Call to Sanctions and Divestment
Randa Abdel-Fattah appeals for a common sense and obvious response to these horrors. The Age 13 January 2009.
This SUNDAY 18th: If there is only one rally you go to in your life
Rally for Gaza.
Stop the MASSACRES, end the SIEGE,
DEMAND our supine Government
STOPS backing Israeli WAR CRIMES.
2pm Sunday 18 Jan,
Victorian State Library,
Swanston and LaTrobe St.
March to State Parliament.
Thank You
SPEAK OUT, STAND OUT – Vigil Saturday, January 10
Justice for palestine wishes to thank all those who showed support for Palestine at this very difficult time.
We were very touched to receive such a warm response from so many caring and humane people at our first vigil. Join us at our regular vigils and keep in touch for upcoming events.
Ethnic Cleansing Today as Before
Over 700 DEAD (over one third are children)..
Over 4000 Seriously injured ..
Hospitals and staff exhausted..
Apparently, according to the Director of Shifa Hospital, the largest Government Hospital in Gaza, two days ago, operatives of the IOF rounded up and killed almost 35 members of the Zaytoun family.
From our Roving Reporter “MarkTheMan”
?The Zionist rally was certainly an order of magnitude smaller than the Justice for Palestine rally (about 300 compared to estimated 3000) and was a very monocultural group compared to the multicultural JFP rally which comprised many cultural and religious groups. The Australian Jewish News, of course, doubled the real number at the Zionist rally and added some, with an estimate of 700.
Wearing the kafiya at a Zionist rally makes one a bit obvious. I was inviting some rational discussion which seemed to be lacking in Melbourne. Two different scripts were being read. And I was happy to partake of non-violent discussion about issues.
Who will save Israel from itself?
By Mark LeVine
One by one the justifications given by Israel for its latest war in Gaza are unravelling.
The argument that this is a purely defensive war, launched only after Hamas broke a six-month ceasefire has been challenged, not just by observers in the know such as Jimmy Carter, the former US president who helped facilitate the truce, but by centre-right Israeli intelligence think tanks.
The Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, whose December 31 report titled “Six Months of the Lull Arrangement Intelligence Report,” confirmed that the June 19 truce was only “sporadically violated, and then not by Hamas but instead by … “rogue terrorist organisations”.
Instead, “the escalation and erosion of the lull arrangement” occurred after Israel killed six Hamas members on November 4 without provocation and then placed the entire Strip under an even more intensive siege the next day.