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U.S. Peace Activists Stand with the Palestinian People!
The organizers of the 20 March Peace demonstrations in Washington, DC, Chicago, LA, and San Francisco, CA have vowed that U.S. Peace demonstrations against the continued occupation of Iraq, and escalation of war in SW Asia will also stand with the Palestinian people against Israeli aggression.
Robert L. Hanafin, Major, U.S. Air Force-Retired, Veterans Today News
Stand with the Palestinian People!
Organizers of the 20 March Peace demonstrations in the U.S. are contacting participants across the nation with an urgent message about the repression and resistance taking place today in Palestine. They are reminding all Peace activists in the U.S. of the need to take action now to show U.S. Peace movement solidarity with the heroic Palestinian people.
According to international and Arab media, Israeli Occupation Force (IOF) soldiers opened fire on hundreds of Palestinian youth protesting the seizure of huge additional areas of Palestinian land in Jerusalem.
The IOF forces fired so-called “rubber bullets”—really plastic-coated steel rounds capable of causing death or permanent injury—wounding scores of Palestinians, many seriously.Israeli rubber bullets are produced in two main types. The older type, the standard rubber bullet, is a 2 cm steel sphere coated in a thin layer of rubber, weighing 14 grams, while the new improved rubber bullet, introduced in 1989, is a rubber coated metal cylinder 1.7 cm in diameter, weighing 15.4 grams.These bullets are fired from a special adapter attached to the muzzle of a rifle, similar to those used to launch rifle grenades. The rubber bullets are loaded into the front of the adapter, and propelled with a blank cartridge. Lethal injuries are often the result of head injuries caused by misuse.
Street-fighting spread to other West Bank cities, and Palestinian shop-owners shut down their stores in solidarity with the protests.
Last week, the Israeli government announced its plan to build 1,600 new settler homes in illegally annexed East Jerusalem. This latest aggression follows closely on the heels of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s annexationist declaration that the Mosque of Ibrahim/Temple of Abraham in the West Bank city of Hebron as well as a site in Bethlehem are now “Zionist heritage sites.” [VIDEO]
These provocations are so extreme that they have prompted a negative reaction from the administration in Washington, which fears that they will lead to new rebellions in Palestine and throughout the region.
The New York Times reports that Israeli aggression has Israel feeling the rising anger from the United States exemplified by Israeli Soldiers firing rubber bullets into crowds of Palestinian women, children, and students just as Vice-President Joe Biden was visiting.
Nowhere in the world is it more important to stand in solidarity with the Palestinians and all peoples struggling against occupation than here in the United States. Without the massive military, economic, diplomatic and other assistance it gets from Washington, Israel could not carry out its relentless war against the Palestinian people.
Peace activists call on all like minded, freedom loving Americans to join them on Saturday, March 20 in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Los Angeles and other cities to say:
FREE PALESTINE – END COLONIAL OCCUPATION FROM IRAQ TO AFGHANISTAN AND EVERYWHERE – END U.S. AID TO ISRAEL!
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Posted by Robert L. Hanafin on Mar 17 2010, With 0 Reads, Filed under Foreign Relations. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
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Palestinians are enemies of the American (they cheered and danced in the streets after 9/11), enemies of democracy, enemies of Chritians and Jews. Over 80% of the Palestinian public supports Osama Bin Laden, according to opinion polls.
Socialists, Islamists, and antisemites who hate capitalism and religious freedom rally for the “Palestinian Cause” – to kill as many Jews as possible and live off of international aid indefinitely.
There will never be peace in the Middle East until the US, UN, and EU stop elevating Israel above the law and hold Israel responsible for its crimes against the Arabs and Palestinians, and for violation of international law for illegal settlements building on Palestinian land. Just this week Netanyahu brags that Israel has been building illegal settlements and Palestinian land for 42 years and will continue building. That Netanyahu was able to violate international law for 42 years without consequence is evidence of the bias and favoritism of the US, UN, and EU for Israel at the expense of the Palestinians. It is also evidence of the complicit of the US, UN, and EU in Israel’s crimes of inflicting collective punishment of the Palestinians via the blockade of Gaza, massacre of over 1450 defensless, Palestinians cilivians in Gaza in 2008, stealing Palestinian land for the past 42 years and ethnic cleansing them from their communities, stealing their culture and religious sites, and denying them to rebuild Gaza which was totally devastated in Israel’s 2008 attack.
FREE PALESTINE AND STOP US AID TO ISRAEL. SEE YOU AT SATURDAY’S DEMONSTRATION IN WDC