Free free Palestine!

"FREE FREE PALESTINE!" and "STOP THE KILLING, STOP THE HATE; ISRAEL IS A TERRORIST STATE" - just a couple of the chants that rang in my ears at the huge protest/rally today in Manchester. I am positive that these same chants were echoed all over various rallies in the UK and similar ones rang in the ears of my brothers and sisters round the world.

This is the most revent of dozens of marches i hav been on and while i was very glad to see the amazing turn out and to hear of the even better turn out in London, i was sad.

I am sad cos here i am, with my friends, protesting yet again of the inability of the world governments to dispense justice and peace. I have been partcipating in the world peace movements since around 2001, for Afghanistan, for Palestine, for Iraq, for Palestine again, for Iraq again - why does our goverment not listen to the will of its people??

We shud not have to force our governments to dispence peace - it is their duty to do so. Why do we live in a democracy when our voices are ignored? Why do we elect governments when the will of the people is brushed aside is such a patronising way??

Does our goverment think we are stupid?? Do they think that we believe any of this garbage that the BBC and Sky and other stupid news channels are spouting? Rubbish such as the Palestinians deserve what is being dealt to them? That starving families for months, no years, on end is justified? That the bombing of students, policemen, hospitals, schools, universities and houses is in anyway justified??

One must have a heart of solid stone to not bleed at the situation that is in Gaza and indeed in all of Palestine. One must really have lost all vestiges of humanity.

Humankind. Where is our bond of brotherhood? Where is the compassion? The justice? The right to life the world all fought so desperately for in WWII?? What is the point of all this death?

Israel does what it pleases; massacres people constantly, invades and occupies countries as it wills, not just Palestine but Lebanon too and what does the world say?? "Nope - they deserve what they get"?!!? How does this make sense?

Does Gordon Brown think that we as a country are so lacking in intelligence that we will not see thru this facade they have thrown up - this bullshit that the killing of one Israeli is equal to a 1000 Palestinians. Is this the worlds idea of a proportionate response?!

I am horrified to think that I live in a world where such blatant genocide and massacre is deemed to be OK. Have we not learned from previous holocausts? WWII, Rwanda, Kashmir, Chechnya, and Bosnia?

How much death and destruction is enough to satisfy the bloodlust and greed of the world leaders?? How many more have to die?

My ears reverberate with the cries of the children perishing and dying torturous deaths in Gaza through starvation, malnutirition, thirst and bombardment. How can u sit idly by and allow such blatant atrocities to continue??

The people of this country, of the world, need to stand up and say enough. Enough killing, enough war, enough death - peace is what we want. Peace to live in and bring up our children, our future in. Our children, this generation, has seen nothing but death and mayhem - Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine.... what lessons are we teaching them about life and humanity?? What lessons are they learning??

The British goverment, the US administration, the UN need to stop this. We do not want such a genecide on our consience.

Hasnt Palestine suffered enough at the hands of Israel? Anyone who says that Israel is in the right needs their head examined - and fast. Israel is and always has been a terrorist state and their war-mongering murderous methods are the proof of this.

regardless of whether or not u agree with Hamas they are after all the legally, democratically elected government of Palestine, not even the UN cud pick a fault with that. So it is their right to defend their land and their people.

Palestine is a desperate land - what wud u do if u saw ur country dying painfully around u? If yesterday ur baby died of starvation and today ur entire family died in one of the many Israeli air strikes??

(Left: Protesters in Palestine against the actions of Israel in Gaza)

It is the utmost stupidity to compare the home-made rockets of Hamas to the top-of-the-range American-funded missiles and Apaches helicopters and God-only knows what else of the Israeli army.

The raping, murder and theft of Palestine and its people must stop. It is up to us, as people of this world to bring justice.

So I urge myself and every human out there to get up and DO SOMETHING! Join a demo, a protest, a rally, hold a candlelight vigil, donate money, clothes, food, write to ur MP and the PM... do whatever it takes to bring justice.

Israel should be ashamed of itself - to brutally murder hundreds and thousands of innocents on a whim, to start a massacre on the Jewish sabbath... I fear they have not only lost the basics of humanity but of their own Jewish faith too. They bring shame with their actions to not just Judaism but to the whole of humanity.















Shoes litter Whitehall in London as a protest to Gordon Brown against Israel.

Israel is a sore on the face of this planet - each and every one of us humans MUST be the cure.