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Pics and report from Downing Street anti-Sharon protest.

kriptick | 15.07.2003 03:22 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Social Struggles | London | World

Many thousands of people gathered outside Downing Street, London to protest against the Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, who was invited into the home of liar Blair.

The story of the day in a nutshell.
The story of the day in a nutshell.



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The world is watching.
The world is watching.

Poles apart.
Poles apart.

Support came from all kinds of people
Support came from all kinds of people

Many reminders of unlawfully arrested and imprisoned people.
Many reminders of unlawfully arrested and imprisoned people.


There was a very good turnout of several thousand noisy protesters determined to let the suspected war criminal Sharon and liar Blair hear their disgust at his presence in Britain. Everyone there felt deeply offended that Sharon had been allowed into the country and also that he was being entertained in style by our lying prime minister Blair. For a change there were far more protesters than police which was very heartening to see and because of this we were able to chase the police from our pavement space and we also managed to dismantle a complete line of their sheep pens.

There were at least two arrests of demonstrators by police during the protest. The real injustice of course is that Sharon himself was not arrested upon entering the country (like former Chilean dictator Pinochet was several years ago) as he has been linked directly to many very serious human rights abuses including the murder of 69 Palestinians at Qibya in 1953 and for encouraging the slaughter of several thousand Palestinians in the refugee camps in Lebanon in 1982 when he was defence minister. These accusations are just as serious as those under which the former Serb leader Milosevic has been arrested and tried at The Hague. Sharon has already been accused of these crimes in a Belgian court so presumably will not be visiting that country in the near future.

Since becoming prime minister, Sharon has massively inflamed the tension between Israelis and Palestinians with his scorched earth policy of Palestinian housing and land destruction, illegal land grabs, the building of the apartheid wall far from the agreed boundary and numerous brutal incursions into Palestine by Israeli troops that leave many civilians dead including children and foreign peace workers.

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Display the following 12 comments

  1. The People of London Spoke With ONE Voice — Omneo
  2. This whole text is bollocks! — mb
  3. How Many Must Die Before It Becomes Serious? — Omneo
  4. slurp slurp lovely coffee — mb
  5. Can youactually make sense? — Omneo
  6. to Omneo — mb
  7. To MB — Omneo
  8. HUH? — Mike
  9. to omneo — mb
  10. Pro-Israeli state-agents peddling disinformation and dividing opinion — markibrown
  11. shabra — hk
  12. America Must Be Slapped Down — Lee

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