[Peace-discuss] Fwd: Take action now to defend the Palestinian people

Wed Jun 28 16:37:51 CDT 2006

ANSWER is outraged, and so should we all be. --mkb

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> From: "A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition" <ANSWER at InternationalANSWER.org>
> Date: June 28, 2006 3:29:44 PM CDT
> To: brussel at uiuc.edu
> Subject: Take action now to defend the Palestinian people
> Reply-To: "A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition" <ANSWER at InternationalANSWER.org>
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> *Please circulate widely*
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> Israeli occupation forces launch brutal assault
> on Palestinians in Gaza
> Food, water, electricity cut off to more than a million people
> Israel threatens regional war, sending war planes over Syria
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> Anti-war coalition calls for emergency actions:
> Stop the attacks! Cut off U.S. aid to Israel!
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> A bridge destroyed by Israeli army warplanes
> on a main road in northern Gaza (photo: AP)
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> Click here to demand the U.S. stop
> funding Israel's war against Palestine
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> Using the capture of one of its soldiers as the pretext, the  
> Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) launched a brutal assault on the  
> entire population of Gaza in the early morning hours of June 28.  
> U.S.-supplied F-16 fighter-bombers destroyed the main power station  
> in Gaza and destroyed bridges on the only major roads linking the  
> northern and southern sections of the region. The people of Gaza  
> are now without water and electricity -- and many will die. The use  
> of U.S. planes and other military goods against illegally occupied  
> territories is a violation of both international and U.S. law.
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> Israel is also threatening to widen the war, sending war planes  
> over Syria to “buzz” the home of Syrian President Bashir al-Assad,  
> whose government the U.S. has been actively working to bring down  
> for more than two years.
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> The Palestinian population of Gaza, one of the poorest and most  
> densely populated areas of the world, was already suffering severe  
> shortages of food, medicine and other necessities due to Israel’s  
> blockade of Gaza and the cut-off of international aid to the West  
> Bank and Gaza, in effect since January 2006. The new Israeli  
> assault has resulted in the cut-off of power, water and food  
> supplies to most of the people in Gaza. The situation constitutes a  
> deliberately created humanitarian disaster.
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> Deliberately attacking the civilian population, with the intent of  
> causing maximum suffering, is clearly a crime against humanity.  
> What we are witnessing today in Gaza is collective punishment  
> against the population as a whole. It is just one part of Israel’s  
> colonial policy toward the Palestinians. In historic Palestine,  
> whether the West Bank, Gaza or inside the 1948 borders of Israel,  
> an apartheid system is in place, where many rights reserved for  
> Jewish Israelis are denied to Palestinians. More than six million  
> dispossessed Palestinians are denied the right to return to their  
> homeland.
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> A field of Israeli tanks on the border of Gaza at the Rafa Crossing.
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> Click here to demand the U.S. stop
> funding Israel's war against Palestine
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> Israeli apartheid and the latest assault on Gaza is supported by  
> the Bush regime, Congress and the corporate media, because of  
> Israel’s vital role in Washington’s project of Middle East  
> domination. That is why Israel receives more military and economic  
> aid from the U.S. -- over $3 billion annually -- than any other  
> country.
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> While a great hue and cry is heard in the mass media about one  
> captured Israeli soldier, the same media pays no attention  
> whatsoever to the 9,800 Palestinian political prisoners being held  
> illegally (it is illegal for an occupying power to transfer  
> prisoners from occupied territory) under terrible conditions in  
> Israeli prisons. At least 335 of these prisoners are children.  
> Palestinian prisoners are systematically tortured after arrest.  
> Just two days ago, the Israeli parliament gave the Shin Bet (the  
> secret police) the right to double the time for secret  
> “interrogation” of Palestinian prisoners -- a green light for even  
> greater torture.
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> The A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition (http://www.answercoalition.org/ ),  
> which has organized the largest anti-war protests in Washington, DC  
> and in other U.S. cities over the past five years, including the  
> historic demonstration of over 100,000 people supporting  
> Palestinian rights in Washington on April 20, 2002, is calling for  
> and supporting protests at Israeli embassies, consulates and U.S.  
> federal buildings, to demand:
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> The immediate end to the U.S.-supplied Israeli assault on Gaza
> The release of all Palestinian political prisoners from Israeli jails
> An end to all U.S. aid to Israel
> An end to colonial occupation, support for self-determination for  
> the Palestinian people including the right of return.
> No new U.S.-Israeli war against Syria.
> A.N.S.W.E.R is also calling on justice-minded individuals and  
> organizations to contact Congress and the White House demanding an  
> immediate end to U.S. aid to Israel. Click here to send your  
> message.  For more information go to http://www.answercoalition.org/
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> Act Now to Stop War & End Racism
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