Belgium

Hammer and sickle for Lebanon

Some 8,000 people demonstrated in Brussels on Sunday against the war in Lebanon. There were slogans against the U.S. and Israel and in support of Hamas and Hezbollah. Participating organisations included the maoist Workers Party of Belgium (better known under its Dutch acronym PVDA), the StopUSA platform, Lebanese liberals, a jewish-muslim-christian pacifist organisation from France, and a christian trade union from Belgium. Lebanese flags were flanked by Cuban and Venezuelan flags, a further indication of the left-wing character of the demonstration.


Photo courtesy of Bram Souffreau (Kapingamarangi.be) - published under a creative commons license

Also spotted: burning US flags and photos of Hassan Nasrallah.



Comments

Jos Verhulst

Jos Verhulst - jverhulst-gdekegel (at) telenet (dot) be

Monday 07 August 2006 @ 08:53 CET - #24342   
Curiously, there was also a cry for 'open borders'.
http://www.indymedia.be/fil...
Briggs

Briggs  externe link

Monday 07 August 2006 @ 11:08 CET - #24352   
Hezbollah and hamas flags, they burned an Israeli flag as well if I'm not mistaken. Seems like the commercial media decided not to show too much.
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Bram  externe link

Monday 07 August 2006 @ 14:06 CET - #24357   
Briggs, if I am not mistaken, you can find a picture of the Israeli flag burning in the Flemish newspaper 'De Morgen'. There was an American flag burned as well.

On the picture: it was taken on the Pachecolaan with a mobile phone, so the quality is not that good.
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Björn Roose  externe link

Monday 07 August 2006 @ 21:00 CET - #24395   
Communists never liked Jews. Marx himself felt a certain need to answer "The Jewish Question". Stalin did everything in his power, as did his left extremist ally Adolf Hitler, to "solve" "the Jewish Question". And nowadays islamists cooperate with communists do do their part in "solving" "the Jewish Question". Only today they talk about "zionism" and call their battle "anti-zionism".

By the way, even in Lebanon, there is ... a communist party (http://www.lcparty.org/).
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BtB

Tuesday 08 August 2006 @ 18:42 CET - #24453   
Try researching the postrevolutionary Soviet leadership. The majority were jews. Or were they just 'self-hating' jews like Marx?

And while it is true that Stalin was a convinced antisemite, serious questions have been raised about his background, with possible links to the tsarist intelligence agencies.

And calling Hitler the 'left extremist ally' of Stalin is something rightwing conservatives like to do these days, though the problem is they keep forgetting that 'comrade' Hitler killed off every leftwing political organisation, starting with elements of the liberal party. And don't even try to bring up the Pact with Stalin. Without question one of the more idiotic political moves in the twentieth century, but is was done to buy time, not out of ideological friendship.

Preposterous claims, which have been heard far too often.
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pablo

Thursday 31 August 2006 @ 16:13 CET - #25944   
My poor Roose, you're such an idiot. have you ever read Marx' 'Judenfrage'? I guess not. If you had ever tried to read the book ( it's a small one so you should be able to) you would'nt be writing this utter nonsens. Marx was a jew himself, remember? His booklet replied to the vibrant debate in the nineteenth century among jews themselves wether the jews were to assimilate or to islotate themselves from contempory european societies.

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Concerning Hitler being the 'left ally' of Stalin... I wouldn't say 'left'. But you are right indeed that totalitarianism has taken two similar forms during the twentieth century and to some extent these two forms have indeed been allies. Together they have tried to destroy Euopean liberal democracy. It would be nice, therefore, to hear you condemn all kinds of totalitarianism, both the Stalin and the Hitler-variant. That also means that you and your Voorpost-clique should denounce Staf De Clerq, Jef Van de Wiele, Cyriel Verschaeve and all the other utter imbeciles and criminals who have supported Hitler, instead of glorifying them.

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