tell me why: for the children of gaza video by rob camp fuoco

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'The tragedy of the people of Palestine is that their country was given by a foreign power to another people for the creation of a new state. The result was that many hundreds of thousands of innocent people were made permanently homeless. With every new conflict their numbers increased. How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?'

Bertrand Russell - Message to International Conference of Parliamentarians in Cairo, Feb 1970,

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more from benjamin tutu to berkley students re their divestment: .... You are doing the moral thing. You are doing that which is incumbent on you as humans who believe that all people have dignity and rights, and that all those being denied their dignity and rights deserve the solidarity of their fellow human beings. benjamin tutu....

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more from benjamin tutu to berkley students: .. Principled stands like this, supported by a fast growing number of US civil society organizations and people of conscience, including prominent Jewish groups, are essential for a better world in the making, and it is always an inspiration when young people lead the way and speak truth to power.

I am writing to tell you that, despite what detractors may allege, you are doing the right thing. You are doing the moral thing. bejamin tutu

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'Dear Student Leaders at the University of California Berkeley

It was with great joy that I learned of your recent 16-4 vote in support of divesting your universitys money from companies that enable and profit from the injustice of the Isr aeli occupation of Palestinian land and violation of Palestinian human rights. .... bejamin tutu

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' Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher of consensus but a molder of consensus. On some positions cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right' martin luther king

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",; supporting blatantly unjust policies, including murder, persecution and theft, is never morally correct no matter how many verses one can quote from the Old Testament or any other religious text. ...., these.. evil actions which are in reality the antithesis of everything that Jesus Christ preached. ' Khalid Amayreh

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'Millions of Christian Zionists think that by blindly supporting Israel's apartheid policies against the tormented Palestinians, including Palestinian Christians, they are upholding the truth and doing the right thing in the sight of God..,; . ' Khalid Amayreh

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''From 2009-2018, the United States is scheduled to give Israel $30 billion in military aid. Will these weapons help or hinder the Obama Administration in its efforts to broker an Israeli-Palestinian peace? What impact do these weapons have on Palestinian civilian living under Israeli military occupation? Is Israel misusing U.S. weapons in violation of U.S. law? From legal, political, humanitarian, and economic perspectives, can we afford to continue this policy of arming Israel?'' ruebner

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For me personally and for most Palestinains, we know the history shows Jews, Christians, and Muslims living peacefully together for 1400 years under Islamic rule (with very few exceptions). We know that it is possible to simply have a Jewish area, a Christian area, a Muslim area or even mixed areas. We know it is possible even to intermarry, have friendships, etc. But Zionism had a different idea and it did not revolve on coexisting but on ethnic cleansing and destruction of others. qumsiyeh

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'What exactly distinguishes people? Why does a Palestinian politician drive a gas-guzzling SUV and wear nice suits while other Palestinians choose to stand in front of a Bulldozer or an army tank and get shot or thrown in jail? Why does a privileged white person in America

choose to be silent and pay taxes that go to kill Iraqis, Afghanis, and Palestinians? Why does another privileged white person choose to come and join us here in the struggle? ' mazin qumsiyeh

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'What exactly distinguishes people? Why does someone like Alan Dershowitz

choose to support torture, support racism, and defend war crimes and crimes

against humanity? And why does someone like Hedy Epstein, a survivor of the concentration camps, choose to go on hunger strike to support the besieged

and impoverished 1.5 million people of Gaza? mazin qusiyeh

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Zaffar Miskeen-------------- Subject: O servant, where dost thou seek Me? O servant, where dost thou seek Me? Lo ! I am beside thee. I am neither in temple nor in mosque: I am neither in Kaaba nor in Kailash: Neither am I in rites and ceremonies, nor in Yoga and renunciation. If thou art a true seeker, thou shalt at once see Me: thou shalt meet Me in a moment of time. Kabir says, ' O Sadhu ! God is the breath of all breath.' ♥ Saint Kabir

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Isra...el to Obama, "Go to Hell"

In his Cairo speech President Obama called for a complete freeze on Isra..li settlement construction. Isra..l's government has thumbed it's nose at him by authorizing construction on 300 new homes to be built in on an "illegal outpost" in the West Bank. All the settlements are illegal by international law, .... The 300 units were authorized by Israelil Defense Minister Ehud Barack.

The ball is in Obama's court now. Will he suspend aid to Isr..el?

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Desmond Tutu encouraged the Palestinian activists: Just as a simple man named Ghandi led the successful non-violent struggle in India and simple people such as Rosa Parks and Nelson Mandela led the struggle for civil rights in the United States, simple people here in Bilin are leading a non-violent struggle that will bring them their freedom. The South Africa experience proves that injustice can be dismantled. Report from Friends of Bil'in

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Mohammad Kandakji :

When innocent civilians are ruthlessly killed, struck by phosphorus bombs,

infrastructure is demolished in bombing and people are forced to live

in an open-air prison? "We can not see this as compatible with

the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, simply human rights, and we

can not close our eyes to all this happening,"

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"To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on

the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of

compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it

destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places

- where people have behaved magnificently, this

gives us the energy to act, (to head) in a different direction. prof..h. zinn

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to live now as we

think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is

itself a marvelous victory." prof. howard zinn

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By Amira Hass

Isr..el, continues to spit in the face of friendly countries, and those countries continue to admire the falling raindrops. The ministry's most recent gob of spit was the cancellation of the work visas for international NGOs workers.These people are usually employees of humanitarian organizations that operate among the Palestinian population of Gaza and the West Bank. Isra..l is declaring its contempt for international aid organizations, as well as its ingratitude.

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who was a tireless crusader for human rights, said: "Life's most presistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others?" Do not say you will do it "someday;" now is the time. Do not say "someone" will do it; you are the one. Now is the time for youth to take full responsibility and courageously pave the way for the people's triumph. Daisaku Ikeda.

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The Is...lis are forcing the Palestinians who have been living in the Holy city for centuries , to tear down their own houses by themselves because , if they dont, Isr..l will charge them the cost of the bulldozer and the work of demolition at a very high price which is forcing some people who cannot afford the cost to recur to their own means to demolish their own houses. No one has ever witnessed such injustice and cruelty, it is not enough for them to usurp the land ...! sarah ibrahim

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Just one year ago, Gaza and its people were subject to the ultimate crime, victims of the genocide of the Palestinian people. It is a genocide that began 61 years ago, and its had moments of escalation, the peak of which was reached with the attempted destruction of ; Gaza, although this is just the most macroscopic attack. The genocide began the moment that it was decided to take Palestine from Palestinians. Responsible for this genocide is the State of Isra..l and its various lobbies

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"Former Is....reli Foreign Minister Sought for War Crimes

Haaretz reports that an arrest warrant was issued for former Isr....li Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni in the United Kingdom for war crimes in connection with the Is..aeli attack on Gaza last winter.

While Livni is afraid to go to Britain she was in New Haven a few months ago where she was given a warm reception at Yale University. In America the murder of 300 Palestinian children is not considered a crime. in the United States." s. heller

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Through its(the holocaust) deployment, one of the world's most formidable military powers, with a horrendous human rights record, has cast itself as a 'victim' state, and the most successful ethnic group in the United States has likewise acquired victim status. Considerable benefits accrue to this specious victimhood in particular, immunity to criticism, however justified. " (Finkelstein, The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering, New Edition 2nd Edition

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The Gaza Freedom March

On December 31, 2009, 1,000 citizens from around the world march with 50,000 Palestinians in Gaza to "show the residents of Gaza that the international community of citizens has not forgotten them" and to "call worldwide attention to the ongoing humanitarian crisis." This innovative and powerful expression of nonviolent resistance to the siege of Gaza is known as the Gaza Freedom March. for information google : 'american association for  palestinian rights'

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( from Daniel Mabsout on Palestinian genocide) .....in falsifying historical facts and preventing their different victims from all over the world to share the horrble truth..of Palestinians.genocide, is the fate of those who have to live with the genocide (and this means all of us)and normalize the relation with the executioner who forces his own understanding on what happened. The knowledge of the real facts is the only inheritance and power of those who survived the genocide.

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from the sabbah report - one of the greatest obstacles to justice for Palestinians The Scofield Bible.

first published in 1909, uncompromising Zionists out of tens of millions of Americans.Although the Scofield Reference Bible contains the text of the King James Authorized Version, it is not the traditional Protestant bible but Cyrus I. Scofield's annotated commentary that is the problem.

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unless each soul entity . . . makes the world better, world a little better, a little bit more hopeful, a little bit more patient, showing a little more of brotherly love, a little more of kindness, a little more of longsuffering--by the very words and deeds of the entity, the life is a failure; especially so far as growth is concerned. Though you gain the whole world, how little ye must think of thyself if ye lose the purpose for which the soul entered this particular sojourn! edgar cayce

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"Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our reedom." Martin Luther King Jr.

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...economist Thomas R. Stauffer: the cost of the US support to Israel was $3 trillion (Washington Report Middle East Affairs,2003). .the Iraq war has cost thousands of American lives but also costing us an additional $3 trillion (see the book by Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stieglitz .. That we attacked Iraq in contravention of the UN charter and at the behest of a group of neoconservative Zionists is well established ( Professors Mearsheimer and Walt: ) from mazin qumsiyeh

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Is the state of Israel, through its present leadership choosing adversity and death? On the surface, its choice, might seem to many Israelis to be life and prosperity but given the regional context, Israel has no future in the Middle East region if it does not justly resolve the Palestinian conflict. With injustice lies adversity and death while peace, prosperity, and life lie in doing justice.

Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Centre - Jerusalem

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"The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who, in time of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality."

- Dante, The Inferno

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As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever." -- Clarence Darrow

"You take my water. Burn my Olive Trees. Destroy my house. Take my job. Steal my Land. Imprison my Mother. Bomb my country. Starve us all. Humiliate us all. But I am to blame: I shot a rocket back." - Sign carried near Hyde Park Corner London on 2/15/09 by a Member of the British Parliament.

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we can also choose to be a war criminal like Peres, Kissinger, and Hitler or by a peacemaker like Desmond Tutu and Mahatma Gandhi .. We can embrace our common humanity and failings and call for coexistence and annulment of all ideologies of racism and segregation (e.g. Zionism). We do have choices. In these choices lies our true freedom and liberation as human beings. Those of us who refuse enslavement have what Mahmoud Darw ish called an incurable malady: hope.

mazin qumsiyeh

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'President Obama was right when he declared in his Cairo speech, "Palestinians must abandon violence. Resistance through violence and killing is wrong and it does not succeed. For centuries black people in America suffered the lash of the whip as slaves and the humiliation of segregation. But it was not violence that won full and equal rights." As he suggested, it was nonviolence that carried the day and advanced rights and justice in South Africa and other struggles'.

john dugard

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'The evil being visited upon palestinian people is almost beyond omprehension. One can only pray that it so appalls the world that, at some point, it simply will not stand. The Crusades ended. The Holocaust ended. Apartheid ended. So too must the siege of Gaza.

Entering Gaza with humanitarian aid is a good start. And President Barack Obama and the current U.S. dministration could absolutely lead the way in stopping it by cutting off all military aid to Israel.' steven degange

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As long as Millions of Gods Children

Are hungry, imprisoned, and without hope

Those of us with a voice to speak:

Must speak! Because it is in speaking

We find our liberty, our freedom

And no prison bars can take away

Our peace, our love

Which is the true Spirit of Humanity!

*Written by MAIREAD MAGUIRE, Nobel Peace Laureate, during her incarceration in Ramle prison, Israel 3lst June, 2009 1: Keep the pressure-up to OPEN THE BORDER WITH GAZA:

Call: President Barack Obama 202-456-1111

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.... the world has been looking at Palestine mainly through Zionist spectacles ...No lasting solution of the Palestine problem is to be hoped for until the injustice is removed. ...To those who look ahead, beyond the smoke-screen of legend and propaganda, the way to a solution is clear: it lies along the path of ordinary common sense and justice. " From The Arab Awakening: The Story of the Arab National Movement by George Antonius Intl Book Centre (1938, reprinted 1985)

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84 year-old ex president Jimmy Carter stated upon seeing the horror that is Gaza: My primary feeling today is one of grief and despair and an element of anger when I see the destruction perpetrated against innocent people. I have to hold back tears when I see the deliberate destruction that has been wracked against your people. I feel partially responsible for this as must all Americans and Israelis. [This school was] deliberately destroyed by bombs from F16s made in my country.

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Americans wonder why they hate us so much. Juan Cole theorized that the Israeli invasion of Lebanon 1982 is what spurred Osama Ben Laden to attack America in 2001. I think thats possible. Ain el Hilweh 1982 makes Gaza 2006 look like a soccer scrimmage. Americans are so insulated, so cut off from understanding the depth of the horrors perpetrated with our assent that they really dont get it, still. Peoples eyes glaze over if you bring it up.

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Since 1967, the Israeli authorities have demolished more than 24,000 Palestinian homes in the Occupied Territories, some as collateral damage in military operations (4000 homes were demolished in the recent invasion of Gaza), some as collective punishment (the obliteration of the Jenin refugee camp in 2002 being just one example),

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No more time for this: stop them. Stop them now before Gods Get Hungry! I've see this telenovele times and times before on writen human history...

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Rethinking costs of peace BY JOSH RUEBNER Since 1949, the U.S.has provided Israel more than $100 billion in military and economic assistance. Yet the provision of U.S. weapons to Israel at taxpayer expense has done nothing to bring Israelis and Palestinians closer to achieving a just and lasting peace. Rather, these weapons have had the exact opposite effect, as documented recently by Amnesty International, pointed to U.S. weaponsasaprime factor fuelingIsraeli-Palestinian conflict.

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Rethinking the costs of peace

BY JOSH RUEBNER In pledging to trim ineffective spending, President Obama declared that there will be no sacred cows and no pet projects. All across America, families are making hard choices, and it's time their government did the same."

By asking earlier this month for $2.775 billion in military aid to Israel in his FY2010 budget request, it would seem that on this important policy issue President Obamas commitment is more rhetorical than substantive.

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my prayer for palestine and all parties involved in the conflict is this thought from edgar cayce:

For how does one cleanse the mind? By the pouring out, the forgetting, the laying aside of those things that easily beset and filling same with pure, fresh water that is of the eternal life, that is of the eternal goodness as may be found in Him who is the light, the way, the truth, the vine, the bread of life and the water of life. These things are those influences that purify

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from Candians for Gaza:.

• Children should not be used for political or military purposes.

Children are the innocent victims of this conflict, McPhillips said. All parties to the conflicts must put childrens interests first

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from Candians for Gaza:. Situation of children in Gaza remains precarious 100 days after end of conflictPosted by Abz on April 28, 2009 at 7:50am in News

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• Children should not be used for political or military purposes.

Children are the innocent victims of this conflict, McPhillips said. All parties to the conflicts must put childrens interests first.

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Huwaida Arraf, April 25, 2009 Palestinians are often asked where the Palestinian Gandhi is and urged to adopt nonviolent methods in our struggle for freedom from Israeli military rule. On April 17, an Israeli soldier killed my good friend Bassem Abu Rahme at a nonviolent demonstration against Israeli confiscation of Palestinian land. Bassem was one of many Palestinian Gandhis.

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god does not care what path you take to reach him. treat all your brothers and sisters with love. imagine peace in the shared and unified land of palestine.

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imagine an israel palestine that is a true demcracy, where all people have equal rights to live in peace,and bring up their children in safety. where all people respect the same god, but can worship him as jews, as moslems, as christians, without fearing harm from people who happen to be on another path. god is love.

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Меньше надо было прятатся за юбки жен и детеи... хамас трусы.. колхозники которым промыли мозги религией...их использует весь исламский мир...а результаты этого вы только что видели!!!!

Какой нормальный человек будет делать такое видео!!!! ислам болен, они сумашедшие

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'Never again' is the rallying cry for all who believe that mankind must speak out against genocide.

Jon Corzine