Statement about the Crisis in Gaza by African Americans for Justice in the Middle East and North Africa

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Statement about the Crisis in Gaza by African
Americans for Justice in the Middle East and North Africa

July 24, 2014

Contacts:     Bill Fletcher          billfletcherjr@gmail.com

                  Felicia Eaves         felicia.eaves@gmail.com

 

African Americans for Justice
in the Middle East and North Africa (AAJMENA) has put out a statement on the
crisis in Gaza. Please feel free to distribute to your networks:

 

The African Americans for
Justice in the Middle East and North Africa (AAJMENA) urges President Obama to
intercede to end the slaughter of innocent Palestinians in Gaza.  Israel’s practice of collective punishment
and its detestable killing of large numbers of Palestinian children and entire
families is simply unacceptable by any standards of international law and
morality.  AAJMENA stands united in
condemning the collective killing of hundreds of Palestinians who are besieged
and confined, unable to take refuge from Israel’s military aircraft, tanks,
bombs and naval shelling.

 

AAJMENA deplores the
aggression being carried out by the Israel Defense Force.  The people of the United States can no longer
stand by as the government of the United States continues to both justify and
fund Israel’s war of aggression, its seven year siege of Gaza, and its multiple
decades long illegal occupation of Palestine. 
The silence of the people of the United States in the face of this
horror implicates the United States in Israel’s oppression of the Palestinian
people.

 

We of AAJMENA urge President
Obama to make every effort possible to end the Israeli administered, and U.S.
sanctioned, siege of Gaza.  Israel must
agree to an immediate cease fire and start negotiating in good faith for the
end of its illegal occupation and settlements policy

 

Only through a just peace
agreement that recognizes the right of the Palestinian people to national
self-determination will the predictable cycle of violence end; a violent cycle
which is the outcome of Israel’s long-standing, illegal occupation–and Gaza
blockade–that we, the tax payers of the United States have sanctioned and
funded.

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