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Oakland ISMer Protects Arafat

by ISM Media Office (info [at] palsolidarity.org)
ISM Press Release.
For Immediate Release
Sunday, October 5, 2003 0200(+2GMT)

[Ramallah, West Bank]
Earlier this evening, 26 members of the Israeli peace group Gush Shalom and the Palestinian-led International Solidarity Movement (ISM) entered the Muqata, President Arafat's compound in Ramallah. The groups include citizens of Australia, Canada, Iceland, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Israel.

ISM and Gush Shalom members came to the Muqata anticipating that Israeli authorities could use today's horrific suicide bombing of a restaurant in Haifa as a pretext to attack the Palestinian leadership, a strategy consistently employed by Sharon’s cabinet to divert attention from the daily human rights abuses occurring during Israel’s military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. Israel has been widely criticized by the international community for demolition of homes, confiscation of Palestinian land, assassination of Palestinian activists, and most recently the construction of a “Separation Wall” within the borders of Palestine.

ISM is unequivocally opposed to the killing of all innocent civilians, and sees the perpetuation of violence as a direct result of the Israel’s military occupation of Palestinian land. Earlier this afternoon two Palestinians, one a 9-year-old Mohammed Daraghmeh al-Nouri, were shot and killed by Israeli troops in the West Bank town of Tulkarem.

Speaking about why she chose to come to the Muqata, Elizabeth Ooms, 62, of Oakland, California, said: “Some of my colleagues are out working with Palestinian farmers, who are being systematically denied the right to cultivate and harvest crops from their own land, denied their basic right to life. I came to the compound to send a message to my government and to Israel that the problem is not the Palestinian leadership: the problem is the brutality of the Occupation. It denies an entire people their freedom and dignity.”



For more information, contact:

Huwaida Arraf, ISM - +972 (0)67 473 308 (English and Arabic)
ISM Media Office - +972 (0)22 774 602


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by gehrig
"ISM is unequivocally opposed to the killing of all innocent civilians"

Then you must not know very much about Arafat, if you're "protecting" him.

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by ism rocks
I'm so glad to hear that the ism is doing this and that such a diverse group is involved. People from all over the world are choosing to risk their own lives to protect those of others who Israel is threatening.

Thank god for the UN - the insanity of Israel trying to kill Arafat was exposed for being what it is - murder - and no one would support them in it.
by stopthefascists!
gehrig is a well known neo-fascist that is based in ubana ill and has infiltrated the IMC in ubana and also known as ml the censor that has banned all posts that are critical of the zio-fascists actions on the Urbana ill IMC
by gehrig
... says someone miffed that I've insulted Arafat.

Thanks for the laugh. That wouldn't be you, would it, Danspam?

For what it's worth, I have the same degree of editorial control at my home IMC that I have here: exactly none. And anyone who takes a look there can see that you're full of shit on the "oooh, anti-Zionist posts are banned" bit. Sorry to spoil your witchhunt.

As to the accusation of "neo-fascism," what a hoot. When you're so far left that _I_ look like a fascist, then, brother, you're hanging on to the fringe by your teeth.

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by pulga
... to the IMC supporters of both sides in the upcoming installment of blood and despair. I will be sitting this one out but your hard work in defending your chosen corpses is appreciated.
by Fred
Google picked up this story on italy imc and it made it to nearly the top of google news .. . in english.

http://italy.indymedia.org/news/2003/10/394640.php

Oh, and thanks for the background on Gehrig - I hadn't known much about him. He seems to waste a lot of people's time on here with idiotic comments.
by A concerned Zionist
Hey all of you Gehrig-haters,
Leave my stormtrooper comrade-in-arms alone! Gehrig is no fascist, he is a proud and dedicated supporter of the Zionist cause! Fascism is a thing of the past, Zionism is the new way to go, guys! Unlike those neonazis who wave their flags and beat up a few dozen people a year at busstops in New York City, we Zionists are more serious about our duties as racial purists and imperialist landgrabbers. Unlike the pathetic Aryan Nations which may kill a few people a year, our skinheads in the Israeli Defence Forces have shot, beat to death or crushed with bulldozers over two thousand Palestinian civilians ( and some militants, for variety) since the outbreak of the Al Aksa Intifada in the year 2000. Unlike drunk KKK members who spray swastikas onto houses and burn some of them down when it is dark outside and then run as soon as they hear a police siren, our IDF army has demolished hundreds of homes in broad daylight, as their occupants sobbed, sorrounded by armed soldiers. Unlike the fascist swastika, which was stolen from the Hindu religion, we Zionists use the star of david, which was a symbol of the martyrdom of the Jews from 1939-1945, to our own advantage.
The cowardly fascists were atheists who had no use for God. We Zionists are much more clever. Instead of denying His existence, we use Him and the Jewish religion to excuse our crimes. The fascists hated and continue to hate the Jews. We Zionists use them for our own political purposes, and have managed to successfully convince many of them that our perversion of their religion is something holy and meaningful. That is why we can't stand Jews like Uri Avnery, Jews who actually know what their religion and traditions expect of them. Jews who are too smart to fall for our lies, and work to help those who we persecute and murder with impunity all the time.
The fascists used the war crimes occassionally committed by the Royal Air Force and the partisans who fought Hitler's occupation of their countries to excuse their own crimes against those they considered to be 'racially inferior'. We state that the suicide bombings (the first took place in the early 1990's) are the cause of our occupation of Gaza and the West Bank- which began in 1967.
As you can see, we Zionists may be similar to fascists in many ways, but there are differences, too. Most fascists of today, for example, happen to be young men in their early 20's who are too lazy to find a job, but prefer to instead shave their heads, desecrate gravestones, and get into fights at the bar. They like to show off the Mein Kampf, but most of them are unable to read a book of this magnitude, and are still waiting for the movie to come out. They are a pathetic bunch of racist apes.
In contrast, we Zionists are much more advanced. We have our own state, our own army, and our own official flag. We commit human rights abuses of impunity, and scoff at the United Nations. We even get George Bush to pay us $3 billion a year out of his own taxpayers' pockets.
So don't make fun of people like Gehrig and myself. Zionism is no joke, and we don't tolerate your jeering and mocking of our ideology. Stop now.
Unless you want to wake up watching a bulldozer roll towards your house tomorrow morning.

Heil Sharon!
- A concerned Zionist
by gehrig
"He seems to waste a lot of people's time on here with idiotic comments."

Things that make you go "hmmmm." Some anonymouse makes the claim that that IMC is being censored. Two clicks should be enough to prove that it isn't, with the exception of a particular lone loon whining "Zionist censorship!" The same anonymouse claims that I have editorial control over an IMC under the name "ml." ML will be surprised, to say the least, to discover he's really only me in disguise. He'll be doubly surprised to discover that he's a Zionist. He hasn't heard _that_ one since Dan Elliot AKA Cui Bozo had his infamous flip out about a year ago.

I changed my mind; these aren't things that make you go "hmmmmm." They're things that make me go "hahahaha."

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by A concerned Zionist
Dear Steve James,
Do you have an infatuation with yourself? Why do you just constantly repeat the same slogan over and over? Do you love watching yourself type?
Try writing something original, this poster has been up for the last few weeks. Personally I have nothing against you doing this, but you are beginning to sound like an answering machine.

Heil Sharon!
- A concerned Zionist
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