[PAA-Discuss] [HumanRights] The battle lines are drawn

Tue Jun 21 21:20:06 EDT 2011

Mazin Qumsiyeh provides poignant inside perspective.
All eyes are on the Flotilla .....
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--- On Tue, 6/21/11, Mazin Qumsiyeh <mazin at qumsiyeh.org> wrote:

From: Mazin Qumsiyeh <mazin at qumsiyeh.org>
Subject: [HumanRights] The battle lines are drawn
To: bartboyce at sbcglobal.net
Cc: "Human Rights Newsletter" <humanrights at lists.qumsiyeh.org>
Date: Tuesday, June 21, 2011, 4:25 PM

The battle lines are drawn
http://popular-resistance.blogspot.com/2011/06/battle-lines-are-drawn.html

Israel's UN ambassador met with major American Jewish organizations telling
them to work hard to ensure there will not be passage of any votes on
Palestine at the UN.  Presidernt Obama met with 80 influential Jewish donors
(who each gave $25-35,000 to attend the private dinner with the President)
and Obama assured them that the US has iron-clad commitment to Israel.  He
stated to them that any differences with the current Israeli government are
not about goals and strategies but merely minor tactical differences among
close friends and allies.  Money and weapons will keep flowing and American
lives will continue to be threatened and shed for this Zionist cash.  Fatah
and Hamas are dragging their feet and have yet to follow on their promises
of putting together a unity "authority" (although the term is misleading as
there is no authority under occupation) let alone allowing for a
constitution of a representative Palestinian National Council (the main
demand of the Paestinain people).

Israeli apartheid system continues its ethnic cleansing.  Last week dozens
of structures for poor bedouins were demolished rendering nearly 100
homeless.  The apartheid Knesset is debating new racist laws to punish free
speech and any NGOs that do not accept apartheid/refuse to acknowledge the
Jewish nature of the state. The apartheid regime continues to hold thousands
of Palestinian political prisoners and continues to deny basic human rights
(like the right to return to one's home and land or the right to travel free
in one's country).  Further, the despotic regimes in Syria, Bahrain, Yemen,
Morocco and elsewhere continue to torture, kill, and imprison their citizens
who dare call for democracy.  Greece is being threatened about its loans
unless it joins the US/Israel to stop the freedom flotilla.  Turkey's
elections consolidated power in the ruling party which now felt a bit freer
(or so we are told) to bend to US/Israel pressure to a) stop the Freedom
Flotilla II, and b) drop its demand for an apology and for lifting the siege
on Gaza (after the execution of 9 Turkish passengers in International waters
last year).  

But all these political shenanigans can be stopped when enough people say
"enough is enough" and demand all these governments comply with
International law and human rights. The brave pioneers of the world-wide
people movement/Intifada who have worked for years urge you to join them.
They celebrate and consolidate success in Tunisia and Egypt.  I send example
regularly of people power and today I send you a few more links.  Action is
the best antidote to despair.  Silence is complicity.

Challenging Israeli apartheid, starting at Ben Gurion Airport
"From July 8-16, I will join hundreds of internationals for a week of
solidarity actions in coordination with 15 Palestinian civil resistance
organizations in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem…"
http://mondoweiss.net/2011/06/challenging-israeli-apartheid-starting-at-ben-
gurion-airport.html
http://lauraontheleftcoast.blogspot.com/2011/06/back-to-palestine-july-8-16.
html

Allemagne, Israël : les leçons de l’histoire
Conference de presse de Mazin Qumsiyeh, le 31 mai à Berlin.
http://www.europalestine.com/spip.php?article6212
<http://www.europalestine.com/spip.php?article6212&var_mode=calcul>
&var_mode=calcul 

David Cronin interviews Mazin Qumsiyeh in EI
http://electronicintifada.net/content/interview-mazin-qumsiyeh-popular-resis
tance-and-breaking-spell-fear/10086 

AMAZING SPEECH BY WAR VETERAN Asombroso discurso de un Veterano SUBTITULADO
ESPAÑOL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kWU-JHetMM

Official weblinks to boats to Gaza from Europe
http://www.freedomflotilla.eu/
and general one http://witnessgaza.com/
US boat called the "Audacity of Hope" leads flotilla to break the illegal
and immoral siege on Gaza
Press Conference http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-us-boat-to-gaza
Website http://ustogaza.org/
Promotional video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ag4ZP4-5es
ACTION: Easy way to contact US Congress (e.g. to demand Israel allow US
citizens safe passage both on the Freedom Flotilla and on the July 8-16
actions)
http://capwiz.com/networklobby/home/

Video of action: Peaceful demonstrators in the village of Deir Qaddis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RB-qBS4xls

9th International Seminar “Bridges instead of Walls” 26th - 31st  July 2011
http://www.alternativenews.org/english/

Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD
A bedouin in cyberspace, a villager at home
http://qumsiyeh.org 

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