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| mujaahid |
| 04/08/02 at 07:38:53 |
| www.bbc.co.uk/news Protests have been held across the world demanding the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the West Bank and pledging support to the Palestinian people. The Paris protests were some of the largest held in Europe Thousands took to the streets of their respective nations as Israel said it planned to speed up its military efforts ahead of a visit by US Secretary of State Colin Powell. Anger has erupted into violence in several instances, with at least one death reported. In Morocco, an estimated one million people gathered in the capital Rabat in an officially-sanctioned demonstration on Sunday. In Cairo, dozens of demonstrators held a protest outside the emergency meeting of Arab foreign ministers, many shouting "the liberation of the territories will happen with weapons and not with the peace initiative". The largest protests in Europe took place in Rome on Saturday where about 20,000 protesters marched through the centre of the city before swelling their ranks to around 50,000 in the Piazza del Popolo, the Associated Press news agency reported. A protester died in Bahrain on Sunday two days after sustaining a rubber-bullet wound during a mass demonstration outside the US embassy. The demonstration turned into a riot with protesters hurling rocks and Molotov cocktails into the embassy grounds. Jordanian officials have denied reports that the death of 10-year-old boy in a Palestinian refugee camp near Amman on Sunday was linked to earlier anti-Israel demonstrations there. Counter-demonstrations Hundreds of thousands gathered in the centre of the Moroccan capital Rabat chanting slogans and waving Palestinian flags and banners. Some American flags were set alight. Riot police line the streets, but there has been no violence so far. There have been unofficial protests and strikes by high-school students all over Morocco for the last two weeks, but this one is official. In Paris, more than 20,000 people marched to the Place de la Bastille in a protest organised by anti-racism, communist and pro-Palestinians support groups. It's important for me to show my support - these people (Palestinians) have neither land nor water Italian protester Andrea Parrella Some protesters ripped up Israeli flags while others chanted slogans against Mr Sharon. Thousands more demonstrated in the cities of Nantes, Rennes, Rouen, Lille, Strasbourg, Metz, Grenoble and Marseilles. Most of the rallies passed off peacefully, but in the south of France petrol bombs were thrown at a Jewish sports club, and Jewish organisations in the country said they were preparing to hold counter-demonstrations in the next few days. In the Swiss capital of Bern more than 9,000 people attended a pro-Palestinian rally organised by the Swiss Socialist and Green parties. And rallies across the country in Germany drew more than 5,000 people. 'Liberation' calls In Rome some marchers wore black face masks and scarves similar to those of Palestinian militants, while others carried banners calling for a "liberated Palestine". Hundreds walked across the Brooklyn Bridge in support of Palestinians "It's important for me to show my support - these people (Palestinians) have neither land nor water," protester Andrea Parrella told AP. And in the US, thousands marched demanding that Washington intervene in the Middle East crisis, with protesters walking across the Brooklyn Bridge carrying placards equating Mr Sharon with Hitler. Bahrain and Jordan saw the most violent demonstrations In the Arab world, but Lebanon has also held seven consecutive days of rallies, the largest being in the mainly-Shia Muslim city of Baalbek, where an estimated 15,000 turned out for rallies. In the Beirut suburb of Aukar violence erupted with police using tear gas to disperse crowds. In Indonesia, one of the world's most populous Muslim nation, four days of protests culminated on Friday with more than 1,000 protesters clashing with police in the capital Jakarta, some pelting the heavily fortified US embassy with rotten vegetables. |
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| bhaloo |
| 04/08/02 at 10:48:02 |
| [slm] I was watching some of these protests last night on TV, unfortunately they didn't give it enough coverage they just mentioned it briefly. |
| 04/08/02 at 10:53:39 |
| bhaloo |
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| M.F. |
| 04/08/02 at 11:10:25 |
| Assalamu alaikum You should have seen 'em yesterday here in Rabat!! Yes, it was at least a million, I'd say one and a half maybe. I watched everything from my balcony. 5 hours straight of wave after wave till they just became one whole ocean of people. Ma sha Allah the "Islamiyeen" were the most organized of all. Not surprisingly :-) I just wished that instead of shouting slogans the whole time, they had made du'a with everyone saying Ameen. That would have been so much more effective... |
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| mujaahid |
| 04/08/02 at 12:07:54 |
| [slm] Tell us more MF!! :o You were their? It must have been an awesome site!!!! What slogans were they chanting? Were they chanting slogans in support of the afghans as well? |
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| M.F. |
| 04/08/02 at 13:58:08 |
| Assalamu alaikum No they weren't shouting anything in support of Afgahnistan. Only pro Palestinian and anti israeli and american slogans. There was just about every political party you can think of. I saw a Che Guevarra flag ::) and the crescent and hammer thing towards the end. They burned a few israeli flags, though I was told they'd agreed not to burn any american ones (I guess cause Colin bowel is here today). There were groups of people from different work fields: lawyers and judges together, pharmacists and doctors etc but they all formed a huge huge river of people. There were some very creative people who'd drawn bayt al maqdis on sheets, some who had made a huge 4 sided sign with all the US products to be boycotted, there were streetkids (and others as well) shouting: here are the youth, where are the weapons! There were other shouting: Zero, al hukuma al 'arabiya, (Arab government is zero) etc etc; there were lots making takbir and shahada, there were people saying la ilaha illa Allah; wa ash-shaheed habeeb Allah (and the shaheed is Allah's beloved); there was a very funny banner in French that said: Sharon gros porc; Peres vieux singe (sharon fat pig, peres old ape), there were many many people calling for jihad, but there were also the "liberalism is the key" people. the Manar TV crew came to film from our balcony (but just because the Moroccan correspondant is a friend of my brother in law), and my friend who was with me wanted to send salams to Hassan Nasr Allah, the correspondant was very happy :) umm... what else. There was a LOT of police but al hamdu lillah no violence. There were jeers at the ministers when they stepped out of the parliament. There were small children and old people. The women ma sha Allah were amazing. There were many groups of about 1000 women protected by men making chains, and they were very well organized, almost all of them in hijab. There were beggars and intellectuals, and thousands and thousands of young people. Ma sha Allah there's so much energy, if it only could be used in the right way. Al hamdu lillah ala kulli haal. |
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| explorer |
| 04/08/02 at 14:24:54 |
| Million on Rabat streets as pro-Palestinian rallies continue As protests against the Israeli aggression against the Palestinians were staged around the world, more than a million flooded the streets of the Moroccan capital Sunday in support of the Palestinian people. Morocco, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey In Lebanon, some 200 young children dressed as suicide bombers with mock explosives strapped round their waists led a rally of 5,000 Palestinian refugees who threatened to attack embassies and hijack planes if harm came to their leader Yasser Arafat. Tens of thousands marched through Damascus. Thousands took to the streets of Barcelona and 5,000 marched peacefully through Sweden's second city Gothenburg. Thousands of Turks also demonstrated against Israel for the third day running. At least one million people filled the streets of Rabat, authorities said, with organisers tripling that number to three million protesters in support of the Palestinians. “Our last estimate is more than three million people who demonstrated on this day,” Khalid Soufiani, who heads the organisation behind the march the Association in Support of the Struggle of the Palestinian People (AMSLP), told AFP. Main thoroughfares were thronged with demonstrators protesting against Israeli military operations and shouting slogans denouncing Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and US President George W. Bush. Moroccan Prime Minister Abderrahmane Youssoufi told the crowd: “The presence of members of my government shows our solidarity of all the Moroccan political forces and institutions with the brotherly Palestinian people and President Yasser Arafat.” In Damascus, Syria's Vice President Abdul Halim Khaddam, Parliament Speaker Abdul Kader Kaddura and Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa Miro attended a rally with members of Palestinian resistance factions. These included Khaled Mishaal, head of the Palestinian Islamic Hamas movement's political wing, and Ahmad Jibril, the leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — General Command (PFLP-GC), whose group had members arrested Friday in Lebanon as they allegedly prepared to fire rockets at Israel. Demonstrators called on their leader President Bashar Assad and Lebanese President Emile Lahoud to “open the borders” with Israel to allow fighters to join the Palestinians in their struggle against Israel. In Lebanon, demonstrators at Tyre's Palestinian refugee camps south of Beirut chanted: “If Abu Ammar (Arafat's nom de guerre) falls a martyr, we will blow up embassies and hijack planes.” Small children dressed as suicide bombers with mock explosives strapped around their waists, stood at the head of the demonstration. “We are Al Aqsa Martyr Brigades” stated one poster carried by an eight-year-old girl, a reference to the armed group linked to Arafat's Fateh party that has claimed responsibility for several suicide attacks inside Israel. About 350,000 Palestinian refugees live in Lebanon. Nearly 400 Egyptians, most of them lawyers, staged a pro-Palestinian demonstration with posters reading: “Tomorrow, the revolution will take place,” and “Jerusalem Will Remain Arab.” Egypt and Jordan are the only two Arab countries to have signed peace treaties with Israel. Thousands demonstrated in Turkey for the third day running, Anatolia news agency reported. The largest rally was in Istanbul where more than 2,000 people turned out. One banner read: “No to war, fascist Sharon, get out of Palestine.” In an unconventional protest, members of a small political party sent three packets of soap to Sharon by post to remind him of the Jewish Holocaust and persuade him to end the operation against the Palestinians, Anatolia reported. “Nazi leader Adolf Hitler massacred Jews in gas chambers and then turned them into soap in ovens. It is interesting that Sharon, a Jew himself, is behaving like Hitler against the Palestinians,” a spokesman for the group said. 10,000 in Barcelona In Spain's second city of Barcelona, organisers said 10,000 people joined a rally including members of the left, union and non-governmental organisation representatives. Protesters carried placards declaring: “We are all for the Palestinians, we are all for Arafat” or “Israel is a murderer, the United States, an accomplice.” About 2,000 people protested at San Sebastian in the Basque region in northern Spain while several hundred attended a rally in neighbouring Vitoria. 5,000 in Sweden Some 5,000 people held a peaceful march through Sweden's second city Gothenburg on Sunday to protest against Israel's offensive, Swedish police said. “The demonstration was calm and quiet and no incidents were reported,” a police spokesman told AFP. The protestors carried banners reading “Support the Palestinian People's National Liberation Struggle” and “Crush Racist Israel,” Swedish news agency TT reported. The march was organised by the Association for Palestinians' Right to Return. On Saturday, between 1,500 and 2,000 people took part in a demonstration in Stockholm, organised by the Solidarity Committee for Palestine. Belgium:US flags burned Thousands of protesters marched through the Belgian capital Brussels Sunday demanding an end to Israeli military campaign and shouting anti-American slogans. Some demonstrators burned American flags close to the US embassy and yelled “Sharon-Bush: Murderers.” Organisers said more than 30,000 people took part in the march, but police said there were about 10,000. Security was tight after a pro-Palestinian rally in northern Antwerp turned into a riot last Wednesday when some of the 1,500 demonstrators started attacking cars and smashing store windows. Indonesian prayer rally Thousands of Indonesian Muslims burned Israeli flags at a mass prayer rally for Palestinians in Jakarta Sunday, calling Israel “the real terrorist” for its latest offensive in the Palestinian territories and accusing Jakarta of being weak in its criticism of the Jewish state. Girls in white veils and men in white prayer robes and green headbands emblazoned with “Save Palestine,” some in the black and white checked headscarf, prayed and cheered orators who slammed Israel's military occupation and the Indonesian government's response. Protestors carried banners proclaiming “Israel is the real terrorist,” and “Palestinians are our brothers” in the fourth pro-Palestinian rally in Jakarta in the past five days Meanwhile in Dhaka, a group of Bangladeshis staged a pro-Palestine protest as the United States envoy opened a photographic display on September 11. Rallies across US Calling Israel's offensive tantamount to the exploits of Nazi Germany, hundreds of people around the United States marched in protest, demanding the US intervene in the escalating crisis. In New York, hundreds of people walked across the Brooklyn Bridge toward City Hall Saturday carrying signs that read “Sharon=Hitler.” Police vans and hundreds of officers shadowed protesters, though no arrests were reported. “Things could really spin out of control,” said Shaheen Rehman, 50, a native of Pakistan. “The United States has a powerful role and should play it now.” In a predominantly Jewish neighbourhood of Miami Beach, Florida, about 250 protesters staged a rally at the city's Holocaust Memorial on Saturday, calling the Israeli treatment of Palestinians a present-day holocaust. No arrests or counter-protests were reported. The protesters were mostly Palestinian Muslims living in South Florida. Mahmoud Eltalla, 42, a gas station owner born in the Gaza Strip, held a sign replacing the first letter in Israel with a swastika. “They're killing children, women, they're killing everybody,” he said. “What the Nazis did to them, they're doing to us right now.” Protest organisers distributed flyers calling for the end of Israeli occupation and asking the United States to place Israel on its lists of targets in the war on terrorism. About 300 supporters of the Israeli offensive gathered on the lawn of the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus on Friday, some wearing T-shirts that said, “United against terror,” with the words United States and Israel wrapped around the countries' flags. In Cleveland, a Friday demonstration drew about 60 people holding banners saying “We Stand for Peace.” “I'm here to support my people, my family and my leader Yasser Arafat,” said American-born Abdeljawad Ewais, 29, who has relatives in the West Bank. In California, protests have been staged all week at campuses including the University of California, Los Angeles and San Francisco State University, but none appears to have tensions as high as at UC Berkeley, where a series of incidents has prompted the chancellor to call for calm. In recent weeks, vandals heaved a cinder block through a window of a campus Jewish centre and scrawled “anti-Semitic” obscenities, and Jewish students say they've been pelted with eggs while leaving services. Palestinian students have set up simulated refugee camps and they say they're unfairly labelled “anti-Semitic” for opposing Israel's military action. New Zealand march Several hundred Palestinians marched up Auckland's Queen St at the weekend to protest Israel's fierce West Bank military offensive. In a passionate display of anger they shouted and chanted as they went, waving their fists in the air. Children in pyjamas carried signs with slogans including “Religion of Moses condemns the murder of innocent children.” Other signs contained Nazi imagery and compared Israel to a “modern day Hitler.” Some denounced American involvement in the conflict and called Bush a terrorist, along with Sharon. The group of around 400 protesters marched past the American consulate in Customs St East where another rally is planned for Tuesday evening. The protesters called for a free Palestine and the end of Israeli occupation. Pro-Israel protest in Paris turns violent A policeman was stabbed in the stomach Sunday during scuffles which broke out between rival Jewish groups during a demonstration in support of Israel in central Paris, police said. The officer was wounded by a member of a far-right Jewish activist group who was trying to attack supporters of the Israeli movement Peace Now, police said. Scuffles were also reported at a Jewish demonstration in the southern port of Marseille, where a crowd of young Arabs threw missiles at the procession and chanted slogans such as “We are all kamikazes.” The demonstrations were organised by the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France (CRIF) — an umbrella group — to protest against a wave of firebomb attacks on synagogues, and to express solidarity with Israel in its current confrontation with the Palestinians. However leftwing Jewish groups — who are deeply opposed to Sharon's policies — want to separate the two issues. Sudan calls on volunteers for 'holy war' Sudan's government-backed Popular Defence Forces (PDF) issued a nationwide appeal Sunday for volunteers to report to training camps and prepare for “holy war” against Israel. “This is a call to all parties, institutions, trade unions, students and youths, men and women, to join the camps,” the PDF command said in a statement broadcast on state television and radio as well as carried in newspapers. “Allahu Akbar (God is the Greatest),” it said without specifying how or when the trained volunteers would travel to the Palestinian territories. The PDF said it has opened training camps throughout Sudan to receive and prepare the “mujahedin for the Palestinian cause and for freeing the Aqsa Mosque (in Jerusalem) from Zionist filth.” Sudanese Muslim scholars, meanwhile, decreed that Islamic armies “should not stand with their arms folded while Israel is killing the Palestinians,” Al Sahafi Al Dawli daily reported Sunday. The daily quoted a statement by 44 Muslim scholars calling for the opening of borders to volunteers and for smuggling arms into Palestinian territories. www.middleeastwire.com |
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| Learner |
| 04/08/02 at 17:23:33 |
| [slm] :) You can check out some protest images from ALL over the world on the link below! http://www.freewebsitehosting.net/jato/hope.html [wlm] :) |
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| M.F. |
| 04/08/02 at 17:41:36 |
| There were a lot of sharon=hitler signs and swasticas yesterday as well. There were also lots of ppl being carried covered with a palestinian flag to symbolise the martyrs who were killed by israelis. |
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