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In Support of Black Solidarity with Palestine

by Register Peace & Freedom or Green
It is certainly a milestone in opposing the 67 year occupation of Palestine by the American military base called Israel that we now have African-American solidarity with Palestine in the form of a statement signed by over 1,000 African-Americans and Africans in other countries found at http://www.blackforpalestine.com/read-the-statement.html
It is certainly a milestone in opposing the 67 year occupation of Palestine by the American military base called Israel that we now have African-American solidarity with Palestine in the form of a statement signed by over 1,000 African-Americans and Africans in other countries found at http://www.blackforpalestine.com/read-the-statement.html

The introductory statement's last line states: "We offer this statement to continue the conversations between our movements." With conversation must come action, as all the signatories will certainly agree. The only 2 parties that support the Palestinian liberation struggle on the California ballot are Peace & Freedom Party and the Green Party. Every single Democrat and Republican at every level of office, including Bernie Sanders, support Israel. Bernie Sanders voted for money for Israel during the July 2014 Gaza Massacre and viciously attacks pro-Palestinian supporters at his rallies. The Democrat-Republican support of all of the horrors of Israel has existed for Israel's entire 67 years as Israel was created as a US military base to defend US oil profits and promote US imperialism around the world. Every single US president from 1948 to the present was and is pro-Israel because every single Democrat-Republican US president is first and foremost a spokesperson for US imperialism. Israel has always been a viciously racist state, not only toward non-Jews, but also to various nationalities of Jews, especially toward poor Jews. The horror that is Israel was from its inception when the proud terrorist founders literally drove 750,000 Palestinians off their land and massacred those who would not or could not move. Here is Steve Lendman's description of the founding of Israel, paid for with American tax dollars, at
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/08/16/18776228.php
Israeli criminality is longstanding - begun well before the Jewish state’s establishment. In 1946, Irgun and Lehi terrorists jointly attacked the King David Hotel - killing scores, injuring many more.

David Ben-Gurion approved the massacre. Menachem Begin led it. Yitzhak Shamir was involved - three future Israeli prime ministers. In April 1948, they committed Deir Yassin mass murder. An eyewitness described the horror as follows:

“I was (there) when the Jews attacked. (They) closed on the village amid exchanges of fire with us. Once they entered the village, fighting became very heavy in the eastern side and later it spread to other parts, to the quarry, to the village center until it reached the western edge.”

“The Jews used all sorts of automatic weapons, tanks, missiles, cannons. They enter(ed) houses and kill(ed) women and children indiscriminately. (Village) youths...fought bravely.”

“We had no aid or support...They took about 40 prisoners...After the battle was over, they took them to the quarry where they shot them dead and threw their bodies in the quarry...They took (other) prisoners and killed them...They killed the youths.”

Other accounts spoke of shootings, bombs exploding and a mother being killed with her husband, son and brother. A nurse was shot dead as well as the daughter of a friend and her baby.

“Whoever tried to run away was shot dead.” It was cold-blooded murder. After the battle, “the Jews took elderly men and women and youths, including four of my cousins and a nephew. They took them all.”

“Women who had on them gold and money, were stripped of (it). After the Jews removed their dead and wounded, they took the men to the quarry and sprayed them all with bullets.”

One woman watched her son shot to death. “They later poured kerosene on his body and” burned it.

Deir Yassin and dozens of other massacres removed Palestinians for Jews. Israeli “War of Independence” forces committed massive ethnic cleansing and genocidal slaughter. Palestinians commemorate the Nakba. Words can't explain the horror.

Israel’s entire history is blood-drenched - responsible for virtually every kind of criminal atrocity imaginable. Netanyahu is the latest in a long line of rogue leaders, the worst of the bunch - fascist, racist, exceeding Sharonian evil.
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Should you need more verification, please read:
Solving 911 by Christopher Bollyn
(2012) Published by Christopher Bollyn. ISBN 978-0-9853225-8-8 http://www.bollyn.com
Laughing Israelis at World Trade Center on 9/11/01 identified themselves on TV, and much more on Israel’s complicity in the 911 Inside Job which should surprise no one since Israel, a US military base since its inception in 1948, is and always has been part of the US military-agent provocateur-spy system of US imperialism. EHUD OLMERT, mayor of Jerusalem in 2001, from a terrorist Irgun family, visited New York City on 9/10/11. While all civilian flights were grounded immediately after the 9/11/01 Inside Job and for at least a week thereafter, a full El Al Boeing 747 left New York City’s JFK airport for Israel with authorization from the US Department of Defense, and US military officials were at the JFK airport to make sure this flight was cleared for take-off. Florida, the alleged base of the non-existent “Arab hijackers” was and is a base for Israeli Mossad operations as is the rest of the USA. EHUD BARAK, who has degrees in physics and mathematics, attended Stanford University, was Israel’s Defense Minister during the Massacre of Gaza of 2008-2009, making him a war criminal according to the Goldstone Report, and was Prime Minister of Israel from July 1999 to March 2001, when he came to the US to work as a partner in SCP Partners, a Mossad-run private equity company concerned with “security,” which had in its portfolio a company called Megallurg Holdings, Inc. capable of producing and applying an advanced form of super-thermite, a powerful explosive, which was found in the dust of the Twin Towers. On 9/11/01, he stated on BBC TV that the world faces a War on Terror and called for an invasion of Afghanistan, clearly the cover for the 911 Inside Job.

Israel’s participation in the 7/7/05 London staged bombing:
7/7 led to wars & loss of freedoms ... but do we know what really happened that day? By Tony Gosling, Martin Summers, 8/2/15 at
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/08/02/18775666.php
An Israeli firm also had access to London's tube tunnels, winning a CCTV contract when parts of the Underground were privatized a few months before the attacks. Verint Systems looked like a good bet but someone didn't do due diligence because the fraudster chairman Kobi Alexander, of Verint's parent company, Comverse Technologies, was on the run. He was evading the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) somewhere in Africa after disappearing with $13m of company money.

Meyer Lansky, a Jewish gangster, was a proud Zionist and contributed money and guns to the founding of Israel. See:
Cuba Pre-1959: The Rise and Fall of a U.S. Backed Dictator with Links to the Mob by Timothy Alexander Guzman, July 23, 2015 at
http://www.globalresearch.ca/cuba-pre-1959-the-rise-and-fall-of-a-u-s-backed-dictator-with-links-to-the-mob/5464738

Torture by Israel of Rasmea Odeh with our tax dollars:
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/charlotte-silver/court-motion-details-palestinian-american-rasmea-odehs-torture-israeli

Anti-Defamation League, a staunch Zionist organization, Supports Racist Grand Jury in Ferguson, Missouri and New York Police who choked Eric Garner to death after he protested 11 times that he can’t breathe. See
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1PgWafnuqHRYkwN-y0h22g4PDCiyNrNUWbdOm36dDwYg/viewform?c=0&w=1


The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe
(2006) Oneworld Publications, ISBN 978-1-85168-555-4
(Has full details on the 1948 to present mass murder of boys and men, rape and murder of girls and women and theft of Palestinian land all planned by David Ben-Gurion, first president of Israel, and cohorts, as Ben-Gurion described in his diary quoted in Pappe’s book.)

Israel-Palestine on Record by Howard Friel and Richard Falk
(2007) Verso, ISBN 978-1-84467-109-0 (Contains eyewitness testimony for 2000 to 2006 of Israeli destruction of Palestinian homes and the horrors of daily life in Occupied Palestine due to daily Israeli terrorism, all paid for with $6 billion US tax dollars annually, making Israel the 4th largest military gang in the world).

http://laborforpalestine.net/

“Israeli Company Targeted by Oakland Blockade Imports Ammunition Into US”
Thursday, 28 August 2014 By Darwin BondGraham Truthout Reprint at:
http://laborforpalestine.net/2014/08/28/israeli-company-targeted-by-oakland-blockade-imports-ammunition-into-us-truthout/

http://electronicintifada.net/

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/

http://www.adsagainstapartheid.com/

Gaza’s Offshore Gas Fields:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/war-and-natural-gas-the-israeli-invasion-and-gaza-s-offshore-gas-fields/11680

http://stop30billion.org/about.html

http://www.ifamericansknew.org/
http://www.bollyn.com

International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network
http://ijsn.net/

Occupy AIPAC (AIPAC stands for American Israel Public Affairs Committee-pro-capitalist, pro-Israel wealthy lobbyists who deliver almost entire US Congress and every president to support the US military base that exists to protect US Middle East oil profits and US imperialism around the world, commonly known as Israel. They are officially lobbyists but in reality, are a mouthpiece of the US capitalist class as Israel is a colony of the US. Occupy AIPAC opposes AIPAC.)
http://www.occupyaipac.org
http://www.occupyaipac.org/about/articles-on-aipac/

National Lawyers Guild: Free Palestine Committee
http://www.nlginternational.org/com/main.php?cid=11

Al-Nakba (Catastrophe) Awareness Campaign
http://www.al-nakba-history.com/

http://www.breakingthesilence.org.il/
http://www.breakingthesilence.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Children_and_Youth_Soldiers_Testimonies_2005_2011_Eng.pdf

http://www.russelltribunalonpalestine.com/en/

Zionism in the Age of Dictators by Lenni Brenner at
http://www.pdf-archive.com/2012/04/11/zionism-in-the-age-of-the-dictators/

The Iron Wall by Lenni Brenner at
http://www.marxists.de/middleast/ironwall/index.htm

The Hidden History of Zionism by Ralph Schoenman at
http://www.marxists.de/middleast/schoenman/index.htm

Boycott, Divest, Sanctions Movement against Zionist Israel at
https://secure.avaaz.org/act/media.php?press_id=586 (Divestment Petition information to companies from people around the world)
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/israel_palestine_this_is_how_it_ends_loc/?slideshow (petition)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93hqlmrZKd8&feature=youtu.be
https://wedivest.org/
http://bdsmovement.net/
http://www.pacbi.org/
http://pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=869
http://www.quitpalestine.org/
http://www.bilerico.com/2013/05/saying_no_to_frameline_and_israeli_apartheid.php
http://endtheoccupation.org/
http://www.vtjp.org/
http://israeldivestmentcampaign.org/

US Campaign for Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel
http://www.usacbi.org/category/boycott-news/

Madison, Wisconsin/Rafeh Sister City Project
http://www.madisonrafah.org/blog2013/

Gaza Ark:
http://www.gazaark.org/

The Israeli Military State starts in childhood at:
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/04/indoctrinating-israeli-youths-to-be.html

"Ukraine: Israeli Special Forces Unit under Neo-Nazi Command Involved in Maidan Riots" by Michel Chossudovsky, 3/3/14 at
http://www.globalresearch.ca/ukraine-israeli-special-forces-unit-under-neo-nazi-command-involved-in-maidan-riots/5371725

Zionist Supporters of “Good Night Left Side” European fascists at:
"Israeli calls for Palestinian blood ring at fever pitch" by David Sheen, 7/15/14 at
http://electronicintifada.net/content/israeli-calls-palestinian-blood-ring-fever-pitch/13578
The screenshot enlarges the whole short video at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzd4pytX7bg

Israel’s nuclear war capacity and history of threatening the former Soviet Union in an excellent article by John Steinbach:
http://www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/key-issues/nuclear-weapons/issues/policy/israeli-nuclear-policy/steinbach_israeli_program.pdf
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Zionsts and Anti-Communist Witchhunts in the USA

The Strange History of the Anti-Defamation League: ADL Spies
by Jeffrey Blankfort, June 12, 2013, Counterpunch at
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/06/12/adl-spies/

The Israel Lobby Archive at
http://www.irmep.org/ila/
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51 Documents: Zionist Collaboration with the Nazis edited by Lenni Brenner
(2002) Barricade Books, New Jersey, ISBN 1-56980-235-1

The Transfer Agreement by Edwin Black
(1984, 2001) Carroll & Graf, NY, ISBN 0-7867-0841-7
http://www.transferagreement.com/

The Third Reich and the Palestine Question by Francis Nicosia
(1985) University of Texas Press, ISBN 0-292-72731-3

Walled: Israeli Society at an Impasse by Sylvain Cypel
(2005, 2006) Other Press, ISBN 13:978-1-5905 1-210-4
(A good early history of the apartheid wall and history and contemporary life of Israel and its relationship to the US as a military base. The lack of separation of church and state is evident as “All Israeli students study the Hebrew Bible in public school for several hours a week, from the elementary grades through high school (knowledge of the Bible is tested on the high school exit examination.)” (p. 177) Superstition and militarism clearly go together This is a sign of an extremely backward society).

A Wall in Palestine by Rene Backman
(2006, 2010) Picador/St. Martin’s Press, NY ISBN 978-0-312-42781-8
(Good maps of the apartheid wall and description of resistance to it; it is clearly a land grab as there are means of going through wall and thus it has nothing to do with security; also describes segregated roads and racist license system).

An Israeli in Palestine by Jeff Halper (an American who moved to Israel in 1973 at age 27, is a professor of anthropology, is the leader of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions and supports the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions Campaign against Israel described in Appendix 4). (2008) Pluto Press, ISBN 978-0-7453-2226-1. “There is not even a civil mechanism by which Jewish, Christian, and Muslim citizens of Israel can marry each other since personal status, citizenship, marriage, death, inheritance, is regulated by religious and not civil law.” p. 76

Palestine Inside Out by Saree Makdisi, (2008, 2010) Norton Press, ISBN 978-0-393-33844-7. With a beautiful foreword by Alice Walker, comparing the racist horrors of Zionist Israel to white racism in the USA, Makdisi, a Palestinian-American professor of English literature at UCLA, writes a detailed account of the daily horrors of life in Occupied Palestine. His periodic sections “By the Numbers” offer useful statistics, his maps are plentiful, and his entire book is a ringing indictment of the mental illness that is religion and the anti-women horror of theocratic states. As Americans read it, we must remember that this is all paid for with our tax dollars and supported 100% by every single Democratic and Republican politician at every level of government. It is opposed by all socialist parties and the Green Party.
http://sareemakdisi.net/books/

Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews, Vol. 3 by Alan Hart (2005, 2010) Clarity Press, ISBN 0-932863-69-8/978-0-932863-69-0. Alan Hart, a former ITN (part of British news agency that produces outstanding Channel 4 of UK) and BBC Panorama correspondent, covers the horrors of Zionism in Israel and its relationship to the United States from 1967 to January 2010 from the perspective of a non-Jewish journalist with lots of worthwhile insights.
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Hopefully all of the American signatories to the above statement are registered in either a socialist (Peace & Freedom Party in California) or Green Party in their state. In support of Palestine and putting an end to the horror of Nazi Israel, please register Peace & Freedom or Green and vote for only their candidates in every election. You can register online at: https://covr.sos.ca.gov/?language=en-US
For more information, see:
http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/home/
http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/home/about-us/platform/full-platform

http://www.cagreens.org/
http://www.cagreens.org/platform
http://www.gp.org/index.php
http://www.gp.org/what-we-believe/our-platform

In San Francisco, the Green Party is running Francisco Herrera for Mayor in November 2015. See http://www.peoplescampaign.net/platform

Jill Stein is running for president on the Green Party ticket. See
http://www.jill2016.com/

The Party for Socialism and Liberation is running Gloria LaRiva for president and Eugene Puryear for vice president in 2016. See http://www.liberationnews.org/announcing-psls-2016-presidential-campaign/
Their 10 point program is at:
http://www.votepsl.org/program
Their explanation of Why Socialism is at
http://www.votepsl.org/why_socialism
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