twelve months, the so called "Gaza activists" continue to seek fame by trying to sail to Gaza.

They wouldn’t even contemplate going to Syria and protesting because that would be too dangerous!

The Gaza activists are for the most part lost souls that seek some, or any kind of recognition, that they are worthwhile human beings.

In essence though, the ones that aren’t ready to put themselves at serious risk to life and limb are simply attention seeking trouble makers.

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