Apartheid

I have many friends connected with FOSNA/FRIENDS OF SABEEL NORTH AMERICA and can connect CROSSLEFT with ease to someone who attended the historic conference in Boston last week when over 900 attended the largest conference to be held by Sabeel in the U.S.A!!!

Desmond Tutu, Naim Ateek, Noam Chomsky, Anat Biletzki, Phyllis Bennis, Jeff Halper, and others addressed:

The Apartheid Paradigm in Palestine-Israel: Issues of Justice & Peace
October 26-27, 2007. Old South Church, Copley Square, Boston, MA

So many people stood in line to register at the last minute for the Saturday sessions of the Boston Sabeel conference that for the first time, Sabeel turned people away.

SOLD OUT signs were posted on the front doors of the Old South Church in Boston. Inside was packed to the rafters with folks from 30 U.S. states and from five countries.

The event drew opposition from pro-occupation and pro-Zionist groups in the wider Boston area.

Please Join The Boston Chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace, The Mass. Chapter of The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee and FOSNA/Friends of Sabeel [THE WAY] who are ecumencial Christians for Justice and Peace

At a large, area-wide mobilization

Tearing Down Walls – Building Bridges: Protesting Apartheid in Israel/Palestine
October 27th, 2007 – 3:00 p. m.
Copley Square, Boston

Hear activists from Israel, Palestine, South Africa and the U. S. address the issues of inequality, violence and peace
in Israel/Palestine

Take a stand for justice and human rights for everyone in Israel/Palestine!!!!!!!

“We should put out a clarion call to the government of the people of Israel, to the Palestinian people and say:
peace is possible, peace based on justice is possible. We will do all we can to assist you to achieve this peace,
because it is God's dream, and you will be able to live amicably together as sisters and brothers.” –

Published first on 09/28/07 @
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2007/09/28/p1982...

The Political Question and Moral Accountability
eileen fleming

"My aim is to agitate & disturb people. I'm not selling bread, I'm selling yeast." ~ Unamuno, wall graffiti in Paris, May 1968

Last week in the Al Bureij refugee camp, in central Gaza, a USA made Caterpillar bulldozer was the weapon that brutally murdered 19 year old Mahmoud Khafafi. Bulldozers and tanks entered Mahmoud's farmland village at dawn and uprooted olive trees, razed the land and demolished thirteen homes. Young Palestinians threw stones at the tanks, which began shooting in return. The victim ran behind an olive tree and when the bulldozer began to uproot the tree, Mahmoud was shot in the neck, yet attempted to flee until the blade cut his head off and his brains spilled out. [http://www.mezan.org human rights organization in Gaza gathered the details]

Jimmy Carter: Ex-President, Humanitarian...Movie Star?
by Adam Howard, September 11, 2007.

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/62286/?cID=728835#c728835

Jimmy Carter generated just as much buzz as Hollywood hearthtrobs George Clooney and Brad Pitt at the opening night of the Toronto Film Festival.

WAWA Blog September 2, 2007

Prophets on Apartheid: Part 1

According to a UN report, Haaretz columnist Danny Rubinstein admitted that "Israel today was an apartheid State with four different Palestinian groups: those in Gaza, East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Israeli Palestinians, each of which had a different status...even if the wall followed strictly the line of the pre-1967 border, it would still not be justified. The two peoples needed cooperation rather than walls because they must be neighbors." [1]

WAWA Blog September 1, 2007

My favorite secular Jewish prophet, American Israeli and founder of Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions and a 2006 nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize wrote...

Right of Reply: There's no correct way to be pro-Israel

JEFF HALPER , THE JERUSALEM POST
Aug. 28, 2007

A funny thing happened to me on my way from Tel Aviv to New York a couple months ago. I was sitting in my aisle seat reading a book, when all of a sudden I became aware of the tall figure of a man looming over me.

I returned from my 5th journey to Israel Palestine on July 29, 2007.
All of the indigenous Christians I spoke with cannot understand the apathy of American Christians to their EXODUS. I told them the USA government and media do not report the truth and so they are clueless. I hope this article may WAKE them UP!

[Occupied West Bank, July 27, 2007] On Wednesday July 25th, the most numinous encounters occurred, because of being in the right place at the right time...

"Israel is a not a democracy but is an Ethnocracy, meaning a country run and controlled by a national group with some democratic elements but set up with Jews in control and structured to keep them in control.

"It is apartheid and Bush and Hillary are both willing collaborators."-Jeff Halper, American Israeli, Founder and Coordinator of ICAHD/Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions and a Noble Peace Prize Nominee for 2006.

The following was posted 12 hours ago at the Daily Kos.
So far, it has reaped over 275 comments; the vast majority have been personal attacks on me but NOT on the words I have written.

NOT one comment has even addressed the Topic: APARTHEID in Palestine!

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/5/29/74124/0638

The "A" Word
eileen fleming