Re: URGENT - Endorsements Requested

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can you understand this image.  so far no one has been able to understand it since january 2005.  is the picture of the solution you ask for, so far only a blind eye turned this way, preoccupied with smaller pictures.

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-M

 

On 5/13/06, Orakwa International Indigenous Ent. <ora...@paulcomm.ca> wrote:

Hazem. 

We completely support this statement against the Zionists of Israel's apartheid policies against the Indigenous Palestian People.  We too have suffered genocide.  99% of our people were killed off in the biggest holocaust in all humanity.  115 million of our people were killed off by the Europeans to make way for the plunder of our land and resources that followed.  Canada is guilty of developing some of these methods of attack such as reservations, passes, starvation, spreading diseases, theft of our children into residential school in which only half survived, outright murder and all manner of the slow death policies it perpetrates on us today.  We continue to refuse to acquiesce to the colonial government's theft of our possessions.  We stand in solidarity with you against these lethal sanctions that are meant to decimate you.  Since Canada is built on the theft and exploitation of our land and resources, we the Indigenous people demand that our aid be immediately directed to our Indigenous brothers and sisters, the Palestinians.  

Kahentinetha Horn, MNN Mohawk Nation News, www.mohawknationnews.com     

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Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2006 11:05 AM

Subject: URGENT - Endorsements Requested

 

Dear Friends,

As many of you may know, conditions in Palestine have become tragically
worse since Canada, the US and Europe implemented sanctions on the
democratically elected Palestinian Authority. Canada was in fact the first
country to withdraw its aid, an action that was one in a string of
Canadian government decisions to give blind support for the Israeli state
while punishing en masse the entire Palestinian population.

The statement below was drafted by members of Al-Awda Toronto (Palestine
Right of Return Group) and the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid, as an
attempt to get as many groups in Canada to sign on as opposition to
Canada's cruel role in the oppression of Palestinians. We hope to collect
as many organizational endorsements as possible by Sunday night (May 14)
so that we can send it out far and wide on Monday, May 15 - the 58th
anniversary of the Nakba (when Israel celebrates its independence, and we
Palestinians commemorate the ethnic cleansing of our parents and
grandparents).

Please read the statement, and send it to any other groups that you think
may wish to support it. Please respond as soon as you can if any of the
groups you are involved in would wish to add their name as an endorser of
this statement.

Thank you for your support,
Hazem Jamjoum
Al-Awda Toronto
--------------------------------

URGENT STATEMENT: FORCED STARVATION IN THE WEST BANK AND GAZA STRIP - END
CANADIAN COMPLICITY IN ISRAELI WAR CRIMES!

A massive humanitarian crisis is unfolding in the West Bank and Gaza
Strip. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are facing forced starvation
due to the Israeli siege on the Palestinian economy. Supplies of fuel and
cooking gas have been cut-off from the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Palestinians are dying in hospitals because the Israeli government has
prevented the entry of medical supplies. Reports from international,
Israeli and Palestinian press indicate the scope of this current crisis:

*On 4 May, the Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza reported that four people in need
of dialysis have died because of medical shortages. Only a few days'
supply of surgical drugs such as atropine, adrenaline, heparin and
lidocaine remain. ("Funds Cut, Gaza Faces a Plague of Health Woes", New
York Times, 8 May 2006 and "Patients die as doctors run out of drugs to
treat them", Guardian Weekly, 10 May 2006).

*On 9 May, the Israeli company Dor - which provides all petrol and cooking
gas to the West Bank and Gaza Strip - announced that it was suspending
these fuel supplies. Israel prohibits Palestinians from importing fuel
from any alternative source. Moreover, Israel, the US, Canada and other
governments have cut all aid and barred the Palestinian Authority from
receiving other funds to pay for fuel. ("Fuel supplies running dry; enough
for 24 hours only says petroleum committee director" Maan News Agency 10
May 2006).

*The 160,000 Palestinians who work for the Palestinian Authority as
teachers, doctors, police and civil servants have not received wages for
two months. These wages support thousands of families, estimated at
approximately 1/3 of the Palestinian population. This loss of income comes
after nearly six years of Israeli attacks and siege. As a consequence,
most of these individuals already face massive indebtedness and depleted
personal savings. Even the World Bank warned this week that its earlier
predictions of a 50% rise in poverty in the occupied territories this year
(already at 50% in some areas) - driven by a sharp fall in personal income
and a 23% increase in unemployment - may have been "too rosy".("Patients
die as doctors run out of drugs to treat them", Guardian Weekly, 10 May
2006).

*Palestinian officials report that police forces have received no food for
two days. Over the last month, police have received as little as a loaf of
bread three times a week and a few vegetables on other days. No salaries
have been paid for two months. Palestinian prison guards are asking
relatives of inmates to prepare food and bring it to the prisons so that
prisoners will not starve. ("PA crisis: Prisons running out of food", YNET
News, 8 May 2006).

These are the direct consequences of Israeli apartheid policies. Since
1967, Israel has pursued a policy of creating isolated Palestinian
bantustans in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Palestinians are confined to a
patchwork of disconnected population islands divided by Israeli
settlements, checkpoints and military bases. All aspects of Palestinian
life are completely dependent upon Israeli 'permission'. Palestinian
movement in-and-out of towns and villages is controlled by Israeli-issued
permits and regulated by soldiers and checkpoints.

Israel completely controls all imports and exports, and the flow of funds
into the WB/GS. Massive confiscation of land in the West Bank has
destroyed the Palestinian agricultural sector. In the Gaza Strip, Israel
even controls where and how Palestinians can fish. The deliberate
'de-development' of Palestinian industry under Israeli occupation means
that most Palestinians are dependent upon either the PA or are forced to
work in Israel for their survival.

On May 15th we commemorate 58 years since Palestinians were driven out of
their homes and land by Zionist aggression. The current situation
indicates that this program of ethnic cleansing continues at full speed.
While millions of Palestinian refugees wait to return to their homes and
land, Israel has literally imprisoned millions more in the open-air
prisons that constitute Palestinian towns and villages in the West Bank
and Gaza Strip.

Deliberate starvation of the population is a war crime that is now openly
embraced by the Canadian government. Canada was the first government in
the world to cut aid to the Palestinian Authority. In November last year,
the previous Canadian government openly endorsed a proposed visit by
Israeli war criminal Ariel Sharon. On 22 March 2006, former Chief of Staff
of the Israeli military, Moshe Yaalon - a man who once compared
Palestinians to a "cancer" - was permitted entry into Canada. On 15 May
2006, Nefesh B Nefesh, an organization that recruits settlers to continue
the program of ethnic cleansing in Palestine is holding a recruitment
meeting in Toronto. On 17 May 2006, another war criminal, the head of
Israeli Military Intelligence, Zeevi Farkash, will be speaking in Toronto.

And on 18 May 2006, Gen. Doron Almog, a man who was unable to leave his
plane in the UK because of a warrant to arrest him for war crimes, will
also be speaking in Toronto.

The Canadian government must immediately end its open support for Israeli
war crimes and the dispossession of the Palestinian people. We call for an
immediate halt to all political and financial ties with the Israeli
government until Israeli apartheid ends. Moreover, we call for the
immediate and unconditional resumption of aid to the Palestinian
Authority. This is a situation that cannot be allowed to continue. The
world cannot insist that the Palestinian right to life is conditional on
acquiescence to Israeli apartheid.

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