Palestine & Lebanon
May 7, 2008 - Oppose Zionist
celebration of 60 years of Nakba 2. May 16, 2008 - Major Rally at the UN to
commemorate 60 years of Nakba...
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In 1948 villages and towns in Palestine were destroyed by the Israeli military and its Zionist gangs. Hundreds of Palestinian women, men and children were killed. New towns -- exclusively for Israelis -- were built atop the ruins. Seven hundred fifty thousand Palestinians fled to neighboring Arab countries living their lives in refugee camps. They continue to live in forced
exile (shatat) all over the world and as internally displaced in refugee camps
in Palestine. In the three generations of raising their children, their numbers
have grown to millions, and the their struggle to return home has never faltered....
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A national press conference to demand the immediate release of Dr. Sami Al-Arian was held at the Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial, Educational and Cultural Center in Harlem on April 15. Al-Arian was in the 44th day of a hunger strike to demand that the government abide by the terms of his release. He has been imprisoned for more than five years....Al-Arian, a tenured professor at the University of South Florida, was
arrested in 2003. Then-Attorney General John Ashcroft trumpeted it as the
"arrest of the most dangerous financier of Islamic Jihad in the Western
world." This case of a Palestinian who raised funds for orphans and charities back home is viewed as one of the most extreme examples of racist and anti-Muslim persecution....
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Yesterday, on the morning of April 15th, Dr. Al-Arian was removed from the abusive prison of Howard County Detention Center in Maryland. Although immigration officials promised to prevent any further abuse, he was simply thrown from the pot into the frying pan....
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Friday, April 11, is the scheduled release date of Dr. Sami Al-Arian, a Palestinian professor on a hunger strike, who has been imprisoned for more than five years. But the Department of Justice, through its continuous abuse of the grand jury system, is threatening to keep him imprisoned for many years....
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Unable to defeat the Palestinian people's determination to assert
their rights and sovereignty after 60 years of the most brutal occupation and
expropriation of land, the entire U.S.-Israeli strategy for years has been based on exacerbating every division, every difference in the Palestinian struggle....
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Suppose a group of KKKers and other white supremacists had their own "church" that was really a center for justifying and organizing murderous attacks on African Americans. Suppose an African-American person, tired of lynchings, tortures, beatings and humiliation of his people, came into this church with guns blazing....
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Dr. Sami Al-Arian was transferred yesterday morning, on the 9th day of his hunger strike, to a federal medical facility in Butner, North Carolina run by the Bureau of Prisons. Since beginning his no- water or food hunger strike on March 3, Dr. Al-Arian has lost 23 pounds and grown weaker. He has not yet been given an IV. A doctor who examined him on Monday said he is suffering from starvation and Dr. Sami Al-Arian was transferred yesterday morning, on the 9th day of his hunger strike, to a federal medical facility in Butner, North Carolina run by
the Bureau of Prisons. Since beginning his no- water or food hunger strike on
March 3, Dr. Al-Arian has lost 23 pounds and grown weaker. He has not yet been given an IV. A doctor who examined him on Monday said he is suffering from starvation and dehydration....
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A four-member jury of distinguished legal officials, after hearing and
considering two days of intense, moving and precise testimony at the
International Associations Center in Brussels, Belgium, on Feb. 24 found the Israeli state guilty of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide in its 2006 war on Lebanon....
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The International Citizens' Tribunal on Lebanon, according to conventional and usual international law, and according to the imperative standards contained in the 1948 and 1949 Geneva Conventions and Protocol A (1977) and in the Statute of the International Criminal Court of 1998; acknowledging the enormous crimes committed by Israel in the 2006 war (indiscriminate bombardments and destruction, murder of more than one thousand and one hundred persons, among them children, women and elderly persons, enormous damage to social and economic life, use of forbidden arms, etc.) declares the Israeli authorities responsible for the 2006 war against Lebanon and guilty of the following international crimes: War Crimes, Crimes against humanity, Genocide...
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By tearing down the wall between Gaza and Egypt, the Palestinian people and their organizations gave an impulse to the anti-imperialist movement all over the Middle East and throughout the world. Demonstrations set for Jan. 25-26,which were first called as a plea to stop Israel’s criminal siege of 1.5 million Palestinians trapped in Gaza, turned into militant displays of solidarity with a people in struggle....
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The whole world watched in wonder on Jan. 23 when the blockaded Palestinian people of Gaza blew up the walls imprisoning them and walked en masse into Egypt....
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More than 800,000 Palestinians have been living in darkness since Israel forcibly closed the border and blocked fuel shipments into Gaza on Jan. 18, forcing Gaza's only electrical plant to shut down. The general director
of Gaza's single electricity plant, Derar Abu Sissi, explained that "the catastrophe will affect hospitals, clinics, water wells, houses, factories, all aspects of life."...
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The U.S. backed Israeli blockade of Gaza must end!
Internationally coordinated demonstrations will be happening on Friday and
Saturday. International Action Center urges everyone to attend the demonstration nearest you, and to forward this call from Al-Awda (Palestine Right to Return Coalition) to as many people and as many lists as you can!...
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The Israeli state, with the complete backing of the imperialists of the U.S.
and the European Union, as well as their clients among the corrupt feudal monarchs in the region, has deprived the entire Palestinian population in Gaza of electricity, sanitation, potable water, heat, cooking gas, medicines and adequate food. And it is winter in Palestine. Nothing has been done to end this
crime against humanity, this collective punishment of the Palestinian people, despite many appeals to international agencies and organizations....
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The crimes committed by the Israeli army in Lebanon during
the summer 2006 are a violent affront to the universal human conscience. These are criminal acts, as many people feel instinctively. They are different from
the acts that take place in all armed conflict committed by the aggressor as well as by the aggressed. But feeling is not enough. The facts must be
established. They must then be assessed in light of existing international law. This should be done with the detachment and rigor of a process that excludes any a priori conclusions, the results of which will convince all people of good will....
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The deeds committed by the Israeli army and secret services in Lebanon, as in the occupied Palestinian territories, is a violent affront to the universal human conscience. These are criminal acts, as many people feel instinctively.They are different from the acts that take place in all armed conflict committed by the aggressor as well as by the
aggressed.But feeling is not enough.The facts must be
established....
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The International Jury of Conscience for Lebanon” is a project which intends to develop the struggle against
impunity regarding the crimes committed, which intends to promote international
law and in particular human rights and which places the respect of fundamental
human rights above any other consideration. The discussion will proceed in greatest serenity and the publicity that arises from it will reside exclusively within the framework of human rights. It will question only the facts that occurred during the conflict of July-August 2006 in connection with the respect
of these rights. This project does not include a political debate on the question of the relationship between Israel and its neighbors, nor about the Palestinian question....
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The Israeli siege of Gaza is an international crime of collective punishment on an entire population. It is a crime carried out with the full support and authorization of Washington. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert had rejected overtures by Hamas, the militant Islamic group that is the elected government in Gaza, for discussions about
even a temporary cease-fire. ...
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On
Aug. 28, 2007, New York City Comptroller William C. Thompson Jr. attacked British unions
for supporting a boycott of Israel. The Chief, an influential weekly newspaper
that covers civil service unions and is widely read by New York City civil service
union members and New York City politicians, published an article in the Sept.
7th edition about Comptroller Thompson’s action. The article included a
statement of praise for Thompson’s action that was issued by Jewish Labor
Committee (JLC) President Stuart Appelbaum....
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