 Demonstrate Saturday 10 January: Stop the Massacre : Israel Out of Gaza
Assemble 12.30pm Speakers Corner, Hyde Park
March to Israeli Embassy, Kensington High Street, London W8
760 dead, 3000 injured. Food running out, no electricity for one million people, no water for 750,000. The town of Rafah raised to the ground. You can make a difference. Join the demonstration and add your voice to the millions around the world who say this barbarism must stop.
You can make a difference. This barbarism must stop. Join the demonstration.
Download leaflet... Coaches coming from across the country... All-Scotland demonstration...
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 Shoes for the widows and orphans and all those killed
In the spirit of Iraqi journalist Muntadar al-Zaidi, who used his shoes
to protest over George Bush's war crimes, we will deliver shoes to the
Israeli Embassy at Saturday's demonstration. Please bring old shoes, so
we -- like Muntadar al-Zaidi -- can say, "This is for the widows and
orphans and all those killed."
Chris Martin from Coldplay joins actors, musicians, writers... speaking out
 Chris martin, the singer in Coldplay, has added his name to the Stop the War's letter, which states: "We speak out for the people of Gaza. What is happening there is a
crime against humanity. We are asking everyone to be at Speaker's
Corner in London at 12.30 pm on Saturday and join the march to the
Israeli Embassy." It is also signed by Tony
Benn, Annie Lennox, Peter Gabriel, Michael Nyman, Miriam Margolyes,
Nigel Kennedy, Bill Bailey, Brian Eno, Janet Suzman, Alexei Sayle, Mark
Steel, Michael Rosen, Mark Thomas, Vanessa Redgrave, Linton Kwesi
Johnson and many more. See the full list here...
This is what Israel's barbarity looks like
Anyone with a semblance of humanity watching this video, hearing
what the doctor in a Gaza hospital says, will know the extent of
Israel’s
barbarity.
“This is Dante’s Inferno, hell. There are injuries here you just don’t
want to see. Children with their abdomens open
and legs cut off. We just had a child and we had to amputate both legs
and an arm. Their only crime is that they are civilians, Palestinians,
living in Gaza. The bombing has to stop immediately. This cannot go on.
Anyone who portrays this as a clean war against another army is lying.
This is an all out war against the civilian population in Gaza. They
cannot flee as other populations can in war time because Israel has
them trapped in a cage. Israel is bombing one and a half million people trapped
in a cage.”
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The Vatican has likened Gaza to a "big concentration camp". The Pope's
justice minister, Cardinal Renato Martino, said: "Look at the
conditions in Gaza: more and more, it resembles a big concentration
camp."
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Gaza has a population 1.5 million. In the last thirteen days Israel has slaughtered 765 Palestinians, 220 of them children, and injured 3500. A proportionately similar death and injury toll in Britain, with a population of 60 million, would be 30,600 dead, with 12,000 of them children, and 125,000 injured. If Britain was Gaza, Israel would be condemned by the whole world for monstrous crimes against humanity and forced to stop the carnage. The mealy mouthed statements by governments so far are pitiful. Israel is only able to act in this barbaric manner because of the support it gets from governments who habitually turn a blind eye to its war crimes.
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Have we forgotten the 17,500 dead – almost all civilians, most of them
children and women – in Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon; the 1,700
Palestinian civilian dead in the Sabra-Chatila massacre; the 1996 Qana
massacre of 106 Lebanese civilian refugees, more than half of them
children, at a UN base; the massacre of the Marwahin refugees who were
ordered from their homes by the Israelis in 2006 then slaughtered by an
Israeli helicopter crew; the 1,000 dead of that same 2006 bombardment
and Lebanese invasion, almost all of them civilians?
What is amazing is that so many Western leaders, so many presidents and
prime ministers and, I fear, so many editors and journalists, bought
the old lie; that Israelis take such great care to avoid civilian
casualties. "Israel makes every possible effort to avoid civilian
casualties," yet another Israeli ambassador said only hours before the
Gaza massacre. And every president and prime minister who repeated this
mendacity as an excuse to avoid a ceasefire has the blood of last
night's butchery on their hands.
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It was not Hamas
but the IDF that broke the ceasefire. It did so by a raid into Gaza on
4 November that killed six Hamas men... Far
from taking care to spare civilians, Israel is guilty of indiscriminate
bombing and of a three-year-old blockade that has brought the
inhabitants of Gaza, now 1.5 million, to the brink of a humanitarian
catastrophe. The Biblical injunction of an eye for an eye is
savage enough. But Israel's insane offensive against Gaza seems to
follow the logic of an eye for an eyelash.
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 The next meeting of the G20 will take place in London on April 2nd.
This meeting will be a vital opportunity for the most powerful countries in the world to break from the policies of war and neoliberalism that have caused such devestation around the world during the Bush years.
The Stop the War Coalition and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament are calling a demonstration on the day which we aim to make as broad as possible.
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