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Protest US/Israeli Attack on Gaza

Date:
Saturday, July 12, 2014
Time:
12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Event Type:
Protest
Organizer/Author:
Location Details:
Justin Herman Plaza at Foot of Market Street at Embarcadero. Across from the Ferry Building. Embarcadero BART/Muni Metro Station.

From: http://www.mecaforpeace.org/events/sf-protest-palestine-youth4palestine (Middle East Children's Alliance site):

AYO calls on our community and allies to take a stand with Palestine and let the city of San Francisco, and the entire world know that we demand an end to the US support of Israel and their ongoing attacks on our people throughout all of occupied Palestine.

Everyone is welcome! Bring your parents, your kids, cousins, friends, extended family! Our voices need to be heard! Never forget that our existence is our resistance!

The San Francisco Bay Area says no to zionism!

Stop US Aid to the Apartheid State of Israel!

Free all our political prisoners!

Support the Palestinian people's struggle for liberation!

Flags, kuffiehs, signs, banners, and megaphones are all welcome!

Endorsed by:
ANSWER, Arab Culture and Community Center, Palestinian Youth Movement
US Palestine Community Network, Middle East Children's Alliance, Northern California Friends of Sabeel, Al-Awda, Coalition for Palestinian Rights – SF, PAC Bay Area, Free, Palestine Movement, International Jewish Antizionist Network, South Bay Mobilization, Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism, Art Forces, ISM-Northern California, Workers World Party, International Action Center, International Socialist Organization, Arab Talk Radio, Buena Vista UMC -- Church & Society Committee, Freedom Writers of Northern California, Freedom Archives, BAYAN

Email info @ araborganizing.org to endorse.

Hashtag #Youth4Palestine for more updates and photos and events!
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The 100% pro-Israel Democrat-Republicans, at every level of office for as long as anyone can remember, have always been pro-Zionist Israel and now support this latest vicious attack on the Palestinian people WITH OUR TAX DOLLARS, as Israel cannot exist for one second without our tax dollars, to the tune of $6 billion a year, making Israel the 4th largest military power in the world. Democrat Obama has just proudly stated he supports the latest genocide against Gaza AND HE HAS ALWAYS BEEN 100% PRO-ISRAEL. See
http://www.democracynow.org/2014/7/10/headlines#7107

The latest pretext are the pathetic rockets the Palestinians are sending into Israel (Historic Palestine), which have not killed anyone and have not caused serious damage. See
http://www.democracynow.org/2014/7/10/headlines#7103

There is good reason to believe the previous pretext, the killing of 3 Zionist settlers, was an inside job, and so far, no one has been arrested and charged for this killing. See
Were the Three Settler Kidnappings an Israeli “False Flag” Operation? By Karin Brothers, 7/4/14 at
http://www.globalresearch.ca/were-the-three-settler-kidnappings-an-israeli-false-flag-operation/5389791

We should always assume such killings of Zionists are an inside job as we must always ask the question, who benefits? The answer in this case is Zionist Israel and its patron, Nazi USA. Both are viciously reactionary police states, becoming worse every day.

The more likely reason is money, in the form of gas profits, as there are gas fields off the coast of Gaza. See
War and Natural Gas: The Israeli Invasion and Gaza’s Offshore Gas Fields by Michel Chossudovsky, 7/10/14 at
http://www.globalresearch.ca/war-and-natural-gas-the-israeli-invasion-and-gaza-s-offshore-gas-fields/11680

The 1.7 million Palestinians, 50% of whom are children, who live in the 139 square miles that is the Gaza Strip have NO PLACE TO HIDE as there are NO underground shelters. The 4th largest military in the world, the Israeli war machine, is slaughtering defenseless people so the oil and munitions companies of the USA can maximize their profits, the primary goal of capitalism, the bankrupt social order in which we live. See
Eye Witness Report from Gaza. No Shelters to Escape the Israeli Attacks by Dr. Mona El-Farra, July 8, 2014 at
http://www.globalresearch.ca/eye-witness-report-from-gaza-no-shelters-to-escape-the-israeli-attacks/5390613

Good news websites to keep up with how your tax dollars are being spent to slaughter Palestinians today to maximize oil and munitions profits are:
http://www.maannews.net/eng/DailyNews.aspx
http://www.imemc.org/index.php
https://twitter.com/mondoweiss
http://mondoweiss.net/israel-palestine/gaza
For more information on the history of the horrifying 66 year occupation of Palestinian land, the theft of Palestine from the Palestinian people, and the 66 year history of torture and murder of the Palestinian people by the Zionists who collaborated with Nazi Germany just as today they collaborate with Nazi USA, see

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://electronicintifada.net/

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.bayareastop30billion.org/

International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network
http://www.ijsn.net/C44/

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.4shared.com/office/wiu7c6kF/zionism_in_the_age_of_the_dict.html
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://wedivest.org/
http://bdsmovement.net/
http://www.pacbi.org/
http://pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=869
http://www.quitpalestine.org/
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/04/06/18734776.php
http://www.bilerico.com/2013/05/saying_no_to_frameline_and_israeli_apartheid.php
http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=67791
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 Freedom Flotilla
http://gazafreedommarch.org/cms/en/Solidarity/events-map.aspx

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

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 perspective with lots of worthwhile insights.

DVD-Warner Classics: The Ramallah Concert: Knowledge Is The Beginning with West-Eastern Divan Orchestra conducted by Daniel Barenboim. Ramallah Concert program: Mozart Sinfonia, Beethoven’s 5th Symphony, Elgar’s Nimrod from Enigma Variations. Orchestra consists of young Jewish Israelis and Arabs of many countries, including Palestine, plus some Europeans.
Added to the calendar on Thu, Jul 10, 2014 7:08PM

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by slim
Will we be treated to a similar display of ethno-religious poison as this one? Undoubtedly.

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/11/20/18726105.php?show_comments=1#18726194

Down with nationalism! Down with Misrael and Paleswine and their US and Saudi handlers! Destroy Hamas and the Yesha Council and the IDF! For an internationalist, anti-religious, anti-obscurantist federation of the dispossessed in the Maghreb.
by Stop US Aid to Israel
From Russia Today's Live Updates on Palestine, at
http://rt.com/news/171320-gaza-hamas-israel-rockets/
see the twitter picture at
https://twitter.com/allansorensen72/status/486954506517639170/photo/1

The filthy parasites on our payroll in Israel, the Zionists, are applauding the slaughter of human beings, so far 125 people killed and 900 wounded, all with US tax dollars and US weapons as of Saturday morning, July 12, 2014, San Francisco time. These people are criminally insane, and so is every politician in the US, including but not limited to the entire US Congress, which supports killing of human beings, especially when it comes to blood for oil wars, as this is. The latest is the US/Israel bombed a disabled persons center, killing 2 women. See, among others:
https://twitter.com/huwaidaarraf
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/7/12/israel-bomb-hitsdisabledcentreingaza.html
Also, updates can be found at:
http://antiwar.com/

IT IS A LIE TO SAY ISRAELIS KNOW NOTHING. They all have to serve in the military, which terrorizes and slaughters Palestinians with impunity.

On Democracy Now, July 11, 2014, NOURA ERAKAT, an American lawyer, clearly won the debate with the Zionist and made a good point, that

"Israel claimed that it has the right to self-defense, but an occupying power does not have the right to self-defense; it has an obligation and a duty to protect the civilians under its occupation. Even if it fails to meet that duty, it must abide by humanitarian law, principles of distinction, proportionality, of necessity. It has not abided by any of those. What’s happening in Gaza amounts to war crimes. It’s a repeat of what happened in 2008 and 2009. It’s a repeat of what happened in 2012."
See
http://www.democracynow.org/2014/7/11/gaza_debate_as_palestinian_deaths_top
Also see NOURA ERAKAT's website at:
http://www.nouraerakat.com/

The names of the dead may be found at:
http://www.imemc.org/article/68429

On the Middle East Children's Alliance website, http://www.mecaforpeace.org/ there is a Palestine Blog on the right side, with daily updates from a medical doctor, Dr. Mona El-Farra. Here is her description. Remember, THIS WHOLE HORROR SHOW IS BEING PAID FOR BY THE AMERICAN TAXPAYERS AND IS SUPPORTED BY THE ENTIRE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT, INCLUDING THE US PRESIDENT AND THE US CONGRESS:
Gaza Under Attack: Day 5
July 12, 2014
Dr. Mona El-Farra
Gaza – Saturday, July 12, Day 5 of the attack
The insane Israeli bombardment has not stopped. It has been going on all night and all day, every day and everywhere, coming from the sea, from the air and from land canons. Naval bombardment is pouring its lava, targeting the coast of Gaza City and further north. Numbers of the killed and injured continue to go up.

More homes are being destroyed.

A whole population is being subjected to collective punishment. This is not only a matter of war crimes. We are now facing a real genocide in Gaza.

As the day begins in Gaza, hundreds of ordinary people in need of regular health care are unable to reach health care centres. Meanwhile hundreds of wounded people, mostly women and children, if they can be taken to hospitals at all would find doctors and other medical staff working in dire and dangerous environments, under constant pressure, and with severe shortages of drugs and other necessary medical supplies.

So I can only say to the people of Gaza: as the morning approaches, make sure to embrace and hug your children and loved ones and tell them how much you love them and Dawn is bound to come.

Dr. Mona El-Farra
Director of Gaza Projects

(English version by Ahmad Hadi Shboul, Sydney, Australia, 12 July 2014. This is a message from Dr Mona El-Farra who directs one of the hospitals in Gaza and who works day and night with her colleagues to provide health care and psychological support, especially for children. She posted it in Arabic on her Facebook this morning.)
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