Save Lebanon March

[Annie]

This was sent to me by a GP who has campaigned tirelessly for a proper inquest into the death of Dr Kelly.

Annie

Do not open the link if pictures that are best seen by a forensic pathologist will upset you.

http://fromisraeltolebanon.info/

But we are all citizens of this still beautiful world.

It does seem that any lessons from WW1, Guernica, WW2 and its death camps, Vietnam etc have not been taught to the psychopaths who lead our nations. Bush would never have heard of Guernica, and Blair also.

Note that the US had given the nod for Israel to execute a long planned bombardment of Lebanon on the pretext of two captured Israeli soldiers.
We will not discuss the thousands upon thousands of Palestinians who have been abducted in the early hours by the Israeli Occupation Force. >80 last night in Nablus. Or how some never face a secret military court even. Or that over 300 minors are in gaol, and over 70 women. The public service broadcaster tends to skate over these things.

I have to send this because our Parliament is worse than supine in the face of an amoral government which is complicit in the gravest of war crimes. Few of our representatives, stand for law and humanity. Furthermore, the BBC has deliberately blunted and slanted its reports. C4 News has not - largely. Aside from the latter, only those who use the www will see much truth. These 3 links spring to mind:-

http://electronicintifada.net/ http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/ http://www.palestinecampaign.org/

If you want to show your outrage there is a march this Saturday at 12 noon - gathering Whitehall Place between Victoria Embankment and Whitehall

Nearest tubes: Embankment and Charing Cross Rally in Hyde Park Corner

We have nothing in our democracy with which to stop these nightmares. It is 60 years on from the Nuremberg Trials. What the hell!

For justice, reason and democracy David

[Annie]

Dave and I are going to be there. Anyone else up for it?

[freddie]

I'll be there. Will you have leaflets annie or should I try and print some out tonight?

[Dr Doom]

I went along to one of these STW marches in July and was a bit disheartened by how few '9 11 inside job' protestors there were.

Are you going along to protest about 9 11? Do you need to fill out a separate protest form? Would I be allowed to use a bullhorn?

I would be up for it, do you have a banner or something we can carry?

[Annie]

Freddie

If you have time to do some leaflets, that would be great. I'm not sure if we shall have time to do any, as we have to be out tonight.

Dr Doom

We were just going along as part of this demo. I heard a rumour that this may be a silent protest, so loudspeakers etc may not be needed! But check the site.

See you tomorrow.

Regards

Annie

[kookomula]

If you want to meet up PM me your number and I will try to co-ordinate a meeting between us all and will call tomorrow 10-11am to let you know location/time etc.

Donna

[kookomula]

I think the easiest thing to do for those of us who want to meet is to congregate at Nelsons Column at 11.30am. It is currently being cleaned and is surrounded by boards so lets meet on the left side, that's left if you are standing out front of the National Gallery. I'll be wearing pink sunglasses.

My number is 07789 052 004

Donna

[ian neal]

9/11 to WWIII

Good article from RINF.com

http://www.rinf.com/columnists/news/from-911-to-ww3

Let there be no doubt that the current military crisis in the Middle East could potentially take this world to the very brink of a global crisis.

But, as 9/11 activists, we must ask ourselves whether there is any relevance to this conflict, which to many Americans seems so very far away, and our own history of violence here at home on 9/11.

The answer is clear. 9/11 was an act of evil perpetrated by evil people whom threaten the stability of the entire world. 9/11 was a modern day Pearl Harbor that ushered the western world into a new age of global conflict that just now is playing out in a regional War that portends an ever-widening global conflict and dangerous clash of civilizations.

The stakes could not possibly be higher.

9/11 remains iconic in this sense. The world trade center still towers over all of us at the cross-roads of history.

It is easy to see how we have gotten here – from there. The trauma of 9/11 was so skillfully converted into a system of fear and oppression, where facts became secondary to human emotions - hate and fear - and American foreign policy descended into hubris. The “Axis of Evil” was declared. Anthrax attacks bludgeoning our legislature into submission, and yielding the Patriot Act. Myriad police-state tactics initiated here and abroad. Human rights and human dignity traded in for renditions and torture. The Media capitulating and complicit in a War of aggression against Iraq, with fictions layered upon fictions that they tacitly or overtly supported and spread. Nuclear ambitions and missile tests in the Sea of Japan. The radicalization of Iran. The end to diplomacy. The War on academia, the United Nations and the judiciary branch of government. Xenophobia at home. Civil liberties evaporating. Dry wood thrown on the flames of paranoia.

And now this. Israel at War.

The current conflict in the Middle East has everything to do with 9/11. It is the product of fear and paranoia that is, to a certain extent, the self fulfilling prophesy of those members of the Project for the New American Century who conceived of a “new Pearl Harbor,” laying bare their naked ambitions and preconceived notions that there could be a ‘benefit’ from an inconceivable act of violence on American soil. To these people human lives mean nothing. Their ambitions are as transparent as their policies.

As 9/11 activists these truths are self-evident.

In this atmosphere of uncertainty 9/11 Activism becomes more relevant than ever before. The stakes could not possibly be higher. It is now not just simply a matter of revealing the truth behind 9/11, we are now confronted with our own mortality and the lives of millions of world citizens at the mercy of a policy gone tragically wrong. As 9/11 activists we are essentially the antidote for violence. We denounce those responsible for 9/11 as vigorously as we oppose those who would seek to push millions of lives over the edge, into the chasm of all-out-War in the Middle East.

Where will it end? What would victory look like? Can anyone truly win a global world War in this day and age? Could the euphemism of WMDs, so oft used and misused as a justification for War, suddenly become a painful reality – another self fulfilling prophesy? Could we be confronted with the prospects of a tragedy of global proportions? Could we see a cathartic release of energy, in the form of violence, that will engulf ALL TRUTHS and conventional wisdom in the cauldron of all-out-War?

9/11 Activism has been, and will always remain, a non-violent movement for peace. 9/11 Truth has always been a call for level-headed self examination and accountability. We cannot add to the flames of anger. We will only serve to feed the beast.

But, all could be lost if we do not act soon.

I call upon all of you to unite, and put down your theories and debates – and organize.

ORGANIZE!

We need action. And fast. We need one millions citizens in the streets of Washington DC, banging on pots and pans, and refusing to leave.

We need to chain ourselves to the gates of power.

We need to force alternate viewpoints on the Media, peacefully by FORCE.

We need to reclaim our place as citizens, at the seats of power, and refuse to budge.

We need civil disobedience and loud angry voices that will be as dedicated to this cause as the patriots who landed on the beaches of Normandy – taking our own beachhead in the streets of Washington.

We need to shut down the Media – peacefully but forcefully - starting in Rockefeller Center at NBC headquarters – and the New York Times building – by laying down in front of their trucks and occupying their plazas and lobbies - declaring our intentions to reject this trail of tears and lies - that started on 9/11 - and leads us all to the battlegrounds of World War 3.

If not now – when?

[kookomula]

Whistles, cheers and applause ...........

[kbo234]

Well said Ian.

[ian neal]

Thanks but not my writing: the good people at RINF are responsible

[alkmyst]

So, the Blair Government has permitted another 'Stop the War' march later today. Permitting the march to take place is necessary to maintaining the facade of an ersatz democracy.

At least one million people protested against UK participation in the invasion of Iraq ...the media reported that there were maybe 50,000 people on parade.

Tony Blair took absolutely no notice whatsoever and sent the British troops into an illegal war. Why didn't Tony take any notice? Mainly because the protest was no more than a 'token gesture'.

OK, so a million people hit the streets in London alone and were joined by many millions more in towns and cities around the world ...but it was still no more than a 'token protest'!

Protest marches that take place at the weekend are of minimal consequence. Police and other emergency service personnel benefit from a few hours of overtime, the train, bus and coach companies make a few extra bucks 'cos a million people want to be in London, food vendors do very well but in terms of overall effect, the impact on Goverment is zip ... zilch... nada (for Government read Tony Blair - the Cabinet is inconsequential).

Everybody has a great day and feels good that they made the effort to join the march ...but in the overall scheme of things? It matters not a jot!

So how do we change this? Whether 10,000, 100,000 or one million people turn up to protest in today (by this time the escalation in the Levant will be imminent!), they need to be prepared to stay there ...until Tony takes real notice.

Go with backpacks loaded with sandwiches, snacks, fruit and water ...as much as you can carry. Be prepared to share what you have with your fellow marchers but be ready to stay for two, three, ...seven ... ten days and then some. Stay in London for however long it takes. Imagine this scenario repeated across the world? Do you think that it might get some attention?

Alternatively? Have a nice day out in London ... then go home and watch the NeoCon psychopaths and puppet Tony launch another illegal war ... in your name and in the name of feedom and democracy.

Two million people took to the streets of Madrid after the bombings on March 11, 2004. An estimated eleven million took to the streets across Spain. The goverment was defeated in the general election which followed shortly afterwards and Spanish troops were subsequently removed from the coalition of the (un)willing.

Peaceful protest can make a difference and the difference will be directly proportional to the determination of the people to make their voices heard.

Please also bear in mind that due to the determination of Tony Blair to continue with his quest to introduce more and more restrictive legislation, this may be one of the last chances that the British public has to express the strength of public opinion via the medium of peaceful protest.

The reality is that you'll all be back at work on Monday ...and Tony is grateful for you spending your money in the capital. Other than that? Have a nice day.

'Cos until we get serious about taking these psychopaths out of power ... nothin's gonna change.

Come on Middle England ... Prove me wrong!

Al K Myst

[flamesong]

[ian neal]

The following related information from Ian H and Stop the War newsletter

Any feedback from supporters who went to the demonstration? Thanks

Crisisnewsletter will be coming back on air shortly. In the meanwhile here are the details of todays UK demos (below) and some bullet points.

* Even the tories have condemned Isreal/US's lack of proportionality (ie war crimes) in its (preplanned) response to the capture of three Israeli soldiers. How much did Blair's loyalty to US/Isreal cost? Lord Levy knows.

* Have no faith in the media's favourite Washington Democrat Hilary Clinton. Last week she addressed a specially called pro-Israel rally in New York. A mere 5,000 people attended, but that's not why she was there. Clinton is the biggest recipent of AIPAC funds of all US politicians, like Blair she's on the payroll (but much more expensive).

* Most jewish people opposed the state of Isreal - until they were wiped out by the nazis. The Bush dynasty were the US arm of the nazis (check it, Bush assets were seized during WW2 for trading with the enemy), ordinary jewish people were their victims then and victims now of the new hybrid zionazis. Ordinary people are always the victims of the empire.

* Next time they wave the human rights flag to justify more attacks like the aggression against Iraq, just remember Lebanon 2006.

* Don't believe Bush/Blair want peace. Peace and democracy would be a disaster for the empire. The Project for a New American Century strategy papers, tacitly accepted by most of Washington, are quite explicit on this.

* The dream of Isreal has ended in nightmare, its time to question the two state solution. If the state of Israel is wiped peacefully off the face of the map, like the Soviet Union, like Czechoslovakia, like Scotland all were, the world might be a better place, it could hardly be worse than now.

* Blair and Becket are condemned out of their own mouths as war criminals. The courts may well accept that with no other alternative available to the private citizen, reasonable use of force, for instance an occupation of Labour's HQ, would be justified to prevent war crimes.

* Watch out for a US/Israel false flag operation. US military sources are privately warning of a likely attack on evacuees, to be blamed on Hizbollah. How else can they achieve the planned attack on Iran?

STOP THE WAR COALITION
NEWSLETTER No. 2006/25
19 July 2006
Email office@stopwar.org.uk
Telephone 020 7278 6694
Web: www.stopwar.org.uk

IN THIS NEWSLETTER:
1) LEBANON TORN TO SHREDS
2) WHO ARE THE TERRORISTS?
3) RACISM OF THE WESTERN MEDIA
4) WHEN STATE TERROR BECOMES "SELF DEFENCE"

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1) LEBANON TORN TO SHREDS
END ISRAEL'S CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY
JOIN THE DEMONSTRATIONS 22 JULY (See below)
* More than 300 killed
* 500,000 flee their homes
* All major road destroyed, no supplies reaching many areas
* Apartment buildings, churches, mosques, petrol stations bombed
* Lebanon's largest dairy farm and pharmaceutical plant destroyed
* Desperate need for water, medicines and sanitation for those fleeing Israel's bombardment

EMERGENCY DEMONSTRATION
END ISRAEL'S BARBARISM NOW
LONDON: SATURDAY 22 JULY

(Note change of assembly point)
ASSEMBLE WHITEHALL PLACE, SW1, 12 NOON
(Nearest tube: Embankment. Please note there are some tube restrictions this
weekend)

ROUTE: Whitehall Place, Trafalgar Square, Pall Mall, Piccadilly, Berkeley Street, Grosvenor Square (by US Embassy), Park Lane, Hyde Park.

ORGANISED BY: Stop the War Coalition, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Muslim Association of Britain, British Muslim Initiative, Lebanese organisations.

STEWARDS NEEDED FOR LONDON DEMONSTRATION: If you would like to help us organise the demonstration on 22 July, contact the StWC office: office@stopwar.org.uk, Tel 020 7278 6694. Stewards' meeting point Embankment Tube at 10.00am

EMERGENCY DEMONSTRATIONS ROUND THE COUNTRY: Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow, Kirkcaldy, Manchester, Newcastle, Norwich, Sheffield, York.
Details: http://tinyurl.com/naz5d

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2) WHO ARE THE TERRORISTS?
20 year old lebanese student TANYA NASR describes Israel's crimes against humanity:

We have been under Israeli attack since last Wednesday, 12 July, 2006, following the capture of two Israeli soldiers for the purpose of exchanging them for 6 Lebanese prisoners who have been in Israeli prisons for 25 years.

Where do I start? Do I talk about the monstrosity of Israel? Or even worse, of the American support of the ugly war and their refusal of any discussion of a ceasefire?

Well, why should "Condi" care? It's not her children who are being massacred while trying to flee away from the chaotic Israeli fire! Anyhow, Bush considers that Syria should press Hizbullah to "stop this *" (as a mic picked up for Bush during a lunch at the G8 summit). Yes Mr. President, a whole nation being brought to the ground over its peoples' heads is "*", hitting the Red Cross cars who are trying to save what is left of the people under the rubble is "*". Hitting the Civil Defense outpost and tearing more than 20 civilians into pieces and injuring more than 50 is "*".

They say "we" are the terrorists. Is terrorism defending one's land and trying to get back one's own prisoners? Regardless of Hizbullah's strategies, beliefs and aims, whether we agree with them or not, by international law, a resistance group has a right to capture people for the purpose of exchanging prisoners with the enemy. I ask a simple question: whether Hizbullah is eligible or not, whether they are right or not, is the capture of two prisoners a sufficient excuse to start a full-fledged war against another country and kill hundreds of civilians and destroy all its infrastructure?

The American government says it is Israel's right to defend itself. Yes. But does Israel defend itself by massacring whole families by hitting their homes and burying them under the rubble of their houses? Does it defend itself by bombarding vehicles that are carrying tens of refugees, most of whom are children, who were trying to run away? These people were running away from the horrible attacks after Israel itself asked them to evacuate saying it wanted to hit their town...they hit these towns, and blew their people into pieces. Could this get any more monstrous? And they say we are terrorists!

Writing about the horrendous things that Israel is doing with the blessing of the United States is a never ending task Maybe things were meant to happen this way, but what hurts most is being under this severe attack, and seeing my people and my beloved country falling into pieces while the international media portrays Israel as the victim and us as the murderers. Furthermore, Israel's minister of foreign affairs states that they have killed more than 300 terrorists in Lebanon. Are newborns, children, mothers and the elderly terrorists?

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3) RACISM OF THE WESTERN MEDIA
Jonathan Cook writes:
"If anyone doubted the racism of our Western media, here it was proudly on display. The BBC apparently considers their Beirut reporter's first duty to find out what meals HMS Gloucester's chef will be preparing for the evacuees. Lebanese and Palestinian civilians die unnoticed by the Western media (though not by the Arab channels) while we learn of onboard sleeping arrangements on the ship bound for Cyprus." READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE: http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article5106.shtml

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4) WHEN STATE TERROR BECOMES "SELF DEFENCE"
Paul Craig Roberts writes:
"Many Muslims believe that Bush and Israel see them as animals to be slain. On July 17, neocon John Bolton, Bush's unconfirmed ambassador to the UN, gave credence to this Muslim belief when he announced that Israelis killed by terrorists were more important than the Lebanese civilians killed by Israel.

Bolton said that there is no "moral equivalence" between Lebanese civilians killed by Israel and Israeli civilians killed by Muslim terrorists: "It's simply not the same thing to say that it's the same act to deliberately target innocent civilians, to desire their deaths, to fire rockets and use explosive devices or kidnapping versus the sad and highly unfortunate consequences of self-defense."

In Bolton's sick mind, Lebanese civilians are not experiencing terrorism when Israel deliberately targets them and drops high explosives on their apartment buildings, streets, bridges, and power plants, and bombs the Beirut International Airport. This, says Bolton, is Israel acting in self-defense." READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE: http://www.antiwar.com/roberts/?articleid=9354

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From Ian Henshall, co-author 911 Revealed, publisher of Crisis Newsletter and www.911dossier.co.uk. He is also proprietor of Coffee Plant
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[ian neal]

Excellent leaflet from Jewish Socialists' Group distributed at the demonstration on 22nd July 2006

JEWS SPEAK OUT AGAINST ISRAELI AGGRESSION
END THE KILLING IN GAZA, LEBANON AND ISRAEL!
The Jewish Socialists’ Group unreservedly condemns Israeli military aggression in Gaza and Lebanon, the appalling loss of civilian life on all sides in this conflict, and continued imprisonment without trial of thousands of Palestinians whose “crime” is to oppose Israel’s occupation.

When Israel commits acts of aggression, it does so in the name of its government and military command and not in the name of Israeli civil society or of Jewish people in the Diaspora. Israel does not speak or act in our name, nor in the name of its own civilians whose life it endangers.

This is not a religious conflict of Jews against Muslims but a question of human rights, social justice and freedom from occupation. It suits the Israeli government very well to define the conflict as “us” v “them”– Jews v Muslims – as this undercuts opposition within Israeli society and among Diaspora Jews and divides the Palestinians. The anti-war movement here and in the Middle East must unite under the secular banners of social justice, democracy and human rights and oppose any attempts to draw lines on religious grounds.

In Israel there are protests against the aggression calling for a just, negotiated solution.

Increasing numbers of civilians are refusing military service in Lebanon or in the Occupied Territories.

We express our support and solidarity for them. The Israeli government is imposing media restrictions on reporting from Gaza. The international media are imposing their own blackout on the protests within Israel led by groups such as Gush Shalom (Peace Bloc). It is vital that the anti-war and pro-Palestinian movements do everything to strengthen the opposition within Israel and within Jewish communities.

In Britain 300 Jews signed a whole page advert in The Times condemning Israel’s collective punishment of the people of Gaza. The Jewish people and Israeli civilians are not at war with the Palestinians. The parents of the kidnapped Israeli soldiers have said that Israel should be prepared to negotiate an exchange of prisoners – but Bush and Blair disagree. They are encouraging Israel’s aggression and threatening to draw Syria and Iran into the conflict.

Jewish Socialists work for a negotiated solution to the Israel/Palestine conflict to bring about a peaceful future in the region. This must be based upon equality not discrimination, democracy not theocracy, and human rights for all.

Join the Jewish Socialists’ Group. Read Jewish Socialist magazine.
Support European Jews for a Just Peace www.ejjp.org
JSG BM 3725 London WC1N 3XX www.jewishsocialist.org.uk

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