Video of Portlanders Protesting Israel's attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla
Written by AUPHR
Wednesday, 02 June 2010
With but a few hours notice, Portland Oregon citizens gather
in downtown Portland to condemn recent killing of peace activists on a
humanitarian aid flotilla seeking to break the illegal Israeli blockade
of Gaza.
Action alert: Call your governments, demonstrate support for Freedom Flotilla
Written by International Solidarity Movement
Tuesday, 01 June 2010
Action alert: Call your governments, demonstrate
support for Freedom Flotilla
Action alert, International Solidarity
Movement, 31 May 2010
Click on the link to see the video accompanying this alert.
Under darkness of night, Israeli commandos from at least 14 warships and
military helicopters boarded the Turkish passenger ship, Mavi
Marmara, and began shooting. According to live video from the ship,
at least two civilians have been murdered, and dozens injured. Israeli
television is reporting 16 civilians killed.
The Mavi Marmara was part of a six-ship unarmed flotilla,
including a US-flagged vessel, carrying 700 passengers from 40 different
countries and 10,000 tons of humanitarian aid on a mission of mercy to
besieged Gaza.
The last GPS signal from the flotilla, sent just prior to the attack,
placed the ships at latitude: 32.64113, longitude: 33.56727 --
approximately 65 miles off the coast of Netanya, well in international
waters.
Palestinian fishermen are regularly fired upon off the coast of Gaza,
but these are the first Israeli murders of internationals at sea. In
recent years, the Israeli military has adopted increasingly vicious
policies toward international human rights workers in Palestine,
murdering Rachel Corrie and Tom Hurndall in 2003.
The names of the dead are not yet known. The flotilla passengers
included retired US diplomats Amb. Edward Peck and Col. Ann Wright as
well as humanitarian aid and human rights workers, several Members of
Parliament from Ireland, Germany, Sweden, Turkey, Malaysia, and
Palestinian Members of the Knesset.
Numbers for Israeli officials:
Mark Regev in the Prime Minister's office: +972 2670 5354 +972
2670 5354 +972 5 0620 3264
Shlomo Dror in the Ministry of Defense: +972 3697 5339 or +972 50629
8148
Major Liebovitz from the Israeli navy: + 972 5 781 86248
The Israeli Ministry of Defense, Fax: 972-3-697-6717
The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Fax: 972-2- 5303367
In one of the most outrageous attacks on civilized people, the Israeli
military killed at least three people and injured at least 30 more in an
unprovoked assault on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla in international
waters. The ships presented no threat as they were filled with
diplomats, academics, journalists and human rights workers hoping to
bring humanitarian goods to the besieged Gaza Strip.
I call on you to hold Israel accountable for their despicable actions
and to immediately dispel your Israeli ambassador until a thorough
investigation can be undertaken by a credible third party.
Portland: PROTEST ISRAEL'S ATTACK ON HUMANITARIAN AID CONVOY
Written by AUPHR
Monday, 31 May 2010
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Portland: PROTEST ISRAEL'S ATTACK ON HUMANITARIAN AID CONVOY
Come join us as we protest Israel's attack on the humanitarian aid convoy and the murder of civilian aid workers on the Free Gaza Movement.
Date: Monday, May 31, 2010 Time: 5:00pm - 7:00pm Location: Downtown Pioneer Square Court House
News reports are still coming in as to the amount of fatalities and injuries... keep up with them at http://www.freegaza.org/
We'll have some signs and banners, and/or bring your own.
AND MEANWHILE: Call the State Department: (202) 647-4000
Call on the White House to call off its meeting with Netanyahu next week http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact
White House switchboard: (202) 456-1414
Also contact the US Embassy in Tel Aviv (Ambassador Cunningham):
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Wael Elasady Co-founder of SUPER Owner www.liberalarab.com
Students United for Palestinian Equal Rights - SUPER 114 Smith Memorial Student Union 1825 SW Broadway St. Phone: 602-446-9444 Email:
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The Freedom Flotilla Sails to Gaza in May: Watch their progres!
Written by Free Gaza Team
Monday, 24 May 2010
Join us as we travel to Gaza. Witness what happens on board the boats.
Watch our videos twice a day. Stay tuned for WitnessGaza.
Donate to their cause!
The Freedom Flotilla Sails to Gaza in May
(London, UK) On May 24, 2010, the Freedom Flotilla sets sail for Gaza determined to, once again, challenge Israel’s blockade of 1.5 million Palestinians trapped in an open-air prison. Under the coordination of the Free Gaza Movement, numerous human rights organizations, including the Turkish Relief Foundation (IHH), the Perdana Global Peace Organization from Malaysia, the European Campaign to End the Siege of Gaza, and the Swedish and Greek Boat to Gaza initiatives will send three cargo ships loaded with reconstruction, medical and educational supplies. At least five passenger boats with over 600 people on board will accompany the cargo ships.
These passengers include members of Parliament from around the world, U.N., human rights and trade union activists, as well as journalists who will document the largest coordinated effort to directly confront Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza and take in basic supplies.
Revealed by The Guardian Newspaper: How Israel offered to sell South Africa nuclear weapons
Written by Chris McGreal in Washington
Monday, 24 May 2010
Exclusive: Secret apartheid-era papers give first official evidence of Israeli nuclear weapons
The secret military agreement signed by Shimon Peres, now president of Israel, and P W Botha of South Africa. Photograph: Guardian
Secret South African documents reveal that Israel offered to sell nuclear warheads to the apartheid regime, providing the first official documentary evidence of the state's possession of nuclear weapons.
The "top secret" minutes of meetings between senior officials from the two countries in 1975 show that South Africa's defence minister, PW Botha, asked for the warheads and Shimon Peres, then Israel's defence minister and now its president, responded by offering them "in three sizes". The two men also signed a broad-ranging agreement governing military ties between the two countries that included a clause declaring that "the very existence of this agreement" was to remain secret.
The documents, uncovered by an American academic, Sasha Polakow-Suransky, in research for a book on the close relationship between the two countries, provide evidence that Israel has nuclear weapons despite its policy of "ambiguity" in neither confirming nor denying their existence.
The Israeli authorities tried to stop South Africa's post-apartheid government declassifying the documents at Polakow-Suransky's request and the revelations will be an embarrassment, particularly as this week's nuclear non-proliferation talks in New York focus on the Middle East.
They will also undermine Israel's attempts to suggest that, if it has nuclear weapons, it is a "responsible" power that would not misuse them, whereas countries such as Iran cannot be trusted.
South African documents show that the apartheid-era military wanted the missiles as a deterrent and for potential strikes against neighbouring states.
Nobel Laureates: 'no amount of dialogue without economic pressure can motivate Israel to change'
Written by Adam Horowitz
Wednesday, 28 April 2010
Support for divestment continues to grow. Here is the latest
amazing statement urging the University of California to divest:
To the ASUC Senate,
We the undersigned Nobel Women Peace Laureates support your courage
and call on you to reaffirm the ASUC Bill in Support of UC Divestment
from War Crimes. We stand united in our belief that divesting from
companies that provide significant support for the Israeli military
provides moral and strategic stewardship of tuition and taxpayer-funded
public education money. We are all peace makers, and we believe that no
amount of dialogue without economic pressure can motivate Israel to
change its policy of using overwhelming force against Palestinian
civilians. Last year’s nearly 400 women and children casualties in Gaza,
and thousands more injured and killed, were all victims of a well armed
military machine allowed to operate unchecked. A delegation of us went
to Gaza and saw firsthand the evidence of wholesale killing and
destruction. Our hearts grieve for Gaza and we demand that there be no
more Gazas. We urge the UC system to take the lead in this direction as
has been its tradition, and commend the students who are working to
achieve this goal. We reject the portrayals of this action as
anti-Semitic, and maintain that it does not make a choice between
Palestinians and Israelis, but between universal freedom and oppression.
Signed,
Shirin Ebadi, Iran, 2003 Nobel Peace Laureate
Mairead Maguire (Corrigan), Ireland, 1976 Nobel Peace Laureate
Rigoberta Menchu Tum, Guatemala, 1992 Nobel Peace Laureate
Jody Williams, USA, 1997 Nobel Peace Laureate
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