Free Palestine - National Demonstration– Saturday 10th January

bristol | peace | announcement Sunday January 04, 2009 16:50 by info@bristolstopwar

Bristol Stop The War Coalition, Bristol Palestine Solidarity Campaign urge people to join the national demonstration in London on Saturday January 10th. This demonstration will march to the Israeli Embassy. Help make this the largest demonstration seen in this country for the freedom of Palestine.

There will be coaches from Bristol leaving at 8.15am from Anchor Rd (opposite @Bristol)

For a map see: http://www.multimap.com/maps/?hloc=GB|bs1%205db

Tickets £14 waged, £7 unwaged. To reserve a ticket please email bristolstopwar@hotmail.com as soon as possible, giving your name, address & phone number. Or phone 07810 000083

If you can't come to London but want to make a donation towards the costs please send a cheque made out to 'Bristol Stop The War Coalition' to BSTWC, 23 Monmouth Road, Bristol, BS7 8LF

For further information email bristolstopwar@hotmail.com.

Israel has started its ground assault on Gaza. Within hours of troops entering Gaza, hospitals reported that 23 people had been killed and that twenty of them were civilians.

Yesterday (Saturday) demonstrations across the world called for an immediate stop to the carnage. Here in Bristol we had one of the largest demonstrations in recent years. Every country in the world bar one wants the killing and destruction to stop now. But just as it did in the Lebanon War in 2006, The United States has given the green light to Israel to intensify its barbarism.

The US is blocking all UN calls for an immediate ceasefire with the tacit compliance of the British government, which calls for an immediate ceasefire while at the same time endorsing America's refusal to allow any discussion in the United Nations to achieve this end.

When Israel broke the six month ceasefire on November 4, it was the trigger for this long planned invasion, deliberately timed for the last few weeks of George Bush's presidency and a few weeks before Israeli elections, in which all the leading politicians are competing as to how many Palestinians they can kill.