Brother Osama has notified us that Thursday's Cricket match has been cancelled, because the police could not find 'a large enough venue to hold the protest'! There is much more to do though, let us not rest until we know that this team, which is far worse than the South African Apartheid Regime, is not allowed to play in our back yard whilst they continue their aggressive occupation of Lebannon and Palestine! (Although it isn't surprising that the Apartheid State of Israel had a special relationship with it.)

Looking back into history we can put a full stop to racial discrimination, to injustice, to assassination, to imprisonment of democratically elected government officials, to starvation, to collective punishment. We urge everyone to write to the Cricket Board and make a stand against what the State of Israel is perpetrating against the people of Lebanon and Palestine.

In 1956, the first victory against apartheid sport was won in the field of table tennis. The International Table Tennis Federation removed the all-white South African Table Tennis Union from membership and recognised the non-racial South African Table Tennis Board as the sole controlling body in South Africa. Although the non-racial body was not able to send representatives to international competitions, because of Government action in withdrawing the passports of its players, this decision encouraged other sports organisations to take similar initiatives.

ALERT! ALERT! ALERT!

Note, Saturday's and Sunday's Matches are still going ahead, so please continue to lobby those in question. Email AND phone them and let them know we won't stand by and let these ex-soldiers of the most brutal regime in the world score runs whilst killing innocent civilians. Our brothers and sisters in Lebannon and Palestine are crying out for our intevention. A few phone calls and emails from your busy schedule is all it will take to defend those that cannot defend themsleves. The fact that the police had to cancel Thursday's match as they could not facilitate our protest shows that the Israeli cricket team is in fact causing a great inconvenience to the authorities in the UK. SUCCESS is brimming on the horizons inshAllah, so let us continue to perservere in this political Jihad for His cause.

Alert: Stop Israeli Cricket Team on UK Tour

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Need further re-assurance as to why we must continue to perservere and strive against the evil apartheid state of Israel? Well, here's a little something:

1. Did you know that non-Jewish Israelis cannot buy or lease land in Israel? A Jew from any country in the world is guaranteed citizenship in Israel, while the Palestinians who have been there for centuries are oppressed and persecuted.

2. Did you know that instead of sewing an insignia on clothing to distinguish race (like the Germans did to the Jews before WW2), Palestinian license plates in Israel are color coded to distinguish Jews from non-Jews?

3. Did you know that East Jerusalem, the West Bank, Gaza, and the Golan Heights are all considered by the entire world community, including the United States and the United Nations, to be occupied territory and NOT part of the State of Israel?

4. Did you know that Israel allots 85% of the water resources for Jews, and the remaining 15% is divided among all Palestinians in the territories? For example in Hebron, 85% of the water is set aside for about 400 Jewish settlers, while the remaining 15% is distributed among Hebron's 120, 000 Palestinians?

5. Did you know that the United States awards Israel $5 billion in aid each year from American tax dollars?

6. Did you know that US aid to Israel ($3.0 billion annually) exceeds the aid the US grants to the entire African continent? This aid is used both to buy American weaponry and to buy arms made in Israel.

7. Did you know that Israel is awaiting an additional $4 billion worth of American military hardware, including new F-16s and Apache and Blackhawk helicopters. As Israel's main ally and supporter internationally, the United States is committed to maintaining the Jewish state's "qualitative edge" in weapons over its neighbors.

8. Did you know that the U.S. administration has notified Congress on numerous occasions that Israel has violated the rules on how US-supplied weapons are used? (In 1978, 1979 and 1982 during fighting in Lebanon, and once after Israel's bombing of an Iraqi nuclear reactor in 1981.)

9. Did you know that Israel is the only country in the Middle East that refuses to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and bars international inspections from its sites?

10. Did you know that high-ranking military officers in the Israeli Defense Forces have admitted publicly that unarmed prisoners of war have been summarily executed by the Israeli forces?

11. Did you know that Israel blew up an American diplomatic facility in Egypt and attacked a US warship in international waters (the USS Liberty), killing 33 and wounding 177 American sailors and the US did nothing about it?

12. Did you know that Israel stands in defiance of 69 United Nations Security Council Resolutions?

13. Did you know that Israel is explicitly dedicated to the policy of maintaining a distinct Jewish character?

14. Did you know that Israel's fomer Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, was found by an Israeli court to be "personally and directly responsible" for the Sabra and Shatilla massacre in Lebanon where more than a thousand innocent Palestinian men, women, and children were axed to death or lined up and shot in cold blood?

15. Did you know that on May 20, 1990, a group of unarmed Palestinian laborers were lined up and murdered by an Israeli solider as they sat waiting for transportation back to Gaza? The terrified laborers who gathered in an area of southern Israel known as Rishon Lezion (known to Palestinians by its Arabic name Oyon Qara) handed their ID cards to the Israeli soldier. The soldiers ordered the distressed laborers to kneel down and face the ground and unexpectedly showered them with a barrage of bullets, killing seven and wounding many others. Needless to say, the soldier was not charged with any crime.

16. Did you know that until as recently as 1988, Israelis were permitted to run "Jews Only" job ads?

17. Did you know that the Israeli Foreign Ministry pays six US public relations firms to promote a "positive image" of Israel to the American public?

18. Did you know that Sharon's coalition government includes a party–Molodet–which advocates ethnic cleansing by openly calling for the forced expulsion of all Palestinians from the occupied territories?

19. Did you know that recently-declassified documents indicate that David Ben-Gurion approved of the forced expulsion of Arabs from all Palestininan territory in 1948?

20. Did you know that the former chief rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Ovadia Yossef, who is also a founder and spiritual leader of the religious Shas party (Israel's third largest political party) openly advocates a 'Final Solution' to annihilate the Palestinians? Speaking at the widely broadcast sermon marking the last Passover, he declared of the Palestinians: "The Lord shall return their deeds on their own heads, waste their seed and exterminate them, devastate them and vanish them from this world. It is forbidden to be merciful to them. You must send missiles to them and annihilate them. They are evil and damnable."

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Not equal are those believers who sit (at home) and receive no hurt, and those who strive and FIGHT in the cause of Allah with their goods and their persons. Allah hath granted a grade higher to those who strive and FIGHT with their goods and persons than to those who sit (at home). Unto all (in Faith) Hath Allah promised good: But those who strive and FIGHT Hath He distinguished above those who sit (at home) by a special reward [Al-Quran, An-Nisa, 4:95]

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