“Gaza is burning,” writes French activist Liliane Cordova Kaczerginski, using the very words of a famous song of a Jewish village destroyed by the Nazis. Like sixty years ago, Gaza is burning and the world is silent, waiting for the outcome of a non-existent peace process.
Posted: December 29th, 2008 under Israel, Occupation, Palestine.
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Posted: December 29th, 2008 under Israel, Occupation, Palestine.
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Statement by Jews for a Just Peace Fredericton
We were horrified to learn this morning of the latest Israeli military actions against the inhabitants of Gaza. This is collective punishment in defiance of all international laws and norms. The few people killed or wounded in Israel by Hamas rocket attacks, while tragic, pale in significance in relation to the hundreds of people killed and wounded by the Israeli airstrikes. As Jews, we reject the idea that a Jewish life is worth more than a Palestinian life.
We are also concerned that Israel will follow these air strikes with a reoccupation on the ground which can only lead to further bloodshed and decrease the chances that there will ever be peace. There can be no military solution. Canada must condemn these unjustifiable Israeli actions and demand that that the Israeli government negotiate in good faith to end the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. We call upon all real friends of Israel to express their outrage at the illegal and immoral actions of the Israeli state and to exert whatever influence they can to foster a diplomatic solution.
Jack Gegenberg
Karen Pearlston
Jews for a Just Peace
Fredericton, NB
Sent to:
Ministers and party leaders and others: Harper.S@parl.gc.ca; pm@pm.gc.ca; Nicholson.R@parl.gc.ca; Duceppe.G@parl.gc.ca; Ignatieff.M@parl.gc.ca; Layton.J@parl.gc.ca; ChowO@parl.gc.ca; Davies.L@parl.gc.ca; MacKay.P@parl.gc.ca; Oda.B@parl.gc.ca; Cannon.L@parl.gc.ca; Rae.B@parl.gc.ca
New Brunswick MPs: Allen.M@parl.gc.ca; Ashfield.K@parl.gc.ca; Damours.J@parl.gc.ca; Godin.Y@parl.gc.ca; Leblanc.D@parl.gc.ca; Moore.R@parl.gc.ca; Murphy.B@parl.gc.ca; O’Neill-Gordon.T@parl.gc.ca; Thompson.G@parl.gc.ca; Weston.R@parl.gc.ca
Posted: December 28th, 2008 under Israel, Occupation, Palestine.
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More than 230 killed, hundreds injured due to Israeli bombings against Gaza
Posted: December 28th, 2008 under Israel, Occupation, Palestine.
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British playwright Harold Pinter died Wednesday at the age of 78, and American singer and actress Eartha Kitt died Thursday, Christmas day, at 81. Both were known for the seriousness with which they pursued their respective artistic activities, and both will be remembered as well for speaking out against imperialist war—in Kitt’s case, the war in Vietnam, in Pinter’s, the US-British invasion of Iraq in particular.
Posted: December 28th, 2008 under Iraq, UK, US.
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Mississauga’s Hassan Almrei will spend an eighth consecutive Christmas behind bars without ever being formally charged with a crime or standing trial.
Posted: December 28th, 2008 under Canada, Immigrant/Refugee Rights, Secret Trials, Security Certificates.
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DN!: Parts of Tennessee remain buried under toxic sludge today after a major disaster at a coal plant. A forty-acre pond containing toxic coal ash has collapsed, spilling out millions of gallons of coal ash. Environmentalists say the spill is more than thirty times larger than the Exxon Valdez, but the story has received little national attention. Greenpeace is calling for a criminal investigation.
Posted: December 28th, 2008 under Environment, US.
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An anti-large scale mining activist was killed by unidentified men yesterday, 23 December 2008, at New Bataan, Compostela Valley Province, environmental activist group Panalipdan-Southern Mindanao Region (SMR) today reported.
Posted: December 28th, 2008 under Economic Violence, Environment, Indigenous Rights, Mining, Oil & Gas.
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Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has delivered the first Heron UAV system to the Canadian Air Force.
Posted: December 28th, 2008 under Canada, Israel, Military Industrial Complex.
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“I will play music and celebrate what the Israeli air force is doing.” Those were the words, spoken on Al Jazeera today by Ofer Shmerling, an Israeli civil defense official in the Sderot area adjacent to Gaza, as images of Israel’s latest massacres were broadcast around the world.
A short time earlier, US-supplied Israeli F-16 warplanes and Apache helicopters dropped over 100 bombs on dozens of locations in the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip killing at least 195 persons and injuring hundreds more. Many of these locations were police stations located, like police stations the world over, in the middle of civilian areas. The US government was one of the first to offer its support for Israel’s attacks, and others will follow.
Posted: December 28th, 2008 under Israel, Occupation, Palestine, US.
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