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3/13 SF Leaflet for Palestinian March
We march today to protest Israel's ongoing war against the Palestinian people. In the past 2 weeks, Israel has launched a massive assault in which 20,000 Israeli occupation forces have invaded Palestinian towns and refugee camps. More than 150 Palestinians have been killed in the last week, most of them unarmed civilians. Over 1,160 Palestinians have been killed and 18,307 Palestinians have been injured in the West Bank and Gaza Strip since September 29, 2000.
Leaflet of the historic March 13, 2002 San Francisco march in support of the Palestinian liberation struggle:
STOP ISRAELI TERRORISM--END THE OCCUPATION
We march today,
--To protest Israel's ongoing war against the Palestinian people. In the past 2 weeks, Israel has launched a massive assault in which 20,000 Israeli occupation forces have invaded Palestinian towns and refugee camps. More than 150 Palestinians have been killed in the last week, most of them unarmed civilians. Over 1,160 Palestinians have been killed and 18,307 Palestinians have been injured in the West Bank and Gaza Strip since September 29, 2000. During the invasion of Jabalya refugee camp, the AP reports that "many civilians, some in their pajamas, fled the fighting, moving toward nearby Gaza City on foot. 'They are killing us,' said Laila Ayoub, 38, carrying a baby girl. 'They used helicopters to fire on us while we were leaving.'"
--To protest the Israeli army's practice of targeting Red Cross/Red Crescent ambulances and medical workers. Since Sept. 2000, 5 medical workers have been killed, over 130 injured and 71 ambulances (68% of the fleet) have been attacked by the army. In one case on March 8, Dr. No'man, director of Yamama hospital, left the hospital after prior coordination with the Red Cross and Israeli army. He was shot at by Israeli forces near the hospital, and returned inside. After further coordination with the Red Cross and with the Israeli forces headquarters (DCO)--he was given permission again to leave the hospital, and promised safety. Outside the hospital, he was shot dead, in his car, by Israeli forces.
--To protest Israel's practice of street assassinations. A set of disturbing photographs, which have been completely ignored by the American media, graphically depict Israeli border police carrying out an extra-judicial execution of a young Palestinian they claim was a suspected suicide bomber. The photos clearly show the man stripped to his underwear, prostrate, and completely subdued before being shot in the head by Israeli soldiers. The photos can be viewed on the internet at http://www.electronicintifada.net
--To protest Israel's latest tactic of arbitrarily rounding up of hundreds of men and boys (ages 15-45) in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and holding them in makeshift prisons. In the refugee camp of Dheishe and town of Qalqilya, specifically, Israeli forces arrested over 1,000 young men and boys who were forced to take off their shirts and jackets before being handcuffed, blindfolded and placed in prison camps.
--To protest the delay of emergency medical treatment in civilian areas. Recently, Israeli forces prevented evacuation by ambulances from midnight of March 7 until 5:30 a.m. on March 8, at Hawaz'a, east of Khan Yunis in the Gaza strip, after 15 Palestinians were killed and many more injured by Israeli fire.
PLEASE JOIN US IN OPPOSING THE ISRAELI OCCUPATION
--END US AID TO ISRAEL--
STOP ISRAELI TERRORISM--END THE OCCUPATION
We march today,
--To protest Israel's ongoing war against the Palestinian people. In the past 2 weeks, Israel has launched a massive assault in which 20,000 Israeli occupation forces have invaded Palestinian towns and refugee camps. More than 150 Palestinians have been killed in the last week, most of them unarmed civilians. Over 1,160 Palestinians have been killed and 18,307 Palestinians have been injured in the West Bank and Gaza Strip since September 29, 2000. During the invasion of Jabalya refugee camp, the AP reports that "many civilians, some in their pajamas, fled the fighting, moving toward nearby Gaza City on foot. 'They are killing us,' said Laila Ayoub, 38, carrying a baby girl. 'They used helicopters to fire on us while we were leaving.'"
--To protest the Israeli army's practice of targeting Red Cross/Red Crescent ambulances and medical workers. Since Sept. 2000, 5 medical workers have been killed, over 130 injured and 71 ambulances (68% of the fleet) have been attacked by the army. In one case on March 8, Dr. No'man, director of Yamama hospital, left the hospital after prior coordination with the Red Cross and Israeli army. He was shot at by Israeli forces near the hospital, and returned inside. After further coordination with the Red Cross and with the Israeli forces headquarters (DCO)--he was given permission again to leave the hospital, and promised safety. Outside the hospital, he was shot dead, in his car, by Israeli forces.
--To protest Israel's practice of street assassinations. A set of disturbing photographs, which have been completely ignored by the American media, graphically depict Israeli border police carrying out an extra-judicial execution of a young Palestinian they claim was a suspected suicide bomber. The photos clearly show the man stripped to his underwear, prostrate, and completely subdued before being shot in the head by Israeli soldiers. The photos can be viewed on the internet at http://www.electronicintifada.net
--To protest Israel's latest tactic of arbitrarily rounding up of hundreds of men and boys (ages 15-45) in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and holding them in makeshift prisons. In the refugee camp of Dheishe and town of Qalqilya, specifically, Israeli forces arrested over 1,000 young men and boys who were forced to take off their shirts and jackets before being handcuffed, blindfolded and placed in prison camps.
--To protest the delay of emergency medical treatment in civilian areas. Recently, Israeli forces prevented evacuation by ambulances from midnight of March 7 until 5:30 a.m. on March 8, at Hawaz'a, east of Khan Yunis in the Gaza strip, after 15 Palestinians were killed and many more injured by Israeli fire.
PLEASE JOIN US IN OPPOSING THE ISRAELI OCCUPATION
--END US AID TO ISRAEL--
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Joseph Farah , Between the lines
2000 WorldNetDaily.com
Tis is a copy from another source.
I've been quiet since Israel erupted in fighting spurred by disputes over the Temple Mount.
Until now, I haven't even bothered to say, "See, I told you so." But I can't resist any longer. I feel compelled to remind you of the column I wrote just a couple weeks before the latest uprising. Yeah, folks, I predicted it. That's OK. Hold your applause.
After all, I wish I had been wrong. More than 80 people have been killed since the current fighting in and around Jerusalem began. And for what?
If you believe what you read in most news sources, Palestinians want a homeland and Muslims want control over sites they consider holy. Simple, right?
Well, as an Arab-American journalist who has spent some time in the Middle East dodging more than my share of rocks and mortar shells, I've got to tell you that these are just phony excuses for the rioting, trouble-making and land-grabbing.
Isn't it interesting that prior to the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, there was no serious movement for a Palestinian homeland?
"Well, Farah," you might say, "that was before the Israelis seized the West Bank and Old Jerusalem."
That's true. In the Six-Day War, Israel captured Judea, Samaria and East Jerusalem. But they didn't capture these territories from Yasser Arafat. They captured them from Jordan's King Hussein. I can't help but wonder why all these Palestinians suddenly discovered their national identity after Israel won the war.
The truth is that Palestine is no more real than Never-Never Land. The first time the name was used was in 70 A.D. when the Romans committed genocide against the Jews, smashed the Temple and declared the land of Israel would be no more. From then on, the Romans promised, it would be known as Palestine. The name was derived from the Philistines, a Goliathian people conquered by the Jews centuries earlier. It was a way for the Romans to add insult to injury. They also tried to change the name of Jerusalem to Aelia Capitolina, but that had even less staying power.
Palestine has never existed -- before or since -- as an autonomous entity. It was ruled alternately by Rome, by Islamic and Christian crusaders, by the Ottoman Empire and, briefly, by the British after World War I. The British agreed to restore at least part of the land to the Jewish people as their homeland.
There is no language known as Palestinian. There is no distinct Palestinian culture. There has never been a land known as Palestine governed by Palestinians. Palestinians are Arabs, indistinguishable from Jordanians (another recent invention), Syrians, Lebanese, Iraqis, etc. Keep in mind that the Arabs control 99.9 percent of the Middle East lands. Israel represents one-tenth of 1 percent of the landmass.
But that's too much for the Arabs. They want it all. And that is ultimately what the fighting in Israel is about today. Greed. Pride. Envy. Covetousness. No matter how many land concessions the Israelis make, it will never be enough.
What about Islam's holy sites? There are none in Jerusalem.
Shocked? You should be. I don't expect you will ever hear this brutal truth from anyone else in the international media. It's just not politically correct.
I know what you're going to say: "Farah, the Al Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem represent Islam's third most holy sites."
Not true. In fact, the Koran says nothing about Jerusalem. It mentions Mecca hundreds of times. It mentions Medina countless times. It never mentions Jerusalem. With good reason. There is no historical evidence to suggest Mohammed ever visited Jerusalem.
So how did Jerusalem become the third holiest site of Islam? Muslims today cite a vague passage in the Koran, the seventeenth Sura, entitled "The Night Journey." It relates that in a dream or a vision Mohammed was carried by night "from the sacred temple to the temple that is most remote, whose precinct we have blessed, that we might show him our signs. ..." In the seventh century, some Muslims identified the two temples mentioned in this verse as being in Mecca and Jerusalem. And that's as close as Islam's connection with Jerusalem gets -- myth, fantasy, wishful thinking. Meanwhile, Jews can trace their roots in Jerusalem back to the days of Abraham.
The latest round of violence in Israel erupted when Likud Party leader Ariel Sharon tried to visit the Temple Mount, the foundation of the Temple built by Solomon. It is the holiest site for Jews. Sharon and his entourage were met with stones and threats. I know what it's like. I've been there. Can you imagine what it is like for Jews to be threatened, stoned and physically kept out of the holiest site in Judaism?
So what's the solution to the Middle East mayhem? Well, frankly, I don't think there is a man-made solution to the violence. But, if there is one, it needs to begin with truth. Pretending will only lead to more chaos. Treating a 5,000-year-old birthright backed by overwhelming historical and archaeological evidence equally with illegitimate claims, wishes and wants gives diplomacy and peacekeeping a bad name.
Joseph Farah , Between the lines
2000 WorldNetDaily.com
I've been quiet since Israel erupted in fighting spurred by disputes over the Temple Mount.
Until now, I haven't even bothered to say, "See, I told you so." But I can't resist any longer. I feel compelled to remind you of the column I wrote just a couple weeks before the latest uprising. Yeah, folks, I predicted it. That's OK. Hold your applause.
After all, I wish I had been wrong. More than 80 people have been killed since the current fighting in and around Jerusalem began. And for what?
If you believe what you read in most news sources, Palestinians want a homeland and Muslims want control over sites they consider holy. Simple, right?
Well, as an Arab-American journalist who has spent some time in the Middle East dodging more than my share of rocks and mortar shells, I've got to tell you that these are just phony excuses for the rioting, trouble-making and land-grabbing.
Isn't it interesting that prior to the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, there was no serious movement for a Palestinian homeland?
"Well, Farah," you might say, "that was before the Israelis seized the West Bank and Old Jerusalem."
That's true. In the Six-Day War, Israel captured Judea, Samaria and East Jerusalem. But they didn't capture these territories from Yasser Arafat. They captured them from Jordan's King Hussein. I can't help but wonder why all these Palestinians suddenly discovered their national identity after Israel won the war.
The truth is that Palestine is no more real than Never-Never Land. The first time the name was used was in 70 A.D. when the Romans committed genocide against the Jews, smashed the Temple and declared the land of Israel would be no more. From then on, the Romans promised, it would be known as Palestine. The name was derived from the Philistines, a Goliathian people conquered by the Jews centuries earlier. It was a way for the Romans to add insult to injury. They also tried to change the name of Jerusalem to Aelia Capitolina, but that had even less staying power.
Palestine has never existed -- before or since -- as an autonomous entity. It was ruled alternately by Rome, by Islamic and Christian crusaders, by the Ottoman Empire and, briefly, by the British after World War I. The British agreed to restore at least part of the land to the Jewish people as their homeland.
There is no language known as Palestinian. There is no distinct Palestinian culture. There has never been a land known as Palestine governed by Palestinians. Palestinians are Arabs, indistinguishable from Jordanians (another recent invention), Syrians, Lebanese, Iraqis, etc. Keep in mind that the Arabs control 99.9 percent of the Middle East lands. Israel represents one-tenth of 1 percent of the landmass.
But that's too much for the Arabs. They want it all. And that is ultimately what the fighting in Israel is about today. Greed. Pride. Envy. Covetousness. No matter how many land concessions the Israelis make, it will never be enough.
What about Islam's holy sites? There are none in Jerusalem.
Shocked? You should be. I don't expect you will ever hear this brutal truth from anyone else in the international media. It's just not politically correct.
I know what you're going to say: "Farah, the Al Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem represent Islam's third most holy sites."
Not true. In fact, the Koran says nothing about Jerusalem. It mentions Mecca hundreds of times. It mentions Medina countless times. It never mentions Jerusalem. With good reason. There is no historical evidence to suggest Mohammed ever visited Jerusalem.
So how did Jerusalem become the third holiest site of Islam? Muslims today cite a vague passage in the Koran, the seventeenth Sura, entitled "The Night Journey." It relates that in a dream or a vision Mohammed was carried by night "from the sacred temple to the temple that is most remote, whose precinct we have blessed, that we might show him our signs. ..." In the seventh century, some Muslims identified the two temples mentioned in this verse as being in Mecca and Jerusalem. And that's as close as Islam's connection with Jerusalem gets -- myth, fantasy, wishful thinking. Meanwhile, Jews can trace their roots in Jerusalem back to the days of Abraham.
The latest round of violence in Israel erupted when Likud Party leader Ariel Sharon tried to visit the Temple Mount, the foundation of the Temple built by Solomon. It is the holiest site for Jews. Sharon and his entourage were met with stones and threats. I know what it's like. I've been there. Can you imagine what it is like for Jews to be threatened, stoned and physically kept out of the holiest site in Judaism?
So what's the solution to the Middle East mayhem? Well, frankly, I don't think there is a man-made solution to the violence. But, if there is one, it needs to begin with truth. Pretending will only lead to more chaos. Treating a 5,000-year-old birthright backed by overwhelming historical and archaeological evidence equally with illegitimate claims, wishes and wants gives diplomacy and peacekeeping a bad name.
Instead of a European settler state, armed to the teeth by the US for decades now, practicing an increasingly violent apartheid against Palestinians, "Mary" wants us to understand that the Intifada is just a case of greedy little brown people making trouble for rational white people.
Racism, pure and simple. Just as attacking Affirmative Action is racist even when Clarence Thomas is the leading the charge, so is Arab-bashing racist even when coming from the pen of an Arab.
I'm sure "Mary" could also find a few self-hating ex-gays to preach to us about the joys of heterosexual family life.
Every oppressed community is divided into the majority of people struggling for justice and a minority within the community which benefits from the status quo.
Mr. Farah, while waiting for God to make all roads smooth, has clearly sided with the status quo. A totally worthless article.
Apartheid is the dominance of a minority over a majority. Jews in Israel are the majority in Israel with teh arab population at 20%. They are 20% of the population and have about 12 members in the parliament.
Israelis puposely want to not have a minority over majority situation and that is precisely why they want to give back Palestinian controlled areas to the Palestinians.
Simplistic analogies do no good. they are see though. Instead of re-hatching the claims of South Africa, lets start talkign about the MIddle East in terms that relate. And if anyone starts on colonialism after this I'll scream and give you a lesson on what colonialism is and how it does not apply.
And as for Jesse earlier saying Farah, just agrees with teh status quo. If you are form the Bay area all the BS you spew IS the status quo. Where Farah and I are from the MIDDLE EAST, lebanon to be exact..we are brave dissidents who see through discriminatory Saudi Arabian Waahabi propaganda.
* (Lebanese fascist group, allied to Israel, that took their name from Francisco Franco's Spanish Phalange Party)
thanks for making assumptions about my life.
You weirdo liberals try to make everybody into a racist and perpetrator.
Is that so? Affirmative action is an extension of State Power. to oppose State power and forced taxation is racist? You leftists are losing to many brain cells... Got to stay off the Drugs son.