http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/03/07/a-commitment-for-activists-palestinians-are-the-priority/ Free Minds for a Free Palestine Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:34:06 +0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/03/07/a-commitment-for-activists-palestinians-are-the-priority/#comment-6980 David Gould Sun, 08 Mar 2009 23:53:37 +0000 http://palestinethinktank.com/?p=3225#comment-6980 You are right to point out that the corporate sadness that many in the western world feel towards Palestine following the murderous onslaught of the 22 days at the beginning of 2009 by the forces of Israel against the mostly unarmed and defenceless civilians of the strip, is not the whole picture. The Holy land or the Land of Palestine was the Jews believe given to them by their God but from the ancient of time this involved the uprooting of the indigenous peoples that were living there. History has been repeated with disastrous effect. The campaign for the 'return of the Jewish homeland' has been waged over many centuries but only in the last were they permitted (note the term used to disinherit the land occupiers) to take up the return to a separate land as a result again of corporate shame following the German holocaust. If the Jewish State had abide by the 1948 limits set upon their land then some accommodation might have been possible. But progressively since 1949 onwards they have systematically forced the Palestinian people off their land and taken or stolen ever greater parts of the land. Settlements is only part of the story as is the wall which snakes its way through and round villages cutting off entire communities. Again land is not the only issue here as all goods travelling through Israel are subject to high taxes resulting in Palestinian goods not be competitive in the open market, on the cost of all utilities being charged at greater cost and so the list goes on about ways in which the Jewish State makes life for their Arab neighbours uncomfortable, threatened and humiliated. It has to stop and lines be redrawn...but who in the world will stand up against the Jewish state? This is where the people of this world can be powerful and have a voice since no country seem to dare go against the might of the Jewish State or its backers...as individuals we need to be prepared to stand with our Arab brothers and sisters in their cause...here is not the place of religious bigotry but of human conscience and decency. We know that right is on their side...but we have to dare to stand up and say so. Today I signed a petition to state just that. Palestine I stand with you in peace for you to have restored to you what has been hacked away in so brutal a fashion. You are right to point out that the corporate sadness that many in the western world feel towards Palestine following the murderous onslaught of the 22 days at the beginning of 2009 by the forces of Israel against the mostly unarmed and defenceless civilians of the strip, is not the whole picture.
The Holy land or the Land of Palestine was the Jews believe given to them by their God but from the ancient of time this involved the uprooting of the indigenous peoples that were living there. History has been repeated with disastrous effect. The campaign for the 'return of the Jewish homeland' has been waged over many centuries but only in the last were they permitted (note the term used to disinherit the land occupiers) to take up the return to a separate land as a result again of corporate shame following the German holocaust.
If the Jewish State had abide by the 1948 limits set upon their land then some accommodation might have been possible. But progressively since 1949 onwards they have systematically forced the Palestinian people off their land and taken or stolen ever greater parts of the land. Settlements is only part of the story as is the wall which snakes its way through and round villages cutting off entire communities.
Again land is not the only issue here as all goods travelling through Israel are subject to high taxes resulting in Palestinian goods not be competitive in the open market, on the cost of all utilities being charged at greater cost and so the list goes on about ways in which the Jewish State makes life for their Arab neighbours uncomfortable, threatened and humiliated.
It has to stop and lines be redrawn…but who in the world will stand up against the Jewish state?
This is where the people of this world can be powerful and have a voice since no country seem to dare go against the might of the Jewish State or its backers…as individuals we need to be prepared to stand with our Arab brothers and sisters in their cause…here is not the place of religious bigotry but of human conscience and decency. We know that right is on their side…but we have to dare to stand up and say so. Today I signed a petition to state just that. Palestine I stand with you in peace for you to have restored to you what has been hacked away in so brutal a fashion.

]]> http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/03/07/a-commitment-for-activists-palestinians-are-the-priority/#comment-6959 Yousef Abudayyeh - All Be Aware | Palestine Think Tank Sat, 07 Mar 2009 20:34:15 +0000 http://palestinethinktank.com/?p=3225#comment-6959 [...] ALSO http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/03/07/a-commitment-for-activists-palestinians-are-the-priority/ Tagged as: Activism, Jewish Identity, Palestine, Right of Return, Somoud: Arab Voices of [...] [...] ALSO http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/03/07/a-commitment-for-activists-palestinians-are-the-priority/ Tagged as: Activism, Jewish Identity, Palestine, Right of Return, Somoud: Arab Voices of [...]

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