Samira Al-Sayed, who fled war-torn southern Lebanon this week, shouts beside friend Mona Diab. (Errol McGihon, SUN photo)
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Posted on 07/28/2006 4:42:23 AM PDT by fanfan
About 200 people confronted police outside Foreign Affairs headquarters, demanding to come inside to tell politicians that Canada is complicit in Israeli "war crimes" against Lebanese civilians.
"It sounds like our politicians are too afraid to hear their own people," Montreal activist Aaron Lakoff yelled into a megaphone outside the Sussex Dr. building yesterday.
"Maybe it's because they know they're supporting apartheid, war crimes and state terrorism. They have to stop their complicit support for Israel's war on Lebanon and Palestine."
A small group was allowed inside to deliver a garbage bag full of letters to Foreign Affairs staff.
Arriving by the busload from Montreal, they waved Lebanese and Palestinian flags and wore stickers bearing the cedars of Lebanon and the slogan "proud to be Canadian."
They were a mix of women in Islamic head scarfs -- many with children in tow -- and young activists, a few of whom taunted a line of Ottawa police and RCMP officers.
They carried placards plastered with photos of bloodied Lebanese civilians or such slogans as: "Two soldiers don't equal one country."
Others spoke directly to Prime Minister Stephen Harper: "Steve -- Stop taking orders from Tel Aviv."
'LONG LIVE INTIFADA'
They chanted "no peace in Beirut, no peace in Ottawa" and -- referring to Palestinian uprisings against Israel -- "Intifada, Intifada, long live Intifada"
The protesters want Canada to condemn Israel, demand it withdraw from Lebanon and welcome Lebanese refugees. They also want Israel to stop occupying lands claimed by Palestinians and release Palestinian and Lebanese political prisoners.
Canadians aren't seeing the full extent of the carnage, said 20-year-old Sawsan Kalache.
She challenged people to check out Lebanese websites to see rockets raining down on fleeing civilians and ambulances carrying the wounded.
"Please open those websites to see those pictures of what's actually happening," she said.
Samira Al-Sayed, 40, collapsed in grief during the demonstration -- two days after fleeing Lebanon's dangerous south.
"She is remembering all the things that happened in front of her -- all the things she saw, all the kids massacred" translated friend Mona Diab, 20. "She says what she saw there made her forget how to speak French or English. She cares only about all the young kids there -- scared and running in the streets."
Samira Al-Sayed, who fled war-torn southern Lebanon this week, shouts beside friend Mona Diab. (Errol McGihon, SUN photo)
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Apparently whatever she saw also made her forget how to tell convincing lies.
Yep, looks like the typical Canadians to me...NOT.
Ah, you have to get several sentences into the article to discover these aren't really Canadians but Hezbollah sympathizers with a Canadian passport. Hopefully for Canada's sake there were no Islamist weapons (suicide children) in the group.
Ohhhh, we just need to be educated and then we will understand. /sarc
Load 'em up and send 'em back. Their friends, too.
A rather appropriate and convenient vessel for the letters' delivery.
Canadian Hezballah.
Israel, please finish the job quick so these Hezbo's can go back home, where they will be in range of your military again.
Now that the office aide's can go thru the trash and get all their names and addresses it will be much easier to deport them back! What a considerate bunch!
These A$$HOLES are not Canadian, they carry Canadian passports of convenience.
"Proud to be Canadian." as long as I can make Canada into an Islamic state by abuse of the freedom granted to me in this country.
Spank them I say, spank them!
"Montreal activist Aaron Lakoff"
Is it the conservative version of political correctness which never allows us to cast stones at plainly self-loathing commie vermin like the one above?
You can't count on one hand the number of specific betrayals faithless scum like 'Aaron Lakoff' are routinely committing but, most of the time, "crickets".
I would publically vote for it.
Spank squads need to go on patrol.
As Rush says ...
Aaron Lakoff - rhymes with....
Becki
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