Petition Tag - israel

The mainstream media is full of leftist bias, reporting only what serves to further their statist agenda.

Worse is the media's bias against Israel, condemning them for defending themselves, while subsequently ignoring the true terror perpetuated by the Arab and Islamic communities.

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We support the right of Jews to live in Judea, Samaria, the Golan Heights and all of Jerusalem.

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The government of Israel has agreed (October 2011) to a transaction with the Hamas terrorist regime for the release of an Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, held hostage for more than five years.

In exchange, Israel is asked to release more than one thousand prisoners, all of them terrorists, many of them convicted murderers who have been sentenced to multi terms of life imprisonment. The list is long, but one terrorist in particular - a woman of 31 - stands out. Her name is Ahlam Tamimi and she is serving 16 life terms for a massacre which she engineered and helped to carry out.

We are asking that her name be removed from the long list of terrorists to be freed. She represents less than one tenth of one percent of the Hamas demands. Tamimi should remain in prison for the remainder of her days.

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Israel has been around since the beginning of time....
Way before the 1969 borders were put in place..... Israel has a right to exist as any other nation does... and they are about peace and helping those in need...

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Este mes de septiembre, la Asamblea General de Naciones Unidas podría votar si respalda o no un Estado Palestino declarado en forma unilateral. Los abajo firmantes, ciudadanos y residentes costarricenses, estamos convencidos que la ratificación de esta petitoria pondrá en peligro el proceso de paz, basados en los siguientes principios:

1. La paz solo resultará de un acuerdo mutuo y no de maniobras unilaterales ni de una imposición de la comunidad internacional. Así lo disponen las resoluciones 242 y 338 del Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU, así como los Acuerdos de Oslo, la Declaración de Camp David y la Hoja de Ruta, éstas últimas suscritas por la Autoridad Palestina e Israel.

2. No se puede negociar con una organización terrorista. Hamas, nuevo aliado de la Autoridad Palestina, se niega a reconocer la existencia del Estado de Israel y, más bien, procura su destrucción a través del uso del terrorismo y la violencia.

3. La comunidad internacional debe apoyar el derecho de autodeterminación del pueblo palestino y procurar su bienestar. Tal como lo manifestó el Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU, para resolver el conflicto es indispensable un acuerdo negociado entre ambas partes, reconociéndose mutuamente su derecho a existir bajo el principio de “dos Estados para dos pueblos” –uno para el pueblo judío y otro para el palestino-, con fronteras seguras, renunciando a la violencia y al terrorismo

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בחודש ספטמבר הקרוב, הרשות הפלסטינית, תוך הפרה ברורה של הסכמי שלום עליהם חתמה עם מדינת ישראל, מתכננת לבקש מהאו"ם להכיר ב"מדינה פלסטינית", על שטחים אשר עודם נמצאים במחלוקת, בצעד חד צדדי וללא הגעה להסכם עם מדינת ישראל. לאור צעד חד צדדי זה, למדינת ישראל לא נותר אלא להגיב בצעד חד צדדי מצידה, היה והרשות הפלסטינית תבצע את ההפרה.

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The involvement of Australian politicians in a "flotilla" which aims to encourage and support terrorism under the guise of humanitarian aid should result in the removal of their rights to run for any political position Australia.

They intend, like the last anti-israel provocation, to engage in illegal warfare with a foreign military (Israel) which is illegal. The red cross has stated that there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza and indeed Gaza has the highest standard of living and mortality rate in the entire arab world.

We must tell these MP's and the Australian government how disgusted we are with the involvement of the greens Sylvia Hale and Labors Lynda Voltz. The 2010 Flotilla resulted in the deaths of 9 IHH terrorists.

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In September 2011, the Palestinian Authority - which has recently merged and reconciled with the terrorist group, Hamas - plans to seek unilateral recognition of a Palestinian State based on the 1949 Armistice Lines at the United Nations.

Such a unilateral declaration of Palestinian statehood based on these borders will render Israel defenseless against the possibility of future conflicts with its Arab neighbors. Additionally, such a declaration of statehood and possible recognition by the United Nations will contradict the Oslo Accords, to which both Israel and the Palestinian Authority are bound.

The only way to establish a durable, secure peace between Israel and the Palestinian Authority - and thus be the basis for the legitimate formation of a Palestinian State - is through direct bilateral negotiations between the leaders of Israel and the Palestinian Authority; where the issues of finalized borders, the recognition of Israel as the Jewish State, security, Palestinian refugees and the status of Jerusalem will be resolved.

To ignore the peace process and unilaterally declare a Palestinian State would prolong the conflict and exacerbate and lend credence to hostilities.

Currently, Israel is seeking support from countries around the world to support the peace process and stop this ghastly resolution from being passed. Trinidad & Tobago has never taken an official position on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and has historically abstained from voting in any resolution at the United Nations General Assembly regarding this issue. However, with the new Peoples Partnership government in power, it is unclear whether Trinidad & Tobago will continue in this tradition, and so, this petition was started so that the foreign policy of abstaining will continue - or, if need be, Trinidad & Tobago should take the moral high-road and vote against any resolution at the United Nations General Assembly which recognizes the unilateral establishment of a Palestinian state outside of the peace process and negotiations.

Please note: This petition is not against the formation of a Palestinian state; rather, it is against the formation of a Palestinian state founded outside of the legally-binding peace process and outside of direct negotiations.

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Israeli Occupational Force are not only torturing Palestine's Children, but sexually abusing and molesting those children, who are in their custody.

Over 7,000 children had been arrested since September 2000, the beginning of the second Intifada. Some children as young as 10 are treated as harshly as adults, in violation of international law requiring special treatment for children.

Each year approximately 700 Palestinian children, some as young as 12 years, are detained and prosecuted in the Israeli military court system. The most common charge is for throwing stones. The overwhelming majority of these children are detained inside Israel in contravention of Article 76 of the Fourth Geneva Convention.

Please watch:
Stolen Children, Stolen Lives part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zaeERjVReE&feature=BFa&list=ULuma1ELkEOL0&index=1
Stolen Children, Stolen Lives part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9mDscNEws4&feature=related

UNICEF: Convention on the Rights of the Child
The articles of the Convention may be grouped into four categories of rights and a set of guiding principles:

1. Guiding principles (http://www.unicef.org/crc/files/Guiding_Principles.pdf): The guiding principles of the Convention include non-discrimination; adherence to the best interests of the child; the right to life, survival and development; and the right to participate. They represent the underlying requirements for any and all rights to be realized.

2. Survival and development rights (http://www.unicef.org/crc/files/Survival_Development.pdf): These are rights to the resources, skills and contributions necessary for the survival and full development of the child. They include rights to adequate food, shelter, clean water, formal education, primary health care, leisure and recreation, cultural activities and information about their rights. These rights require not only the existence of the means to fulfil the rights but also access to them. Specific articles address the needs of child refugees, children with disabilities and children of minority or indigenous groups.

3. Protection rights (http://www.unicef.org/crc/files/Protection_list.pdf): These rights include protection from all forms of child abuse, neglect, exploitation and cruelty, including the right to special protection in times of war and protection from abuse in the criminal justice system.

4. Participation rights (http://www.unicef.org/crc/files/Participation.pdf): Children are entitled to the freedom to express opinions and to have a say in matters affecting their social, economic, religious, cultural and political life. Participation rights include the right to express opinions and be heard, the right to information and freedom of association. Engaging these rights as they mature helps children bring about the realization of all their rights and prepares them for an active role in society.

The Israeli Occupational Force have broken and abused every principle of human rights in respect to the children of Palestine.

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Israel is our strongest ally. And for Pres. Obama to turn on them is a travesty and an endangerment to our own security.

Stand for Israel and tell Obama to back off.

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In 2008, Journalist Uri Blau from Haaretz newspaper published an article that was based on leaked documents – after receiving approval from the Israeli Military Censor. The article embarrassed the Israeli Defense Forces by revealing that the IDF had breached an order of a court ruling issued by the Israeli the Supreme Court restricting 'targeted assassinations' in the Occupied Territories.

Mr Blau was on vacation in late 2009 when he found out that the Israeli Government was looking to press charges against him for publishing classified information – at which point he chose to remain abroad until an agreement which gave total immunity to his sources could be reached with the Israeli authorities.

In April 2010, the Israeli Press council issued a statement concluding that “Without going into the facts of the case at hand, some of which are as yet unknown, the Press Council's position is that it is inappropriate to indict a journalist who obtains a classified document in the course of doing his journalistic work."

Since returning to Israel in October 2010, Mr Blau is now facing prosecution; the Israeli Justice Ministry is considering charging him with “holding classified information without authorization, and without intention to harm the security of the state”.

For the Israeli Attorney general to charge a journalist for what is widely accepted as “standard journalistic practise” sets a dangerous precedent and is likely to result in a degradation of constitutional rights to free speech in Israel. Should the Israeli government push through its attempt to intimidate and marginalize the journalistic community by prosecuting Mr Blau, it will no doubt lead to the stifling of public debate and a denial to Israeli citizens of their rights inherent to a vibrant and healthy democracy.

In a wider sense, the charges brought against Mr. Blau are a blatant and tragic attack on press freedom in Israel; Further information on the case – which has been widely covered across various media platforms - is accessible via the links below. Join us in taking a stand for the protection of journalistic rights and the preservation of freedom of speech in Israel!

Note: The petition has been altered from "We demand that the Israeli Attorney General's office drop all charges against the journalist Uri Blau" to "We demand that the Israeli Attorney General's office NOT charge the journalist Uri Blau" We apologize for the mistake.

LINKS:

http://kelevshmira.wordpress.com/2011/05/07/israeli-wikileaks-journalists-demand-not-to-persecute-haaretz-reporter/

Israeli journalists urge Shin Bet: Don't press charges against Uri Blau

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/israeli-journalists-urge-shin-bet-don-t-press-charges-against-uri-blau-1.284241

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israeli-soldier-faces-jail-for-passing-secrets-to-reporter-2206362.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/apr/08/anat-kamm-shin-bet-israel

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/02/israeli-journalist-anat-kam-house-arrest

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/haaretz-regrets-move-to-charge-uri-blau-for-doing-his-work-as-a-journalist-1.351455

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,687717,00.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israeli-leak-suspect-held-in-secret-house-arrest-1930672.html

http://www.haaretz.com/news/haaretz-editor-idf-censor-okayed-haaretz-articles-in-anat-kam-case-1.830

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اتفاقية تصدير الغاز المصري لإسرائيل هي اتفاقية وقعتها الحكومة المصرية عام 2005 مع إسرائيل تقضي بالتصدير إليها 1.7 مليار متر مكعب سنويا من الغاز الطبيعي لمدة 20 عاما، بثمن يتراوح بين 70 سنتا و1.5 دولار للمليون وحدة حرارية بينما يصل سعر التكلفة 2.65 دولار، كما حصلت شركة الغاز الإسرائيلية على إعفاء ضريبي من الحكومة المصرية لمدة 3 سنوات من عام 2005 إلى عام 2008[1] وقد أثارت هذه الاتفاقية حملة احتجاجات كبيرة دفعت عددا كبيرا من نواب مجلس الشعب المصري إلى الاحتجاج وتقديم طلبات إحاطة.
الأحكام القضائية18 نوفمبر 2008: فقد قضت محكمة القضاء الإداري بوقف قرار الحكومة بتصدير الغاز الطبيعي إلى عدة دول من بينها إسرائيل. حيث أن الحكومة اتفقت على تصدير الغاز الطبيعي لعدة دول أجنبية. ويحدد القرار سعر الغاز وكميته ويمنع تغيير الأسعار لمدة 15 سنة. يأتي هذا بعد أن أقرت الحكومة أن سعر الغاز الذي يصدر إلى إسرائيل أقل من الأسعار العالمية[5].
6 يناير 2009: قضت محكمة القضاء الإداري بمجلس الدولة في مصر، للمرة الثانية، في جلستها باستمرار تنفيذ الحكم السابق إصداره منها والذي قضى بوقف تصدير الغاز المصري لإسرائيل بأسعار تقل عن الأسعار العالمية وقيمتها السوقية وإلزام الحكومة بتنفيذ الحكم بمسودته، وذلك في تحد لطعن الحكومة علي الحكم السابق وقبل نظره يوم 2 فبراير 2009.وقضت المحكمة بقبول الاستشكال المقدم من السفير السابق بالخارجية المصرية إبراهيم يسري، الذي سبق له الحصول على هذا الحكم في 18 نوفمبر 2008 على ضوء دعواه التي أقامها مطالبا بوقف قرار بيع الغاز المصري لإسرائيل بأسعار أقل من الأسعار العالمية على اعتبار انه ينتقص من السيادة الوطنية ومصالح مصر [6].
2 فبراير 2009: قضت المحكمة الإدارية العليا بوقف تنفيذ حكم القضاء الإداري بمنع تصدير الغاز المصري لإسرائيل، وقبلت الطعن الذي تقدمت به الحكومة لإلغاء الحكم. وقالت في أسباب حكمها[4]. «إن قرار بيع فائض الغاز إلى دول شرق البحر المتوسط، ومنها إسرائيل، صدر من الحكومة بوصفها سلطة حكم، في نطاق وظيفتها السياسية، مما يدخل في أعمال السيادة التي استقر القضاء الدستوري والإداري والعادي على استبعادها من رقابته»
27 فبراير 2010: قضت المحكمة الإدارية العليا (الدائرة الأولى موضوع) برئاسة المستشار محمد الحسيني رئيس مجلس الدولة، بعدم اختصاص القضاء بنظر الطعن على قرار الحكومة المصرية بتصدير الغاز المصري إلى إسرائيل، باعتباره عملاً من أعمال السيادة. وأيضا قررت المحكمة وقف تنفيذ قراري رئيس مجلس الوزراء ووزير البترول بتصدير الغاز إلى إسرائيل الخاص بمدة التصدير والسعر المربوط له، لعدم تضمنيهما آلية للمراجعة الدورية لكمية الغاز المصدَّرَة، وأسعاره خلال مدة التعاقد، وإلغاء سقف الاستشارة للبترول الخام عند حد 35 دولارًا. وطالبت المحكمة بمراجعة أسعار التصدير طبقًا للأسعار العالمية، وبما يتفق مع الصالح العام المصري، ويعتبر هذا الحكم نهائي وغير قابل للطعن.

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Gilad is Free!!


October 18, 2011**** - Gilad Shalit is freed from captivity in a prisoner swap with a ratio of 1027:1. Gilad greets the Prime Minister, the Defense Minister and the IDF Chief of Staff. He then greets his family and flies home to Mitzpe Hila, in the Galilee. Hopefully Gilad can recover from this terrible ordeal and still reclaim his youth.

March 31, 2011*** Mailing this letter Letter to Noam & Aviva Shalit the parents of Gilad Shalit in Jerusalem to show our support and remind them that we haven't forgotten about Gilad!

March 24, 2011 **GREAT RESPONSE from the Hon. Bryon Wilfert, Liberal MP Richmond Hill; includes letters sent by Mr. Wilfert to Hon. Lawrence Cannon (Minister of Foreign Affairs) and to Mrs. Miriam Ziv (Israeli Ambassador to Canada)
Wilfert's Personal Response

March 17, 2011 *Dear A. Rochman:

On behalf of the Right Honourable Stephen Harper, I would like to acknowledge receipt of your correspondence regarding the detention of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.

Thank you for sharing your concerns with the Prime Minister. You may be assured that your comments have been carefully reviewed.

M. Bredeson - Executive Correspondence Officer for the Prime Minister's Office***

BACKGROUND: Gilad Shalit (born August 28, 1986) is an Israeli soldier who was captured on June 25, 2006 by Hamas (classified as a terrorist organization by the U.S., Canada, the EU, U.K., and Japan) in a cross-border raid. He was abducted near the Kerem Shalom crossing (in Israel), and has been held as a prisoner in the Gaza Strip by Hamas since then (currently >1700 days in captivity) Gilad's treatment during his captivity has been and still is in strict violation of Articles 13, 14, 23, 30, 31 and 72, (and many others) of the III Geneva Convention, circa 1949. III Geneva Convention

While Israel is still technically at war with Hamas, Gilad's captivity has dragged on for much longer than the intended purpose of his capture. Even as the international community becomes outraged with the events of other terrorist/totalitarian regimes (i.e. Moammar Gaddafi, Mahmoud Ahmadeinejad, Kim Jong-Il, etc.) it has yet to address a truly humanitarian issue that has been in play for almost 5 years. The true reality and irony is that Israel has ~2000 Hamas prisoners in its' prisons today (for various crimes against humanity, including targeting civilians, training children to become terrorists, using children as human shields, etc.), yet, those prisoners have access to family visits, communication with the outside world and the use of technology (i.e. cell phones, internet access). Meanwhile, Gilad Shalit has NONE of these liberties, according to the III Geneva Convention.

Being held captive by the Hamas terrorist organization for almost 5 years is something NONE of us can comprehend or even imagine...but, ALL of us can sympathize with and do whatever it takes to demand fair and equitable treatment and ultimately make a difference.

WE MUST PUT AN END TO THIS TORTURE & INHUMANITY!

Link: What you can do from your own home!

Gilad Shalit Awareness Materials

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We the undersigned call on the United Nations to promote:

IFLAC: THE INTERNATIONAL FORUM FOR THE LITERATURE AND CULTURE OF PEACE.

This organization founded in 1999, creates bridges of Culture, understanding and peace. It promotes Conflict Resolution through Literature and Culture, and it publishes a daily IFLAC DIGEST NEWSLETTER on the Internet to spread the Culture of Peace. Its major project for 2011 is the PCTVI : the founding and development of a Middle East PEACE CULTURE TV AND INTERNET.

DR. ADA AHARONI, IFLAC FOUNDER - PRESIDENT
WWW.IFLAC.COM/ADA

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Ten local councillors from the suburb of Marrickville, New South Wales, Australia, in their official role as elected representatives of approximately 75,000 residents, have put forward an official resolution in December 2010 to:

"...boycott all goods made in Israel and any sporting, institutional, academic, government or institutional cultural exchanges...".

By this action, the ten councillors have formally aligned their municipality with terrorist organisations seeking to overthrow the State of Israel, the one free and democratic nation in the Middle East, fellow UN member, and notably the only multi-ethnic state in the region where freedom of expression, equality, non-discrimination, free union movements, freedom of press and the rule of law are established and guaranteed. In short, they have espoused totalitarian values over Australian democratic values. They are playing into the hands of the Islamist Global BDS Movement and supporting the Hamas and Hizbollah terror groups and other international racist and anti-Semitic organisations..

This irrational act is not only alarmingly naïve, but by supporting the worldview of totalitarian Islam, represents an appalling abuse of our democratic process.

A council’s brief is to act in the interests of their residents, by organizing such things as rubbish collection, social services, catching stray dogs and regulating fence heights. They are not elected to engage in partisan foreign politics or involve themselves in the domestic affairs of other states. In particular, they must never be seen to side with totalitarian, anti-democratic religious fanatics who use terrorism and murder in seeking to destroy the democratic nation of Israel, with which Australia has strong and friendly relations.

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According to Israeli police, 1200 Palestinian children have been arrested, interrogated and imprisoned in the occupied city of Jerusalem alone this year. The youngest of these children was seven-years old.

Children and teen-agers were often dragged out of their beds in the middle of the night, taken in handcuffs for questioning, threatened, humiliated and many were subjected to physical violence while under arrest as part of an ongoing campaign against the children of Palestine. Since the year 2000, more than 8000 have been arrested by Israel, and reports of mistreatment are commonplace.

Further, based on sworn affidavits collected in 2009 from 100 of these children, lawyers working in the occupied West Bank with Defense Children International, a Geneva-based non governmental organization, found that 69% were beaten and kicked, 49% were threatened, 14% were held in solitary confinement, 12% were threatened with sexual assault, including rape, and 32% were forced to sign confessions written in Hebrew, a language they do not understand.

Minors were often asked to give names and incriminate friends and relatives as a condition of their release. Such institutionalized and systematic mistreatment of Palestinian children by the state of Israel is a violation international law and specifically contravenes the Convention on the Rights of the Child to which Israel is supposedly a signatory.

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Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel

“There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part; you can’t even tacitly take part, and you’ve got to put your bodies upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop.” - Mario Savio, Student Leader of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, 1964

More than four decades of Israeli military occupation have passed, eviscerating the dream of building a viable, sovereign Palestinian state. 500,000 Jewish settlers now live in segregated, heavily fortified colonies in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, in violation of international law. They control most of the territory’s best land and water resources—land and water stolen from Palestinians. In Gaza, 1.5 million Palestinians, most of them refugees and terribly poor, are trapped in the world’s largest “open-air prison.”

Closures, checkpoints and roadblocks, targeted assassinations and settler terrorism, home demolitions, military incursions and arbitrary detentions, an economic blockade and massive “Separation Wall,” razed farm land, olive groves and fruit orchards, poisoned wells and livestock, interminable delays in movement—these measures of collective punishment, colonization and ethnic-racial separation make normal life impossible for Palestinians in the occupied territories.

For all who cherish justice and liberty it is time to unite in the cause of freedom for the Palestinian people and send an unequivocal message of nonviolent resistance to the state of Israel, just as we did to South Africa’s Apartheid regime in the 1980s.

It is time to BOYCOTT Israel and all businesses, academic centers and cultural institutions that support, maintain or benefit from the occupation of the Palestinian territories.

In 2005, over 170 civic organizations representing the breadth of Palestinian society issued a historic joint call to the world:

"We, representatives of Palestinian civil society, call upon international civil society organizations and people of conscience all over the world to impose broad boycotts and implement divestment initiatives against Israel similar to those applied to South Africa in the apartheid era. We appeal to you to pressure your respective states to impose embargoes and sanctions against Israel. We also invite conscientious Israelis to support this Call, for the sake of justice and genuine peace...."

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Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel

“There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part; you can’t even tacitly take part, and you’ve got to put your bodies upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop.” - Mario Savio, Student Leader of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, 1964

More than four decades of Israeli military occupation have passed, eviscerating the dream of building a viable, sovereign Palestinian state. 500,000 Jewish settlers now live in segregated, heavily fortified colonies in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, in violation of international law. They control most of the territory’s best land and water resources—land and water stolen from Palestinians. In Gaza, 1.5 million Palestinians, most of them refugees and terribly poor, are trapped in the world’s largest “open-air prison.”

Closures, checkpoints and roadblocks, targeted assassinations and settler terrorism, home demolitions, military incursions and arbitrary detentions, an economic blockade and massive “Separation Wall,” razed farm land, olive groves and fruit orchards, poisoned wells and livestock, interminable delays in movement—these measures of collective punishment, colonization and ethnic-racial separation make normal life impossible for Palestinians in the occupied territories.

To Vermonters who cherish justice and liberty, who are inspired by the state motto—“Freedom and Unity”—it is time to unite in the cause of freedom for the Palestinian people and send an unequivocal message of nonviolent resistance to the state of Israel, just as we did to South Africa’s Apartheid regime in the 1980s.

It is time to BOYCOTT Israel and all businesses, academic centers and cultural institutions that support, maintain or benefit from the occupation of the Palestinian territories.

In 2005, over 170 civic organizations representing the breadth of Palestinian society issued a historic joint call to the world:

"We, representatives of Palestinian civil society, call upon international civil society organizations and people of conscience all over the world to impose broad boycotts and implement divestment initiatives against Israel similar to those applied to South Africa in the apartheid era. We appeal to you to pressure your respective states to impose embargoes and sanctions against Israel. We also invite conscientious Israelis to support this Call, for the sake of justice and genuine peace...."

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Since May 14 1947 Israel has continued to ignore all of UN resolutions on the rights of Palestinians.

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In 1967, the Israeli army took military control of the Golan Heights, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. Since that time the government of Israel has built settlements, roads and other infrastructure for its Jewish citizens, using land and resources stolen from the Palestinian people. This situation continues, unchallenged by Western governments, despite Israel’s being in violation of international humanitarian law and over 60 UN resolutions.

Israel daily destroys Palestinian lives, livelihoods and homes; it continues to build its illegal colonies and separation wall on stolen land; it continues to control Gaza while slicing the West Bank into Bantustans, separating Palestinian families from their schools, places of work and agricultural land; it denies Palestinian refugees their right to return and operates a form of racism in many respects worse than the South African apartheid system. Its policies of intimidation and humiliation aim to destroy Palestinian hopes of statehood. Israeli businesses export freely from Palestinian land while the Palestinian economy is on its knees as a result of the occupation.

We are calling on Tesco to support the global boycott movement and remove Israeli goods from it's shelves until such a time that Israel complies with International rights laws and recognises the Palestinian's right to self determination.

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For generations, long before the 1967 war that led to the occupation of the West Bank, the Bedouins let their sheep graze on their land, in the north of the Jordan Valley. These shepherds are very poor. But they do not complain.

The difficulties for the inhabitants began in the 1970s, when the village was declared a closed Israeli military zone. Some years later the Jewish settlements of Ro’i and Beka’ot were founded in the east of their land. Since then, Israel has imposed harsh restrictions on building and movement there that apply to Palestinians, effectively pushing them to leave area.

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“Save Our Yeshiva” is the name of the last-ditch campaign launched by students and supporters of the Od Yosef Chai Yeshiva in Yitzhar to stop the demolition of the yeshiva building, a key Torah learning center located in Samaria, in the heartland of Israel.

The yeshiva replaced the former one located at the grave of Yosef Hatzadik in Shechem which was ransacked, smashed by pickaxes and set on fire by an Arab mob in October of 2000 after the then Prime Minister Ehud Barak ordered the army to vacate the tomb.

Under the order of the present Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, the IDF Civil Administration issued a demolition order against the 11-year-old yeshiva building. According to Israeli building practice, the Defense Minister needs to sign off on the project as a formality. Barak has refused despite amply documented early government authorization and funding for its construction. Ironically, the building commenced when Barak was Prime Minister. The building was built with private donations along with the Israeli government which invested 3-4 million shekels in the building.

Yeshiva staff, students and supporters, shocked by the May 9th demolition order, which many claim to be the result of politics within the Labor party, have mobilized to prevent the destruction of the 13,000 square foot Torah institution.

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The United Nations currently recognizes as indigenous any nation that declares itself as such, and according to section 10 of the UN General Assembly’s 2007 Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People, “indigenous peoples shall not be forcibly removed from their lands or territories. No relocation shall take place without the free, prior and informed consent of the indigenous peoples concerned and after agreement on just and fair compensation and, where possible, with the option of return.”

Israel fits all the criteria to be recognized internationally as indigenous natives to the Land of Israel, and the only current requirement is a public declaration from a representative body of the Jewish people, whether it be from Israel’s Knesset, the WZO or even the Council of Jewish Communities in Judea and Samaria.

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B’nai Brith Canada has called on the Government of Canada to designate IHH, the radical Turkish Islamist organization behind the Gaza Flotilla incident, as a terrorist entity.

B'nai Brith Canada laid out the justification for the designation in a brief sent to both Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Leader of the Opposition Michael Ignatieff. The brief, which was based on numerous credible reports, highlighted the IHH’s links to the global jihadi movement, its close ties to Hamas, its support for Al-Qaeda, and its connection to various terror plots.

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Israeli forces killed humanitarian activist Rachel Corrie who was trying to stop destruction of a doctors home in Palestine.

They killed humanitarian activist Furkan Dogan who was a member of the freedom flotilla and onboard the Mavi Marmara. He was killed in international waters near Gaza while attempting to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza.

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Unproductive taxpayer-funded elements and noisy rent-a-crowd activists always have time on their hands to organise a 'spontaneous demonstration' to express their 'outrage' and condemn Israel. All the while decent Aussies are working to earn the taxes to support Australia's finest examples of our multicultural welfare state.

So for those good people standing with Israel in this time of need, but too busy to paint banners and go out into the streets, here's a forum to show where our loyalties lie.

Israelis, who are not only Jews but - amongst others - also Christians, Atheists, Moslems, Humanist and Buddhists, live at the razor-sharp edge of the blade which Islamic state-sponsored fascism and world-wide Islamic terrorism holds at the throat of all civilised nations. Let us not forget Israel is the only truly democratic and free nation respecting the rule of law and separation of powers in this part of the world, a lone outpost of Western civilisation.

Those 'peace activists' aboard the vessel 'Marvi Marmara' (which was part of this so-called 'aid convoy') waited with arms at the ready and attacked most viciously the moment Israeli defence force personnel boarded. These elements come from the same school as those firing RPGs from school grounds and shooting their AK47s hidden behind pregnant women pushing prams.

Instead of scolding Israel for defending it's citizens from more terror, our politicians and media should condemn 'Hamas' and their 5th brigade for organising this provocation, which led only to more unnecessary bloodshed, senseless death and suffering.

We intend to hand our 'Letter of Support' with all signatory names to the Embassy of Israel in Australia.

PLEASE NOTE: THIS PETITION CLOSES SATURDAY 12 JUNE AT 6PM EASTERN AUSTRALIAN TIME

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On 30th May 2010, under the cover of darkness, the Israeli military hijacked the Free Gaza Movement flotilla in international waters. During this illegal act of what can only be described as piracy, at least 15 international peace activists were killed and scores were wounded.

The ship was carrying tons of desperately needed humanitarian aid for the besieged people of Gaza. The items on board the ships included water purification equipment, cement, generators, prefabricated homes, chocolate, crayons, wheelchairs, crutches, basketballs, and tons of paper to be used by schoolkids.

There was absolutely no need for Israel to attack this ship and murder unarmed peace activists.

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The Palestinian Return Centre (PRC) expresses its deep apprehension and anger over the BBC coverage regarding freedom Flotilla.

The Freedom Flotilla which is a mere humanitarian mission has been covered by a wide range of western media outlets in the last few days. The BBC started to speak about the Boats of the flotilla only in the last 2 days.

In most of its coverage BBC depended on Israeli sources whilst the Palestinian side has been ignored. PRC suggests that such coverage harm the image of BBC and could classify it as an alternative for some Israeli media outlets.

PRC and part of its day-to-day monitoring for BBC observed the following:

On one of its today’s article BBC gave a space for the Israeli side while it has ignored the Palestinian side. The official account of Israel though, Danny Ayalon, Israeli deputy foreign minister was presented, which stated that organizers’ intent was violent. The article mentioned that 'Guns and knives' were used by the civilian passengers.

The great exposure of Israeli account continued on the BBC breakfast and its running news casts.

Spokespersons and Israeli officials were given a chance to justify the Israeli attack. BBC reporters in Israel also contribute to this dilemma as they only speak out what they get from the official Israeli sources.

PRC call on BBC to stand neutral and give up its routine policies of quickly admitting and giving a space for the Israeli narrative.

BBC spokesperson, told PRC that, 'We are unable to respond as we have not been given the courtesy of detailed evidence of any accusation.'

However, PRC told the spokesperson of the above mentioned coverage and the time of the news casts.

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Around 20 activists massacred, dozens injured, as Tel-Aviv Apartheid regime opens fire on Gaza-bound humanitarian aid flotilla on international waters.

Hundreds of unarmed Turkish and Arab civilians, dozens of foreign journalists, European parliament members, British and American nationals, Jewish activists against Israel, 50 women and a one year old baby were in the boats.

A priest and Muslim cleric among the critically wounded by the Israeli gunfire.

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Über die „alten“ Astra-Satelliten mit dem Baujahr 1980-1999 von denen nur noch Astra 1H auf 19.2° im Einsatz ist, kann man problemlos im Nahen Osten (bis zur Levante-Region) mit einer 1.50 - 1.80 Meterschüssel deutsche Programme empfangen.

Dies ist allerdings nur durch Overspill möglich, das heißt, dass das Satellitensignal über die eigentliche Empfangsgrenze hinaus empfangen werden kann. Seit 2006 jedoch hat Astra damit begonnen diese alten Satelliten durch neue zu ersetzen, und wahrscheinlich im Zeitraum 2012-2014 soll nun der letzte alte Satellit (Astra 1H) durch Astra 1N ersetzt werden, der im August 2011 gestartet wurde und vorläufig auf 28.2°Ost stationiert ist.

Was neu ist, ist jedoch nicht immer gut:
Unverständlicherweise hat Astra die Satelliten der neueren Baureihe (Astra 1KR / 1L) so eingestellt, dass ein Overspill-Empfang komplett unmöglich wird, weil nun die Satelliten viel stärker auf Europa fokussieren.
(Mit Ausnahme von Astra 1M)

Einen Mehrwert hat diese Fokussierung jedoch nicht, die neuen Satelliten kann man genau so stark in Europa empfangen wie die der alten Baureihe.

Es wird spekuliert, dass Astra versucht Overspill-Empfang zu unterbinden weil die deutschen TV-Programme auf Astra nur eine Europa-Lizenz, keine aber für den Nahen Osten haben. Dies ist jedoch falsch:
Laut Auskunft mehrerer Fernsehsender werden grundsätzlich Senderechte für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland erworben, (je nach Fernsehsender auch Österreich und Schweiz), eine Versorgung darüber hinaus gilt als Overspill. Ein größeres Versorgungsgebiet bei der Satellitenversorgung ergibt sich durch das konkrete Angebot des Satellitenbetreibers und den technisch bedingten Overspill.
Laut den vorliegenden Informationen entstehen also keine weiteren Kosten bei einer Ausweitung der Ausleuchtzone, weder für Satellitenbetreiber, noch für die TV-Sender!
Der Empfang im Nahen Osten wird des weiteren durch diese Ausnahmen/Gegebenheiten gedeckt:

1. Für Overspillempfang selbst müssen keine Lizenzgebühren bezahlt werden und die letzten 22 Jahre, die die alten Astra-Satelliten mit Overspill in den Nahen Osten sendeten, hatte Astra auch nie lizenzrechtliche Probleme, was auch daran liegt, dass die deutsche Sprache eine Barriere darstellt, die eine Ausstrahlung für den nicht deutschsprachigen Raum unattraktiv macht. Eine weitere Barriere, die lizenzrechtliche Probleme zum Beispiel bei der WM vermeidet, ist, dass sowieso eine Mindestgröße der Satellitenschüssel von 120cm (bezogen auf den Nahen Osten, Türkei und Zypern, bei Astra 1H sogar 180cm) vorausgesetzt wird, und daher für Zuschauer, die sich nicht für deutsches Fernsehen interessieren, unattraktiv macht. Denn wo ist lizenzrechtlich der Unterschied, ob man nun eine 180 cm Schüssel braucht oder 3 Meter Schüssel? Egal wie sehr Astra sich anstrengen wird, die deutschsprachigen Programme via Astra 19.2° vom Ausland abzuschotten, Overspill wird es technisch gesehen immer geben!
   Dies ist der entscheidende Unterschied zum Hotbird-Satelliten, den man im Nahen Osten schon mit einer 90cm Schüssel empfangen kann und außerdem wegen den Ausländischen Programmen sehr verbreitet ist, ganz im Gegensatz zur "deutschen" Astra-Position 19.2° Ost.
   Übrigens befürworten ARD und ZDF Overspill!: "Auch die Fußball-WM 2006 beweist überzeugend, dass herausragende Sportereignisse im free-tv übertragen werden können, ohne dass durch technische Mechanismen ein overspill vermieden werden muss. [..] (Standpunkte von ARD&ZDF zu Overspill und Grundverschlüsselung)


2. Astra hat extra für die Kanarischen Inseln einen „Kanaren-Beam“ eingerichtet, und ist somit auch in Nordafrika verfügbar. In den letzen Jahren wurden auch viele Länder in Osteuropa mit in die Ausleuchtzone genommen, zum Beispiel Weißrussland, Bulgarien, Moldawien, Ukraine, Griechenland, teilweise Russland und sogar sehr weit in das rar besiedelte Nordskandinavien samt Island bzw. in den Balkan. Merkwürdig mag es deshalb anmuten, dass seit 22 Jahren Astra die Insel Zypern nie in ihr Sendegebiet integriert hat, obwohl Zypern mittlerweile zur EU gehört und dort eine große deutschsprachige Gemeinde existiert. Gebietsabschottungen widersprechen außerdem grundlegenden europäischen Prinzipien, vor allem in Bezug auf das EU-Land Zypern! Wenn Astra daher einen „Zypern-Beam“ einrichten würde, wäre damit natürlich unter anderem teilweise auch der Empfang im Nahen Osten gesichert!


3. Auch die Türkei wird für die deutschen Programmanbieter zunehmend interessanter: Denn ähnlich wie auf den Balearen oder den Kanarischen Inseln gibt es dort inzwischen viele deutsche Touristen und Ferienarbeiter, dazu auch zunehmend ein paar Residenten die dort ihren Ruhestand verbringen wollen sowie viele andere, die beruflich in der Türkei tätig sind.



4. Ebenfalls im Nahen Osten, speziell in der Levante-Region (Israel, Palästina, Libanon, Syrien, Jordanien, Ägypten) existiert - nicht zuletzt durch die Anwesenheit von Experten im Bereich der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit - eine nicht zu vernachlässigende Anzahl an deutschsprachigen Familien die bisher durch Astra ihre Heimatsender empfangen können und einen zukünftigen Empfang sehr begrüßen würden.



5. Die emotionale Diskussion rund um die ARD-Abschaltung und die daraus resultierende Wiederaufschaltung auf Hotbird bestätigt die genannten Argumente und das große Interesse Zehntausender Zuschauer in Europa und dem Nahen Osten am Empfang von Astra 19.2° außerhalb der bisherigen Astra-Ausleuchtzone(n) beziehungsweise dass Overspill-Empfang z.B jener von Astra 1H im Nahen Osten und Zypern weiterhin wie bisher möglich wird.



6. Dass es überhaupt kein Problem für Astra ist, in den Nahen Osten zu senden, zeigt der Astra 1M Satellit , der 2009 auf 19.2° positioniert wurde: Über diesen Satellit kann man jetzt schon ein paar deutschsprachige Programme im Nahen Osten bis nach Iran hin empfangen .
   Allerdings hat auch dieser Satellit einen Beam mit an Bord, der ebenfalls sehr auf Europa konzentriert ist, und nur einen Teil der Türkei abdeckt.
   

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