[matilda] Fw: Emergency Sheffield demo this Saturday - 12noon - Town Hall

[Jason]

Sheffield StWC, along with the Sheffield Palestine Solidarity Campaign
and Sheffield branch of the Muslim Association of Britain, have called
a local demonstration against the barbarism of the Israeli state
towards the Lebanese and Palestinian people and against any threatened
attack on Iran and Syria.

People are assembling at noon at the Town Hall. Please bring your
family, friends, kids, trade union banners, anti-war banners,
home-made placards, whatever you can as we need to make as big and
bold as statement as we can against this brutality.

Best wishes,

Angela Shann for Sheffield StWC.


STOP THE WAR COALITION
NEWSLETTER No. 2006/24
19 July 2006
Email office at stopwar.org.uk
Telephone 020 7278 6694
Web: www.stopwar.org.uk

IN THIS NEWSLETTER:
1) END ISRAEL'S BARBARISM NOW
2) IS HIZBULLAH HERE? ONLY CHILDREN HERE

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1) END ISRAEL'S BARBARISM NOW
    DON'T ATTACK SYRIA OR IRAN
    LONDON: SATURDAY 22 JULY
    ASSEMBLE EMBANKMENT 12 NOON
Organised by Stop the War Coalition, Palestine Solidarity Campaign,
Muslim Association of Britain, British Muslim Initiative, Lebanese
organisations.
Contact:  office at stopwar.org.uk  Tel 020 7278 6694 Leaflet to download
and print (Check transport this weekend. There may be some
restrictions on the Northern Line tube.)

OTHER EMERGENCY DEMONSTRATIONS: Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh,
Exeter, Glasgow, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Norwich, York.
Details: http://tinyurl.com/naz5d

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2) IS HIZBULLAH HERE? ONLY CHILDREN HERE Israel's war in Gaza and
Lebanon is escalating into an international crisis which could soon
engulf the whole region. The promise by Bush and Blair in the lead up
to the Iraq war that their wars would bring freedom and democracy to
the Middle East and peace to Palestine, have yet again been shown to
be lies, just as the anti-war movement has consistently said they
were.

Israel's barbarism in Gaza and Lebanon, in which the world's fourth
most powerful military force is systematically destroying the
infrastructure of two defenceless countries,  killing hundreds of
civilians, blockading the supply of food and medical supplies, driving
thousands of people from their homes, must stop now.

The same motivation which lay behind the illegal wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan, drives these latest wars. Israel, supported by its
paymaster the United States, is now inflicting collective punishment
on whole populations in contravention of all international law. Behind
the excuse of seeking the release of three of Israel's captured
soldiers lies the long-held US and Israeli aim to attack Syria and
Iran, all with the aim of dominating the region which has the world's
most valuable resource: oil.

As US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said recently, the only way
the US sees now to rescue themselves from the catastrophe of the wars
in Iraq and Afghanistan is to extend the conflict to more countries in
the region.

The consequences of this barbarism are heartbreakingly conveyed by
this father in Lebanon:

The bomb fell on a small water canal home to 500 Palestinian refugees.
Its victims were 11 children taking an afternoon swim in the canal.
The first blast left a crater nearly four metres deep, burying many of
the swimmers under the orange earth. Ismael, the father of one of the
children, sat on the edge of the crater, his head in his hands,
weeping. "Children! Children!" he roared through his tears, "Children
here! My son here!" He stood and looked down into the crater. "Is
Hizbullah here? Only children here." Read more here:
http://tinyurl.com/eqos9

More articles on this barbarity:
* Israel turned into a monster: http://tinyurl.com/rhjt9
* Where is the rage? Where is the outrage?: http://tinyurl.com/qvjvq
* The BBC's disgraceful distortions: http://tinyurl.com/ggsjm

END ISRAEL'S BARBARISM NOW
DON'T ATTACK SYRIA OR IRAN
LONDON: SATURDAY 22 JULY
ASSEMBLE EMBANKMENT 12 NOON
Organised by Stop the War Coalition, Palestine Solidarity Campaign,
Muslim Association of Britain, British Muslim Initiative, Lebanese
organisations.
Contact:  office at stopwar.org.uk  Tel 020 7278 6694 Leaflet to download and print

OTHER EMERGENCY DEMONSTRATIONS: Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh,
Exeter, Glasgow, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Norwich, York.
Details: http://www.stopwar.org.uk/July22Demos.htm