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CALL TO ACTION: RE-INSTATE EU AND US AID TO PALESTINE

Eternal Palestine | 11.05.2006 23:29 | Anti-militarism | Repression

Please join thousands in signing a petition that may encourage the international community to head off the serious humanitarian crises in Palestine from getting even worse. There is also a link to this on Dr. Marcy Newman’s blog  http://bodyontheline.blogspot.com/ Additional information about the region and political action at  http://www.voicesofpalestine.org
Please copy, e-mail and distribute this as widely as possible.
 http://www.petitiononline.com/JfJfP/petition.html

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a homeless child in Palestine


CALL TO ACTION: RE-INSTATE EU AND US AID TO PALESTINE
Please join thousands in signing a petition that may encourage the international community to head off the serious humanitarian crises in Palestine from getting even worse. There is also a link to this on Dr. Marcy Newman’s blog  http://bodyontheline.blogspot.com/ Additional information about the region and political action at  http://www.voicesofpalestine.org
Please copy, e-mail and distribute this as widely as possible.

Re-instate EU and US aid to Palestine
 http://www.petitiononline.com/JfJfP/petition.html
To: The European Union, the US congress and the Israeli Government
We condemn the actions taken by the US, the EU and Israel to exert penal
economic pressure upon the Palestinian people. The withdrawal of
economic aid by the US and the EU and the criminal withholding of
internationally agreed custom duties by Israel will lead to widespread
suffering, starvation and death among the Palestinian people, with the
weakest, children and the elderly, dying first.

This aid is desperately needed because the Israeli government
systematically pursues policies that prevent economic self sufficiency
on the west bank and in Gaza. these policies include:

*Use of the separation wall to cut off Palestinian farmers from their
fields
*Import of labourers from East Asia rather than employ Palestinians
*Placing deliberate obstacles in the path of Palestinian exports of
agricultural produce and handicrafts
*Use of the Israeli banking system to block remittances from
Palestinians working abroad
*Disruption of Palestinian school and Higher Education
*Withholding of customs duties due to the Palestinian Authority under
international law

These criminal policies are linked to demands that Hamas recognize the
state of Israel, such recognition would be the end of a negotiating
process, it should not be a precondition. The Palestinian people have
affronted the US, the EU and Israel by electing a Hamas government. It
was not made clear, when they insisted on democratic elections in
Palestine, that these they should only be held if the result were acceptable to Israel.

We further note that Hamas is maintaining a ceasefire and that Israel is
not and that Israel is killing far more Palestinians than vice-versa but
this does not impede massive US aid to Israel nor favourable trade
agreements between the EU and Israel.

In the name of justice and to end these economic crimes and murders we
demand:

The immediate restoration of aid by the US and the EU
The end of Israel's economic blockade
The end of US military aid to Israel
The end of exceptional favourable EU agreements with Israel.
Sincerely,
The Undersigned
Click here to sign petition  http://www.petitiononline.com/JfJfP/petition.html

Eternal Palestine

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Funding

12.05.2006 07:22

Why is so much of the money needed by the Palestinian Authority supplied by the EU ? The lack of money flowing from countries like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and most of all Jordan is just not right.

The Arab nations of the regime need to talk less and supply more.

Bristol Activist


Sounds Good but......

12.05.2006 14:17

Sounds good with the good intensions but it is an uphill battle.

The UK as well as the USA really do not care about Palestinian rights. Getting the UK government to move is hard work unfortunately.

Stanley
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Cloud Cuckoo Land

12.05.2006 15:25

"The immediate restoration of aid by the US and the EU
The end of Israel's economic blockade
The end of US military aid to Israel
The end of exceptional favourable EU agreements with Israel. "

Anything else ? How about a 'demand' that all the Jews leave so that those calling themselves 'Palestinians' can steal the land and the wealth created there by the Jews ?

Maybe you think Israel should stop posting guards outside nightclubs and bars so that Hamas suicide bombers would find it easier to kill Jews.

Perhaps you favour an end to Israels right to exist as a democratic nation on the heart of so many dictatorships ?

You've got no chance Jew hater


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