Don't sell arms to Zionist regime

German Muslims in Berlin on Saturday marked the annual Qods Day, condemning Germany's "blind support" for the criminal Zionist regime.

Qods Day marchers, among them Germans, Turks, Arabs, Iranians and Afghans, lashed out at German Chancellor Angela Merkel for her staunch support of the illegal Zionist regime.

"Merkel has no problem with her blind and deaf support for Israel," one speaker told the crowd as it was marching through Berlin's Kurfuerstendamm district.

"We condemn German arms deliveries for Israel and the sale of three submarines which can be modified to carry nuclear warheads," the speaker added.

Protesters carried banners urging the German chancellor to end its arms sales to the Zionist regime.

Although Berlin is legally banned from exporting arms to crisis regions, Germany has become one of the usurper Zionist regime's major arms supplier.

German weapon exports to 'Israel' reached around 900 million American dollars between 1998 and 2001.

Qods Day marchers also urged the government "to end all contacts" with the Zionist regime and called for a "total boycott of 'Israeli' goods".

The rally reaffirmed its "strong solidarity" with the oppressed Palestinian nation.

Addressing the crowd, a speaker stressed there can be "no peace in the Middle East as long as the Zionist regime exists."

He likened the Zionist regime to the former apartheid regime of South Africa.

Demonstrators also deplored ongoing American and Zionist atrocities in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon and the Palestinian-run territories.

Leading this year's Qods Day march was the African Pastorierre Botembe who in his address to the crowd reiterated that "peace can never be achieved through arms."

"The best example is Iraq," the Congolese Christian religious leader said.

Asked by IRNA about his message on the occasion of the Qods Day, Botembe added, "My message as a Christian pastor is peace."

He also linked German support for the Zionist regime to American pressure.

"Germany supports 'Israel' because the US wants it to do so," Botembe said.

Unlike other countries which mark World Qods Day on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan, Qods Day rallies in Germany have traditionally been held on Saturdays.


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