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Call out - Protest at French embassy Friday

Viva Palestine | 16.02.2012 10:30 | Palestine

We are calling for a protest this Friday after prayers for a protest outside the French embassy in London

French Embassy
58 Knightsbridge
London SW1X 7JT

This protest is to call attention to the ruling in France where Israeli physician, Dr. David Yehuda was acquitted of libel against Mohammed al-Dura's father
The court overturned the libel conviction of Dr. David Yehuda, who was sued by the father of Mohammed al-Dura, the boy who became a powerful symbol of the second intifada.


Jamal al-Dura had displayed to international media outlets scars on his body he claimed were caused by bullets fired by Israel Defense Forces soldiers.
In a 2008 interview with a French Jewish weekly an Israeli orthopedic surgeon, Dr. David Yehuda disputed the elder Dura's claim. Yehuda said the scars were not related to the incident in which Mohammed al-Dura, who was 12 years old, died. Rather, Yehuda said, they were the result of an assault on Dura by Hamas militants who accused him of collaborating with Israel, as well as subsequent surgery performed by Yehuda himself in 1994.

Yehuda, together with the reporter and editor of the French publication, were convicted of libel by a French court in April and ordered to pay thousands of euros in compensation. Yesterday's ruling was the result of Yehuda's appeal of his conviction. The photos of the Duras, father and son, taking cover behind a barrel during an exchange of gunfire between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants, near the Netzarim junction in the Gaza Strip, remains one of the most enduring images of the second intifada.

Israel initially apologized for the boy's death but issued a retraction when subsequent investigations indicated the boy was most likely killed by Palestinian fire.



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What is the purpose of this demo ?

16.02.2012 12:46

Are you suggesting we protest because the court decision was flawed or because you don't agree with the verdict ?

If you are suggesting this verdict was somehow not the right one could you tell us why, thanks.

seeker of further information


Time and location meet up details

16.02.2012 13:52

Please meet at South Kensington Tube Station at 7pm. Somebody will be there with a large Palestinian flag as a rallying point. March to the embassy for protest at 7.15. There will be a support action from some Critical Mass participants who will meet us at the Tube station.

Cheers.

Viva Palestine


Post event analysis of the actual shooting

16.02.2012 15:04

In February 2004, Arlette Chabot became news director of France 2, replacing Olivier Mazerolle, who had been in the position since March 2001. On October 22, 2004, the network allowed three senior French journalists to view the footage—Denis Jeambar, the editor-in-chief of L'Express; Daniel Leconte, a former France 2 correspondent, and head of news documentaries at Arte, a state-run television network; and Luc Rosenzweig, a former managing editor of Le Monde. The journalists asked to speak to the cameraman, who was in Paris at the time, but France 2 told them he did not speak French and that his English was not good enough.
Having viewed the footage, Jeambar and Leconte wrote in Le Figaro on January 25, 2005, that there was no scene in it that showed the boy had died. When Enderlin said Muhammad was dead, they wrote "he had no possibility of determining that he was in fact dead, and even less so, that he had been shot by IDF soldiers." While they did not believe the scene was staged, they said the footage did not show the boy's death throes. "This famous 'agony' that Enderlin insisted was cut from the montage," they wrote, "does not exist."
The first 23 minutes of the footage showed Palestinians playing at war for the cameras, they said, falling down as if wounded, then getting up and walking away. A France 2 official told them, "You know it's always like that," a comment that Leconte said he found disturbing. "I think that if there is a part of this event that was staged, they have to say it," he said, "that there was a part that was staged, that it can happen often in that region for a thousand reasons." Leconte did not conclude that the shooting was faked. He said, "At the moment of the shooting, it's no longer acting, there's really shooting, there's no doubt about that." In an interview with Cybercast News, he said he believed the Palestinians had shot the boy. "The only ones who could hit the child were the Palestinians from their position," he said. "If they had been Israeli bullets, they would be very strange bullets because they would have needed to go around the corner." He dismissed France 2's explanation—that perhaps the bullets that hit the boy had ricocheted off the ground. "It could happen once, but that there should be eight or nine of them, which go around a corner? They're just saying anything."
The third journalist to view the raw footage, Luc Rosenzweig—who had previously written material about the incident for the Metula News Agency (—disagreed with Jeambar and Leconte. He concluded that the shooting had been staged, calling it "an almost perfect media crime."Jeambar and Leconte say they and Rosenzweig had agreed not to discuss what they saw on the footage until all had agreed on a response, but Rosenzweig spoke to Mena about it, and Mena published his account, concluding that it supported the allegation of staging. Jeambar and Leconte distanced themselves from that conclusion. They wrote in Le Figaro: "To those who, like Mena, tried to use us to support the theory that the child's death was staged by the Palestinians, we say they are misleading us and their readers. Not only do we not share this point of view, but we attest that, given our present knowledge of the case, nothing supports that conclusion. In fact, the reverse is true."

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The same 'Viva Palestine"

17.02.2012 08:09

Are you the same "Viva Palestine" who has been writing here ?

 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2012/02/492365.html?c=on#comments

curious


Why Muslims such as "Viva Palestine" hate Jews

17.02.2012 08:34

It must first be understood that traditional Muslims hate all non-Muslims in general. However, they hate Jews more than anybody else on Earth.


Firstly In Islam’s oral tradition, it is believed that killing one Jew is equal to the killing of fifty non-Jewish unbelievers. Every Muslim traditionally learn from the mullahs and seniors that they must hate Jews more than any other infidel. All Muslims, whether good or bad, do believe that Jews are the worst enemy of Muslims and they are advised to take cautions when dealing with Jews.

If you remember Daniel Pearl who was an American reporter and the first victim of sensational beheading by Al-Qaeda in Pakistan, committed by Khaled Shaik, in 2002, right after America removed the Taliban. In early 2011 during the uprising in Egypt, Lora Logan CBS reporter in Egypt was brutally raped and tortured because they thought she was a Jew, although she was not actually a Jew.

There is no question that every Muslim child is taught about the danger from Jews universally around the Muslims world. I have never heard any Muslim deny that Muslims universally fear and hate Jews most, period.
I do believe, Jews in the Middle East know it very well as they suffer the hatred, violence and murder on a frequent basis. But, Jews residing in the western world, do not quite understand how much Muslims hate them, and it is confusing to me that many Jews make excuses for the terrible behaviour of Muslims. Many Jewish rabbis and Jewish leaders deliberately join their hands in support of the so called “Inter-faith” meeting which is nothing but Islamic Taqiyya created only to fool Jews.

Perhaps Jews do not know how this special hatred for Jews is rooted in the Islamic theology and history. It scares me to see Islamic jihad and draconian sharia advancing globally, and I can see more Jews as allies to them. By not taking a stand against Islamists, Jews are emboldening their agenda. I am writing this to wake up Jews who are under the delusion that Islam is a religion that is fundamentally friendly to them.

This hatred has absolutely nothing to do with "stolen land" claims about Israel, which are false claims made throughout the Muslim world. The Muslim hatred of Jews pre-dates the existence of the modern state of Israel by some 1400 years and is based on verses in the Qur’an and in the hadiths. From earliest childhood on, Muslim youngsters are brainwashed to believe that Jews are the worst enemy of Allah, with Christians, polytheists, and Hindus coming after that, (A common phrase in the Muslim world, "First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people). The rationale for this hatred is that everyone must accept Islam, since Muslims believe that it is superior to all other religions and Islam is the only true religion on Earth.

When Muhammad was still weak, with only 75 to 100 followers, and was trying to convince the Jews they should accept him as the latest Biblical prophet, he lavished praise on them and reframed Biblical verses to flatter them. Thus, he chose Jerusalem as his qibla, the geographical direction to use when praying. Later, he changed it to Mecca because Jews did not respond to his religious claims, and he was furious with them . While trying to charm the Jews into accepting his new religion, Muhammed came out with sweet verses like this, showing acceptance of other religions:

Surah 2.62 Surely those who are Jews, Christians, and Sabians, whoever believes in Allah and the last day and does good, they shall have their reward from their Lord, and there is no fear for them, nor shall they grieve.

Jews should not be fooled by the peaceful verses Muhammed introduced at the beginning of his career in Mecca, as this was when he was politically weak. As soon as he became stronger, he made statements of war, which cancelled out the earlier verses.

The belief in Islam’s supremacy originated from the Qur’an. Here is a sampling of verses from the Qur’an stating that Islam and Muslims are superior to all other religions and people, and that everyone must be forced to accept Islam.
Surah 3:110 - Ye are the best of peoples, evolved for mankind, enjoining what is right, forbidding what is wrong, and believing in Allah. If only the People of the Book [Christians and Jews] had faith, it were best for them: among them are some who have faith, but most of them are perverted transgressors.
Surah 98:6 - Verily, those who disbelieve (in the religion of Islâm, the Qur’ân and Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him)) from among the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians) and Al-Mushrikûn will abide in the Fire of Hell. They are the worst of creatures.
Surah 98:7 - Verily, those who believe [in the Oneness of Allâh, and in His Messenger Muhammad (Peace be upon him)) including all obligations ordered by Islâm] and do righteous good deeds, they are the best of creatures.
Surah 3:85 - If anyone desires a religion other than Islam, it will never be accepted.
Surah 9:5 - Kill non-Muslims wherever you find them. Ambush, seize, and capture them. If they convert to Islam and pray and contribute to the cause of Islam, let them go.
Surah 48:16 - Non-Muslims must convert to Islam or they will be killed.
The following verses from the Qur’an are specifically aimed at Jews. Since Jews were the first religious group to refuse conversion, the first Islamic failure, the rage against them is intense.
Surah 5:60 Those (Jews) who incurred the Curse of Allah and His Wrath, those He transformed into monkeys and swine, those who worshipped false deities.
Surah 2:61 Abasement and humiliation were brought down upon them, [the Jews] and they became deserving of Allah's wrath; this was so because they disbelieved in the communications of Allah and killed the prophets unjustly; this was so because they disobeyed and exceeded the limits.
Surah 2:65-66 We said to the Jews who transgressed in the matter of the Sabbath: "Be ye apes, despised and rejected.”
Surah 2:96 And verily, you will find them (the Jews) the greediest of mankind for life and (even greedier) than those who ascribe partners to Allah…
Surah 4:161 Jews will suffer a painful chastisement because they lend money.
Surah 5:12-13 Allah made a covenant with the children of Israel , ..But on account of their breaking their covenant We cursed them and made their hearts hard;… and you shall always discover treachery in them excepting a few of them;
Surah 5:70 Jews called some of the messengers of God liars and some they slew.
Hadiths Calling For The Killing Of Jews
Kill The Jew Behind The Stone:
Sahih Bukhari, 4:52:177, narrated by Abu Huraira: Allah's Apostle says, "The Jews will fight with you, and you will be given victory over them so that a stone will say, 'O Muslim! There is a Jew behind me; kill him!' [This story is important enough to Muslims to be noted several times in the hadiths of Sahih Muslim]

Eradication's of Jews from Arabia
Book 019, Number 4366, narrated by 'Umar b. al-Khattib: He heard the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) say: “I will expel the Jews and Christians from the Arabian Peninsula and will not leave any but Muslim.” [This single Sahih hadith tells everything about Islamic intolerance]

The Assassinations of Jews, from various hadiths
Once Muhammed realised he could not cajole or force Jews to convert, he decided to annihilate all Jewish tribes from the vicinity of Medina. He then started a systematic elimination of most of the Jewish leaders and intellectuals who were resisting his jihad or who were obstructing his plan of converting everybody to Islam. Below is the list of assassinated Jewish leaders and intellectuals:
Ibn Sunayna, a Jewish man who was murdered simply because he was a Jew.
Abu Afak, a 120-year-old Jewish poet, murdered while he slept.
Asma bte Marwan, mother of 5 children, murdered while she slept, (described below in a sahih Hadith).
A slave women, mother of two children, murdered while she slept.
A one-eyed shepherd, murdered while he slept.
A very old woman, literally ripped in half by Muslims who captured her on a raid.
A slave girl, who was murdered because she poked fun at Muhammad.
Abdullah bin Ubayy who was killed by a disciple whom the Prophet permitted to tell a lie (“can I say something untrue, O Prophet?”…. “Yes, you may say that for Allah’s cause”) to win his (Ubayy) confidence to become a friend before killing him.
Ka’ab bin Ashraf a prominent Jewish leader in Medina who was killed by deceptive technique, (described below).
Many more people who suffered a similar fate can be added here as well. I cannot list them here because of lack of space.

The Blood Money System in Islamic Sharia Shows Contempt for Jews
According to Islamic Sharia law, there is a concept of “blood money” and this backward compensatory justice system is still practised in Saudi Arabia. Under this system, if a person has been killed or caused to die by another, the latter has to pay “blood money” or compensation, as follows:
100,000 riyals if the victim is a Muslim man
50,000 riyals if a Muslim woman
50,000 riyals if a Christian man
25,000 riyals if a Christian woman
6,666 riyals if a Hindu (or idolaters) man
3,333 riyals if a Hindu (or idolaters) woman

Jews are not eligible for blood money compensation
Sharia is silent on the blood money for a Jew. The above authentic blood money chart practising in Saudi Arabia has not included Jews; although, it has included all other most famous organised religions of the world. Reason is very clear; Jews do not deserve any blood money. Because, Jews are the arch enemies of Allah. Actually, it is negative blood money. That is, if any Muslim kills a Jew, the killer gets reward in this world and in the hereafter. Every time, whenever we read Palestinian kills a Jew, what do we read? The entire Muslim ummah praises the killer (Muslim killer I mean). The Palestinian authority even rewards the killer. If the Muslim killer kills a Jewish child, he receives even more accolades!

Conclusion
According to Islamic Sharia and Koranic teachings, Jews have no right to live in this Earth of Allah! Christians, and all other un-believers (Hindus and idolaters) are less human than Muslims and their rights are less than the rights of Muslims. This is the very reason why pure Muslims, al-Qaeda jihadis, Mullahs, Imams, earnestly believe that it is the most sacred duty of the Muslims to correct, convert, or kill all non-Muslims/infidels to purify this earth, which belongs only to Allah.

I have no idea how Muhammed can be called ‘merciful’ and Islam can be called the "religion of peace". Jews in particular must free themselves from the delusion that Islam is not a threat to them. They are a central target of Islamic annihilation. It is my heartfelt desire that militant Islam be stopped in its quest for global domination and that Jews and other non-Muslims can live in safety.

Yoav


Where were you ?

18.02.2012 08:22

Myself and a friend arrived as requested and there was nobody, we left at 8pm very pissed off.

Very unhappy


Demo was called off

18.02.2012 15:43

The demo was called off as not enough people committed to attend.

You should have checked with us first before going to the rendezvous point.

Viva Palestine


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