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If you are neutral on situations of injustice...
Protest for Lebanon and Gaza © Linda Dawn Hammond / IndyFoto July 29, 2006 The man's T-shirt reads-
"If you are neutral on situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor."
Bishop Desmond Tutu
Across from the Israeli Consulate, the building site of the new Royal Ontario Museum serves as an appropriate backdrop for the protesters.
www.hrw.org/reports/2007/09/05/why-they-died-0
In five months of research, Human Rights Watch investigated 94 cases of air, artillery and ground attacks by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to discern the circumstances surrounding the deaths of 510 civilians and 51 combatants, nearly half the at least 1,125 Lebanese deaths during the conflict. Of the approximately 510 Lebanese civilian deaths investigated by Human Rights Watch, at least 300 were women or children.
July 29th, 2006 protest march from the Israeli Consulate to the American consulate, Toronto, in support of the Lebanese people caught up in the deadly Israeli attack on their country. Demand for an immediate ceasefire. Unfortunately, no-one in "power" appears to be listening. Innocent people, the majority of whom are children, continue to die. How many perished today, as the buildings they were hiding in came tumbling down around them? Places where the media either cannot or dare not penetrate? This could have been STOPPED WEEKS AGO! "Two soldiers" are no justification for this kind of carnage- the "response" to their "kidnapping" serves as a cynical excuse for Israel to destabilize a neighbouring country, compromise their sovereignty and elected government's authority. Nato forces, if used, should be there to keep the peace, NOT prop up a puppet government put in place by occupying forces. Let's hope that isn't the next strategy...
A SAD UPDATE...
CARNAGE IN QANA
Robert Fisk: 'How can we stand by and allow this to go on?'
They wrote the names of the dead children on their plastic shrouds. "Mehdi Hashem, aged seven - Qana," was written in felt pen on the bag in which the little boy's body lay. "Hussein al-Mohamed, aged 12 - Qana',' "Abbas al-Shalhoub, aged one - Qana.'' And when the Lebanese soldier went to pick up Abbas's little body, it bounced on his shoulder as the boy might have done on his father's shoulder on Saturday. In all, there were 56 corpses brought to the Tyre government hospital and other surgeries, and 34 of them were children. When they ran out of plastic bags, they wrapped the small corpses in carpets. Their hair was matted with dust, most had suffocated ...
news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article1205990.ece
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5229932.stm
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5228972.stm
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5228224.stm
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If you are neutral on situations of injustice...
Protest for Lebanon and Gaza © Linda Dawn Hammond / IndyFoto July 29, 2006 The man's T-shirt reads-
"If you are neutral on situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor."
Bishop Desmond Tutu
Across from the Israeli Consulate, the building site of the new Royal Ontario Museum serves as an appropriate backdrop for the protesters.
www.hrw.org/reports/2007/09/05/why-they-died-0
In five months of research, Human Rights Watch investigated 94 cases of air, artillery and ground attacks by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to discern the circumstances surrounding the deaths of 510 civilians and 51 combatants, nearly half the at least 1,125 Lebanese deaths during the conflict. Of the approximately 510 Lebanese civilian deaths investigated by Human Rights Watch, at least 300 were women or children.
July 29th, 2006 protest march from the Israeli Consulate to the American consulate, Toronto, in support of the Lebanese people caught up in the deadly Israeli attack on their country. Demand for an immediate ceasefire. Unfortunately, no-one in "power" appears to be listening. Innocent people, the majority of whom are children, continue to die. How many perished today, as the buildings they were hiding in came tumbling down around them? Places where the media either cannot or dare not penetrate? This could have been STOPPED WEEKS AGO! "Two soldiers" are no justification for this kind of carnage- the "response" to their "kidnapping" serves as a cynical excuse for Israel to destabilize a neighbouring country, compromise their sovereignty and elected government's authority. Nato forces, if used, should be there to keep the peace, NOT prop up a puppet government put in place by occupying forces. Let's hope that isn't the next strategy...
A SAD UPDATE...
CARNAGE IN QANA
Robert Fisk: 'How can we stand by and allow this to go on?'
They wrote the names of the dead children on their plastic shrouds. "Mehdi Hashem, aged seven - Qana," was written in felt pen on the bag in which the little boy's body lay. "Hussein al-Mohamed, aged 12 - Qana',' "Abbas al-Shalhoub, aged one - Qana.'' And when the Lebanese soldier went to pick up Abbas's little body, it bounced on his shoulder as the boy might have done on his father's shoulder on Saturday. In all, there were 56 corpses brought to the Tyre government hospital and other surgeries, and 34 of them were children. When they ran out of plastic bags, they wrapped the small corpses in carpets. Their hair was matted with dust, most had suffocated ...
news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article1205990.ece
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5229932.stm
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5228972.stm
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5228224.stm
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