Bloomberg flew to Israel Sunday to express solidarity with Israelis' attack on the people of Gaza. He doesn't speak for all the people fo New York who protested in front of Times Sqquare last night, and he def doesn't speak for me either as someone who pays taxes in that state.
Bloomberg flew to Israel Sunday to express solidarity with Israelis' attack on the people of Gaza. He doesn't speak for all the people fo New York who protested in front of Times Sqquare last night, and he def doesn't speak for me either as someone who pays taxes in that state.
In New York last night, thousands marched agaisnt Israeli attacks in New York City.
http://www.nytimes.com/...
Police cordoned off part of the sidewalk and a lane and a half of Seventh Avenue from 42nd Street to 38th Street to accommodate the crowd. The demonstrators then marched in a slow procession along 42nd Street to the Israeli Consulate on Second Avenue.
The protesters drowned out a small counterdemonstration of a few dozen people who gathered across Seventh Avenue from the larger crowd before also moving to the Consulate. They waved Israeli and American flags, and carried banners condemning Hamas, the Islamic group that has been in control of the Gaza Strip since 2007
I have not heard any word from him that is at all sad for the loss of life in Gaza. Only his support for Israel. In an article in Haaretz, see how Bloomberg defends the right of Israel(the atricle mentions the people he was talking to where people who immigrated from New York), and compared the situation to New York and Al Qaeda. No awareness of the fact he is talking to New Yorkers who immigrated there. And that the conflict in Israel is not the same as that of America at the moment because we don't have people coming here and having more rights than the natives. Yorkhttp://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1052557.html
Bloomberg, accompanied by Congressman Gary Ackerman, a Democrat from New York, visited the southern Israeli towns of Ashkelon and Sderot, both of which have been targeted by Hamas rockets over the past several weeks, and met with New Yorkers who had immigrated
He continues to say that he understands why Israel would act this way. The situation is not comparable at all. If Canadians had the right to come here, create a prison for the enitre population, cut off all trade and keep the best land for their citizens who are invited to create settlement, then we can compare.
In a telephone interview with The Associated Press, Bloomberg said he fully understood Israel's actions.
"You should rest assured, if anyone in New York was being threatened, my instruction to the NYPD (New York police) would be to use all the resources at their disposal to protect civilians," Bloomberg said.
This blatant one-sided issue from a politician of one of the most diverse cities in America. He should be ashamed for this arrogant, hateful act to defend Israel no matter what Israel does.