The anti-Syria imperialists would not be happy to see a ceasefire which would allow for dialogue to resolve the turmoil in the country, says an activist.
The Arab League has welcomed the formation of a new anti-Syria opposition bloc, recognizing the so-called Syrian National Coalition for Revolutionary and Opposition Forces (SNCROF) as the representative of the Syrian people.
Hundreds of Syrian and Arab students studying at the University of Damascus on Saturday staged a sit-in in front of the United Nations building in Damascus to express condemnation of the unjust Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip.
Waving the Syrian and Palestinian flags, the participants stressed solidarity with the people in Gaza and denunciation of the flagrant official Arab and international silence towards the Israeli criminality against the Palestinians in the Strip.
The students chanted slogans which affirm the unity of the Syrian and Palestinian people and condemn the conspiring stances of some Arab and foreign countries towards Syria and their silence regarding what is happening in Gaza.
“The Arab League has become a tool in the hands of the US,” the students said, noting that their sit-in is aimed at stressing the Syrian youth’s standing by the steadfast people of Gaza and their right to liberate every inch of their land.
They called on the international community to compel the Zionist entity to halt its crimes and aggression against the Palestinian people.
“The Syrian people will never forget that the Palestinian cause is their number one cause and will continue commitment to resistance as an only solution and option to regain the usurped rights of people,” said Zeina, one of the participants in the sit-in.
For her part, Iman, expressed wonder at the stances of some Arab countries which have not cut their ties with Israel that has been committing crimes and massacres against the Arabs.
Chairperson of the National Union of the Lebanese Students, Mais Sweidan, said the participation of Lebanese students in the sit-in is an expression of their solidarity with the people of Gaza and standing by Syria in the face of the conspiracy hatched against it.
In turn, Secretary of the Arab Student Organizations at Damascus University, Mutaz al-Qarashi, said the aim of the event is to protest the savagery of the Zionist aggression in Gaza and draw the Security Council’s attention to the real crimes committed by Israel against the Palestinian people.
Mustafa Dakwan, Head of Africa Students Union in Damascus, considered that the Arab and African nations are brought together by one fate and one goal against the international conspiring, stressing that the students’ participation in the sit-in is an expression of their solidarity with the Syrian and Palestinian people.
At the end of the sit-in, the participant students, represented by the National Union of Syrian Students, handed to the UN Advisor in Damascus, Khalid al-Masri, a statement condemning the barbaric aggression of the terrorist Zionist entity against the Palestinian people in Gaza and the international and Arab official silence towards it.
Hundreds of Students in Tartous Voice Solidarity with Gaza People
In the same framework, hundreds of students in Tartous province staged a sit-in in al-Mohafaza Square in solidarity with the people of Gaza against the Israeli aggression, condemning the international silence on the massacres committed by the Zionist occupation forces against children and women in the besieged strip.
The students denounced the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip and all practices by the Israeli occupation which has been besieging the strip for many years.
The participants roundly denounced the silence of the Arab League on the Zionist crime against the people of Gaza, describing the stance of some Arab regimes on the Zionist occupation as shameful.
They pledged not to forget or forgive the crimes of the Israeli occupation against the Palestinian people, as they also will not forget the conspirators against Syria. http://sana.sy/eng/21/2012/11/17/452903.htm
About 150 people marched in Montreal Friday night to protest against Israel’s bombing of Gaza.
People held signs and chanted in Westmount, holding a vigil outside the Consulate General of Israel.
The protest was a local reaction to ongoing conflict in the Middle East and the deaths of 39 Palestinians. Thursday evening, Israel continued its airstrikes on Gaza and made a show of force by moving ground troops towards the border.
Israel dropped close to 200 bombs on Gaza overnight. The bombing hit several buildings, including Hamas headquarters.
Dozens of rockets were fired from Gaza into southern Israel, killing three people.
“Israel needs to end its brutal occupation of Palestine. It needs to stop the strikes on Gaza,” said Sara Shaltony, a Montreal protestor who has family in Gaza.
For years the mainstream media has failed to present a view of events in the Middle East that is even remotely accurate or balanced.
During the most recent conflicts in Gaza, the western media has been a propaganda mouthpiece for Israel, as many expected, based on what has been seen in the past.
Since the siege on Gaza begin to escalate this week there have been protests popping up all over the world in support of the Palestinian people who are caught in the middle of this brutal, and totally orchestrated conflict.
One of these protests happened to be in front of the BBC headquarters, in answer to the propaganda that the network has been generating, not just now, but in the past as well.
“The protest, organised by Merseyside Friends of Palestine (FOP) and Merseyside Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), comes after a week of escalating violence in the Gaza strip. It was supported by Jews for Justice for Palestinians, students, and local Trade Union leaders, as well as socialist and anarchist groups.
Leaflets handed out by demonstrators asserted a different timeline from the one put forward by Israel, claiming the escalation of conflict has resulted from the killing of Palestinian children playing football by the IDF in two separate incidents at the beginning of November, rather than by rocket fire from Gaza.
The reports of these incidents appear to originate from the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), an independent NGO which receives funding from the Danish and Norwegian states. It is accused by some pro-Israel pressure groups of demonising Israel.
The leaflet included a quote from prominent activist Noam Chomsky, who claimed “news items overwhelmingly focus on the rockets that have been fired from Gaza … what is not in focus is the shelling and bombardments of Gaza.”
Regardless of who fired the first shot, or if the story about the rockets origins are true, it is completely immoral to punish a massive group of people for the actions of a few people who aren’t even connected to them.
This is why wars are fought and billions of people are killed, because actions taken by individuals can ultimately blamed on entire civilizations.
And if entire civilizations can be blamed for something that is serious enough to fight a war over, then ultimately entire civilizations filled with innocent people run the risk of loosing their lives because they were being punished for something that they had nothing to do with.
This is the fundamental lie of war, the idea that it is morally justified to punish large groups of people for the actions of a few unrelated individuals.
J.G. Vibes is the author of an 87 chapter counter culture textbook called Alchemy of the Modern Renaissance, a staff writer and reporter for The Intel Hub and host of a show called Voluntary Hippie Radio.
You can keep up with his work, which includes free podcasts, free e-books & free audiobooks at his website www.aotmr.com
With the democracy we have, society unravels and we end up with a jungle of Beasts
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