Powerful/must read commentary from Anna Baltzer
on Gaza Civil Rights etc and a Checkpoint story,
two Gaza Actions and more
Israel forces injured 8 and kidnapped four at the
Friday weekly nonviolent demonstration against
the apartheid wall built at the village lands of Bil'in.
Those of us who braved cold weather to demonstrate
support for lifting Gaza are not faced with rubber
coated steel bullets or toxic gases. There were
nearly 100 such demonstrations Friday and
Saturday around the world.
In Palestine, Israelis and Palestinians joined
forces to demonstrate. Umm al-Fahm turned out
the lights and 1000 Israelis
(Jews, Christians, Muslims) made their way to
a rally at the border with Gaza demanding freeing
of the Gaza Ghetto from the Israeli siege
(see http://www.haaretz.com/hasen
/spages/948261.html ).
Here in CT, we had two demonstrations:
in New Haven with
25 people and in Hartford with 80-100 people.
The thousands who participated in events outside of
Palestine are some of those who truly believe that
"silence is complicity" and who practice what they
believe (thus living life to the fullest).
Join them/us next time!
The media needs to be challenged and
pushed to stop
pandering to the illusion of Zionist power.
People especially
in the US, Canada, Israel, and England need
to be reminded that they can take back the
power from the entrencjed elites
who serve teh narrow Zionist special interests.
In the US we need to shatter the illusion of a
"choice" between leading
democrats and leading republicans in the
Presidential elections.
It is a game to give the illusion of democracy
while business as usual goes on fleecing the US public
(look at what happened in
the media to those who tell the truth about
the downward
spiral of the US economy and the role
of the Israel lobby:
Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich).
By a vote of 30 to 1 (the one being Canada) the
UN Human Rights Council criticized Israel on
Thursday for its blockade of Gaza (the US and Israel
are not participants). Shame on Canada for voting against
human rights and shame on the EU for abstaining.
Time to challenge them. You have the power as Citizens
of those countries to demand that they re-allign their
policies to support human rights.
ACTION: Donate to Gaza
http://www.friendsunrwa
.org
ACTION: Sign a petition on Gaza
http://www.avaaz.org/en/gaza
end_the_siege/8.php?cl
Another Checkpoint story
by Rana Qumsiyeh
http://beit-sahour.info
content/view/21/1/lang
Video on Palestine: Bittersweet symphony
http://www.youtube.c
om/watch?v
Gaza Escape: Too little too late
http://www.smh.com.au/news
gaza-escape-too-little
/25/1201157668
Combatants for Peace and Mazin Qumsiyeh
on Free Thought Radio Sunday
http://freerangethought.com
ion=com_content
Letter From Anna Baltzer
(young Jewish American women and author of book
"Witness in Palestine"):
http://windowintopalestine.blogspot.com/2008/01
/anna-in-palestine-direct-action-from.html
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