From MAZIN
With the Gaza "cease fire" in place for one week (after Israeli forces murdered at least 450 Children), the Beit Sahour vigil that was held daily for the past 22 days will be transformed to increased action. Tomorrow (Monday) at 10 AM local, Palestinian Civil Society Organizations in the Bethlehem area will hold a second work day for Gaza where we will be emailing, writing media and politicians, sharing ideas and developing strategies to develop the Boycotts, Divestments, and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel as well as bringing Israeli leaders to justice for war crimes and crimes against humanity.Those of you who can join us it will be at AlGhad institute in Downtown Beit Sahour near the bus company offices.
We believe this is not the time to relax but to intensify the pressure that is building especially introducing new BDS actions so that we can once and for all end the 61 year injustice against the native Palestinians (Israel must be made to comply with all Palestinian Rights especially the rights of refugees to return to their homes and lands). We also believe the International community should not be paying for Israel's war crimes and must hold Israel accountable.
Please begin to or expand your work in your community for BDS (see here and here and develop legal, media, and out reach strategies to build up the isolation of Israel like we did with South Africa so that such atrocities that have been ongoing for 61 year are ended and we move to a post-Apartheid era of Peace with Justice. For resources and tools, we are listing below links to: pictures and video, facts on Gaza, Declarations by the UN and human rights groups, political analysis, and the link to 25 actions to do.
Pictures and videos of reality
-Video on day 9 of shelling, whole families obliterated
here
-Norwegian doctor report from Gaza
here
here
-Israel shelled UN school compound killing 40 people
here
-Father loses his parents, four children and other members of his family after the Israelis gather neighbors in one house and then shell it
here
here
-Another father who lost three children speaks in Hebrew to Ehud Barak
here
-Video: the world lost its conscience?
here
-Israel experimenting on civilians with new types of weapons:
here
-Norwegian Dr. Mads Gilbert testimony in Gaza
here
-Use of white phosphorus over Gaza here
-Direct reports from Gaza by an International in Gaza: here
-A haunting photo montage here
-UK Telegraph Newspaper: "They said that after the Israeli army first took the town on Saturday night soldiers had ordered about 100 members of the clan to gather in a single house owned by Wael Samouni around dawn on Sunday. At 6.35am on Monday the house was repeatedly shelled with appalling loss of civilian life [killing 70]
here
Facts on Gaza not well known
-Factsheet on Gaza
here
-Israel spokesperson admits Israel broke the cease fire agreement
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=SILJxPTqjAM
CNN confirmed this here
-Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions “reframing” Gaza
here
-Gaza Website here
-Vanity Fair reported in April last year: “After failing to anticipate Hamas’s victory over Fatah in the 2006 Palestinian election, the White House cooked up yet another scandalously covert and self-defeating Middle East debacle: part Iran-contra, part Bay of Pigs. With confidential documents, corroborated by outraged former and current U.S. officials, the author reveals how President Bush, Condoleezza Rice, and Deputy National-Security Adviser Elliott Abrams [Zionist] backed an armed force under Fatah strongman Muhammad Dahlan, touching off a bloody civil war in Gaza and leaving Hamas stronger than ever.”
here
-An inside story of how the US magnified Palestinian suffering. The covert push to empower Fatah failed. And isolating Hamas just made things worse. But it's not too late to change course.
here
- Gaza invasion: Powered by the U.S.: Taxpayers are spending over $1 billion to send refined fuel to the Israeli military -- at a time when Israel doesn't need it and America does.
here
- Still breathing, a report from Gaza by Caoimhe Butterly
here
- Sderot Residents Contradict Israeli Government Propaganda
here
DECLARATIONS
UN High commissioner for Human Rights report on Gaza (author Richard Falk is himself Jewish)
here
Red Cross: Israel breaking Int'l law, letting children starve in Gaza
here
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said that the situation in Gaza was "completely and utterly unacceptable based on every known standard of international law and universal humanitarian principles and values.
here
Israeli Human Rights groups: Clear and present danger to the lives and well-being of tens of thousands of civilians: An Israeli Call For Urgent Humanitarian Action In Gaza
here
Human Rights Watch demands Israel stop using White Phosphorus incendiary shells on civilian populations
here
World Health Organization condemns Israeli attacks on hospitals
here
Journalists group condemns strike on Gaza media
here
The Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) and the International Covenant for the Protection of Journalists (ICPJ) condemn shelling of building hosting media offices. here
British Academics Call for Boycotts, Divestments, and Sanctions
here
Gush Shalom, Israel Peace Block, January 7, 2009: “The government dooms a whole generation of young Israelis to become, quite literally, war criminals”
Analysis
- Video:Israeli speaks to the BBC and asks Obama to change (instead of being a "slave" of the lobby) here
- A 14 year old in Gaza asks on question: why?
here
- Bob Simon, a life-long Zionist interviewed by Charlie Rose lets out the facts
here
- The Israeli Human Shield
here
- Zionist FAQs
here
- Rethinking Zionism
here
- The Gaza Ghetto Uprising January 20 The Star Newspaper
here
- The humiliation of America
here
- Documentary: John Pilger’s “Palestine is Still the issue”
here
25 Actions to do
here
Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD
here
here
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