| Protesters Force Netanyahu to Cancel Montreal Speech Mon Sep 9, 5:31 PM ET By Charles Grandmont MONTREAL (Reuters) - Clashes between police and pro-Palestinian demonstrators on Monday forced former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ( news - web sites) to cancel a speech on the Middle East crisis he was to give to university students here. Trouble erupted when about 100 protesters jammed a hall at Montreal's Concordia University shortly before Netanyahu's speech, a university spokeswoman said. The protest was called by a student group called "Justice For Peace in the Middle East". Riot police used pepper spray to push back the protesters, who waved Palestinian flags and hurled furniture, breaking windows, the spokeswoman said. "It was decided that the setting was not safe enough for Monsieur Netanyahu," she said. Police arrested five people for assault, obstruction and gathering illegally. The university canceled classes for the day, as several hundred protesters, some of them wearing scarves and swimming goggles to protect against pepper spray, banged drums and chanted anti-Netanyahu slogans outside. Netanyahu, a right-wing politician who ruled Israel from 1996 to 1999 and who intends to seek office again in the general elections next year, was invited to Montreal by a Jewish student group and the Canada-Israel Committee, a Jewish lobby group. Netanyahu, a former commando, said he was disappointed at not being able to give his speech. "What you saw today on the streets of Montreal is a small example of what the larger war on terrorism is about," he told reporters. "It is that mad zealotry that does not tolerate diversity and freedom that is endangering our world, and I'm glad that the people of Canada had such a close look at that pathology," said the hawkish politician, who is opposed to the creation of an independent Palestinian state. Netanyahu said he was to meet Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien on Tuesday and continue his lecture tour in universities in Toronto and Winnipeg, before heading to Washington on Thursday. |
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