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Argentina protesters give Peres the Nobel prize for murder, glorifies Sayyed Nasrallah

Argentina protesters give Peres the Nobel prize for murder, glorifies Sayyed Nasrallah
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Local Editor, 17-11-2009

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered on Monday night opposite the parliament building in Buenos Aires in Argentina to protest the visit of Israeli president Shimon Peres, shouting that he was a laureate of the "Nobel Prize for murder." 


The protestors carried a banner telling the octogenarian he deserved a Nobel Prize for murder.
Peres ignored the demonstration, choosing instead to focus on Mideast issues such as the Iranian nuclear program. 


The banner referred to 1994 Nobel Peace Prize, which Peres won together with former "Israeli" Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat for the peace talks that resulted in the Oslo Accords. 


Protestors held signs displaying dead children and calling Peres a "murderer", and handed out pamphlets condemning "Israel" and its leaders for war crimes. 


One of the protestors said, "It's a disgrace that the president of our country is meeting today with child-murderer Shimon Peres. He should be expelled from the city. There are thousands of people who came here today to protest against the hospitality shown to a representative of an occupying and oppressive government." 


Signs also displayed pictures of former "Israeli" Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. One of the signs said: "Get out of Argentina, murderer Shimon Peres", and another said: "Death to Zionist-fascist Israel, officer of American imperialism in the Middle East, murderers of the Palestinian people!"
The demonstrators, who marched toward the "Israeli" embassy, also carried signs glorifying Hizbullah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, and Iran's supreme leader, Sayyed Ali Khamenei, as well as Lebanese flags. 


The "Israeli" delegation fears demonstrators will attempt to penetrate an event during the evening, hosted by the Indian community in order to slate Peres. 


During Peres' visit on Monday, he met with Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, his Argentinean counterpart. Kirchner told Peres in the meeting that she supported Iran's nuclear program, as long as it was for peaceful purposes.


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