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"Salute to Israel" Parade in the UK ends up in the fountain of blood which Israel truly reflects!! "Salute to Israel" Parade gets the true Welcome it deserves in the UK! When will the same happen in the US?? http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/06/402208.html *Activists Disrupt Salute to Israel' Parade * C.Huffed | 30.06.2008 00:36 Autonomous actions for Palestine challenge Zionist parade. Today, a series of non-violent protest actions disrupted the 'Salute to Israel' parade. The parade celebrated 60 years since the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. Activists wished to remind the public that since its inception, Israel has been maintained through the constant oppression of the Palestinian people, in particular through ethnic cleansing. The 'Salute to Israel' parade was a shameful show of support to a government engaged in war crimes. Sponsors included the Jewish National Fund, an organisation deeply involved in the colonisation of Palestinian land as well in anti-Palestinian discrimination within Israel. Activists wish to stress that the British government's authorisation, protection and support of this event is entirely unacceptable. En route, the parade was greeted by activists with red dye on their hands to symbolise the blood of Palestinians killed by the Israeli government. In Tafalgar Square, both fountains turned red and a Palestinian flag was unfurled at the entrance of the National Gallery. An activist climbed up a big screen which had to be turned off for most of the event. Also, another group attempted to get onto the roof of the National Gallery in order to unfurl a banner but were arrested in the process. Deir Yassin and Tantura are but two of the most (in)famous massacres perpetrated by Zionist forces against Palestinians in 1948. Over 530 Palestinian towns and villages were destroyed, and nearly two-thirds of the native Palestinian people, around 750 000 people, were forced to flee. Ethnic cleansing continued beyond 1948, taking various forms from all-out massacres and military attacks to house demolitions and the unceasing oppression of Israeli military occupation in the West Bank and Gaza. The Apartheid Wall, mostly built on Palestinian land, is one of the means through which the Israeli government attempts to annex Palestinian land without its people. In Israel, politicians, the media and a section of public opinion openly evoke the 'transfer' of Palestinians whom they describe as a 'demographic threat'. Ethnic cleansing is simultaneously a war crime and a crime against humanity under international law. Autonomous actions for Palestine challenge Zionist parade [image: Fountain dyed red to represent blood of Palestinians who died during occupation] *Fountain dyed red to represent blood of Palestinians who died during occupation* [image: The food colouring spreads...] [image: Only children notice...] The greatest measure of the event's failure to impress was how bored the actual supporters seemed to be. Lucky the protesters brought some colour to Trafalgar Square! [image: PSC bus] [image: Palestinian blood on Israeli hands - Naomi on release from Charing X police stn] *Palestinian blood on Israeli hands - Naomi on release from Charing X police stn* [image: The participants having such a great time at the blood-tainted rally] *The participants having such a great time at the blood-tainted rally* This was a truly very successful day!! Congratulations to all those who took part! The "poor little Israel" and the "poor little island of democracy" reputation which Israel so cleverly and fraudulently marketed for the past 60 years seems to have finally faded away. Israel is going to have to hire its 'supporters' from casting agencies from now on... not that it hasn't already done so in the past!! [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
