10 Arrested at 'Banned' Marks and Spencers Picket

Two examples of the wonderful advances in science and medicine from Israel which we should definately be boycotting

Given Imaging Ltd of Yoqneam, Israel who produce the 'PillCam', a tiny camera that patients swallow so that doctors can see their digestive tract.

InSightec Image Guided Treatment Ltd. of Tirat Carmel, Israel who produced 'ExAblate 2000', a nonsurgical way to destroy tumors by focusing ultrasound waves on them.

We must also boycott all other leading medical products from Israel and simply explain to the patients that they must die as nothing good can ever come from a Jewish State

As well as the Boycott campaign this is now a much broader issue for everyone who wants to defend the right to protest in Manchester.

We need to
DEFEND THE RIGHT TO PROTEST
LIFT THE BAN and LIFT THE CHARGES!

Due to the bail conditions are numbers will be down so we need as many people as possible to come down to the PEACE GARDENS in St Peter's Square (behind the Town Hall) this SATURDAY from 12 noon.

We have to show that Manchester has a strong tradition of political demonstation from Peterloo to the Suffragettes and we don't want our rights taken away.

Defend the right to shop without harrasment

Meet inside Marks & Spencer on Saturday to uphold our right to shop without fear of intimidation from picketers

From the outset the organised attack on our democratic right to protest has begun from inside M&S. The violence, thuggery and intimidation has been used by the Zionists to get the police to place restrictions and now ban our leafletting. Now M&S offers shelter and safety to these people to allow them to avoid losing their own right to demonstrate.

We have remained peaceful and calm. We have not responded to the provocation. Ironcally it was the Zionist aggression that once forced M&S to close their doors. We are merely exercising our right to put our view to the public on an important matter by leafletting, petitioning and having a stall.

It only goes to show what a threat we have become to the public face of M&S and to our success in bring the issue of Palestine to the people of Manchester.

We will continue to fight against the ban and the arrests in the courts and on the streets. Everyone who supports the right to protest should come along to the Peace Gardens at 12noon on Saturday.

Happy Shopper, you are absolutely right!

Every body should meet and go in to Marks and Spencer's and go shopping - or what ever people like to do in shops like M&S.

If every body went shopping, then maybe we could spread some Christmas cheer to all the customers because I hear that also on Saturday somebody has written some alternative carols.

Maybe we could even do our own cover of Band Aid's Do They Know it's Christmas but with: "Do You Know Israel Has Nuclear Bombs?" or "Ethniclly Cleanse the Worrrrrld!" and Im sure some body could do a moving pop video of singers standing around whilst children are being shot by snipers and houses are being bull dozed and in the back ground you could have Tony blair and George Bush - along with happy clappers in the UK talking of Democracy and freedom.

Or do people think that mutilated children from Iraq would move people more, or starved children from sanctions? Im sure I could find some pictures of disfigured babies, caused from Depleted Uranium lying around my house some where or even under my Christmas Tree.

So yes people, every body go shopping to M&S and sing the happy shoppers some nice songs -after all, we dont want people to know what's really going on in the world - it could poison our democracy and make us choke on our turkey.

You should not use the word ethnic cleansing with such impunity. The most serious attempts to 'ethnically cleanse' the Palestinians was by the Egyptians who killed some 50,000 and refused to take back Gaza in 1978 and by Jordan who killed 20,000 in two days.

Bet you never suggested boycotting Egyptian or Syrian goods....wonder why?

Israel has killed 3000 most of whom were terrorists. Civilians were also killed which is terrible, but then Hamas operate from civilian areas.

Regarding snipers - Shalhevet Pass was a 10 month old Israeli baby who was shot dead by a Palestinian sniper whilst in her pram. Should we put that in the Xmas Song too - or do Israeli babies not count.

Your protests were not peaceful - you used intimidatory tactics and hurled abuse at anyone who expressed their democratic right not to agree with you. This is not Iran - we have the right to disagree with you without facing abuse. This is not Cuba - we have the right to disagree with you without harrasment.

So why talk about democratic rights when you Revolutionary Communists want a system where anyone who disagrees with you will have no rights.

The public hardly noticed you, merely finding you to be irritating. the Jewish community stood up to you as you were pouring out lies and half truths and inciting racial hatred and M&S has reported that your pickets have had no effect on sales - well done.

Zionism is founded on ethnic cleansing. Even during the Mandate the Zionist colony in Palestine, the Yishuv had got 14% of the cultivable land and strictly enforced its policy of exclusively Jewish employment on land and in industry. The Jewish population tripled and continued as Weizmann (1st Israeli President) declared "Jewish immigration into Palesine was permitted to reach figures...undreamed of in 1930."

"We must expel Arabs and take their places." David Ben Gurion, future Prime Minister of Israel, 1937. In 1940 Joseph Weitz, an official of the Yishuv, responsible for Jewish colonization, noted "Between Ourselves it must be clear that there is no room for both peoples together in this country.... We shall not achieve our goal of being an independent people with the Arabs in this small Country. The only solution is a Palestine, at least Western Palestine (west of the Jordan river) without Arabs. And there is no other way than to transfer the Arabs from here to the neighbouring countries, to transfer all of them; not one village, not one tribe, should be left." ( http://www.al-bushra.org/palestine/how.htm)

From 1948-49 over 700,000 Palestinains were ethnically cleansed from their land. As even Menachim Began admits, following the Deir Yassin massacre "Of the almost 800,000 who lived on the present territory of the State of Israel, only some 165,000 are still there." ( http://www.hcef.org/hcef/index.cfm/ID/88)As Ben-Gurion boldly claimed, "on the day of destiny, that part of Palestine where the Haganah could operate was almost clear of Arabs." ( http://www.mideastmiscellany.org/Blank%20Page%201.htm)

It continued so that currently 3.9 million Palestinian refugees are registered with the UN and a further 4.5 million scattered around the borders of their homeland.

One leading memeber of Likud has recently proposed “massive ethnic cleansing” of non-Jews in Palestine-Israel as a “final solution” of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Uzi Cohen, a member of Ariel Sharon’s right-wing Likud party and a deputy in the Knesset, told Israeli public radio on Sunday there was widespread support in Israel for “the idea of ethnic cleansing”. “Many people support the idea but few are willing to speak about it publicly.” Cohen, who is also deputy mayor of the town of Raanana, said Palestinians should be given 20 years to “leave voluntarily”. “In case they don’t leave, plans would have to be drawn up to expel them by force.” ( http://vancouver.indymedia.org/news/2004/01/99667_comment.php)

It is debatable whether mass ethnic cleansing ever occurred. The Palestinian exodus occurred during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Some Palestinians left out of choice to avoid the war. But there are cases out right expulsion; whole towns were cleared out as the Israeli army didn’t want to leave places which were hostile and armed. There were also exaggerated rumors of massacres and ill-treatment which spread fear and panic among the Palestinians, contributing to the exodus.

John,

Israel bought much land off absentee Turkish landowners.

The rest is largely as 'I am no loon' states, save as to add that Jordan and Egypt in particular encouraged many Arabs to leave in order that they may, in the words of Haj Amin Al Husseini (Hitler's pal) "push them into the sea".

I really do not know if you are just naive or a total liar.

 http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmintdev/230/23005.htm#a4