FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

At 9:15 tonight, Women in Black will hold a half-hour vigil at the Sunset Laemmle Theatres, 8000 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, Ca.8000 Sunset Blvd.

West Hollywood, 90046

An Israeli film about the military, Close to Home, is being shown as part of the LA Film Festival. We believe that all cultural, social, sports and products from Israel should be boycotted until it withdraws from the occupied territories and gives Palestinians their civil and human rights. Israel is collectively punishing a people whose only aim is freedom from occupation.

For information on the invasion of Gaza, please contact the following people who are facing, firsthand, the might of the 4th largest military in the world.



GAZA CONTACTS FOR MEDIA INTERVIEWS

June 28, 2006

Note: Most numbers can be reached using international prefixes of both 970 (Palestine) or 972 (Israel).

GAZA CITY

Dr. Haider Abdel Shafi: Former Palestinian Negotiator 970-8-2830-222 (home), 970-8-286-6689 (office)

Diana Butto: Former Legal Advisor to PLO, now works for Paltel, 970 599 559 734 (mobile)

Ghazi Hamad: Spokesperson for Hamas, former Political Analyst 970 599 705 802 (mobile), 970 8 2833 539 (office)

Dr. Eyad Al Sarraj: Director of Gaza Community Mental Health 970-599-400-424 (mobile)

Raji Sourani: Director of Palestinian Center for Human Rights in Gaza

970-599-412-919 (mobile)

If self defense from Qassam rockets that just might massacre an entire classroom in a school and the Israeli attempts to rescue a captive soldier from cruel captors whose government claims it can't control them nor help the situation bugs you so much, please make sure you don't use cellphones, the Google search engine, life saving medical technologies, drip irrigation, pentium chips in your computer, the IMCs on the internet (they only operate thanks to Israeli computer technology), ICQ, etc. Go ahead! That way we won't have to read your lopsided anti-Israel propaganda riddled with lies and omissions.

I laud the Israeli incursion into Gaza and hope it escalates into an extensive ground operation like Defensive Shield. I'm tired of anti-Israel propagandists who don't care a whit about the lives of Israelis and the aggression they're subjected to daily.

These folks are just Hamas appologists. They resent that idea that Jews defend themselves.

There's been a lot of reporting in the past couple of days to the effect that Hamas, the genocidal terrorist outfit that currently is the majority party in the Palestinian territories, has "recognized" Israel. Leave it to the New York Times to describe the whole thing credulously, then add as an afterthought that it's meaningless:

On Tuesday, . . . [Palestinian] political factions completed a draft agreement aimed at a national unity government that could include an implicit recognition of Israel by Hamas. . . .

The draft agreement between the Fatah faction of Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian leader, and the Hamas faction of Prime Minister Ismail Haniya is based on a document outlined by Palestinian prisoners. It is described as containing an implicit recognition of Israel's right to exist, because it calls for the creation of a Palestinian state within pre-1967 borders, presumably next to Israel.

Such an accord would move Hamas closer to recognition of Israel--a significant change--and would raise the possibility of renewed Western aid to the Palestinians, which was severely curtailed after the Hamas victory in January.

If the accord backing what would amount to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is completed, it will represent a victory for Mr. Abbas, who had threatened to put the issue to a referendum next month. But Saeb Erekat, a senior Fatah official close to Mr. Abbas, said that the document was incomplete, and that Mr. Abbas wanted to review it and consult further.

Blah blah blah. Eight more paragraphs of this stuff, and then we get this:

The draft document also contains a clause that supports armed action against Israel, which it says should be "concentrated" in areas occupied by Israel in 1967 but not limited to them.

In other words, Hamas (Fatah too) "recognizes" Israel in the sense that, to take a random example, O J Simpson "recognized" his ex-wife Nichole

"I believed, and to this day still believe, in our people's eternal and historic right to this entire land." Prime minister Olmert addressing US Congress last week.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/24/AR2006052401420_pf.html

"I am sorry with all my heart for the residents of Gaza, but the lives and well-being of Sderot's residents are more important than those of Gaza residents,"

Olmert in Ha'aretz recently

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/730471.html

You only have to listen to what Israeli politicians and war criminals are saying (and have said historically)when understanding this conflict and the real intentions of Israeli politicians and defense ministers.

Not only have you taken quotes out of context, you've misinterpreted them intentionally.

Just another Hamas appologist!

>the lives and well-being of Sderot's residents are more important than those of Gaza residents

Sums it up, huh?

Only for obsessed rabid anti-Zionist fanatics who prefer the false versions.

You mean *this* bunk logic?

http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2004/07/1698659.php

(snip)

bunk logic

(snip)

Why context matters, people. Why quotes are pointless:

by x Wednesday, Jun. 28, 2006 at 5:44 PM

OLMERT : "I believed, and to this day still believe, in our people's eternal and historic right to this entire land."

What he neglected to copy was the rest of the statement:

"Painfully, we, the people of Israel, have learned to change our perspective. We have to compromise in the name of peace, to give up parts of our promised land in which every hill and every valley is saturated with Jewish history and in which our heroes are buried.

We have to relinquish part of our dream to leave room for the dream of others so that all of us can enjoy a better future."

Well, to paraphrase nessie, Anti-ZIonists lie because they need to . History is not on their side.

Please say for Gilad Ben Aviva and

Eliyahu Pinchas Ben Miriam

I Will lift up my eyes to the mountains;

From whence shall my help come?

My help comes from the LORD,

Who made heaven and earth.

He will not allow your foot to slip;

He who keeps you will not slumber.

Behold, He who keeps Israel

Will neither slumber nor sleep.

The LORD is your keeper;

The LORD is your shade on your right hand.

The sun will not smite you by day,

Nor the moon by night.

The LORD will protect you from all evil;

He will keep your soul.

The LORD will guard your going out and your coming in

From this time forth and forever.