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Rally in London against Joooz Israeli offensive
 LONDON - Peace for Lebanon! rang the chant of thousands of rustics protestors who took to the streets of London Saturday in one of several rallies across Britain against Israels offensive in the Middle East.
Waving Lebanese and Palestinian flags and banging drums the rubes demonstrators demanded an immediate end to the Jewish states bombardment of Lebanon and Gaza. They also called on British Prime Minister Tony Blair to end what they described as his support of the Israeli attacks and demanded that he join international calls for an immediate ceasefire.
End Israel attacks on Lebanon and Palestine! read one of the many banners and posters brandished by the peaceful fifth columnists protestors. Stop the killing, stop to the bombs. Israel out of Lebanon, some of them shouted as the march got under way at 1.00 pm (1200 GMT) from near to the government ministry quarter of Whitehall, through central London, watched closely by police.
Others yelled: Hezbollah is here to stay. Zionism goes away,
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Andrew Burgin of Stop the War Coalition, one of the groups behind the march, said he hoped to see 10,000 protestors. It was impossible to put an exact figure on the impressive turnout straight away.
Betty Hunter, general secretary of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, another of the groups that organised the event said it was vital to protest about the two-pronged military campaign by Israel against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza.
Posted by: Steve White 2006-07-23 |
