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Open Gaza Border Now!

London Demo Outside Egyptian Embassy
2 January 2009

In London on 2nd January people demonstrated outside the Egyptian Embassy to show their disgust at Mubarak’s role in the on-going genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza and to demand the opening of the Rafah crossing.

Evidence shows Egypt’s total complicity with Israel on the attack on Gaza. Less than 48 hours before the attack Israeli Foreign Minister Livni met with Mubarak in Cairo to co-ordinate the attack in the hope of finishing off Hamas. Mubarak has sealed the border shut and with helped Israel destroy the tunnels which were a life line to Gaza. Mubarak's Foreign Minister Abu al-Gheit has even said he will break the bones of any Gazans attempting to escape in to Egypt.



Egyptian Embassy buildings (left) under siege by demonstrators


Huge turn out - even the overflow side street filling up


Egyptian Embassy(centre) engulfed by protesters, many still arriving

Around a thousand people turned up to the demo and pelted the Egyptian embassy with red paint balls symolising the Palestinian blood on Mubarak's hands.



Blood red stained Egyptian Embassy after pelting with paint balls (see remains near door)




"Partners in Crime" - Tzipi Livni and Hosni Mubarak
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Olmert with "laughing cow" Mubarak
also great to see our anti-zionist Jewish friends supporting the demo


Mubarak - Ceausico


Mubarak agrees to massacre Palestinians


We are all Gaza
End the siege on Gaza
Mubarak - War Criminal
Freedom for Palestine


Stop Starving the Palestinians

Several improvised Israeli flags went up in flames to the roaring cheer of the crowds.









Stop the Holocaust in Gaza


An image of Mubarak, nailed to a shoe, was blood dunked in bake-beans! (see video)


Sisters take the lead in chanting..


.. Brothers join in




Volunteers collecting money for Gaza posing with sister Yvonne Ridley and George Galloway


George Galloway

Respect MP George Galloway gave a short speech, raised on the shoulders of the demonstrators:

"We are here because we hold the Egyptian dictatorship jointly responsible for the mass murder in Palestine. The tyrant Mubarak was responsible for two reasons. First of all he was embracing Zipi Lipni,the foreign minister of Israel as the bombs were falling on the Palestinian people. Secondly because by locking the gates of Rafah for more than 18 months he has been starving the Palestinian people to death. Hosni Mubarak the donkey.."




The demo ended after sunset with many Muslim performing their Magreb prayers on the street.


Open Gaza Border Video,
London Demo at Egyptian Embassy 2 Jan 2009

The video is in three parts, it includes chanting in both english and arabic, speech by George Galloway about a donkey, the pelting of the embassy with paint balls, Israeli flags catching fire, and Mubarak being dunked in baked beans!


PART 1:


PART 2:


PART 3:


If you have a low-bandwidth internet connection, try the low-res version below:



Excerpt from the speech of Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah, the Secretary General of Hezbollah
regarding Egypt, the Rafah Crossing and our duty
December 28, 2008



Muslims performing their prayers

Brothers and sisters, this is the reality of today, the people of Gaza have made a difficult decision: they are in effect exercising that decision with their steadfastness, resistance, defiance, honor and glory as you yourselves did in 2006.

No amount of sacrifices, destruction, tears, blood and abandonment prevents them from continuing to insist on their right to resistance. But what is the responsibility of the nation today?

As a nation our main goal has to be stopping Zionist attacks on Gaza and preventing Israelis from achieving any of their objectives. In this manner, Gaza will be secured despite the gravity of the sacrifices that have to be made. Every state must work toward this goal and not only the citizens of Gaza.

People whose governments have resorted to inaction must force them to act. There is no justification for anyone to say that they cannot do anything because of their repressive regimes.

We must take to the streets in the Arab and Muslim world. We must raise our voices and pressure our governments even if they shoot us, it is still a duty -- for whoever falls martyr in these protests is a martyr on the path to al-Quds (Jerusalem), a martyr of Islam, and a martyr of a whole line of prophets and divine missions, they are martyrs of humanity.

Officials cannot apologize for their inaction and nations cannot complain that they have suppressive rulers.

In the July war, I did not ask this of the Arab people, but in the case of Gaza, I say all of us are duty-bound to take to the streets by the thousands, by the tens and hundreds of thousands, and demand from these government to act responsibly. These governments know full well what they are capable of doing, particularly at a time when the United States and European countries are suffering from financial and economic turmoil.

First of all, today the Arab world possesses oil, money and political strength and with modest efforts can stop the aggression against our people and the people in Gaza.

Secondly, the Arab and Muslim worlds must demand that the Egyptian regime, which has a crucial role in what is happening in Gaza today, not to enter war but to simply open the (Rafah) crossing for food, medicine, water and even weapons to reach our people in Gaza. The people in Gaza are men and women are victory-makers capable of resistance and steadfastness and have performed very well in the past.

In the July war in Lebanon, we did not ask any Arab country to open a battlefront but yes, we did ask for borders to be opened.

This is where we must acknowledge Syria for its assistance that led to our victory in the July war, because despite repeated aerial bombardment of all our border crossings and the main roads, Syria did not close its border with us.

We only ask of Egypt to indefinitely open the crossing for the sake of the living and not for the injured or the martyred.

Egypt, the largest and most important of Arab States, is not a Red Cross or a Red Crescent institution and will not be asked to deal with the people of Gaza in such manner.

What is required of the Egyptian leadership and regime is to resolve this issue and not to politically take advantage of the war to pressure Hamas and those of the resistance in Gaza in a bid to accept Israeli conditions in return for a ceasefire -- as some of us here in Lebanon did in the first days of the July aggression.

But they must politically help the people of Gaza and stop the aggression without forcing them to accept certain conditions. This is their real responsibility. This is what the Arab and Muslim worlds must be demanding of Egypt.

Up until now, we have been cautiously making appeals but after what happened yesterday, we say to the Egyptian regime:

If you do not open the Rafah border crossing, if you do not come to the rescue of your brothers in Gaza, then you are have a hand in the siege and the killing and in causing the Palestinian tragedy.

Egyptian officials have to hear this from all the people of the Arab and Muslims worlds, from religious scholars, political parties, elites, intellectuals and media professionals from all walks of life. They must know that they will be the condemned by history, the entire nation, the prophets and the martyrs if they are not quick to make a humane and historical stand today.

This part of my speech is directed at the people of Egypt, its Muslim, its Arabs, its proud people, the defiant, generous, resistance-loving, decent, courageous and noble people of Egypt, whom we all know what goes on in their hearts and minds. We know their mentality. Let the Egyptian people take to the streets in their millions.

Can the Egyptian police arrest millions of Egyptians?

No! They cannot!

We call upon the people of Egypt because they are the ones facing the regime which has closed the Rafah crossing.

People of Egypt, you must open the Rafah crossing with your bear hands if you must. I am talking of the position of a member of the resistance that fought for 33 days, and on behalf of the people who fought, sacrificed and gave martyrs.

What we know and what we hear about the officers and soldiers of the Egyptian armed forces, who are still proud of their Arab roots and continue to oppose Zionism, despite decades having passed from the Camp David peace agreement.

This is what we know them for. I am not calling for a coup in Egypt, and I am in no position to call for one. But I am calling for generals and officers to ask their political leadership whether it is their devotion to the military, the responsibilities entrusted in them and their rows of medals that prompts them to guard Israeli borders while watching our own people being slaughtered in Gaza?

The presence of everyone today is what will change the equation. The people in Egypt, its political parties, religious scholars, the Al-Azhar religious institution and the armed forces as well as the political elites are what will change the equation. I do not think there is an excuse for anyone to sit back and watch for the way to change the equation today is to modify Egypt's political stance.

That is what rulers of the Arab world and the Egyptian peoples must demand from the rulers of Egypt. If the Rafah crossing is opened for water, medicine, food, money and weapons to our people in Gaza, the epic victory that took place in Lebanon will be once again be repeated. We are confident of this victory despite all the harsh conditions of our people in the Gaza Strip.

Full speech transcript and video (both english dubbed and arabic original) available here.


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