Appeal for the removal of Hamas from the EU terror list!

First signataries

On the occasion of the June 2009 European elections, we are launching an urgent appeal to all candidates for the 736 seats in the European parliament.

We ask that they actively pursue the immediate and unconditional removal of Hamas and all other Palestinian liberation organizations from the European list of proscribed terrorist organizations.

We further ask that they acknowledge the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination and, by so doing, recognise, Hamas as a legitimate voice for the Palestinian people's aspirations for national liberation.

The initiative was launched by Nadine Rosa-Rosso, a teacher and independent communist militant living in Bruxelles. It is a result of the Beirut Resistance Forum from 16-18 January 2009.

The call can be signed by sending a message tocamp@antiimperialista.org. This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

First signataries

Germany
Jürgen Elsässer (journalist, Berlin, Germany), Jonas Feller (Anti-imperialist activist and high school student Rostock), Karsli Jamal (FAKT-Party, Germany), Klaus von Raussendorff, Referent für internationale Fragen beim Bundesvorstand des Deutschen Freidenker-Verbands, DeutschlandDjamila Krebs ( membre d’Europalestine Allemagne), Prof.Dr.med. Zouhair Itani, Dermatologist, Düsseldorf,Germany. Dr. med. Ahmad Haider, Urologe und Androloge, Allemagne, prof. Dr. Mohammed Al-Zoebi, ex-Minister in Syria, Allemagne, Professor Dr. Mohssen Massarrat, Osnabrück, Deutschland, Klaus Hartmann, Offenbach am Main, Bundesvorsitzender des Deutschen Freidenker-Verbandes, Germany, Krystyna Schydlo, Deutsch-Palästinensische Gesellschaft, Ruhrgebiet, Germany, Christoph Hörstel, Regierungs- /Unternehmensberater, Buchautor, Vors. Friedenskreis Deutschland e.V. i.G., Nehls, Gertrud, AK Asyl, Deutschland

Austria
Leo Gabriel (journalist and social anthropologist, member of the council of the World Social Forum, Austria), Johann Schögler (Styrian Peace Platform, Austria), Wilhelm Langthaler (Anti-imperialist Camp), Werner Pirker (journalist), Peter Melvyn (Jewish voices for a just peace in the Middle East), Hannes Hofbauer (publisher and publicist), Waltraud Schauer (former human shield in Iraq, Austria), Aleks Studen-Kirchner (author and interpreter, Austria), Milan Obid (chairman of the Slovene Students Club Vienna, Austria), Hermann Dworczak (social scientist, trade unionist, Austria), Wilfried Bader (local counsellor Angerberg, Tirol, Austria), Dipl. Ing. Marion Artlieb (computer scientist, Austria), Gerhard Oberkofler (University professor, Vice president of the Association Alfred Klahr, Innsbruck, Austria)

Belgium
François Houtart (professeur émérite de l'Université catholique de Louvain), Tom Lanoye (auteur), Jean Bricmont (physicien), Pol Goossens (journaliste), Ludo Abicht, Amir Haberkorn, Ouardia Derriche (membre de l’Association Belgique-Palestine), Ida Dequeecker (féministe), Robbe De Hert (cinéaste), Eric Goeman (woordvoerder Attac Vlaanderen), Nadine Rosa-Rosso (enseignante et auteur), Nadia Fadil (sociologue), Remi Verwimp (coördinator Werkplaats voor Theologie en Maatschappiij), Paul Delmotte (professeur IHECS), André Posman, (eredocent actualiteit Sint Lucasinstituut Gent, lic. Geschiedenis. Dir Concertreeksen DE Rode Pomp Gent), Luk Vervaet (président section belge IUPFP), Dyab Abou Jahjah (activiste, Belgique-Liban), Herman De Ley (emeritus professor, Universiteit Gent), Frank Roels, (MD, emeritus professor UGent, België), Gie van den Berghe (professor Universiteit Gent, ethicus en historicus), Ludo de Witte (auteur), Eric Rosseel (gepensioneerd docent psychologie VUB), Liliane Plouvier (Professeur de droit international Bruxelles), Elke Vandeperre ( coördinator vzw Motief), Michel Collon (écrivain et journaliste), Greta Alegre (cinéaste, Artistes contre le Mur), Francis Jorissen (webmaster Attac Vlaanderen, België), René Los (bestuurder), Sarah Bracke (feministe & professor KULeuven), Erik Swyngedouw (Professor of Geography School of Environment and Development Manchester University), Isabelle Ponet, enseignante retraitée, Renée Mousset (Association Belgique-Palestine Liège); Jean Marc Turine (écrivain), Malika Hamidi (doctorante EHESS à Paris), Paul Vanden Bavière (journaliste et historien), Ludo De Brabander (Stafmedewerker vzw Vrede), Yacob MAHI, Enseignant, Théologien, Dr. en Histoire et Sciences des Religions, Conférencier, Vergaelen Eva (writer Belgie), Myriam Vandecan (vzw CODIP), Hadassah Borreman (publiciste, Belgique), GEYS Herman (Kunstenaar België), Karel Arnaut, antropoloog, UGent, België, De Witte Paul Woordvoerder Basisbewehging voor democratie in samenlevving en kerken, Ronnie Ramirez, cinéaste, Nordine Saïdi (Mouvement Citoyen Palestine), Karim Hassoun - Voorzitter AEL Belgie, Daniel Vanhove Observateur civil – Auteur Membre de l'ABP et du MCP, Nathalie Jenart, psychologue, directrice d'un centre PMS, Bruxelles Belgique, Mommaerts Omer (militant vakbond ACV-CSC België)


Bulgaria
Georges Haddad (Writer, Bulgaria/Lebanon)

Cyprus
Belal Aabdelhai / PHD student/ Cyprus

Spain
Ángeles Maestro Martín (mèdica especialista en salud pública, Estado español), Carlo Frabetti (écrivain, État espagnol), Irene Amador (antropológue, État espagnol), Carlos Tena (periodista), Vicente Romano (professeur d'université, État espagnol), Gloria Pérez Berrocal (programmatrice de télévision, État espagnol), Alessandra Caporale, (social anthropologist, university lecturer Barcelona), Manuel Talens (écrivain, Espagne), Antonio Maira (Politólogo. Redactor Diario digital inSurGente), Anna Raventós Barangé (PhD Senior Lecturer Faculty of Arts and Letters University of Seville, Spain)

France
Saïd Bouamama (sociologue), Houria Bouteldja (Mouvement des Indigènes de la République), Raoul Marc Jennar (consultant en relations internationales), Alima Boumediene Thiery (sénatrice), Christine Delphy (Fondatrice et directrice de la revue NQF) / France"Viktor Dedaj (cyber-journaliste), Roland Diagne (enseignant en France, militant communiste marxiste-léniniste), Annie Lacroix-Riz (professeur d’histoire contemporaine, université Paris 7), Youssef Boussoumah (Mouvement des Indigènes de la République). Eric Colonna (citoyen engagé Lyon), Danielle Bleitrach (sociologue et écrivain), Jean-François Larosière (responsable syndical et associatif), Catherine Stern (enseignante d’Histoire à la retraite, ancienne chargée de cours à Paris), Philippe Révelli (jounaliste), Sophie Crêtaux (France, ex-chercheur au CNRS, agrégée d'histoire), Mireille Rumeau (militante politique, France), Youssef Girard (étudiant), Marie-Elise Akel, Abdelaziz Chaambi (militant associatif), Micheline Garreau (militante ISM, France), Alain Bruguier (infirmier libéral), Radouane Belahrache (Nîmes), Olivia Zémor (présidente de CAPJPO-EuroPalestine et responsable du site europalestine.com), Mohamed ZAAF, chirurgien et conseiller municipal (911510), Monique de Lope, ( professeur émérite à l'Université de Provence), Alain Bruguier alain infirmier libéral, vice président de l'afps de nimes dans le gard en france), Laure LAHAYE, Chargée de collections en arabe à la Bibliothèque nationale de France, Conseillère de quartier, Paris, Jean-Claude AMARA, porte parole de Droits devant

Greece
Gella Varnava-Skoura (professeur en sciences de l'éducation à l'Université d'Athènes), Yiannis Sifakakis (Stop the war Coalition-Greece), Petros Constantinou (Campain Genoa 2001Greece)

Hungary
Szamosfalvi Albert (artiste peintre Hongrie)

Ireland
Mairead Maguire (prix Nobel de la Paix), Danny Morrison (writer, Ireland)

Italy
Giulietto Chiesa (parlamentare europeo e giornalista), Lucio Manisco (giornalista ed ex parlamentare europeo), Gianni Vattimo (Filosofo ed ex parlamentare europeo), Margherita Hack (Astrofisica), Domenico Losurdo (Direttore Istituto Scienze filosofiche, università di Urbino), ), Danilo Zolo (Docente di Filosofia del Diritto internazionale, università di Firenze), Mary Rizzo (co-Editor of Palestine Think Tank and co-founders of Tlaxcala, Dr. Art Historian and Art Restorer), Prof.Massimo De Santi (Presidente Comitato Internazionale di Educazione per la Pace – ITALIA), Prof.ssa Giovanna Pagani (Presidente On. Wilpf Italia -Lega Internazionale delle Donne per la Pace e la Libertà – ITALIA), Dr.ssa Rosa Ayala Sosa (CIEP – ITALIA, Paola Manduca (geneticist Italy), Moreno Pasquinelli (Campo Antiimperialista), Dr. Mohamed Nour Dachan (Unione delle Comunità ed organizzazioni Islamiche in Italia), Elsa Verlicchi (Anthropologist, Rome, Italy), Miguel Martinez (websitewww.kelebekler.com Italy), Giulio Bonali (Italia)


Netherlands
Abdou Bouzerda (président Arab European League), Mohammed Benzakour (écrivain et journaliste), Robert Soeterik (antropoloog, Middle East Research Associates, Nederland), Miriyam Aouragh (co-organizer Dutch antiwar and antiracism campaign, initiator of the national demonstration for Gaza in Amsterdam, Research Fellow at Oxford University, UK) , Meyer Hajo G. (Bestuurslid “Een Ander Joods Geluid” Nederland), Gretta Duisenberg (Chair Foundation Stop the Occupation The Netherlands), Benzakour Mohammed (schrijver en journalist Nederland)

Portugal
Jose Saramago (écrivain), Miguel Urbano (écrivain)

Romania
Alexandru Polgar (philosophe, éditeur de la revue Idea)

Great Britain
Gilad Atzmon (artiste de jazz et écrivain), Tariq Ramadan (professor, Oxford/Erasmus Universities), Tariq Ali (writer, film-maker and editor of New Left Review), Sukant Chandan (Chair, English branch of the IUPFP), Estella Schmid (Kurdistan Solidarity Committee & CAMPACC, UK), John Hutnyk (Professor of Cultural Studies, Academic Director of CCS Goldsmiths University of London), Zaki El-Salahi (Masters student, Edinburgh, Scotland), Jon Kehoe (artist, London), Naima Bouteldja (Journalist, England), Robin Virgin (Pluto Press, England), David Halpin (FRCS Standing in solidarity with the Palestinian people,UK), Brenda Brown (Chair, Brighton & Hove Palestine Solidarity Campaign, England), Mathis Richet (Musician, England), Marishka Tharani (Actress, England), Mark Barrett (civil liberties campaigner, London, England), James House (maitre de conferences à l'Université de Leeds), Maud Bracke (lecturer, University of Glasgow, UK), Alan Cooper, Senior Lecturer
European College of Business and Management, Maha Rahwanji, Member of the Executive Committee, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Britain.

Sweden
Jan Myrdal (écrivain), Lasse Wilhelmson (teacher, Sweden), Einar Schlereth Journalist Sweden

USA
Greta Berlin (co-fondatrice Free Gaza Movment), James Petras (Bartle professor emeritus Binghamton University), John Catalinotto (managing editor, Workers World Newspaper, USA), Sara Flounders (co-director, International Action Center, USA), Emory Douglas (Former Minister of Culture of The Black Panther Party, USA), Dr Julio Pino ( professor of history), Dumas F. Lafontant Doumafis, (Organizer, African Liberation Day), Sebogo Bernard Nkumah (Chairperson of Boston Branch, All African People's Revolutionary Party)

Switzerland
Franz Fischer (Sekretariat Partei der Arbeit der Schweiz - Sektion Basel, Trade Union UNIA), SchweizFranco Cavalli (oncologist and president of the International Union of Cancer (IUCC), founder of Medicuba, Switzerland), Daniel Vischer (MP of the Green Party, Switzerland), George A. Kouchakji (Palestine Solidarity Basel, Switzerland), Nabil Sheikh Khalil,(Association to Support Palestinians in Need, Switzerland), Matthias Hui, Fachstelle OeME, Ref. Kirchen Bern-Jura-Solothurn, Schweiz, Peter Leuenberger, Historiker, Vorstandsmitglied Gesellschaft Schweiz-
Palästina, Schweiz

Canada
Tim Louis (former Vancouver City Councillor), Ivan Drury (member of Vancouver Socialist Forum, contributing editor of Socialist Voice), Mohamed Tawfik Al-Mansouri, Ph.D. ( Writer and Researcher, Afnan Magazine Canada), Hani Barghouthy, Writer , editor-in-chief of www.arabianawareness.com, Canada; Robert Bibeau, Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette Réalisatrice Québec, Canada

Brazil
Virginia Fontes (historienne, Rio de Janeiro), Augusto Boal (homme de théâtre)

Venezuela
Thierry Deronne (vice-président télévision publique Vive TV République bolivarienne du Venezuela), Durand Benjamin, (professeur de cinéma et télévision Venezuela Caracas)

Jordan
Hisham Bustani, Writer and Secretary of the Socialist Thought Forum, Jordan

Syria
Prof Dr Georges Jabbour (President UN Association of Syria, Independent Expert Human Rights Council, 2002-2008 Former Presidential Adviser and Member of Parliament)

Lebanon
Mohammad Kassem (Beirut International Forum For Resistance , Anti Imperialist , People's Solidarity and Alternatives) LYNA AL TABBAL Chef du département des droits de l'homme à l'université JINAN / Tripoli-Liban, Lebanon
Sari Hanafi (Associate professor, American University of Beirut)

Egypt
Yehia Al kazaz, Egypt, Prof unif et ecrivain et activiste

Palestine
Marcy Newman (Associate Professor, An Najah University, Nablus)
Abdulmohsin klawasmi, prof unif, Jerusalem,

South Africa
Buti Manamela (National Secretary Young Communist League of South Africa), Andre Zaaiman (Researcher, South Africa), Ronnie Kasrils (former South African government minister; writer and activist, South Africa)

Iraq
Isam AlYasiri ,Journalist Iraq

Maroc
MOHAMED EL KADI, fonction/ qualité: Président de l'Agence Méditerranée pour la Coopération Internationale, Journaliste / Directeur du Journal "La Méditerranée" Fès / MarocAbdelwahed El Moutawakil (Secrétaire général du cercle politique du mouvement Justice et Spiritualité), Nadia Yassine (fondatrice de la section féminine du mouvement Justice et Spiritualité), Fathallah Arsalan (porte parole du mouvement Justice et Spiritualité), Omar Amkassou (membre du conseil d'orientation du mouvement Justice et Spiritualité), Mohammed El Hamdaoui (membre du conseil d'orientation du mouvement Justice et Spiritualité), Batoul Bicha (enseignante), Mouna khalifi (membre du secrétariat général du cercle politique (mouvement justice et spiritualité), Abdessamad Fathi (coordinateur du comité marocain du soutien aux causes de la Nation), Ghizlain Bahraoui (membre du secrétariat général du cercle politique (mouvement justice et spiritualité), Mohammed Salmi (Responsable du comité des droits de l'Homme (mouvement justice et spiritualité), Najia Rahmani, (chercheuse), Mohammed Manar (chercheur), Aziza Sakhraji (enseignante chercheuse), Hassan Bennajeh (responsable de la jeunesse du mouvement justice et spiritualité), Fatima Kassid (membre du secrétariat général du cercle politique (mouvement justice et spiritualité), Omar Iharchane (chercheur), Merieme Yafout (Responsable de la section féminine du mouvement Justice et Spiritualité), Abdallah Chibani (membre du secrétariat général du cercle politique (mouvement justice et spiritualité), Mustapha Erriq (responsable du secteur syndical du mouvement justice et spiritualité, Abdellah Bella (enseignant Maroc)

Cuba/Mexico
Ángel Guerra Cabrera (periodista y académico, Cuba/México), Khaled Kasab Mahameed, the founder of the Holocaust Museum in Nazareth

Norway
Nidal Hamad, Writer and Joournalist, Palestine/Norway

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An Appeal for the Children of Gaza

By Juancole

You Have Moved on, But the Injured and Burned Children of Gaza Have Not;
Call for Cyberspace Aid Convoy

The demonstrating crowds have gone home. The blog postings have tapered off. The pundits have moved on. Congress is back to its old tricks, ignoring public opinion in favor of the lobbyists and money men. The US public is worried about losing its job or getting back the one it lost. Gaza here is a dimming memory, a momentary nightmare now past.

But the Palestinian children wounded and charred by Israeli bombings are still screaming, their physicians unable to get hold of enough pain killers to still their yelps of pain. Some 5300 Palestinians, most of them children, women and noncombatants, were wounded in Israel's savage war on the Gaza population.



Please consider donating to UNICEF UK's Gaza children's fund (US UNICEF for Palestinian Children here). In fact, I challenge other bloggers to carry the same appeal for UNICEF, among the best aid groups for this purpose, so that we can see if we can create a cyberspace aid convoy for them.

I suggest that we use this icon:

and put something like "I donated to the Gaza Unicef Convoy and you can too" beneath it above our blogrolls.

Outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has ruled out allowing needed goods into Gaza, which Israel has virtually surrounded from land and sea, until Hamas releases captured Israeli soldier Sgt. Gilad Shalit. Olmert is thereby committing a war crime. You can't collectively punish the general Gaza population if you are the occupying authority. It is not allowed to torture that wailing child in the video above by keeping out painkillers, just because some adult somewhere from the same territory captured an Israeli soldier. But Olmert will get a pass on his war crimes. Apparently you only get punished for them if you are weak or lose; it isn't the crime but the power of the criminal that matters. I heard on LBC satellite news that Hamas replied that they think Shalit was killed by an Israeli bomb during the assault on Gaza. The Israelis and Palestinians are cruel to one another, in their taunts just as in their violence.



The United Nations Security Council again demanded that Israel let in food, medicine and fuel unimpeded. Since Israel is still technically the occupying authority in Gaza, insofar as it controls its borders and airspace, for it to engage in collective punishment on the Gazan population is a war crime forbidden by the 4th Geneva Convention of 1949, which was enacted to prevent Nazi tactics from being deployed against occupied populatoins. UN relief workers, have been impeded from getting into Gaza by Israeli authorities. Those who managed to get through found between 14,000 and 21,000 homes destroyed and 240 of 400 schools badly damaged. The value of the destruction is estimated at $2 billion, and the essential infrastructure of the Strip has been deeply degraded, with potentially severe human health consequences. Much rubble has yet to be cleared away, so there could yet be more dead bodies found, and bomb clearing has not been completed, so people may yet be killed by accidentally setting off unexploded ordnance.

It is often forgotten that about half of Gazans are children, because of the ongoing population explosion, caused by insecurity, which has brought the Strip's population to nearly a million and a half. When Israel made a total war on the Gaza population, it was inevitably targeting large numbers of innocent children.



Susan Taylor Martin of the St. Petersburg Times reports on the bewilderment of Fatah activist as to why the Israelis had blasted his house to smithereens. Fatah and Hamas have poor relations and Fatah has been negotiating peace with Israel.

Peace activists and Muslim groups in the UK are attempting to address the continued Israeli blockade of food and medicine by sending an NGO convoy of trucks to Gaza. They will go down through France and Spain, on ferries across the Straits of Gibraltar to Morocco, and then across North Africa to Egypt and the Sinai, hoping to cross at Rifah.



MP George Galloway is accompanying the convoy part of the way. He told the Independent,

' Anywhere else, there would be a Berlin-style airlift, he says. "Almost every window has been broken but Israel refuses to allow glass across the border. So, in the bitter winter, 61,000 families whose homes have been destroyed are living among the rubble and the rest are freezing because they've got no windows. You could solve that problem in a weekend, but because it is the Palestinians it doesn't happen."
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The volunteers are taking their own aid. "What we asked people to bring was bedclothes, clothes, nappies, food and medical equipment." Does he really expect to be allowed in? "I do, actually. My prediction is that by the time we arrive in Gaza there will be a 12-month ceasefire." If not, they will wait there until let in.'

Galloway is pilloried by the British establishment as an exhibitionist, but he has a knack for speaking uncomfortable truths eloquently. He points out that given the magnitude of the humanitarian disaster in Gaza, the whole world would be doing an airlift if the victims were not Palestinians. As it is, aid for Gazans has arrived in Jordan from Chile and Pakistan. And the government of Scotland has voted to send substantial civilian aid.

Again, I say we create a cyberspace Gaza convoy via UNICEF.

Some American peace activists are beginning to organize for boycotts of and divestment from Israeli companies.



Boycotters maintain that some Israeli diamond enterprises selling in the US are morally compromised in two ways-- they import diamonds from West Africa (which can be blood diamonds, implicated in violence and human rights abuses), and use profits on selling the cut diamonds to support the illegal colonization by the Zionist far right of the West Bank. (All Israeli colonization of the West Bank is illegal, since it is occupied territory and falls under the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention, which forbids the occupier to settle its own people in militarily occupied territory or to substantially alter the lifeways or conditions of the occupied population).

I think organizing an effective For America Peace PAC would be a thousand times more effective in putting pressure on Israel to cease its daily violation of basic Palestinian rights. But I also predict that Israeli Apartheid policies toward the Palestinians will deepen under the new, far-right government now being assembled, and that these policies will increasingly attract economic boycotts from the rest of the world. I think Israel is pretty vulnerable to such boycotts, though I think it will take 20 years for them to build up to the point where they have a practical effect. It is likely the next big thing.

On another cautionary note, the multinational audience in Qatar for the BBC Doha Debates (supported by the Qatar Foundation) voted that the Gaza war demonstrated that Arab unity is dead. The governments of Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia deeply dislike Hamas, especially since it decided to play footsie with Iran, and those governments weren't exactly effective in protesting what was done to Gaza.

I don't think the big significance of the Gaza War, however, was political. It changed nothing politically. Netanyahu and the far right were ahead in the Israeli elections. They won. Hamas was in control of Gaza. It still is, and is now more popular in the West Bank and the Arab street, too. What has changed? The rockets still get fired at Israeli towns. Israel still occasionally bombs Gaza.

The big significance was humanitarian. So as to avoid negotiating with Hamas, the Olmert government made total war on Gazans, which is to say, on Palestinian children. They need our cyberspace aid convoy to begin healing and recovering. As things now stand, the Israeli blockade remains in place. Children in hospitals are screaming.

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Paul Findley asks you to help keep If Americans Knew alive!

We are honored to send you a message from Paul Findley, in many ways the father of today's movement for justice and peace in the Middle East. Mr. Findley, the author of the seminal work on the Israel lobby, They Dare to Speak Out, was an 11-term Congressman whose own principled and courageous efforts for peace and justice caused him to be targeted for removal by those who favor Palestinian oppression. When Paul heard of our urgent financial difficulties, he wrote the following extremely kind words:

To my Friends:

Alison Weir is a precious resource for human rights, a journalist of unlimited passion and energy for justice in the Middle East. As a reporter years ago, she became aware of the dreadful U.S. media bias that keeps the American people uninformed about our complicity in Israel's destruction and humiliation of Palestinians. She is giving her life to alerting our fellow citizens about the staggering price our country pays for this complicity.

I've been in the audience when Alison has captivated college students with her powerful illustrated exposure of U.S. media bias. I've seen the high quality, splendid literature and DVDs distributed by If Americans Knew, the nonprofit organization Alison founded, and have marveled at her nonstop traveling on behalf of justice, often without even reimbursement of expenses.

I have just learned that Alison and her talented and creative team at If Americans Knew are now organizing a new project that will utilize the Internet to bring her message directly to America's households. This project will by-pass our biased media and, in my view, is one of the most promising and exciting projects now underway by any organization.

Alas, this outstanding, unique campaigner for justice desperately needs financial help. It would be an incomparable loss if she is forced to close down, or even suspend, the fine work of If Americans Knew for want of a few expense dollars. I am sending her a check, and I hope you will too.

With high hopes,
Paul Findley

We truly do need your help to continue our work.

Please donate: http://www.ifamericansknew.org/about_us/donate.html or mail to 6312 SW Capitol Hwy, #163, Portland, OR 97239.

The following is a list of some of our most recent and ongoing projects:

Ø Our website IfAmericansKnew.org – aimed at all Americans from across the political spectrum – continues to receive over a million hits a month. We regularly get emails and phone message from people across the country who tell us: "I had no idea…"

Ø We create and ship thousands of DVDs, booklets, cards, and brochures to groups from throughout the nation to disseminate in their communities.

Ø We speak nationally and internationally to diverse groups of all ethnic, political, and religious backgrounds. Some people tell us that our presentation is the most effective they've attended. Former US Congressman Tom Campbell said of it:

"Ms Weir presents a powerful, well documented view of the Middle East today. She is intelligent, careful, and critical. American policy makers would benefit greatly from hearing her first-hand observations and attempting to answer the questions she poses. This is an intellectual, thought-provoking, and worthwhile presentation."

Even the New York Times reported, "When the speech ended, Ms. Weir was met with thunderous applause, and across the room there was a widespread sense of satisfaction that someone was saying what needed to be said."

Ø We happily provide our media analyses and studies to others to use in their own presentations. We work to collaborate with the many committed individuals and organizations working on this issjue.

Ø We write articles and investigative pieces and blow the whistle when journalists are failing in their responsibility to report fully and accurately on Israel-Palestine. For example, we produced an article published in CounterPunch and an excruciatingly detailed 30+-pagedocument on Israel's cruel policy of humiliating men, women, and children through stripping them. We encouraged national journalists to report fully on this despicable and pervasive Israeli policy.

Ø We supplied materials for a booth at the American Legion's national convention where hundreds of our booklets, brochures, and buttons about Israel's ruthless attack on the USS Liberty were disseminated to veterans from around the U.S.

Ø We distributed thousands of brochures, booklets, cards, and buttons to independent activists from throughout the country attending the national Ron Paul "Rally for the Republic"

Ø We regularly contact media to inform them of facts and newsworthy incidents they've overlooked and to help them correct inaccurate reports.

Ø We continue to make compelling, hard-hitting, fact-filled materials that provide the uninformed majority of Americans with entry-level information about the reality of this conflict.

As many of you know, such innovative and unflinching efforts to get the truth to Americans earn us considerable enmity from those who know that shining a light on injustice will end it.

Please help us shine this light. We desperately need any donation you can make….and please tell others of our need. Every dollar counts. Together, we will succeed.

Please donate: http://www.ifamericansknew.org/about_us/donate.html or mail to 6312 SW Capitol Hwy, #163, Portland, OR 97239.

Thank you,

Alison, Sarah, and Nathaly

"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little."

- Edmund Burke

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