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zaterdag 27 december 2008

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'Hamas will not be shaken by Israeli war crimes
Taher al-Noono, a Hamas spokesman in Gaza, tells reporters that Hamas will not be shaken by the "ferocious Zionist massacre" in which more than 200 Palestinians died and at least 700 were wounded.'

De Commerciele Massamedia 172

Ik stuur al mijn berichten door aan de Nederlandse commerciele massamedia om ze te confronteren met de werkelijk in Gaza. Doet u dit ook. Hoe meer hoe beter.

John Berger

"We are now spectators of the latest - and perhaps penultimate - chapter of the 60 year old conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people. About the complexities of this tragic conflict billions of words have been pronounced, defending one side or the other.Today, in face of the Israeli attacks on Gaza, the essential calculation, which was always covertly there, behind this conflict, has been blatantly revealed. The death of one Israeli victim justifies the killing of a hundred Palestinians. One Israeli life is worth a hundred Palestinian lives.This is what the Israeli State and the world media more or less - with marginal questioning - mindlessly repeat. And this claim, which has accompanied and justified the longest Occupation of foreign territories in 20th C. European history, is viscerally racist. That the Jewish people should accept this, that the world should concur, that the Palestinians should submit to it - is one of history's ironic jokes. There's no laughter anywhere. We can, however, refute it, more and more vocally.Let's do so."

John Berger


27 December 2008''




John Berger, wiens joodse voorouders uit Polen, Galicië en het Oostenrijks-Hongaarse Rijk kwamen, schreef: ‘En hier identificeer ik mijzelf zonder te aarzelen met de rechtvaardige zaak en de pijn van degenen die de staat Israël (en neven van mij) veroorzaken in een mate die tragisch totalitair is.’ De Britse schrijver laat weten dat hij als kosmopoliet en humanist afstand doet van zijn ‘Recht op Terugkeer’, dat het elementaire recht van de Palestijnen onvermijdelijk heeft vernietigd.


En in Nederland zwijgen de intellectuelen en de schrijvers en de dichters, want ze hebben het te druk met zichzelf en hun gezinnetjes. Ttdat straks de geschiedenis hun knusse huisjes binnenmarcheert, en moet u dan het geweeklaag eens horen. Daarbij vergeleken zal het gejammer na de dood van Van Gogh niets blijken te zijn geweest.

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Ik kreeg net van Omar Barghouti dit bericht: '

'Dear all,

I just received the following message directly from the distinguished and courageous British writer and art critic, John Berger.

He requested for it to be publicized:

"We are now spectators of the latest - and perhaps penultimate - chapter of the 60 year old conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people. About the complexities of this tragic conflict billions of words have been pronounced, defending one side or the other.
Today, in face of the Israeli attacks on Gaza, the essential calculation, which was always covertly there, behind this conflict, has been blatantly revealed. The death of one Israeli victim justifies the killing of a hundred Palestinians. One Israeli life is worth a hundred Palestinian lives.
This is what the Israeli State and the world media more or less - with marginal questioning - mindlessly repeat. And this claim, which has accompanied and justified the longest Occupation of foreign territories in 20th C. European history, is viscerally racist. That the Jewish people should accept this, that the world should concur, that the Palestinians should submit to it - is one of history's ironic jokes. There's no laughter anywhere. We can, however, refute it, more and more vocally.

Let's do so."
John Berger
27 December 2008
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It is crucial to note that, two years ago, John Berger had mobilized dozens of prominent artists and writers worldwide to endorse the Palestinian call for an institutional cultural boycott of Israel:
http://www.pacbi.org/boycott_news_more.php?id=415_0_1_0_C

Omar'
John Berger, wiens joodse voorouders uit Polen, Galicië en het Oostenrijks-Hongaarse Rijk kwamen, schreef: ‘En hier identificeer ik mijzelf zonder te aarzelen met de rechtvaardige zaak en de pijn van degenen die de staat Israël (en neven van mij) veroorzaken in een mate die tragisch totalitair is.’ De Britse schrijver laat weten dat hij als kosmopoliet en humanist afstand doet van zijn ‘Recht op Terugkeer’, dat het elementaire recht van de Palestijnen onvermijdelijk heeft vernietigd.

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Vanavond 19.00 uur op de Dam van Amsterdam demonstreerden iets meer dan honderd mensen tegen de Israelische terreur in Gaza.


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Wat zijn de Nederlandse politici verdacht stil. Als er bijna 200 Joden in Israel waren vermoord dan zou de wereld te klein zijn geweest. Vanwaar dat racistisch onderscheid door mensen die de mond vol hebben van mensenrechten. Waar zijn de SP-ers, Groen Linksers, de sociaaldemocraten, de christenen die niet opkomen voor hun Palestijnse geloofsgenoten? De liberalen etc, waar zijn ze allemaal?

'International witnesses speak out from Gaza on Israeli atrocities
http://tinyurl.com/9pey69
27 December 2008, Gaza,

Palestine: Human rights defenders from Lebanon, the UK, Poland, Canada, Spain, Italy and Australia are present in Gaza and are witnessing and documenting the current Israeli attacks on Gaza.

Due to Israel's policy of denying access to international media, human rights defenders and aid agencies to the occupied Gaza Strip, many of these human rights defenders arrived in Gaza with the Free Gaza Movement's boats.
Free Gaza Movement boats have broken Israel's siege of Gaza five times in the past four months.
Eva Bartlett (Canada), International Solidarity Movement:
"At the time of the attacks I was on Omar Mukhtar street and witnessed a rocket hit the street 150 metres away where crowds had already gathered to try to extract the dead bodies [from a previous rocket attack]. Ambulances, trucks, cars – anything that can move – are bringing the injured to the hospitals.
"Hospitals have had to evacuate sick patients to make room for the injured. I have been told that there is not enough room in the morgues for the bodies and that there is a serious lack of blood in the blood banks. I have just learned that among the civilians killed today was the mother of my good friends in Jabalya camp."
Ewa Jasiewicz (Polish and British), Free Gaza Movment, writes:
"Israeli missles tore through a children's playground and busy market in Diyar Balah. We saw the aftermath – many were injured and some reportedly killed. Every hospital in the Gaza Strip is already overwhelmed with injured people and does not have the medicine or the capacity to treat them. Israel is committing crimes against humanity, it is violating international and human rights law, ignoring the United Nations and planning even bigger attacks. The world must act now and intensify the calls for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel. Governments need to move beyond words of condemnation into an active and immediate restraint of Israel and a lifting of the siege of Gaza."
Dr Haidar Eid, (Palestinian, South African), Professor of Social and Cultural Studies, Al Aqsa University:
"The morgue at the Shifa hospital has no more room for dead bodies, so bodies and body parts are strewn all over the hospital."
Sharon Lock (Australia), International Solidarity Movement:
"The bombs began to fall just as the children were on the streets walking back from school. I went out onto the stairs and a terrified 5 year old girl ran sobbing into my arms."
Dr Eyad Sarraj, President of the Gaza Community Mental Health Centre:
"This is incredibly sad. This massacre is not going to bring security for the State of Israel or allow it to be part of the Middle East. Now calls of revenge are everywhere."
Jenny Linnel (UK), International Solidarity Movement:
"As I speak they [the Israelis] have just hit a building 200 metres away.
There is smoke everywhere. This morning I went to the building close to where I live in Rafah that had been hit. Two bulldozers were immediately attempting to clear the rubble. They thought they had found all the bodies. As we arrived one more was found."
Natalie Abu Eid (Lebanon), International Solidarity Movement:
"The home I am staying in is across from the Preventive Security compound.
All the glass of the house shattered. The home has been severely damaged. Owing to the siege there, is no glass or building materials to repair this damage.
One little boy in our house fainted. An eight-year-old boy was trembling on the ground for an hour. In front of our house we found the bodies of two little girls under a car, completely burnt. They were coming home from school. This is more than just collective punishment. We are being treated like laboratory animals. I have lived through the Israeli bombardment of Beirut and the Israel's message is the same in Gaza as it was in Beirut – the killing of civilians. There was just another explosion outside!"

Contact details of the human rights defenders in Gaza:
Dr Eyad Sarraj (Arabic and English): tel. +972 599400424
Ewa Jasiewicz, Free Gaza Movement Coordinator in Gaza (Polish, Arabic and
English): tel. +972 59 8700497
Dr Haider Eid (English and Arabic): tel. + 972 59 9441766
Sharon Lock (English): tel. +972 59 8826513
Vittorio Arrigoni (Italian): tel. +972 59 8378945
Fida Qishta (English and Arabic): tel. +972 599681669
Jenny Linnel (English): tel. +972 59 87653777
Natalie Abu Shakra (Arabic and English): tel +598 336 328
For more information on the Free Gaza Movment (FGM) or the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), contact in the West Bank:
Adam Taylor (ISM): tel. +972 59 8503948
Lubna Masarwa (FGM): tel. +972 50 5633044
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Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC)*

Press Release

"Stop the Massacre in Gaza – Boycott Israel Now
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Occupied Ramallah, Palestine - 27 December 2008: Today, the Israeli occupation army committed a new massacre in Gaza, causing the death and injury of hundreds of Palestinian civilians, including a yet unknown number of school children who were headed home from school when the first Israeli military strikes started. This latest bloodbath, although far more ruthless than all its predecessors, is not Israel's first. It culminates months of an Israeli siege of Gaza that should be widely condemned and prosecuted as an act of genocide against the 1.5 million Palestinians in the occupied coastal strip.

Israel seems intent to mark the end of its 60th year of existence the same way it has established itself – perpetrating massacres against the Palestinian people. In 1948, the majority of the indigenous Palestinian people were ethnically cleansed from their homes and land, partly through massacres like Deir Yassin; today, the Palestinians in Gaza, most of whom are refugees, do not even have the choice to seek refuge elsewhere. Incarcerated behind ghetto walls and brought to the brink of starvation by the siege, they are easy targets for Israel's indiscriminate bombing.

Prof. Richard Falk, the UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and international law expert at Princeton University, described Israel's siege of Gaza last year, when it was still not comparable in its severity to the current situation, as follows:

"Is it an irresponsible overstatement to associate the treatment of Palestinians with this criminalized Nazi record of collective atrocity? I think not. The recent developments in Gaza are especially disturbing because they express so vividly a deliberate intention on the part of Israel and its allies to subject an entire human community to life-endangering conditions of utmost cruelty. The suggestion that this pattern of conduct is a holocaust-in-the-making represents a rather desperate appeal to the governments of the world and to international public opinion to act urgently to prevent these current genocidal tendencies from culminating in a collective tragedy."

The most brutal episode of this "collective tragedy" is what we have seen today.

Israel's war crimes and other grave violations of international law in Gaza as well as in the rest of the occupied Palestinian territory, including Jerusalem, could not have been perpetrated without the direct or indirect complicity of world governments, particularly the United States, the European Union, Egypt, and other Arab regimes.

While the US government has consistently sponsored, bankrolled and protected from international censure Israel's apartheid and colonial policies against the indigenous people of Palestine, the EU was able in the past to advocate a semblance of respect for international law and universal human rights. That distinction effectively ended on December 9th, when the EU Council decided unanimously to reward Israel's criminal disregard of international law by upgrading the EU-Israel Association Agreement. Israel clearly understood from this decision that the EU condones its actions against the Palestinians under its occupation. Palestinian civil society also got the message: the EU governments have become no less complicit in Israel's war crimes than their US counterpart.

The large majority of world governments, particularly in the global south, share part of the blame, as well. By continuing business as usual with Israel, in trade agreements, arms deals, academic and cultural ties, diplomatic openings, they have provided the necessary background for the complicity of world powers and, consequentially, for Israel's impunity. Furthermore, their inaction within the United Nations is inexcusable.

Father Miguel D'Escoto Brockman, President of the UN General Assembly prescribed in a recent address before the Assembly the only moral way forward for the world's nations in dealing with Israel:

"More than twenty years ago we in the United Nations took the lead from civil society when we agreed that sanctions were required to provide a nonviolent means of pressuring South Africa to end its violations. Today, perhaps we in the United Nations should consider following the lead of a new generation of civil society, who are calling for a similar non-violent campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions to pressure Israel to end its violations."

Now, more than ever, the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee, BNC, calls upon international civil society not just to protest and condemn in diverse forms Israel's massacre in Gaza, but also to join and intensify the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel to end its impunity and to hold it accountable for its persistent violation of international law and Palestinian rights. Without sustained, effective pressure by people of conscience the world over, Israel will continue with its gradual, rolling acts of genocide against the Palestinians, burying any prospects for a just peace under the blood and rubble of Gaza, Nablus and Jerusalem.


* The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) includes: Council of National and Islamic Forces in Palestine; General Union of Palestinian Workers; Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions; Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations' Network (PNGO); Federation of Independent Trade Unions; Union of Palestinian Charitable Organizations; Global Palestine Right of Return Coalition; Occupied Palestine and Golan Heights Advocacy Initiative (OPGAI); General Union of Palestinian Women; Palestinian Farmers Union (PFU); Grassroots Palestinian Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign (STW); Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI); National Committee to Commemorate the Nakba; Civic Coalition for the Defense of Palestinian Rights in Jerusalem (CCDPRJ); Coalition for Jerusalem; and Palestinian Economic Monitor.

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