{"article":{"id":215731,"heading":"Boycott US Israel Statement","author":"BrianClarkeNUJ","created":"2008-03-26 13:09:25","modified":"2008-03-26 13:09:25","last_modified":"Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:09:25","article":"<p>Boycott US Israel Statement <br><br> Category International \/ Anti-War \/ <br><br> Press Release Author : BrianClarkeNUJ <br><br> Date:  Mar. 25th, 2008 | 03.14 pm <br><br> Location ;: Phuket, Thailand <br><br> by : Middle-East Peace Committee  Inform the editor of this Press Release <br><br>  <br>  <br> MAHATMA GHANDI <br><br> \"Palestine <br>  <br> belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the <br>  <br> English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the <br>  <br> Jews on the Arabs. What is going on in Palestine today cannot be <br>  <br> justified by any code of conduct. The Mandates have no sanction but <br>  <br> that of the last War. Surely it would be a crime against humanity to <br>  <br> reduce the proud Arabs so that Palestine can be restored to the Jews <br>  <br> partly or wholly as their national home. I am not defending the Arab <br>  <br> excesses. I wish they had chosen the way of non-violence in resisting <br>  <br> what they rightly regarded as an unwarranted encroachment upon their <br>  <br> country. But according to the accepted canons of right and wrong, <br>  <br> nothing can be said against the Arab resistance in the face of <br>  <br> overwhelming odds.\" <br><br>  <br>  <br> Perhaps one of the most appropriate for remembering this great soul of <br>  <br> Ghandi, is the tribute from one of Israel's most intelligent sons, <br>  <br> Albert Einstein; \"Generations to come will scarce believe that such a <br>  <br> one as this walked the earth in flesh and blood.\" It is however <br>  <br> certain that these generations to come will have lessons to learn from <br>  <br> the extraordinary life of Mohandas Gandhi\" <br><br> Palestine  for the sake of peace and the children of the middle-east, <br>  <br> will need to make a sacrifice and go a step further than what Mahatma <br>  <br> Gandhi suggested and recognize the state of Israel. Israel needs to <br>  <br> start a GENUINE dialogue and stop the blame game and delaying game of <br>  <br> pre-conditions. The solution itself is really simple., every child on <br>  <br> the street knows that a return to the '67 borders is the solution. <br><br> In Ireland we understand what the word (Shoah) Holocaust, (The Great <br>  <br> Hunger) means. Believe me, we understand, its in our blood and our <br>  <br> genes. Between 1845 - 1847 our population, was reduced from 9 million <br>  <br> to 3 million by ethnic cleansing, by systematic, calculated, <br>  <br> heartless, engineered famine. The revisionist historians have tried to <br>  <br> re-write our history but this is fact. Our country too, lost 6 million <br>  <br> people. It is so difficult, to forgive this but we must forgive and <br>  <br> move on, for the future and for our children's sake. <br><br> The publication <br>  <br> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engageonline.org.uk\/ressources\/funny\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.engageonline.org.uk\/ressources\/funny\/index.html<\/a>  explains <br>  <br> this committee's compassion for the Jewish dilemma in this matter but <br>  <br> the Palestinian and Arab positions must be respected too. <br><br> As an Irish people overseas, who are outraged by the systematic ethnic <br>  <br> cleansing, being carried out currently in Gaza Concentration Camp, we <br>  <br> have found the above, a most informative source, thus far, in trying <br>  <br> to understand Israel and these war crimes. Our only reservation, is <br>  <br> the author's analysis of Leon Trotsky. <br><br>  <br>  <br> At this point, the only further obsevation we would make, is that we <br>  <br> are in danger of allowing cerebral masturbation, to become a <br>  <br> substitute for genuine human compassion and action, for the victims of <br>  <br> the victims of genocidal war crimes. Currently monstrous war crimes <br>  <br> are being committed by the US and Israel. <br><br>  <br><br>  We believe our first action, must be a well organized, International <br>  <br> Boycott of all countries currently guilty of war crimes. A simple <br>  <br> majority of nations voting at the UN, should decide this matter <br>  <br> immediately. In the meantime, we are currently boycotting all American <br>  <br> and Israeli goods, music labels, film corporations, media <br>  <br> corporations, sport franchises, airlines, banking and services. There <br>  <br> are alternatives, we urge all intelligent people of goodwill, to be <br>  <br> ethical shoppers worldwide, including compassionate Americans and Jews <br>  <br> to do the same. <br><br>  <br><br> We need help with organizing this in Ireland, in an effective peaceful <br>  <br> international way. We also need to find effective united ways, to deal <br>  <br> with the considerable dis-information in the media, from very powerful <br>  <br> agencies. This campaign to be effective and not fall foul, to black <br>  <br> propaganda, must dis-associate itself entirely, from all violence, <br>  <br> justified or not, to be effective. <br><br> The propaganda and lies will come, so please, keep it peaceful, keep <br>  <br> it simple and stay <br><br> united. <br><br> To stay United,  again, we must keep it simple, division and those who <br>  <br> promote it, <br><br> is a friend of the enemy. <br><br>  <br><br> United we stand, Divided we fall. <br><br>  <br>  <br> BOYCOTT THE USA AND ISRAEL NOW ! <br><br>  <br>  <br> Anyone who would like to build this movement in Ireland organize and <br>  <br> spread the word, please contact. <br><br> <\/p>\n","contact":"BFClarkeNUJ@gmail.com","link":"http:\/\/brianclarkenuj.livejournal.com\/","address":"345\/6 Bangtao, Phuket,","phone":"+66(0)878864945","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"MAHATMA GHANDI\r\n\r\n&quot;Palestine\r\nbelongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the\r\nEnglish or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the\r\nJews on the Arabs. What is going on in Palestine today cannot be\r\njustified by any code of conduct. The Mandates have no sanction but\r\nthat of the last War. Surely it would be a crime against humanity to\r\nreduce the proud Arabs so that Palestine can be restored to the Jews\r\npartly or wholly as their national home. I am not defending the Arab\r\nexcesses. I wish they had chosen the way of non-violence in resisting\r\nwhat they rightly regarded as an unwarranted encroachment upon their\r\ncountry. But according to the accepted canons of right and wrong,\r\nnothing can be said against the Arab resistance in the face of\r\noverwhelming odds.&quot;\r\n.Albert Einstein;&quot; It is however\r\ncertain that these generations to come will have lessons to learn from\r\nthe extraordinary life of Mohandas Gandhi&quot;","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2008\/03\/215731.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}