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Re: [dfa-23] Friday, August 1, 2014 at 4 PM - 7 PM " Rally in Support for Gaza! " Where: In Front of Federal Building, 880 Front Street, San Diego 92101

From: Martha S.
Sent on: Wednesday, July 30, 2014, 11:53 PM
VERY worth watching and/or reading the transcript, interview with Ilan Pappe, an Israeli historian and socialist activist. He is a professor with the College of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, director of the university's European Centre for Palestine Studies, and co-director of the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies. He is the author of many books, including his most recent book, The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge. http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=12174

SNIP from above transcript: DESVARIEUX: So, Ilan, coming from an American perspective and what we're sort of hearing from the media and leaders is probably best exemplified in a statement made by former President Bill Clinton. He said, quote,
"Hamas was perfectly well aware of what would happen if they started raining rockets into Israel. They fired a thousand of them. And they have a strategy designed to force Israel to kill their own civilians so that the rest of the world will condemn them."

So, first of all, is this an accurate portrayal of the situation? And what context is missing here?

PAPPÉ: No, it is not, really. I mean, it's a very narrow kind of context that doesn't widen the picture.
There are two kinds of contexts one should point to in order to understand the situation. One refers to a more immediate past and one to a more distant one.
The more immediate past that is relevant to what goes on should take us back to just a month or two months ago, when Israel decided to use the pretext of an abduction and killing of three settlers in order to implement a plan that it already had in mind many years ago, and that is a plan to try and destroy the Hamas as a political force in the West Bank, and if possible also the military force in the Gaza Strip.
The reason that Israel chose this particular timing for this initiative was the creation of a unity government and the fact that the Palestinian leadership in the West Bank decided to try a new strategy, with the help of the Hamas, to go to the international community, especially to the United Nations, and demand an engagement with the 46 year long Israeli occupation on the basis of a human rights and civil rights agenda, which Israel totally refuses.
So the Hamas was keeping its part of the deal, back from 2012, for a long ceasefire, but Israel broke it, violated the ceasefire, by arresting all the political leadership and activists in the West Bank, including those Israel was pledged to release under the prisoner exchange deal known as the Shalit exchange deal.
So that's the immediate background, but there's far more important, probably, and deeper historical background.
Since 2006, since the people of Gaza elected democratically the Hamas to try and take them out of the ghetto that Israel created to them long before the Hamas took over Gaza, already 1994--because of the special location, geopolitical location of the Gaza Strip, Israel doesn't really know what to do with it, so it ghettoized it already in 1994. The PA or the Fatah failed to salvage the people of Gaza from that situation. So the people of Gaza gave a chance to the Hamas. And the Israeli reaction was, even at first, a brutal military response to this election. And so the whole issue of how the Hamas responded, namely, through the launching of missiles, has to be seen in this context. It may be there is another way. I'm not sure there is, but definitely this is a response to a policy of strangulation, of siege, of starvation. It's not coming out of blue as one would have thought that one can understand from the way Bill Clinton and others in the United States describe the context of this crisis.

Martha Sullivan 

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On Jul 30, 2014, at 11:42 PM, Miriam Raftery <[address removed]> wrote:

Why is DFA promoting this as if the Palestinians have done nothing wrong?  You should at least also be calling for Palestine to stop bombing innocent civilians in Israel. I have relatives there and I am deeply offended to see a progressive group have zero empathy for Jewish people who were given this land as a save haven after the Holocaust (where most of my ancestors were murdered by the Nazis), and still the Israeli people cannot live in peace, without fear of rockets killing their children. If Palestinians don’t want their people killed there is a simple way to get peace- STOP KILLING ISRAELIS.

 

I do feel sorry for Palestinian civilians too.  But it disgusts me to see DFA be a propaganda tool with phrases like “Israeli war crimes” when Israel is defending its own people from being murdered by rockets fired into their country.  Imagine if someone was firing rockets at your cities.   Years ago I had a penpal as a teen who was killed when her school bus was blown up in Israel.  Where are your tears and outrage over those atrocities???

 

From: [address removed] [mailto:[address removed]] On Behalf Of Carol Changus
Sent: Wednesday, July 30,[masked]:09 PM
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Subject: [dfa-23] Friday, August 1, 2014 at 4 PM - 7 PM " Rally in Support for Gaza! " Where: In Front of Federal Building, 880 Front Street, San Diego 92101

 

Rally in Support for Gaza!

Friday, August 1, 2014
4 PM - 7 PM
880 Front Street, San Diego 92101
In Front of Federal Building

The recent Israeli attacks on Gaza by air, sea and land have resulted in the deaths of over 1200 Palestinians with over 6500 injured. Nevertheless, Israel continues with its criminal strategy of ethnic cleansing and colonization of all of Palestine. Unfortunately, US mainstream media have been complacent in covering up for the Israeli war crimes.
Israel has targeted hospitals, ambulances, medical workers, UNHRC schools and refugeeshelters filled with innocent and injured men, women, and children, with impunity. In addition Israel has also destroyed what was left of Gaza's power supply, water treatment,TV and communication centers. Israel has turned roads, buildings, and hundreds of housesinto rubble, burying unfortunate civilians inside the rubble. THIS is Collective Punishmentfor the deaths of 3 Israelis- whose deaths have never been proven to have been carried out by any Palestinian people- and which should have been handled by the courts, not bycollective punishment.
Norwegian Physician Treating Wounded Civilians: Stop the Bombing, End Israeli Impunity in Gaza

Protest against this Genocide! Protest media coverage of Gaza imageNorwegian Physician Treating Wounded Civilians: Stop the...Dr. Mads Gilbert, a Norwegian doctor, joins us from Gaza where he has been treating hundreds of victims wounded in Israel’s ongoing assault, including young childre...View on www.democracynow.orgPreview by Yahoo Everyone welcome to come. Help to show outrage against the wanton violence, andsupport for victims.

Stop The Carnage Now!

A Fourth San Diego demonstration will be held this

Friday, August 1, 2014
4 PM - 7 PM
880 Front Street, San Diego 92101
In Front of Federal Building

This demonstration is being called by Al-Awda San Diego, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition. We will march from the federal building to the NBC building in San Diego at 5. 





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