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1/20 Vigil for those killed by Israeli occupation in early 2004
VIGIL FOR 13 PALESTINIANS AND THE BRITISH ACTIVIST TOM HURNDALL
KILLED BY THE ISRAELI OCCUPATION IN THE FIRST 2 WEEKS OF 2004
KILLED BY THE ISRAELI OCCUPATION IN THE FIRST 2 WEEKS OF 2004
VIGIL FOR 13 PALESTINIANS AND THE BRITISH ACTIVIST TOM HURNDALL
KILLED BY THE ISRAELI OCCUPATION IN THE FIRST 2 WEEKS OF 2004
Tuesday, January 20 4-6pm
Israeli Consulate, 465 Montgomery St., San Francisco (Near Montgomery BART)
Contact: info [at] norcalism.org
Vigil to honor the lives of the Palestinians and British activist Tom
Hurndall who have been killed since the fist of the year and to protest the
brutal Israeli occupation of Palestine which took their lives.
In the first 14 days of 2004, the Israeli Occupying Forces have killed
fourteen people including 13 Palestinians and Tom Hurndall, the 22 year-old
British photographer and peace activist who was shot in the head in Gaza
while shepherding young children out of the line of Israeli military fire.
On January 13th, Tom died after 9 months in a vegetative state in a hospital
in Britain.
The Israeli military shot and killed the following Palestinian boys and men
between January 1st and Januarry14th, 2004: Jaber Sa'id, 16; Amjad Bilal
Nabil al-Masri, 15; 'Aamer Kazem Kamel 'Arafat, 17; Rawhi Hazem Rawhi
Shuman, 26; Mohammed Qais Isma'il al-Masri, 18; Taj al-Din 'Abdul Karim
Mohammed Saif, 16; Hisham Ahmed 'Abdul Fattah Kharwaish, 21; 'Abdul 'Afou
Nasouh Mustafa al-Qassas, 29; Ibrahim Radwan al-Atari, 32; Mahmoud Ibrahim
'Ouda al-Kurd, 44; Fu'ad Kamel 'Omar Jarwan, 18; and Asa'ad Saleh Khalil
Khalilia, 31. Additionally, Maher Taher 'Abbas Jaber, 27, was intentionally
run over by an Israeli settler vehicle. (The full circumstances of each
person's murder can be found on http://www.pchrgaza.org/)
Tom's mother wrote: "It seems that life is cheap in the occupied
territories. Different value attached to life depends on whether the victim
happens to be Israeli, international or Palestinian. There have been
thousands of killings in Palestine since the intifada, with only a handful
having the benefit of an investigation. Now, a three-week occupation of
Nablus has left a further 19 people dead and dozens of homes and buildings
destroyed, leaving scores of innocent people homeless. When will those
responsible accept that it is illegal to collectively and obsessively punish
a whole community?" (full article at
<http://www.tomjoad.org/Hurndall.htm>http://www.tomjoad.org/Hurndall.htm.)
Sponsored by Northern California International Solidarity Movement Support
Group, Global Exchange, Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism (QUIT), Al-Awda
SF, and Bay Area Free Palestine Coalition
KILLED BY THE ISRAELI OCCUPATION IN THE FIRST 2 WEEKS OF 2004
Tuesday, January 20 4-6pm
Israeli Consulate, 465 Montgomery St., San Francisco (Near Montgomery BART)
Contact: info [at] norcalism.org
Vigil to honor the lives of the Palestinians and British activist Tom
Hurndall who have been killed since the fist of the year and to protest the
brutal Israeli occupation of Palestine which took their lives.
In the first 14 days of 2004, the Israeli Occupying Forces have killed
fourteen people including 13 Palestinians and Tom Hurndall, the 22 year-old
British photographer and peace activist who was shot in the head in Gaza
while shepherding young children out of the line of Israeli military fire.
On January 13th, Tom died after 9 months in a vegetative state in a hospital
in Britain.
The Israeli military shot and killed the following Palestinian boys and men
between January 1st and Januarry14th, 2004: Jaber Sa'id, 16; Amjad Bilal
Nabil al-Masri, 15; 'Aamer Kazem Kamel 'Arafat, 17; Rawhi Hazem Rawhi
Shuman, 26; Mohammed Qais Isma'il al-Masri, 18; Taj al-Din 'Abdul Karim
Mohammed Saif, 16; Hisham Ahmed 'Abdul Fattah Kharwaish, 21; 'Abdul 'Afou
Nasouh Mustafa al-Qassas, 29; Ibrahim Radwan al-Atari, 32; Mahmoud Ibrahim
'Ouda al-Kurd, 44; Fu'ad Kamel 'Omar Jarwan, 18; and Asa'ad Saleh Khalil
Khalilia, 31. Additionally, Maher Taher 'Abbas Jaber, 27, was intentionally
run over by an Israeli settler vehicle. (The full circumstances of each
person's murder can be found on http://www.pchrgaza.org/)
Tom's mother wrote: "It seems that life is cheap in the occupied
territories. Different value attached to life depends on whether the victim
happens to be Israeli, international or Palestinian. There have been
thousands of killings in Palestine since the intifada, with only a handful
having the benefit of an investigation. Now, a three-week occupation of
Nablus has left a further 19 people dead and dozens of homes and buildings
destroyed, leaving scores of innocent people homeless. When will those
responsible accept that it is illegal to collectively and obsessively punish
a whole community?" (full article at
<http://www.tomjoad.org/Hurndall.htm>http://www.tomjoad.org/Hurndall.htm.)
Sponsored by Northern California International Solidarity Movement Support
Group, Global Exchange, Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism (QUIT), Al-Awda
SF, and Bay Area Free Palestine Coalition
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First of all, tons of actual palestinian terrorists are 17 or 18 years old, so it doesn't impress anyone that a bunch of teenagers hvae died. If they'd call off their terrorist intifada, stop being terrorists, and transform into normal, sane human beings, none of them would be dying.
It's their own choice to maintain intifadas and keep proving to israel that it is unsafe for israel to let these people form a state.
It's their own choice to maintain intifadas and keep proving to israel that it is unsafe for israel to let these people form a state.
http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=19507
January 20, 2004 Palestinian Arab Violations of President Bush's "Road
Map" Plan A Survey of Week #38: January 13, 2004 - January 19, 2004
BACKGROUND: On June 24, 2002, President Bush set forth the conditions
that the Palestinian Arabs must fulfill in order to merit U.S. support for
the creation of a Palestinian Arab state. Among the major obligations are
that the Palestinian Arabs must "dismantle the terrorist infrastructure,"
"end incitement," "elect new leaders not compromised by terror," and
unequivocally embrace democracy and free market economics. None of those
conditions were fulfilled.
[...]
The Road Map requires the Palestinian Arabs to undertake concrete steps to
combat terrorist groups and democratize Palestinian Arab society. Those
obligations, which are quoted below, were supposed to have been fulfilled
during Phase 1 of the Road Map, which concluded at the end of May 2003, but
they were not.
This report analyzes Palestinian Arab violations of those obligations during
the 38th week following the unveiling of the Road Map plan, Jan.13 - Jan.19,
2004.
I. "Cease All Violence" What They Are Required to Do: The Road Map
states: "In Phase 1 [May 2003], the Palestinians immediately undertake an
unconditional cessation of violence." They did not do so.
What They Did During Week #38: During week #38, Jan. 13-19, 2004, there
were at least 20 terrorist attacks or attempted attacks, in which 5 people
were murdered and 15 wounded.
(During the first 38 weeks since the Road Map was issued, there have been a
total of at least 954 Palestinian Arab terrorist attacks or attempted
attacks, in which 140 people were murdered and 743 wounded.)
***************
Read the whole thing, then tell me the the poor, misunderstood Palestinians really want peace.
January 20, 2004 Palestinian Arab Violations of President Bush's "Road
Map" Plan A Survey of Week #38: January 13, 2004 - January 19, 2004
BACKGROUND: On June 24, 2002, President Bush set forth the conditions
that the Palestinian Arabs must fulfill in order to merit U.S. support for
the creation of a Palestinian Arab state. Among the major obligations are
that the Palestinian Arabs must "dismantle the terrorist infrastructure,"
"end incitement," "elect new leaders not compromised by terror," and
unequivocally embrace democracy and free market economics. None of those
conditions were fulfilled.
[...]
The Road Map requires the Palestinian Arabs to undertake concrete steps to
combat terrorist groups and democratize Palestinian Arab society. Those
obligations, which are quoted below, were supposed to have been fulfilled
during Phase 1 of the Road Map, which concluded at the end of May 2003, but
they were not.
This report analyzes Palestinian Arab violations of those obligations during
the 38th week following the unveiling of the Road Map plan, Jan.13 - Jan.19,
2004.
I. "Cease All Violence" What They Are Required to Do: The Road Map
states: "In Phase 1 [May 2003], the Palestinians immediately undertake an
unconditional cessation of violence." They did not do so.
What They Did During Week #38: During week #38, Jan. 13-19, 2004, there
were at least 20 terrorist attacks or attempted attacks, in which 5 people
were murdered and 15 wounded.
(During the first 38 weeks since the Road Map was issued, there have been a
total of at least 954 Palestinian Arab terrorist attacks or attempted
attacks, in which 140 people were murdered and 743 wounded.)
***************
Read the whole thing, then tell me the the poor, misunderstood Palestinians really want peace.
Right after we mourn the assholes who got killed in the crossfire.
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