NYC - March 18: Protest against Ehud Barak visit

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AL AWDA-N.Y.THE PALESTINE RIGHT TO RETURN COALITION

  

ISRAELI WAR MINISTER EHUD BARAK TO ATTEND $1,000-A-PLATE FUNDRAISER FOR ISRAELI OCCUPATION FORCES AT WALDORF MARCH 18; NEW YORKERS PLAN PROTEST

  

After 60 years, exile and genocide of Palestinians escalates as Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Vows "Holocaust" against Palestinians. 

Over 100 Palestinian men, women and children murdered in less than one week, as "Israel" promises a "shoah," or holocaust, while Israeli Occupation Soldiers and War Criminals raise money for genocide through $1,000-dinners at the Waldorf Astoria.  

Outraged New Yorkers are planning a mass protest against the escalating and ongoing catastrophe the Occupying "Israeli" State has been waging against the Palestinians.  Since Wednesday, February 27^th, 2008, the Israeli Occupation Forces have attacked Palestinian schools, mosques, and even soccer fields, murdering children as they studied, prayed, and played childhood games.  As of today the Palestinian death toll has reached well over 120 with hundreds more seriously injured by the Israeli planes, which have pummeled Palestinians with rocket fire and heavy artillery.

In the midst of these war crimes, on Tuesday March 18th, 2008, the organization Friends of the Israeli Defence Forces is holding a $1000-a-plate dinner at the Waldorf Astoria. Al- Awda NY, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition will be holding a mass protest to let them know that the Israeli Occupation Forces are not welcome in New York. Al-Awda is calling for an immediate end of U.S. aid to " Israel ," an end to the continued genocide of Palestinians, and an end and the illegal occupation of Palestine .

Surrounded by the largest system of prison walls in the world, the Palestinians of Gaza are easy prey to the Occupation State's increasingly clear intention of ethnic cleansing by all available means--from starvation to full-out genocide.  Just days ago Matan Vilnai threatened to expand the "holocaust" for Palestinians. "It is incomprehensible and despicable that these war criminals--who just murdered over one hundred Palestinian innocents and children in their homes, in their schools, and on playgrounds--have the audacity to come raise money for their genocidal plans and stuff their greedy faces on our streets" says a representative of Al-Awda.

The protest, which comes during a flurry of activity marking the 60^th year of ongoing occupation and exile of Palestinians by the "Israeli" government, will be outside the site of the IOF Fundraising Dinner, at the Waldorf Astoria on 50^th Street & Park Avenue next Tuesday March 18, 2008 at 5:00 pm.

To contact the organizers of this rally, Al-Awda NY , The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, please email  info@al-awdany.org or call: 718-228-8636