Flag-burning Muslims protest at Israel embassy

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Flag-burning Muslims protest at Israel embassy

Published: 6/01/2009 at 04:14 AM
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Hundreds of Thai Muslims demonstrated on Monday in front of Israel's embassy in Bangkok, waving banners, burning the Israeli flag and slingshotting balls of protest statements at the premijses in reaction to Tel Aviv's invasion of Gaza.

About 400 members of the Muslim Group for Peace rallied in front of the embassy, waving banners reading "Destroy Israel," "Stop the Bloodshed," "Free Gaza" and "Where is the UN?"

"In the name of Thais who love justice and peace, we would like to denounce the massacre, which has severely destroyed the dignity of human beings," the protesters said in a statement.

"We call for Israel to stop its brutal actions and return rights, property, honour and dignity to Palestinians."

Muslim woman fires a catapult

After reading out a statement condemning Israel's attack on Gaza the protesters used slingshots to shoot rolledup balls of the statement at the Ocean Tower II building in the Asoke area on Ratchadaphisek road, which houses the Israeli embassy on the 25th floor.

The protesters then burned the Israeli flag.

"Thai Muslims must condemn Israel for their attack on Gaza," said Usma Lukyee, a leader of the Muslim Group for Peace. "We want to send our support to our brothers in Palestine."

Police stepped up security at the building after the request from the embassy, according to Pol Maj-Gen Chakthip Chaijinda, deputy chief of the Metropolitan Police Bureau.

The demonstrators threatened to rally outside the Israeli embassy again today.

Israel has sent ground forces into the Gaza Strip following days of air raids against the Islamist movement Hamas. The death toll had passed 510 early yesterday, many of them Palestinian civilians.

The Foreign Ministry called on Israel to stop the military operations and try to solve the problem through negotiations to prevent further loss of civilian lives and damage to property.

Currently, there are 25,000 Thai workers in Israel, 3,000 of them in Eshkol near the Gaza Strip.

All of them were reported safe yesterday but the Thai embassy and the Thai labour office in Israel have prepared evacuation plans in case the workers need to be moved to safer places, ministry spokesman Tharit Charungvat said.

Anti-Israel protests took place on Monday many countries, including Sweden, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria and Turkey.

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Grace

Discussion 36 : 07/01/2009 at 07:52 AM36
Here's a Very convincing non-Zionist TRUE Jew (Rabbi David Weiss):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oeB3QhX2RI&feature=related

I respect this man!
Grace

Discussion 35 : 07/01/2009 at 07:28 AM35
For bkkboy (comment 33):

Here's something worth watching:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR6MyaN5jpY

Enjoy!

And don't forget to be polite when it comes to discussing topis.
Mike

Discussion 34 : 07/01/2009 at 03:23 AM34
ALL EUROPEAN LIFE DIED IN AUSCHWITZ

by Sebastian Vilar Rodriguez

I walked down the street in Barcelona, and suddenly discovered a terrible truth—Europe died in Auschwitz . We killed six million Jews and replaced them with 20 million Muslims. In Auschwitz we burned a culture, thought, creativity, talent. We destroyed the chosen people, truly chosen, because they produced great and wonderful people who changed the world.

The contribution of this people is felt in all areas of life: science, art, international trade, and above all, as the conscience of the world. These are the people we burned.

And under the pretense of tolerance, and because we wanted to prove to ourselves that we were cured of the disease of racism, we opened our gates to 20 million Muslims, who brought us stupidity and ignorance, religious extremism and lack of tolerance, crime and poverty, due to an unwillingness to work and support their families with pride.

They have blown up our trains and turned our beautiful Spanish cities into the third world, drowning in filth and crime Shut up in the apartments they receive free from the government, they plan the murder and destruction of their naive hosts. And thus, in our misery, we have exchanged culture for fanatical hatred, creative skill for destructive skill, intelligence for backwardness and superstition.

We have exchanged the pursuit of peace of the Jews of Europe and their talent for hoping for a better future for their children, their determined clinging to life because life is holy, for those who pursue death, for people consumed by the desire for death for themselves and others, for our children and theirs.

What a terrible mistake was made by miserable Europe
bkkboy

Discussion 33 : 07/01/2009 at 02:40 AM33
For Grace ( comment 31 ) :

All the Christians know that what u r saying is one of the biggest lie that ever had, that's why they're supporting Israel....

The Nazis use this excuse while they murdered 6,000,000 jews on wwII and I guess u r Nazi as well..

And one more thing : yea - you are a f***ing ignorant !!!
Elaine

Discussion 32 : 07/01/2009 at 02:18 AM32
Thailand is a friendly & tolerable Buddhist country for everyone who want PEACE, by living together in harmony with anyone, regardless of their religion. As I have highly educated Muslim friends who are realistic and open-minded, Thailand is NOT for rebellious Muslims who call themselves, Muslim Group for Peace and start stirring HATRED. The problems between Muslims & The Jews in Gaza was NOT instigated by the diplomatic corp working at the Israeli Embassy in Bangkok, who should be spared of all that shouting and stone-throwing by the MGP demonstrators. WHY on earth do such Muslims always over react to such political situations and start making the mess themselves, always challenging other religions to dislike them and who will eventually segregate them.

Here's from http://www.honestreporting.com:

The media is a potent weapon in the hands of terrorists and Israel has been on the receiving end many times. As HonestReporting has documented in its interactive Big Lies resource
http://www.honestreporting.com/a/bigLies.asp

Palestinians have scored PR victories in the cases of Mohammed al-Dura, the Jenin "massacre", the Gaza Beach incident, staged photos from the 2006 Lebanon War and many other Pallywood productions.

With Israeli troops operating on the ground in Gaza and Hamas increasingly backed into a corner, Professor Richard Landes warns of what may be around the corner:
Whether by Israeli accident or Hamas engineering, expect a spectacular civilian massacre in the coming days, followed by an orgy of Pallywood photography, amplified by a compliant Western media, and even greater fury in the streets of the Muslim and Western world. It's in the Hamas playbook… and will be until the media gets sober. Here's the background, and the obscenity that will probably be played....

The pattern has long been clear, and most recently carried out with explosive effectiveness in the Lebanon war of 2006… when Israel is winning, get yourself a civilian massacre. Make sure that you have shocking civilian casualties that rally all the key players to your side - the other Arab nations and groups and individuals who are secretly, quietly rooting for your defeat, but who, once the images of dead children appear on the TV screens, watch the Arab street riot, and eventually can't avoid siding with you, the "victim" ... the European leaders and diplomats who piously kept an even-handed approach in the hopes that Israel might swiftly decapitate the snake ... and the journalists and talking heads who have been chomping at the bit to jump on Israel for their disproportionate response.
But what if the Israelis don't make a mistake and kill a significant number of people in one blow, like Gaza Beach or Kfar Qana? Would Hamas actually concoct a massacre of their own people? ...
Read Professor Landes' complete article here.
Hamas continues to fire rockets on Israeli towns and cities, operating from within civilian areas, using human shields with total disregard for its own people in Gaza. It is inevitable that Palestinian civilian casualties will occur despite Israel's best efforts to avoid this scenario. The media has been fooled by Pallywood productions many times in the past. This time, we expect another libel to appear.
HonestReporting is putting the mainstream media on notice. Reporting Palestinian claims at face value, creating a new Big Lie and failing to retract or apologize later is unacceptable. The media has been forewarned.
DOUBLE STANDARDS - PROVING OUR POINT
In all of the above cases, the media failed to verify Palestinian claims, placing ultimate trust in "Palestinian eyewitnesses" or so-called "human rights" organizations that are actually Palestinian advocacy groups. All too often the media is happy to accept, without question, the Palestinian version of the story. And yet, we never see the Palestinian narrative described as "propaganda".
The current conflict is also taking place on the airwaves, in the printed press and online. Israeli spokespeople have quite legitimately taken the initiative to get the message out during the Gaza operation. The effectiveness (particularly when compared with past operations) has itself created news stories in some media outlets.

Also refer back to other case studies of Palestinian media libels by using our Big Lies interactive resource and forward it to your family and friends.

HonestReporting. com
Grace

Discussion 31 : 06/01/2009 at 11:51 PM31
Can someone tell me how come Christians support Israel (Jews), while Jews are who hanged Jesus Christ on the cross?!

PLS forgive my ignorance.
meow meow

Discussion 30 : 06/01/2009 at 10:29 PM30
COMMENT BY LAOSUWAN,
I completely agree with you!!!
I do care.
John

Discussion 29 : 06/01/2009 at 04:39 PM29
...and they call themselves... a Group for Peace..what a joke!
The Truth

Discussion 28 : 06/01/2009 at 03:28 PM28
This is call the result of "invasion" so thank you to all who understand that this is a real invasion, so please look into Thailand and Cambodia...who is invade who?
I just want you to think/review about you before you act to someone eles.
carbonfibre.info

Discussion 27 : 06/01/2009 at 02:03 PM27
Hamas broke the peace by firing the rockets so - don't start crying when your enemy comes at you with all their arsenal. BUNCH OF CRY BABY SORE LOSERS~~!!!!!

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