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israel 'celebrates' 60 years of illegal military occupation of palestine

ruth | 12.04.2008 12:28 | Anti-militarism | Palestine | Social Struggles | London

This year marks 60 years of the creation of the state of Israel resulting in the ethnic cleansing of over 750,000 Arab Palestinians and the destruction over 400 of their villages. There are a number of disgraceful events planned by Zionist groups who do not represent the majority of British Jews or Israelis. These are mainly happening in London and Manchester in next few months, ignoring the reality of the ongoing illegal military occupation of Palestine.


It would be great to see the same amount of resistance to the Israeli 'celebration parade' as the Olympic flame recevied due to China's occupation in Tibet. End all occupations!
Parade on Sunday June 29th Manchester and London
More information on the route and the parade can be found at www.salutetoisrael.org/


On April 7 the Jewish National Fund had a fundraising dinner at Winsor Castle. Photos can be see at
 http://musicweaver.users.btopenworld.com/index.htm#jnfwindsorbashdemo
The JNF was established in 1901 as the land settlement wing of the World Zionist Organisation. It became one of the primary instruments involved in planning for the dispossession and expulsion of the Palestinians.

More information on the creation of the State of Israel – Palestine’s Nakba- ('catastophe')

In 1948 over 750,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes and their lands by a systematic campaign of terrorism launched against them. The Israeli state legitimised the theft of their lands, houses, property and businesses offering no compensation and has continued to refuse the right of the refugees to return. The creation of the state of Israel was an act of dispossession – a brutal, colonialist assault on the Palestinians.
The United Nations had proposed a partition plan giving 55% of ancient Palestine for a Jewish state, but the Zionists, who had targeted the whole of Palestine for the creation of a Jewish State long before the Nazi atrocities, took 78% of the land using terrorist tactics and military force. The civilized world regards these acts as war crimes but Zionists, then and now, see them as the wholly necessary and justified means for the creation of their Jewish State.

Those 750,000 refugees and their descendants, over 7 million of them, still live today dispossessed and destitute in refugee camps throughout the region. Israel is in illegal occupation of Palestinian lands in violation of numerous UN resolutions - the longest and most brutal military occupation in history. It is still persistently and grossly breaching international law and infringing fundamental human rights with impunity, especially in the Gaza strip. Its own deeply racist society treats its Palestinian citizens with institutionalized discrimination. We therefore owe it to these people not to allow Israel, and its supporters worldwide, by celebrating the events of 1948, to obliterate from history the sufferings and injustice that they endured.
www.palestinecampaign.org/?sel=81
www.freegaza.org

ruth

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The United Nations

14.04.2008 17:33

Why should anyone care what the United Nations has to say on Israel or any other matter? The UN allows an evil regime like China a seat on its main commitee, and allowed the Soviet Empire a sat there too. The UN is no moral authority on anything.

Pete


To Pete

15.04.2008 12:21

You forgot to mention that the UN also seats evil countries such as the US Britain and France on the security council. Also another evil entity in the UN is Israel which has never seen any action taken against it. Is the UN a farce? Is western democracy a farce? even more so.

A21


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