Protests in Lebanon against Israeli settlement plans in Jerusalem

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Several thousand angry demonstrators in Beirut and in Sidon marched on Friday to condemn Israel’s plans to build new settlements and its reconstruction of the Hurva synagogue, as religious leaders called for actions instead of words to fight Israel.

About 3,000 Lebanese and Palestinians gathered in front of the Economic and Social Committee for Western Asia (ESCWA) office in Beirut holding a large Palestinian flag to show their solidarity with the Palestinian people.

Israel announced last week that it planned to build about 1,600 new housing units in occupied Jerusalem, drawing international criticism.

Some 300 Palestinians and Lebanese gathered in downtown Sidon to protest Israel’s actions, while in the nearby Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh, approximately 1,000 people marched in the streets to protest Israel’s actions.

The spokesperson of the camp’s Islamic Forces group, Sheikh Jamal Khattab, urged Arab countries that have relations with Israel to close their embassies because they constituted “espionage offices” for Israel. Khattab also asked Arabs to unite and replace words with actions in condemning Israeli violations.

Photo: A Palestinian child from the Hamas movement, holds up a Koran as he shouts slogans during an anti-Israel protest organized by Palestinian and Lebanese parties in Beirut March 19, 2010. The protest was held against Israeli settlement building plans in Jerusalem. Reuters

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  • Adam ben Yoel

    Khhhhhh, they never had sovereignty over that land and it was empty land. We should protest the fact that they threaten us with war if we pray at our holiest site.

  • tony a

    hey Adam,

    look at pre 48 years and learn how to read. the maps all over the world said palestine. even the old testament said the philistines before your forefathers re-wrote it to appease and control the christians with ‘look the other way’ instead of ‘eye for an eye’ in the old book.

    all land titles are being confiscated and destroyed by the IDF to dismiss and deny exactly what you’re saying.

    it’s people like you that are bringing damage to the negotiation tables. we need more yithak rabins in your society to bring peace in the middle east to lead you blind people from the dark ages.

    you would think when you cry your crocodile tears (Dr. Norman Finkelstein’s Speech at Waterloo University – google it on you tube) that you would actually sympathise with the Palestinians cos of what Hitler did to your parents and grandparents but just like an abused child that gets beaten by his father and then grows up and thinks beating his child is the right thing to do, i would love it if each of you zionists would take a trip to a psychiatrist and get that frustration and anger out of you. your cycle of abuse has to stop.

    what happened to you during the hitler era was wrong therefore correct that error by resepcting the people you call enemies when its your souls that are ridden by old ghosts from the past making you the world enemy and blind people that god has chosen to test for humility, respect, change, understanding and you are still failing your test everyday while you wander this earth waiting for your leader.

    doesn’t it bother you that the christian zionists in the US such as Bush and others actually help israel towards getting destroyed because it will actually fullfill their prophecy of the bible re the armageddon or destruction of Israel?

    save yourselves before it’s too late. listen to your orthodox jewish teachers that burn israeli flags and denounce israel cos the tora says that you are to still wander the desert waiting for your master to lead you as you are still blind. they also think that hertzog and others are evil so why not go talk to some of your orthodox jewish teachers and learn about your tora book.

    do you not fear the day when the tables turn once again against you? many jews converted to christianity pre and after world war II and it will happen again. history always repeats itself.

    and please can someone pull the plug on Ariel Sharon? do you not think he’s suffering enough as a vegetable? you zionists have no heart. he is truely living in hell and oh how justice is fair as he sits there in his vegetated body screaming from inside his mute mouth to free his soul but instead you are deaf to his needs just like you don’t hear the palestinian screams.

    listen to finkelstein, the orthodox jews, jews for a just peace (Canada) and many others who are warning you to wake up and gain your eye sights beofre it’s too late for you.

    listen to the israeli men and women who are marrying palestinians and are trying to change your laws so that they can live together. love will conquer Israel eventually and you will be out bread.

    2 state solution aint gonna work and youy guys know that which is why you are trying so hard to juda-ise israel. it ain’t gonna happen and eventually the walls will come down and you will have to live together and eventually you will be out voted and palestinians will out breed you.

    don’t come running to me for help okay?

  • Adam ben Yoel

    Actually Tony, prior to 1920, all maps in the Middle East said ‘Bilad el Sham’. Many europeans wrote of Palestine but it usually included Damascus, tyre and amman. The only times that there was offically a province (never a state) called Palestine were during late roman/byzantine rule, Umayad rule and British rule. Why don’t YOU pick up a book smart ass. Palestine was a rough geographic designation. Until the 18th century and the emancipation, no one questioned that Jews were all Palestinians in geographic origin and everyone else who lived there were not specifically Palestinian.

  • Adam ben Yoel

    PS. Stop listening to propaganda about Zionism. You don’t understand what it actually is. Also, stop preaching hate and making threats. It’s childish and unhelpful.

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