The Israeli Trumpess

29/10/16, Gush Shalom גוש שלום http://zope.gush-shalom.org (Israel)

Uri Avnery אורי אבנרי

WHAT WILL Donald Trump do if he loses the elections in a week and a half from now, as most polls indicate?

He has already declared that he will recognize the results -- but only if he wins.

That sounds like a joke. But it is far from being a joke.

Trump has already announced that the election is rigged. The dead are voting (and all the dead vote for Hillary Clinton). The polling station committees are corrupt. The polling machines forge the results.

No, that is not a joke. Not at all.

THIS IS not a joke, because Trump represents tens of millions of Americans, who belong to the lower strata of the white population, which the white elite used to call "white trash". In more polite

ISRAELI PEACE ACTIVIST: HAMAS LEADER JABARI KILLED AMID TALKS ON LONG-TERM TRUCE

18 November 2012, The Shalom Center https://theshalomcenter.org (USA)
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Rabbi Arthur Waskow

This Haaretz article raises profound questions about the Israeli government’s decision to assassinate a leader of Hamas. It appeared on November 15. Haaretz is often called “the New York Times of Israel.” My own comments will follow the article, both on the realpolitik of today and on how Torah might address these issues. — AW

ISRAELI PEACE ACTIVIST: HAMAS LEADER JABARI KILLED AMID TALKS ON LONG-TERM TRUCE

Gershon Baskin, who helped mediate between Israel and Hamas in the deal to release Gilad Shalit, says Israel made a mistake that will cost the lives of ‘innocent people on both sides.’

By Nir Hasson | Haaretz / Nov.15, 2012 | 1:55 PM | 38

Hours before Hamas strongman Ahmed Jabari was assassinated, he received the draft of a permanent truce agreement with Israel, which included mechanisms for maintaining the cease-fire in the case of a flare-up between Israel and the factions in the Gaza Strip. This, according to Israeli peace activist Gershon Baskin, who helped mediate between Israel and Hamas in the deal to release Gilad Shalit and has since then maintained a relationship with Hamas leaders.

Baskin told Haaretz on Thursday that senior officials in Israel knew about his contacts with Hamas and Egyptian intelligence aimed at formulating the permanent truce, but nevertheless approved the assassination.

“I think that they have made a strategic mistake,” Baskin said, an error “which will cost the lives of quite a number of innocent people on both sides.”

“This blood could have been spared. Those who made the decision must be judged by the voters, but to my regret they will get more votes because of this,” he added.

Baskin made Jabari’s acquaintance when he served as a mediator between David Meidin, Israel’s representative to the Shalit negotiations, and Jabari. “Jabari was the all-powerful man in charge. He always received the messages via a third party, Razi Hamad of Hamas, who called him Mister J.”

For months, Baskin sent daily messages in advance of the formulation of the deal. He kept the channel of communication with Gaza open even after the Shalit deal was completed.

According to Baskin, during the past two years Jabari internalized the realization that the rounds of hostilities with Israel were beneficial neither to Hamas nor to the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip and only caused suffering, and several times he acted to prevent firing by Hamas into Israel.

He said that even when Hamas was pulled into participating in the launching of rockets, its rockets would always land in open spaces. “And that was intentional,” clarified Baskin.

In recent months Baskin was continuously in touch with Hamas officials and with Egyptian intelligence as well as with officials in Israel, whose names he refused to divulge. A few months ago Baskin showed Defense Minister Ehud Barak a draft of the agreement and on the basis of that draft an inter-ministry committee on the issue was established. The agreement was to have constituted a basis for a permanent truce between Israel and Hamas, which would prevent the repeated rounds of shooting.

“In Israel,” Baskin said, “they decided not to decide, and in recent months I took the initiative to push it again.” In recent weeks he renewed contact with Hamas and with Egypt and just this week he was in Egypt and met with top people in the intelligence system and with a Hamas representative. He says he formed the impression that the pressure the Egyptians applied to the Palestinians to stop shooting was serious and sincere.

“He was in line to die, not an angel and not a righteous man of peace,” Baskin said of Jabari and of his feelings in the wake of the killing, “but his assassination also killed the possibility of achieving a truce and also the Egyptian mediators’ ability to function. After the assassination I spoke to the people in Israel angrily and they said to me: We’ve heard you and we are calling to ask if you have heard anything form the Egyptians or from Gaza.”

Since the assassination, Baskin has been in touch with the Egyptians but not with the Palestinians. According to him, the Egyptians are very cool-headed. They said it is necessary to let the fresh blood calm down. “The Egyptian intelligence people are doing what they are doing with the permission and authorization of the regime and apparently they very much believe in this work,” he says.

“I am mainly sad. This is sad for me. I am seeing people getting killed and that is what is making me sad. I tell myself that with every person who is killed we are engendering the next generation of haters and terrorists,” adds Baskin.

{Baskin is the co-founder and co-director of the Israel-Palestine Center for Research and Information, founded in 1988, which describes itself as “the only joint Israeli-Palestinian public policy think-tank in the world. It is devoted to developing practical solutions for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.” — ED.}

So far, the Haaretz article. What follows are my thoughts about these events— Rabbi Arthur Waskow.

The article says that although they knew about the discussions, the Israeli government “nevertheless” approved the assassination.

The question I think we need to ask is whether the Israeli government ordered the assassination not “nevertheless” but “therefore.” That is, did top Israeli officials choose another round of war with Gaza rather than a long-term truce? They certainly knew that killing Jabari would for sure bring on new rocket attacks, which to the Israeli public would then seem a legitimate reason for a new war in “self-defense.”

Why might the Netanyahu government have made this choice? With the caveat that there is no way to know for sure, without access to the inner governmental archives, let me put forward a hypothesis that seems at minimum plausible:

At home, elections are looming, and the major focus of the emerging campaign, till last week, was the domestic social and economic crisis — not foreign policy. With that as the central issue, the pro-corporate, anti-poor-people, anti-middle-class policies of the Netanyahu government were vulnerable. A new Gaza War would shift the conversation and strengthen a government proclaiming “self-defensive war.”

Meanwhile, President Abbas of the Palestinian Authority was preparing to ask the UN General Assembly to recognize Palestine as a state with “observer” status, not full membership. This was almost certain to pass, thus increasing the prestige of the Palestinian cause. Moreover, Abbas had just publicly renounced the “right” of millions of Palestinian refugees to “return” within Israel itself, thereby easing one deep fear many Israelis hold about the possibility of a two-state peace. Instead of encouraging this step toward peace, Netanyahu pooh-poohed it.

In this atmosphere, a long-term truce with Hamas, the de facto government of Gaza, would make the achievement of a two-state peace much more likely. But the Netanyahu government does not want that. It prefers the occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem and the subjugation of Gaza.

Ironically, last week’s and this week’s Torah readings might teach us some profound truths about these choices. These passages and much of the entire Book of Genesis, are about the relationships of older and younger siblings. In every case, God is said to favor the younger, weaker, brother. In every case but one, despite anger, the older brother — legally and often in reality more powerful — restrains himself when challenged by the younger one, and ultimately this makes possible a reconciliation.

Right now we are reading about what happens when a younger brother, Jacob, acts like his name, “Heel,” and cheats his older brother Esau. He flees his brother’s wrath. After decades away, he heads for home. When he does, Esau appears with 400 armed men — but withholds his power when he sees that Jacob, after wrestling with God, has been transformed. Esau chooses peace rather than a “legitimate” retribution for the wrong that has been done him. The brothers embrace.

The one story in which the older, more powerful brother refuses to restrain himself is the case of Cain and Abel. It ends in murder, and in the exile of the murderer.

Today, the State of Israel is far more powerful than Palestine. The Jewish people, which has for thousands of years seen itself as weaker in the world but blessed by God, is now in a time of reversal where worldly power is in its hands.

If we were to grasp the deepest teachings of Torah, the lesson would be, “Do Not Over-Reach! Do not abuse your power!” For those who do may succeed in the short run, but will end up as murderers and outcasts or worse. Those who restrain themselves and seek reconciliation live in joy.

This teaching is repeated in Torah again and again, in many different contexts – not just the family.

The Jewish people today faces the profound danger of becoming so addicted to our new power as to treat it not as a valuable healing from our past but as an idol – and thus to over-reach, and thereby to bring ruin on ourselves.

If indeed a key leader of Hamas was prepared after his own wrestle with reality to choose not fruitless war but a long-term truce, then that is a choice the Jewish people and the government of Israel should have welcomed.

That peaceful choice might have led toward a free and prosperous Palestine, alongside a much stronger, prosperous Israel freed of the burden of being the oppressor.

As I say, “If.” Without those secret archives, we cannot know for sure. But the Baskin article opens the window a crack. If it is accurate, to have chosen war instead was a profound strategic, ethical, and moral mistake.

And it is a sign of deep idolatry that practically every “established” American Jewish organization is applauding that choice without even examining the “if”.

Hadash calls on public to end deadly operation in Gaza

16 november 2012/The Israeli Communist Party http://www. maki.org.il המפלגה הקומוניסטית הישראלית‎  الحزب الشيوعي الاسرائيلي‎ (Israel)

Demonstrations against the Israeli deadly military operation in Gaza were held in Tel Aviv, Haifa and Jerusalem on Thursday night by Hadash (The Democratic Front for Peace and Equality – Communist Party of Israel). Also, Arab and Jewish students, Hadash members, took part in demonstrations held at Haifa University, Tel-Aviv University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on Thursday afternoon. Activists all over the country chanted slogan such as "Arabs and Jews refuse to be enemies," "in Gaza and Sderot, little girls want to live," and "Bibi [Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu] and [Defense minister Ehud] Barak, war is not a game." Hadash called on the public to join in demonstrations throughout the country in opposition to Operation Pillar of Defense in Gaza. Hadash MK Dov Khenin participated in the Tel-Aviv demonstration, near the Likud headquarters and stated: "Stop the killing, stop the bloodshed immediately." He added: "One bombing leads to another, leading to more and more people being injured in Gaza and Israel." (Hadash activists take part in a protest against the Israeli attack on Gaza, near the Likud headquarters in center Tel Aviv, November 15, 2012. In the hands of the protesters: "In Gaza and in Sderot girls want to live"/Photo: Activestills) "The cycle of violence is not the solution but the problem," he added. Khenin called on the government to reach an immediate cease-fire and announce the opening of genuine negotiations and an agreement with the Palestinians. At the rally in Tel Aviv, Hadash chairman, MK Muhammad Barake said Jews and Arabs together were calling for an end to the violence. "We came here to say that wars do not solve the conflict, only serve to add more bloodshed. We hope to hear the nation cry out against the right-wing government," Barake said. Hundreds attended the antiwar protest on King George Street in Tel Aviv, which was interrupted when an air raid siren was sounded in the city for the first time since 1991 during the First Gulf War. Two explosions were heard following the siren, an hour after a rocket from the Gaza Strip exploded in an open area outside Rishon Lezion. There were no reports of injuries in either strike. In Jerusalem police arrested five activists in the demonstration held near the Prime Minister's house. The Arab Higher Monitoring Committee said in a statement published on Thursday, "We oppose the attack on Gaza and the assassination of Palestinian people and leaders. Palestinian blood is more precious than the bloodshed the fascists are taking advantage of for publicity ahead of the Knesset elections. If the Israeli government thinks that this is the way to provide the settlers in the south with security, they are wrong. The Israeli government must take full responsibility for the people being killed on both sides – the Palestinian and the Israeli. The ongoing occupation of Palestinian territories is the main reason for everything that is happening here today." Related: MK Barakeh and MK Khenin during the Tel-Aviv demonstration (3.41 min. in Hebrew): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T32wQjPLA7A&feature=player_embedded

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מחאות בערים הגדולות נגד המבצע בעזה; בשבת הפגנה בנצרת שישי, 16 נובמבר 2012

נמשכות המחאות נגד המבצע הצבאי בעזה. אמש נערכו הפגנות בתל-אביב, ירושלים וחיפה. כמו כן, אירועי מחאה נוספים התקיימו באוניברסיטאות ובכפרים רבים בגליל. מחר (שבת) מתוכננות שתי הפגנות ביוזמת חד"ש. הפגנה ארצית בנצרת, בשעה 14:00 ליד כיכר המעיין, ובשעה 20:00 במרכז הכרמל, שבחיפה, שדרות הנשיא פנית דרך הים. יצוין שהיום (ששי) בצהריים הפגינו כמאה פעילים בכיכר פאריס ובידיהם שלטים בהם נאמר "די לכיבוש". ההפגנה הגדולה נערכה אתמול בשעות הערב מול מטה הליכוד, מצודת זהב, במרכז תל-אביב. מאות הגיעו כדי למחות נגד המבצע ומולם התייצבו קומץ אנשי ימין שניסו לחבל במחאה. יו"ר חד"ש, ח"כ מוחמד ברכה, נאם בהפגנה ואמר: "אנחנו כאן יהודים וערבים, באנו לזעוק די להרג, די לשפיכות הדמים. נתניהו וממשלתו רוצים לייצב את שלטונם במחיר דמם של פלסטינים ועל חשבון קורבנות משני העמים. אנחנו כאן באנו לומר שהמלחמות לא פותרות את הסכסוך, אלא מוסיפות עוד שפיכות דמים. אנחנו מקווים שתשמע צעקתו של העם פה נגד ממשלת הימין". שלטי חד"ש בהפגנה שנערכה אתמול בתל-אביב: "בעזה ובשדרות ילדות רוצות לחיות" (צילום: אקטיבטסילס) ח"כ דב חנין אמר בהפגנה: "סבב נוסף של מלחמה ומעגל דמים הוא אינו הפיתרון אלא הבעיה. המלחמה הזו לא תביא שקט ושלום לתושבי הדרום ולתושבי עזה. הדרך היחידה לשבור את מעגל הדמים היא באמצעות הידברות. יש לפתוח במשא ומתן מיידי על הפסקת אש עם החמאס, ולאחר מכן להתחיל הידברות עם אש"ף והרשות הפלסטינית על הסדר קבע". ד"ר יעלה רענן, תושבת עוטף עזה, נאמה גם היא בהפגנה בת"א: "שוב ושוב המדינה עושה כל שביכולתה בשביל להפוך את שכנינו לאויבים. בתור תושבת עין הבשור שבעוטף עזה, אני גרה כמה קילומטרים מהאנשים ברצועת עזה. כל מה שקורה עתה נועד ליצור שנאה בינינו". גם בהפגנה שנערכה מול בית הגפן בחיפה התייצבה קבוצה של אנשי ימין, חברי ליכוד וישראל ביתנו. בהפגנה שנערכה אתמול בקרבת בית הראש הממשלה בירושלים נעצרו חמישה פעילים בגין "התקהלות בלתי חוקית". כאמור, מחר יתקיימו שתי הפגנות נוספות בנצרת ובחיפה. סרטון: דברי ח"כ דב חנין בהפגנה שנערכה אמש בתל-אביב (3.41 דקות): http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=T32wQjPLA7A סרטון: דברי ח"כ מוחמד ברכה בהפגנה שנערכה אמש בתל-אביב: http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?sns=fb&v=EX7_Rxei-f8&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DEX7_Rxei-f8%26sns%3Dfb דף ההפגנה בנצרת בפייסבוק: http://www.facebook.com/events/450106541715012 דף ההפגנה בחיפה בפייסבוק: http://www.facebook.com/events/194162494054586 עוד על המחאה נגד המבצע: http://maki.org.il/he/democracy/133-news/14650-2012-11-14-19-13-03

3 WOMEN ARRESTED WHILE PRAYING AT WESTERN WALL IN 24 HOURS

October 17, 2012 +972 Magazine http://972mag.com (Israel)

By Noam Sheizaf*

Head of Women of the Wall was held in custody the entire night after trying to pray at the holy site while wearing a prayer shawl – a practice reserved only for men, according to Orthodox Judaism.

Three members of Women of the Wall (Neshot Hakotel), a group of Jewish women which seeks to conduct prayers and read from Torah at the Western Wall, were arrested by police in the last 24 hours, during the “Rosh Hodesh Heshvan” (new month prayers) at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem. The head of the organization, Anat Hoffman, was arrested last night for “disturbing public order,” while trying to pray at the Wall. Director Lesley Sachs and board member Rachel Cohen Yeshurun were detained Wednesday morning for the same offense.

Rachel and Lesley were released after a short detention at the police station in the Old City, although Anat Hoffman was taken to the police station at the Russian Compound. She has refused to speak to the police without the presence of an attorney and was held in detention the entire night. At the time of writing, Anat was undergoing interrogation. Other members of the organization held their morning prayer outside the police station; members of Israel Religious Action Center also arrived at the station.

According to the organization, Women of the Wall “seeks the right for Jewish women from Israel and around the world to conduct prayer services, read from a Torah scroll while wearing prayer shawls, and sing out loud at the Western Wall– Judaism’s most sacred holy site and the principal symbol of Jewish people hood and sovereignty.” Orthodox Jews believe that only men can wear prayer shawls and read from the Torah. As a result, religious rabbis often try to prevent the women from conducting their prayers at the wall. The police is supportive of the Orthodox approach, and arrests of women have taken place several times.

The Orthodox Rabbinate has legal monopoly in Israel over all religious services for Jews, including the management of the Western Wall.

Rabbi Gilad Kariv, Executive Director of the Reform Movement in Israel responded to the incident, saying that “the arrest of the Women of the Wall by the police is a further reminder of the need to completely alter the relation of state and religion in Israel, and to reverse the Orthodox monopoly. The struggle over the Kotel is a major part in the fight to let women sit in the front of the bus [in lines serving religious communities – N.S.], to sing and to receive equal treatment in the religious courts.”

Related:
Women of the Wall and Pussy Riot: Unlikely partners in the same struggle

 

*Noam Sheizaf I am an independent journalist and editor. I have worked for Tel Aviv’s Ha-ir local paper, for Ynet.co.il and for the Maariv daily, where my last post was deputy editor of the weekend magazine. My work has recently been published in Haaretz, Yedioth Ahronoth, The Nation and other newspapers and magazines. More…

I was born in Ramat-Gan and today live and work in Tel Aviv. Before working as a journalist, I served four and a half years in the IDF.

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Fórum Social Palestina Livre é lançado em Porto Alegre

26 setembro 2012, Vermelho http://www.vermelho.org.br (Brasil)

O Fórum Social Mundial Palestina Livre, que acontecerá de 28 de novembro a 1 de dezembro, em Porto Alegre, foi lançado oficialmente nesta segunda (24), com presença de autoridades brasileiras e palestinas e de integrantes dos movimentos sociais. Foi o pontapé inicial para a realização do encontro, que discutirá a realidade palestina e será palco para o apoio mundial à luta deste povo pelo seu Estado.

Em coletiva de imprensa, o governador do Rio Grande do Sul demonstrou sua solidariedade coma a causa palestina e apoio à realização do Fórum. Ele ressaltou que o Brasil defende o "direito de existência de um estado palestino livre soberano".

"É necessário que os setores políticos de Israel e da comunidade palestina se unifiquem, para que, com base na tolerância, no respeito à autodeterminação dos povos e ao direito de existência do Estado Palestino, comunguem para uma grande movimentação política, global, para o reconhecimento deste Estado e dos direitos históricos, culturais e sociais do povo palestino", afirmou Tarso.

Denúncia
A deputada Haneen Zoabi, uma das poucas palestinas a ter assento no parlamento israelense, destacou o papel do Fórum no sentido de conscientizar a comunidade internacional sobre a realidade da palestina. “Temos que ouvir o que Israel está dizendo: que não vão retirar as tropas até a fronteira de 1967, que não vão reconhecer Jerusalém ou permitir o retorno de refugiados palestinos”, disse a deputada.

Haneen integra uma geração de palestinos que já nasceu nos territórios ocupados. Para a parlamentar, a comunidade internacional tem feito "vista grossa" para a violação dos direitos humanos praticados pelo Estado sionista. “Israel não paga o preço dos danos que causa. São feitos 60 acordos com a União Europeia e também com outros países, como o Brasil, o que inviabiliza a cobrança do cumprimento às normas estabelecidas pela ONU para proteção aos palestinos”, afirmou.

De acordo com Haneen, Israel "se autoafirma como um estado democrático e diz que promove a ocupação e constrói um muro para isolar a Palestina do restante de Israel por questões de auto-defesa”. Mas a realidade é bem diferente, aponta.

Conforme a parlamentar explicou, Israel expulsou 85% dos palestinos no final da década de 1940 para construir o seu Estado. Além disso, confiscou 85% das terras particulares dos palestinos que vivem lá. Hoje, 50% dos palestinos estão abaixo da linha de pobreza. Apesar dos palestinos representarem 18% da população no Estado de Israel, as universidades têm apenas 8% de árabes.

Além disso, Israel domina econômica e culturalmente o território, com 35 leis que autorizam a descriminação racial, religiosa e econômica. “Somos menos de 1% no setor privado e 7% dos cargos públicos", destaca a deputada. Ela fez um chamado para que se unifique a luta em solidariedade aos palestinos, não apenas em torno do fim da ocupação, como também em relação ao direito de retorno dos palestinos. Estima-se que seis milhões de palestinos estejam refugiados em diversos países do mundo.

O prefeito de Belém, na Palestina, Victor Batarseh também participou do evento em Porto Alegre e denunciou a política israelense. “Com o muro de oito metros, estamos vivendo em uma prisão. Só 15% têm permissão para trabalhar. A nossa agricultura foi afetada com a construção do muro e era nossa principal fonte de sobrevivência. Pessoas adoecem ou sofrem infarto e não podem ser atendidas em Jerusalém. Cristãos e muçulmanos são proibidos de rezar”, relatou.

Já o embaixador da Palestina no Brasil, Ibrahim Alzeben, disse que o Fórum Social Mundial Palestina Livre será uma oportunidade para os refugiados denunciarem o que vivem há 65 anos, desde a divisão do território palestino pela Organização das Nações Unidas (ONU). "Nosso povo está dividido em vários lugares do mundo, mas está unido num mesmo ideal. Queremos uma vida digna, sem ocupação e sem discriminação", destacou.

O deputado estadual Raul Carrion (PCdoB) - autor da Lei Estadual de Solidariedade ao Povo Palestino - reiterou a necessidade de realizar debates sobre o tema e elogiou a iniciativa do evento. “Somos solidários à criação do Estado Palestino, à negociação, à paz na região”, disse o parlamentar.

Organização
Antes da coletiva, aconteceu o primeiro encontro de trabalho da organização do Fórum, para discutir a estrutura e mobilização para o evento. E, em seguida, foi realizado um seminário de formação, no qual, além da deputada palestina, participou também a professora Analucia Pereira, da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS).

Analucia fez um apanhado histórico de como a intervenção imperialista europeia na região do Oriente Médio, promovida principalmente pela Grã-Bretanha e a França, levou à situação atual. “O sionismo começou tímido porque os judeus estavam espalhados por vários países da Europa, mas conquistou apoio importante dos banqueiros e estabeleceu um fundo nacional judaico, que permitiu compra de terras na Palestina. A combinação entre os interesses britânicos e os do movimento sionista se aprofundou e, em 1948, logo após a 2ª Guerra Mundial, resultou na partilha do território para a criação de dois estados, na qual se previa que 57% das terras seriam destinadas aos judeus e o restante para os palestinos, cuja população era infinitamente maior, além do estabelecimento das nações árabes como se conhece hoje”, resgatou.

Entidades
A coordenação do Fórum conta com cerca de 40 movimentos sociais, sindicatos e ONGs. A ideia é fazem uma ampla mobilização, para que o evento seja representativo e mais pessoas possam conhecer a realidade palestina hoje.

"O lançamento foi muito bom. A presença do governador foi importante, demonstra como o estado está comprometido. Nossa tarefa agora é ampliar e trabalhar a mobilização para que o fórum seja o mais participativo possível", disse o presidente da Federação Árabe-Palestina do Brasil (Fepal), Elayyan Aladdin. Segundo ele, a Fepal já tem programada uma agenda de viagens, para convidar as comunidades palestinas a participar do encontro de novembro. Ele destacou ainda a importância de agregar à atividade o meio estudantil e acadêmico.

A presidenta do Cebrapaz, Socorro Gomes, também ressaltou a importância do apoio do governo ao Fórum e à causa palestina. Segundo ela, o evento foi uma grande demonstração da determinação das entidades brasileiras no apoio à questão. "Em meio às diferenças, foi construída uma unidade sobre a realização do Fórum, que divulgará a cultura palestina, denunciará o sofrimento daquele povo, vai expor a solidariedade mundial e traçará uma agenda de lutas em defesa do Estado palestino", disse.

Socorro também denunciou a intransigência de Israel sobre o assunto. "Israel não obedece às resoluções da ONU, é uma potência extremamente armada - inclusive com armas nucleares - e que ameaça os países que não se submetem à sua política racista", colocou, defendendo que o Estado palestino é uma questão "de justiça, humanitária e essencial para a paz no mundo".

"Israel se comporta como a África do Sul na época do apartheid e deve ser tratado como um estado racista e genocida, que não obedece às leis internacionais", encerrou.

Durante os dias de realização do Fórum, organizações brasileiras e internacionais e pessoas que apoiam o fim da ocupação israelense e da colonização das terras árabes estarão discutindo formas de intervenção para promover justiça e paz na região. Além da denúncia, a ideia é dar visibilidade à causa e à solidariedade que ela tem conquistado ao redor do mundo.  (Com agências)

‘WE DIDN’T WANT TO RAISE CHILDREN IN THAT PLACE’

May 6nd, 2012, Jews for Justice for Palestinians http://jfjfp.com (USA)

Dear Israel, This Is Why I Left

By Emily L. Hauser*
May 2nd, 2012

I lived in Tel Aviv for 14 years, and having been back in America for almost as long, still miss it every day. At Passover, that longing becomes an almost physical weight in my chest.

The smells of springtime Chicago aren’t right, and neither is the culture. I want to be surrounded by people who know why I’m frantic in the lead-up to the Seder, bus drivers wishing me a hag sameah, and neighbors asking “where are you for the holiday?” I want to be home.

But I’m not home. Instead I’m in the gentle exile of American suburbia—a self-imposed, political exile that I undertook for the sake of my children.

When the second intifada broke out, my Jerusalemite husband and I were temporarily in the US as I worked toward my Masters degree at the University of Chicago. We assured everyone (over and over) that we would be back in Israel by the time our just-born son went to kindergarten—it would be easier, we figured, if he started school in the country where he’d be growing up.

But then the intifada ground on. And Israel responded with increasing violence, and a steadfast refusal to admit any culpability, or need to make good on past promises, or understanding that the Palestinians were reacting as we would, had we been occupied for decades on end.

For a year my husband and I wrestled with our fears, not even sharing them with each other—then one day, when home for a visit with our son, we began to talk, and realized: We didn’t want to raise children in that place. The Jewish State was no longer a place in which we wanted to build a family—“for the time being.”

In the meantime, “the time being” has become our lives. The boy was joined by a girl, birthdays have come and gone, and nothing about Israel in the past decade has convinced us that our Israeli children should leave the galut.

On the contrary: As Israel has become more deeply entrenched in the settlement enterprise, more dedicated to an increasingly violent and dehumanizing occupation, and indeed, increasingly less democratic toward even those with the good fortune to be Jewish, we’ve come to realize that we’re not likely to ever move back.

I don’t know if our children are any physically safer here than there, but I do know this: They’re not being groomed for service in a military now devoted less to the defense of the state, than to the oppression of another people. They’re not caught in an educational system made small and narrow by lack of funds, even as the government pours funds into settlements built illegally on stolen land. They’re not being lied to daily by leaders who mouth platitudes about peace, even as their actions do nothing but undermine the possibility of peace.

They think of Israel as home, too. We speak Hebrew in our house, are active members of our Conservative shul, and visit about once a year.

And when we’re there, between laughter on the beach and overnights on their cousins’ kibbutz, we teach them things they don’t learn about in Hebrew school: We show them road blocks, strewn across the West Bank. We gaze at the Separation Barrier snaking through Palestinian land, and ask how they would feel if soldiers came and threw them out of their home. We march in East Jerusalem.

And if I ever doubted the wisdom of our decision, a video emerged from Israeli television this week to wipe any doubts away: Asked for reactions to the recent traffic accident deaths of a group of Palestinian children, teenager after teenager responded with nauseating levels of animosity: “They’re whores, not people, and they don’t deserve to live,” one young man said. “They can be the future of terrorist attacks.” When the reporter pointed out that the dead were but 4 or 5 years old, the boy responded: “Little kids, so what?”

Lest we be tempted to think that these kids are simply bad apples – in 2010, nearly half of Israeli teens surveyed said they didn’t support equal rights for Israel’s Arab citizens. More than half would deny them the right to be elected to the Knesset.

A society that has become centered on protecting, maintaining and furthering the oppression of another people produces and indeed rewards hate. This is not unique to Israel or Israelis—it’s human.

But I will not raise the two humans who matter most to me in such an atmosphere. I will protect them from what Israel has become, and I will raise them to know the Jewish values of human dignity and the sanctity of life.

And every year at this time, my heart will ache as I say “Next year in Jerusalem.” Because I know that next year, I’ll be right here.

Emily L. Hauser is an American-Israeli writer who has studied and written about the contemporary Middle East since the early 1990s. She blogs about Israel/Palestine and everything from domestic politics to her kids to loud music at Emily L. Hauser In My Head, and can be followed on Twitter.

Marcha das Vadias protesta no centro de Jerusalém

7 maio 2012/Vermelho http://www.vermelho.org.br (Brasil)

O movimento SlutWalk ("Marcha das Vadias" como ficou conhecida no Brasil) já ganhou as ruas de diversas capitais mundiais. Em Jerusalém, tomaram as ruas centrais da parte ocidental cantando lemas como "Basta! Culpem o estuprador", "Meu corpo é só meu" ou "Não significa não, que parte do 'não' você não entendeu?".

O "SlutWalk" nasceu em abril do ano passado no Canadá depois que um policial de Toronto sugeriu que, para não sofrerem ataques, as mulheres deveriam "evitar se vestirem como putas".

"Israel não é diferente de outros países ocidentais na hipocrisia social e na maneira de controlar as mentes das mulheres", disse a estudante e assistente social Diana, 22 anos, que liderava sem complexos a manifestação vestindo um top justo.

Para a jovem, nascida em Jerusalém e filha de um venezuelano, trata-se de "um problema de dupla moral".

"A sociedade diz que precisamos ser bonitas e sexy de acordo com as normas, mas ao mesmo tempo nos acusam de sermos provocadoras e de usarmos nossa sexualidade para conseguir muitas coisas".

"Não é um problema só religioso, ou dos haredim (ultra-ortodoxos judeus). Os haredim só expressam o que está dentro da mente da maioria das pessoas na sociedade secular", disse Diana.

Em sua passagem pelo centro da cidade santa, as manifestantes, algumas delas protegendo os seios apenas com cartazes, se depararam com ultra-ortodoxos. Parte deles as observou com perplexidade, outra com irritação e reprovação. Os policiais que acompanharam o protesto tiveram que afastá-los em algumas ocasiões para que não enfrentassem as mulheres.

"É preciso se vestir com modéstia. Não me ofende a título pessoal que andem assim pelo centro da cidade, mas cada um tem que atuar de uma determinada forma para conseguir a salvação", afirmou Dov, um ultra-ortodoxo que incentivava as pessoas a rezar enquanto a manifestação passava pela repleta rua Ben Yehuda.

No entanto, para a israelense para Rebeca Huge, 24, que participava do protesto com um cartaz com a inscrição: "Um sorriso não é igual a um convite ao estupro", "a solução não é se vestir mais recatada, mas educar as pessoas que não importa a maneira de se vestir".

A estudante de Haifa disse acreditar que o problema "não é apenas religioso", e considera que "a sociedade é muito patriarcal e que as mulheres são menos do que os homens".

A "SlutWalk" foi realizada em Jerusalém, na sexta-feira (4), após ter passado em outras cidades israelenses de estilo de vida mais laico, como Haifa e Tel Aviv.

Na cidade santa, onde a religião e a comunidade ultra-ortodoxa estão muito mais presentes do que no resto do país, é preciso uma grande ousadia para participar de uma manifestação como esta. Uma de suas principais organizadoras foi Sarit, uma estudante que conseguiu reunir centenas de pessoas em um grupo, em redes sociais.

"Não existe desculpa ou razão alguma para assediar as mulheres, não importa como se vestem ou se comportam. Simplesmente queremos os mesmos direitos de qualquer homem", afirmou.

Moral Courage from the General’s Son

April 11, 2012, Shalom Rav http://rabbibrant.com (USA)
A Blog by Rabbi Brant Rosen



Please, please take 30 minutes of your time to watch this presentation by Israeli peace activist, Miko Peled, author of the recently published book, "The General’s Son."

Among other things, Peled’s ideas and convictions carry a profound sense of moral authority because he comes with impeccable Zionist credentials. His grandfather, Avraham Katznelson, was a prominent Zionist leader and signer of the Israeli Declaration of Independence. His father Matti Peled was a major Israeli military leader who fought in the 1948 War of Independence and was an Aluf (“Major-General”) during the 1967 Six-Day War. He later became a scholar of Arabic literature, a leftist politician, and a prominent Israeli advocate of peace talks with the PLO.

Miko is following in his father’s footsteps in more ways than one. In reading his book, it is so clear to me that he is an Israeli through and through and very much a product of his family’s remarkable history. At the same time, he has carried his father’s work of moral witness firmly into the 21st century.

In the video above, he addresses what he considers the fundamental myths of Israeli society: the “Land Without a People for a People Without a Land” myth of 1948, the “War of Survival” myth of 1967, and the myth of “Israeli democracy.” He also speaks eloquently about the moral outrage of the war in Gaza and the issue of Palestinian terror. (Tragically, Peled’s family has first-hand experience with the latter subject: his niece Smadar was killed by a Palestinian suicide bomber in Jerusalem in 1997).

Please watch the clip and send the link on. Moral heroes such as Miko Peled deserve the widest possible audience.

PS: I’m thrilled to be able to say that the publisher of “The General’s Son,” Just World Books, will be soon publishing my book – a curated anthology of “Shalom Rav” posts and comments from 2008-2010. Much more on this soon – stay tuned!

Scholars of the Levant Conference Calls for Confronting Zionist Practices to Judaize Jerusalem, Expresses Support to Syria

11 April 2012, Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) الوكالة العربية السورية للأنباء

DAMASCUS, (SANA) – The Scholars of the Levant Conference to Support al-Quds on Tuseday called upon the Arab and Islamic figures to confront the serious Zionist practices to judaize Jerusalem and destroy al-Aqsa Mosque, calling upon Arab and Islamic media to expose these practices.

Concluding the activities of the conference, the participants stressed that the Arab and international silence towards what is taking place in Jerusalem is a participation in this crime.

The participants underscored rejection of terrorism and the need for differentiation between it and the legitimate resistance, calling for exposing the Zionist crimes against the Palestinian people.

They called upon the scholars in the Arab and Islamic nations to revive the culture of resistance among their people in order to defend rights and the holy sacred places, in addition to devoting religious discourse to support resistance in Palestine, South of Lebanon and the occupied Syrian Golan.

The final statement stressed the importance of unity and rejection of sedition, warning against the instigative calls of some satellite channels that stoke sectarian sedition to fragment the united nation and calling upon these channels to be realistic and credible serving joint issues in the interest of all sides.

The participants stressed the right of the Palestinian people to resist occupation, adding that supporting the resistance in Palestine is a legitimate and humanitarian duty.
They called on the people of the Arab and Islamic nations to be united regardless of their racial and sectarian affiliations to face attempts of spreading sedition and fragmenting the nation.

The participants expressed support to Syria's national line and efforts to preserve its territorial unity against all conspiracies which aim at undermining its security and stability.

They condemned instigative fatwas by some Muslim scholars in the Arab countries which violate the principles of Islam, adding that it was better for those scholars stress stopping the bloodshed and getting out of the crisis.

The participants denounced the terrorist sabotage acts in Syria which violates human ethics and all religions, adding that these acts will enhance the people's determination to overcome the crisis.

They rejected extremism and systemized terrorism in Syria such as operation carried out by al-Qaeda members and Takfiri groups serving interests that are hostile to Islam and Muslims.

The participants also hailed the courageous and resistant stances of Syria's people and government under the leadership of President al-Assad in support of the Palestinian cause to end the occupation and establish a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.

Earlier, under the patronage of President Bashar al-Assad, activities of the Scholars of Levant conference to Support al-Quds (Jerusalem) started at al-Assad Library in Damascus.

The Conference is held by the Ministry of Awqaf (Religious Endowment) with the participation of scholars from Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria.

The first session of the conference started with announcing the formation of the Scholars of Levant Union and electing Dr. Mohammad Said Ramadan al-Bouti as its president.

Abbas al-Mosawi from Lebanon and Sheikh Tayssir al-Tamimi from Palestine who didn’t attend because of the practices of the Israeli occupation were elected as deputies.
The union included 60 members from Syria, 20 members from Lebanon, ten Palestinian scholars and five Jordanian scholars.

The first session is entitled 'al-Quds and al-Aqsa Mosque', it will discuss issues related to al-Quds, the role of the Islamic nation's scholars in supporting al-Quds, Syria's resistant role in defending al-Quds and the occupied Arab territories, judaization of al-Quds and the Israeli violations of al-Aqsa Mosque and the holy sites.

The second session, under the title 'The Role of Levant Scholars in this Stage', discusses the conspiracy against Syria and the dangers of extremism and provocative fatwas (Rulings made by Muftis) on the Islamic nation in addition to the role of scholars in facing the conspiracy against Syria.

Al-Bouti: Liberating al-Quds is a Holy Duty
Dr. Mohammad Said Ramadan al-Bouti on Tuesday said that liberating al-Quds (Jerusalem) is a sacred duty, adding that occupation can never transfer lands' property regardless of its duration.

In a speech during the Scholar of the Levant Conference to support al-Quds, al-Bouti added that "Every Muslim, Arab or Foreigner, and Every Arab person, Muslim or Christian, should sacrifice his life for al-Quds".

Al-Bouti highlighted that the Islamic State liberated al-Quds from the Romans, who occupied al-Quds for several centuries, and restored it to its rightful people of Muslims, Christians and Jews.

Minister of Awqaf (Religious Endowments) Mohammad Abdul-Sattar al-Sayyed said that Jerusalem had been a target along the ages for invaders and that was the main reason for unifying the Arabs when Salah al Din al Ayyubi librated it from foreigners.

" Let us make Jerusalem the direct reason for re-unifying the Arabs as we all agree on librating it," pointing out to the sublime rank of al-Aqsa Mosque and Jerusalem where the Israeli occupation is practicing ethnic cleansing against its people from Muslems and Christens.

He said that the Arabs are eager to pray in al-Aqsa Mosque and Church of the Resurrection, warning that the Israeli and the Zionist-backed media outlets are not saving any efforts to distract the Arabs from their central issue and are working in sowing sedition among them.

For his part, His Beatitude Patriarch Gregorios III Laham, Patriarch of Antioch, All the East, Alexandria and Jerusalem for the Melkite Greek Catholic said that the resurrection of Messiah is the celebration of Jerusalem and the title of the Conference is to champion Jerusalem.

He said that every human consider themselves from Jerusalem because it’s the city of all religions and it means in Christianity ' redemption and salvation', stressing that it is key for peace in the region.

Laham called the world, the Christians in particular, to campaign for supporting Jerusalem and its unique natur as a convergence for all religions.

For his part, Grand Mufti of the Republic, Dr. Ahmad Badr Eddin Hassoun, asserted that the blood of the Syrian youths who were assassinated by armed terrorist groups was supposed to be spilled in al-Quds, but the terrorists spilled it in Syria.
The Mufti condemned the Arab states' collation against Syria, adding that those states are providing money and weapons to destroy Syria.

He stressed that the Arab League is now working to weaken the unity of the Arab world which is the basis for resolving the Palestinian Cause and defending the holy places in Jerusalem.

The participants stressed Syria's role in supporting the Palestinian Cause which was reflected in the Syrian people's standing by the Palestinians and Syria's firm stance and rejection of giving up the rights of the Palestinians in restoring their lands.

The participants called upon the people of the Islamic countries and the free people to defend justice and call on the international organizations to shoulder their responsibilities in protecting the rights of the Palestinians and the sacred sites in Palestine from the Zionist crimes to desecrate the holy Al-Aqsa Mosque.

They also stressed that the scholars of the Levant should unify efforts to reunite the Arab Nation and mobilize its resources to support Jerusalem.

The participants added that the Zionism has created fictitious enemies for Arabs with the aim of drawing their attention from their real enemy which is Israel and those who support it.

English Bulletin

Israel se prepara para recibir la Marcha Global a Jerusalén

26 marzo 2012, Rebelión http://www.rebelion.org (México)

COA

Israel ya ha empezado a prepararse advirtiendo a los gobiernos vecinos árabes sobre las consecuencias de apoyar la Marcha Global a Jerusalen planificada para el viernes 30 de marzo. Reclama que la marcha está organizada por partidos anti-israelíes, y que está prohibido que intenten llegar a las fronteras.

Fuentes policiales confirman que han enviado cartas a los gobiernos de Siria, Líbano, Egipto, Jordania, Gaza y Cisjordania alertando del peligro de esta marcha, pidiendo que paren la escalada de tensión que provocará. Los militares israelíes han diseñado un “plan de seguridad”, que se presentará el domingo 25 de marzo en el parlamento. El plan contiene estrategias para reducir y atacar a grandes grupos de personas, para lo que las unidades militares se están entrenando.

La marcha global a Jerusalén tiene como logo la defensa de “libertad para Jerusalen, no a la ocupación, no a la segregación y la limpieza étnica, no a la judeización de Palestina, su tierra y sus santos lugares”. El comité organizador decidió la fecha del 30 de marzo por ser el “día de la tierra” Palestina, que se celebra cada año desde 1976.

Tras la creación del estado de Israel en 1948 los palestinos supervivientes a la Nakba (limpieza étnica que desplazó al 80% de la población) permanecieron aferrados a sus poblados de Galilea, Acre, Safad, Haifa, Jaffa y Nazareth, entre otros, resistiendo los desalojos, la usurpación, los maltratos, las humillaciones y la discriminación. Israel, buscó por todos los medios judaizar las tierras del 48, y un gran intento fue en marzo de 1976. Israel en esta fecha confiscó miles de hectáreas de tierra palestina, tanto privada como pública, de todas partes y más especialmente de Galilea. Cuando los palestinos del 48 (los que viven en la zona que se considera Israel, bajo gobierno israelí, y totalmente segregados) se dieron cuenta que más tierra agrícola iba a ser confiscada para construir más asentamientos judíos y un campo de entrenamiento militar, hicieron un llamamiento a la huelga general. Era la primera vez que desde el 1948 se producía un acto masivo y desde todas las áreas de palestina (ocupadas militarmente u ocupadas por el gobierno de Israel) reclamando no los derechos laborales, sino los derechos a defender y reclamar su tierra.

Las marchas y manifestaciones fueron masivas, se sucedieron por todas partes, y la respuesta militar fue contundente, militar y violenta. Las ciudades de la parte ocupada fueron reocupadas por los tanques israelíes, las manifestaciones atacadas y reducidas, los heridos se contaban por decenas, cientos de detenidos, y siete jóvenes fueron asesinados a sangre fría (mártires asesinados por Israel). El 30 de marzo es para todos los palestinos el Yaum al-Ard, el Día de la Tierra, una jornada en que los palestinos de todo el mundo muestran su apoyo y unidad con aquellos que viven bajo la bandera de Israel y bajo la ocupación israelí (en los Territorios de Gaza y Cisjordania), yendo a la huelga o convocando manifestaciones y actos.

La marcha del 30 de marzo de 2012 unirá los esfuerzos de palestinos, árabes, musulmanes, cristianos, judíos y toda la ciudadanía con conciencia en este mundo para poner fin a la violación por parte de Israel de todas las leyes internacionales, que condenan la ocupación de Jerusalén y de la tierra palestina.

Marchas masivas se organizarán desde dentro y fuera de Palestina; miles de personas llegarán desde Asia, Africa y Europa, para marchar unidas hacia las fronteras de Jordania, Egipto, Siria y Líbano (países que limitan con las fronteras establecidas por el estado de Israel), con el objetivo de dirigirse a Jerusalén o al punto más cercano posible en función de las circunstancias, y en coordinación con todos los grupos e instituciones de la sociedad civil que participan en la marcha.

También se organizarán protestas masivas frente a las embajadas israelíes de diferentes países y en las plazas públicas de las grandes ciudades del mundo, incluyendo las capitales de países musulmanes y árabes.

Fuentes:
http://gm2j.com/main/blog/2012/03/23/israel-warns-of-the-consequences-of-jerusalem-global-march/
http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=103276
http://www.nodo50.org/csca/agenda2004/palestina/dia-tierra_29-04-04.html
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THE GLOBAL MARCH TO JERUSALEM (GMJ) – 30TH MARCH 2012

18 March 2012, Global March to Jerusalem http://www.globalmarchtojerusalem.org (Palestine)

The Global March to Jerusalem (GMJ) is a groundbreaking new initiative that is organising non-violent civil resistance on 30th March 2012 in Palestine and the four neighbouring countries: Egypt, Lebanon Jordan and Syria.

The GMJ is comprised of a diverse coalition of Palestinian, Arab and international activists who are united in the struggle to liberate the holy city of Jerusalem (the city of Peace) from illegal Zionist occupation.

The peaceful marchers will demand freedom for Jerusalem and its people. Our aim is to end the Zionist policies of apartheid, ethnic cleansing and Judaisation, which all harm the people, land and sanctity of Jerusalem. Judaisation has involved the unrestricted expansion and funding of illegal Israeli settlements, the continued dispossession and demolition of Palestinian property, and the construction of a Separation Wall surrounding the city, all of which have changed the demographics of the holy city from a Palestinian to a Jewish majority.

Global participation in the march will confirm to the world that these policies and practices of the racist state of Israel against Jerusalem and its people are a crime not only against Palestinians but against all humanity.

The march will unite the efforts of Palestinians, Arabs, Muslims, Christians, Jews, and all citizens of conscience in the world to put an end to Israel’s disregard for international law through the continuing occupation of Jerusalem and the rest of Palestinian land.

While the GMJ is made up of grassroots movements in each participating country, the march is centralized through an International Central Committee, consisting of 42 elected regional delegates. National delegates will appoint 15 members for the International Executive Committee and recruit hundreds of dignitaries and luminaries for the International Advisory Board.

Our plan is to organize massive marches towards Jerusalem, or to the nearest point possible according to the circumstances of each country, in Palestine (the 1948 seizures, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the four neighbouring countries: Jordan, Egypt, Syria and Lebanon. Internationals will participate in land caravans or fly directly to one of the main sites for the march. In addition, mass protests will be organised in front of Israeli embassies in the capitals of different countries, or in the main public squares in the big cities of the world.

The recent successes of the Egyptian and Tunisian revolutions are a reminder that this inspirational movement for nonviolent civil resistance was actually born in Palestine with the first Intifada. By renewing the struggle to liberate Palestine through a peaceful national mass movement that is supported by the global community, we aim to change the nature of the confrontation by compelling the occupiers to face millions of demonstrators demanding Freedom for Palestine and its capital Jerusalem.


Marcha Mundial a Jerusalén (GMJ) – 30 de Marzo de 2012
La Marcha Global a Jerusalén es una iniciativa nueva e innovadora que está organizando una marcha pacífica y no violenta de resistencia civil para este 30 de marzo de 2012 en Palestina y en sus cuatro países vecinos: Egipto, Jordania, Líbano y Siria.

La GMJ se compone de una coalición de diversos activistas palestinos, árabes e internacionales que están unidos en la lucha para liberar la ciudad santa de Jerusalén (la ciudad de la Paz) a partir de la ilegal ocupación sionista.

Los manifestantes pacíficos demandan la liberación de Jerusalén y de su población nativa palestina. Nuestro objetivo es poner fin a las políticas sionistas de Apartheid, limpieza étnica y de judaización, como todo el daño a la gente, la tierra y a la santidad de Jerusalén. La judaización ha implicado la expansión sin restricciones y la financiación de asentamientos ilegales israelíes, el despojo continuado y la demolición de propiedades palestinas y la construcción de un muro de separación que rodea la ciudad, todos los cuales han cambiado la demografía de la ciudad santa de una mayoría palestina a una judía.

La participación en la Marcha Global a Jerusalén confirmará al mundo que estas políticas y prácticas del estado racista de Israel contra Jerusalén y su gente es un crimen no sólo contra los palestinos sino contra toda la humanidad.

La marcha unirá los esfuerzos de palestinos, árabes, musulmanes, cristianos, judíos y a todos los ciudadanos de conciencia en el mundo para poner fin al desprecio de Israel hacia el derecho internacional a través de la continua ocupación de Jerusalén y el resto del territorio palestino.

La GMJ se compone de movimientos de base en cada país participante, la marcha se centraliza a través de un Comité Central Internacional, que consta de 42 delegados regionales electos. Los delegados nacionales nombrará a 15 miembros para el Comité Ejecutivo Internacional y reclutará a cientos de dignatarios para el Consejo Asesor Internacional.

Nuestro plan consiste en organizar marchas masivas hacia Jerusalén, o al punto más cercano posible de acuerdo a las circunstancias de cada país, en Palestina (las fronteras de 1948, la Ribera Occidental y la Franja de Gaza) y sus cuatro países vecinos: Jordania, Egipto, Siria y el Líbano. Los activistas internacionales participarán en las caravanas por tierra o volarán directamente a uno de los principales lugares de interés para la marcha. Además, se organizarán protestas masivas frente a las embajadas israelíes en las capitales de diferentes países, o en las principales plazas públicas en las grandes ciudades del mundo.

Los éxitos recientes de las revoluciones de Egipto y Túnez son un recordatorio de que este movimiento de inspiración para la resistencia civil no violenta en realidad nació en Palestina con la primera Intifada, al renovar la lucha para la liberación de Palestina a través de un movimiento internacional pacífico de masas, que es apoyado por la comunidad internacional, nuestro objetivo es cambiar la naturaleza de la confrontación obligando a los ocupantes a hacer frente a millones de manifestantes exigiendo la liberación de Palestina y su capital Jerusalén.


Der Globale Marsch nach Jerusalem (GMJ) – 30. März 2012
Der globale Marsch nach Jerusalem (GMJ) ist eine bahnbrechende neue Initiative, die den gewaltfreien bürgerlichen Widerstand organisiert für den 30. März 2012 in Palästina und den Nachbarländern: Ägypten, Libanon, Jordanien und Syrien.

Der GMJ setzt sich zusammen aus einer breitgefächerten Koalition von Palästinensern, Arabern und internationalen Aktivisten, die geeint sich im Kampf zur Befreiung der heiligen Stadt Jerusalem (der Stadt des Friedens) von der illegalen zionistischen Besatzung.

Die friedlichen Demonstranten fordern Frieden für Jerusalem und seine Bewohner. Unser Ziel ist es, die zionistische Politik der Apartheit, ethnischen Säuberungen und Judaisierung zu beenden, die allesamt den Menschen und dem Land Schaden zufügen und die Unantastbarkeit von Jerusalem verletzen. Die Judaisierung hat die unbeschränkte Expansion und Gründung von illegalen israelischen Siedlungen mit sich gebracht, die fortgesetzte Enteignung und Zerstörung von palästinensischem Eigentum sowie den Bau einer Separationsmauer, die die Stadt einschließt; all dies hat den demographischen Wandel der heiligen Stadt von einer palästinensischen zu einer jüdischen Bevölkerungsmehrheit hervorgerufen.

Die globale Beteiligung an dem Marsch wird der Welt bestätigen, dass diese Politiken und Praktiken des rassistischen Staates Israel gegen Jerusalem und seine Bewohner nicht nur ein Verbrechen gegen die Palästinenser sind, sondern gegen die gesamte Menschheit.

Der Marsch wird die Bemühungen von Palästinensern, Arabern, Muslimen, Christen, Juden und allen Menschen mit Gewissen in der Welt einen, der Missachtung des Völkerrechts durch Israel mit seiner andauernden Besetzung von Jerusalem und dem übrigen palästinensischen Land ein Ende zu setzen.

Obgleich der GMJ sich in jedem der teilnehmenden Länder aus Bürgerinitiativen zusammensetzt, so wird er dennoch zentral geleitet durch ein internationales Zentralkomitee, das aus 42 gewählten Landesdelegierten besteht. Die nationalen Vertreter werden 15 Mitglieder für das internationale Exekutiv-Komitee ernennen und hunderte von Würdenträgern und bekannten Persönlichkeiten für den internationalen Beratungsausschuss anwerben.

Unser Plan besteht darin, massive Märsche nach Jerusalem oder zu dem nächst möglichen Punkt gemäß den Umständen der einzelnen Länder zu organisieren, in Palästina (den 1948 beschlagnahmten Gebieten, der Westbank und im Gaza-Streifen) sowie den vier Nachbarländern: Jordanien, Ägypten, Syrien und Libanon. Internationale Aktivisten werden an Landkarawanen teilnehmen oder direkt zu einem der Hauptschauplätze des Marsches fliegen. Zusätzlich werden Massenproteste vor den israelischen Botschaften in den Hauptstädten verschiedener Länder organisiert oder auf den wichtigsten öffentlichen Plätzen in den Großstädten der Welt.

Die jüngsten Erfolge der ägyptischen und tunesischen Revolution erinnern uns daran, dass diese inspirierende Bewegung für gewaltfreien zivilen Widerstand eigentlich in Palästina geboren wurde in Form der ersten Intifada. Bei der Wiederaufnahme des Kampfes zur Befreiung Palästinas durch eine friedvolle nationale Massenbewegung, die von der weltweiten Gemeinschaft unterstützt wird, wollen wir das Wesen der Konfrontation verändern, indem wir die Besatzer zwingen, Millionen von Demonstranten gegenüber zu stehen, die Freiheit für Palästina und seine Hauptstadt Jerusalem fordern.