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‘US needs A Declaration of Independence – from Israel’
US BOAT TO GAZA -- THE AUDACITY OF HOPE!
The Audacity of Hope passengers call for US Independence from Israel
by Henry Nor
Henry Norr reports on a “Declaration of Independence from Israel” written by the passengers of the US boat to Gaza, The Audacity of Hope, and handed to the US Embassy in Athens, in protest at Israel’s use of its powerful influence inside the US to secure Washington’s backing for its illegal policies and the use of US taxpayer money in military aid for Israel.
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Two hundred and thirty-five years after the American colonies declared independence from Britain, the passengers on the US boat to Gaza call for a new American Declaration of Independence, this time from Israel.
The passengers issued their call from the decks of the US-flagged boat, The Audacity of Hope, which is currently confined to a Greek military pier near Athens, while its captain sits in jail.
Like the Founders in Philadelphia, the passengers in Athens recognize that “When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them to another, a decent respect for the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”
Just as the Founders cited “a long train of abuses and usurpations” committed by the British, The Audacity of Hope passengers detailed the Israeli abuses motivating their call for US independence:
- For generations, Israel has engaged in a systematic campaign to dispossess Palestinians of their lands and drive them from their ancestral homes.
- Since 1967 Israel has occupied East Jerusalem, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights in open defiance of UN Security Council resolutions and the Geneva Conventions. Residents of these occupied territories have been subjected to numerous forms of mistreatment, including military attacks, arbitrary arrests, home demolitions and the confiscation of vast areas for the construction of illegal Jewish-only settlements and roads.
- Since the mid-1990s Israel has imposed an ever-tightening regime of economic strangulation on the Gaza Strip. In particular, since 2006 the 1.5 million people of Gaza have been kept in isolation and under siege, with severely limited access to medical care, clean water and construction materials needed to rebuild after Israeli military attacks. They have been prevented from fishing in their coastal waters, growing crops on much of their farmland or exporting almost anything.
- Israel has used its powerful influence inside the US to secure Washington’s backing for these illegal and counterproductive policies. In addition to more than 3 billion dollars per year of US taxpayer money in military aid, Israel has gained uncritical American diplomatic support, including repeated use of the American veto in the Security Council to stymie any UN effort to enforce international law and to hold Israel accountable for its crimes.
- In recent years Israel has reacted with brutal violence against international as well as Palestinian and Israeli activists who have dared to step in where the US and the UN have feared to tread. On 31 May 2010, Israel’s vicious assault on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla in international waters caused the deaths of nine unarmed human rights volunteers, including 18-year-old American citizen Furkan Dogan.
- This year, Israel, in collusion with the US, has deployed a variety of economic, diplomatic and other pressure tactics to undermine the sovereignty of Greece, Turkey, and other nations and force them to obstruct the Gaza Freedom Flotilla II in defiance of their own maritime regulations and procedures. In addition, Israel has carried out a campaign of unbridled distortion and defamation against the organizers and participants in this year’s flotilla. When that failed, Israel’s agents resorted to life-threatening sabotage operations against at least two of the flotilla’s ships.
“In light of this long — but still very partial — list of abuses and usurpations committed by Israel, it is past time for the US to end its ‘special relationship’ with Israel and declare its independence from that country,” said a letter that the passengers will deliver to the US Embassy in Greece on 4 July. “Just as the original American Declaration of Independence inspired popular struggles for independence and democracy all over the world, we humbly call on other countries that have been subjected to Israeli pressure and manipulation, particularly Greece and Turkey, to join us in our campaign to rid our country of this scourge.”
Henry Norr, a passenger on the US Boat to Gaza called The Audacity of Hope, is a former technology writer. This article first appeared in common dreams.org
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They’re true American patriots!
Soon those who talk about Independence will come under attack in the U.S. Does anyone remember the 29 standing ovations Netanyahu got in congress? Already, if one does not stand with Israel they are labeled anti patriotic. Does that give anyone any idea how far down this irreversible path we have gone?
Celebrating six decades of foreign domination in the U.S.
http://www.sajepress.com/2011/05/may-2011-celebrating-six-decades-of.html%E2%80%9D
I see no George Washingtons, Thomas Jeffersons, or Thomas Paines in the offing.
Certainly there are no Colonels with the mettle of George Washington in the US Army today, nor planters, Lawyers, Poets of the caliber of Tom Paine, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and the rest of them.
And, in today’s America, there ain’t nutthin’ gonna happen until Oprah says somethin’ about it on her show,and calls for some action, anyway!
See Red Beckman, Paul Findley Ron Paul, Anthony Clifton, Al Adask, Rense, Michael Hoffman, Pastor Peters, Thousands & Thousands of unreported acts of truth Telling ignored daily by the JEW SPEW so-called news. Don’t rely on the Lie Factory for True Information. Besides that, Check out what Jesus said in Matthew 13..”put them in the .FIERY FURNACE”…that’s where the zionazi TARES & The braindeadgoy “JEW” worshipping MORONS/Zionazi Psychozoids…are going. [http://www.biblestudysite.com/factsarefacts.htm] “JEW SPEW” doesn’t change the Truth. [http://www.israelect.com/reference/Willie-Martin/was_index.html] SEE TRUE INFORMATION = [http://www.palestine-encyclopedia.com/EPP/TOC.htm] “JEWS” can STOP being “JEWISH” by knowing Truth…Truth is hate to those that hate the Truth. [http://revisionistreview.blogspot.com] …Bishop Williamsons’ TRIAL for telling the Truth starts today..In Germany. Israel will NEVER be “JEWISH”…EVER!! [http://www.mediamonitors.net/findley2.html] Remember Carlos ? [http://www.hardylaw.net/Carlos.html] There are many great TRUTH TELLING Americans, NOT REPORTED ON BY THE ZIONAZI Jesus hating “JEWISH” media. Time to step up the pressure on Alex Jones to tell the truth about “JEWISHNESS/Talmudic Terrorists”…and the FREEDOM FLOTILLA.
No mention whatsoever in U.S. passengers’ shitlist of abuses and “Declaration of Independence from Israel” of the U.S.S. Liberty attack? Or 9/11?? Why isn’t this ill-named U.S. vessel a fully manned and loaded USN Destroyer instead? If they wanted to name it after one of his biographies, why didn’t they just name it the “Ziobama”?
Agreed. Yet words on paper that would have to be processed through the house and senate and signed off on by the president. Don’t see it ever happening due to the simply saying, ” don’t bite the hand that feeds you”.
The above are only in place due to their master handlers putting them there. We all know this to be a fact of our time, and it is only going to get more Nazi like in America under their control.
Other major world powers know this and must be laughing bigtime watching this little group do to America what no other group has been able to do; kick our asses with our own boots.
Just glad my father, and grandfather din’t have to witness this take over of America; they died believing America was in control of America.
If this response is published then it will show freedom that veterans died to keep.
This article is very offensive to me. 1st, this is a very bad analogy in trying to connect our American declaration of Independence from old mighty England and its power hungry British King with that of tiny Israel protecting its own land from the radical Muslim centered Palestinians. American support of Israel for many years is a freedom characteristic of America. In case someone missed history, after leaving their land when the Roman General Titus destroyed the Jerusalem Temple in 70 A.D., the Jewish people roamed Europe for many centuries and then came to the USA. This would not have happened if American was not created. America was born out of deep conviction for religious freedom. It is very telling that at least fifty two of the fifty six signers of our declaration of Independence belonged to Christian denominations which believed in the Divinity of Jesus of Nazareth. The Jewish people finally had opportunity to return to the promised land in 1948. When they arrived in the land it was mostly uninhabited. History tell us that the land was given to them by promise from the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in about 2000 B.C. Along with that promise came another promise which said, “I will bless them that bless you and curse them that curse you.” America has been blessed because of the founders convictions and the support of Jewish Israel. My advice is to never go against Israel’s right to her promised land which is a very small piece of real estate. We are dealing with something much greater here than a land grab by radical Muslims. Therefore, I stand with Israel.
Veteran U.S. Navy Vietnam era 72-80.