- For more information
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- Khalid AlAzza 0545439263
- Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh 0598939532
- Dr. Abdelfattah Abusrour 0599255573
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- Please forward to media immediately and pick-up the phone
and call media outlets immediately to condemn the atrocities being
committed in Gaza (Using US taxpayer money and International and Arab Government
Acquiescence). Demonstrations are ongoing throughout the West Bank. Here
is the press release for the one in Bethlehem (???? / arabic at Bottom).
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- A demonstration to condemn the massacres being committed
in Gaza
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- Palestinian Civil Society organizations in the Bethlehem
area, people of various political affiliations, Christians, and Muslims,
and all people of conscience in the Bethlehem area are gathering at 5 PM
in front of the Church of Nativity and Omar's mosque in Bethlehem.
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- Nearly 200 people were reported massacred so far by Israeli
war planes bombings of the besieged Gaza strip. Hundreds were reported
injured so far. The victims include men, women, and children and the number
of victims are expected to rise rapidly. Join us today as we call for
ending the massacres, ending the siege on Gaza, for reconciliation between
all Palestinians, and for freedom.
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- For more information
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- Khalid AlAzza 0545439263
- Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh 0598939532
- Dr. Abdelfattah Abusrour 0599255573
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- A personal note from Mazin -
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- I was reading an open letter from a family from Gaza
on my computer that talked of the hardships and the lack of food and electricity
when my mother ran in to tell me that they are bombing Gaza. I watch a
little on the TV and get sick to my stomach. I rushed to the Palestinian
Center for Rapprochement and it is buzzing with activities. Thousands will
come out today on short notice I am sure just in the Bethlehem area. Please
spread the word.!
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- Since this is an emergency posting, I had prepared to
send tomorrow my weekly posting and to avoid flooding your inboxes, below
is the draft of what I was planning to complete and send tomorrow but events
are now likely to escalate beyond anything we all can imagine. May we
all see peace.....
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- Mazin
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- It is amazing that CNN and some other media outlets who
reported on the death of famous Nobel Prize winner Harold Pinter mentioned
he was Jewish and mentioned his criticism of the US policies but do not
mention his persistent criticism of Israel and Zionism.
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- Just in April, he signed (with many other well respected
Jews of Conscience) a letter that read in part "We cannot celebrate
the birthday of a state founded on terrorism, massacres and the dispossession
of another people from their land. We cannot celebrate the birthday of
a state that even now engages in ethnic cleansing, that violates international
law, that is inflicting a monstrous collective punishment on the civilian
population of Gaza and that continues to deny to Palestinians their human
rights and national aspirations. We will celebrate when Arab and Jew live
as equals in a peaceful Middle East." (see We're not celebrating Israel's
anniversary, The Guardian, Wednesday 30 April 2008
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- http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/30/israelandthepalestinians
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- This is an example of self-censorship in some media.
In parallel this same media fails to report the swindles of Zionists appropriately.
An example of a story glossed over in its impact and relevance is the
story of the way Zionists bilk donors and get rich (see Bernard Madoff:
Wall Street Swindler Strikes Powerful Blows for Social Justice
- http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/printer_29099.shtml )
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- And some editors (out of ignorance, shoddy journalism,
or bias) in the West prefer not to report reality in Palestine. Few real!
ly expla ined Bethlehem under siege this Christmas and few reported on
our candle light procession to demand end of colonization of the Shepherds'
field yesterday. Occasionally something does seep into Western Media like
this article on reality in Gaza reported by the BBC
- <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7766509.stm>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7766509.stm
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- Below are two things on this reality we face here:
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- Genocidal settlers, Al-Ahram Weekly on-line, 18 - 24
December 2008
- http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/926/re71.htm
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- PRESS RELEASE
- Free Palestine and Free all Political Prisoners
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- The One Democratic State Group urges the International
community and people of conscience everywhere to demand that Israel respect
International law by ending its illegal occupation of all areas occupied
since 1967, by respecting and implementing refugees' right to return, and
by freeing all political prisoners including members of the Palestinian
legislative council.
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- Since June 2006, Israel has kidnapped more than 64 elected
Palestinian Legislative Council members and cabinet ministers, university
lecturers, city mayors and health workers, including Palestinian Legislative
Council Speaker, Professor Aziz Adwaik. Professor Adwaik is also Professor
of Economics at An Najjah University in Nablus. Ahmed Saadat leader of
the PFLP was just "sentenced" to 30 years imprisonment by the
illegal military courts of the occupation regime. Israeli forces kidnapped
Saadat two years ago from a PA prison in Jericho and kept him in solitary
confinement since then. Saadat and other Palestinians refuse to recognize
the authority of the court or to appeal to higher occupation courts. Israel
currently illegally holds more than 11,000 Palestinian political prisoners.
While Palestinians have different opinions on tactics of resistance to
colonial occupation, we all share the same goals of freedom and self-determination
! and we a ll recognize the rights and obligations of occupied people to
resist per tenets of International law.
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- The One Democratic State Group calls on the international
community, all academic institutions, and all international civil society
organizations to demand:
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- - The immediate release of Ahmed Saadat, Marwan Braghouti,
Professor Adwaik, other elected legislatures and all Palestinian political
prisoners.
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- - The protection of civilian lives and property, as stipulated
in international humanitarian law and international human rights law such
as the Fourth Geneva Convention.
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- -An end to Israeli occupation of Palestinian land, Israeli
apartheid and Israeli war crimes against the Palestinian people.
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- -Implementation of International law including the rights
of refugees to return to their homes and lands.
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- For Comments contact:
- Dr. Asaad Abu Shark + 972 599 322636 (Gaza)
- Dr. Haidar Eid + 972 599 441766 (Gaza)
- Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh +972 598939532 (West Bank)
- http://www.odsg.org/co/
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