Israel-Hezbollah Battle outside Syrian Embassy

It has been a while since I have blogged and I shall put that down to the heat and Israel's continuing rape and bombardment of Lebanon and Palestine: just where do you start to write, every day another Israeli atrocity, every day another Hezbollah victory, every day more and more hypocracy.

For example today, the Zionists decided to hold a protest outside the Syrian embassy in London against Syria's alleged aid to Hezbollah. As could only be expected, a counter-demonstration was organised by the Lebanese Welfare Community and the Islamic Human Rights Commission. A very intense and very enjoyable day ruined by the hypocracy of the MET police in their dealings with the two factions. One was protected and encouraged, the other hounded and harassed. A mini-apartheid wall was even erected so that each side could not see the other. The Zionists on one side, the Muslims and Jewish Rabbis from the Neturei Karta on the other united under the yellow and green Hezbollah flag.

The sides were evenly matched numerically with about 50 on each side although as the time passed, the Hezbollah side was reduced dramatically by the departure of the Rabbis from the Neturei Karta and the Lebanese community. But the 10 Hezbollah supporters drowned out the other side with significant ease proving that it is quality, not quantity, that matters.

Among my favourite chants from the demo were

(To the tune of "Twelve Green Bottles")

"There's a bunch of dirty Zionists standing behind the wall

A bunch of dirty Zionists standing behind the wall

But if one Hezbollah rocket were to accidentally fall

There would be no more dirty Zionists standing behind the wall"

"La illaha ill Allah, We are all Hezbollah"

"With blood, with guns, we'll free Lebanon"

although equating Zionism with Nazism drew warning from the police in case it offended someone ... shocking!!!

On a sadder note, a friend of mine was detained and interrogated by the police for over 40 minutes for simply taking a few pictures of the Zionist demonstrators. He was asked all about his work, university and other personal information. His phone was looked through and he was asked about his friends. All for taking a few pics with a camera-phone. Zionist photographers who came right up to the Muslim demonstrators and took pictures with professional cameras were tolerated by the police despite complaints by demonstrators. A worrying outcome from this is that this brother, who previously held a somewhat positive view of Britain and Britishness, now feels like a foreigner in his own country, where he was born, his mother was born, and his grandmother was born. Good ol cops - sure know how to stop extremism.