[WCUSP] Fwd: [womeninblack] The silence and indolence - by LuisaMorgantini

Sun Nov 12 18:56:48 CST 2006

I got a letter in our local paper today under own name...check out Santa 
Cruz Sentinel...Joyce McLean
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "yvonne simmons" <roweenayvonne at yahoo.com>
To: <wisewomen at wilpf.org>; <wcusp at wilpf.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2006 5:42 AM
Subject: [WCUSP] Fwd: [womeninblack] The silence and indolence - by 
LuisaMorgantini


> Hi all, I believe that we in US WILPF need to get more
> critical of US and Israeli policies against any viable
> solution to the occupation of Palestine. With the help
> of the US government Israel is committing "terrorist"
> acts and not being held accountable. How many years
> has it taken to divide Palestine into two parts, the
> Gaza and West Bank while the Israeli government and
> the settlements continue to take Palestinian land,
> water, economical and health viability while enclosing
> the Palestinans off from their love ones with walls
> and fences? When are we going to stop comparing
> Palestinian violence with that of the State of Israel
> and United States of America? When are we going to
> realize that the incarceration of males over the age
> of 15 years old in Palestine and Iraq will bring peace
> and justice? When will the US government learn that
> transferring Israeli tactics in the invasion of Iraq
> did not help win over the hearts and minds of the
> Iraqi people only identify US collaborators? When an
> animal is trapped by a predator it often tries
> anything to escape but usually agressiveness and might
> wins. So many  innocent people of Israel, Palestine
> and Iraq have been mentally and physically
> damaged.What has happened to the Universal Declaration
> of Human Rights this world. I believe that we must
> stop pandering to the agressors. Letting go of anger,
> violence and hate FOR love hugs and peace Yvonne.
>> ----- 
>> From: MORGANTINI Luisa  -
>> lmorgantini at europarl.eu.int
>>
>>
>>
>> The silence and indolence of the International
>> Community
>> by
>>
>> Luisa Morgantini
>>
>>    Member of the European Parliament
>>
>>  Pubblished  on the Italian newspaper
>>
>> "Liberazione"  02.11.06
>>
>>
>>
>> The Israeli government must be stopped, the EU
>> should suspend the economic agreements, the Italian
>> government should revoke the military agreements and
>> those on security stipulated with Israel, the UN
>> should impose the respect of the UN resolutions and
>> of the international legality.
>>
>> The unilateral and military Israeli policy only
>> leads to its own moral and political disater, beside
>> inflicting unbearable suffering, humiliation and
>> collective punishment to the palestinian population.
>> After Lebanon, it came across the hypothesis of an
>> international force in Gaza. Well, this must be done
>> to protect the palestinian and israeli populations.
>> The time has come.
>>
>> Yesterday, during the meeting of the Israeli
>> Security Council, the new Minister of Russian
>> origins  Libermann, famous for his racism and
>> fascism (he supports the deportation of all the
>> palestinians, including of those who are Israeli
>> citizens), seems to have said that the Israeli army
>> should behave in Gaza as the russians in Checheny;
>> but actually the israeli army doesn't need to
>> imitate anybody, its actions and those of its
>> generals must be presented in front of International
>> Court for War Crimes.
>>
>> Two days ago, while with a delegation of 12 members
>> of the European Parliament belonging to all
>> political parties, we were leaving Gaza from Eretz
>> border, the Israeli bombs were falling on the
>> village of Beit Hanoun. While we were watching the
>> industrial area of Gaza, just four days ago crumbled
>> up by the Israeli bulldozers, we could clearly see
>> the helicopters aiming at Beit Hanoun.
>>
>> Our driver was ashen. Together with other 25
>> families he had left his house in Beit Hanoun at the
>> end of August because the Israelis had informed them
>> that they would have bombed them. Now he lives with
>> his ten children and his wife in a rented house in
>> Gaza, and he told us that for him every day is "like
>> waiting to die".
>>
>> Palestinian business men and traders were telling us
>> how the demolitions and the bombings that destroyed
>> houses, bridges, roads, the electric power station
>> and all the infrastructures, together with the
>> closure of Karni and Rafah check points are impeding
>> all the import and export of palestinian goods, not
>> to mention the movement of people, and that all this
>> is leading to a dramatic economic and humanitarian
>> disaster in the Gaza strip, but also in the West
>> Bank. The cost of the imported goods in Gaza is now
>> higher than in any other european country, the black
>> market is growing and so is the smuggling, both with
>> Israel and Egypt.
>>
>> The employees of the pubIic sector, more than
>> 150.000 in all Palestine, have not been receiving
>> their salaries for more than 8 months now. The funds
>> would be available if only Israel gave back the
>> custom duties that they confiscated to the
>> Palestinian Authority. The EU and the Quartet,
>> instead of imposing on Israel to pay back the custom
>> duties (trying as usual to solve the political issue
>> through humanitarian aid), introduced the Temporary
>> International Mechanism (TIM), in order to relieve
>> the more needy cases, but has created a
>> discriminating mechanism among the workers; in fact,
>> only the employees of the health and education
>> sector received some allowances, while nothing was
>> given to all the others, including the police, who
>> should guarantee internal security, but if not
>> payed, risks to give way to corruption.
>>
>> In the Al Shifa hospital of Gaza we saw the torn
>> bodies of women, men, children and elderlies. The
>> doctors are calling for an international
>> investigation, since the wounds seems to be caused
>> by phosphorus and chemical weapons. The hospital is
>> in shortage of medications and it is not equipped to
>> treat such injuries. Carcer or terminally ill
>> patients cannot recieve anymore treatment in Cairo
>> or Israel for the closure of the borders.
>>
>> This is an umbearable situation, a humanitarian
>> collaps, and a massacre of civilians happening with
>> the silence and indolence of the International
>> Community.
>>
>> There are 10.500 political prisoners in a population
>> of 3.500.000. Among them 400 are young boys and
>> girls, more than 200 are women, and 1500 have been
>> confined for years in administrative detention
>> without a regular trial.
>>
>> The palestinian political forces seem not to have a
>> strategy. The internal fight between Hamas and Fatah
>> is not only political since it often leads to
>> military fights, bringing insecurty for all. The
>> effort for the establishment of national unity
>> government is constantly undermined by internal
>> power struggles, and most of all by the siege, by
>> the Israeli policies and the american interferences.
>>
>>
>> The political factions that we met, with no
>> discrimination since our delegation recognizes the
>> freely and democratically elected palestinians
>> institutions, have reaffirmed that they will not
>> give way to the civil war, that they will reach an
>> agreement based upon the national reconciliation
>> document and the 21 points document of the political
>> prisoners, strongly wished for by Marwan Barghouti.
>> The document recognizes the authority of the PLO,
>> the signed agreements and the palestinian state on
>> the 1967 borders. The three requests of the
>> International Community for the reopening of the
>> relations with the Palestinian Authority, together
>> with the cease fire that Hamas is respecting, are
>> implicit.  This is the only way for the reopening of
>> the negotiations. Meanwhile Mahmoud Abbas is being
>> pressurized to adopt unilateral decisions, which
>> could be dreadful for the democracy and the future
>> of the palestinian people.
>>
>> It is up to us, political and social forces, to act
>> in order to avoid this, and to put an end to the
>> israeli policy of military occupation and to the
>> isolation of the palestinians.
>>
>> Will our italian government manage to carry on with
>> the strategy undertaken for Lebanon, and to urgently
>> call for an international force to be deployd to
>> protect the civilian population and to convene an
>> international conference for a just peace in the
>> region? But the massacre of the palestinians must be
>> stopped now.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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