FLOTILLA FACTSHEET – Palestine Solidarity Campaign June10
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Today, yet again, protestors in Nabi Salah were subjected to merciless Israeli violence with one youth injured and ambulanced away for treatment. This time, however, the perpetrators were repeatedly challenged by a brave, brave woman: Huwaida Arraf, who blocked with her body two Israeli Occupation Forces soldiers from firing killer, high velocity tear gas projectiles [...]
Today’s protesters in Bil’in brought out the message about boycott of Israeli blood diamonds. Every year, consumers the world over unwittingly spend billions of dollar on diamonds crafted in Israel, and Palestinians call for a boycott. The demonstration went on as usual, Palestinians, Israelis and internationals marched together up to the gate of the wall, [...]
Dear Parliamentarian, In the present sweltering heat of the Gaza summer, civilians are currently suffering from electricity blackouts often lasting for between eight to twelve hours duration (up from average cuts of six to eight hours before January 2010). According to the U.N “these cuts affect the provision of essential services water supply, sewage removal/treatment…medical [...]
SYDNEY Fri 2 July, 6pm Politics in the Pub click on image to enlarge
Press TV - 29 June 2010 7,300 Palestinians, including 17 legislators and two former ministers, are currently detained in about 20 Israeli prisons, a report says. Hundreds of them have never been charged or put on trial. Among the detained are 33 women, nearly 300 children, 296 administrative detainees, and dozens of political leaders, Palestinian [...]
IMEMC - 29 June 2010 Hamas political leader, Mahmoud Zahhar, stated that there are at least eight solidarity ships that would be heading to the Gaza Strip in the coming two months. Zahhar added that some of the ships would be sailing from the Arabic Gulf. In an interview with the Independent British paper on [...]
by Barak Ravid - Haaretz - 29 June 2010 An independent Palestinian State is not a possibility in the next two years, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said following a meeting with Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Jerusalem on Tuesday. “There is absolutely no chance of reaching a Palestinian state before the year 2012,” Lieberman said, [...]
[nggallery id=33] MELBOURNE 30 June, 6.30 State Library click on image to enlarge
The attack on the Gaza relief flotilla jeopardizes Israel itself by John J Mearsheimer - The American Conservative - 1 August 2010 issue Israel’s botched raid against the Gaza-bound humanitarian flotilla on May 31 is the latest sign that Israel is on a disastrous course that it seems incapable of reversing. The attack also highlights [...]