We Protest!

Thursday 20 July 2006 - protest rally outside the offices of UNDP - stop - protesting Israeli war crimes in Gaza and Lebanon - stop - I went - stop: but couldn't say a word.



So these pictures will have to do to express the anger, disgust and disbelief at political ineptitude in the face of hostile, racist, arrogant, criminal .... Israeli practices in Palestine and Lebanon - that we in the Arab world have had to live with for decades - a policy that targets innocent civilians and blames the victims time and time again.





Israel flaunts international agreements, the Geneva Convention on Human Rights, disregards UN resolutions (just look at the hypocrisy - Lebanon blown to shreds because it "did not" implement UN resolution 1559 and holds three prisoners of war - Israel holds 10,000 including women and children; the Arabs and Palestinians are still waiting for Israel to implement over 60 UN resolutions, in particular 242, 338 and 194) and basically gets away with murder in the name of its own security and right to exist.

And just for the record the US has vetoed 41 draft resolutions deemed 'critical of Israel" starting in 1972 right up to the present. They include calls for cessation of hostilities to implementation of the Fourth Geneva Convention in relation to Palestinian refugees; numerous ones on Israeli illegal action in South Lebanon and Israeli wholesale settlement activity on occupied land - ie Palestine.

The founding fathers of the United Nations (united ...huh that's a joke) must be turning in their graves. Today we live in a world of survival of the wealthiest; what's yours is now mine; neoconservatism and zionism have become the yardstick by which the world will be beaten into shape. The Middle East is now officially the Western testing grounds for ever gruesome and cruel weapons of mass destruction and the term "divide and rule" becomes uglier by the minute. Gone are the values that man aspired to once upon a time.




Gone too are the statesmen of yesteryear; Gandhi sums up the present when he says "an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind".

And dumb too! J