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Berkeley Students Protest Massacre in Gaza
At 11am Monday, U.C. Berkeley students lay down in Sproul Plaza to protest the ongoing massacre in Gaza that is being carried out with US supplied weapons. 2 Israeli soldiers and over 70 Palestinians, most of them civilians, were killed Saturday March 1st in an Israeli operation in Northern Gaza. Organized by Students For Justice in Palestine, students handed out flyers to raise awareness to the plight of Palestians living under Israeli occupation.
Most of those who died were killed in a massive assault on Jabaliya. Despite calling an end to the operation on Monday, Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, said Israel would be taking further action in Gaza unless cross-border rocket fire was cut significantly.
"We are not willing to show tolerance, period. We will respond," Olmert said.
Al Jazeera's Jacky Rowland reports that Gazans were "very anxious indeed. They are hearing the talk in Israel about this being merely the first stage of the operation and they are wondering: if this was the first stage, what on earth can they be likely to face during any second phase."
Electronic Intifada reports: The larger hospitals in Gaza are fully occupied. Since Friday 29 February 2008, surgery has been performed 24 hours a day in all 12 operating theaters of Shifa Hospital. Medical teams at this hospital are working in emergency mode since four days ago. Medical supplies and other equipment are dwindling, and there is a shortage in beds, needles, wound dressings, anesthetics and heavy medical equipment such as CPR machines.
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Israel was a corrupt state from the beginning. No peace loving person could possibly support anything that gives legitimacy to the terrorist state of Israel. The Israeli military has repeatedly slaughtered Palestinian women and children. This happens month after month and year after year.
Support for Palestinians should be the central focus of every peace organization in the US, because every war we're in is really for Israel's security (at the risk of our own).
One two three four, we don't want your stupid war! Five six seven eight, Israel is a terrorist state!
Support for Palestinians should be the central focus of every peace organization in the US, because every war we're in is really for Israel's security (at the risk of our own).
One two three four, we don't want your stupid war! Five six seven eight, Israel is a terrorist state!
Israel wanted peace from the very beginning. If the Palestinians accepted the partition plan, we'd be celebratingtheir 60th anniversary of independence this year as well. I'm a peace loving person and I support Israel AND the palestinians. i want to see a Palestinian state living side by side with and in peace, next to Israel. There has been atrocities and bad behavior committed by all sides in this conflict.
Its time to support the true peace makers on both sides.
Its time to support the true peace makers on both sides.
re "pro-Israel, pro-peace" (Mar 4th, 2008 12:23 PM)
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"It would be my greatest sadness to see Jews do to Palestinian Arabs much of what Nazis did to Jews." - Albert Einstein
"What is going on in Palestine today cannot be justified by any moral code of conduct." - Gandhi, in 1938 (in _The Jews of Palestine, 1938_, available online)
"Peace is not merely the absence of violence, it's the presence of justice." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Israel cannot continue to use the Holocaust as an excuse for the oppression of others." - Kofi Annan, fmr. Secretary-General of the United Nations
"But of course, the kinds of folks who push an ideology that required the expulsion of three-quarters-of-a-million Palestinians from their lands, and then lied about it, claiming there had been no such persons to begin with (as with Golda Meir’s infamous quip), can’t be expected to place a very high premium on truth." - Tim Wise, anti-racist, anti-Zionist, Jewish-American activist, author & public lecturer; (from "Fraud Fit for a King: Israel, Zionism, And The Misuse Of MLK")
Palestine: "the land without a people". - Zionists
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"It would be my greatest sadness to see Jews do to Palestinian Arabs much of what Nazis did to Jews." - Albert Einstein
"What is going on in Palestine today cannot be justified by any moral code of conduct." - Gandhi, in 1938 (in _The Jews of Palestine, 1938_, available online)
"Peace is not merely the absence of violence, it's the presence of justice." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Israel cannot continue to use the Holocaust as an excuse for the oppression of others." - Kofi Annan, fmr. Secretary-General of the United Nations
"But of course, the kinds of folks who push an ideology that required the expulsion of three-quarters-of-a-million Palestinians from their lands, and then lied about it, claiming there had been no such persons to begin with (as with Golda Meir’s infamous quip), can’t be expected to place a very high premium on truth." - Tim Wise, anti-racist, anti-Zionist, Jewish-American activist, author & public lecturer; (from "Fraud Fit for a King: Israel, Zionism, And The Misuse Of MLK")
Palestine: "the land without a people". - Zionists
Israeli Ambassador Cancels Visit to Edinburgh, Scotland, in Face of Planned Protests
The Ambassador of child murder, ethnic cleansing, and threats of ‘Holocaust’ on Gaza has called off his planned talk at Edinburgh University on Thursday. Prosor cites ‘security concerns’: in reality he, and Edinburgh University, realised that the planned protests would have channelled some of the fury that millions now feel at Israel’s never-ending crimes against the Palestinian people.
Questions remain and demand answers urgently:
Why did Edinburgh University officially agree to Prosor’s request to speak there even as Israel intensified the collective punishment of the people of Gaza in stark violation of international law?
Why has no invitation been extended to a representative of the beleaguered students and staff at Bir Zeit University, officially linked to the EU Students’ Association, and heroically struggling to survive under Israel’s illegal occupation?
Edinburgh University says the meeting is ‘postponed and no new date has been decided’. How can the University justify its support for the Ambassador of a terrorist state in a time of mass murder?
Had Scottish police forces given permission to any armed Israelis to come on to British university campuses?
Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign pledges to work to the limits of our energy and ability to keep Scotland a country where defenders of genocide, those who threaten ‘Holocaust’ against the Palestinians of Gaza, cannot visit freely. We will maintain the pressure on those, lost to all human compassion, who continue to openly support Israeli ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, and its murderous activities in the Gaza Killing Zone.
We build on the labours of those who have made England a no-go area for Israeli war criminals such as Dichter, Almog, Mofaz and others, by amassing data that gave legal officers no choice but to issue arrest warrants. We take forward the decisions of the British juries who found the Israeli military guilty of the murders of British citizens Tom Hurndall and James Miller.
But most of all we will work to remove the stain of British Government complicity, from Balfour to Blair and Brown, in the incessant violation of the heroic people of Palestine, surviving against all odds under the US-supplied weapons of a murderous enemy.
We call upon people of conscience across Scotland and the world to redouble our efforts to isolate apartheid Israel through the growing campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions against the rogue state until it recognises Palestinian human rights.
We call upon the people of conscience in Glasgow and Scotland to vigorously protest the ‘Holocaust’ Ambassador’s planned visit to the Glasgow Hilton on Sunday. Prosor will participate in a sick fund-raising event to raise money for the racist JNF, where Goldie Hawn, in the shadow of the over 100 Gaza deaths caused by lack of access to medical care, is due to entertain Prosor and other guests with a talk on “Laughter is the Best Medicine”.
We appeal for your support, to join us to build a component of a world-wide campaign to provide solidarity to the people of Palestine. While the hideous/ridiculous figure of Blair slouches towards Jerusalem as a ‘peacemaker’, we have little choice.
Mick Napier 0795 800 2591
John Wight 07738 528 145
Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign
http://www.scottishpsc.org.uk
http://scotland.indymedia.org/mod/comments/update/index.php
The Ambassador of child murder, ethnic cleansing, and threats of ‘Holocaust’ on Gaza has called off his planned talk at Edinburgh University on Thursday. Prosor cites ‘security concerns’: in reality he, and Edinburgh University, realised that the planned protests would have channelled some of the fury that millions now feel at Israel’s never-ending crimes against the Palestinian people.
Questions remain and demand answers urgently:
Why did Edinburgh University officially agree to Prosor’s request to speak there even as Israel intensified the collective punishment of the people of Gaza in stark violation of international law?
Why has no invitation been extended to a representative of the beleaguered students and staff at Bir Zeit University, officially linked to the EU Students’ Association, and heroically struggling to survive under Israel’s illegal occupation?
Edinburgh University says the meeting is ‘postponed and no new date has been decided’. How can the University justify its support for the Ambassador of a terrorist state in a time of mass murder?
Had Scottish police forces given permission to any armed Israelis to come on to British university campuses?
Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign pledges to work to the limits of our energy and ability to keep Scotland a country where defenders of genocide, those who threaten ‘Holocaust’ against the Palestinians of Gaza, cannot visit freely. We will maintain the pressure on those, lost to all human compassion, who continue to openly support Israeli ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, and its murderous activities in the Gaza Killing Zone.
We build on the labours of those who have made England a no-go area for Israeli war criminals such as Dichter, Almog, Mofaz and others, by amassing data that gave legal officers no choice but to issue arrest warrants. We take forward the decisions of the British juries who found the Israeli military guilty of the murders of British citizens Tom Hurndall and James Miller.
But most of all we will work to remove the stain of British Government complicity, from Balfour to Blair and Brown, in the incessant violation of the heroic people of Palestine, surviving against all odds under the US-supplied weapons of a murderous enemy.
We call upon people of conscience across Scotland and the world to redouble our efforts to isolate apartheid Israel through the growing campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions against the rogue state until it recognises Palestinian human rights.
We call upon the people of conscience in Glasgow and Scotland to vigorously protest the ‘Holocaust’ Ambassador’s planned visit to the Glasgow Hilton on Sunday. Prosor will participate in a sick fund-raising event to raise money for the racist JNF, where Goldie Hawn, in the shadow of the over 100 Gaza deaths caused by lack of access to medical care, is due to entertain Prosor and other guests with a talk on “Laughter is the Best Medicine”.
We appeal for your support, to join us to build a component of a world-wide campaign to provide solidarity to the people of Palestine. While the hideous/ridiculous figure of Blair slouches towards Jerusalem as a ‘peacemaker’, we have little choice.
Mick Napier 0795 800 2591
John Wight 07738 528 145
Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign
http://www.scottishpsc.org.uk
http://scotland.indymedia.org/mod/comments/update/index.php
The science of peace equals disarmament. The fact that Imperialist Zionists imposed an aggressive war making state on the Jewish people and the Palestinian people is not the fault to the Arabs. It is the fault of world imperialism, and in particular of the British Imperialist Lord Balfour, who in spite of the Jewish religion and people sided with the Zionist Imperialists and imposed the Imperialist miltiary solution which is now the state of Israel without the rule of the jewish peoples or the arab peoples. It is now genociding the Palestinian peoples, and as it began, it is for the purpose of stealing their lands and murdering their peoples and without the sophisticated weapons of mass death supplied by the U.S. Imperialists could not last for any length of time. U.S. Imperialism garantees the oil, motiveated society it pushes in the middle east and although it has murdered millions of local indigenous peoples by unjust war, and illegal violence it brags that it is supporting Israels cause of living on stolen land and that the killing and destruction of the peoples of the middle east is just and useful to its oil polluting empire despite the fact that fossil fuels are destroying the planets livability.. This while the peoples of the world have brought into being hi-tech tools to end the pollution. Away with pollution as an excuse to kill the innocent indigenous world. Only fascists do that. In fact green power is a way out of the oil quagmire. Long live the jewish and arab peoples just cause to live in peace and harmony.
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