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Free Palestine Demo in Cambridge 26/07/2014

Cameraboy | 26.07.2014 17:26 | Anti-militarism | Palestine | Terror War | Cambridge | World

Today on Saturday July 26th 2014 at 12:00pm Cambridge joined the international protests being held today against the Isreali bombardment of Gaza.

Market Square, Cambridge, full of voices of Common Sense.
Market Square, Cambridge, full of voices of Common Sense.

"Free Palestine" says the whole world.
"Free Palestine" says the whole world.

Now sadly 1,000 dead - and counting.
Now sadly 1,000 dead - and counting.

Names of the dead listed...
Names of the dead listed...

...Including U.N. statistics.
...Including U.N. statistics.

The Pen is mighty!
The Pen is mighty!

...Especially at this scale.
...Especially at this scale.

Never doubt the power of the word.
Never doubt the power of the word.

Placards #1
Placards #1

Placards #2
Placards #2

Everybody... and their Dog!
Everybody... and their Dog!


About 200 people attended with many more passersby stopping to take pictures and discuss the issues. Several large paper banners were made, one of which the public were encouraged to write the phrase "Free Palestine" upon in as many different languages as possible (see pictures).

At the time of writing this text it is now clear that the Palestininan death toll currently stands at 1,000 and is still rising as more bodies are being pulled from the wreckage of what were once peoples' homes and neighbourhoods, but are now piles of rubble after being hit by Isreali missiles.

If this was happening in London or New York we would be declaring all out war on the aggressors, but because it is in Gaza people (mainly in the media) just wring their hands and blame it on the Palestinians themselves ('they do keep firing those rockets'), which of course is about as skewed and perverse as it gets, completely overlooking that we are talking about a militarily occupied territory.

A territory which has been under military occupation since 1948 when the state of Isreal was decreed into existence under the auspices of a U.N. charter, but in reality Zionist lobbyists from Britain and the U.S. were behind it.

Ever since then more and more Palestinian territory has been nibbled away under the smokescreen of 'resettlement' constructions, to the point where we now have millions of Palestinians crammed into a few fragmented square miles of land, under the constant watchful eyes of the IDF. Economic and cultural activity is impossible under these circumstances, as all movement within these areas is very restricted, with at times even essential medical supplies being denied egress through the IDF controlled checkpoints.

It is in effect an open prison.

Like any enclosure full of caged creatures tensions sporadically flare up as those being detained fight for their freedom by attacking the cage (and cagers) they find themselves trapped within.

Meanwhile money is still pouring in from afar for their jailers to continue funding this state of affairs, and so it goes on... until the plug is pulled!

Cameraboy

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Correction.

26.07.2014 21:41

The date in the heading to this article should of course read as:

26/07/2014

...Annoying Typo Gremlins strike again!
:-)

Cameraboy

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'If this was happening in London or New York we would be declaring all out war'

27.07.2014 08:09

Dead right camera boy. If 2400 rockets were firedby islamist terrorists at London or New York, there would be hell to pay.

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Fully agree, well saus camera boy

27.07.2014 16:14

Dead right camera boy. If 2400 rockets were firedby islamist terrorists at London or New York, there would be hell to pay.

Agreeing

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@Agreeing

27.07.2014 17:40

Stop trolling this site.

lol

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@lol/hamas

27.07.2014 18:19

I'll stop trolling this site if you stop firing unguided rockets at civilians in Israel. Deal?

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Nazi's

27.07.2014 20:00

Fuck off Israeli Nazi's !

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TROLL ALERT!!

27.07.2014 20:19

The above comment is NOT by the real Cameraboy, that is to say the author of the article, namely ME.

Go away Troll, stop wasting all our time and stealing other's monikers to try and stir up trouble.

Your time would be better spent getting out on the streets a supporting a few causes in the real world.

You'd probably earn a lot more respect for doing that too.

Be an asset, not an asshole.



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I'm not surer about that

28.07.2014 13:08

Not sure what the consequences would be were 2400 rockets fired at London, especially if shooting back would cause a lot of collateral casualties.

But I do know that were 24 fired at New York (to say nothing about 2400) wherever it was THOUGHT behind the rockets would be obliterated from the face of the planet irregardless of how many innocents were in the way. In comparison to folks here, the Israelis are nice (if abrasive in other ways).

MDN

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Sorry for my outburst earlier

28.07.2014 15:26

I mislaid my meds. I'm much calmer now.

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SECOND TROLL ALERT.

29.07.2014 11:46

Once again the identity thief has struck in the message above, as this is NOT the original author of the article, i.e. ME.

Please cease and desist from doing this or I shall report you to the mods and get you barred from this site.

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Remember the rules

30.07.2014 15:34

Lies about Israel - all ok
Truth about Palestine - quickly hidden.

Stick to what we want to read

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IDF Propaganda.

03.08.2014 22:29

"Lies about Israel - all ok
Truth about Palestine - quickly hidden.
Stick to what we want to read "

Comparative junk and you know it.

Israel is in the wrong entirely by choice, it chooses to do what it is doing and adopts the attitude to hell with public opinion.

So you have to come along here and try to "adjust" the propaganda into something more fitting for an English audience.

Ultimately, you are at war with the very entity you are trying to defend!

Go spam the IDF site, you know, the thing that runs the Israeli "government".

Charles.

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