Friday, November 16, 2012

What needs to be said about GAZA

There is practically no paper or news channel in my country that tells the truth about Gaza. Truth only can lead the path out of this tragedy

Arthur Silver (http://othersite.org/arthur-silver-let-us-now-speak-plainly/)


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EU to prevent new massacre in GAZA!!!


Statement of the European Coordination of Committees for Palestine:

 the EU must prevent a new massacre in Gaza
The European Coordination of Committees and Associations for Palestine urges the EU to intervene with the Israeli authorities to immediately end Operation “Pillar of Defence”, launched on Wednesday afternoon.
Operation “Pillar of Defence” must be seen within the broader context of the de-facto occupation and the on-going illegal blockade of the Gaza Strip which amounts to a form of economic and political warfare, and the deep-seated inherent asymmetry between Israel and the Palestinian population in Gaza.
Contrary to Israeli claims, the escalation of violence did not start with anti-tank missile being fired by the Palestinians at an Israeli jeep patrol on November 10. OCHA, in its Protection of Civilians Weekly Report (31.10-6.11 2012), reports that “on 4 November, Israeli forces stationed in an observatory tower shot and killed a 23 year old mentally-challenged Palestinian... It was not until two hours later, following coordination with the Israeli military, that a Palestinian ambulance was permitted to reach the area”. In its latest report, the information provided by OCHA confirms that the truce brokered by the Egyptians was violated by Israel: “on 8 November, Israeli forces conducting an incursion into Gaza, to the east of Khan Younis, opened fire towards an open area, killing a 13 year-old boy. Initial accounts by human rights organizations indicate that the boy was playing near his house, although the reason for the shooting remains unclear. Later that day, in the same area, one Israeli soldier was injured by a Palestinian mortar shell fired at Israeli forces patrolling along the perimeter fence”.
Since then, Israel has been using disproportionate force through aerial drone attacks and naval strikes on the Gaza Strip which is a tiny densely-populated area where there is no safe space and no bomb shelters. So-called “surgical attacks” are impossible and can only lead to the death of innocent civilians, as it has been the case during operation Cast Lead in 2008-9. The outcome of Israeli military actions is foreseeable: first and foremost, Palestinian civilians will be hit, many of which will be children and teenagers as 54% the population of Gaza is under the age of 18, vital infrastructures will be destroyed and the humanitarian crisis will be aggravated. The EU and its member states must intervene to prevent this.
Extra-judicial killings and indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks against civilians for political ends are unacceptable but also illegal under international law and should be strongly condemned. Shelling and bombs will not bring peace or calm to the region. A
durable and inclusive solution to the conflict can be achieved only if international humanitarian law and UN resolutions are fully implemented.
The ECCP urges the EU and its member states to intervene with Israel to prevent what already resembles a second Cast Lead. The EU must use all means at its disposal – including political and economic pressure and sanctions – to prevent a new massacre and what could turn into a new war in the region.

Yours sincerely,
Pierre Galand, Chairman


GÖAB-Newsletter Nr. 77/2012
posted am 16.11.2012

Erklärung der Europäischen Palästina-Vereinigungen zu Gaza

In der Beilage verbreiten wir eine aktuelle Erklärung der European Coordination of Committees for Palestine, deren österreichisches Mitglied die GÖAB ist. Diesem Text ist nichts hinzuzufügen, außer die Forderung an die Österreichische Bundesregierung, sich auch im bilateralen Bereich für eine sofortige Einstellung der Gewalttätigkeiten einzusetzen. Darüber hinaus ist es höchst an der Zeit, die israelische Regierung nachdrücklich und wirksam zu einer Aufhebung der seit Jahren einseitig und völkerrechtlich höchst fragwürdig verhängten Abriegelung des Gazastreifens zu veranlassen.


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Thursday, November 15, 2012

"A time comes when silence is betrayal." Martin Luther King


Information Clearing House: Israel Would Have Us Believe That These People Are Terrorist

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Israel Would Have Us Believe That These People Are Terrorists
Pictures Of Children Killed and Injured By Israeli Attack On Gaza November 14, 2012
"A time comes when silence is betrayal." – Rev. Martin Luther King



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Stop attacking besieged Gaza!

It seems that the 'Christian' Powers encourage  Israel to  do a very dirty job which cannot possibly be in the survival interest  of the Israeli nation. Without the support of the mighty nations the small state of Israel would not dare to continue its aggressive foreign  policy. This is why we, the citizens of the Western nations, nations with a Christian history, must  aks  our governments to halt this fateful policy.

 Are the latest attacks on the  besieged GAZA population a 'punishment' for the Palastinian plans to turn to the General Assembly of the United Nations for observer status of a future state of Palestine? Is the attack on Gaza the gesture of a dwarf who does not dare to attack the mightier ones? Is the assault of IDF a gesture  meant to guarantee  the right wings Israeli government to survive the elections?
Whatever it is meant to  be on a symbolic level,  it threatens the survival not only of the Palestinian people,  it is another violation of international and humanitarian law.  It needs to be  halted, it needs to be condemmed by all peace loving people around the globe.

http://othersite.org/harry-fear-martyred-in-gaza-video-documentary-november-12-2012/Eva Bartlett "Update from Gaza Under Zionist Attacks"


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Israel Would Have Us Believe That These People Are Terrorists
Pictures Of Children Killed and Injured By Israeli Attack On Gaza November 14, 2012
"A time comes when silence is betrayal." – Rev. Martin Luther King




THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2012


basic principle for peace work


Basic Principles for Peacework in Times of War

If there is a name internationally known for committment to peace it is the name of Rosa Luxemburg.

This courageous and knowlegdeable women of Polish-Jewish origin, an economist by profession, was murdered by German militarists in January 1919 after having been released from prison only shortly before. The German military government had kept her in prison custody during the war, in order to silence her voice and to keep her apart from the masses.

In the name of Rosa Luxemburg, the Foundation of the Left Party in Germany held a symposium on „military politics“ in Potsdam as Dr. Lothar Schröder pointed out in his introductory statement on November 9th 2012 in the House of Brandenburg Prussia History Am Neuen Markt 9.
Rosa Luxemburgs name has been desecrated on that historical day of the November Progroms of 1938.

The official titel of the above named event was „14th Syposium on Peace and Security Issues - is the Iranian nuclear programm to be considered as civil or/and militar?“
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With such a header the path is opened to go along with our government policy and to support the attitude of the Western allies who are considering warefare - and as NATO-members and partners - even nuclear warefare as a legitimate means of conflict solution.

But it was to come worse. Dr. Behrouz Kozrozadeh (Exil-Iranian) from the prestigeous university of Göttingen/Germany not only considered the „Iranian attitude of non-cooperation as very, very dangerous“ he qualified the Sha Regimes policies as less problematic because of it secularity and therefore predicatibility. This was not enough for the scholar invited in the name of Rosa Luxemburg. Dr. Kozrozadeh went on with open hate speech and accused the present „Iranian Regime of murder, fraud, lashing, rape of men and women, public executions in the presence of children“ In other words in his speech he accused „the Iranian regime of not knowing any moral or ethic boundaries and due its complete disrespect for international and humanitarian law would strive to achieve nuclear arms“. The climax of his statement in Potsdam on November 9th was to deplore that Pol Pot and Idi Amin, in spite of the atrocities committed in their name, died of a natural death . And he concluded that suchlike human right violaters must not be allowed to live on and die in peace.

Dr. Kozradeh was seconded by Giorgio Franceschini from „Hesse Foundation for Peace and Conflict Studies“ who demanded from „Iran to stop its genozidal rhetoric towards Israel“.

The small association of the German Peace Council which is closely linked with the „Rosa Luxemburg Foundation“ organised recently the 62nd „Peace Talks“ in conjunction with RSL,
titel „Another Syria is Possible“. The minutes reporting on the event which lead to an invitation by the „German Foundation for Sience and Politics“ (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik) an official adviser of the government. The minutes also deplore „an attitude within peace circles that sides with Assad“.

This said, it seems more than urgent to point out some essentials for peacework in times of war.

  • The basics for peace activism are layed down in the UN-Charta.
  • Non-Intervention in the internal affairs of souvereign nations are a condition for peaceful cooperation.
  • The respect for souvereignity is a keynote.
  • Any call for „regime change“ or a hypocritically assumed „responsibility to protect“ as an umbrella for military intervention are incompatible with international law, see UN Charta and the Conventions based on this precious document.
  • Peace must be based on justice if it is to last.
  • Peace workers must have the courage to criticise their own government in the very first place especially when it comes to nucelar arms policies and NATO adherence who claims and eternal right on nucelar weapons.
  • Peace workers must consequently say clearly no to any threat of war to an other nation.
  • Peace workers must take sides and inform themselves on global issues.
  • There doing must be publicly accessible and controllable and accountabiltiy of their leaders whose election must undergo democratic procedures.

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