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London Israeli Embassy protest cancelled

peace? | 17.08.2006 16:09 | Lebanon War 2006 | Anti-militarism | London

Stop the War Coalition has just announced that it has cancelled the demonstration that it had planned outside the Israeli Embassy this Saturday.

The protest planned for the Israeli Embassy in London on Saturday 19 August has been cancelled. The rebuilding of Lebanon has begun. The Israeli Defence Forces are leaving the country that they barely occupied but tried to break through aerial bombardment. This was Bush and Blair’s war as much as Israel’s. They gave Israel the green light to continue the attacks on the Lebanon, which killed more than 1,000, injured many thousands more and destroyed the country’s infrastructure. This is a serious setback for the US/UK project of reordering the Middle East.

The London meeting with Lebanese journalist Omar Nachabe will take place as advertised. This will be an opportunity to listen to an eye-witness account of recent events in Lebanon and to hear speakers on the political implications.

EYEWITNESS REPORT FROM LEBANON
Friday 18th August 18.30
Friends Meeting House, Euston Road, London WC1
(Opposite Euston Station)

Speakers include:
OMAR NACHABE, Senior journalist Beirut newspaper Al-Akhbar, eyewitness to Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon
TONY BENN, President, Stop the War Coalition
JEREMY DEAR, Gen Sec, National Union of Journalists
LINDSEY GERMAN, Convenor, Stop the War Coalition

Omar Nachabe is also speaking in Manchester and Liverpool, see
 http://www.stopwar.org.uk/new/events/index.htm

Useful recent articles on Lebanon & Gaza:

Noam Chomsky Interview: Apocalypse Soon
 http://www.counterpunch.org/chomsky08162006.html

Robert Fisk: Israel wasn't hoping for this
 http://www.counterpunch.org/fisk08152006.html

Jonathan Cook: The real war crimes
 http://www.counterpunch.org/cook08162006.html

[edited version of Stop the War Coalition email circular, www.stopwar.org.uk]

peace?

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so....

17.08.2006 16:51

....when the bombings are being reported, they are happing. when they aren't being reported, they aren't happening.

so we have to protest when the bombing are being reported, but not when the are not.

interesting

so, is palestine no longer occupided? is this why the the demo has been cancelled?

i am confused, or maybe not. the stwc clearly lack any serious direction and support for those that are oppressed by imperialism!

stwc is a pro-imperialist organisation, or so it seams when you think about it.

tipobarra


Indeed.......

17.08.2006 19:18

...Stop the war may have cancelled their demo, but it doesn't stop everyone else turning up.

Matron


What did you expect?

18.08.2006 08:20

The stw own the copywrite for protest, there is nothing you can do about it. If you try a protest of your own you will arrested for copyright infringement by the zionista middle class sellout party.

Only anti semites would consider holding a protest after the israelis have very kindly stoped killing children for a while.

What about iran, their not nice, you could hold a protest at their place - no one would hassle you as well, cause they hate our freedoms.

karen elliot


Israel Out of Lebanon!

18.08.2006 10:21

Doesn't quite have the same resonance it did before Israel, er, pulled out of Lebanon, does it?

Pragmatist


Re: Israel Out of Lebanon!

18.08.2006 21:57

Israel has not yet withdrawn from Lebanon, they continue to kill there and in Gaza.

ceasefire when


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