Al-Awda on Gaza

This press release was sent out by Al-Awda, an organization whose very name is code for the elimination of the state of Israel.

Al-Awda's fanatics actually criticized Yassir Arafat for being to moderate!

We intersperse some comments, but post this here mostly because it can be useful to gain some insight into the fanaticism of the Israel-haters.

For Immediate Release
January 20, 2008

BREAK THE SILENCE ON GAZA! DON'T DELAY! TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE!

[Time is of the essence to end the bombardment of countless Kassams and mortars against the innocent civilians living in Sederot.]

Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, calls on its chapters, supporting organizations and individuals to organize to break the silence about the ongoing Israeli war crimes being committed against Palestinians in Gaza. Organize street actions and protests, community meetings and delegations to religious leaders and educators. Call and write the media and your congressional representatives.

[Al-Awda considers it a war crime for Israel to not freely provide Arab terrorists with the weapons of war.]

People of the world watch in horror as the racist state of 'Israel', with the support and encouragement of the US government, engages in a genocidal project to eliminate the indigenous Arab people of Palestine.

[This is interesting news. The Israelis must be totally incompetent, since the Arab population, which is not indigenous and long post-dates the Jewish kingdoms in what was renamed Palestine in an early endeavor in ethnic cleansing, has been booming.]

The world community has denounced the government of 'Israel' for using its military for the purpose of collectively punishing the civilian population of the Gaza Strip, a clear war crime and violation of the 4th Geneva Conventions. The only power plant in Gaza was shut down today leaving the 1.5 million inhabitants without electricity, water, or any functional medical facilities.

[Al-Awda is apparently ignorant of the fact that it was Hamas which operated the power plant and which shut it down despite ample supplies of fuel.

Israel has continued to supply electric power to the Gaza Strip.]

Palestinians continue to endure starvation, aerial bombings, US CIA interventions, and Israeli army brutality. This murderous endeavor has caused the deaths of hundreds of Palestinian civilians and the already fragile economy of Gaza has been decimated.

[The economy of Gaza has been crumbling ever since the intifada of the late 1980's put an end to the economic expansion that coincided with Israel's post-1967 administration of the Gaza Strip. That destruction of the Gaza economy speeded up with the imposition of the Palestinian Authority under the Oslo Accords, with the devastation accelerated again by the Hamas coup.]

NO FOOD, NO WATER, NO BREAD!

We appeal to all people living in the US:

SPEAK OUT TO DEMAND ONCE AND FOR ALL AN END TO THE SIEGE OF GAZA AND THE OCCUPATION OF ALL OF PALESTINE!

ORGANIZE STREET ACTIONS AND PROTESTS, CALL AND WRITE THE MEDIA AND YOUR CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVES.

ORGANIZE COMMUNITY MEETINGS AND DELEGATIONS TO RELIGIOUS LEADERS AND EDUCATORS

DONATE TO HELP THE PEOPLE IN GAZA!

[It's very difficult to help people who refuse to help themselves. As long as the Arabs living in Gaza prefer killing Jews to living productive lives, it will be virtually impossible to help them.]

For information to contact your congressional representatives, go to http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home.

For writing to the media, go to http://newslink.org for contact information.

To make a donation to help the people in the Gaza Strip go to http://www.al-awda.org/donate.html and simply follow the instructions. Please indicate that your donation is for the GAZA EMERGENCY FUND.

[It would be more productive to support the innocent people in Sederot who are suffering from the Kassams and mortars launched by terrorists in Gaza.]

BREAK THE SILENCE ON GAZA! DON'T DELAY! TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE!

Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition
PO Box 131352 Carlsbad, CA 92013, USA
Tel: 760-685-3243 Fax: 360-933-3568
E-mail: info@al-awda.org
WWW: http://al-awda.org

Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition (PRRC) is the largest network of grassroots activists and students dedicated to Palestinian human rights. We are a not for profit tax-exempt educational and charitable 501(c)(3) organization as defined by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) of the United States of America. Under IRS guidelines, your donations to PRRC are tax-deductible. To make a donation simply go to http://www.al-awda.org/donate.html and simply follow the instructions.

[The IRS obviously hasn't paid attention to Al-Awda.]

Save the Date!
Sixth Annual International Al Awda Convention On The Sixtieth Year of Al Nakba
Anaheim, California
May 16-18, 2008
http://al-awda.org

[Again we see it's not the so-called "occupation" which is the issue; it's the very existence of Israel, a non-Muslim, non-Arab, free and Western-oriented liberal democracy in the Middle East.]