60 years ago the sate of Israel was created. The world has been
celebrating this event and Presidents, Prime ministers and local MP’s
have congratulated Israel on its achievements. The creation of Israel
and the celebrations taking place across the world have been covered on
a huge scale by the national media.
An early day motion (EDM), a petition which is signed by MPs, was
raised celebrating Israel achievements, on 07/05/2008 by Andrew
Dismore, MP of Hendon.
For those traditional Muslim voters who always vote for Labour, how
many of you are aware that Mr Gordon ‘can’t get anyone to like me’
Brown agreed to be patron of the Jewish National Fund, only a day after
he took up office. The JNF was established in 1901, to purchase land in
Palestine, JNF openly discriminates against non-Jews who are not
allowed to tender for JNF owned land, facilitating the apartheid state
of Israel’s desire to ethnically-cleanse the land of non-Jews.
After the US President, George W. Bush, gave a speech at the Israeli
Knesset on Thursday, several right wing members of Knesset said that
“Bush seems to be more Zionist the Olmert”, and that “it is better to
have Bush as a PM instead of Olmert”.
This year the Nakba will be remembering 60 years of occupation and 60 years of inhumane terror and injustice. Some children will have been born refugees and have now grown old as refugees. This year Israel will be celebrating 60 years of an independent state. 60 years of denying the right of refugees to return, under the UN law. 60 years of contempt. 60 years of pride of their actions
George Bush arrived in Jerusalem yesterday to celebrate Israel's 60th anniversary and talk up what has to be the most bizarre proposal yet for achieving peace: a "shelf agreement". This, Bush explained before he set out, would be a "description" of a Palestinian state to be hammered out between the Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert before the end of the year.
On April 9, 1948, members of the underground
Jewish terrorist group, the Irgun, or IZL, led by Menachem Begin,
who was to become the Israeli prime minister in 1977, entered
the peaceful Arab village of Deir Yassin, massacred 250 men,
women, children and the elderly, and stuffed many of the bodies
down wells. There were also reports of rapes and mutilations.
The Irgun was joined by the Jewish terrorist group, the Stern
Gang, led by Yitzhak Shamir, who subsequently succeeded Begin
as prime minister of Israel in the early '80s, and also by the
Haganah, the militia under the control of David Ben Gurian. The
Irgun, the Stern Gang and the Haganah later joined to form the
Israeli Defense Force. Their tactics have not changed.
Palestine Lives 2008 is a celebration of Palestinian art, culture, history and experience. It brings together artists, poets and musicians from Palestine and England, celebrating the fact that Palestine and its culture still exist despite 60 years of Nakba. 1-4pm Saturday 7th June, Albert Square, Manchester.
The UN is demanding an investigation into how the Israeli military
killed one of its Palestinian school teachers by blasting open the
front door of her Gaza home with explosives in the presence of three of
her children. Wafer Shaker al Daghma, 34, a teacher at a local UN Relief and Works
Agency (UNRWA) elementary school, was killed last Wednesday as she
stood preparing to open the wooden door of her home to the troops.
The UN deliberated the issue of Palestine and set up a committee on the issue United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP). The Palestinians, horrified at the turn of events, refused to cooperate with the UN. Despite much concern about the proceedings, the US used its influence over the smaller countries on sub-committees to sway their votes.
MPACUK invites you to join us this Saturday 10th May 2008 at the National Demonstration in Trafalgar Square, come along and meet the MPACUK team. To discuss the tragedies that face our Palestinian brothers, and to see what you can be doing for them. Sixty years on from the day when 750, 000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes, in an ethnic cleansing planned well in advance by the Zionist leadership. The Israeli policies of land confiscation, house demolitions, and killings continue to this day.
Palestinians in the West Bank
city of Bethlehem are marking the 60th anniversary of Nakba, the day
Israel was created on the rubble of Palestine, by building a gigantic
iron key memorial.The key symbolizes the right of return
for Palestinian refugees worldwide," Munther Ameera, director of the
Aida Youth Activity Center in Bethlehem, told IslamOnline.net. Ameera, who is behind the key memorial
idea, says the aim is to demonstrate Palestinians' resolve to return to
their homes and pass the torch from one generation to the next. "We want our children to look at this key memorial and think of the day they will return to their motherland."
While under British rule from 1917 the Zionists were allowed to
immigrate and set up institutions in Palestine that were effectively
elements of a state. The Palestinians were not allowed to run any of
these institutions. In the months prior to the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, the
Consultancy, David Ben-Gurion’s cabal of Zionists, collated secret
files on Palestinian villages. These files included their location,
number and names of inhabitants any weaponry they possessed.