Leftists Israelis protest in keffiyah and hold demon flaggs

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TA: Kaffiyeh-clad protesters slam op
By TALIA DEKEL
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Over a thousand people were demonstrating against the IDF's Operation Cast Lead at Tel Aviv's Rabin Square on Saturday evening. In response, about 600 activists gathered in the same place to show support for the army and for residents of the South.

Witnesses told the Jerusalem Post that many of the demonstrators were wearing Kaffiyehs and waving combined Israeli-Palestinian flags.

Protesters supporting the operation, who organized a counter-demonstration upon learning of the planned event, chanted "IDF, we are with you!"

The group included members of the Im Tirzu student organization, which has a stated aim of "returning Zionism to the Israeli consciousness," as well as some Likud activists.

Im Tirzu spokesman Erez Tmidor told the Post that police were preventing participants of the counter-demonstration from marching from Rabin Square to the city's Cinemateque. Tmidor said that police had "cornered hundreds of people into an area on the corner of King David and Ibn Gvirol streets near the square" and were refusing to let them join the march.