Protests in UK at Israeli action

[DoYouEverWonder]

22 July 2006

Thousands of people across the UK are joining demonstrations against Israeli attacks on Lebanon.

Eleven rallies were organised by groups such as Stop The War Coalition and the Muslim Association of Britain.

They are being held in towns and cities including Birmingham, Glasgow, Edinburgh, London, Exeter and York.

The rallies come as the UK begins winding down its evacuation of Britons from Lebanon. About 3,000 have been taken to safety in Cyprus since Monday.

Meanwhile, a rally to show solidarity with people in northern Israel - areas of which have been hit by Hezbollah rockets - is being held on Sunday by the Board of Deputies of British Jews.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/5203450.stm

[rodeodance]

1. Australia had a LARGE protest also yesterday about this.

[rodeodance]

2. and the US hurries the bombs.

[truth2power]

3. I wish there were protests near where I live. I'd go. n/t

[DoYouEverWonder]

4. Some pics from protests around the world

A Malaysian man tears a poster of U.S. President George Bush during an anti-Israel protest after Friday prayer in Kuala Lumpur July 21, 2006.



Protestor Eckard Reschke holds a poster to protest against U.S. President George W. Bush during a demonstration in the town of Stralsund at the Baltic Sea July 13, 2006. German Chancellor Angela Merkel hosts Bush on Thursday in a visit intended to solidify their ties and likely to focus on Iran and her concerns about the Guantanamo Bay prison camp.




Police keep a watchful eye as over 10,000 mostly Lebanese-Australians march through the streets of Sydney, protesting against the Israeli attacks on Lebanon and Gaza. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan warned that an Israeli invasion of Lebanon would see a dramatic escalation of Hezbollah attacks and said Syria and Iran should be involved in resolving the crisis.




The spiritual leader of Australia's Muslim community, Sheik Taj Aldin Alhilali , in brown cape, joins members of Sydney's Lebanese community in a march through Sydney's central business district Saturday, July 22, 2006. More than 10,000 people, carrying coffins and chanting 'No war,' rallied to protest against Israel's attacks on Lebanon.



Wayne Young of Denver holds up a placard in protest of President George Bush in southeast Denver while Bush attended a fundraising event for a Republican candidate for Colorado's 7th Congressional District on Friday, July 21, 2006.

[Maccagirl]

5. Bush was at a GOP fundraiser last night?

Can comparisons to Nero be made? This is beyond insulting. Thank you, protesters, for caring enough about our world to take a stand.

[oneold1-4u]

6. Protesting demonstrators

Most, if not all, are islamic, and many were the ones that cheered when the towers fell and continue to cheer every time an islamic terrorist group attacks, and kills even one infidel!
These same people also help every day to support hizbollah and hamas with millions of "dollars for death" of Israel.

[CuteNFuzzy]

7. so what's your point

[K8-EEE]

8. Oh Brother

Most Muslim people stood with the US after 9/11. There were pro-US demonstrations in Iran for God's sake! Now Muslims have no right to protest because they are "those people who cheered 9/11?"

Man....I think Israel is an official branch of BushCo. That's something I would expect to see on FR.

[AnOhioan]

10. Pitiful post.

[DoYouEverWonder]

13. You have a very ugly view of the world

You need to get out more often and meet some real people. Almost every person I've ever met from the ME was the kindest, most gentle type of person you could imagine.

[IndianaGreen]

14. Hezbollah, Hamas and Israel: Everything You Need To Know

July 21, 2006

A perilous excursion into the distant past, starting seven whole weeks ago

Hezbollah, Hamas and Israel: Everything You Need To Know

By ALEXANDER COCKBURN

Occupy a country, torture its citizens and in the end you face resistance. In Israel’s case it was Hezbollah, and in the end Hezbollah ran Israel out of Lebanon, which is why a lot of Lebanese regard Hezbollah not as terrorists but as courageous liberators.

The years roll by and Israel does its successful best to destroy all possibility of a viable two-state solution. It builds illegal settlements. It chops up Palestine with Jews-only roads. It collars all the water. It cordons off Jerusalem. It steals even more land by bisecting Palestinian territory with its “fence”. Anyone trying to organize resistance gets jailed, tortured, or blown up.

Sick of their terrible trials, Palestinians elect Hamas, whose leaders make it perfectly clear that they are ready to deal on the basis of the old two-state solution, which of course is the one thing Israel cannot endure. Israel doesn’t want any “peaceful solution” that gives the Palestinians anything more than a few trashed out acres surrounded with barbed wire and tanks, between the Israeli settlements whose goons can murder them pretty much at will.

So here we are, 24 years after Sharon did his best to destroy Lebanon in 1982, and his heirs are doing it all over again. Since they can’t endure the idea of any just settlement for Palestinians, it’s the only thing they know how to do. Call Lebanon a terror-haven and bomb it back to the stone age. Call Gaza a terror-haven and bomb its power plant, first stop on the journey back to the stone age. Bomb Damascus. Bomb Teheran.

Of course they won’t destroy Hezbollah. Every time they kill another Lebanese family, they multiply hatred of Israel and support for Hezbollah. They’ve even unified the parliament in Baghdad, which just voted unanimously -- Sunnis and Shi’ites and Kurds alike -- to deplore Israel’s conduct and to call for a ceasefire.

http://www.counterpunch.org/Cockburn07212006.html

[ShortnFiery]

15. "and many were the ones that cheered"

No, that's not how I recall it - I remember that they mostly felt empathy for America on 911. What? Are you trying to rewrite history?

[Judi Lynn]

9. Thousands march against Israeli attacks

Thousands march against Israeli attacks
By Gideon Long
36 minutes ago

LONDON (Reuters) - Thousands of demonstrators marched through London and hundreds more gathered in Amsterdam on Saturday to protest against Israeli attacks in Lebanon and the refusal of the U.S. and British governments to condemn them.

Police said around 7,000 people joined the London protest as it snaked from the banks of the Thames to Hyde Park, first in brilliant sunshine and then in torrential rain.

Many carried red and white Lebanese flags and placards condemning "Israeli crimes in Lebanon."

"We are all Hizbollah. Boycott Israel" read one. "Axis of evil: Bush, Blair, Olmert," read another, referring to the political leaders of the United States, Britain and Israel.
(snip/...)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060722/wl_nm/mideast_protests_dc

[BenDavid]

11. Peace and a way to do it!

End the Suffering in the Middle East
By Rabbi Michael Lerner

http://www.tikkun.org/rabbi_lerner/news_item.2006-07-17.9426591429

[IndianaGreen]

12. Without a ceasefire, people will continue to die on both sides

It is unconscionable what Bush and Blair are doing sitting on the sidelines and blocking the UN from passing a ceasefire resolution.