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The coalition, which is yet to be named, is made up of 15 organizations that are based all across the world from Brazil, Australia, Switzerland to South Africa.
Over the weekend, the group released a statement and a petition against the violence, while calling for an end to Israel's illegal occupation.
"As a group of Jews from around the world we believe that immediate change needs to come from the Israeli government and Israeli people. It is incumbent on all Jews around the world to pressure the Israeli government — and those who follow and support its words and deeds — to change its approach."They went on to demand that the people of Palestine be granted their freedom, and called on other Jewish people to stand with them to obligate their countries to cease economic and military support of Israel's occupation.
"The military crackdown must cease immediately, Palestinians must be allowed complete freedom of movement. It is also a responsibility of Jewish people worldwide to obligate the countries in which we live to immediately cease the economic and military support of the ongoing Israeli occupation in Palestine and siege of Gaza."Since the beginning of October, forty Palestinians have been killed, with the youngest being an innocent two-year-old girl. Additionally, over 1,000 have been wounded.
There have also been stabbing attacks against the Israeli settlers as tension continues to grow.
Jordy Silverstein, a historian and writer from Melbourne who signed onto the statement, told 972 Mag that their intention with the letter and petition is to "increase the dissent in our communities." The network, she says, "seeks to show that a Zionism based on militarism, exclusion, violence, division, murder, and lies isn't the only way of living on that land, or of expressing ones Jewishness."
The petition had gathered over 400 signatures by Monday evening.
Let's hope these righteous Jews can make a difference in Israel/Palestine and beyond. This is standing up and saying, "NOT IN OUR NAME!!!"
This gives me chills.
Next, let's have the 1967 borders re-established AND let's have the US and Europe pay for the reconstruction of Palestine, making a REAL homeland for the Pals.
Look, there is NO WAY the state of Israel is going to 'cease to exist', ever. No way in hell. Same for any hope of a Palestinian 'right of return', sad to say.
BUT a two-state solution that not only goes back to the 1967 borders, but also COMPENSATES the Pals for their horrific suffering and staggering losses would go a long, long way towards righting these injustices. Hell, it just might work. Let's explore that idea for a moment.
The Jews were 'compensated' with Palestinian land for their Holocaust suffering, enforced by the UN and USA/European leaders, when Germany/Austria should have been the one making room for a Jewish homeland (a tip of the hat to Ahmadinejad, on that one) and making the reparations for their crimes against humanity. And while Germany has poured countless billions in money and hardware (nuclear submarines, anyone?) towards such reparations, along with Austria and the rest of the world, what the hell has ANYONE done for the Palestinians and their Nabkha? Not a goddamn thing, that's what. They have collectively stood idly and silently by while zio-fascists have raped the Pals again and again. These turds need to pay up, and BIG TIME.
The USA and NATO countries spend BILLIONS and BILLIONS on war and 'defense', every year. They should take that money and reconstruct Palestine into a truly modern state, that could trade and develop side-by-side WITH Israel, so that both would benefit.
I can absolutely guarantee you, if the Palestinians were given a REAL homeland that corresponded to the pre-1967 borders, with massive yearly wealth transfers to guarantee success and a bright future to each and every Palestinian, and with payments conditioned on STRICTLY adhering to a love-your-neighbor policy with the Jews in Israel, you'd watch how fast the Pals would learn to live and let live, complete with collective amnesia of their sufferings historically at the hands of the Zionists. Money, and lots of it, can have that effect. Hell, look at the groveling idiots in Vietnam, kissing Uncle Shmuel's ass via the TPP, and that doesn't guarantee them diddly-squat, just the chance to maybe make some cake via trading with the very same assholes (America) that bombed them to the stone age and covered them in Agent Orange. Time heals all wounds? Bullshit. MONEY works way, way better, and much, much faster. (Even the mere promise of it, sometimes.)
A real two-state solution with massive compensation that gets the Palestinian peoples a bright and glowing future? Living side-by-side in peace and prosperity with the Israelis? No more terrorism, or the money spigot goes dry? Shit, you watch those Pals take ANY Hamas asshole who wants to harm a Jew and they'll tear his or her stinking butt to pieces with their bare hands. Money doesn't just talk, it WORKS MIRACLES. (At least for the semi-hairless apes that call themselves Homo Sapiens.)
And all the while Israel stands by and smiles, not spending a dime of their own, but raking in billions upon billions in construction deals and trade. And co-developing Palestinian resources (like the gas fields of Gaza, etc.) Beautiful!!
(Holy crap! Somebody must have slipped something into our water, because I am clearly hallucinating badly......... ) :-(