Lebanon, Israel, Inaccurate Accusations, Uri Avnery And Gush Shalom ...

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We're sick and sodding tired of accusations of anti-semitism being flung about like flipping confetti, in the direction of absolutely anyone daring to stand up and say that they're against Israel's laying waste to Lebanon.

And/or, that they're against the barbaric belief that collective punishment is not only permissible in this enlightened day and age, but actually acceptable.

And/or, that they're against any state sanctioned terrorism at all.

And/or, that they're against serial mass murder and/or the indiscriminate, wholesale slaughter of innocent civilians.

And/or, that they're against any of the continuing war crimes currently being commited on a daily basis.

Now, 'This Old Brit' and Richard have said it several times before, both here and elsewhere -- in fact we're so & so sick of saying it -- but we'll say it again for the benefit of those who may have missed it -- be it by accident or design.

We are NOT anti-Semites. We do NOT hate Jews. We do NOT hate Israelis.

But we DO hate what Israel's government is doing. And, we DO hate Bush and Blair's governments' reactions -- or rather, their entirely inexcusable joint inaction.

Now, pictured above left is a long standing, old Hebrew hero of ours.

His name is Uri Avnery and he's a Jew. He's an Israeli too. One could also quite reasonably claim that Uri Avnery IS Gush Shalom -- ie; The Peace Bloc.

Here's a recent Uri Avnery related snippit .

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"It is rank hypocrisy to assert that the Kana inhabitants have been warned to leave their homes," former MK Uri Avnery said. "From the first day of the war, our army has bombed the roads and whole families were killed on the way. They have concluded that it is safer to stay in a shelter at home than to move on the roads."

Avnery added that a commander who bombs and shells an inhabited area must know such disasters are bound to happen." "The criminal returns to the scene of the crime," commented Gush Shalom spokesman Adam Keller, referring to the massacre that happened in Kana in 1996, when Shimon Peres started a war in Lebanon.

"That massacre compelled Peres to break off his war. The conclusion is that we must stop this war at once, before it is too late."

Opposite, a small counter-demonstration took place. Usually, the fascists of the Kahane group play this role, but this time they were Labor Party members, who support the war completely.

In the course of the demonstration, a special unit of the riot police appeared and for a moment it seemed that they were about to attack the protesters, but they only drove them off the road.

After two and a half weeks of suppressing every voice against the war, this demonstration was covered on TV and the radio.

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Read the rest of this piece right here (scroll down a bit), then see some of Uri's demo pics.

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