Excerpts:Israeli Arabs protest Syria bloodshed 9 June 2012

+++SOURCE: Naharnet (Lebanon) 9 June '12:"Israeli Arabs March in Protest at
Syria Bloodshed", Agence France Presse

SUBJECT: Israeli Arabs protest Syria bloodshed

QUOTE:"An AFP journalist at the demonstration in the Galilee Arab town of
Tamra said that participants shouted 'Assad go home!' and 'Free Syria' "

FULL TEXT:About 2,000 Israeli Arabs protested on Saturday to demand that
Syrian President Bashar Assad step down and to show solidarity with Syrian
civilians killed by regime forces, an Agence France Presse journalist said.

Marchers in the protest, organized by the Islamic Movement, carried pictures
of children killed in the violence in Syria, where the Syrian Observatory
for Human Rights says that than 13,500 people have died since the uprising
broke out almost 16 months ago.

An AFP journalist at the demonstration in the Galilee Arab town of Tamra
said that participants shouted "Assad go home!" and "Free Syria!"

Other witnesses reported chants of "Assad butchers his people!"

Some 1.37 million Israeli citizens, slightly more than 20 percent, are
Arabs.

They are the remainder, or descendants, of Palestinians who did not flee or
were not driven out during the Arab-Israeli war that accompanied the 1948
foundation of the Jewish state.

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Sue Lerner - Associate, IMRA