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Title: Hundreds March in L.A. to Protest Lebanon and Iraq Wars
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URL Source: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/l ... 7.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Published: Aug 13, 2006
Author: Ted Rohrlich
Post Date: 2006-08-13 09:01:13 by Eoghan
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Some participants are former Lebanese angered by the Israeli invasion Omar Abdallah, a 38-year-old North Hollywood convenience store owner who emigrated from Lebanon as a young man, was one of more than a thousand people who marched through downtown Los Angeles on Saturday to protest Israel's bombing of his native land, its treatment of Palestinians and the U.S. war in Iraq. Abdallah, who marched up Broadway and through the Civic Center holding a Lebanese flag, said he was drawn to the event because he is "against all war" and, in the case of Israel's war against Hezbollah, he has had family members in harm's way. He said he spoke by telephone Saturday with a sibling who said Israeli warplanes had just bombed the town of Baalbek in the Bekaa Valley, where his brother and sister live. Other family members have fled, he said, leaving almost all of their possessions behind. The Associated Press reported that the Israeli target in Baalbek on Saturday was the headquarters of a Hezbollah charity organization. The Los Angeles march — organized by a group called Act Now to Stop War & End Racism, the National Council of Arab Americans and the Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation — took place as a United Nations-brokered cease-fire was being accepted by Lebanon and Hezbollah. Similar marches took place in San Francisco and Washington, D.C. Many of the local marchers, including organizer Ahmed Azam, president of the Muslim American Society's Los Angeles chapter, were skeptical that a cease-fire would lead to lasting peace. "I'm not optimistic," said Azam, who teaches at DeVry University in Long Beach. Many ethnicities and age groups were represented in the peaceful protest. Toni Arenstein, 56, a nurse, said she marched because "I am a Jewish woman and I stand in full solidarity with the Lebanese and Palestinian resistance, and also I am outraged at the billions of dollars … the U.S. government is spending to fund the Israeli war machine when people here are suffering." The marchers appeared united in disdain for President Bush. Some carried printed signs with his photograph and the label "warmonger." Simone Missirian, 35, of L.A. wore a sandwich board purporting to show Bush's "policy checklist." It began: "Save Embryos. Kill Muslims and Arabs." But Houda Itani, a 19-year-old American of Lebanese descent, said she came out of disgust for political leaders in general who make war but "don't realize" that most Muslims and Jews just want to live in peace.
Poster Comment: Thousands protest Lebanon war outside White House With AP photos.
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#1. To: Eoghan, loner, Fred Mertz, Soda Pop, aristeides, Diana, Esso, innieway, justlurking, christine, Jethro Tull, lodwick, rowdee, Brian S, Zoroaster, Stephen Lendman, *US is Proxy State For Israel* (#0)
The evening news has not been showing these rather impromptu protests, from all over the globe. There are many more photos at the link above. D.C.: Across from White House: Peace activists shout slogans during a rally at Lafayette Park across from the White House in Wasington, DC. Several thousand people demonstrated outside the White House to protest Israel's US-backed military operations in Lebanon and the Palestinian territories.(AFP/Mandel Ngan) Los Angeles: SanFran: Toronto: A small group of pro-Israeli demonstrators is ringed by police while thousands of anti-war protestors gathered outside the Israeli consulate in Toronto,Canada, on Saturday Aug. 12, 2006. Protesters later marched to the American consulate to condemn the United States' support of Israel. (AP PHOTO/CP,Derek Oliver) Chile: Sydney, Australia: Bangladesh: England (Israeli soccer team in town): Romania: Southern Lebanon (just look at all those military installations!) Costa Rica: Israelis protesting war in Lebanon: Palestinians protesting war in Lebanon: Montreal: "If there’s another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country." - Daniel Ellsberg Author, Pentagon Papers NYC: Manila: London: New Dehli, India: Ottawa: Japan: "If there’s another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country." - Daniel Ellsberg Author, Pentagon Papers A small group of pro-Israeli demonstrators is ringed by police Telling. Great post
great post, thanks!
"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." -James Madison and here it is, folks! Interviewer: "Let's talk about the 'birth pangs' mentioned by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, when she talked about the Middle East plan, with its various names. Who suffers pain here?" Colette Khuri: "If I were asked, as an author, to portray malice, I would sketch an image of Condoleezza Rice. This woman is grim, both in the way she looks and in the way she is inside. I don't know why she is always malicious from within. Malicious over what? What have we ever done to her? This woman has no right to talk about birth pangs, since she does not know the meaning of birth pangs. "I want to explain to the viewers that birth pangs are that painful yet delightful moment that precedes the most important moment in life - childbirth. The birth of a child is the birth of hope, the birth of love. Birth pangs are a delightful moment. It is a combination of pain and delight. That is the moment that precedes creation - the creation of life. How can she possibly call the destruction and crimes in Lebanon birth pangs? She is killing children, and calling it birth pangs. This phase leads to the destruction and the death of the Arabs. How can she? How come she has the right to talk about birth pangs? This is nauseating. More than rage, I feel nauseated. True, I am enraged, but I feel nauseated." [...] Interviewer: "In any case, her external ugliness reflects her internal ugliness..." Colette Khuri: "It's the other way around, my dear. It is the internal ugliness that is reflected in one's face. A woman can only be ugly from the inside." Interviewer: "True." Colette Khuri: "Any woman can be beautiful, if she is beautiful from within. It is the internal ugliness of this woman that reflects her looks." Interviewer: "She has the right to feel pain, because her baby-plan was stillborn."
"If there’s another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country." - Daniel Ellsberg Author, Pentagon Papers oh my...those eyes! that mouth!
"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." -James Madison and here it is, folks! No chance, at least not now while Stephen Harper (ie.Poodle #2)is in power. Canada waited so long to boot the corrupt Lieberal party out of power, and what do they vote in to replace them...a neocon led conservative party, whose leader represents the one fundie section of the country. Can you believe it? At least with the Lieberals, Canada managed to straddle a neutral ME position for the most part. Now with Harper, it's neocon pro-Israel come hell or high water. Hopefully Harper will be tossed in the next election. It could be that Canada may go for a pure socialist party ( hello, Hugo!) better known as the NDP. And the NDP though their economic and social policies suck, are not going to continue to tow the Harper foreign policy line that is for sure. Based on what I read the NDP is not neutral - the NDP is pro- Palestinian for example and anti-USA. It's too bad that the Village Idiot will be out of office by the time a new election takes place in Canada - it would be quite comical to see the discomfort of the WH as Hugo and the NDP Canadian PM hurl insults at GWB 24/7...fearless motor-mouth book ends (with huge oil assets)...of course, at that point, Canada could invite invasion by the DC "self-defenders"
Canada ping! BTW, Canada was very well represented in the photos of war protests (see above): Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto looked well-versed in what is really going on.
"If there’s another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country." - Daniel Ellsberg Author, Pentagon Papers The picture is intended no doubt as sarcastic commentary at the disconnect between public words on war and these criminal's true intentions in conducting it. But as far as Canada goes, I have seen problem solving in Ft Bragg, N.C.'s war planning center for the hypothetical of a nuclear attack contaminating farmland where the officers figured out that just moving in and taking Canadian farmland and scraping off the shallower contaminated soil and using it to grow crops we no longer could in our blighted breadbasket that unconsciously showed no concern at all for the sensibilities and objections of the Canadian government. If we need we take, if we want we get it. We are nice to Canada in peace, but if we ever wanted anything they have, we would just move in and grab it. It doesn't get any more simpler then that.
Yes, I saw those pictures but Harper is not representing those peoples' wishes or even the wishes of the vast majority of Canadians who take pride in being neutral peacekeepers in the UN or in press conferences. For example, Harper was more than willing to have Canada take it in the butt from Israel when Israel killed one of his UN observers and 8 Canadian-Lebanese civilians. Also at the UN Human Rights Commission vote on Friday ( I think that was the date) in a resolution that pretty much censured Israel for its crimes against civilians, there were only 2 "no" votes - Canada and Japan. That was a pretty straight forward issue - yes there is no doubt Israel is injuring/killing/displacing way more civilians than Hezbollah and Canada votes "no"...say what? It's good that Canadians are getting out and protesting because Harper may take that into account at some point - he is in power with a minority gov't after all. Certainly the Quebec MP's have got to be concerned about the protestors in Montreal, ( lots of French speaking Muslim immigrants living in Quebec these days)because they are part of an unofficial loose coalition of opposition MP's who are keeping Harper in power and they don't want to harm their re-election hopes in the future - they know Harper can tar and feather them with their own voters with his unpopular anti-Muslim posturing.
say what? is right! It's good that Canadians are getting out and protesting because Harper may take that into account at some point - he is in power with a minority gov't after all. There seems to be a suicidal wish on the part of the GOP and even Liberals here; take Joe Lieberman for a case in point, and Bush's low poll #s.
"If there’s another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country." - Daniel Ellsberg Author, Pentagon Papers Not hundreds, but thousands of people marched in downtown L.A.... MSM clearly did not take or show these photos: "If there’s another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country." - Daniel Ellsberg Author, Pentagon Papers Protest Against Israel Agression in Lebanon, Palestine by Marcus Sunday, Aug. 13, 2006 at 11:58 AM "If there’s another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country." - Daniel Ellsberg Author, Pentagon Papers Great pics, thank you !
"First Jesus, Now Lebanese" "They have tanks to kill babies, we have cedars and pretty ladies"... Cheney best speed up production of those dentention facilities, the "al-Qaeda-types" are reproducing like rabbits !
Cheney best speed up production of those dentention facilities, the "al-Qaeda-types" are reproducing like rabbits ! No kidding, but a man who had "heartattacks" in his knees, and has black helicopters protecting his MD estate at 2am, can only do so much. Some of the obviously homemade posters really hit home.
"If there’s another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country." - Daniel Ellsberg Author, Pentagon Papers thanks for all the great photos. fantastic thread
Thanks for that link Eoghan!
Demonstrators carry flags of Lebanon and Palestine during a march near the White House in Washington, DC. Several thousand people demonstrated outside the White House to protest Israel's US-backed military operations in Lebanon and the Palestinian territories.(AFP/Mandel Ngan) 
Demonstrators march past the Washington Monument in Washington, DC. Thousands of people demonstrated outside the White House to protest Israel's US-backed military operations in Lebanon and the Palestinian territories.(AFP/Mandel Ngan) 
Several thousand protesters march in Los Angeles, Saturday Aug. 12, 2006, to condemn U.S. policy in the Middle East and appeal for an end to the bloodshed in Israel's war with Islamic militants in Lebanon. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson) 
Pro-Israel demonstrators exchange words with protesters during a march in Los Angeles, Saturday, Aug. 12, 2006, to condemn U.S. policy in the Middle East and appeal for an end to the bloodshed in Israel's war with Islamic militants in Lebanon. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson) 
A pro-Israel demonstrators, right, exchanges words with a protester during a march in Los Angeles, Saturday, Aug. 12, 2006, to condemn U.S. policy in the Middle East and appeal for an end to Israel's war with Islamic militants in Lebanon. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson) 
Protesters march for the end of the war in Lebanon, Iraq, and Palestine, Saturday, Aug. 12, 2006, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/John Stubler) 
Thousands of anti-war protestors gather outside the Israeli consulate in Toronto,Canada on Saturday Aug. 12, 2006. Protesters later marched to the American consulate to condemn the United States' support of Israel. (AP PHOTO/CP,Derek Oliver) 
Chilean peace activists holding a banner that reads 'End to the massacre in the Mideast' walk in front of La Moneda government palace, during a protest against the war in Lebanon, Santiago, Chile, Saturday, Aug. 12, 2006. (AP Photo/Roberto Candia) 
Thousands of protesters march through the streets of central Sydney August 12, 2006. The protesters rallied in central Sydney on Saturday calling for an end to the month-old war between Israel and Hizbollah. REUTERS/Tim Wimborne (AUSTRALIA) 
Peace candle : A Bangladeshi child holds a candle during an anti-war protest in Dhaka. (AFP/Farjana Godhuly) 
Anti war protesters stand alongside police ahead of Liverpool's Champions League third-round qualifier first leg against Maccibi Haifa at Anfield Stadium, Liverpool, England, Wednesday Aug. 9, 2006. (AP Photo/Dave Thompson) 
Women of the Lebanese community in Romania hold a torn Lebanon flag during an anti-war protest in Bucharest Romania Tuesday Aug. 8 2006. Hundreds of members of the Arab comunity in Romania gathered in Bucharest's Revolution Sq. shouthing anti-war slogans and calling for an immediate end of the hostilities in Lebanon.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda) 
A child of the Lebanese community in Romania, face painted with Lebanon's flag, looks on during an anti-war protest in Bucharest Romania Tuesday Aug. 8 2006. Hundreds of members of the Arab community in Romania gathered in Bucharest's Revolution Sq. shouting anti-war slogans and calling for an immediate end of the hostilities in Lebanon.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda) 
A general view of Israeli strikes on Khiam village in southern Lebanon, August 8, 2006. REUTERS/Karamallah Daher 
A Costa Rican high school student carrying a sign reading 'NO WAR' protests against the Israeli attacks on Lebanon and the Palestinian territories in front of the Israeli embassy in San Jose, Costa Rica, Monday, Aug. 7, 2006.(AP Photo/Kent Gilbert) 
Israeli left wing activists demonstrate against the ongoing fighting in Lebanon in front of the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, Aug. 10, 2006. On Thursday, about 600 people attended the rally in Tel Aviv. Though small compared with the tens of thousands who protested Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982, it marked a revival of Israel's dormant peace movement which had concurred with the decision last month to go to war. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit) 
Israeli activists attend a rally in Tel Aviv against the Israeli army offensive in Lebanon, August 5, 2006. REUTERS/Stringer 
Palestinians take to the street as they protest against the continuing bombardment of neighboring Lebanon in the West Bank town of Hebron in July 2006. A poll has showed that nearly all Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza back Hezbollah against Israel and would oppose the unconditional release of captured Israeli soldiers to shorten the war.(AFP/File/Hazem Bader) 
Anti-Israel protesters carry mock coffins as they take part in a demonstration protesting the war in Lebanon in Montreal August 6, 2006. Over ten thousand people took part in the march in downtown Montreal. REUTERS/Christinne Muschi (CANADA) 
Marchers wave Lebanese and other flags as they take part in a march of more than 10,000 people protesting the war in Lebanon, in Montreal on Sunday, August 6, 2006. (AP PHOTO/CP,Ian Barrett) 
A group of Orthodox Jews take part in a demonstration protesting the war in Lebanon, in Montreal August 6, 2006. Over ten thousand people took part in the march in downtown Montreal. The banner reads: 'Judaism rejects Zionism'. REUTERS/Christinne Muschi (CANADA)
#2. To: All (#1)
Anti-war protesters gather for a rally near New York's Times Square, Saturday Aug. 5, 2006. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II) 
Protestors hold pictures of 'casualties of conflict' during an anti-war protest outside the Israeli embassy in Manila. In London, activists -- claiming a groundswell of anti-war sentiment not seen since the US-led invasion of Iraq -- have staged a mass protest against the conflict in Lebanon and demanded a ceasefire.(AFP/Jay Directo) 
A protestor lies on the floor covered in fake blood during a demonstration organised by Stop the War Coalition in London August 5, 2006. Thousands marched through London to demand a halt to the Lebanon war on Saturday as the British government tried to appease critics who have attacked it for failing to call for an immediate ceasefire. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor (BRITAIN) 
A protestor is apprehended by police outside the American Embassy during a demonstration organised by Stop the War Coalition in London August 5, 2006. Thousands marched through London to demand a halt to the Lebanon war on Saturday as the British government tried to appease critics who have attacked it for failing to call for an immediate ceasefire. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor (BRITAIN) 
A protestor screams as she takes part in a London protest march against the conflict between Hezbollah and Israel in Lebanon. Activists, claiming a groundswell of anti-war sentiment not seen since the US-led invasion of Iraq, have staged a mass protest against the conflict in Lebanon and demanded a ceasefire.(AFP/Carl De Souza) 
Children protest demanding an end to the Middle-East hostilities at a protest rally of children in New Delhi, India, Saturday Aug. 5, 2006. Child laborers rescued by a Non Governmental Organization participated in the rally saying that children suffer the most in any war. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das) 
A child gets the taste of a poster demanding an end to the Middle-East hostilities at a protest rally of children in New Delhi, India, Saturday Aug. 5, 2006. Child laborers rescued by a Non Governmental Organization participated in the rally saying that children suffer the most in any war. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das) 
Anti-war protesters make peaces signs in Ottawa in November 2004. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper blasted critics who called for Ottawa to take a neutral stand on Middle East affairs and stop backing Israel in its fight with the militant group Hezbollah.(AFP/File/Tobin Grimshaw) 
Protesters hold placards during a candlelight rally in front of the A-bomb dome in Hiroshima, western Japan August 4, 2006. The rally was held to demand an immediate ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel. The placard at the bottom right reads, 'Stop the war- give peace a chance'. REUTERS/Issei Kato (JAPAN)
#3. To: robin (#1)
A small group of pro-Israeli demonstrators is ringed by police while thousands of anti-war protestors gathered outside the Israeli consulate in Toronto,Canada
#4. To: Eoghan, robin (#0)
#5. To: christine (#4)
“Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.” Plato
#6. To: Ferret Mike (#5)
http://www.memri.org/bin/opener_latest.cgi?ID=SD123606
#7. To: Ferret Mike (#5)
#8. To: Ferret Mike (#5)
Just watch your step Canada, you could be next...
#9. To: buffycat (#8)
#10. To: scrapper2 (#8)
“Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.” Plato
#11. To: robin (#9)
BTW, Canada was very well represented in the photos of war protests (see above): Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto looked well-versed in what is really going on.
#12. To: scrapper2 (#11)
there is no doubt Israel is injuring/killing/displacing way more civilians than Hezbollah and Canada votes "no"...say what?
#13. To: Eoghan (#0)
Indymedia was a good idea.
#14. To: Eoghan (#0)
http://la.indymedia.org/news/2006/08/173886.php?theme=1
#15. To: robin (#13)
“Yes, but is this good for Jews?"
#16. To: robin (#14)
(Edited)
“Yes, but is this good for Jews?"
#17. To: Eoghan (#16)
"First Jesus, Now Lebanese" "They have tanks to kill babies, we have cedars and pretty ladies"...
#18. To: robin, eoghan (#14)
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