Kuala Lumpur & Galway, yesterday, in unison, danced their anger against vicious Israel.

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Sunday October 22, 2006 18:09

by TD - Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign

"In Israel's wine-presses, human grapes sing not nor dance"

Yesterday, outside Lynch's castle in Shop street, Malaysian UCHG medical students, mostly from Kuala Lumpur joined IPSC activists to leaflet the passers-by and to voice their anger against Israel's inhumanity towards their Palestinian, Sunni Muslim, sisters and brothers.

"Dance your anger and your joy, dance Israel's guns to silence, dance, dance, dance"

As has happened in the past few months, for once, we were'nt slimed with such virulent abuse as "Nazi's"and "Fascists," from passing creatures who identified themselves as Israeli's, instead, a sweet faced young woman from that country took away our information leaflet and came back some 10 minutes later to describe it as "lies"; "The "Security Barrier" was to prevent Palestinain suicide bombers from murdering Israeli's and we had "no right" to do what we were doing as one of us hadn't been to Israel. when it was pointed out to her that the Wall loops deep into Palestinian occupied territory, embracing clusters of illegal settlements, enclosing much fertile land and important subterranean water reservoirs and that the UN, special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territory, John Dugard is of the view that that it will incorporate half of the illegal settler population in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, when completed, and that this suggests that "it is designed to further entrench the position of the settlers. The evidence strongly suggests that Israel is determined to create facts on the ground amounting to de facto annexation,” she had nothing to say.

When it was pointed out to her that "One didn't have to be a hen to tell when an egg is bad, one didn't have to live in Germany at the time of the Shoah to have the "right" to have a view on what the jewish historian, Martin Gilbert, has powerfully described as an "Unprecedented visitation of evil," she buggered off, mouthing some shite or other over her shoulder. So it went, so it goes.

Another Saturday, "Dance on the Street" of six hours duration is planned following this Saturday's Shannon Warport anti-war demo.

Sarah and her Malaysian sisters and brothers

From L to R : Sarah, Hanna, Tatjana & Arlet, all German Erasmus students in NUIG. As Galway, Shell to Sea, will affirm Sarah and another Greman student, Johanna, have been active in the protests against Shell, they "dance dumb laws and Shell to the dump".