IMPORTANT UPCOMING EVENTS IN NYC IN SUPPORT OF THE PALESTINIAN RESISTANCE
Protest war criminal Ariel Sharon in NYC: Wednesday, March 21, 2001
Bridges to Palestine fundraiser: Thursday, March 22
I. PROTEST WAR CRIMINAL ARIEL SHARON Wednesday, March 21 4:30 pm - 7 pm Sheraton Towers: 7th Ave. and 52nd St., NYC
Sharon, an extreme racist right-winger, has a long and bloody history of murder and repression against the Palestinian people. In the early 1950s, he commanded Unit 101, a special forces battalion that carried out massacres against Palestinian exiles in Gaza and Jordan. Following the 1967 war of conquest, he was the military governor of Gaza, and renowned for a policy of systematic assassination and extreme brutality.
But Sharon is best known--and universally hated in the Arab world--for the 1982 invasion of Lebanon and the massacres of Palestinians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Beirut. As Israel's defense minister, Sharon organized and led, with full U.S. backing, the massive assault on Lebanon. For three months in the summer of 1982, Israeli bombers, supplied by the U.S., relentlessly pounded Beirut and other cities and towns, killing more than 20,000 Lebanese and Palestinian civilians. Lebanon had no air defense system.
Sharon stands for Israeli domination of all of historic Palestine. His positions were made clear in a July 21, 2000 interview in the Jerusalem Post newspaper in which he called for Israel to retain "greater Jerusalem, united and undivided . . . under full Israeli sovereignty." This refers to the Palestinian Old City and all of the surrounding areas that Israel illegally annexed after the 1967 war.
Since Sharon's victory, Palestinian street demonstrations and resistance have intensified. All over the Arab world and the Middle East as a whole Sharon's ascendancy has evoked anger and revulsion. And it is not just in the Middle East. Join us Wednesday in NYC.
II. On THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2001, from 7 P.M. Al-Awda presents: BRIDGES TO PALESTINE
LIVE MUSIC (MUSICA WATANIYA) FOOD.DABKE.PRIZE.RAFFLE.ARTWORK.EMBROIDERY
An evening social gathering for families and friends. Join the Dabke, enjoy the atmosphere and help us to collect funds to send youth to Palestine.
The First Bridges Delegation will initiate volunteer work with NGO's. They will document conditions and bring back video footage. They will also fullfill a special request from The Palestine Scientific Committee and from the Union of Health Work Committees to provide some expert information on preventive medicine.
Speakers are Ali Qased, Samia Halaby, and Sara Flounders (A Representative of the Ramsey Clark Sanction Challenge to aid Iraq).
Adults $15 children $5 -- for informati call 1-800-977-2382
Please send a tax deductible contribution payable to PRRC. Mail to: Al- AWDA Bridges To Palestine; c/o IAC; 39 West 14th Street, New York, NY 10011
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