Jewish Voice for Peace and the Institute for Middle East Understanding: Celebrities, Artists, Activists Call for Palestinian Freedom in Gaza Names Project (VIdeo)

Video: Celebrities, artists and activists call for Palestinian freedom in #GazaNames project

Adam Horowitz on July 28, 2014 29

Jewish Voice for Peace and the Institute for Middle East Understanding have released a powerful new video featuring celebrities, artists, activists and everyday people speaking out for Palestinian human rights. The video features people holding signs with the names and ages of Palestinian civilians recently killed by the Israeli military in Gaza. Some of the notable people pictured include Chuck D, Jonathan Demme, Gloria Steinem, Wallace Shawn, Tony Kushner, Mira Nair, Roger Waters, Brian Eno, and many others. In a press release to accompany the video playwright Eve Ensler says, “This is a scream on paper. This is a wail. “There are no more words. Only this moment where we rise against the illegal and deathly occupation of Palestine, against mass slaughter of the defenseless, against the complicit silence of the international community, against the military might and arrogance of the Israeli and the U.S. governments who choose annihilation over justice and love.” Continue reading →
source:http://mondoweiss.net

"Keine deutschen Waffen ins 'Heilige Land'! Kundgebung vor dem Schloss Bellevue am Mittwoch!

Einladung nach Berlin zu einer Open-Air- Kundgebung 

Alle Freundinnen und Freunde, alle die Friedens zwischen Israel und den Palästinensern wünschen, bitten wir herzlich unter der zentralen Losung "Keine deutschen Waffen ins 'Heilige Land'!“ Mittwoch, den 30.07.2014 um 12.00 vor dem Schloss Bellevue, Spreeweg 1, 10557 Berlin zusammenzukommen. Als Redner wirken u.a. mit:

Abdul Rahman Alawi, DAG-Vizepräsident – ehemals Leiter des Palästina – Büros für die Nordischen Staaten

Prof. Dr. Rolf Verleger, ehemaliges Direktoriums-Mitglied im Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland

Dr. Rupert Neudeck, Gründer des Cap Anamur / Deutsche Not-Ärzte e.V., Vorsitzender des Friedenskorps Grünhelme e.V.

Dr. Gerhard Fulda, DAG-Vizepräsident, Botschafter a.D.

Dr. Martin Breidert, Sprecher der Deutsch- Palästinensischen Gesellschaft, Regionalgruppe NRW Süd, Dozent und Pfarrer i.R.

Hans-Christof Graf von Sponeck, beigeordneter Generalsekretär Vereinte Nationen (UNO) a.D., DAG-Beiratsmitglied

Peter Kranz, Pfarrer i.R., Vorsitzender des Ökumenischen Zentrums für Umwelt-,Friedens-und Eine-Welt-Arbeit e.V.

Harald Moritz Bock, Deutsch-Arabische Gesellschaft (Generalsekretär)

Unsere zusätzlichen Losungen werden auf Plakaten gedruckt:

Nahostkriege gefährden den Weltfrieden!
GAZA – Schlachtfeld der ,moralischsten Armee der Welt‘
Gazakrieg – Stoppt den Bombenterror !
Keine deutsche Waffenhilfe für Aggressoren !
Es reicht ! Wie viele Kriege noch für Israels Sicherheit? Empört Euch !
Gaza-Blockade – Verbrechen gegen  die Menschlichkeit!
Siedlungen auf geraubtem Land töten jeden Frieden!

Kein Leben unter Drohnen, Raketen und Kanonen !

Israel raus aus den besetzten Gebieten !
Freiheit der Meere auch für Palästina !

Keine Religion liefert Rechtsansprüche auf fremdes Land !

GAZA: deutsche Politik durch Schweigen mitschuldig!

Menschlichkeit ist niemals antisemitisch!
Die Apartheidmauer muss weg !

Existenzrecht für Israel UND für Palästina 
Beendet die heuchelnde deutsche Solidarität mit Friedensunwilligen !

Einreiseverbot für Kriegsverbrecher !

Für eine atomwaffenfreie Zone Nahost !

Das Stigma "Antisemit" ist zum Gütesiegel für mutige Menschenrechtsverfechter geworden

Das  bösartigste aller Schreckgepenste, der Antisemitismus zieht nicht mehr.

Eine Antwort auf die flächendeckende mediale Verunglimpfung von Stimmen gegen den israelischen Völkermord

von Irene Eckert am 28. Juli 2014

Das Stigma „Antisemit“ ist zum Erkennungszeichen für mutige Menschen geworden. Es gilt für all jene, die sich trotz medialer Dauerhetze gegen vermeintliche Verbrechen einer „radikal-islamischen Hamas“ das eigene Denken und das fühlende Herz nicht haben abkaufen lassen. Es gilt für all jene, die noch Worte finden und sich auf die Straße trauen, um gegen das völkermörderische Vorgehen des Staates Israel und seiner Hintermänner Protest einzulegen.

Die stumm gemachte Mehrheit der Völker und Menschen auf allen Kontinenten fühlt in diesen Tagen und in diesen Stunden mit dem seit über 70 Jahren unter israelischer Herrschaft leidenden palästinensischen Volk. Alle Welt schaut mit Entsetzen insbesondere auf GAZA, wo 1,5 Millionen Menschen schon viel zu lange ein einkaserniertes Leben voller Entbehrungen fristen. Wer noch ein Herz hat, fühlt mit den Frauen und Kindern, mit deren Vätern und Brüdern, die hilf-und schutzlos dem israelischen Dauerbombardement ausgesetzt sind. Fassungslos nehmen sie zur Kenntnis, wie Krankenhäuser, Schulen, zivile Infrastruktur zum wiederholten Male vernichtet wird. Die Menschheit begreift nicht mehr, wie die politischen Führer der westlichen Welt Israel mit modernsten Waffen ausstatten, ihnen gar nuklear bestückbare U-Boote liefern, während der Judenstaat  auf die Zivilbevölkerung  Phosphorbomben und abgereichertes Uran  herunterregnen lässt

Die vom Westen heuchlerisch vorgetragene „Verantwortung zum Schutz“ gegen undemokratische Umtriebe, gegen Diktatoren und Barbaren hat ausgedient. 

Das jüdische Volk hat den großen Kredit verspielt, der dem Opfer einer ebenso völkermörderischen NAZI-Barbarei lange Zeit zukam. Das ist um so beklagenswerter, als es vor allem veranwortungsbewusste jüdische Menschen aller Nationen sind, die ihre Stimmen laut erheben, um der vollkommen verantwortungslosen und verbrecherisch gewordenen israelischen Politik Einhalt zu gebieten. Das jüdische Volk, die jüdischen Menschen, traditionsbewusst oder a-religiös haben eine solche verachtungsvolle Instrumentalisierung nicht verdient, wie sie ihnen durch die heutige israelische Staatsführung auferlegt wird. Das gegenwärtige Vorgehen Israels, auch wenn es von den Strippenziehern im Westen orchestriert wird, der imperiale Ziele  damit verfolgt, wird sich gegen das jüdische Volk richten. Der aufgestaute Unmut gegen eine verlogene und rücksichtslos jedes Völker- und Menschenrecht ignorierende Politik wird wieder Unschuldige treffen. Dem ist vorzubeugen durch klare und differenzierte Stellungnahmen gegen von staatlicher Seite begangene Verbrechen. Die Schuldigen und ihre Hintermänner sind schließlich eindeutig zu benennen und haftbar zu machen für ihre jedem Rechtsbewusstsein und jedem geschriebenen und ungeschriebenen Gesetz Hohn sprechenden Taten. Tragen wir also zur Verwirklichung folgender Losungen das unsrige bei:

Stoppt das Bomardement von GAZA!

Beendet die völkerrechtswidrige Blockade!

Israel muss zur Waffenruhe veranlasst werden und zwar sofort! Dies ist nur möglich durch einen Poltitikwandel in den USA und in allen NATO-Staaten.

Dazu ist noch viel mehr Druck von der Straße erforderlich.

Dieser Druck wird nur entstehen durch eine eindeutige Verurteilung der gegenwärtigen Israelpolitik des Westens.

Der Antisemitismus hat als Keule zur Niederhaltung dieser eindeutigen Positionierung ausgedient. Wir lassen uns nicht mehr einschüchtern durch das Schreckgespenst.

Israel Is Stealing and Murdering Its Way Through Palestine

Since the 1940s Zionists have been stealing Palestine from the Palestinians. The majority of Palestinians have been removed from their homes and their country. They exist in refugee camps in other countries and 1.5 million are concentrated in the Gaza Ghetto... Israel is always the aggressor but always take the role of the victim. Palestinian women and children are all subhumans - ”snakes” as one Israeli politician put it--who sneak into Israel through secret tunnels (whose existence is akin to Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction) wearing suicide bomb belts and blow up innocent Israelis along with themselves... To stop this slaughter of innocent Israelis, Israel has to blow up Palestinian hospitals, schools, and civilian homes and apartment blocks... 

28.07.2014
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2014/07/28/sanctions-and-airliners-paul-craig-roberts.html

	OUR COLUMNIST
			Paul Craig ROBERTS

Sanctions and Airliners - Paul Craig Roberts

EDITOR'S CHOICE | 28.07.2014 | 14:46

Photos are now available of the wreckage from the Malaysian airliner crash. Notice the extensive debris and the large section of fuselage. You are observing remains of an airliner that was hit with a missile at 33,000 feet and fell to impact land. Remember, no such debris was present at the site where the airliner is alleged to have hit the Pentagon and at the alleged crash site in Pennsylvania of the 4th 9/11 hijacked airliner. Give that some thought. No doubt but that the 9/11 Commission will conclude that only Malaysian airliners leave debris. The unilateral US sanctions announced by Obama on July 16 blocking Russian weapons and energy companies access to US bank loans demonstrate Washington’s impotence. The rest of the world, including America’s two largest business organizations, turned their backs on Obama. The US Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers placed ads in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post protesting US sanctions. NAM said that the manufacturer’s association is “disappointed that the US is extending sanctions in increasingly unilateral ways that will undermine US commercial engagement.”  Bloomberg reported that “meeting in Brussels, leaders of the European Union refused to match the US measures.” In attempting to isolate Russia, the White House Fool has isolated Washington. The sanctions will have no effect on the Russian companies. The Russian companies can get more bank loans than they need from China, or from France and Germany. The three traits that define Washington--arrogance, hubris, and corruption--make Washington a slow learner.  Arrogant people wallowing in hubris are incapable of learning.  When they encounter resistance they respond with bribes, threats, and coercion. Diplomacy requires learning ability, but Washington left diplomacy years ago and relies on force. Consequently, with its sanctions Washington is undermining its own power and influence. Sanctions are encouraging countries to withdraw from the dollar payments system that is the foundation of US power. Christian Noyer, Governor of the Bank of France and a member of the European Central Bank’s Governing Council, said that Washington’s sanctions are driving companies and countries out of the dollar payments system. The huge sum extorted from the French bank, BNP Paribus, for doing business with countries disapproved by Washington makes clear the increased legal risks that arise from using the dollar when Washington makes the rules. Washington’s attack on the French bank was the occasion for many to remember the numerous past sanctions and to contemplate future sanctions, such as those that loom for Germany’s Commerzbank.  A movement to diversify the currencies used in international trade is inevitable. Noyer pointed out that trade between Europe and China does not need to use the dollar and can be fully paid in Euros or Renminbi. The phenomenon of US rules expanding to all US dollar-denominated transactions around the world is accelerating the movement away from the dollar payment system. Some countries have already arranged bilateral agreements with trading partners to make their trade payments in their own currencies. The BRICS are establishing new payment methods independently of the dollar and are setting up their own International Monetary Fund to finance trade imbalances. The US dollar’s exchange value depends on its role in the international payments system.  As this role shrivels, so will demand for dollars and the dollar’s exchange value.  Inflation will enter the US economy via import prices, and already hard-pressed Americans will experience more compression of their living standards. In the 21st century distrust has been growing of Washington. Washington’s lies, such as Iraq’s “weapons of mass destruction,” “Assad’s use of chemical weapons,”  and “Iranian nukes” are recognized as lies by other governments.  The  lies were used by Washington to destroy countries and to threaten others with destruction, keeping the world in constant turmoil.  Washington delivers no benefit that offsets the turmoil that Washington inflicts on everyone else.  Washington’s friendship requires complying with Washington’s demands, and governments are concluding that Washington’s friendship is not worth the high cost. The NSA spy scandal and Washington’s refusal to apologize and desist has deepened the distrust of Washington by its own allies. World polls show that other countries regard the US as the greatest threat to peace.  The American people themselves have no confidence in their government. Polls show that a large majority of Americans believe that politicians, the presstitute media, and private interest groups such as Wall Street and the military/security complex rig the system to serve themselves at the expense of the American people. Washington’s empire is beginning to crack, a circumstances that will bring desperate action from Washington. Today (July 17) I heard a BBC news report on National Public Radio about a Malaysian airliner being shot down in Ukraine.  The reporting might have been honest, but it sounded like a frame-up of Russia and the Ukrainian “separatists.” As the BBC solicited more biased opinions, the broadcast ended with a report from social media that separatists had brought down the airliner with a Russian weapon system. No one on the program wondered what the separatists had to gain by shooting down an airliner.  Instead, the discussion was whether once Russian responsibility was established, would this force the EU to endorse tougher US sanctions against Russia. The BBC was following Washington’s script and heading the story where Washington wanted it to go. The appearance of a Washington operation is present.  All the warmongers were ready on cue.  US Vice President Joe Biden declared that the airliner was “blown out of the sky.”  It was “not an accident.”  Why would a person without an agenda be so declarative prior to having any information?  Clearly, Biden was not implying that it was Kiev that blew the airliner out of the sky.  Biden was at work in advance of the evidence blaming Russia. Indeed, the way Washington operates, it will pile on blame until it needs no evidence. Senator John McCain jumped on the supposition that there were US citizens aboard to call for punitive actions against Russia before the passenger list and the cause of the airliner’s fate are known. The “investigation” is being conducted by Washington’s puppet regime in Kiev.  I think we already know what the conclusion will be. The probability is high that we are going to have more fabricated evidence, such as the fabricated evidence presented by US Secretary of State Colin Powell to the UN “proving” the existence of the non-existent Iraqi “weapons of mass destruction.”  Washington has succeeded with so many lies, deceptions and crimes that it believes that it can always succeed again. At this time as I write, we have no reliable information about the airliner, but the Roman question always pertains:  “Who benefits?”  There is no conceivable motive for separatists to shoot down an airliner, but Washington did have a motive--to frame-up Russia--and possibly a second motive.  Among the reports or rumors there is one that says Putin’s presidential plane flew a similar route to that of the Malaysian airliner within 37 minutes of one another. This report has led to speculation that Washington decided to rid itself of Putin and mistook the Malaysian airliner for Putin’s jet. RT reports that the two airplanes are similar in appearance. http://rt.com/news/173672-malaysia-plane-crash-putin/  Before you say Washington is too sophisticated to mistake one airliner for another, keep in mind that when Washington shot down an Iranian airliner over Iranian air space, the US Navy claimed that it thought the 290 civilians that it murdered were in an Iranian fighter jet, a F-14 Tomcat fighter, a US-made fighter that was a mainstay of the US Navy.  If the US Navy cannot tell its own workhorse fighter aircraft from an Iranian airliner, clearly the US can confuse two airliners that the RT report shows appear very similar. During the entire BBC frame-up of Russia, no one mentioned the Iranian passenger airliner that the US “blew out of the sky.” No one put sanctions on Washington. Whatever the outcome of the Malaysian airliner incident, it demonstrates a danger in Putin’s soft policy toward Washington’s ongoing hard intervention in Ukraine.  Putin’s decision to respond with diplomacy instead of with military means to Washington’s provocations in Ukraine gave Putin a winning hand, as evidenced by the opposition to Obama’s sanctions by the EU and US business interests.  However, by not bringing a quick forceable end to the Washington-sponsored conflict in Ukraine, Putin has left the door open for the devious machinations in which Washington specializes. If Putin had accepted the requests of the former Russian territories in eastern and southern Ukraine to rejoin Mother Russia, the Ukrainian imbroglio would have come to an end months ago, and Russia would not be running risks of being framed-up. Putin did not get the full benefit of refusing to send troops into the former Russian territories, because Washington’s official position is that Russian troops are operating in Ukraine. When facts do not support Washington’s agenda, Washington disposes of the facts. The US media blames Putin as the perpetrator of violence in Ukraine. It is Washington’s accusation, not any known facts, that is the basis for the sanctions. As there is no act too dastardly for Washington to undertake,  Putin and Russia could become victims of a devious machination. Russia seems hypnotized by the West and motivated to be included as a part of the West.  This desire for acceptance plays into Washington’s hands.  Russia does not need the West, but Europe needs Russia.  One option for Russia is to tend to Russian interests and wait for Europe to come courting. The Russian government should not forget that Washington’s attitude toward Russia is formed by the Wolfowitz Doctrine which states: “Our first objective is to prevent the re-emergence of a new rival, either on the territory of the former Soviet Union or elsewhere, that poses a threat on the order of that posed formerly by the Soviet Union. This is a dominant consideration underlying the new regional defense strategy and requires that we endeavor to prevent any hostile power from dominating a region whose resources would, under consolidated control, be sufficient to generate global power.” paulcraigroberts.org

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Gush Shalom Tel Aviv "It is forbidden to shoot at civilian populations"

Stop the killing and destruction!

Cease  the fire, lift the siege,

move towards  peace!

Demonstration

Saturday, July 19, 2014 at 8:00 pm

Habima Square, Tel Aviv

  

It is forbidden to shoot at civilian populations. It is forbidden and still it happens. Both sides do it. Hamas shoots on the population of Israel. The IDF shoots at the population of Gaza.

Two equal sides? Far from it. The State of Israel has enormous military and economic strength. With massive financial assistance from the United States the State of Israel built the "Iron Dome" system, a great technological achievement  which protects us. Therefore, the missile attacks on Israeli cities are mostly a nuisance. The air raid alarms are irritating, a bit disruptive to the routine of life, sometimes frightening – but not much more.  

Gazans have no Iron Dome, no protection whatsoever against the death which falls down on them from the air and the sea and the land. The State of Israel is pounding Gaza, killing and killing and killing. True - The State of Israel has no premeditated purpose of killing innocent civilians, women and men and the elderly and children playing football on the beach. There is no premeditated purpose – but there is a reality. The killing of unarmed civilians in Gaza is going on, day by day and hour by hour. More than two hundred Palestinians have been killed. A large part of them were unarmed civilians, dozens of them were children. And it goes on.

"Why are they shooting at us?" Wondered righteously the outgoing President of Israel, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. "Why did they not make of Gaza a flourishing Singapore?". But Shimon Peres forgot to mention that the city state Singapore, whose population and size are comparable to those of the Gaza Strip, has the largest ports in the world. There is no one to block thousands of ships from all over world sailing in and out of that port, maintain the flow of trade on which the wealth of Singapore is built. The minuscule port of Gaza is closed and blockaded. The Israeli Navy is ever vigilant to prevent even the smallest vessels reaching it, and shoots at Gazan fishing boats which venture  more than a few kilometers from shore. Gaza is a big prison for its residents, nearly two millions of them. The State of Israel and its neighbor Egypt – with whom relationship has tightened considerably since General Sisi seized power - cooperate in imposing the siege on Gaza and hold its population effectively  incarcerated, unable to come and go to the outside world. Gazas live on a seashore. They can swim and play on the beach (on days where lethal shots  don’t come at them out of the sea). But they can’t get on a boat and sail into the sea, or on a plane flying to destinations around the world. Also the land crossings are almost completely closed. For years, millions of people are locked up in the little, narrow extremely crowded piece of land called the Gaza Strip.

"We imposed a siege on them because they are shooting at us," say the leaders of Israel. (By the way, the siege on Gaza began long before Hamas took power there). "We shoot because you impose a siege on us. We will not agree to a cease-fire which does not include the lifting of the siege," say Gaza residents this week (not all of them  Hamas members).

There is no point to a ceasefire which would simply restore the situation that existed two weeks ago. The situation of two weeks ago was unbearable - a situation of a tight siege over the Gaza Strip, causing suffering and economic suffocation and extreme poverty for the majority of its inhabitants. The siege of Gaza has spawned several rounds of conflict. Continuation of the siege is a sure recipe for another round in a year or two.

Only the lifting of the siege on Gaza, enabling its residents to come and go by land and sea and air, export and import goods  and develop their economy, can open up for them a hope for the future. Only the lifting of the siege can give a chance for peace and quiet on Israel's border with the Gaza Strip.

On Saturday night Gush Shalom will join with peace and human rights  organizations in a protest against the cruel and unnecessary war called " Operation Protective Edge".  Last week, an earlier demonstration on the same location was attacked by extreme right thugs. Organizers of the current protest have taken precautions to make sure this is not repeated - and of course, what happened will not deter us from expressing our position on an issue vital to our future.

As we were informed, demonstration marshals and stewards will be present on the spot, and anyone intending to come should follow their instructions regarding location, conduct of the demonstration and its dispersal, andrefrain from taking violent action from our side.

Contact: Adam Keller +972-(0)54-2340749

Stop the killing and destruction!

Cease  the fire, lift the siege,

move towards  peace!

Demonstration

Saturday, July 19, 2014 at 8:00 pm

Habima Square, Tel Aviv

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