From Ynet news 11/11/06 ...
Some 2,000 Arab Israelis [including several Arab Members of the Knesset] held a march in Nazareth on Friday to protest the killing of 19 Palestinians by Israeli army artillery fire on Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday. The head of the Islamic Movement Northern Branch, Sheikh Raed Salah, said that "Beit Hanoun will be Lieberman's cemetery."
... "There were here, in our land, many Liebermans. Thousands. But today we are walking on them and that will also be his fate. We will walk on him, and so will our children," Salah said.
...Salah's deputy, Sheikh Kamal Khatib, asked the protesters to lower the flags of various Arab Israeli parliament factions and to hoist the Palestinian flag as a sign of unity with the Palestinians.
Ahmad Sleiman, a member of the community party in Nazareth, said the march was a gesture of solidarity with the pain of the Palestinian people. "We carry a message for the government that there is no solution but peace. There will be calm when peace reigns over the whole region," he said....
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