It is true that mass demonstrations worldwide did not stop the devastation of Iraq in March 2003 with over a million lives lost and a rich secular country destroyed by the Coalition of the Willing (US, UK, Australia etc). At that time there were marches as large as 1 million people (in London).
The US still has bases in Iraq which are now the subject of attack by a resistance that is growing.
Julian Assange played a part in the resistance to US occupation of Iraq by exposing its slaughter of civilians including children and journalists by releasing a video depicting “Collateral Murder” in July 2007. Come forward to 7 October 2023 and the Israeli genocide in Gaza is captured daily on Al Jazeera live.
Also Ploughshares activist, Ciaron O’Reilly, played his part by disabling a war plane in New York in 1991, is disgruntled with the Peace Movement and voices his dismay at this Palestine Solidarity rally in London.
Now, on Day 107 of the genocide in Gaza, the Palestinian resistance has made quite reasonable calls on the worldwide Palestine solidarity movement. Only last week, five (5) million people marched in Saana, the capital of Yemen. They were in solidarity with the Palestinian people and opposing US and UK bombing of their country.
- The immediate halt of the Israeli aggression on Gaza, the crimes and ethnic cleansing committed against the entire Gaza population, to open the crossings and allow the entry of the humanitarian aid into Gaza including the reconstruction tools
- To hold the Israeli occupation legally accountable for what it caused of human suffering towards the Palestinian people, and to charge it for the crimes against civilians, infrastructure, hospitals, educational facilities, mosques and churches.
- The support of the Palestinian resistance in the face of the Israeli occupation with all possible means as a legitimized right under the international laws and norms.
- We call upon the free peoples across the world, especially those nations who were colonized and realize the suffering of the Palestinian people, to take serious and effective positions against the double standard policies adopted by powers\countries that back the Israeli occupation. We call on these nations to initiate a global solidarity movement with the Palestinian people and to emphasize the values of justice and equality and the right of the peoples to live in freedom and dignity.
- The superpowers, especially the US, the UK and France among others, must stop providing the Zionist entity with cover from accountability, and to stop dealing with it as a country above the law. Such unjust behavior by these countries allowed the Israeli occupation over 75 years to commit the worst crimes ever against the Palestinian people, land and sanctities. We urge the countries across the globe, today and more than before, to uphold their responsibilities towards the international law and the relevant UN resolutions that call for ending the occupation.
- We categorically reject any international or Israeli projects aimed at deciding the future of Gaza that only serve to prolong the occupation. We stress that the Palestinian people have the capacity to decide their future and to arrange their internal affairs, and thus no party in the world has the right to impose any form of guardianship on the Palestinian people or decide on their behalf.
- We urge for standing against the Israeli attempts to cause another wave of expulsion – or a new Nakba – to the Palestinians especially in the lands occupied in 1948 and the West Bank. We stress that there will be no expulsion to Sinai or Jordan or any other place, and if there is any relocation to the Palestinians, it will be towards their homes and areas they were expelled from in 1948, as affirmed by many UN resolutions.
- We call for keeping the popular pressure around the world until ending the occupation; we call for standing against the normalization attempts with the Israeli entity and for a comprehensive boycott to the Israeli occupation and its backers.
You can find the call for solidarity from the Palestinian Resistance @ https://workersbushtelegraph.org/2024/01/23/operation-al-aqsa-flood-explained/