Thursday, March 29, 2012

Jerusalem is at the heart of the Palestinian struggle



Tuesday, 27 March 2012 / by Sarah Colborne, The Guardian - The traditional centre of Palestinian social, religious and economic life is increasingly being isolated by Israeli policies.

Jerusalem is a city that embodies the cultural heritage of three religions: Islam, Christianity, and Judaism. Yet Palestinians – both Christian and Muslim – are being driven out of Jerusalem. Just one example of this ethnic cleansing is taking place in Silwan, where 1,000 residents are facing imminent eviction as their homes make way for the King David tourist park. In response to the urgency of the situation, an international alliance is mounting a series of peaceful protests worldwide on 30 March to call for an end to the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians living in Jerusalem.

Jerusalem, the traditional centre of Palestinian social, religious and economic life, is increasingly being isolated and restricted by Israeli policies. As the Israeli human rights organisation B’Tselem points out, ever since Israel illegally occupied East Jerusalem in 1967, in violation of international law, “the government of Israel’s primary goal in Jerusalem has been to create a demographic and geographic situation that will thwart any future attempt to challenge Israeli sovereignty over the city”. Some 200,000 settlers now live in illegal Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem.

Concern over these policies is not limited to pro-Palestinian activists, or Israeli human rights groups. An EU Heads of Mission report last year highlighted the continued expansion of illegal Israeli settlements, evictions and demolitions of Palestinian homes, and restrictions on legal and religious freedoms. Palestinians who have lived for generations in East Jerusalem can lose their residency rights if they leave the city because of a Kafkaesque notion that the centre of their life is no longer in Jerusalem, while Israeli citizens retain guaranteed citizenship. Since Israel’s occupation of East Jerusalem, more than 14,000 Palestinians have had their residency rights revoked. The 270,000 Palestinians living in East Jerusalem can find themselves ordered to demolish their homes or businesses, or being forced to watch whilst settlers take over their homes. It is estimated that 20,000 Palestinian homes in Jerusalem have been issued with demolition orders.

Despite Israel’s violations of international law, and the Fourth Geneva Convention – designed to protect those living under occupation – governments have failed to prevent Israel’s violations of international law, which is why it is so vital that international civil society is acting.

The Global March to Jerusalem is bringing together an impressive coalition of Palestinian voices and organisations, with supporters from dozens of countries around the world travelling to Jerusalem, and to the border countries, to participate in the peaceful actions, or organising protests in London and other cities around the world. Two Nobel laureates, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Mairead Maguire, have joined the international endorsers. Other members of the advisory board include Mustafa Barghouti, Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb, author and activist in the Jewish Renewal movement; and Ronnie Kasrils, the South African national liberation leader and former cabinet minister.

The struggle for freedom, peace and justice for Palestinians is a key issue for those of us committed to equality and human rights. I grew up during the era of apartheid in South Africa, and saw the potential for us all to successfully oppose injustice. This was why I sailed on the Mavi Marmara, in a flotilla with participants from over 40 countries, attempting to break Israel’s siege on Gaza. The struggle for Palestinian rights is at the core of the global movement for social and economic justice, for liberation, for equality, and against racism. The Global March to Jerusalem is continuing in that tradition, organising a nonviolent response to Israel’s violations of international law.

Gazan Ex-Prisoner Calls On The World To March For Jerusalem

Thursday, 29 March 2012, 1:52 pm

Gazan Ex-Prisoner Calls On The World To March For Jerusalem On Friday

Tawfiq Abu Naeem, one of the prisoners exchanged in last year’s swap deal which saw Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit exchanged for over 1,000 Palestinian prisoners, yesterday called on the people of the world to march in the Global March to Jerusalem (GMJ) on Friday, Palestinian Land Day.

“The cause of Palestine is the cause of prisoners,” he said. “We recall Hana Shalabi and all those brothers who have joined the hunger-strike to promote the cause of Jerusalem, and who carry it on their shoulders.”

As the day draws nearer, so too do the accusations that the march is a provocative attempt to de-legitimise Israel The International Committee of the GMJ denies this emphatically, and has released a document of Principles, named The Freedom Call, which states:

• We assert the importance of Jerusalem politically, culturally and religiously to the Palestinian people and humanity as a whole. We call for the protection of the Holy Places and all archaeological sites and consider all the efforts done to change its Arabic & cultural identity as a crime against humanity. We call on all international institutions to do their duties towards the city.

• The defence of Jerusalem and its liberation are a duty of all free people around the world and we call on all institutions, organizations, and individuals to participate in this duty.

• We condemn the Zionist campaign of ethnic cleansing in Jerusalem and the rest of Palestine including all ongoing policies intended to change the demographic and geographic situation in the city and aimed at its Judaisation. We also condemn the continuation of the Zionist occupation forces in building the apartheid wall that aims to expropriate more Palestinian lands and convert the occupied areas into shrinking cantons isolated from each other.

• We support the right of the Palestinian People to liberate their lands and to live on them in freedom and dignity like all other people on earth.

• We support the non-negotiable & inalienable rights of the Palestinian People including their families to return to their homes and lands from which they were uprooted.

• We reject all racist laws that distinguish between people based on ethnicity or religion and call for their cancellation and criminalization.

• The Global March to Jerusalem does not represent any one faction or political party but we call for participation of all social forces, political factions, and ideologies.

• The Global March to Jerusalem is a global peaceful movement which does not use violence to achieve its goals.

And the goal is simple – to recover their stolen land. “Changing the landmarks of the streets of Jerusalem and putting the Star of David everywhere, even in the smallest parts of Jerusalem, will not make us forget.”

“As we are calling today on people everywhere to take part in the Global March to Jerusalem, we tell them that neither days, months nor years will make us forget our cause.”

Link to video of Tawfiq Abu Naeem: http://youtu.be/2Wb-RkD9yeY

Sumber: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1203/S00293/gazan-ex-prisoner-calls-on-the-world-to-march-for-jerusalem.htm


Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Senarai Delegasi Malaysia (MyGMJ) Ke Amman, Jordan.



by Malaysia Global March to Jerusalem (MyGMJ) on Tuesday, March 27, 2012 at 10:53pm ·
Berikut disenaraikan delegasi Malaysia ke Amman, Jordan bagi menyertai 'Global March to Jerusalem' di sana. Seramai 23 orang telah mendaftar dari pelbagai latar belakang. Moga urusan mereka, diberkati.

  1. NORAZMI BIN TALIB
  2. MAZENAH BINTI ABU BAKAR
  3. AKMAR HISHAM BIN ZULKEFLI
  4. MUHAMMAD AIMAN B MOHD ZIN
  5. MOHAMED MU'AZ BIN MOHAMED RUSLAN
  6. BADRUL HISHAM BIN MOHAMMAD DAUD
  7. MAT DAUD DERAMAN
  8. DR ZOLKEPLI BIN HJ YAHAYA
  9. ZUN ARIF BIN HAKIM
  10. KHABBAB BIN JAMALLUDIN
  11. MOHAMMAD AZRIN B AMRAN
  12. AHMAD DANIEL BIN SHARUDIN
  13. MOHD IZAM B MOHD DIN
  14. PUZLAH BT MOHD
  15. AMINUDDIN BIN RUSKAM
  16. ROSLAN B MOHAMAD
  17. DR MOHD AFANDI B SALLEH
  18. AZMAN JACOB
  19. JAMALUDDIN SHAHIDAN
  20. AHMAD SAZALI ABA IBRAHIM
  21. MUSTAPA MANSOR
  22. MAPIM1_(Nama akan diberitahu kemudian)
  23. MAPIM2_(Nama akan diberitahu kemudian)

*Hampir semua delegasi bertolak pada tarikh dan masa yang sama iaitu 28 Mar jam 10.00 malam dari KLIA. Dijemput saudara-mara atau sahabat-sahabat berdekatan, meraikan mereka. Semoga mendapat yang terbaik di sana.

source: http://www.mygmj.org/2012/03/senarai-delegasi-malaysia-mygmj-ke.html

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Israeli Massacres on Palestinians

Israeli Crimes: Details and Numbers of the Nazi Jews activities

The Nobel Prize of Literature Jose Saramago compares the suffering of the Palestinians under Israeli occupation as the same suffering of the jews in the Nazi boot camps. “The repression from Israel is the worst form of Apartheid. Nobody has the faintest idea of what is going on here, even the best informed people. Everything is in pieces, the land is destroyed and nothing else may be planted. All this smells like a boot camp, like Auschwitz. The israeli have turned into NAZI JEWS” , he declared after a visit to Palestina in March, 2002.

He is correct. Let us see why:
Although the image that Israel distributes about herself is that of an oppressed nation, it is with heavy hearts that we present these crimes that stand for themselves for the brutality of the Israeli Army and the heartlessness of its soldiers who seem to have a thirst for blood. It is for the hope that the world may see a clearer picture that we present these painful facts. It is interesting to notice that today’s media does not dwell on these crimes as they do on the Holocaust.

They are reported in the news for a week or two and then swept into the sea of oblivion. Those who attempt to revive the true history of Israel are charged of being anti-Semitic. So with the hope to keep those memories in mind we present this shameful history of Israel that seems to have found that the role of Goliath is more interesting than that of David.



The following list of massacres is by no means exclusive, but they reflect the nature of the Zionist occupation of Palestine and Lebanon and show that massacres and expulsions were not aberrations that happen in any war, but organized atrocities with only one aim, that is to have a Zionist state which is ‘goyim rein’.

The King David Massacre
The Massacre at Baldat al-Shaikh
YEHIDA MASSACRE
KHISAS MASSACRE
QAZAZA MASSACRE
The Semiramis Hotel Massacre
The Massacre at Dair Yasin
NASER AL-DIN MASSACRE
THE TANTURA MASSACRE
BEIT DARAS MASSACRE
THE DAHMASH MOSQUE MASSACRE
DAWAYMA MASSACRE
HOULA MASSACRE
SHARAFAT MASSACRE
Salha Massacre
The Massacre at Qibya
KAFR QASEM MASSACRE
Khan Yunis Massacre
The Massacre in Gaza City
AL-SAMMOU’ MASSACRE
Aitharoun Massacre
Kawnin Massacre
Hanin Massacre
Bint Jbeil Massacre
Abbasieh Massacre
Adloun Massacre
Saida Massacre
Fakhani Massacre
Beirut Massacre
Sabra And Shatila Massacre
Jibsheet Massacre
Sohmor Massacre
Seer Al Garbiah
Maaraka Massacres
Zrariah Massacre
Homeen Al-Tahta Massacre
Jibaa Massacre
Yohmor Massacre
Tiri massacre
Al-Naher Al-Bared Massacre
Ain Al-Hillwee Massacre
Oyon Qara Massacre
Siddiqine Massacre
A-Aqsa Mosqie Massacre
The Ibrahimi Mosque Massacre
The Jabalia Massacre
Aramta Massacre
Eretz Checkpoint Massacre
Deir Al-Zahrani Massacre
Nabatiyeh (school bus) Massacre
Mnsuriah Massacre
The Sohmor Second Massacre
Nabatyaih Massacre
Qana Massacre
Trqumia Massacr
Janta Massacre
24 Of June 1999 Massacres
Western Bekaa villages Massacre:
The Gaza Cast Lead Massacre (2008-2009)
The Mavi Marmara Massacre May 31, 2010
The Nakba Day Massacre May 15, 2011
The ongoing Silent or Silenced Massacre
The June 5 2011 Naksa Day Massacre