July 29, 2006
Anti-Israel demonstration in Paris
As it was to be expected, a so-called pro-Lebanon/free Palestine demonstration turned into a Israel-is-a-terrorist-state demonstration in Paris today.
Amazingly, Hizballah flags were seen as well as, not surprisingly this time, anti-Israel, anti-American posters, with bad play on words (Olmert/Olmort -- "mort" meaning death in French) and unintelligible "messages".
My boyfriend went to see some anti-riots policemen to signal the Hizballah flags, and asked if they were not forbidden under French law. One of the man answered "Er, we haven't seen them, er, you mean the kids, yeah..." and another one laughed at us and said "if we see them, we'll do what we have to do". One wonders what it is exactly they have to do. Maybe to hold a white flag. I don't know.
Around one or two thousand people demonstrated, starting Place de la République, chanting slogans such as "Children of Iraq, Children of Palestine, that's humanity you're assasinating", "Zionists, fascist! You are the terrorists!"...
Interestingly, as you'll be able to see on the pictures, one of the trucks had a picture of Nasrallah on its door, and pictures of so-called victims of "Israel's state terrorism" on the back. TF1 chose to show only the pictures of the victims, without mentioning either Nasrallah or the presence of Hizballah flags. France 2 did the same, while France 3 mentioned anti-Israel and anti-American slogans.
Thanks to RV for the video.
(To see this video in a better resolution, click here. Beware, it's a 300M file)
[From left to right] Liberation of Palestinian resistants - French and Arab rulers: human rights, they don't mind - French gouvernment, Arab governments: accomplices of Israeli state terrorism - Down with our rulers who arm the occupying forces - Lebannon, help! Stop the Israeli barbarity
Human rights according to Israel - Stop the massacre!
"Olmort", Israel is sowing death - Olmert: murderer, Chirac, Villepin, Sarkozy: collaborationnists - Palestine: the true face of Israeli occupation
They stole their land, they steal their jobs! Now they steal their lives!
Long live the Lebanese resistance [notice the colors, green on yellow, just like the Hizballah flag]
[In the background] East-West - Islam is not your enemy
Double standards justice - Zionist traitors [Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan]
Bush, the Imam of Arab rulers - [Bush:] "Palestine is none of your business" - His diciples [sic] obey and lets [sic] Palestine die
[Soldier with a Star of David on his helmet:] We are the strongest
[Jewish soldier:] But we have to defend ourselves!
Massacres! Jeningrad II, III, IV (more sequels than Star Wars)!
We wonder where all these people were while Hizballah fired rockets into Israeli urban centers over the past six years?
Rockets into schoolyards and playgrounds, nothing "disproportionate" in that. It is just so many Jews. Or hapless Arabs living among Jews. The French understand such differences. When you get the jihad itch, it MUST be scratched. It's a cultural expression and must be protected. Why, it is protected.
One is never sure just what it is that the left is shocked or horrified or outraged or pissy over. The left applies its outraged energies equally to imagined Israeli massacres (massacres by, not massacres of) and dolphins in tuna nets. For the left anything bad has a uniform badness. And things are either bad, scil., that which the left dislikes, or good, scil., that which the left likes or doesn't quite grasp.
The left would do itself some good if instead of squeezing its worldview onto placards, they took a moment to define the principles they think they are defending -- assuming lefty principles apply to all equally -- following on the facts.
Say this about the Islamofascists, they can plain-speak their principles, principles predicated on the superior position of Islam. We do not believe the French left in the street necessarily accepts this predication, they simply support it. With all their spirit, their placards, their crayons, their post-soccer freed-up afternoons.
DGB
Posted by: Damian Bennett at July 30, 2006 01:43 AMLOL The site you see on the 'Americans against the war' banner doesn't exist! What losers!
Anti semitism in USA ? It's impossible !!!!
[Edited by the Blogmaster - Stay on topic next time]
Posted by: Maxtor at July 30, 2006 01:41 PM"L'islam n'est pas votre ennemie" ... remember me a nazi propaganda tag line that were on Paris walls in 1940
Posted by: ABL at July 30, 2006 06:15 PMIn the 7th photo down, is that dude wearing a sombrero with "Viva Mexico" on it? A little off topic huh?
Posted by: adrian at July 30, 2006 10:20 PMAdrian,
Yep. Well, it was probably our troll Anton.
I also saw a rainbow flag. Are those guys aware of the opinion the islamonazis have of homosexuals?!
Posted by: Carine at July 30, 2006 10:39 PMHow can the French be so idiotic?
Posted by: picpoule at July 30, 2006 11:21 PMSome of the signs were to be seen at today's (July 30) anti-Israel demonstration (oops, sorry, at "Rassemblement contre l'agression sioniste au Liban et a Gaza") in Brussels. For example, that one with a soldier with a Star of David on his helmet. On the last picture, I can also see part of another sign saying "Soldat d'Israel as-tu une cervelle??" which was prominently present in Brussels as well. I guess it's very close from Paris to Brussels. Unfortunately.
Posted by: Alva at July 31, 2006 12:18 AMto Valerie:
The "Americans Against The War" site does exist, however, it's:
http://aaw.france.online.fr/aaw/
They must have run out of paint and had to settle for a shorter URL. Strange, because they do have a registered domain name, and a short one, too: aaw.org
Ask whois or godaddy:
Registrant Organization:Aaw France
Registrant Street1:5 rue du Soleil
Registrant City:Paris
Registrant State/Province:NY
Registrant Postal Code:75020
Registrant Country:FR
Registrant Phone:+1.0144622374
There's a fellow called Arnie Egel with that phone number at that address.
They are "an association of activists living in France, principally Americans."
"We are opposed to state terrorism" they say. Hizbullah is not a state. So there you are.
There's a nice photo of the whole group there:
http://aaw.france.online.fr/aaw/Events.htm
Which one is Arnie?
Which one is the other American?
Alva,
It did look like something well organized in France, probably partly by the Hizballah. Your comments and post seem to confirm it must have been on the European level.
Hanuman,
I saw them once in a meeting I forced myself to attend in a Parisian university. An anti-war meeting, back in fall 2003. That was the time when hundreds of American troops were killed very often. They organized the meeting with an extremist organization called "Act Against the War", a pro-terrorist organization. Not one single "American" move a finger when a hateful kid from "Act against the war" said they were rejoicing from the deaths of American and Israeli soldiers and they were supporting the "Palestinian and Iraqi resistance". Made me want to puke. And I left.
I always enjoy the depictions of GWB as a puppet master - on one hand the left tells us he's an idiot, while on the other he is a master mind of unlimited influence who can control governments at will. These people are too funny.
Just an observation -this looks more like a "union style" protest- nobody seems to be breaking a sweat or working too hard at the whole outrage business.
As for the Sombrero Guy, didn't we spot him in the Sorbonne student hissy fit protests? We've seen that chapeau before.
The West has nothing to fear from Islam? Uh-huh. And they have beach front property in Idaho to sell to me too? What a deal!
Posted by: Valerie, Texas at August 1, 2006 02:35 PMPlutot que de traduire "Chirac, Villepin, Sarkozy collabos" par "collaborationists, utilisez plutot le terme "Quisling governement" plus approprié aux USA.
Posted by: Enzo at August 3, 2006 06:52 PMIn order to answer Carine i will just ask a question :
She said
Posted by: Carine at July 30, 2006 10:39 PM
How can the French be so idiotic?
I answer :
I think you shouldn't really talk about some things you don't know.You think we are stupid..oh well it's my memory is always up to date, you (americans) have elected both times Bush so...
By the way, it's really funny to see people talking about some subject they don't know.
As you live in the usa or at least in the other american-stat like israel or UK,you just believe everything you see on your TV,like the cnn news, or fox news...
Just go out and try to find some real informations,not just some shit.
It's true that you are really aware of what your governement is doing.Remember me,but i don't saw the so promise Weapon Of Mass Desctruction in iraqi.Where are there ?In iraqi?In lebanon ?Juste tell me, i will be very happy if one people can tell me what it's going on there.
By the way,isreal is a dangourous and terorist state,they stole the land of the others people since almost 40 years now.Oh are you surprise ? Try to find out some informations,not in fox news for sure.
http://www.ladocumentationfrancaise.fr/dossiers/crise-moyen-orient/img/israel-territoires-occupes-1967-2001.jpg
Oh sure you will be shoked to learn it now and yes, you can say all your "oh my god"(very pathetic)...
In order to answer Carine i will just ask a question :
She said
Posted by: Carine at July 30, 2006 10:39 PM
How can the French be so idiotic?
I answer :
I think you shouldn't really talk about some things you don't know.You think we are stupid..oh well it's my memory is always up to date, you (americans) have elected both times Bush so...
By the way, it's really funny to see people talking about some subject they don't know.
As you live in the usa or at least in the other american-stat like israel or UK,you just believe everything you see on your TV,like the cnn news, or fox news...
Just go out and try to find some real informations,not just some shit.
It's true that you are really aware of what your governement is doing.Remember me,but i don't saw the so promise Weapon Of Mass Desctruction in iraqi.Where are there ?In iraqi?In lebanon ?Juste tell me, i will be very happy if one people can tell me what it's going on there.
By the way,isreal is a dangourous and terorist state,they stole the land of the others people since almost 40 years now.Oh are you surprise ? Try to find out some informations,not in fox news for sure.
http://www.ladocumentationfrancaise.fr/dossiers/crise-moyen-orient/img/israel-territoires-occupes-1967-2001.jpg
Oh sure you will be shoked to learn it now and yes, you can say all your "oh my god"(very pathetic)...
Posted by: jean tagada at August 4, 2006 10:50 AMExcellent!
How can I forward to some friends and be alerted from time to time?
Posted by: roseline lewin at August 4, 2006 04:08 PMJean Tagada,
My, you are French! I wasn't the one who commented about the idiocy of the French, although I won't say the opposite now that I just read your "comments". You are the evidence picpoule -- not me in that case -- was right.
How can the French be so idiotic? Posted by picpoule at July 30, 2006 11:21 PM
Besides, I am French, sur papier as you elegantly say among typical hateful Frenchies like you.
I live in France so I know exactly what I'm talking about, alright? And certainly better than you do, for I do not use la documentation française (paid for with the money I earn, the same that pay your RMI) to get information. Thank you very much, the Quai d'Orsay, the French Foreign Ministry, is already monitoring all French articles about Israel -- and that's a fact --, I'm not going to add government propaganda on top of it.
Good luck, Jean, with your little, hateful country. Learn to let your beard grow. I'm pretty sure you're already used to beating your wife (that is if you find one, which I doubt).
And you may need people to repeat everything to you twice, I don't care, you don't have to post your crass ignorance twice.
Posted by: Carine at August 4, 2006 06:20 PMRoseline,
There is no mailing list, but you can use the RSS feeds. Or come back regularly ;-)
As for forwarding, you can click on permalink to get the direct url to any post.
Posted by: Carine at August 4, 2006 06:23 PMI just wonder! Why all this hate on israel?
a state which is all the time committing to freedom & develepmment for all people in the arab world. MOst of important minister are arabs like the defense secretary & the former foreign minister etc...
did you ever seen an israeli having such an important position in the arab world?
I just wonder!
