We, the undersigned, are saddened by the devastating loss of life endured by Israelis and Palestinians in Gaza. We are pained by the suffering on both sides of the conflict and hope for a solution that brings peace to the region.

While we stand firm in our commitment to peace and justice, we must also stand firm against ideologies of hatred and genocide which are reflected in Hamas' charter, Article 7 of which reads, “There is a Jew hiding behind me, come on and kill him!” The son of a Hamas founder has also commented about the true nature of Hamas.

Hamas cannot be allowed to rain rockets on Israeli cities, nor can it be allowed to hold its own people hostage. Hospitals are for healing, not for hiding weapons. Schools are for learning, not for launching missiles. Children are our hope, not our human shields.

We join together in support of the democratic values we all cherish and in the hope that the healing and transformative power of the arts can be used to build bridges of peace.

Orly Adelson

Marty Adelstein

Dan Adler

Lou Adler

Michael Adler

Dan Aloni

Avi Arad

Tom Arnold

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From the Creative Community for Peace

A reminder that cultural boycotts violate the Universal declaration of Human Rights

End the terrorist state of Israel

BDS

Starve the beast.

It's a ghetto. Israel ultimately controls it. If there's any racism, it's ultimately Israel's. This "woe is me" attitude is no different than Christians who feel persecuted in the US, or white people who complain of "reverse racism." It's the powerful complaining about the fact that they don't have absolute power over everyone.

Charter 7 is, indeed, hateful. It's not that different from the hateful religious writing in the Bible, however, when God tells his followers to go and burn cities and kill people. However, it does something worth noting, at least for us in the West, which is link up Zionism with British colonialism. Here's the charter, from a pro-Palestine website:

http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/www.thejerusalemfund.org/carryover/documents/charter.html?chocaid=397

Article Seven: The Universality of Hamas

By virtue of the distribution of Muslims, who pursue the cause of the Hamas, all over the globe, and strive for its victory, for the reinforcement of its positions and for the encouragement of its Jihad, the Movement is a universal one. It is apt to be that due to the clarity of its thinking, the nobility of its purpose and the loftiness of its objectives. It is in this light that the Movement has to be regarded, evaluated and acknowledged. Whoever denigrates its worth, or avoids supporting it, or is so blind as to dismiss its role, is challenging Fate itself. Whoever closes his eyes from seeing the facts, whether intentionally or not, will wake up to find himself overtaken by events, and will find no excuses to justify his position. Priority is reserved to the early comers. Oppressing those who are closest to you, is more of an agony to the soul than the impact of an Indian sword. “And unto thee have we revealed the Scripture with the truth, confirming whatever scripture was before it, and a watcher over it. So judge between them by that which Allah hath revealed, and follow not their desires away from the truth which has come unto thee. For each we have appointed a divine law and a traced-out way. Had Allah willed, He could have made you one community. But that He may try you by that which he has given you [He has made you as you are]. So vie with one another in good works. Unto Allah, you will all return. He will then inform you of that wherein you differ.” Hamas is one of the links in the Chain of Jihad in the confrontation with the Zionist invasion. It links up with the setting out of the Martyr Izz a-din al-Qassam and his brothers in the Muslim Brotherhood who fought the Holy War in 1936; it further relates to another link of the Palestinian Jihad and the Jihad and efforts of the Muslim Brothers during the 1948 War, and to the Jihad operations of the Muslim Brothers in 1968 and thereafter. But even if the links have become distant from each other, and even if the obstacles erected by those who revolve in the Zionist orbit, aiming at obstructing the road before the Jihad fighters, have rendered the pursuance of Jihad impossible; nevertheless, the Hamas has been looking forward to implement Allah’s promise whatever time it might take. The prophet, prayer and peace be upon him, said: The time will not come until Muslims will fight the Jews (and kill them); until the Jews hide behind rocks and trees, which will cry: O Muslim! there is a Jew hiding behind me, come on and kill him! This will not apply to the Gharqad, which is a Jewish tree (cited by Bukhari and Muslim).

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"It links up with the setting out of the Martyr Izz a-din al-Qassam and his brothers in the Muslim Brotherhood who fought the Holy War in 1936;"

See Wikipedia for a summary of history leading up to this war of Palestinians against their British colonizers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936%E2%80%9339_Arab_revolt_in_Palestine

The last part is some kind of "end times" interpretation of the Hadith of the Gharqad Tree. There is not agreement about what it means, as described in this Muslim website:

http://www.faithinallah.org/hadith-of-the-gharqad-tree-is-it-a-good-deed-to-kill-jews-in-islam/

(Now, that said, as a general non-believe, I suppose during the end times, I'm the ones they're going to be killing... except I'm not a Jewish non-believer of the false God, so perhaps I'm technically exempt.)

Thankfully, there are liberals out there interpreting Islamic, Jewish and Christian texts to have a peace-oriented message. They aren't winning right now, but at least they try.

Gaza is quite nice. It would be beautiful, if not for Hamas.

Gaza harbor

Gaza would be quite liveable, if not for Hamas. The Dolphin Resort and Spa in Gaza

Gaza would be quite liveable, if not for Hamas. Another view of he Dolphin Resort and Spa in Gaza

you mean that the IDF didn't shoot up this particular section of Gaza real estate?

democracy

Only assholes believe they are better than other people.

Like the zionist state.

You have no idea

neither do you

350 flies can't be wrong..

Beach front hotel, and swimming pool in Gaza If you are a woman, the pool is off limits. Oops. Take a cool bath in your room. Its almost the same.

See The Beautiful Injured Children Hospital, which was also bombed

K, another graduate student at an Egyptian university who had gone to Gaza to see his family but was unable to leave after the war started, said on July 22:

"When people stopped listening to Hamas orders not to evacuate and began leaving their homes anyway, Hamas imposed a curfew: anyone walking out in the street was shot without being asked any questions. That way Hamas made sure people had to stay in their homes even if they were about to get bombed. God will ask Hamas on judgment day for those killers' blood."

I asked him if Hamas used people as "human shields." He said: "Hamas held the entire Gazan population as a human shield. My answer to you is yes."

Gatestone Institute’s founder and director, is Nina Rosenwald

An heiress to the Sears Roebuck fortune, Rosenwald spreads her millions through the William Rosenwald Family Fund, a nonprofit foundation named for her father, a famed Jewish philanthropist who created the United Jewish Appeal in 1939. His daughter’s focus is more explicitly political.

According to a report by the Center for American Progress titled “Fear Inc.,” Rosenwald and her sister Elizabeth Varet, who also directs the family foundation, have donated more than $2.8 million since 2000 to “organizations that fan the flames of Islamophobia.”

Besides funding a Who’s Who of anti-Muslim outfits, Rosenwald has served on the board of AIPAC, the central arm of America’s Israel lobby, and holds leadership roles in a host of mainstream pro-Israel organizations.

As groups like AIPAC lead the charge for a US military strike on the Islamic Republic of Iran, threatening to turn apocalyptic visions of civilizational warfare into catastrophic reality, Rosenwald's wealth has fueled a rapidly emerging alliance between the pro-Israel mainstream and the Islamophobic fringe.

(In 2003 alone the Rosenwald Family Fund donated well over half of its $1.6 million in total contributions to pro-Israel and Islamophobic organizations.)

This alliance serves to sanitize and legitimize professional anti-Muslim bigots like Wilders, allowing their ideas to mingle easily with those of neoconservative foreign policy heavyweights intent on promoting the appearance of a convergence between US and Israeli interests by invoking the specter of a common “Islamofascist” enemy. With Gatestone—which publicizes the writings of figures ranging from pro-Israel super-lawyer Alan Dershowitz to “counter-jihad” propagandist Robert Spencer, and boasts Harold Rhode, a neoconservative former Pentagon official credited, as a senior fellow, with helping to try to push the Bush administration to invade Iraq—Rosenwald has attempted to shift the alliance into overdrive.[

Attacking the editor of a publication, but not addressing the substance of what is written? Fail.

Is that the best you can do?

No wonder you are still trolling Indymedia after so many years

..says the hasbara agent

Next he'll attack the author of the piece, a Palestinian journalist Mudar Zahran, without mentioning a word about the substance of what he's written

..post the same spam again

rule # 3 - repetition

Just can't address the substance of the post, can ya? So publish another non-sequitor

After the display of asshole-ism the criminal Israeli state has continued to demonstrate over the many decades of asshole-ism and terror, they have furnished the world, isn't it a bit late to attempt to justify it?

A list of idiots [ 'artists' ] isn't that convincing...