Stop the Slaughter in Gaza – Victory to Palestine
31/12/08
éirígí spokesperson Daithí Mac an Mháistír has called on republicans from across the country to make their way to Dublin on Saturday (January 3) to march in support of the beleaguered people of Palestine.
In response to the continuing Israeli onslaught on the Gaza Strip, the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign is organising a demonstration that will be assembling at the Central Bank Plaza in the capital at 1pm on Saturday. The demo will then make its way to Leinster House and the offices of the European Union, before finishing in O’Connell Street.
Daithí said: “The response of governments and supposedly powerful international institutions to the viscous Israeli assault on the people of Gaza has been pathetically weak and slavish.
“As happened with the 2006 war in Lebanon, governments have fallen in behind zionist terrorism and its US paymaster, while making timid calls that attempt to create an equivalence between the occupied and occupier.
“Yet again, it has fallen to ordinary people to give voice to the reality that a nuclear-armed state that has one of the most powerful militaries in the world has decided to try to bomb a virtually defenceless, impoverished, blockaded population into submission.”
Nearly 400 Palestinians have now been killed in Israeli bomb attacks on the Gaza Strip since ‘Operation Cast Lead’ began on Saturday (December 27) and the zionist government yesterday rejected EU calls for a 48-hour “humanitarian pause”.
Among the latest victims are two young girls, aged four and 11, who were killed by an Israeli bomb while riding on a cart in the Strip.
Daithí continued: “Tens of thousands of people around the world have, in the last number of days, rallied in support of the people of Palestine and Ireland should be no different.
“The demands are simple – the bombing of Gaza must be ended, the inhuman blockade must be lifted and the right of the Palestinian people to democratically elect its own representatives must be respected.”
Saturday’s demonstration will assemble at the Central Bank Plaza, Dame Street, Dublin at 1pm on Saturday (January 3).
Bígí Linn!