SO SICK: A protestor at an anti-Israeli demo in Berlin dresses his daughter up as a suicide bomber
- her tiny body strapped with sticks of pretend TNT
Posted on 04/15/2002 3:14:59 PM PDT by knighthawk
COPENHAGEN, April 15 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - Following their call on the government to stop exporting defense equipment to Israel, opposition parties and trade unions in Denmark called for a demonstration on Tuesday to protest against Israel's military offensive in the Palestinian territories, news agencies reported.
The protest, whose slogan is to be "Peace Now", was jointly announced Monday by the Social Democrats, the People's Socialist Party, and the former communist Unity List as well as by trade unions, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP).
Former Social Democrat Foreign Minister Mogens Lykketoft and socialist leader Holger Nielsen will be among speakers at the protest, to be held outside Copenhagen's city hall at 1500 GMT.
The protestors will call on Israel to withdraw from occupied Palestinian territories.
For its part, the Danish government summoned Israel's ambassador to Copenhagen last Monday to vigorously protest the Israeli army's ongoing offensive.
Meanwhile, the Social Democrats and the Radical party called on the government to stop exporting defense equipment to Israel, parliamentary sources said Monday.
Niels Helveg Petersen, former Minister for Foreign Affairs, appealed Sunday to the government to follow Germany's example and suspend exports of defense equipment because of Israel's offensive. The Social Democrats added their support to the appeal Monday.
The Justice Ministry said on Monday that no Danish company requested a license to export defense equipment to Israel last year nor so far this year.
In Luxembourg, meanwhile, European Union (EU) Foreign Ministers appear to have rejected calls for trade sanctions against Israel, reported BBC’s online news service.
Though there is real frustration about Israel's refusal to withdraw its forces from the West Bank, the EU is not in the mood for dramatic gestures.
No-one wants to do anything which could undermine Powell's mission following his call for a ceasefire in Madrid last week, a BBC correspondent said.
"We're not behind Powell just because we like him," said Christina Gallach, spokeswoman for EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana.
"It's because he has the Madrid declaration as part of his brief."
Guess that wasn't such a good idea, eh?!
The Justice Ministry said on Monday that no Danish company requested a license to export defense equipment to Israel last year nor so far this year. "
LOLOLOL.... This is too funny!
"er...er...well if anyone does decide to export defense equipment...well then er..."
I don't know if the "wearing Stars of David" was a myth. I do know King Christian was photographed wearing one anyway.
In any case, I believe Denmark has just booted its ultra-leftist government for the first time in many decades. The media's explanation has been Danish revulsion over the criminal class of immigrants they've been inundated with.
The King and the Danish people in general resisted the Nazis, but there were collaborators. There were even Jewish collaborators (and still are).
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