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Title: Stop the U.S.-backed Israeli Massacre of Gaza
START DATE: 1/16/2009
START TIME: 6:00 PM
Duration: 2 Hours
Location: west los angeles, beaches
Location Details:
The Wilshire Theatre, 8440 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90211
Event Topic: war
Event Type: demonstration
Contact Name: Libros Revolucion
Contact Email: librosrevo@yahoo.com
Contact Phone: 213-488-1303
DESCRIPTION:
"After the holocaust, the worst thing that has happened to the Jewish people is the state of Israel."



What: Protest! Bring signs, banners, and large photos of the Palestinian people who are being killed in Gaza by the hundreds



Why: To oppose the pro-Israel rally that will be held under the guise of a special citywide religious service, complete with a presentation on Israel's recent Gaza action, Q&A with the Israeli consul general and a 4-point action agenda of how to support Israel. (Their event will run from 8 to 9:30 p.m.)



We need to take a stand! The horror of Israel's invasion of Gaza mounts daily. The 1.5 million people of Gaza - fenced in on all sides - are being subjected to a brutal military assault from land and air. Civilian casualties are in the thousands. Food, medicine, and fuel are blockaded. Israel has declared this to be a "war to the bitter end." The United States has backed Israel both with new, sophisticated military weaponry and with full diplomatic support.



As Israel carries out this massacre, the Nazi holocaust is again being invoked to suppress, silence, and declare "beyond the pale," any exposure and criticism of Israel.

This is ludicrous and obscene: The mass murder of six million Jews was a horrific crime carried out by the German imperialist ruling class. And?in fact?the rulers of the "Western democracies" made conscious decisions to ignore, cover-up, and do nothing about it at the time?including the policy of the United States to turn away ships with Jews trying to escape the Nazis.

Israel was not established as a "response to the Holocaust" but as an instrument of the imperialist powers?especially the U.S.?to further their economic and political domination of the nations and peoples of the Middle East. There is no logic or justice to invoking the holocaust to justify the systematic ethnic cleansing of Palestine, or the apartheid-like imprisonment of the Palestinian people in their own land?especially when Palestinians had NOTHING TO DO with the mass murder carried out by the Nazi regime.

Today Israel is maintained by massive military and financial aid by the United States, and acts not only in its own interests, but most fundamentally as an enforcer of the U.S. empire. The result has been death, destruction, torture, and terror in the Middle East, and beyond?from South Africa to Guatemala.

In this light, the statement by Bob Avakian, the Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA is something that needs to be confronted by everyone, and poses a critical moral challenge: "After the Holocaust, the worst thing that has happened to Jewish people is the state of Israel."

We, living in this country, have a great and urgent responsibility to act against what must be recognized as a War Crime by Israel with the full support of the United States. Too many who watch the assault on Gaza with horror and outrage, have remained silent. Too few have acted. This must, and can, change.

Whether the world sees political protest and resistance, and mass outpourings of opposition and outrage in different forms in this country...or whether it sees continued support for and passive complicity with these attacks coming from the people here...all this will matter greatly, not only here in the US, but to people all over the world.





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