This is the first time the parade is happening in England and according to the official www.salutetoisrael.org, the Community Security Trust are providing 'over 3,000 security volunteers who will be working side by side with police officers on the day.'
www.thecst.org.uk

At a recent CST fundraising dinner, David Cameron urged them to ''carry on monitoring those who would harm this community..the CST is highly regarded because it is combines vigilance with responsibility and performs its duty with dignity and restraint. The police and security services do a great job but, inevitably, they have
many priorities and limited resources.'' So we will be in safe hands!

But of course the 60 year military occupation continues...Israel continues to build more illegal settlements in the West Bank and refuses to allow the 2-3 million Palestinians who are now refugees in the surrounding countries to return. The area now left for the hoped-for creation of a Palestinian state is in five disconnected blocks amounting to only 13% of the total area of Mandate Palestine. This land area and the degree of sovereignty that appears to be acceptable to Israel would make a two-state solution virtually impossible. Palestinians are gradually being expelled from Jerusalem, despite its designation as an international corpus separatum by the UN, and Israel has walled the city off from the rest of the West Bank. Many of the three quarters of a million Palestinians who fled the carnage in 1948-49 were exiled in refugee camps in the West Bank, Gaza, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. This is where they and their descendants still live, some within sight of their own homes and land, which they can see being used by the people whose armies drove them out.
The story is indeed one of national catastrophe for Palestinians. It is also one of immorality, illegality, racial discrimination and injustice perpetrated by Zionist
Israel. History shows that Britain has a particular responsibility; we owe it to the Palestinian people to support their struggle for justice and independence. (www.palestinecampaign.org/files/0802nakba-factsheetFINAL.pdf)