and sent any emails in over 8 days. Our visits to Hebron, Ramallah,
Jenin, Aida Refugee camp and much more. Over 10 meetings with
international delegations (inc luding talks I gave to a number of these delegations).
So many inspiring stories and so many sad
stories. But how can I describe the Jenin general hospital which had
a neonatal intensive care unit in which they had to put two premature
babies in one incubater due to lack of enough incubator. In which
the pediatric ward was overflowing with children and their
mothers. A hospital that had three ambulances at one time, two were
bombed by the Israeli occupation forces, and the third was involved
in a car accident and so now there are no ambulance for a hospital
serving 350,000 people. How can one describe the situations of the
villages of Tayba, Romana, and Salem in the northern West Bank. How
can we talk about the 20 year old killed in Bethlehem while we were
here. The military jeep that threatened us as we were filming on the
apartheid wall while locals explained how they were forced to
relocate graves of their relative. How can one describe any of our
experiences. I urge everyone receiving this message to take time
come to visit Palestine and spend as much as possible.
Nothing can replace that. In the next few weeks, I will try to put
up some videos on Youtube to relay some of the experiences. A couple
of videos with relevant material are linked below. But in the
meantime, please take a few minutes (if you are in the US or a US
citizen living abroad) to contact congress and demand they reject
both the military sales to subservient Arab regimes AND the increases
in military grants to Israel (free weapons given for racist
wars). Israel's military aid is to increase from $2.4 billion to $3
billion annually for the next ten years (a total cost to us taxpayers
of $300 billion in addition to other aid). For contacts of your
representatives, go to http://www.congress.org/congressorg/directory/congdir.tt
Boycott apartheid Israel--- Free Palestine
Bil'in Demonstration and follow-up hospital interview of injured Palestinian
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZB_hlziDKQ
Palestinian Summer Celebration videos so far:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0PHXE1-TYg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1MMve_qHK0 (via Dolorossa, religious)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ5jzZHqvnY
A Lost Opportunity? The Palestinian Left By RAMZY BAROUD
http://www.counterpunch.com/baroud07092007.html
Jerry Kroth: Democratic Defectors and the Israel Lobby
"Curiously, all of the traitor democrats were huge career recipients
of funds from the Israeli lobby. If we took ten Democratic apostates
and compared them to ten Democrats who stood by the voters,
pro-Israeli PAC contributions were "ten times" greater for the
turncoats than those who stayed with their constituencies ($322,000
versus $34,000 on average)."
http://www.palestinechronicle.com/story-071007164230.htm
Action: Vote in support of boycott of Israeli academic boycotts
My reason as stated when I voted was: "Israeli universities are built
and prospered partly by the suffering of the Palestinians and the
ethnic cleansing that took place.Tel Aviv University for example is
partly built on Palestinian village lands. Not one of these
institutions showed any element of recognition let alone remorse or
attempt at restorative justice. On the contrary these institutions
aid and abett the occupation and further colonization of Palestine
including the apartheid wall and apartheid system. Mazin Qumsiyeh,
PhD, Fellow of the American Board of Medical Genetics"
http://www.surveymk.com//s.aspx?sm=zrDgLYed7wn_2fe_2bcR2lC4Pw_3d_3d
20 years of the assassination of Palestinian political cartoonist Naji AlAli
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/6911815.stm
Documentary movies about Palestinian history in Arabic (good
especially for children)
http://www.palestineremembered.com/GeoPoints/Palestinian_History_For_Beginners_5375/ar/index.html
The Apostate: A Zionist politician loses faith in the future.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/07/30/070730fa_fact_remnick?printable=true
Mazin Qumsiyeh
http://www.qumsiyeh.org
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