I Agree:Israel Nazi 'OCCUPATION IS KILLING US ALL'

Posted by Antar on January 28, 19102 at 12:21:28:

In Reply to: Saturday protest rally against Sharon in Tel-Aviv posted by Adam Keller on January 28, 19102 at 12:16:34:

:
:[1] The demo of Saturday, Tel-Aviv - How to help make it real big
:[2] 56 officers say: ENOUGH! full text of ad in Ha'aretz Jan. 25.
:[3] Tu Bishvat vigil
:[4] Tuesday Tel-Aviv, New Profile Concert
:[5] Avnery article: Napoleon at the Gates of Ramallah

:[1] The demo of Saturday, Tel-Aviv

:We can already announce that Shulamit Aloni, Uri Avnery and Yehudah
:Sheinhav will be among the speakers.

:What you can do:

:a) invest some hours
:b) SEND YOUR CONTRIBUTION (we got some but more is needed)
:c) spread the word

:a) People who are willing to help with distributing flyers, putting
:posters and making signs please contact Keren, 064-465650 or Ofer,
:053-501364 email: ,

:b) Only if we get enough contributions in advance will we able to
:advertise it prominently. If you intended to send a check and didn't
:do it yet PLEASE DO IT NOW. Checks should be made out to "Ezra
:Humanitarit" (a bank account was opened by Yakov Manor specifically
:for the purpose of receiving contributions for such occasions); on a
:separate paper should be written "for demo Feb'2". Send the envelope
:to Beate Zilversmidt, pob, 2542, Holon, 58125 and N.B. email that you
:did so to

:c) Inform your friends by phoning them, and print out the attached
:Hebrew leaflet for distributing it at events in your environment.
:English translation follows:

:PROTEST RALLY - Saturday night, 2/2/2002, Tel-Aviv

:THE OCCUPATION IS KILLING US ALL!

:The Sharon government is perpetrating terrible acts, acts on which the
:black flag of illegality flies. Continuation of the occupation is
:drowning us in rivers of blood - Israelis and Palestinians alike.
:Continuation of the occupation leads to loss of hope, to despair on
:both sides.

:Stop the "liquidations" which lead to suicide bombings!
:Stop the killing and bereavement!
:Stop the closures and siege!
:Stop the uprooting of olive trees and orchards!

:Stop the occupation!

:Stop the silence! For those who keep silent at such a time are
:accomplices. Those who do not raise their voice in protest bear part
:of the responsibility for the mutual destruction!

:Coalition of Women for Peace
:Gush Shalom
:Israeli Committtee Against House Demolitions
:Kvisa Sh'hora
:Ta'ayush
:The Campus is not Silent
:The Monitoring Committee of the Arab population in Israel
:Yesh Gvul

:The protest rally will take place on Saturday, February 2, 2002, at
:7.30 PM, at the Museum Plaza on Sderot Shaul Ha'melech, Tel-Aviv. For
:organized transportation from other parts of the country call
:053-501364, 050-733276, 064-465650

:[2] 56 officers say: ENOUGH! full text of ad in Ha'aretz Jan. 25.

: We, being officers and soldiers in the combat reserves of the Israel
: Defence Force, having been brought up on Zionism, self-sacrifice and
: contribution to the Israeli people and the state of Israel, having
: always served in the front line, having always been the first to
: carry out any mission, easy or difficult, to defend and buttress the
: state of Israel;

: we, combat officers and soldiers who serve the state of Israel for
: many weeks each year, regardless of the heavy personal cost, have
: rendered reserve service throughout the occupied territories and
: received orders and instructions that had nothing to do with the
: security of the state, and whose sole purpose is perpetuation of our
: domination of the Palestinian people;

: we, having witnessed with our own eyes the bloody toll that the
: occupation takes on both sides of the divide;

: who have sensed how the orders we received erode every value we have
: imbibed in this country;

: who understand today that the price of the occupation is loss of the
: humane image of the IDF and corruption of the entire Israeli
: society;

: who know that the territories are not Israel, and that the Jewish
: settlements there will ultimately have to be evacuated;

: We hereby declare that we will no longer fight in the war for the
: welfare of the settlements in the territories. We will not continue
: to fight beyond the Green Line [Israel's pre-'67 border] for the
: purpose of dominating, expelling, starving and humiliating an entire
: people.

: We hereby declare that we will continue to serve in the Israel
: Defence Force in any assignment that will serve the defence of the
: state of Israel. The assignment of occupation and repression does
: not serve that aim - and we will have no part in it.

:
: 52 signatures, specifying the signatories' reserve rank (ranging
: from first sergeant to major) and combat unit (paratroops, armour,
: engineers, artillery, navy, military intelligence, airforce, Golani
: brigade, Givati brigade, Nahal brigade).

: www.seruv.org.il; ph: 03-765-1002

:[3 ] Tu Bishvat vigil
:------- Forwarded message follows -------
:From: "TAADAM Jerusalem"

:Dear friends,

:Please join B'Tzelem demonstration in front of the Knesset's official
:planting ceremony, under the title "shotlim kan - okrim sham"
:(planting here - uprooting there).

:Meeting today (Jan.28) at 14:30 infront of the Israel Museum,
:Jerusalem.

:[4] Tuesday Tel-Aviv, New Profile Concert -- Thanks to Objectors

:------- Forwarded message follows -------
:From: "Rela Mazali"

:New Profile would like to invite you to a festive evening of thanks to
:men and women objectors. We’ll offer: readings, classical music, rock,
:rap, wine and – most of all – an opportunity to mix and meet, to
:exchange thoughts on education, peace, objection, conscription and
:resisting militarism.

:Tuesday, January 29, 2002 - 8pm
:Tzavta, Ibn Gabirol 30, Tel-Aviv

:Tickets: 50.- Shekels; For young people: 30.- Shekels
:Any added contributions will be welcomed.

:[5] Avnery article: Napoleon at the Gates of Ramallah

:Uri Avnery
:26.01.02

:*** Napoleon at the Gates of Ramallah***

: In his epic "War and Peace", Tolstoy describes the battle of
:Borodino, one of the cruelest in history, in which Napoleon opened the
:way to Moscow. In the middle of the terrible battle, the hero of the
:book looks for the Russian commander, Kutusov. He finds him sitting on
:a chair on the top of a hill, looking calmly at the battle and doing
:nothing.

: The hero is, of course, amazed by this inactivity, until the
:Russian general explains that at this stage he has nothing more to do.
:The battle is a clash between two great human masses, and the stronger
:and more determined mass will win.

: I was reminded of the scene from the book this week when I
:visited Yasser Arafat in Ramallah. His office was quiet, activity
:low-key. The Palestinian leader was calm, more so than I have seen him
:for a long time. The trembling of his limbs has disappeared, and so
:had the tired look. He reminded me of our first meeting in besieged
:Beirut, July 1982, in the middle of the battle. He was in a jovial
:mood when he led us to the window and showed us the Israeli tanks
:which are stationed a hundred meters away, their cannons targeted at
:him.

: Some of the dozen senior journalists who accompanied our Gush
:Shalom delegation got the impression that he has given up, that he
:"has resigned himself to his fate". If they had met Kutusov in that
:battle, they would probably also have said that the he was finished, a
:beaten general resigned to defeat.

: The Israeli-Palestinian war, now 120 years old, is reaching one
:
:of its decisive stages. Two great masses are confronting each other:
:an irresistible force and an immovable object.

: The Israeli commander, Ariel Sharon, knows exactly what he
:wants. All the columnists who tell the public that he is temporizing,
:that he doesn't know what he wants, that he has no plan etc. just do
:not know the man. A normal person like Yossi Beilin is quite unable to
:grasp his way of thinking.

: Sharon is acting in a consistent, determined and logical way to
:execute his master-plan. For decades now he has thought that he is
:ordained by history to implement real Zionism - one that aims to
:conquer all of Eretz-Israel, to cleanse it of the local population and
:to cover it with settlements.

: In pursuing this historic mission Sharon is ruthless and
:merciless. Rivers of blood do not deter him, the number of casualties
:(theirs and ours) is just one item in his calculations. He acts
:cautiously, uses ruses and does not shrink from committing war crimes.

: He knows that he does not have much time left, and that he must
:use the remaining time in order to destroy the Palestinian people as a
:political factor. To achieve this, he has to break their leadership,
:defeat their armed forces, smash their will and ability to resist.

: What is the final aim?

: The minimum: To imprison the Palestinians in several enclaves,
:each one cut off from the others and from the world at large, each one
:surrounded by settlements, by-pass roads and the army. In these big
:prison camps, the Palestinians will be allowed to "manage their own
:affairs," supplying cheap labor and a captive market. He does not care
:if they are called "a Palestinian state".

: The maximum: To exploit a war situation or a world crisis to
:expel all Palestinians (including those who are Israeli citizens) from
:the country. Sharon is quite capable of instigating a war to create
:such an opportunity. He has only contempt for the people around him,
:who are unable to think in such historic terms.

: Under the leadership of Sharon this great mass is confronting
:the opposing mass - the Palestinians. They cannot compete with the
:attacking force in any field but one: the capability to absorb
:punches. The Palestinian national strategy is summarized by one word:
:Summud, steadfastness. After the terrible lesson of 1948, the
:Palestinians know that this is a fight for their life - the life of
:the Palestinian people and the life of every single Palestinian man
:and woman. This generates a force of resistance that amazes Sharon's
:generals, as the Russian resistance amazed Napoleon's marshals.

: Yasser Arafat symbolizes this ability more than anyone else.
:Even those Palestinians (mainly Western educated members of the
:intelligentsia) who used to criticize his style of management know
:that there is nobody like him in an existential crisis. The man
:sitting in Ramallah facing the tanks is the personification of the
:Palestinian determination to defend their national existence in their
:homeland, whatever the price.

: The Israeli Napoleon does not understand the Palestinians, as the
:
:original Napoleon did not understand the Russians. He and his
:followers believe that Arafat is an isolated, crippled, "irrelevant"
:figure. They cannot understand that precisely in such a situation,
:Arafat is stronger and more influential than ever.

: A propos the original Napoleon: he won the battle of Borodino and
:
:entered Moscow as a glorious victor. But a few weeks later the same
:Kutusov defeated him decisively. Napoleon had to flee back home,
:leaving behind him the remnants of a beaten army, dying of hunger and
:cold.

:[The author has closely followed the career of Sharon for four
:decades. Over the years, he has written three extensive biographical
:essays about him, two (1973, 1981) with his cooperation.]

:N.B. Uri Avnery's computer crashed and his address list was damaged.
:Anyone who used to get his articles and the ads (in English) directly
:from him and doesn't anymore, should write to avnery@gush-shalom.org.

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