Joyce Murray, MP, Quadra
As one of your constituents, I thought the following copy of an email I just sent to Thomas Mulcair, leader of the NDP, et al., would be of interest to you. I respectfully suggest you read and absorb it. If the Liberal Party wants to survive, it had better follow in the foot steps of Megan Leslie and stand up for hard-won international humanitarian law. Israel cannot be permitted to continue violating it with impunity.
Gary Keenan
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Thomas Mulcair, M.P
Leader of the Opposition,
Ottawa
Major kudos to Megan Leslie for her courage and moral integrity in speaking the truth regarding Israel's belligerent/illegal/brutal occupations of Palestinian and other Arab lands and its well documented system of apartheid.
To Wit:
UNSC Res. 446: "...the policy and practices of Israel in establishing settlements in the Palestinian and other Arab territories occupied since 1967 have no legal validity..."
UNSC Res. 465: "...all measures taken by Israel to change the physical character, demographic composition, institutional structure or status of the Palestinian and other Arab territories occupied since 1967, including Jerusalem, or any part thereof, have no legal validity and...Israel's policy and practices of settling parts of its population and new immigrants in those territories constitute a flagrant violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention..."
The U.S. State Department: "Israel occupied the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights after the 1967 War.... The international community does not recognize Israel's sovereignty over any part of the occupied territories."
In 2004, the International Court of Justice, the only legal body with the authority to decide, unanimously ruled that “no territorial acquisition resulting from the threat or use of force shall be recognized as legal.” The Court denoted this principle a “corollary” of the U.N. Charter and as such “customary international law” and a “customary rule” binding on all member States of the United Nations.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague regarding Jewish settlements in the West Bank (5 April 2011): "This is not disputed territory. It is occupied Palestinian territory and ongoing settlement expansion is illegal under international law..."
The U.S. State Department's report on International Religious Freedom: "Arabs in Israel...are subject to various forms of discrimination [and the government] does not provide Israeli Arabs...with the same quality of education, housing, employment opportunities as Jews."
The Independent, Dec. 27/2011
"...EU broadside over plight of Israel's Arabs"
"The confidential 27-page draft prepared by European diplomats...[shows] that Israeli Arabs suffer 'economic disparities...unequal access to land and housing...discriminatory draft legislation and a political climate in which discriminatory rhetoric and practice go unsanctioned.'“
Yours sincerely,
Gary Keenan
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