[WCUSP] Fwd: [womeninblack] Statement of the European Jews for a Just Peace - One Year's Denial of Democracy in Palestine + condolense letter to Bassam Aramin

Sat Jan 27 14:54:32 CST 2007

--- lieve snellings <lieve.snellings at pandora.be>
wrote:

> From: "lieve snellings" <lieve.snellings at pandora.be>
> To: <womeninblack at listas.nodo50.org>
> Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 20:36:19 +0100
> Subject: [womeninblack] Statement of the European
> Jews for a Just Peace -
> 	One Year's Denial of Democracy in Palestine +
> condolense
> 	letter to Bassam Aramin
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Paula Abrams-Hourani 
> Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 6:09 PM
> Subject: Statement of the European Jews for a Just
> Peace - One Year's Denial of Democracy in Palestine
> 
> 
> 
> One year's denial of democracy in Palestine
> Israel, the United States of America and the
> European Union bear the responsibility!
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> On 25 January 2006 free and democratic elections
> were held to choose a new Palestinian Legislative
> Council (PLC), which received universal praise for
> the exemplary way in which they were conducted. The
> outcome was that Hamas emerged as the strongest
> power and the designated Government. 
> 
>  
> 
> Since the election the governments of the United
> States of America, the European Union and Israel
> have enforced a paralysing boycott of Hamas,
> inflicting collective punishment on the entire
> Palestinian population of the Gaza Strip and the
> West Bank.
> 
>  
> 
> With the declared aim of obstructing the Hamas
> Government Israel has, since March 2006, withheld
> the tax money raised in the Occupied Territories and
> due to the Palestinian Authority. Payments to
> maintain public services and a guaranteed minimum
> social security, agreed on in accordance with the
> Fourth Geneva Convention, are also being withheld by
> the European Union and the United States. This has
> made it impossible for the Palestinian Authority to
> pay salaries and maintain even the usual services.
> All staff members of the Authority, including
> teachers, doctors and policemen have gone unpaid for
> almost an entire year. Donations from Arab States,
> international and private sources do not reach the
> population of the Occupied Territories. Hunger,
> deprivation and despair are the consequence. 
> 
>  
> 
> The elected government has not been given the
> opportunity to govern. In June 2006 64 officials,
> including 8 Ministers and 20 other Parliamentarians,
> were arrested by the Israeli army. Other
> functionaries in politics and society have since
> been living underground.
> 
>  
> 
> It is obvious that Israel refuses to negotiate with
> any Palestinian partner, no matter which party is in
> power. Supported by the governments of the EU and
> USA the Israeli occupiers have now proceeded to even
> deny the Palestinians a government and  political
> leaders their own free choice.
> 
>  
> 
> Today, one year after the Palestinian elections, the
> Executive Committee of the European Jews for a Just
> Peace condemns the boycott, siege and collective
> punishment of the entire Palestinian population,
> which has reached inhuman and catastrophic levels in
> all parts of the Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem and the
> West Bank. Together with many other peace and
> solidarity groups we call on the governments in
> Europe and the USA to end the boycott of the
> Palestinian government and the collective punishment
> of the Palestinian people in the Occupied
> Territories.
> 
>  
> 
> Only with unbiased, honest, and fair negotiations
> between all parties concerned and a complete end to
> the Israeli occupation can a solution to the
> conflict be reached, a solution which will be
> beneficial for Palestinians and Israelis alike.
> 
>  
> 
> The European Union must end the boycott of a
> democratically elected government and demand the
> release of democratically elected legislators.
> European Jews for a Just Peace, with members and
> contacts in many member states of the EU intends a
> series of meetings with Commissioners and MEPs to
> press these demands.
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> Executive Committee
> 
> European Jews for a Just Peace
> 
> 25 January 2007
> 
>  
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Paula Abrams-Hourani 
> Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2007 9:27 AM
> Subject: Fw: [newprofile message:957] Fw: Condolence
> Letter to Bassam Aramin on the killing of his
> daughter in Anata by an Israeli Border policeman 
> 
> Dear friend:
> 
> 
> 10-year-old Abir Aramin died on January 18th, 2 days
> after her skull was fractured.? She was on her way
> home from school in the walled-off West Bank town of
> Anata when an Israeli Border Police jeep drove
> provocatively through the school zone. Eyewitnesses
> say the jeep was firing stun grenades and rubber
> bullets at the children when Abir dropped to the
> ground, bleeding from the head.?
> 
> 
> Abir was the daughter of Bassam Aramin, a
> Palestinian human rights activist and founding
> member of "Combatants for Peace." Adding insult to
> trauma, Bassam's friends from CFP had to advocate
> for the release of his daughter's body from the
> Israeli hospital in order to make it to her
> funeral.?
> 
> 
> Incredibly,?Bassam's story is not unusual; disregard
> for human life is the norm under occupation. Please
> join us in sending this letter of condolence to
> Bassem Aramin and his family. We will arrange to
> have the letter and signatures delivered personally
> to Bassam and his family.
> 
> 
> Groups and Individuals welcome. To sign the letter,
> click here:
> http://www.petitiononline.com/Abir2007/petition.html
> 
> 
> Please forward widely.
> 
> 
> In solidarity,
> Women of a Certain Age - North America
> 
> 
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