This was going to be called, Welcome to Gaza but something changed over the course of writing it up and if you want to know why, keep reading. There is a little saying where I come from, “don’t shit on your own door step” but I ask you, ”60 years of Israel’s independence next year, how can anyone even imagine, or entertain the idea of celebrating anything, while this is going on?”


While you’re reading – you might like to watch and listen to this:
We Are The Ones We Have Been Waiting For
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7KHUbuhgpQ


Peace Con kicks off with 6 dead in 24 hours.
Bulldozers, tanks & fighter planes.
Welcome to Gaza


Barghouthi: Israel Makes a Failure of Annapolis before it even Begins
Palestinian National Initiative - Palestine Monitor 22 November 2007


Dr. Barghouthi began his presentation with an examination of the controlled humanitarian crisis being maintained by Israel in Gaza. He expressed deep scepticism that Annapolis will harbour anything positive for the people of Gaza in that it is founded on excluding Gaza from the negotiations, and leads Palestinians further away from the unity they desperately need to seek a way out of the current situation.

The MP made specific reference to the deaths of 10 Gazan patients since August 2007 as a direct result of being blocked from leaving via Israeli controlled crossings in order to receive life-saving treatment outside the Strip, deaths which he said amounted to no less than premeditated murder on the part of the Israeli military. He added that these deaths could have been avoided if the political will within Israel existed to do so. Cont:
 http://www.palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article183

Never a truer word has been said but it does not stop there:

Israeli army kills a Palestinian farmer in Rafah, as death toll rises to six in 24 hours. By Rami Almeghari November 27, 2007  http://www.imemc.org/


Six Palestinians killed by the Israeli army in Gaza during the past 24 hours.

Early on Tuesday morning, Palestinian medics pronounced the death of Ali Alsufi, a 55-year-old local farmer in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, after the Israeli soldiers opened fire at him.

Witnesses said that the Israeli army has swept into the eastern Rafah city, just close to the devastated Gaza international airport.

Witnesses added that the invading force opened heavy fire onto farmlands, leaving aL-Sufi dead. Earlier in Tuesday`s dawn, the Israeli aircrafts fired a missile on a group of resistance fighters in northern Gaza, killing a Hamas armed man from the Jabalya refugee camp.  http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=23666


Gaza Fears Israeli Push to Smash Hamas

Big Israeli armoured bulldozers, guarded by a stationary escort of tanks and armoured personnel carriers half-hidden in the adjacent sandbanks, were operating all along the exposed walk south on the Palestinian side of the hi-tech Erez terminal separating Gaza from Israel yesterday.

As the great and good of the Western and Arab worlds were gathering in Annapolis, this no-man’s land crossed on foot by the small privileged minority of Palestinians allowed to enter and leave since Hamas’s enforced takeover in June, has been extended to almost two kilometres.
 http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/11/27/5459/

”Not Through Annapolis: Path to Middle East Peace Lies in Popular Organizing Against US - Israeli ‘Rejectionism’.” Noam Chomsky
November 27th, 2007
 http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/27/154722

Now that reminded me of something, I once it said: “HOPE, Palestinians live on it” but then: “HOPE has two children. The first is ANGER at the way things are and the second is COURAGE to DO SOMETHING about it.” St. Augustine

Maybe another true word but Popular Organising, whats that then? I think it’s going to take a bit more than signing a petition to sort this one (by all means don’t let it stop you but here’s an idea; it’s pretty obvious our governments aren’t doing much about this humanitarian crisis, International Law and UNSC Resolutions are being made a mockery of, the crux of this matter may well fall into the laps of, wait for it, WE THE PEOPLE!

Stuff your summers in Bethlehem, lets do the month of May 2008 END ‘al Nakba’ NOW in Gaza, how about making a pledge, say, “If you the governments of the world can’t make it so, we can go a few days at least without having to hear or read about daily shootings, demolitions of homes and wells or deaths from the restrictions of movement, then WE’LL COME TO GAZA.”

There, that’s it then and is the best I can think of, anyone interested in making that pledge, get a message to the Window into Palestine email below, I mean, there is already a boat going  http://www.freegaza.org/, why don’t we join em?

While we’re all thinking about it and in the meantime:

November 29th, 1947 Let’s face it! 60th anniversaries don’t come round that often & we should use the next 6 months to remind the wider world of every act of ethnic cleansing, the numbers and names of the families massacred and the names of every razed village but as well as commemorate, we should celebrate, 60 years of stoic resistance.

Please help to build this cause by inviting your friends & ask them to invite theirs.
The Palestinian International Campaign - End Gaza Siege

 http://stopthesiegeongaza.blogspot.com/
 http://www.end-gaza-siege.ps/
 http://apps.facebook.com/causes/view_cause/35445

Tell them of the  http://windowintopalestine.blogspot.com/ site where they can post news, blogs, videos and messages of support for the people of Gaza and the OPTs. The email address is:  windowintopalestine@gmail.com

We’re looking for a million and a half to messages to match the number of people suffering collective punishment in Gaza.

If you come across any article or video that relates to Gaza or Palestine and you get an option to Digg, Fark, Stumbleon, get on it! Any little opportunity to raise awareness of this GENOCIDAL SIEGE, it all helps.

Please help to build this cause, if you are a member of any other groups / forums besides this one, then please promote this petition, if you haven’t already signed, then please do: URGENT Petition:  http://www.petitiononline.com/etgs1/petition.html

For a comprehensive list of email addresses for UN Officials around the world:  http://tinyurl.com/37eh3p and the above petition in 5 or more languages.

In Peace & Solidarity for A Free Gaza & Free Palestine!

Sincerely, Action4Palestine