lundi, août 07, 2006

Actualité - 2,500 Palestinians protest against Condoleezza Rice • “No Place for War Criminals Among Us!”

Franc-Parler reproduit un article rapportant une manifestation contre la visite de Condoleezza Rice en Palestine rassemblant 2 500 personnes. Les manifestants s'opposent aux déclarations de Rice liant les crimes de guerre israélo-américains au Liban et un "Nouveau Moyen-Orient" dans une intensification des activités de l'impérialisme contre les peuples.

Ramallah, July 25 — “We are struggling for justice and there is no place for murderers and war criminals among us!” Under this slogan, some 2,500 Palestinians held a mass protest in Ramallah against Condoleezza Rice, U.S. foreign policy in the region and the meeting that was scheduled that day between her and Palestinian President Abu Mazen. Popular anger and determination to resist all those that want the surrender of the Palestinian people’s struggle for justice was boiling in the streets as the presidential guards were attacking the protestors.

The National and Islamic forces had called for a commercial strike for the whole day and for a demonstration towards the presidential compound to protest the presence of Condoleezza Rice. The demonstration took off from al Manara square through the city center towards the presidential compound. The thousands of people demanded that Abu Mazen not meet her and kick her out of the country.

The people carried Palestinian and Lebanese flags and posters of the martyrs of both people fallen in the struggle against Zionism. They called upon the Palestinian Authority to take the Lebanese resistance as an example and to stay away from the “diplomacy” of massacres and destruction with which the U.S. government attempts to implement its plan for a “New Middle East”.

Condoleezza Rice, calling the war crimes in Lebanon and Gaza the “birth pangs” of a “New Middle East,” embodies the White House financial, political and military support for the Occupation. The crowd was denouncing these U.S.-backed crimes and the green light that the U.S. gives to Israel to attack anyone resisting Zionist aggression. The people’s rage against the U.S. veto in the Security Council in support of the ongoing siege and bombing of the Gaza strip as well as the U.S. support for the destruction of Lebanon was expressed as pictures of Rice and Bush were burnt. The crowd dispersed determined to continue the resistance against the Occupation, its war crimes and its backers.

(Stop the Wall Campaign)

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