Saturday, January 3, 2009

Israeli Attack on Gaza

I was on this march today with many thousands of other people disgusted and horrified at the endless violence being endured by the people of Gaza. The march was calm and good-natured and hugely diverse: there were mums and dads with babies in pushchairs, people praying wherever there was a bit of grass or open ground to put down prayer mats, different groups mingling and shuffling along together, as always happens on a big march. So it's interesting - although entirely predictable, of course - that the 9.50 pm news on BBC1 focused primarily on "violence" at the Israeli embassy later in the evening (were any babies killed? I don't think so) and not on this immense public condemnation of the current attacks and of other governments' support for them. I took this weird picture with my new mobile (first time I've had a mobile that includes a camera) and in the sunshine was unable to see the strange alignment I'd created.

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