Galway, Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign : · "The Palestinians are beasts walking on two legs".

· "We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population" (ex-Israeli PM, David Ben-Gurion)

Yesterday, the Galway branch of the IPSC was out in relative strength in Shop Street manning an info table and dispensing an information leaflet containing such loathsome nuggets as the aforementioned quotes from Menachem Begin and Ben-Gurion. To boot, the leaflet contained

Golda Meir’s 1969 anthropological observation : "There is no such thing as a Palestinian people... It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn't exist” and the fact that the Irish firm Cement Roadstone Holdings (CRH) owns a 25% stake in the Mashav Group, an Israeli holding company for Nesher Cement, who is the sole producer of cement in Israel and which is extensively used in the construction of the Apartheid Wall.

Further up the street towards Eyre Square another info table was manned by Ibrahim Ahmad Noonan and another Irish convert to Islam to give the lie to the current anti-Islamic black propaganda being bruited abroad from the Vatican to the White House that Islam is a violent and dangerous religion.

When it comes to Islam, Western rabid Western hypocrisy is not far behind dogging its heels, as it were, for neocon David Horowitz is of the view that by slaughtering Palestinian and Lebanese civilians, “Israel is doing the work of the rest of the civilized world,” another neocon headbanger, Larry Kudlow, is of the view that “Israel is/was doing the Lord’s work” by murdering Lebanese during the course of its recent vicious attack. Muslim genocide in one form or another is the professed goal of the neoconservatives who have total control over the Bush administration. neocon godfathe,r Norman Podhoretz, has called for World War IV (in neocon thinking WW III was the cold war) to overthrow Islam in the Middle East, deracinate the Islamic religion and turn it into a formalized, secular ritual.

Islam, be afraid, be very afraid !. Palestine, be even more in terror !.

Ibrahim Ahmad Noonan - Ibrahim is hosting a lecture; "Understanding Islam" in the Menlo Park Hotel, Galway, Oct 29th at 7PM

Adzleen, Richard and ? - Richard is head honcho of the Galway branch, IPSC (photo was taken last Saturday by Arun Asan)

Virginia from Spain and hubby Bilal from Palestine

Andy, Nuria & John