Montreal DEMONSTRATION in support of people of Gaza and Lebanon
Show your support for the Palestinian people of Gaza and the people of Lebanon! Express your outrage against the Israeli military invasion of Gaza and Lebanon! Call on the Canadian government to act!
DEMONSTRATION!!
FRIDAY, JULY 14, noon
Outside the Israeli consulate (north-west corner of Peel and Rene-Levesque, Montreal; metro Peel)
Featuring speakers, music, and recorded statements from Palestine, Lebanon and the middle east. Bring your banners, noisemakers, and placards!
Montrealers will rally outside the Israeli consulate for a demonstration to demand an end to Israeli terrorism in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip. Palestinian and Lebanese community groups in Montreal will be calling for an immediate end to Israel’s unjustified aggression, and for Canada to condemn these attacks, and end its support for the Israeli apartheid regime.
In the first 24 hours of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, 27 civilians were been killed, including 15 children. Homes, bridges, and the Beirut international airport have been bombed by the Israeli Air Force. Dan Halutz, the Israeli army chief of staff, has stated that, “nothing is safe in Lebanon”. This type of blind aggression, which constitutes war crimes, is completely unacceptable and cannot be tolerated.
The attack on Lebanon has come 19 days into a brutal assault on the Palestinians of Gaza in which Israel has killed 74 people, a disproportionate number of these children.
Canada has given its tacit support to this Israeli terrorism by voting against a resolution to condemn the attacks at the UN Human Rights Council, and by its ongoing diplomatic and economic ties with Israel. Stephen Harper and the Canadian government have also participated in starvation policies against the Palestinians by cutting off all their foreign aid to the Palestinian Authority. This fact, combined with the recent invasion, has pushed the population of the Gaza Strip to the brink of a humanitarian crisis.
The demonstration in Montreal is being called by a network of community and activist groups, including Palestinian and Jewish Unity (PAJU), the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), the Coalition Against the Deportation of Palestinian Refugees, Tadamon! Montreal and Parole Arabe.
More information: ism-montreal@resist.ca
Will this be a demonstration against Hamas and Hisbollah too?
Comment by Luke — July 15th, 2006 @ 11:27 AM