Following the cancellation of a controversial “Palestine Congress” planned for three days in Berlin, the city’s police were on Saturday prepared in force for spontaneous protests. Police on Friday broke up the pro-Palestinian conference in the Tempelhof area of Berlin and asked some 250 participants to leave the hall just two hours after the event began. Organizers of the conference had decried Israel’s ongoing military offensive in the Gaza Strip, and attacked the German government’s support for the Israeli government. According to the police, organizers had registered a demonstration of 1,50…