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WAR ON GAZA
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DO YOU WANT TO BE ON FLOTILLA 2
4 GAZA FREEDOM CAMPAIGN IF YES?
FOLLOW ME:
A.
READ
ANNEX - CLICK HERE.
B. FILL
PART FORM ON THE ANNEX THEN SEND TO DESIGNATED E-MAIL.
C.
DISTRIBUTE AS MUCH AS YOU CAN.
D.
EUROPEAN
CAMPAIGN TO END THE SIEGE ON GAZA GUIDE JUST PRESS HERE.
THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR
PEACE JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS IPJ
Along with many pro-human
societies and NGOs, IPJ is honored to proclaim that it is going to provide a
situation which plans for setting a flotilla sail for Gaza strip
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NAKBA EXHIBITION 62 years of Palestinians
Dispossessions
To view just brows on here
http://%20www.1948.com.au/
Painting blue skies in Gaza
All are
published by
AFP
Place:
Australia
Editor – Sonja
Karkar
Phone: +61 3 9882 9236
Fax: +61 3 9882 9301
E-mail: <karkar@iinet.net.au>
“.. we need to tell the truth and remind the world of the full historical
picture, hold on to the lawful right of resistance and mobilize people
everywhere”
Edward Said
THE TEAM
Australians for Palestine has a full-time team of three people advocating
for Palestine.
Their experience and skills are listed below.
Mission Statement
Australians for Palestine seeks to dispel the myths and disinformation about
Palestine in Australia by actively engaging with the media, academic
institutions, Federal and State Parliaments, governmental bodies, NGOs, and
the community at large. It seeks to communicate the Palestinian narrative
from a historical perspective, as well as through the current political
developments impacting on Palestinians wherever they are, the Middle East
region, and the world at large. Australians for Palestine is committed to
using media production and distribution and public relations as a tool for
promoting Palestinian social justice issues in Australia. It is our goal to
give voice to those issues falsely and/or not represented in the mainstream
media or by our parliamentary representatives. Hence, its mission is to
generate true and constructive alternatives to the current biases that have
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Israeli
terrorists attacked civilian ship of free Gaza campaign fleet on May
31 - 2010
Complaining
Letter addressed to HE. MR. Clegg / Deputy Prime Minister of the United
Kingdom
launched by Our
media watch member in UK
By Iqbal Tamimi
Dear MR. Clegg / Deputy Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom
Israeli naval forces this morning stormed a
peaceful flotilla of boats delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza , and killed
20 of the unarmed civilians on board. Dozens more have been injured. Forty
British nationals were on the flotilla. None of them have yet been accounted
for, including two Bristolians.
Will the British government continue to maintain
its complicit silence over the attack, or will it finally speak out and
condemn Israel 's piracy and murder on international waters?
You had the opportunity to defend British citizens sailing with the
flotilla, and demand safe passage for them and the vital aid they were
carrying, but you chose not to do so.
You now have the opportunity to stand up for international law, and to lead
the international community in condemning Israel 's actions and holding them
to account.
I call on you to take this opportunity. Your
political and moral obligations lie with those who seek to peacefully
deliver aid, not with a country which repeatedly violates international law.
Yours sincerely
By Iqbal Tamimi
AWMC Director MS. Mahasen
Al emam comments; We in Arab women media center
www.ayamm.org can't buy any human
rights call by the western world, We've to think twice before believing how
transparent it is, also will update the reality and credibility by a
negative sign.
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Please show your
solidarity with the people of Gaza and the victims of Israeli
killings by signing this appeal at
http://www.petitiononline.com/GazaSol/petition.html
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IFJ Calls for Immediate Release of
Journalists Detained by Israeli Military
The International Federation of
Journalists (IFJ) today called upon the Israeli authorities to
release without delay all journalists and media staff who were
detained on board the Gaza bound aid convoy on Monday morning. Up to
a hundred journalists are believed to be among the passengers
currently being held by IDF.
"The Israeli authorities must not play cat and mouse with
professional journalists who are doing their job, not just for the
company they serve but in the service of a worldwide audience," said
Aidan White, IFJ General Secretary.
The Israeli authorities have given reassurances that they will treat
all professional journalists the same way as politicians who
accompanied the flotilla and seek their early release and
deportation.
Reports state that up to ten people were killed and many more
injured during clashes between the military and passengers when the
flotilla was boarded by IDF [the Israeli Defence Forces] in the
early hours of Monday morning May 31-2010.
" We are grateful for the tremendous efforts being made by leaders
of the National Federation of Israeli Journalists to defend the
rights of working professionals who have been caught up in this
series of tragic events," added White. " We will continue to work
with our Israeli affiliate and others who have expressed concern
about the detention of their journalists and media staff."
For more information contact the IFJ at +32 2 235 22 07 |
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IFJ is preparing a
Dossier to request compensation from Israel
One journalist is dead and another is
injured, IFJ is preparing a Dossier to request compensation from
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Valentine's Day Arrived in Gaza Earlier This
Year
Gaza women collecting
valentine flowers from their gardens
By Iqbal Tamimi
Sure it was red all
over Gaza this year, and earlier than any other country in the world, blood
red, not rose red.
The Independent published an article today entitled Israel allows Valentine
carnations out of Gaza. The Independent reporter described Israel’s allowing
25,000 carnations to cross the border in the first exports permitted from
blockaded Gaza in a year as a gesture. Is this funny or what? Usually the
expression gesture holds meanings of good will and kind intentions or so I
thought, since gestures usually do not come after killing the people and
bulldozing their homes to the ground as well as creating orphans and widows.
Good old Israel allowed 25,000 carnations from Gaza to cross the border so
that the lovers in Israel and Europe will have a day to remember, but kept
the medicine and children’s food under siege for 19 months. What a gesture…
Oh I have forgotten that Palestinian children are not worthy of mercy or
consideration, unlike the sensitive Europeans who should celebrate
Valentine’s Day in style. I bet those carnations are the most expensive in
the whole wide world since they grew in Palestine and were irrigated with
blood. But thank God the Independent reporter assured us that Major Peter
Lerner, of the military's civil co-ordination office, said Israel had agreed
to relax the blockade for the carnations at the request of the Dutch
government. I wonder how come no government in the west succeeded in its
requests of Israel to relax the blockade for children’s food and medicine
and how come only Valentine’s Day flowers had this privilege.
One more question comes in mind, how come the children of Gaza were
harvested by white phosphorus bombs while the carnations of St Valentine
remained untouched…the irony that the people who are mourning their loved
ones, are the ones who are growing the roses and carnations that will be
enjoyed by the civilized part of the world, civilized to the point of
creating weapons and watching the children of those who plant those flowers
die of starvation and be burned by the bombs.
To all the Palestinian women who have lost their loved ones, may you rise up
like olive trees and keep your roots in the soil… you deserve all the roses
in the world.
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SONG FOR GAZA
Michael Heart sings
"We will not go down"
Message from Michael
Dear friends,
I have been overwhelmed by the warmth and the friendship you have all given
me in response to my song for Gaza, "We Will Not Go Down". I am doing my
best to go through your numerous messages, emails and comments, and ask you
to kindly bear with me until I am able to do so. Please forgive me if I am
not able to respond to each and everyone of you; but please also know that I
really appreciate your messages.
My original intention to donate proceeds from the sale of the MP3 to charity
has been complicated by technical matters; therefore, I have decided to make
the song available free of charge. I would like to request that after
downloading the song from this page, you kindly donate directly to a
charity or an organization dedicated to alleviate the suffering of the
Palestinian people. Worthy of note is
UNRWA (United
Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East),
which has been helping Palestinian refugees since their dispossession in
1949. Please click here to donate through them:
http://www.un.org/unrwa/
Thank you for your continued encouragement of my work as a musician, for
your purchases of my CD (available
here on iTunes), and for spreading the song, the video
and the message as you have been doing. I am grateful for every
demonstration of support I have received from you, and for every thought and
prayer that has gone to the people of Gaza.
Sincerely,
Michael Heart |
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UK Jewish MP:
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FWD by MS. Naba Hamid - Iraq
Third from right
To
Dear Fourth Estate and
Humanitarians
I've just watched CNN for the last two
hours and heard that the UN is in emergency session and the vote
to ask for an immediate cease-fire is 14-1. Yes, the "1" is the
US. I can hardly believe it. I also can't listen to the
doublespeak where the Israeli spokesperson is talking about
attacking Hamas when the facts on the ground are that over 50 +
Palestinian children are dead and there are no Israeli children
dead. I've listened to the talking heads for the last 8 years
and I voted for CHANGE. Please help me spread
the word about what is happening to the children right now in
Palestine. Dr. Naba Hamid has sent me documentation and
pictures. The time for action is now before more killing of
innocent children. Collateral damage of 50 + children is
unacceptable. How can Israel get on US television and actually
believe that our citizens are so stupid as to not realize that
the Israel Gov't thinks the threat to their children is more
important than the actual deaths of the Palestinian children! By
their actions not their words, they are proving it by dropping
bombs from the sky for 8 solid days, 24/7, and have now attacked
Gaza from 3 land areas and their Navy is attacking from the
sea. We just had an election that repudiated that type of
settling human disputes. If Barack Obama can't find his voice
before Jan 20th then the American people will use their voices
to call for a cease-fire.
I am giving you the e-mail addresses of
the Israeli gov't. Make your voice heard directly, we don't
need politicians, we are the US government-the part that says,
"government of the people."
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FREE GAZA – FREE PALESTINE
JUDAISM YES ! ZIONISM NO !
FWD BY:
Suraya Bibi Khan - South Africa
The following speech delivered by Anti
Zionist Orthodox Jews at the “Emergency Protest to Stop the Massacre in
Gaza” rally, Rockefeller Center, New York City, December 27, 2008, 2.00 PM
May our words be pleasing to the Creator and cause His Great Name to be
sanctified.
Assalaam Aleikhum:
The world stands aghast as the atrocities being committed by the Zionist
regime in Gaza, becomes known in ever greater and shocking detail.
Mere words are insufficient to express the pain that all mankind feels at
the plight of the Gaza and Palestinian people.
For over one hundred years, they have been subject to a carefully conceived
plan, to drive them from their homes and their land.
Throughout their history, the Zionists have resorted to intimidation, war,
ethnic cleansing and state-sponsored terrorism to achieve their goals.
This is, has been and continues to be, the criminal agenda of the Zionist
movement. But among this movement’s greatest crimes, is that it has claimed
to carry out these nefarious actions in the name of holiness, in the name of
the Almighty, in the name of Judaism and the Jewish people !!
This is a wicked and monstrous lie !!
It is a desecration of our religion !!
Judaism forbids and rejects Zionism and the existence of the State of
“Israel”. We have been expressly commanded by the Almighty that we are
forbidden to have our own sovereignty in this heavenly decreed exile, we are
also forbidden to rebel against any nation. Torah believing Jews, under the
leadership of the most esteemed rabbis of the 20th century have always
opposed and fought against Zionism and ultimately the State of “Israel”.
Unfortunately in recent years the Zionists have succeed in seducing and
co-opting members of the religious community and some rabbis into support of
not allowing the return of the rightful owners, the Palestinian people, to
their land, by fear mongering, by appealing to their worst fears, that there
is a religious conflict and that the Arabs always have had an ingrained hate
for the Jews. Especially, they claim, that because of the many years of the
existence of the State of “Israel”, if the Palestinians where to return to
their land, they would massacre the Jews, may the Almighty protect us.
Anyone familiar with the ploys and techniques of the Zionist State is aware
of this fact.
Before the advent of Zionism, Muslims and Christian, Arabs and Jews, lived
peacefully together in the Holy Land, as in all the Muslim lands, - Ask your
grandparents! - They remember those peaceful days! And in fact it is here
the opportune time to thank all the Muslim countries for their extraordinary
friendship, hospitality and safe haven that they have provided to the Jewish
people throughout the ages!
The Zionists rely on the Bible, the Torah, for their imaginary right to
ethnically cleanse the Palestinian people and to subjugate them. This is a
pathetic joke! The Zionists have always been heretics and rejected all the
fundamental tenets of our faith, and yet they have the nerve, the arrogance,
the audacity, the chutzpa, to pretend to base their behavior on our holy
Torah.
We know what our holy writings and our great rabbis have taught us - that we
are forbidden to subjugate or oppress anyone or to desecrate the holiness of
the Holy Land with paths of violence, ethnic cleansing, discrimination and
military power. Our religion teaches justice. It teaches peace. It teaches
compassion. In fact, the greatest and ultimate hope and prayer of the Jewish
people is, that when the Messiah comes that then “Nation shall no longer
lift up sword against nation, and they will make war no more.” All nations
will serve God together in peace.
To the governments of the world, it is not through your support of the
Zionist regime – the State of “Israel”, that the Jewish people are being
helped! On the contrary, this tragic historical mistake has led to the
killing of Arabs and Jews alike. The governments of the great powers, by
supporting the State of “Israel” are not only harming the Palestinian people
but they are also unwittingly contributing to the growth of hostility
towards Jews worldwide!
To our Jewish brethren, we beg! Do not be intimidated by ruthless Zionist
bullying and violence!! - Proclaim loudly and clearly your outrage, pain and
sympathy for the people of Gaza and that those who show contempt for the
Torah, the teachings of our rabbis, and disregard the ethical and moral
basics of our faith, have no right to speak on behalf of the Jewish People
or Judaism!
We must tell the world that self rule, sovereignty and ALL the rights of the
Palestinian people, must be restored throughout historic Palestine! This is
a requirement of Jewish ethics and values! Jewish justice demands the return
of the Palestinian refugees to their homes, towns, villages and cities
throughout Palestine! Tell the world, loudly and clearly, that you support
Palestinian statehood over the ENTIRE Holy Land -- not despite your Jewish
identity, but because of it.
To our Islamic brethren – let us speak up for the people of Gaza and please
do not judge the Jewish faith or its people, on the basis of this passing
lunacy of Zionism. The Jews have always been your friends and cousins. Do
not allow your understandable anger to be directed at those who are innocent
of wrongdoing, regardless of whether they reside in Occupied Palestine,
Europe, or anywhere around the globe.
Together, people of all nations, may we be worthy, with God’s help, speedily
and peacefully, without further suffering and bloodshed of anyone, be it
Arab or Jew, to witness the peaceful end of the Zionist occupation over
every inch of Palestine.
And may we yet merit to see, in the very near future, the revelation of the
One God, over the entire world, with all mankind in His servitude, in joyous
brotherhood. AMEN
Let’s Proclaim Together:
FREE GAZA – FREE PALESTINE
JUDAISM YES ! ZIONISM NO !
www.nkusa.org
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“Dear Senators
Obama and McCain,
We were disturbed by your remarks at the AIPAC
conference. We implore you to respect internationally recognized Palestinian
claims to East Jerusalem, to hold not just Hamas but also Israel accountable
for its use of weapons against civilian populations, and to supporting
including Hamas in negotiations. We believe that both Palestinians and
Israelis deserve to live in safe and secure societies. Please commit to
working for justice and peace for both Israelis and Palestinians”.
For more information on the specific remarks made at the AIPAC Conference
and to sign the petition, please click
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REEM
KELANI (PALESTINE/UK)
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Reem Kelani not only sings the
songs of her Palestinian homeland with grace and emotional power, she can
also talk about them at length. Her in-depth knowledge of Palestinian
culture has turned her into Palestine’s unofficial cultural ambassadress in
the UK. Both Reem’s parents, who came from Jenin and Nazareth, were keen
amateur musicians and as a young girl growing up in Kuwait, Reem would bring
audiences to tears with charged renditions of popular songs about her
ancestral home.
Martha Kearney did interview Reem
on the prestigious Woman's Hour programme
on BBC Radio 4 on 14 February, however. You can hear the interview via the
Listen Again facility:
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ALL PALESTINIANS REMEMBERING
Late Rachel
Corrie
Rachel
Corrie Joins Palestinians in Longing for Justice
please click here to remember Rachel
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The follwoing is an article written by
profesor Sarah Shield upon the
Isreali incursion to Jenin camp
Dad, we have become the oppressors.
One rabbinic student told me years ago when I lived in Israel that this was
the meaning behind the warning to remember that we were slaves in the land
of Egypt. We were warned to remember, because sometimes slaves want to
become masters.
We are the oppressors, and we are also the victims. Jews are being killed,
and at the same time, the moral imperative that you taught me was part of
being Jewish seems to be vanishing. I believe that Jews are being used by an
American administration to accomplish its own ends, ends that have nothing
to do with the ideals of Jews. We need to shout aloud that 80% of the
billions that the US gives Israel in aid must be spent on weapons, and that
more than half of those weapons are built in Texas. And Jews are being used
by an Israeli government that has no interest except territorial expansion.
Sharon is the ideological heir to Jabotinsky. Land for peace was never in
that ideology. War makes conquest possible, and all the people of Israel and
Palestine are being drawn, tragically and together, into that war.
We must act, and we must act immediately. Jews are being used to legitimize
the slaughter of Palestinians.
Please, Dad, tell me how to be like you taught me to be. How do I stop being
complicit?
I love you.
Sarah
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TWO WELL
KNOWN PALESTINIANS REMEMBERING
Late Rachel
Corrie
Rachel
Corrie Joins Palestinians in Longing for Justice
by Hanan Ashrawi
Excerpt: "When Israeli troops
ruthlessly murdered Rachel Corrie, she
became the victim of both Israel’s brutal occupation and the full force of
its “spin machine.” It is a common trait of the cowardly to malign the
victim, in this case, accusing her of having brought about the deserved
cruelty of the crime. A ruthless campaign was pursued to distort the
truth, despite irrefutable evidence, resulting in the total dehumanization
of the victim and the elimination of her most basic rights and attributes
as well as claims to protection.
"Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old student from Olympia, Washington, was
murdered while attempting to prevent an Israeli army bulldozer from
demolishing a Palestinian home near the southern Gaza city of Rafah.
Read the full Article:
http://www.miftah.org/Display.cfm?DocId=3321&CategoryId=11
The Meaning of Rachel Corrie ...Of Dignity and
Solidarity
by Edward Said
"June 23, 2003 -- In early May, I was in Seattle lecturing
for a few days.
While there, I had dinner one night with Rachel Corrie's parents and sister,
who were still reeling from the shock of their daughter's murder on March 16
in Gaza by an Israeli bulldozer. Mr. Corrie told me that he had himself
driven bulldozers, although the one that killed his daughter deliberately
because she was trying valiantly to protect a Palestinian home in Rafah from
demolition was a 60 ton behemoth especially designed by Caterpillar for
house demolitions, a far bigger machine than anything he had ever seen or
driven.
Read the full Article:
http://criticalconcern.com/meaning_of_rachel_corrie_.htm
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Eight-meter wall
bisecting the Palestinian town of Abu Dis, east of Jerusalem,
climbers
proved concrete won't make peace,
it is what the history told us
Dr.
Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi,
himself head of the Gandhi Institute for Non-Violence
He was speaking in
the shadow of the eight-metre wall bisecting the Palestinian town of Abu
Dis, east of Jerusalem. There were quite a few mainstream
adherents - people who, without the historical and ideological associations
of the name Gandhi, may have hesitated to take an action so radical in
today's Israeli
context as going to a Palestinian city and participating in a joint
demonstration with its inhabitants.
For the Palestinian Coalition for Peace and Liberty, which had invited
Gandhi,
his tour of the country is intended to launch a widespread campaign aimed at
showing the Palestinian public the advantages of waging the struggle against
the occupation by non-violent methods. Originally, among Palestinians non-
violence was often confused with passivity and non-resistance. But the
success of this year's struggle by village communities mobilizing against
construction of the Wall on their land has made the idea more concrete, and
the virtual cessation of suicide bombings in the past half-year may among
other things indicate
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Pamela G. Mills called
Palestinians' Journalists' participants in third Arab Women Journalists
Conference for an informal meeting in her place in the
French Hill-Jerusalem
Pam and Palestinian
Journalists in the
French Hill-Jerusalem
Pamela G. Mills Public Diplomacy Officer, Public
Affairs Section U.S. Consulate General Jerusalem, invited
Palestinian Journalists parts in third Arab Women Journalists
Conference held in Amman-Jordan June 25-28 - 2004.
for an informal
meeting there were no specific topics, MS Abo Khalaf Enas who was among
invitees and AWMC activists member
said, we had lunched together and discussed
several issues related to our region and what happened at the conference,
Pamela was so glad with the great work that Mahassen AWMC director and the
president of the conference did to control the
conference, she said it was needed to have such sort of an administrative work!!!
Enas continued,
Pamela gave me some books about many issues: TV and elections, New methods
of investigative reporting as a gift.
AWMC Director Mahasen highly appreciated Pam's act and
considered MS Mills invitation as a kind of conference follow up process,
also said AWMC never forget Pamela serious efforts and support, in which
without the conference won't turn to reality, so thanks very dear Pam.
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SPECIAL
PALESTANIAN CHRISTMAS GREETING by
Walid Batrawi
Also read Israeli
Occupation: Never Human By Walid Batrawi
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