Israeli Arabs condemn US policy

Dozens of Israeli Arabs have demonstrated outside the US embassy in Tel Aviv
to denounce the US presence in Iraq and allegations that Washington planned
to bomb Aljazeera.


Talab al-Sana, a member of the Israeli parliament, said protesters had
wanted to show solidarity with their fellow Arabs and demonstrate anger at
what they regard as US hypocrisy.

"The American policy is feeding the anger, the sense of depression and the
extremists among the people here," he told AFP.

"It is a case of double standards by the Americans. On the one hand they
talk about freedom and they think about bombing Aljazeera; they talk about
democracy and they occupy Iraq and threaten Syria."

A British newspaper reported last week that Prime Minister Tony Blair had
talked US President George Bush out of bombing Aljazeera's headquarters in
Qatar.

The White House dismissed the Daily Mirror report as "outlandish".

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