By hook or crook racist Israel, generously subsidized and protected by political Zionism's world wide war on Palestine, will destroy the Palestinians in every way way possible- corrupting every conversation in every way it can. And foolishly Hamas falls for Israel's latest gambit, enabling our headlines to attack and insult the persecuted and impoverished Palestinians once again.
Mutual restraint ? There is nothing in the least bit mutual about this situation. Political Zionism has imprisoned and demonized the Palestinians and coerced America into arming Israel's genocide.
Why should we care about this seemingly far away problem ? Because racist Israel in destroying Palestine- has been destroying America too.
We only add momentum to this endless cycle of escalating hate and violence by headlining Hamas' foolishness in falling right into an Israeli laid trap.
Political Zionism's ethnic cleansing of Palestine utilizes every trick plus some to demonize and decimate the native non-Jewish population. Divide, distract and destroy. Better yet lure and lead the Palestinians into destroying themselves.
100 years of this blatantly racist toxic ideology have made the Holy Land a modern man made hell for the real children of the land, the persecuted and impoverished Palestinians. And America is paying for this mess both coming and going.
Want to stop the so called clash of civilizations- then stop racist Israel's war on us all: Don't let yourself be yet another pawn, another puppet for toxic anti-American/Zionist propaganda.
Israel's latest attack is just one of many in a long series of injustices large and small designed to make life as miserable as possible for the imprisoned, impoverished and oppressed Palestinians. What a shame that Hamas foolishly fell right into this Israeli laid trap by ending their ceasefire.
And on and on it goes, with violence and hate mongering escalating every where world wide, with every group it can infiltrate and destroy being affected by political Zionism. But rather than worrying about Hamas right now I am more worried about our own Congress- our own democracy hijacked and undermined by a foreign county. Our "friend" modern man made Israel.
Palestine's children are starving and being traumatized by political Zionism's war on all of Palestine- a blatantly racist war that extends across oceans, attacking our own freedoms and impoverishing our own children right here at home in America: All for Israel. Racist Israel.
I am quite convinced that for all our sakes - for all of humankind- for civilization itself- we must divest in every way possible from political Zionism and that toxic fantasy misnamed "The Jewish State".
Invest in our true heritage and a decent future for all our children: Let Palestine return in full- with real freedom and democracy... and a just and lasting peace.
Most Palestinians, imprisoned and oppressed, trapped, and very much tormented by the ever present apparatus of political Zionism, who currently claim to want two separate states have been bullied, bribed, manipulated and even charmed by racist Israel, the omnipotent occupier, into accepting forced transfer and segregation. Thats called duress.
Approving of and advocating institutionalized bigotry will not make the Zionist war on all of Palestine go away. Nor will it help America's reputation abroad as we refuse to fully face the facts. It does however make it ever so much easier for Israel the war monger to claim "withdraw" while actually blasting away with many types of insults large and small... including this latest IDF slaughter of a Palestinian family picnicking on the beach.
notes 6-10-2006 **************** Among the dead were three children, aged one, three, and 10. Their sister was swimming and survived. Death on the beach: seven Palestinians killed as Israeli shells hit family picnic Chris McGreal in Jerusalem Saturday June 10, 2006 http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1794432,00.html ***************************************************************************** Thanks to a powerful Israeli lobby, our government, instead of pursuing our interests, has made itself an accessory to the crimes the Israelis commit against the Palestinians. Hence, we have become a target for terrorists, too. The president's statement that the terrorists "hate freedom" was just a cart full of cow pies. What they hate is our Middle East policy, and it is hardly a policy that has anything to do with freedom. Terrorism Is a Tactic by Charley Reese http://www.antiwar.com/reese/?articleid=9116 ********************************************************************************** Free Palestine from the toxic hatred of the immigrant thieves from Russia, the immigrant thieves from France, the immigrant thieves from New Jersey, the immigrant thieves from India, the immigrant thieves from New York. Free Palestine from the dissemblers and usurpers of the land. Free Palestine from those who hack down olive trees. Free Palestine from those who decimate its grape vines. Free Palestine from those who slaughter its sheep, its cattle, its chickens, its beehives, its embryos, its babies, its mothers, its brothers, its sisters, its fathers, its old men, its old women. Free Palestine from the hateful colonists who have made Palestinians irrelevant in their own land. And Free the United States from Israel's hateful shills who sully our newspapers and airwaves with their vilification of a people who remain steadfast on their land. Free our Congress from its cowardice so that it will stand up to the lobby that puts the interests of a foreign entity above our own. Summer at the Seashore in Palestine http://www.umkahlil.blogspot.com/ http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2006/06/10/p8694#more8694 ********************************************************************************** I learned that 10 palestinians have been been by Israeli shelling in northern Gaza as they were picnicing on the beach. 3 of them were children-two under the age of two. And their mother. And forty others wounded. We called my Aunt, who works with the al-Awda hospital in northern Gaza. She was hysterical, and this is a woman who seldom loses her grip.... She just spoke of blood and body parts, and how one of the cameramen at the hospital couldn't hold it together and dropped his camera as he was filming after he heard a bloodied, batterd girl crying out for her father. Bloody Friday: 10 killed in Gaza massacre, as shelling, sonic booms continue http://www.a-mother-from-gaza.blogspot.com/ ********************************************************************************** Eleven civilians, including children, killed in Israeli strike at Gaza Beach “If it was a settler who was killed, the whole world will condemn us and accuse us of committing crimes”, he added, “Israel is killing children and women, shelling homes and innocent civilians and nobody is saying or doing anything to stop these massacres”. Meanwhile, after the women, men and children were killed in the attack, the Israeli army claimed that it will investigate the incident.http://www.imemc.org/content/view/19244/1/ ******************************************************************************** Dozens of Israeli settlers wreak havoc on streets of Bethlehem DistrictIsraeli settlers from Gosh Atzion Settlement to the southwest of Bethlehem tore through the streets of Bethlehem area villages Friday. The settlers were protesting their inability to use more of Palestinian lands for their own streets, as per Israeli forces.http://www.imemc.org/content/view/19237/1/ ******************************************************************************** Lands burnt in Jordan Valley by Occupation Military CampsMilitary camps erected in the Jordan Valley were responsible for the burning of almost 20 dunums of land on Tuesday the 6th of June. Crops were burnt from light flares used by Occupation Forces to search for a missing Soldier, later seen shooting indiscriminately in Al Aqaba before turning the gun on himself in the village mosque. Villagers were placed under curfew and fire crews barred from saving the crops.http://stopthewall.org/latestnews/1185.shtml ********************************************************************************* Israeli air strike kills Gaza security chiefA senior Palestinian official in the Gaza Strip has been killed in an Israeli air strike. Jamal Abu Samhadana, founder of the Popular Resistance Committees, is the first high figure to be targeted in the Hamas government. Samhadana's appointment to the interior ministry infuriated Israel and the Palestinian opposition party, Fatah. http://euronews.net/create_html.php?page=detail_info&article=363191&lng=1 ******************************************************************************* Army fires a missile near the American School, north of GazaPalestinian sources in Gaza reported that the Israeli air-force fired one missile, on Friday at dawn, at an area close to the American School, north of Gaza city, causing damage to the building., no injuries were reported.http://www.imemc.org/content/view/19219/1/ ********************************************************************************** A medieval element has been superimposed on this economic and physical siege. Artillery pieces have been firing shells into “open ground” for the last two months. It is reported that over seven thousand pieces have been fired during the last two months. Life and limbs have been lost. The children are terrified and some of them were killed and precious homes were being damaged or destroyed. On the ''International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression''http://www.gcmhp.net/ ********************************************************************************* Congratulations on your in sightful editorial in reference to the silly "Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act of 2006" (May 24). Such courageous editorials by leading newspapers like The Plain Dealer are breathtaking to the rest of us who strive daily to bring about truth and shed some light on the plight of the Palestinian people, who have been struggling for their freedom and independence for decades. Kudos for taking a stand against Palestinian aid cutoff letter by Abbas Hamidehhttp://www.cleveland.com/letters/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/opinion/1149928557191950.xml&coll=2 ************************************************************************************** Instead of putting Israel as the terror state, as the state which has a record in defying the international laws, the oppressed Palestinians are labeled as terrorists. Redefining the content of the Palestinian discourse By Salim Nazzal Al-Jazeerah, June 9, 2006 http://www.aljazeerah.info/Opinion%20editorials/2006%20Opinion%20Editorials/June/9%20o/Redefining%20the%20content%20of%20the%20Palestinian%20discourse%20By%20Salim%20Nazzal.htm ************************************************************************************* Hope Among The Chaos Women Share Challenges Of Daily Life In The Gaza Strip By Katie Warchut http://www.theday.com/re.aspx?re=ab0fb847-97b6-41c6-be82-80c90ccab9f0 ***************************************************************************************
********************************************************************************** Rima Merriman, a Palestinian American living in Ramallah, wrote this series, "Portraits of Palestinian Resistance", telling the stories of the four Palestinians killed and one of the 57 wounded in Ramallah on 24 May 2006, as they struggled to protect a Palestinian activist and political prisoner from an Israeli undercover unit. Portraits of Palestinian Resistance: Introduction by Rima Merriman writing from Ramallah, occupied Palestine, Live from Palestine, 8 June 2006 http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article4774.shtml ****************************************************************************** On Thursday evening in Gaza, Israel assassinated Jamal Abu Samhadana, the Palestinian Authority's Interior Ministry General Supervisor and leader of the Popular Resistance Committees. Hamas appointed him head of its 3,000 member Gaza force which it first deployed late last month. Below, the IMEU presents a roundup of breaking news stories. To read the full article, click on the link provided with each article.Israel kills PA security chief Agencies, Jun 9, 2006 http://imeu.net/news/article001677.shtml ******************************************************************************** Israeli air strike kills Gaza official Friday 09 June 2006, A senior Palestinian security official in the Hamas government has been killed in an Israeli aerial attack in the southern Gaza Strip, witnesses and medics say http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/6E86766D-D5C6-491C-96E2-29844CE79B47.htm *********************************************************************************** Physicians for Human Rights-Israel call upon the State of Israel to assume full responsibility for the results of its actions in the occupied territories, and in accordance with international law must supply immediately and fully all the civil needs of the occupied population. Urgent Mission to Gaza and Call to Israel to Assume Responsibility Action Call, PHR-I, 8 June 2006 http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article4783.shtml **************************************************************************************** As an aside, where else in the world is it the people under foreign occupation that suffer international sanctions and not the occupiers? Editorial: Show of leadership and unity June 8, 2006 http://jordantimes.com/thu/opinion/opinion1.htm *********************************** What the M-W paper is saying, is that, under the circumstances, we need to be able to debate this strategy, if not in the Congress, at least in the public and our other institutions. The Left and the Israel Lobby by Joseph Anderson June 8, 2006 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/June06/Anderson08.htm ***************************************************************************** Even the mainstream Israeli peace movement is full of right wingers who defend the Separation Wall as a just public policy measure. That they morally defend aspects of the occupation as the costs of building the Israeli state is a position built on a lie and only serves those interests which continue to perpetuate unjust policies. Hiding behind the ‘peace movement’ does not absolve them from receiving fair criticism.The occupation has gone on for so long that the debate amongst the country’s elite is light years from anything resembling a final status agreement that the Palestinians would accept. The Right to Live Without Fear by Am Johal 7 June 2006 http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article4772.shtml *********************************** The Palestinians, and most of the world with them, are determined to pursue justice, eradicate racism and Apartheid. Just as South Africa did. They have no intention of disappearing.
Baskin true “friendship” should go to the Israelis to help shake them off their collective amnesia about what they have done and are doing to the Palestinians and to advise them that their salvation lies in shedding racism fully and forever. They have to amend their ways, reverse ethnic cleansing and make reparations.
For it is clear that the history of Jews will ultimately be marked indelibly, and above all other historical events, by what they have done in Palestine.
Reversing ethnic cleansing: The Right to Return Home by Salman Abu Sitta June 5, 2006 Salman Abu Sitta is a Palestinian author and researcher on refugees. http://www.amin.org/eng/uncat/2006/june/june5-0.html ********************************** TUNE IN ....The 58th anniversary of the dispossession of the Palestinian people by the State of Israel (Al-Nakba), and the current dire situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Arab Voices Radio - Wednesday, May 17, 2006 Dr. Zahi Damuni ( Dr. Damuni's actual interview well worth listening to is about 20 minutes into the show)http://www.arabvoices.net/ **********************************************************************************
Last November, the United States Green Party became the first political party to publicly endorse a statement calling for a comprehensive strategy ofboycott and divestment to pressure the government of Israel to end its abuse of human rights in Palestine. These latest in a series of similar international decisions signal the determination of civil society to put an end to the unjust and oppressive conditions imposed on the Palestinian People by the Israeli government.. http://www.imemc.org/content/view/19220/1/International Boycott spreads Freda Guttman - Friday, 09 June 2006 ************************************************************************************ CALL FOR ACADEMIC AND CULTURAL BOYCOTT OF ISRAEL http://www.pacbi.org/ *************************************************************************************** Shin Bet and the Israeli Academy: Partners in Human Rights Abuses?, Jonathan Cook, Counterpunch, May 30, 2006 http://www.pacbi.org/boycott_news_more.php?id=207_0_1_10_M ***************************************************************************************** Israel’s “Demographic Demon” in Court,Jonathan Cook, Middle East Report Online, June 1, 2006 http://www.pacbi.org/boycott_news_more.php?id=213_0_1_0_M *********************************************************************************** The Congress of South African Trade Unions issues statement On behalf over 1,2 million South African workers organized under the banner of COSATU I greet you in the name of worker internationalism. It is this solidarity, since the formation of the very first union and across space and time, often in the face of harsh repression, that provided vital moral succour and allowed workers to strengthen their resolve against oppression and exploitation. http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2006/06/07/the-congress-of-south-african-trade-unions-issues-statement/ ********************************************************************************* As women deeply concerned over the future of our children and humanity in general, we have been warning of the disastrous consequences of perpetrating injustice in Palestine. If the festering wound of injustice is left unheeded and unhealed, it is bound to erupt with serious effects. We are not asking for charity, band aids or palliatives to tend our deep injuries. We are merely demanding our inalienable rights and our freedom..... An Open Letter to the Quartet May 9, 2006 - from General Union of Palestinian Womenhttp://www.scottishpsc.org.uk/News/news.html ****************************************************************** Palestinian Civil Society Calls for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel Until it Complies with International Law and Universal Principles of Human Rights (9 July 2005) 1. Ending its occupation and colonization of all Arab lands and dismantling the Wall; 2. Recognizing the fundamental rights of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel to full equality; and 3. Respecting, protecting and promoting the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in UN resolution 194. http://www.pacbi.org/boycott_news_more.php?id=66_0_1_10_M11 ******************************************************************* If not boycott, what? Years of hand wringing and resolutions have simply prolonged Israeli immunity and the sufferings of the Palestinians. 5-24-6 Steve Rosen http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/steven_rose/2006/05/if_not_boycott_what.html ******************************************************************* Where were the Nobel laureates when schools were routinely closed by the occupiers during the seven years of the first Intifada? Where are the eloquent voices of the Nobel laureates for the 1389 Palestinian school and university students prisoners? Where are the voices for the impriosoned 214 Ministry of Higher Education employees? Nobel Laureates Laud Oppressor5-27-6http://www.umkahlil.blogspot.com/ ******************************************************************* "Already harsh conditions in the occupied territories have deteriorated since the start of the year. According to the United Nations, four of every 10 Palestinians live below the poverty line, earning less than $2.10 per day, and the jobless rate is now 40.7 percent." Palestinians: U.S. ban halts aid to relatives Banks in Gaza, West Bank won't cash checks for loved ones, Metro families say. by Gregg Krupa / The Detroit News June 2, 2006 http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060602/METRO/606020427 ******************************************************************* From the 1880s into the 1960s, a majority of American states enforced segregation through "Jim Crow" laws (so called after a black character in minstrel shows). From Delaware to California, and from North Dakota to Texas, many states (and cities, too) could impose legal punishments on people for consorting with members of another race. The most common types of laws forbade intermarriage and ordered business owners and public institutions to keep their black and white clientele separated. http://www.nps.gov/malu/documents/jim_crow_laws.htm **************************************** Israelis have a word for it: "hasbara". It is often misleadingly translated as "advocacy for Israel". But what the word signifies more deeply for Israel's supporters is the duty, when the truth would be damaging, to dissemble or to disseminate misinformation to protect the interests of Israel as a Jewish state -- that is, a state with an unassailable Jewish majority. Bold Ideas and Ugly Intentions Olmert in DC By JONATHAN COOK http://www.counterpunch.org/cook06012006.html ******************************************* Weekly report of Israeli war crimes,(25- 31 May 2006): PCHR Palestinian Centre for Human Rights: Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territoryhttp://www.pchrgaza.org *********************************************************************** News Briefs, 27.5.06—28.5.06 IMEMC & Agencies --Nablus youth dies of wounds sustained when shot by Israeli forces in April; Israeli Annexation Wall construction on a village lands; youth badly beaten by soldiers at checkpoint east of Bethlehem http://www.kibush.co.il/index.asp ********************************************************* Why Orthodox Jews are opposed to the Zionist "State"http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1506.htm ******************************************** The number of the farmers who sustained loses because of the Israeli aggressions reached 61195 http://www.umkahlil.blogspot.com/ ********************************************** The Palestinian tragedy has been unfolding and will continue to augment with or without Hamas. 'Hamas is not the issue’ by Ramzy Baroud http://jordantimes.com/thu/opinion/opinion6.htm ********************************************** The taxi driver (an out of work computer programmer) explained to me that this was all a part of an elaborate Israeli policy to weaken and tear apart Palestinian civil society, causing them to turn on each other, or to get up and leave Palestine for good. He assured me though that this cannot and will not happen and that Palestinians continue to display a sense of perseverance and fortitude that is unmatched. That despite all the Jewish state has done and continues to do, the Palestinians will continue to exist and thrive on their native soil, not unlike the ancient olive trees that dot the Palestinian landscape… Uncertainty and Wasted Time by Mike Odetalla www.hanini.org *********************************************** Israel, with a population of roughly 6.3 million, receives more U.S. aid each year than any other country, and has held that distinction since 1976. Between 1949 and 1996, Israel received $62.5 billion in foreign aid. http://imeu.net/news/article001446.shtml ************************************************ It was evidently not enough for Lieberman that, as a Russian-speaking immigrant fresh off the plane, he was instantaneously granted rights and privileges denied to Palestinians born in the very country to which he had just moved (not to mention those expelled during the creation of Israel in 1948). The very presence of an indigenous non-Jewish population in Israel was, in effect, unacceptable to him. In 1999, he formed a party called Yisrael Beiteinu ("Israel our Home"), made up largely of other Russian immigrants for whom the presence of Palestinians is also unacceptable.Lieberman's party believes what all Israelis believe: that Israel is a Jewish state. Unlike the more respectable Israeli parties, however, Lieberman's party is willing to add that because Israel is a Jewish state, non-Jews are not welcome. Even if they were born there. Originally published by Saree Makdisi in the San Francisco Chronicle, http://sareemakdisi.blogspot.com/ ************************************************ Enough Is Enough People have had it up to here with The Lobby http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=9045 ************************************************ Such changes will make Israel unlike any state we have seen in modern times. In 1980, at the height of apartheid in South Africa, the courts there refused to approve legislation much like Israel's ban on family unification, arguing that it contravened the right to a family life. In Israel, on the other hand, no one - not even the courts - is prepared to safeguard the most basic rights of the land's native people.Here's why they call it the 'Jewish state' By Jonathan Cook http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=5&article_id=24811 ********************************************** In the Village of Nowhere, a Fate Soon Sealed Wall to Enclose Palestinians Inside Jewish State by Scott Wilson 5-30-2006 PLUS small film on the situation found on Washington Post website: VIDEO The Village of Nowhere As construction of Israel's separation barrier progresses, the fate of some Palestinian communities along the border remain in question. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/?nav=globetop ******************************************************************** The right of return is a sacred right of Palestinian refugees : The national dialogue conference reaffirms that the cause of the Palestinian refugees is a national cause and one that embodies our identity and future; hence, we stress that we fully adhere to UN Resolution 194 pertaining to the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and homeland.http://www.miftah.org/Display.cfm?DocId=10402&CategoryId=32 ********************************************************************* MAY 2006 FINAL STATEMENT OF THE FOURTH PALESTINIANS IN EUROPE CONFERENCE http://www.prc.org.uk/data/aspx/d2/2822.aspx ********************************************************************** " Israel’s admittance into the UN was conditional: it must recognize UN Resolution 194. Remi Kanazi: The Existing Question: One cannot expect the Palestinian Authority to recognize Israel's "right to exist." http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13103.htm *************************************************************************** Justice and peace will only be possible if the undeniable right of Palestinians to return to our homeland is recognized and realized. Bells of Return Speak 'Strongly' and 'Honestly'http://www.umkahlil.blogspot.com/ ***************************************************************************************** Almost never raised are Israeli discrimination against its Palestinian citizens, Palestinian refugees’ rights of return, Israeli state terrorism, nonviolent Palestinian resistance, and important debates over two states vs. a bi-national state, and over divestment from Israel. New PMWATCH Report: US op-ed pages let Israelis speak for themselves, but not Palestinianshttp://www.pmwatch.org/pmw/index.asp ******************************************************************************** PALESTINE IN PHOTOS : ART & CULTURE http://imeu.net/news/art-culture.shtml ******************************************************************************** " ...And the return will never disappear " Kfar Bir'im was completely destructed in 1953. Only the church was left standing. The displaced people of Bir'im visit their village annually. View the moving and uplifting video, Summer Camp in Bir'imhttp://www.umkahlil.blogspot.com/ ********************************************************************************** July 8. 1972- Ghassan Kanafani assassinated in Beirut - 1972 Israeli Mossad agents plant a bomb in celebrated Palestinian poet and novelist Ghassan Kanafani's car, killing him and his young niece. Born in Acre in 1936, Kanafani is credited as a pioneer in "revolutionary literature," and was the editor of the PFLP magazine. The 1936-39 Revolt in Palestine (a book by Kanafani, onlineKanafani's novella "Men In The Sunhttp://www.palestinecalendar.org/july.htm **********************************************************************************
******************************************************************************************* Al Raja means 'hope." The dancers are Christian and Muslim teens from the Evangelical Lutheran School of Hope in Ramallah. The school is a ministry the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land (ELCJHL).... Palestinian Folk Dancers Share Hope and Peace http://www.elca.org/peacenotwalls/alraja/index.html *******************************************************************************************
The only way to actually implement a viable 'Forward strategy of freedom' and defeat the threat that Austen Bay refers to as "Islamo-fascism" is to fully divest emotionally and financially from our nefarious "friend" Israel. Racist Israel As in that modern man made war on Palestine. That generously subsidized armed Zionist fiasco of injustice and institutionalized bigotry misnamed "The Jewish State". That home wrecking killing machine that builds walls of hate and undermines peace everywhere.
Israeli advice got us into this mess in Iraq and Zionist warriors are undermining American freedom and democracy in every way they can, making us all wage slaves and cannon fodder for political Zionism.
Take back America with real freedom and democracy- with full equality and respect- protect our heritage and our future... rise up and refuse to help racist Israel destroy us all !
Israeli deploys yet another extra judicial execution, planting bombs and chaos, suffering and strife where ever it can, hoping to make imprisoned Palestine implode and self destruct with pain, rage and confusion.
Israel, all of it, including every word put out by its propaganda machines churning out promos for political Zionism, is an attack on vulnerable and traumatized children who have done nothing wrong but be born Palestinian in a time and age when that apparently has become a crime... and Israel is an attack on America too. An intentional corruption of every ideal we are supposed to hold dear. Freedom and democracy with full and equal rights for all ? !!!
We should be outraged and furious by the mess racist Israel has made of the Holy Land, and we should be disgusted by the bad advice and "secrete evidence" that the Zionist Entity plants every where it can, inspiring hate mongering campaigns in every forum and encouraging war world wide.
Invest in peace- divest from racist Israel- all of it... including every manipulative deceitful word. Stop the clock on this time wasting dialogue with institutionalized bigotry, escalating injustice- and barbaric brutality!
Thank you for publishing Drina Brooke's excellent letter on al-Zarqawi, concerning the charges of terrorism and the burden of proof... and the lack of due process.
I find this Israeli inspired policy of smear campaigns followed by targeted assassinations utterly abhorrent and simply do not understand why with all our sophisticated technology we can not capture suspects and use the rule of fair and just laws and legal proceedings to stop this misguided war on and of terror.
Why do people not see that state sponsored terrorism and war is every bit as evil and ugly and wrong as all types of armed violence and crimes against civilians ! And why does a bank robber get condemned and imprisoned for years while corporate criminals robbing millions of people of their jobs and even their life savings basically get a slap on the wrist ? !!
"Isolating Israel does only harm" ? !!! This makes no sense at all, and is really sheer hypocrisy on Israeli supporters' part: Israel actively displaces, demonizes, isolates and starves- and harms- the Palestinians, oppresses them in every way possible, totally boycotts their basic human rights and yet Zionists loudly claim that divestments and boycotts in response to such crimes against humanity are wrong !
If boycotts are so wrong then please Israel stop boycotting peace and the Palestinian refugees inalienable right of return. Stop boycotting real freedom and democracy with full and equal rights for all. Stop boycotting international law and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Stop boycotting the truth about Palestine...
58 years of dialogue with Israel has only brought the persecuted Palestinians more pain and suffering... plus that monstrous apartheid wall. 58 years of dialogue with Israel has only encouraged political Zionism, subsidizing institutionalized bigotry and more Israeli home wrecking maneuverings with American's money and weaponry. 58 years of dialogue with Israel has only made racist Israel the political entity more real and more ugly than it should be. No more dialogue please- Racist Israel and the Zionist war on Palestine is simply and completely wrong !!!
notes 6-9-2006 **************** Instead of putting Israel as the terror state, as the state which has a record in defying the international laws, the oppressed Palestinians are labeled as terrorists. Redefining the content of the Palestinian discourse By Salim Nazzal Al-Jazeerah, June 9, 2006 http://www.aljazeerah.info/Opinion%20editorials/2006%20Opinion%20Editorials/June/9%20o/Redefining%20the%20content%20of%20the%20Palestinian%20discourse%20By%20Salim%20Nazzal.htm ************************************************************************************* CUPE now joins the growing global international campaign, begun on July 9, 2005, by over 170 Palestinian organizations, including the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel. Another vote, recently taken by NATFHE, the Union of University and College Lecturers in England, supports a boycott of Israeli academic institutions. They cite the purposeful silencing of Palestinian academic freedom through the systematic destruction of Palestinian educational institutions.
Last November, the United States Green Party became the first political party to publicly endorse a statement calling for a comprehensive strategy ofboycott and divestment to pressure the government of Israel to end its abuse of human rights in Palestine. These latest in a series of similar international decisions signal the determination of civil society to put an end to the unjust and oppressive conditions imposed on the Palestinian People by the Israeli government.. http://www.imemc.org/content/view/19220/1/International Boycott spreads Freda Guttman - Friday, 09 June 2006 ************************************************************************************ El-Haddad, a graduate of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, is from Gaza, but she was living in Boston and three months pregnant when she decided to go back. It was a decision she calls "my own personal jihad." When it came time to give birth, she went back to Boston and delivered her son, Yousuf. But she was soon back in Gaza with him, as one of the few journalists working in the territory. Most journalists stay in hotels in Jerusalem and go into Gaza after the violence is over, she said. (Laila's blog: Raising Yousuf: A Diary of a Mother Under Occupation:http://a-mother-from-gaza.blogspot.com ) Hope Among The Chaos Women Share Challenges Of Daily Life In The Gaza Strip By Katie Warchut http://www.theday.com/re.aspx?re=ab0fb847-97b6-41c6-be82-80c90ccab9f0 *************************************************************************************** Rima Merriman, a Palestinian American living in Ramallah, wrote this series, "Portraits of Palestinian Resistance", telling the stories of the four Palestinians killed and one of the 57 wounded in Ramallah on 24 May 2006, as they struggled to protect a Palestinian activist and political prisoner from an Israeli undercover unit. Portraits of Palestinian Resistance: Introduction by Rima Merriman writing from Ramallah, occupied Palestine, Live from Palestine, 8 June 2006 http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article4774.shtml *********************************** On Thursday evening in Gaza, Israel assassinated Jamal Abu Samhadana, the Palestinian Authority's Interior Ministry General Supervisor and leader of the Popular Resistance Committees. Hamas appointed him head of its 3,000 member Gaza force which it first deployed late last month. Below, the IMEU presents a roundup of breaking news stories. To read the full article, click on the link provided with each article.Israel kills PA security chief Agencies, Jun 9, 2006 http://imeu.net/news/article001677.shtml *********************************** Israeli air strike kills Gaza official Friday 09 June 2006, A senior Palestinian security official in the Hamas government has been killed in an Israeli aerial attack in the southern Gaza Strip, witnesses and medics say http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/6E86766D-D5C6-491C-96E2-29844CE79B47.htm ********************************* Physicians for Human Rights-Israel call upon the State of Israel to assume full responsibility for the results of its actions in the occupied territories, and in accordance with international law must supply immediately and fully all the civil needs of the occupied population. Urgent Mission to Gaza and Call to Israel to Assume Responsibility Action Call, PHR-I, 8 June 2006 http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article4783.shtml *********************************** Israeli forces reinvade southern West Bank Hebron City, arrest 7 including a school teacherThis morning at dawn Israeli forces once again raided the southern West Bank city of Hebron, taking seven Palestinians to unknown locations. Israeli forces began Thursday morning's invasion with a search campaign, opening fire and breaking into sleeping homes in several Hebron neighborhoods simultaneously.http://www.pnn.ps/english/archive2006/jun/week2/080606/report5.htm *********************************** Death toll raises as Israeli forces continue daily attacks on Gaza Strip, killing three Palestinians and injuring five east of Gaza City.... Not again,” residents decry. When the Israeli settlers and military ‘withdrew’ from the Gaza Strip at summer’s end, many believed they finally had a chance for a normal life without checkpoints and attacks, but this did not happen. Others believed the point of the ‘withdrawal’ was to trade the West Bank for the Gaza Strip, which is in the process of happening. A fourth Palestinian died from injuries sustained during last night’s Israeli attack on the National Security Office in northeastern Gaza.
Still others believed that once the settlers and military were no longer inside the Strip, Israeli forces planned to attack from the air, sea, and borders, which they continue to control and occupy, without fear of repercussion. And this is what is precisely what is happening.
The occupation of Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia is moving further south, with the northern Strip now declared an “isolation zone.”
Palestinian medical sources reported that Israeli forces killed three more Palestinians last night, east of Gaza City. They were “too close to the fence.” Israeli soldiers opened fire from their occupation posts along the border, killing the three Palestinians and injuring another four. http://www.pnn.ps/english/archive2006/jun/week2/080606/report1.htm *************************************************************************************** In addition to furthering its strategy to create smaller Palestinian factions, Israeli forces plan a bigger military operation in Gaza and the West BankAccording to the Al Quds daily newspaper published in London, the Israeli media, army, and intelligence sources have hinted that a major military operation is being planned for the next few days against Palestinian organizations in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. http://www.pnn.ps/english/archive2006/jun/week2/080606/report3.htm ************************************ New Flashpoint: Our Struggle for Our Existence in the Jordan Valley The presentation is based on dozens of slides showing the reality of Palestinian life and struggle in the Jordan Valley. Covering all the basic facts pertaining to the area, the presentation highlights the central goals of Zionism and its relation to Israeli Apartheid and Occupation.http://stopthewall.org/activistresources/1182.shtml ********************************** Jordan no substitute homeland for Palestinians — KING ABDULLAH Mahmoud Habboush - The Jordan Times - " Monarch says unilateral moves would deprive Palestinians of their legitimate, internationally recognised right for independent state...Some seek to settle their problems at the expense of neighbouring countries; others want to ignite this situation and spread chaos and destruction in more than one place, to enhance their influence and control over the whole region. ” http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=14350 *********************************** By way of deception Fresh from Washington, and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is more unilateral than ever, reports Khaled Amayreh from the West Bank http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/798/fr3.htm ********************************** just for you, palestine... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZTkgxtJvgY *********************************** Two Palestinians extra-judicially executed in Jabalya PCHR - PCHR calls upon the international community to immediately intervene to stop such crimes, and reiterates its calls for the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 to meet their obligations to ensure protection for Palestinian civilians in the OPT *********************************** Palestinian youth beaten up by Israeli soldiers in Hebron on Thursday: http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=11650 *********************************** Israeli artillery shell the northern Gaza Strip, killing three and injuring three: http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=11646 *********************************** As an aside, where else in the world is it the people under foreign occupation that suffer international sanctions and not the occupiers? Editorial: Show of leadership and unity June 8, 2006 http://jordantimes.com/thu/opinion/opinion1.htm *********************************** Even the mainstream Israeli peace movement is full of right wingers who defend the Separation Wall as a just public policy measure. That they morally defend aspects of the occupation as the costs of building the Israeli state is a position built on a lie and only serves those interests which continue to perpetuate unjust policies. Hiding behind the ‘peace movement’ does not absolve them from receiving fair criticism. The occupation has gone on for so long that the debate amongst the country’s elite is light years from anything resembling a final status agreement that the Palestinians would accept. The Right to Live Without Fear by Am Johal 7 June 2006 http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article4772.shtml *********************************** The Palestinians, and most of the world with them, are determined to pursue justice, eradicate racism and Apartheid. Just as South Africa did. They have no intention of disappearing.
Baskin true “friendship” should go to the Israelis to help shake them off their collective amnesia about what they have done and are doing to the Palestinians and to advise them that their salvation lies in shedding racism fully and forever. They have to amend their ways, reverse ethnic cleansing and make reparations.
For it is clear that the history of Jews will ultimately be marked indelibly, and above all other historical events, by what they have done in Palestine.
Reversing ethnic cleansing: The Right to Return Home by Salman Abu Sitta June 5, 2006 Salman Abu Sitta is a Palestinian author and researcher on refugees. http://www.amin.org/eng/uncat/2006/june/june5-0.html ********************************** TUNE IN ....The 58th anniversary of the dispossession of the Palestinian people by the State of Israel (Al-Nakba), and the current dire situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Arab Voices Radio - Wednesday, May 17, 2006 Dr. Zahi Damuni Co-founder of Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, who currently serves on Al-Awda's national coordinating and executive committees, and is coordinator of the organization's chapter in San Diego, California.( Dr. Damuni's actual interview well worth listening to is about 20 minutes into the show)http://www.arabvoices.net/ ********************************************************************************** The writing really is on the wall- for a glimpse explore Al-Awdahttp://www.al-awda.org/
The humanitarian aid and assistance that UNRWA provides to the Palestine refugees can never be enough. But it will be required as long as the issues of statelessness, prolonged military occupation, economic marginalization and vulnerability characteristic of the Palestinian refugee crisis are not addressed.http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/publ/opendoc.htm?tbl=PUBL&id=4444d3c92f ********************************************************************************** But the lack of sincerity can be measured by the fact that Abbas has made no mention whatsoever of including all Palestinians -- the majority of whom live in forced exile and diaspora -- in the referendum. No referendum carried out only in the occupied territories can represent the will of Palestinians as a whole. Dangerous dirty tricks in Palestine By Ali Abunimah The Electronic Intifada 6 June 2006 http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article4765.shtml ********************************************************************************** "the people also aim to secure the right of return for refugees and to liberate all prisoners and detainees based on the historical right of our people on the land of our forefathers and based on the UN Charter and international law and legitimacy."The Full Text of the National Conciliation Document of the Prisoners By Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails (representing FATEH, HAMAS, Islamic Jihad, PFLP, and DFLP) http://www.miftah.org/Display.cfm?DocId=10371&CategoryId=32 *********************************** CIA fact book Israel's population: Jewish 80.1% (Europe/America-born 32.1%, Israel-born 20.8%, Africa-born 14.6%, Asia-born 12.6%), non-Jewish 19.9% (mostly Arab) (1996 est.) http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/is.html#People ********************************** Israeli government treating Jerusalemites like foreigners in their own city now requiring those with other passports to leave every three months and hope for a re-entry visaA coalition of civil society organizations are working to defend the rights of Jerusalemites. The Israeli government announced it would confiscate the right of Palestinian citizens who hold foreign passports, in addition to their required Israeli-issued ID and Palestinian passports, to continue living in the future capital of the Palestinian state. The Israeli government will require all Palestinian holders of foreign passports to leave the country every three months in order to obtain a visa, as is the case for any foreigner.http://www.pnn.ps/english/archive2006/jun/week1/070606/report3.htm *********************************** U.S.-born Israeli soldier found dead An Israeli soldier who recently emigrated from the United States was found dead in a West Bank mosque Tuesday, where he apparently committed suicide after shooting at the walls of the empty building with his M-16 assault rifle.http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060606/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_soldier_dead ********************************** • Since 1967, Israel has demolished more than 34,000 Palestinian homes and refugee shelters. The demolitions are often carried out without warning, leaving Palestinians little or no time to gather their belongings. A nation occupied IMEU, Jun 5, 2006 http://imeu.net/news/article001605.shtml *********************************** Americans need to know that the unjust conditions under which Palestinians live, grow up and die have been, and are still being, made possible through the support Israel receives from the US government. Voices from under occupation IMEU, Jun 5, 2006 http://imeu.net/news/article001576.shtml *********************************** Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu said, “If I were to change the names, a description of what is happening in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank could describe events in South Africa.” Another South African, Jewish activist, Ronnie Kasrils, wrote “This is much worse than apartheid . . . Israeli measures, the brutality, make apartheid look like a picnic. We never had jets attacking our townships. We never had sieges that lasted month after month. We never had tanks destroying houses.” Columnists Better Than Teepen Offer Insights letter by Hassan Fouda http://www.theday.com/re.aspx?re=79b8bcde-6cd5-41a5-a7f1-943bfc6387e8 *********************************** Israeli attorney Gabi Lasky said, “the policy of blacklisting non-violent peace activists as ‘persona non gratis’ and denial of access to the Occupied Territories because of their nonviolent activities. This raises questions regarding Israel’s intentions to resolve the conflict through dialogue and nonviolent means.” Californian piano tuner faces deportation from Israel for supporting Palestinian freedom http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2006/06/05/californian-piano-tuner-faces-deportation-from-israel-for-supporting/ *********************************** The withdrawal did not end the occupation of Gaza. Israel still controls Gaza's land borders, sea access, and air space, and has repeatedly launched military attacks in the region by air and land. Basic infrastructure in Gaza, such as electricity and water supply, is still controlled by Israel, as is the population registry. 39 Years of OccupationDate posted: June 05, 2006 By Al-Haqhttp://www.miftah.org/Display.cfm?DocId=10463&CategoryId=32 ************************************ Now is the time for the Right of Return to be implemented for two-time Palestinian refugees from Iraq to Syria http://www.pnn.ps/english/archive2006/jun/week1/020606/report2.htm ************************************** I think if ordinary people here knew what was happening to ordinary people in Palestine, they would be more compassionate. We need food, water and homes. We need work and access to the world. We need justice. When Palestinians have justice there will be peace. We Need JusticeFida Qeshta, The Electronic Intifada, 3 June 2006 http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article4760.shtml **************************************** Boycott, divestment and sanction worked to end apartheid in South Africa. We believe the same strategy will work to enforce the rights of Palestinian people, including the right of refugees to return to their homes and properties. http://www.umkahlil.blogspot.com/ ********************************************** Academic Boycott: Shin Bet training program highlights academic complicity with occupation Jonathan Cook, The Electronic Intifada, 31 May 2006 http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article4752.shtml ********************************************** The Boycott of Palestinian Education: Can the Anti-Boycotters Please Stand Up?Report, Right to Education Campaign, 3 June 2006 http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article4761.shtml or 7 June 2006 http://www.counterpunch.org/ribeiro06072006.html ***************************************** Why the Boycott of Israel is Justified by Gabriel Ash http://www.dissidentvoice.org/June06/Ash06.htm<> ***************************************** CALL FOR ACADEMIC AND CULTURAL BOYCOTT OF ISRAEL http://www.pacbi.org/ NATFHE Leads the Way in Moral Responsibility, PACBI press release, May 29, 2006 http://www.pacbi.org/announcements_more.php?id=201_0_5_0_M Shin Bet and the Israeli Academy: Partners in Human Rights Abuses?, Jonathan Cook, Counterpunch, May 30, 2006 http://www.pacbi.org/boycott_news_more.php?id=207_0_1_10_M CUPE-Ontario Boycott News & Analysis: Putting Israel Boycott on the Agenda Acting Steering Committee, Palestinian Civil Society Campaign for BDS | | June 5, 2006 http://www.pacbi.org/boycott_news_more.php?id=221_0_1_0_C Israel’s “Demographic Demon” in Court,Jonathan Cook, Middle East Report Online, June 1, 2006 http://www.pacbi.org/boycott_news_more.php?id=213_0_1_0_M ***************************************************** The Congress of South African Trade Unions issues statement On behalf over 1,2 million South African workers organized under the banner of COSATU I greet you in the name of worker internationalism. It is this solidarity, since the formation of the very first union and across space and time, often in the face of harsh repression, that provided vital moral succour and allowed workers to strengthen their resolve against oppression and exploitation. http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2006/06/07/the-congress-of-south-african-trade-unions-issues-statement/ ***************************************************** As women deeply concerned over the future of our children and humanity in general, we have been warning of the disastrous consequences of perpetrating injustice in Palestine. If the festering wound of injustice is left unheeded and unhealed, it is bound to erupt with serious effects. We are not asking for charity, band aids or palliatives to tend our deep injuries. We are merely demanding our inalienable rights and our freedom..... An Open Letter to the Quartet May 9, 2006 - from General Union of Palestinian Womenhttp://www.scottishpsc.org.uk/News/news.html ****************************************************************** Palestinian Civil Society Calls for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel Until it Complies with International Law and Universal Principles of Human Rights (9 July 2005) 1. Ending its occupation and colonization of all Arab lands and dismantling the Wall; 2. Recognizing the fundamental rights of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel to full equality; and 3. Respecting, protecting and promoting the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in UN resolution 194. http://www.pacbi.org/boycott_news_more.php?id=66_0_1_10_M11 ******************************************************************* If not boycott, what? Years of hand wringing and resolutions have simply prolonged Israeli immunity and the sufferings of the Palestinians. 5-24-6 Steve Rosen http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/steven_rose/2006/05/if_not_boycott_what.html ******************************************************************* Where were the Nobel laureates when schools were routinely closed by the occupiers during the seven years of the first Intifada? Where are the eloquent voices of the Nobel laureates for the 1389 Palestinian school and university students prisoners? Where are the voices for the impriosoned 214 Ministry of Higher Education employees? Nobel Laureates Laud Oppressor5-27-6http://www.umkahlil.blogspot.com/ ******************************************************************* "Already harsh conditions in the occupied territories have deteriorated since the start of the year. According to the United Nations, four of every 10 Palestinians live below the poverty line, earning less than $2.10 per day, and the jobless rate is now 40.7 percent." Palestinians: U.S. ban halts aid to relatives Banks in Gaza, West Bank won't cash checks for loved ones, Metro families say. by Gregg Krupa / The Detroit News June 2, 2006 http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060602/METRO/606020427 ******************************************************************* There are just two days’ worth of anaesthetic left and virtually no cancer treatment drugs. “In the past two months we’ve gone back 20 years in the treatment of cancer,” he says. Grim Times for Gaza Hospital with a Proud Past Date posted: June 03, 2006 By Gulf Timeshttp://www.miftah.org/Display.cfm?DocId=10457&CategoryId=5 **************************************** "The army always meets our protests with excessive violence, and tries to stop us from protesting against the Wall and settlement�, Abu Rahma stated, They are repeatedly attacking our village, and firing at the houses in an attempt to terrify the residents and stop their peaceful protests" Residents, peace activists and legislators protest against the wall in Bil'in IMEMC, Jun 3, 2006 http://imeu.net/news/article001614.shtml **************************************** From the 1880s into the 1960s, a majority of American states enforced segregation through "Jim Crow" laws (so called after a black character in minstrel shows). From Delaware to California, and from North Dakota to Texas, many states (and cities, too) could impose legal punishments on people for consorting with members of another race. The most common types of laws forbade intermarriage and ordered business owners and public institutions to keep their black and white clientele separated. http://www.nps.gov/malu/documents/jim_crow_laws.htm **************************************** The common thread of the Zionist ideology based on negating Palestinians remained the same: Firstly, to justify invading Palestine they invented the lie that Palestine is a land without people to a people without land. 39 years after the 1967 June war: A genuine peace or a pax Romana peace? By Salim Nazzal June 6, 2006 http://www.aljazeerah.info/Opinion%20editorials/2006%20Opinion%20Editorials/June/6%20o/39%20years%20after%20the%201967%20June%20war%20A%20genuine%20peace%20or%20a%20pax%20Romana%20peace%20By%20Salim%20Nazzal.htm **************************************** Palestinian refugees in Iraq are once again being displaced, while their Right of Return is being ignored. Now, as some as being put in tent-camps in Syria and others are still in Iraq under fire, would be an appropriate time to implement UN Resolution 194.Refugees in Iraq displaced againhttp://www.imemc.org/index.php ****************************************** Report 2006: World's poor and disadvantaged pay price of war on terror http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGPOL100182006 ******************************************* Did you know? http://www.pmwatch.org/pmw/snakebite/DidYouKnow.html ******************************************** ISRAEL BUILDING NEW WEST BANK SETTLEMENT By Laurie Copans AP June 2, 2006 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060602/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_new_settlement_1 ******************************************* Israelis have a word for it: "hasbara". It is often misleadingly translated as "advocacy for Israel". But what the word signifies more deeply for Israel's supporters is the duty, when the truth would be damaging, to dissemble or to disseminate misinformation to protect the interests of Israel as a Jewish state -- that is, a state with an unassailable Jewish majority. Bold Ideas and Ugly Intentions Olmert in DC By JONATHAN COOK http://www.counterpunch.org/cook06012006.html ******************************************* Weekly report of Israeli war crimes,(25- 31 May 2006): PCHR Palestinian Centre for Human Rights: Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territoryhttp://www.pchrgaza.org *********************************************************************** News Briefs, 27.5.06—28.5.06 IMEMC & Agencies --Nablus youth dies of wounds sustained when shot by Israeli forces in April; Israeli Annexation Wall construction on a village lands; youth badly beaten by soldiers at checkpoint east of Bethlehem http://www.kibush.co.il/index.asp ********************************************************* Why Orthodox Jews are opposed to the Zionist "State"http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1506.htm ******************************************** The number of the farmers who sustained loses because of the Israeli aggressions reached 61195 http://www.umkahlil.blogspot.com/ ********************************************** The Palestinian tragedy has been unfolding and will continue to augment with or without Hamas. 'Hamas is not the issue’ by Ramzy Baroud http://jordantimes.com/thu/opinion/opinion6.htm ******************************************** As far as history is concerned, we have not seen one single episode where the occupied are punished like in this case. To make the picture clearer,imagine if Nelson Mandela was asked to recognize the Apartheid state in South Africa as a condition to be recognized.Starving Palestinians: What such a surrealist view? By Salim Nazzal http://www.aljazeerah.info/Opinion%20editorials/2006%20Opinion%20Editorials/May/26%20o/Starving%20Palestinians%20What%20such%20a%20surrealist%20view%20By%20Salim%20Nazzal.htm *********************************************** The taxi driver (an out of work computer programmer) explained to me that this was all a part of an elaborate Israeli policy to weaken and tear apart Palestinian civil society, causing them to turn on each other, or to get up and leave Palestine for good. He assured me though that this cannot and will not happen and that Palestinians continue to display a sense of perseverance and fortitude that is unmatched. That despite all the Jewish state has done and continues to do, the Palestinians will continue to exist and thrive on their native soil, not unlike the ancient olive trees that dot the Palestinian landscape…Uncertainty and Wasted Time by Mike Odetalla www.hanini.org *********************************************** Israel, with a population of roughly 6.3 million, receives more U.S. aid each year than any other country, and has held that distinction since 1976. Between 1949 and 1996, Israel received $62.5 billion in foreign aid. http://imeu.net/news/article001446.shtml ************************************************ It was evidently not enough for Lieberman that, as a Russian-speaking immigrant fresh off the plane, he was instantaneously granted rights and privileges denied to Palestinians born in the very country to which he had just moved (not to mention those expelled during the creation of Israel in 1948). The very presence of an indigenous non-Jewish population in Israel was, in effect, unacceptable to him. In 1999, he formed a party called Yisrael Beiteinu ("Israel our Home"), made up largely of other Russian immigrants for whom the presence of Palestinians is also unacceptable.Lieberman's party believes what all Israelis believe: that Israel is a Jewish state. Unlike the more respectable Israeli parties, however, Lieberman's party is willing to add that because Israel is a Jewish state, non-Jews are not welcome. Even if they were born there. Originally published by Saree Makdisi in the San Francisco Chronicle, http://sareemakdisi.blogspot.com/ ************************************************ Enough Is Enough People have had it up to here with The Lobby http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=9045 ************************************************ Such changes will make Israel unlike any state we have seen in modern times. In 1980, at the height of apartheid in South Africa, the courts there refused to approve legislation much like Israel's ban on family unification, arguing that it contravened the right to a family life. In Israel, on the other hand, no one - not even the courts - is prepared to safeguard the most basic rights of the land's native people.Here's why they call it the 'Jewish state' By Jonathan Cook http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=5&article_id=24811 ********************************************** One hopes that Europe learned a lesson from the Nuremburg trials—following orders does not absolve one from responsibility. 5-24-6 Multilateral Collusion By Remi Kanazi http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0605/S00353.htm ************************************************ In the Village of Nowhere, a Fate Soon Sealed Wall to Enclose Palestinians Inside Jewish State by Scott Wilson 5-30-2006 PLUS small film on the situation found on Washington Post website: VIDEO The Village of Nowhere As construction of Israel's separation barrier progresses, the fate of some Palestinian communities along the border remain in question. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/?nav=globetop ************************************************
Fifty Years from Palestine (23 minutes - 80kbps - RealMedia)
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http://www.al-awda.org/av.html ************************************************* Amnesty International Report 2006: Excerpts However, it continued to build and expand illegal settlements and related infrastructure, including a 600 kilometer wall, on Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank. Military blockades and restrictions imposed by Israel on the movement of Palestinians within the Occupied Territories continued to cause high unemployment and poverty among the Palestinian population. http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=24701 *********************************************************** Humanitarian Briefing Notes | Territorial Fragmentation of the West Bank | Increasingly the West Bank is being divided into smaller areas with movement between them controlled by checkpoints, roadblocks and permits. http://www.humanitarianinfo.org/opt/default.asp *********************************************************** The right of return is a sacred right of Palestinian refugees : The national dialogue conference reaffirms that the cause of the Palestinian refugees is a national cause and one that embodies our identity and future; hence, we stress that we fully adhere to UN Resolution 194 pertaining to the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and homeland.http://www.miftah.org/Display.cfm?DocId=10402&CategoryId=32 ********************************************************************* MAY 2006 FINAL STATEMENT OF THE FOURTH PALESTINIANS IN EUROPE CONFERENCE http://www.prc.org.uk/data/aspx/d2/2822.aspx ********************************************************************** " Israel’s admittance into the UN was conditional: it must recognize UN Resolution 194. Remi Kanazi: The Existing Question: One cannot expect the Palestinian Authority to recognize Israel's "right to exist." http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13103.htm *************************************************************************** Justice and peace will only be possible if the undeniable right of Palestinians to return to our homeland is recognized and realized. Bells of Return Speak 'Strongly' and 'Honestly'http://www.umkahlil.blogspot.com/ **************************************************
