Comments on: Sameh Habeeb – A voice from Gaza: All I need is my freedom http://palestinethinktank.com/2008/08/08/sameh-habeeb-a-voice-from-gaza-all-i-need-is-my-freedom/ Free Minds for a Free Palestine Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:34:06 +0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Mr Rayan http://palestinethinktank.com/2008/08/08/sameh-habeeb-a-voice-from-gaza-all-i-need-is-my-freedom/#comment-4054 Mr Rayan Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:46:21 +0000 http://palestinethinktank.com/?p=1033#comment-4054 Live Gaza collective punishment, but genocide and atrocities water, no food, no electricity, and prevent the unjust blockade the arrival of food, fuel and basic equipment, prison and a half million within the walls of the prison and in reality Sjanon heavily on the doors and closed crossings, killing and bombing was on all ages, races, The reality is hard to bear the face of the earth. They need "kg of flour," and closed crossings and daily life without electricity, water and fuel, to judge the one and a half slow death breath!! Please send the link to all friends http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=36308309650 Live Gaza collective punishment, but genocide and atrocities water, no food, no electricity, and prevent the unjust blockade the arrival of food, fuel and basic equipment, prison and a half million within the walls of the prison and in reality Sjanon heavily on the doors and closed crossings, killing and bombing was on all ages, races, The reality is hard to bear the face of the earth. They need "kg of flour," and closed crossings and daily life without electricity, water and fuel, to judge the one and a half slow death breath!!

Please send the link to all friends

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]]> By: eileen fleming http://palestinethinktank.com/2008/08/08/sameh-habeeb-a-voice-from-gaza-all-i-need-is-my-freedom/#comment-1984 eileen fleming Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:54:32 +0000 http://palestinethinktank.com/?p=1033#comment-1984 "Israel is a not a democracy but is an Ethnocracy, meaning a country run and controlled by a national group with some democratic elements but set up with Jews in control and structured to keep them in control.”-Jeff Halper Human beings have rights and nations and states have obligations. Article 13-2, of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS which Israel agreed to uphold when it became a state affirms: Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country. What has been missing in every 'peace process' and in the Road Map is the issue of human rights and international law. In his Second Inaugural Address, President George W. Bush affirmed, "In the long run, there is no JUSTICE without FREEDOM. There can be no human rights without LIBERTY. All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know the United States will not ignore your oppression or excuse your oppressors. When you stand for LIBERTY, we stand with you." Liberty means freedom from captivity and Justice is outlined in International Law and the UN Declaration of Human Rights. "Missing from Israel's security framing is the very fact of occupation, which Israel both denies exists and excises from all utterances."-Jeff Halper, page 1, Obstacles to Peace. Every unjust action Israel gets away with is always claimed to be for 'security'. And "that 'security' requires Israel control over the entire country, thus eliminating the possibility of any truly viable and sovereign Palestinian state: that one side must win and the other lose, rendering impossible a just peace based on human rights, international law, reconciliation and regional integration." [IBID] When leaders fail us, it is up to we the people to rise up and lead them in the way they should go and there are no borders with the world wide web-we have just not yet imagined the true power and potential to change course via it. I was told an Arabic proverb from a Palestinian friend: "The ink at the end of a scholars pen, is worth more than the blood of a martyr." I for one will contact Sameh and offer more than spiritual solidarity. Eileen Fleming, Reporter and Editor WAWA: http://www.wearewideawake.org/ Author "Keep Hope Alive" and "Memoirs of a Nice Irish American 'Girl's' Life in Occupied Territory" Producer "30 Minutes With Vanunu" and "13 Minutes with Vanunu" "Israel is a not a democracy but is an Ethnocracy, meaning a country run and controlled by a national group with some democratic elements but set up with Jews in control and structured to keep them in control.”-Jeff Halper

Human beings have rights and nations and states have obligations.

Article 13-2, of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS which Israel agreed to uphold when it became a state affirms:

Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.

What has been missing in every 'peace process' and in the Road Map is the issue of human rights and international law.

In his Second Inaugural Address, President George W. Bush affirmed, "In the long run, there is no JUSTICE without FREEDOM. There can be no human rights without LIBERTY. All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know the United States will not ignore your oppression or excuse your oppressors. When you stand for LIBERTY, we stand with you."

Liberty means freedom from captivity and Justice is outlined in International Law and the UN Declaration of Human Rights.

"Missing from Israel's security framing is the very fact of occupation, which Israel both denies exists and excises from all utterances."-Jeff Halper, page 1, Obstacles to Peace.

Every unjust action Israel gets away with is always claimed to be for 'security'. And "that 'security' requires Israel control over the entire country, thus eliminating the possibility of any truly viable and sovereign Palestinian state: that one side must win and the other lose, rendering impossible a just peace based on human rights, international law, reconciliation and regional integration." [IBID]

When leaders fail us, it is up to we the people to rise up and lead them in the way they should go and there are no borders with the world wide web-we have just not yet imagined the true power and potential to change course via it.

I was told an Arabic proverb from a Palestinian friend: "The ink at the end of a scholars pen, is worth more than the blood of a martyr."

I for one will contact Sameh and offer more than spiritual solidarity.

Eileen Fleming, Reporter and Editor WAWA:
http://www.wearewideawake.org/
Author "Keep Hope Alive" and "Memoirs of a Nice Irish American 'Girl's' Life in Occupied Territory"
Producer "30 Minutes With Vanunu" and "13 Minutes with Vanunu"

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