Breaking news: Israel plans to invade gaza officialy now

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format_quote Originally Posted by GodIsAll

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http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/en/d...EfaiDnthjss5Vp

BRITS! Have you written to our MP?? Here's a step by step inc letter template:


1) Go to http://www.writetothem.com/ and enter your Post Code, selecting your MP. Enter your personal details.

2) Paste the following letter into the window: (adapt as you see fit)
I am contacting you as I am deeply concerned about the recent Israeli attack on Gaza. Israel has launched an unprovoked and extremely violent assault on the tiny coastal strip, home to over 1.7 million Palestinians, and one of the most densely populated areas on earth.

On Wednesday 14th November, Israel violated an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire by extra-judicially assassinating a leading Hamas commander and bombarding 20 targets in Gaza. Hamas is the democratically elected government of Palestine. This was the opening salvo of what the Israeli military calls 'Operation Pillar of Cloud'.

Human rights organisations - such as the internationally respected Palestinian Center for Human Rights, Al Haq and the Al Mezan Center For Human Rights - report that Israel is bombing Gaza indiscriminately. Civilians, being the main casualties, have been bearing the brunt of this assault; there have been numerous attacks on civilian dwellings, infrastructure and institutions resulting in many deaths and injuries. This amounts to collective punishment of the population, which is a war crime under the Fourth Geneva Convention. The count for infant casualties is nearing 30 and a whole family of 11, the Al-Dalou family, were wiped out as israel 'surgically' targeted their home. These are confirmed facts by journalists on the ground in Gaza. The same injured journalists whose towers were targeted last night along with International Committee of the Red Crescent paramedics.

For the last five years Gaza has been subjected to a siege and embargo by Israel, in violation of international law. Furthermore, despite Israel's unilateral withdrawal of its illegal settlements in Gaza in 2005, Gaza's status under International Humanitarian Law remains that of an Occupied Territory. This means that Palestinians are a protected people, whose de facto imprisonment constitutes in itself an ongoing condition of belligerence and violence imposed by Israel.

As the Occupying Power, Israel is under an obligation to take all necessary measures to protect the civilian population of the occupied territory. According to the rules of International Humanitarian Law, the Israeli military must at all times distinguish between civilian and military targets. In addition, Israel must adhere to the principle of proportionality, which states that any attack that may be expected to cause loss of civilian life, injury to civilians or damage to civilian objects, which would be excessive in relation to the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated, is prohibited.

I call on you to ask the Foreign Secretary, William Hague, to take concrete action to help secure an immediate end to both the Israeli attacks on Gaza, and its ongoing illegal blockade of the region. I believe the principal such action should be to call for the suspension of Israel from the Euro-Med Agreement, under which it is granted special EU trading privileges conditional on “respect for human rights” which is “an essential element of this Agreement”.

The fact that Israel has faced no sanction from the international community for its frequent and flagrant human rights abuses against Palestinians has emboldened it to launch this current assault. Israel commits crimes with impunity; I ask you to support an end to Israeli impunity, and to call for an end to the Israeli attack on Gaza.

Yours sincerely,

3) Once you preview and confirm, the service will send you a link to your email asking confirmation to send.

4) Check your email inbox, and spam box if req'd. Click on the link in the email to confirm. Keep the pressure on from all sides.

This letter is adapted from the Irish PSC template, please send us other templates you may have penned. Citizens of other states CAN adapt and send to their reps also. Let us know ho you get on.

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About 500 Egyptian youths have just arrived to #Gaza in solidarity with the Palestinian people who is witnessing one of the most violent genocide crimes against humanity



LIVE PHOTO| The Egyptian activists who entered #Gaza this evening are now chanting "down down with Israel" in front of Al Shifaa Hospital .






LIVE PHOTO | 500 Egyptians are now present in Al Shifaa Hospital compound. entering Gaza through Rafah border.















Dalow Family Massacre:

Salaam

format_quote Originally Posted by Mustafa2012

Thank you for agreeing with what I said and confirming my viewpoint. Strangely some people here think that the Palestinians have been preparing for this moment for the last 60 years.

Anyway with regards to your questions. I prefer to focus my time on things we can change rather than that which we can't like the past. Since most of your questions are about things which have already happened, nothing that you or I say can change that.

That's why being realistic has a lot of benefit. Let's focus on the future shall we?

I really dislike answering rhetorical questions so I'll give you the pleasure of answering them for me.

Your platitudes about 'moving on' and 'focusing on the future' are empty. How can you understand the present and plot a future course if you can’t understand what has happened in the past?

And on the 'rhetorical questions'. these are serious questions to answer that will impact on the future of the Gazan people. It’s understandable; these questions are hard to answer. The point is it shows how difficult their position is and defies easy answers.

Comments like they should be organised like Hezbollah are easier said than done given the vast advantages Hezbollah compared with Hamas (its took Hezbollah decades to get to the position they are now). Or that they should build up the economy when Israel (with tacit approval of western powers and some Arab powers as well) won’t allow it. Or that they shouldn’t provoke Israel (which they didn’t) doesn’t make sense when Israel will attack regardless. After all to qoute

“The goal of the operation is to send Gaza back to the Middle Ages. Only then will Israel be calm for forty years.”

- Interior Minister Eli Yishai

The position of the people of Gaza is difficult if not impossible. Yet and yet they survive. Amazing to witness.

I’ll stop there, it’s difficult conveying tone over the internet so if I sound harsh apologies brother.

On a more positive note my family have made a donation to Islamic Relief in relation to the Gaza crises today. Let’s do all we can. This conflict will end because try as it might Israel has failed to subjugate the Palestinian people over the decades. Perhaps most importantly is losing its ability to create fear. Its constant resort to lethal violence is a sign of weakness not strength and with the world well aware of Israeli crimes it cannot keep committing them forever. Eventually they will have to come to a negotiated settlement with the Palestinian people if there is ever going to be peace.

format_quote Originally Posted by glo

I think petitioning politicians is a great way forward for those of us who can do little otherwise. Nothing like coming to work to thousands of angry (but informed) emails in your inbox.

Thanks for sharing the link.

I didn't think you lived in the UK. Are there similar petitions in the US or other countries?

your welcome. That came from facebook, there's a palestineactivitist page on there. As for the US, i did get this in the email the other day:



SIGN THIS PETITION

President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: Denounce Israel’s threats of a ground invasion in Gaza

Friends,

Pro-Israeli. Pro-Palestinian. Such labels have no place in this conversation. Sixty-eight and four hundred seventy-seven. Those figures are what is important here. Sixty-eight deaths and four hundred seventy-seven injuries (at the least) on both sides of the current escalated violence in Gaza and Israel. Friends, knowledge without action is worthless. I am asking you to not only lend your pen in an attempt to make a change, I am also asking that you market this petition within your respective networks. The power of numbers is a force to be reckoned with. Tunisia, Egypt..must I elaborate.

http://www.change.org/petitions/pres...vasion-in-gaza

Thanks for your support.

From the Old Testament: "It is not by strength that one prevails." [1 Samuel 2:9]
From the New Testament: "Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others." [Philippians 2:4]
From the Qu'ran: "O you who have believed, be persistently standing firm in justice, witnesses for Allah, even if it be against yourselves or parents and relatives." [Surat An-Nisa':135]

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And this happened also:


In an historic move that could initiate a domino effect across America’s campuses, the Associated Students of UC Irvine voted unanimously to divest from companies that profit from Israel’s occupation of Palestine, including from companies that contribute to illegal settlement construction in the occupied Palestinian territories.

University of California Irvine unanimously passed a resolution urging the University to withdraw its investment funds from Caterpillar, General Electric Company, Hewlett Packard, Raytheon, and other companies profiting from human rights violations in the occupied territories. The students also pledged to further examine UC assets for investments in companies that profit from human rights abuses anywhere in the world.

The resolution was drafted in response to the 2005 Palestinian civil society call for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel as a means to force it to comply with international law and end its occupation of the West Bank and Gaza; allow Palestinian refugees their internationally guaranteed right to return to their homes and villages; and grant equal rights to Palestinian citizens of Israel. Other divestment successes have occurred at Hampshire College and Evergreen State College, as well as the WeDivest campaign which focuses on pension fund giant TIAA CREF and has resulted in, among other things, the removal of Caterpillar from its Social Choice Funds.


To read the text of the legislation, go to http://www.asuci.uci.edu/legislative...v_branch=ASUCI

format_quote Originally Posted by شَادِنُ

Petitions don't work and Obama' speech infuriated me.
I think Egypt, Tunisia, Libya etc whomever can at this stage fight along side Gazans with whatever they've we need an end to the problem not a bandaid on it!

I agree, they are waste of ink on paper and deaf on the ears they fall. That's why I never fill one out. Just a list of names to give to them to show we are the people to keep an eye on. Besides, petitions are what they want you to do, they don't want you to pick up the sword and fight back.