Arabs rally against Israeli attacks

[IndianaGreen]

Arabs rally against Israeli attacks

Saturday 15 July 2006, 1:47 Makka Time, 22:47 GMT

Thousands of Iraqis demonstrated in Baghdad praising Hezbollah's leader and denouncing Israel and the US over the attacks. Some protesters said they were ready to fight the Israelis.

Nouri al-Maliki, the Iraqi president condemned the attacks and warned that they could lead to "an escalation of violence in the region." The influential Sunni Association of Muslim Scholars issued a statement urging the international community not to be silent.

In Kuwait, hundreds rallied in front of the seaside parliament, shouting "Death to Israel!" and "Death to America!" Some waved posters of Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, the Hezbollah leader, whose headquarters were bombed on Friday by Israeli planes.

"Arab countries can do nothing but condemn," Kuwaiti lawmaker Musallam al-Barrak said.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/07BD096E-D25C-45C1-9483-8F2FD01F7278.htm

[chookie]

1. You're ignoring all the good news that happened today (ha ha)

That's disturbing -- just when you think we couldn't be less popular in Iraq, where we are already less popular than pork -- we slip yet lower in the hit parade.

And now our ally Kuwait, who were supposed to love us -- where thousands of our soldiers are -- are now calling for "Death to America."

Can you spell "Blowback?" Bush's foreign policy (otherwise known as the Kilkenney Cats Doctrine) is going to destablize the globe, and wreck havoc with the security of Americans for a very long time.

Speaking of pork -- I wonder if Al Jazeera will play the clip of Bush with the German president, talking about how he was looking forward to eating pig, when reporters were asking him how he was going to try to avoid a regional war. He comes across as such a competent, sensitive leader in this time of crisis, violence, and death (not).

[IndianaGreen]

2. The irony of Bush and the German cow Merkel feasting on pork

while Jews and Muslims are slaughtering one another was not lost on many people.

[Laughing Mirror]

3. "Let them eat pork!!"

On Bastille Day, no less.

[Toots]

4. Why can't they cut off Israel's oil supply?

I doubt Israel produces much oil if any so why can't OPEC just halt supplies to Israel and then they will have no jet fuel to bomb Arabs with.

[Barkley]

5. "Arab countries can do nothing but condemn"

I think the perceived impotence of secular Arab gov'ts give more credibility to Hezbollah's leaders, who are willing to take on Israeli aggression.

[eridani]

6. Dahr Jamail summary

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071806J.shtml

Yet as consistently as the Arab governments fail to get busy "moving their asses" toward something resembling a solution to this crisis, just as consistently are the people repressed by those same governments raising their voices.

On Friday, tens of thousands of Arab protestors hit the streets, condemning the Israeli invasion of Lebanon and their actions in the Gaza Strip. 5,000 angry protesters gathered at a mosque in Cairo carrying banners that read, "Hey Arab leaders, you should be united." In Amman, over 2,000 demonstrators gathered at a mosque after Friday prayers, shouting "Zionists get out, get out!" and "Lebanon, Palestine and Jordan are one people!"

Thousands marched in Gaza, waving Palestinian and Lebanese flags.

Meanwhile in Baghdad, thousands of angry Iraqis marched, praising Hezbollah's leader, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, while denouncing Israel and the US for the attacks. Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr hinted that he may be prepared to put his Mehdi Army militia into action against the Americans due to the Israeli actions in Lebanon and Gaza.

In an earlier piece titled "An Alliance of Violence," I detailed how violence perpetrated on the people of Palestine by the Israeli military has immediate ramifications in Iraq. The same is now brewing yet again.

In Kuwait, protesters rallied in front of the parliament building, shouting "Death to Israel!" and "Death to America!" Meanwhile, a Kuwaiti lawmaker named Musallam al-Barrak lashed out at his and other Arab governments when he stated, "Arab countries can do nothing but condemn."

There is a frightening undercurrent of rage among the people in the Middle East toward their governments: The Arab world is on fire over the injustice meted out against the Palestinian people, as well as to the Lebanese. The Israeli people are deeply angered at their government for failing to provide security (of course our corporate media would never report on the fact that hundreds of thousands of Israelis oppose their government's actions in Gaza and beyond) - instead, preferring peaceful resolutions rather than brutal, unjust, failed occupation and ongoing acts of aggression.

[mainah]

7. About WMD in Iraq

Many on the right have said that WMD from Iraq went to Syria before the invasion...if that happened and now Syria is going hand in hand with Hezbollah (which many on the right want to punish Syria for this)...why then are not WMD being used now?
I'm probably getting this all wrong but just had this thought...

[lumpy]

8. WMDs in Syria is probably US propaganda

to try and bolster military action against Syria.

[acmavm]

9. Any WMDs in Israel?