300 pairs of children's shoes laid out at Israeli Embassy

[Barack_America]

300 pairs of children's shoes laid out at Israeli Embassy

Thursday, 15 January 2009

The Ireland-Palestinian Solidarity Campaign is holding another protest outside the Israeli Embassy in Dublin today.

The organisation has laid out 300 pairs of children's shoes in front of the embassy to symbolise the number of children killed by the Israeli military during its ongoing assault on the Gaza Strip.

It is accusing the Israeli Government of perpetrating a Holocaust in Gaza in order to boost its own popularity ahead of elections next month.

Today's protest comes on the same day that the Israeli military attacked the UN headquarters in Gaza, injuring at least three workers.

[ProgressiveMuslim]

1. Awesome symbol for a protest.

[Scurrilous]

2. Kick

:thumbsup:

[Tripmann]

3. Very proud to be Irish right now...

[azurnoir]

4. It is a wonderful protest and beautiful symbolism

but the real question is does the Israeli government not to mention the public there who we hear are so pleased with what IDF has achieved really give a rodents behind?

[Scurrilous]

5. ACRI mourns Gaza fatalities: Children are everyone's soft spot

Association for Civil Rights takes out full-page, obituary-style ad in weekend newspaper mourning Palestinian children killed in Gaza offensive. Ad meant to 'convey basic message of operation's impact on civilians,' says group's spokeswoman

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3657223,00.html

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"The Association for Civil Rights in Israel, in an unusual move sure to be deemed controversial, took out a full-page, obituary-style ad in Friday's edition of the Haaretz daily in protest of the Israeli offensive in Gaza.

The page was divided into numerous obituaries morning the death of Palestinian children of various ages, and featuring the word "Stop" in bright red in its middle.

"The point was to convey the basic, universal and humanitarian message of the (operation's) impact on the civilian population. Children are everyone's soft spot and therefore we chose to focus on them," ACRI Spokeswoman Nirit Moskovitz told Ynet, adding that the fact that Hamas does not hesitate to target children and civilians, does not elude her group.

"We wanted to provoke the kind of reaction people have when they see a child's obituary," she said. "More than 300 Palestinian kids were killed so far… We feel that Israeli society needs to be reminded that there are people, actual people and innocent children, who are getting hurt."

Both the media and the public, she added, seem to be indifferent to the plight of the innocent in the Gaza Strip: "There is little desire to address the price the civilian population in Gaza is paying. The plight of the south's residents is awful, but there is a sense of rationalization when in comes to the fate of Gaza's people."

The ACRI is not trying to interfere with political decisions and aims only to protest: "The reports speak of 1,000 fatalities and 5,000 casualties, only half of whom are Hamas gunmen. We have to protest such a gross violation of human rights… Israel should not be fighting the way that it is."