Monday, May 18

Israel wipes Palestine off the Map and proposes legislation against Memory

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The above is of a poster of a map of Israel from a London subway/underground tube station that "wipes out" Palestine and incorporates the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights into Israel.

Reality is all have been under military occupation by Israel since 1967.

UN Resolution 242 calls on Israel to withdraw from the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem [Palestinian territories] as well as its illegal occupation of the Golan Heights in Syria.

Israel's 'disengagement' of the Gaza Strip in 2005 was only a redeployment of troops and its ongoing siege on Gaza has reaped severe shortages of food, medicine and clean water which has culminated in a humanitarian crisis for the 1.4 million human beings penned in as Israel continues to prevent humanitarian aid workers and construction supplies into Gaza.

Israel continues to build settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem which is a blatant contravention of international law, as is the demolishing of Palestinian homes and building of The Wall on Palestinian property.

Israel's Wall is being built upon legally owned Palestinian land in the West Bank and will soon expropriate 50% of the property as it blocks access to farmers from their land and water supply and denies the indigenous people movement to their families, resources and holy sites.

The Wall breaches the Fourth Geneva Convention’s articles on the destruction of land and/or property (article 53) and on collective punishment (article 33).





On May 14, 2009, Ha'aretz
reported of the proposal of a new law in Israel that will ban all commemorations of the Nakba.


The law was proposed by Yisrael Beiteinu,the party of Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman and the proposed legislation threatens three years imprisonment for anyone who commemorates the Nakba.- http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1085588.html

Yisrael Beiteinu's party spokesman is quoted as saying that the law intends "to strengthen unity in the state of Israel."

American Jewess, Sarah Anne Minkin, reported, "In the name of "unity," here is a proposal to criminalize acts of memory, collective identity, and cultural and political expression. In the name of Israel's majority group, this proposal seeks to criminalize memory and memory-makers, effectively criminalizing the group-identity of Israel's largest minority population. The very existence of a culture relies on its memory, which comprises the stories a culture tells about itself.

"This law would threaten the existence of Palestinians as a remembering, culture-producing, history-bearing people, and would prevent the possibility of Israel becoming a truly pluralistic society where every group's history can be told.

"And by forbidding the remembering of the Nakba, the law aims to erase the 1948 dispossession of Palestinians - including the destruction of more than 400 villages, multiple massacres and the creation of more than 700,00 refugees, and the confiscation of thousands of acres of land - even as this same political party's platform threatens another form of dispossession, that is, removing citizenship from Palestinian citizens."- http://jewishpeacenews.blogspot.com/2009/02/growing-trend-toward-fascism.html

On May 14, 1948, The Declaration of the Establishment of Israel stated: "On the day of the termination of the British mandate and on the strength of the United Nations General Assembly declare The State of Israel will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel: it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion it will guarantee freedom of religion [and] conscience and will be faithful to the Charter of the United Nations.

If only "never again" would also mean never forget that words must mean something.

Eileen Fleming, is the Founder of http://wearewideawake.org/ A Feature Correspondent for www.arabisto.com/ and www.paltelegraph.com/

Author of "Keep Hope Alive" and "Memoirs of a Nice Irish American 'Girl's' Life in Occupied Territory"

She produced "30 Minutes With Vanunu" and "13 Minutes with Vanunu" because corporate media has been MIA all during a Freedom of Speech Trial in Israel.

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