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CAIR Condemns Israeli ‘Massacre’ in Gaza Obama urged to speak ‘in favor of peace and justice for all parties’

(WASHINGTON, D.C., 12/27/08) -

A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today condemned Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip that left more than 200 people dead and called the death toll a “massacre carried out using U.S. taxpayer-funded weapons.” More than 700 people, including women and children, were injured in the attacks.

The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said in a statement:

“Despite the public ‘green light’ given to the Israeli military by the Bush administration, American Muslims join our fellow citizens who respect international law and the sanctity of human life in repudiating this massacre carried out using U.S. taxpayer-funded weapons.

“It must be clear by now that the only future offered to the Palestinian people by the outgoing administration was one of perpetual subjugation and humiliation at the hands of the Israeli occupiers. Unfortunately, our nation’s timid response to this tragic episode will only serve to fuel anti-American sentiments in the Muslim world.

“We therefore call on President-elect Obama to demonstrate his commitment to change our nation’s current one-sided Mideast policy by speaking out now in favor of peace and justice for all parties to this decades-long conflict.

“We also call on world leaders to take direct action to end Israel’s counterproductive and wildly disproportionate attacks and to end the humanitarian siege of Gaza, which led to the recent breakdown of the ceasefire.”

CAIR noted that the European Union (EU), Russia, the UN Secretary-General, the Arab League, the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), and other international bodies are all urging Israel to end it attacks.

Middle East envoy Tony Blair deplored the "tragic of loss of life,” while French President Nicolas Sarkozy condemned Israel’s “disproportionate use of force.”

EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said the Israeli attacks were "inflicting an unacceptable toll on Palestinian civilians and will only worsen the humanitarian crisis as well as complicate the search for a peaceful solution.”

CAIR, America's largest Islamic civil liberties group, has 35 offices and chapters nationwide and in Canada. Its mission is to enhance the understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding.

CONTACT:

CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper, 202-488-8787 or 202-744-7726, E-Mail: ihooper@cair.com;

CAIR Communications Coordinator Amina Rubin, 202-488-8787, E-Mail: arubin@cair.com

 

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The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) Condemns Israel's Massacre of Palestinians in Gaza
 
The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) condemns in the strongest terms Israel's military campaign in the blockaded Gaza Strip. The MCB is appalled by this excessive and indiscriminate use of state sanctioned terror.  Israel's decision to commence its attack in the early afternoon of 27th December as children were leaving their schools, causing the maximum casualties with some 205 civilians being killed so far. By any measure of respect for innocent human life, this is unacceptable.
 
'The Israelis have once again chosen to stage their assault when Western governments are in recess', said Dr Daud Abdullah Deputy Secretary General. "We call on Prime Minister Gordon Brown to take a firm stand against this disgraceful attack. The time has come for a total lifting of the political and diplomatic cover that has allowed Israel to perpetrate these atrocities", he added.
 
Israel's use of F16 war-planes against civilian targets in the Gaza Strip confirms yet again the failure of our government to fulfil our international obligation (under the Fourth Geneva Convention) to end the Israeli Occupation and its unmitigated use of state sanctioned terror against the Palestinian people. That it comes just days after it denied entry to the UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights to the Occupied Palestinian Territories suggests that the Israeli leadership clearly intended to conceal the evidence of its war crimes.
 
'After the failure of its siege of the Gaza Strip the Israeli political leadership has resorted to these desperate measures to change the political realties in Gaza', said Dr Abdullah.
 
The MCB demands an immediate end to the Israeli state's terrorisation of the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip and its full compliance with all international resolutions.
 
 
The Muslim Council of Britain is the UK's largest Muslim umbrella body with around 500 affiliated national, regional and local organisations, mosques, charities and schools.

Media enquiries should be addressed to the MCB Media Office on 0845 26 26 786 or 07956 353 738.

Email: media@mcb.org.uk.
 
www.mcb.org.uk

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Gaza massacre – Israel’s cynicism supported by the West’s complicity

Press release: 27.12.08

Today the Israeli army launched its long awaited strikes against the Gazan people, an unarmed, captive civilian population.  The West, including the British government, has supported the last two years’ of blockade of the Palestinians in Gaza for the crime of exercising their democratic rights in a manner not to Israel’s liking.  They have stood by while the people have been reduced to beggars dependent upon food aid, aid which has been consistently denied to them by Israel’s siege, resulting in malnutrition, trauma and deaths from medical neglect. This siege has been accompanied by regular military attacks on Palestinians in both Gaza and the West Bank as Israel is allowed to act with impunity.  The passage of 100 trucks of aid yesterday, in the BBC’s words ‘to prevent Israel being accused of a causing humanitarian crisis’ is a cynical diversion which does not fool anyone despite the hopes of our cowardly leaders.  The British government must condemn outright the current assault on Gaza, and immediately demand that the UN takes steps to end the siege with the restoration of full freedom of the borders of Gaza.

Protests organised by PSC, Palestine Return Centre (PRC), Palestinian Forum of Britain (PFB), British Muslim Initiative (BMI), Stop the War, Friends of al Aqsa, Muslim Association of Britain (MAB), Respect, Islamic Human Rights Commission.

Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC)

Email: info@palestinecampaign.org

www.palestinecampaign.org

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The war in Gaza – a vicious folly of a bankrupt government

Bloodshed and suffering on both sides of the border could have been avoided

It is possible to return immediately to the ceasefire, make it stronger and firmer

The war in Gaza, the bloodshed, killing, destruction and suffering on both sides of the border are the vicious folly of a bankrupt government. A government which let itself be dragged by adventurous officers and cheap nationalist demagoguery, dragged into a destructive and unnecessary war which will bring no solution to any problem – neither to the communities of southern Israel under the rain of missiles nor to the terrible poverty and suffering of besieged Gaza. On the day after the war the same problems will remain – with the addition of many bereaved families, wounded people crippled for life, and piles of rubble and destruction.

The escalation towards war could and should have been avoided. It was the State of Israel which broke the truce, in the 'ticking tunnel' raid on the night of the US elections two months ago. Since then the army went on stoking the fires of escalation with calculated raids and killings, whenever the shooting of missiles on Israel decreased.

The cycle of bloodshed could and should be broken. The ceasefire can be restored immediately, and on firmer foundations. It is the right of Israel to demand a complete end to shooting on its territory and citizens – but it must stop all attacks from its side, end completely the siege and starvation of Gaza's million and half inhabitants, and stop interfering with the Palestinians' right to choose their own leaders.

Ehud Barak's declaration that he is stopping the elections campaign in order to concentrate on the Gaza offensive is a joke. The war in Gaza is itself Barak's elections campaign, a cynical attempt to buy votes with the blood and suffering in Netivot and Sderot, Gaza and Beit Hanun. Also so-called peace seekers such as Amos Oz s who give this offensive their support and encouragement could not afterwards shrug off responsibility.

Adam Keller,

Gush Shalom Spokesperson

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Condemn Israeli War Crimes in Gaza
 
The Iranian-American Community (IACUS) strongly condemns the Israeli massacre of innocent Palestinian civilians in Gaza. We, as the rest of the people of the Middle East are also fully aware that such crimes would not have been possible without collaboration on the part of not just the US administration but also some Arab governments.
 
The shameful silence of the Saudi, Egyptian, and Jordanian governments will never be forgotten nor forgiven by citizens of those countries and the rest of the Middle East. Why is the puppet regime of Hosni Mubarak in Cairo closing the borders to the besieged Palestinians who are being starved in the Gaza Strip?
 
The fact remains that despite such crimes, the Israeli Zionists will not be able to topple the democratically elected government of Hamas and will only help increase its prestige and following. We believe the latest invasion and the resulting war crimes are desperate and failed measures on the part of the Zionist corrupt leadership to distract the Israeli public and world attention from the political crisis that has been swallowing the corrupt apartheid regime of Israel.
 
Condemn Israeli war crimes in Gaza!
Support the right of return of the Palestinian refugees to their homeland in Palestine!
 

Pizhan Pouya

Iranian-American Community (IACUS)
http://www.geocities.com/iaczine/
 

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Gaza Emergency Appeal

The war that was launched today in Gaza has left, according to Reuters, over 300 people dead and hundreds more injured.  This violence is making the already tragic humanitarian situation in Gaza much worse.

LIFE for Relief and Development will continue its efforts to provide emergency relief to the residents of Gaza, as we have done for the past three years.

Our regional office in Nazareth is closely monitoring the situation and reports that the most urgently needed items are emergency medical supplies to treat wounded civilians, as well as food, which is already scarce.  

We call on our donors to contribute to our Gaza Emergency Fund so that we can ease the suffering of as many Palestinians as possible. 

You can use your Zakat for this project, and all donations made to LIFE are tax-deductible.

Since the beginning of the blockade in January 2008, LIFE has provided food and clothes to thousands of families across Gaza.  In fact the food that has been distributed in Gaza is enough to make approximately 1.5 MILLION MEALS.

Please don’t wait!  Donate now and do your part to ease the suffering of the people of Gaza.

LIFE for Relief and Development is a 501c3 tax-exempt charity that has distributed nearly $100 million in humanitarian assistance around the world to victims of hunger, poverty, and natural disasters. LIFE holds special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council.  To learn more visit www.lifeusa.org.

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U.S. Muslim Leaders to Address Gaza Crisis

On Monday, December 29, the American Muslim Taskforce on Civil Rights and Elections (AMT), a coalition of 12 major Islamic organizations, will hold a 10 a.m. news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., to release an open letter to President-elect Obama outlining suggested domestic and foreign policy priorities for the new administration. At that news conference, the Muslim leaders will also address the growing humanitarian crisis in Gaza. CONTACT: CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper, 202-488-8787 or 202-744-7726, E-Mail: ihooper@cair.com

SEE: Gaza Humanitarian Plight 'Disastrous,' U.N. Official Says (CNN)

CAIR ACTION ALERT #556

Urge Congress, President to Stop Israeli ‘Massacre’ in Gaza Contact President-elect Obama and media outlets to demand a balanced Mideast policy

(WASHINGTON, D.C., 12/28/08)

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called on American Muslims and other people of conscience to contact their elected representatives and urge them to condemn Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip that have killed almost 300 people and injured hundreds more, including women and children. In its bombardment of Gaza, Israel has targeted at least one mosque, a university and a warehouse for medical supplies.

SEE: Israel Pounds Gaza for Second Day, 296 Killed (Reuters)

CAIR also called on anyone concerned about the “disproportionate and counterproductive” Israeli attacks to call radio talk show programs, write letters to the editor and use social media websites such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter to voice their concerns. Those contacting the media or using social media networks are being asked to offer support for the Palestinian right to freedom from occupation, to call for an end to the Israeli blockade of humanitarian supplies to Gaza and to demand a just resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Yesterday, CAIR issued a statement condemning the Israeli attacks and calling on President-elect Obama to speak out on the crisis. CAIR’s statement read in part:

“American Muslims join our fellow citizens who respect international law and the sanctity of human life in repudiating this massacre carried out using U.S. taxpayer-funded weapons.

“It must be clear by now that the only future offered to the Palestinian people by the outgoing administration was one of perpetual subjugation and humiliation at the hands of the Israeli occupiers. Unfortunately, our nation’s timid response to this tragic episode will only serve to fuel anti-American sentiments in the Muslim world.

“We therefore call on President-elect Obama to demonstrate his commitment to change our nation’s current one-sided Mideast policy by speaking out now in favor of peace and justice for all parties to this decades-long conflict.”

IMMEDIATE ACTIONS REQUESTED: (Always be polite and respectful.)

1) CONTACT YOUR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES and ask them to publicly condemn Israel’s “disproportionate and excessive” attacks on the Gaza Strip.

Point out that such attacks block efforts to bring peace with justice to the Middle East, harm our nation’s image and interests worldwide and strengthen voices of extremism in the region. Ask your elected officials to adopt an ever-handed Middle East policy that is in our nation’s, not Israel’s interest.

Other points:

The Palestinian people must be given some hope of freedom from Israeli occupation and domination. Israel’s immoral and illegal collective punishment of the Palestinian people living in the Gaza Strip must end. America must support a just and comprehensive resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that takes into account the rights and responsibilities of all parties.

Contact President George W. Bush:

The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500

White House Comment Line: 202-456-1111 Fax: 202-456-2461 E-Mail: comments@whitehouse.gov, U.S. Senators

here.

3) CONTACT THE MEDIA.

Call in to radio talk shows and write letters to the editor to express your views. To find local and national media contact information, click here.

Post comments on media websites and blogs that discuss the crisis. Begin you own blog and link to other sites that support a balanced American policy in the region. Start a free blog at: http://www.blogger.com

Use social media tools such as Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Twitter, Flickr to make your views known and to share your views with like-mined individuals and groups.

4) CONTACT THE STATE DEPARTMENT.

Call 202-647-4000 and ask for the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs or go click here.

5) PUT YOUR CELL PHONE AND E-MAIL LIST TO GOOD USE.

Contact all of your colleagues, friends and family members to ask that they contact their elected officials, President-elect Obama and the media.

 

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US Administration blames the victims for their own massacre

DEB RIECHMANN,

Associated Press  Dec 27, 2008

Editor CE- The "rocket attacks on Israel are simply a protest, much like a prisoner hurling his shoes at his captors, except that the Gazans hove no shoes to throw so they shoot off what amounts to homemade fireworks.  It is rare for Israelis to be killed or wounded by these acts of protest against those who are systematically starving them, and neither the US or Israel ever admit that Hamas is the lawfully elected and publicly supported government of Gaza, and the West Bank as well.

AP gives Zionist line: "The White House called for the cease-fire to be restored, yet there were few indications that the violence, which has left more than 200 people dead and nearly another 400 wounded, was waning. Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak warned that the operation in Gaza would widen if necessary.

 It was "completely unacceptable" for Hamas, which controls Gaza, to launch attacks on Israel after a truce lasting several months, said Gordon Johndroe, a spokesman for the National Security Council. "These people are nothing but thugs, so Israel is going to defend its people against terrorists like Hamas that indiscriminately kill their own people," Johndroe said in Texas as President George W. Bush was spending the week before New Year's at his ranch here. "They need to stop. We have said in the past that they have a choice to make. You can't have one foot in politics and one foot in terror." President-elect Barack Obama was receiving an intelligence briefing on Saturday from various security agencies, Johndroe said. Bush has spoken to regional leaders and the administration will remain in close contact, he said.

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