[Marxism] Stop the U.S.-Israeli Assault on the People of Palestine! EMERGENCY PROTEST ­ MONDAY, JULY 3, 4:30 P.M.

[Bonnie Weinstein <giobon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stop the U.S.-Israeli Assault on the People of Palestine!

EMERGENCY PROTEST ­ MONDAY, JULY 3, 4:30 P.M.

CONSULATE OF ISRAEL, 456 MONTGOMERY ST., S.F.

End the Siege of Gaza / End All U.S. Aid to Israel / Boycott Israeli Goods

The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) launched a brutal assault on the
entire population of Gaza in the early morning hours of June 28.
U.S.-supplied F-16 fighter-bombers destroyed the main power
station in Gaza and destroyed bridges on the only major roads
linking the northern and southern sections of the region. Round
-the-clock Israeli artillery shelling is taking place. Most of the
people of Gaza are now without water and electricity ­ Palestinians
are dying. The use of U.S. planes and other military equipment
against illegally occupied land is a violation of both international
and U.S. law. In a further act of act of colonial aggression, the
IOF has arrested a third of the members of the Palestinian
Authority governing body.

While a great  outcry is heard in the mass media about one
captured Israeli soldier, the same media pays no attention
whatsoever to the 9,000 Palestinian political prisoners being
held illegally under terrible conditions in Israeli prisons. All of
them were abducted by the IOF. At least 335 of these prisoners
are children. Palestinian prisoners are systematically tortured
by Israel, the only country in the world that has legalized torture.

Deliberately attacking the civilian population, with the intent
of causing maximum suffering, is clearly a crime against
humanity. What we are witnessing today in Gaza is collective
punishment -- a war crime under international law --
against the entire population.

Israel's racist apartheid system and the latest assault on Gaza
is supported by the Bush regime, Congress and the corporate
media, because of Israel's vital role in Washington's project
of Middle East domination. Israel receives more military and
economic aid from the U.S. -- over $3 billion annually --
than any other country. Without that aid and support it
receives from Washington, Israel could not carry out its
crimes against the Palestinian people.

Sponsored by Al-Awda

www.al-awda.org

The Palestine Right to Return Coalition

To endorse please send an email to: host@xxxxxxxxxxx

Letter of Endorsement and Solidarity to Al-Awda
By Bonnie Weinstein

Dear Comrades of Al-Awda,

We stand in solidarity with you, the Palestinian people
in your just and righteous struggle to return to
your homeland and to struggle against the ongoing
torture and oppression you have been subjected to
by the racist government of Israel since and before
it's existence.

We condemn Zionist Israel--this inhuman and racist
government--for their murderous oppression of the
Palestinian people, the unlawful (by any humanitarian
standards) theft of your land and the demolition
of your way of life.

We also condemn Zionist Israel for their betrayal of
Jewish people everywhere for leading them into
believing in this un-holy path of bloodshed against
the people of Palestine. There can be no just argument that
allows the murderous expulsion of an entire people
--an entire nation--in the name of anyone's freedom!
No one can be free through the enslavement of another!
A wall enslaves those on both sides.

We call upon Jewish people everywhere to
speak up and take a firm stand against this
ongoing insanity conjured up by Zionists and
their Western allies--for their own power and
greed driven purposes--since before 1948!

We must ask the question, "Why did the U.S.
refuse entrance onto its shores during and
after WWII to Jewish people who were persecuted
by fascists ?" We must ask ourselves--all of us
--what kind of a government could perform
such an egregious act of inhuman denial at
a most desperate time of need with one fork of the
tongue; then materially and morally support
the formation of a separate Jewish state--
at the expense of the entire Palestinian nation--
with the other fork of the tongue?

It is incumbent upon all of us to examine carefully
this recent and rather well documented history
of the formation of Israel in 1948. Because upon
examination you will learn much about what
is going on right now, throughout the world and
from there, be able to formulate a better understanding
of how we can change things for the better.

The following quote will shed more light on the
matter. "Late Republican Senator Jesse Helms used
to call Israel 'America's aircraft carrier in the Middle
East,' when explaining why the U.S. viewed Israel
as such a strategic ally, saying that the military
foothold in the region offered by the Jewish State
alone justified the military aid that the U.S. grants
Israel every year. The new revelations also act to
weaken the argument for Israeli policy decisions
based on 'American pressure.'"

This quote can be found at:
Top Secret American Military Installations In Israel
Arutz7 News 
January 28, 2004
http://www.jonathanpollard.org/2005/012805.htm

Your struggle is the struggle of all of us who wish
to live free of the U.S. threat of world annihilation solely
on behalf of the wealthiest one-tenth-of-one percent
of humanity. Where is the democracy in that?

Humanity's only hope lies in our solidarity and dedication
to the inalienable right of all people everywhere to life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness, and equal rights, freedom,
democracy and justice for all.

We fully support the right of you, the Palestinian
people, to defend yourselves and to continue your
struggle until you have won against your oppressors
--until you can finally return to your rightful homeland.

To that end, we demand that all U.S. aid to Israel--
every last penny--be immediately ended.

We demand the immediate release of the imprisoned
elected leadership of the Palestinian people and of the
thousands of prisoners held unjustly by Israel.

And we call upon every lover of freedom,
democracy and human rights throughout the
world to take a stand in defense of Palestine today!

Because today, and until this tyranny is ended,
we are all Palestinians!

We send our warmest greetings of solidarity
to the upcoming Al-Awda convention.

Sincerely,

Bonnie Weinstein, Bay Area United Against War
www.bauaw.org

END ALL U.S. AID TO ISRAEL!
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