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    Posted: July 26 2014 at 01:21










Quote By John Catalinotto

July 22, 2014

Often the corporate media use the term “international community” to give weight to an opinion that is really the opinion of a handful of imperialist heads of state — from the U.S., its major NATO allies and Japan. Since the Israeli assault on Gaza began, the real international community is coming out into the streets, sometimes defying police violence, to show its solidarity with Gaza and Palestine and protest.

These protests and their acceptance by many others in their regions showed the growing support for the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel, and growing solidarity with Palestine.

Thousands came out in Istanbul, Turkey, at 1:30 a.m. on July 18 to besiege the Israeli Consulate, facing water cannons wielded by police. Pro-Palestinian activists waving Turkish and Palestinian flags chanted, “Hail to the resistance from Istanbul to Gaza!” “Murderer Israel, get out of Palestine!” and “Strike, strike, Hamas! Strike against Israel!” (Russia Today, July 18) Another demonstration in Ankara, the capital, attacked the Israeli Embassy, fighting with police to do it.

The French government took the extraordinary step of outlawing pro-Palestinian demonstrations. Despite threats of prison and fines, organizers estimate that up to 10,000 people attended a rally in central Paris. In the city’s northern suburb of Sarcelles, young demonstrators erupted in rebellion against the ban to show solidarity with Gaza. Police arrested 38 for their alleged participation in the protest. (RT, July 20)

On July 18, the Filipino mass movement organized a solidarity protest as a reaction to the Israeli attacks on Gaza. Even though the country is paralyzed after being hit by Typhoon Glenda, the movement managed to gather about 200 people, including trade unionists; health workers; international delegates from the U.S., south Korea, Cambodia and Belgium; human rights activists; and religious groups. During a short rally in the Mendiola area of Manila, Philippines, the speakers not only targeted the Israeli government but also underlined the role of the U.S.

Mass demonstrations took place July 17 in Mumbai, Ahmedabad and other Indian cities and in Srinagar, in Indian-ruled Kashmir. People held protests outside the Israeli embassies in Seoul, south Korea, and Beijing, China. Thousands also demonstrated in Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, on July 18.

Demonstrations were held in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban in South Africa; in Cairo, Egypt; in Rabat, Morocco; and in Tunis, Tunisia, denouncing the Israeli assault and saying, as they did in Tunis, “We are all Gaza.” (Al-Jazeera, July 19)

In Europe, in addition to France, mass demonstrations were held in Athens, Greece; Belgrade, Yugoslavia; Vienna, Austria; Berlin and Frankfurt, Germany; Copenhagen, Denmark; and Stockholm, Malmo and six other cities in Sweden, and then on July 19 at the Israeli Embassy in Stockholm. Mike Powers writes us that with the corporate media trying to stir up anger for sanctions against Russia, lots of people in Stockholm are wondering, “What about sanctions against Israel?”

There were also demonstrations in Brussels, Belgium, and in cities all across the Spanish state, as we reported last week in Workers World. One of the biggest of the European demonstrations took place in London, England, where, according to the Huffington Post, some 15,000 people marched on July 19 in a march that gathered people from all over the island. There were also demonstrations in Dublin, Ireland.

Just as in the U.S., there were demonstrations to the north from Montreal in Quebec to Vancouver, B.C., Canada. In Australia, there were pro-Gaza demonstrations in Perth, Canberra and Melbourne on July 19 and in Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide on July 20. More than 1,000 people held a similar protest in Auckland, New Zealand.

While the Israeli state still has the full backing of the major imperialist oppressors — the so-called international community — its war crimes in Gaza are diminishing the number of people who might previously have been misled. The organization “Jews Against Genocide,” which includes Israeli Jews, held demonstrations in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and before Israeli embassies and consulates in Madrid, San Francisco, Stockholm and Copenhagen — with more scheduled. They set aflame dolls covered in red paint before the holocaust memorial museum on July 12.

Another people displaced by a settler-state, the Diné (called Navajo) people, held a protest in Window Rock on the Diné Reservation in Arizona on July 17 against “the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian region of Gaza and Navajo President Ben Shelly’s partnership with the state of Israel outside the Navajo Council Chambers.” (Navajo Times)

 http://www.iacenter.org/palestine/gaza-world-072314/






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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 26 2014 at 02:24
Ahhhhhh....ain't nothing like some good 'ol terror for achieving piece.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 26 2014 at 02:30
Typically simplistic bollocks. Svetonio, you ought to be ashamed of yourself.

It is articles, and sentiments, such as this that persuaded me a few years back to move away from the so-called Socialist Left movements (there are many of them - they split more often than I have tea).

When will you lot realise that it is not just a question of Palestinian's innocent and good, and Israeli's Zionist, Capitalist. And, by extension, bad or evil.

The Palestinian question is a tragedy, most certainly for the people who have to live there, if you can call it a life.

However, when you have a bunch of nut cases (and this is most certainly what the leaders of Hamas are) lobbing missiles at you (very cowardly being sent from populated areas or hospitals and schools), or sending wretches over to blow themselves to Kingdom come in order to take Jewish lives (with, of course, the promise of an eternally grateful God providing suitably eager virgins), then just how on earth do you expect Israel to react? When you have a shocking ruling clique continuing to demand the obliteration of the "Jewish State", when will there be any room for any meaningful compromise or negotiation.

I am watching an interview on BBC with some UN chappie now. He, rightly, points out the senseless slaughter and the need for a permanent ceasefire. I fully agree with him.

However, when people begin to realise that there is wrong and evil on both sides of the divide, and the need for compromise on both sides, not just one, then we might just get somewhere.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 26 2014 at 02:45
^Well put. The two sides are, without doubt, as bad as each other.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 26 2014 at 03:01


Abdul Rahman Al-Burgan (9 years old), in front of his house near the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron in the occupied West Bank.
Despite the child's screaming and begging, but that did not satisfy the soldiers' aggression. One of them kicked him without any pity.
This is the second time during a month in which this child was beaten.
His father's leg was cut in a car accident a year ago and is having difficulty in providing food for his children.




A female Israeli soldier beats and spits on 3 Palestinian children while her colleague is seen picking up stones and throwing them at the children as they drive away. Ras at-Tira checkpoint, Qalandia.




The Israeli army has expressed a note of contrition after a television station aired a videotape showing an army assault on a Palestinian home in which a mother of five children died.



Israeli soldiers beating a Palestinian girl.





Israel stop the nonsense!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 26 2014 at 03:03
Originally posted by sleeper sleeper wrote:

^Well put. The two sides are, without doubt, as bad as each other.

Sorry but no. Putting aside mistakes that happen in every war, Israel is always reacting. You have no idea how much thought and planning is put on those air strikes. If you and your family choose to live in your house while it serves as a missile bunker (after you get phone texts and mail that your house is gonna be demolished) then it's on you buddy. I mean would you send your kids dancing in a field mine and then accuse the man who planted them there?

But I wonder what would you offer to a country that are taking about 150-200 missiles a day to do?



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 26 2014 at 03:03
Originally posted by ProgMetaller2112 ProgMetaller2112 wrote:

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 26 2014 at 03:06
And Svetonio I can post videos that show the exact opposite, so do you have anything meaningful to say?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 26 2014 at 03:10

A professor and researcher for a right-wing Israeli think tank suggested in an interview earlier this month that raping Arab women was the only way to deter suicide bombers.

After Palestinians allegedly abducted and killed three Israeli teens in late June, Bar-Ilan University professor Dr. Mordechai Kedar spoke with a Hebrew-language radio show about what could be done to stop Hamas...

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 26 2014 at 03:10
My condolences to the Palestinian people caught up in this mess. Hamas, their allies/supporters/etc. and any group like them, on the other hand, can go step on a Lego brick for all I care.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 26 2014 at 03:11
It's very sad.  Someday Israelis and Palestinians will be friends and work together but that's a long way off.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 26 2014 at 03:13
Is that guy trolling about the rape thing or is he dead serious about that?
 



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 26 2014 at 03:16

This Video is to show the Jewish Community around the world among others who are outraged that there religion Judaism has been hijacked by Zionists who happen to be secular. The Zionists are using the sympathy of the Jews from events in World War 2 to justify there Brutal Occupation of Palestine and the Ethnic Cleansing of Arabs from the region. The Recent Assault on Gaza Has united people around the world with a common enemy which is zionism and this will help bring Justice to the Oppressed, We Recognise Jews Who stand with the palestinians and a message sent from all quarters of the world to the Palestinians You Are Not Alone.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 26 2014 at 03:21
Originally posted by KingCrInuYasha KingCrInuYasha wrote:

Is that guy trolling about the rape thing or is he dead serious about that?
 

Yes, sadly that proffessor is actually well know right-wing activist in Israel. 

Quote “You have to understand the culture in which we live,” Kedar explained in the June 1 interview, according to a transcript published by Haaretz. “Terrorists like those who kidnapped the children and killed them — the only thing that deters them is if they know that their sister or their mother will be raped in the event that they are caught. What can you do, that’s the culture in which we live.”

You can read the full story here




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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 26 2014 at 03:31
A lot of good that will do, the terrorists will just use regular bombs, grenades, rockets, guns and the like.

To paraphrase a quote from Stalag 17: "Just because the terrorists are dumb, that doesn't mean that they're stupid."
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 26 2014 at 03:37

Hundreds of protesters take to the streets of New York to rally against the ongoing violence between Israel and Gaza. Nathan Frandino reports.




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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 26 2014 at 03:41
^ Yeah we friggin get it, people are pissed, we watch the news too -

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 26 2014 at 03:45

Thousands of people in Paris and Lyon have rallied to express their protest against Israel’s military operation in Gaza, which has resulted in over 600 deaths, many of them children. Read more: http://on.rt.com/k87ods
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 26 2014 at 03:47
Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

It's very sad.  Someday Israelis and Palestinians will be friends and work together but that's a long way off.

It will be when Palestina will be a free country.
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