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TUPOCC-NLG Palestine Sub-Committee & NLG Middle-East Steering Committee Strongly Condemn "Israel's" On-Going Genocide Against the Palestinian Arab People and Crimes Against Humanity in the Gaza Strip
January 7, 2009
The United People of Color Caucus (TUPOCC) Palestine Sub-Committee of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) and the NLG Middle-East Steering Committee (NLG-MESC) call upon the international community to join us in our strong condemnation of "Israel's" on-going genocide, crimes against humanity, and brutal six-decade-old occupation of Palestine. "Israel" has, yet again, intensified its ruthless campaign to intentionally destroy the Palestinian Arab People by murdering over 700 Palestinians—including scores of women and children—and brutally injuring over 3100 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
Over the past twelve days "Israel" has perpetrated round-the-clock carpet-bombing of Palestinian civilians, civil infrastructure, and civil institutions, including schools, markets, and refugee camps/neighborhoods in the Gaza Strip--one of the most densely populated areas on Earth. "Israel's" savage bombardment and deadly siege against Gaza has relentlessly deprived Palestinians of any ability to obtain the necessary fuel, electricity, food, clean water, medical supplies and basic necessities of life—"Israel's" admitted "starvation diet" campaign. "Israel" now demands that Palestinians leave Gaza to "avoid" death – a blatant and transparent attempt at permanently expelling Palestinians from their land.
"Israel" is callously perpetrating the "holocaust" against Palestinians as threatened by "Israeli" official Matan Vilnai in February 2008. "Israel's" on-going saturation bombing campaign savagely targets the over 1.5 million Palestinians civilians in the Gaza Strip—a majority of whom are refugees from the 78% of Palestine illegally occupied by Zionist forces in 1948.
"Israel's" genocide, occupation, and grave crimes against humanity in Gaza and the whole of occupied Palestine could not have been perpetrated without the direct and indirect complicity of the world governments, including the US, EU, and puppet Arab regimes. Moreover, the "green light" for genocide also stems from the dehumanization of Palestinian Arabs by Western corporate media outlets only to be reinforced by organizations who fail to condemn Zionism and its product, "Israel," or who advance the patently false symmetry between the occupied Palestinians and their Zionist occupiers.
Accordingly, TUPOCC's Palestine Sub-Committee and the Middle-East Steering Committee of the NLG call upon the international community and all people of good conscience to stand with the victims of Zionism and its product "Israel" by taking immediate action to put an end to the Zionist genocide against Palestinians. In reaffirming TUPOCC's "Statement in Support of Palestinian Liberation and Dissent from the National Lawyers Guild's Official Position on Palestine and Zionism," TUPOCC's Palestine Sub-Committee and NLG-MESC urge the international community to:
1) Support a full and comprehensive campaign of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions against "Israel";
2) Send desperately needed humanitarian aid to the Palestinian People suffering due to the on-going genocide by "Israel." Please go to http://www.kinderusa.org and make an online donation of $500, $250, $100, or whatever you can afford;
3) Demand an immediate end to all "aid" to "Israel," including the billions of taxpayer dollars which fund Israel's on-going genocide, occupation, and crimes against humanity waged against the Palestinian People;
4) Immediately end any recognition, legitimization, or normalization with "Israel";
5) Demand that the United Nations live-up to its Charter by immediately and permanently expelling "Israel" from the United Nations;
6) Support the Palestinian Arab People's right of self-determination and liberation throughout all of occupied Palestine—both the areas occupied in 1948 and 1967—as guaranteed to Palestinians by international law and the UN Charter;
7) Support and reaffirm the legitimacy of the Palestinian Arab People's right to struggle for independence, territorial integrity, national unity and liberation from colonial and foreign domination and foreign occupation by all available means, particularly armed struggle. (United Nations Resolution A/RES/33/24 29 November 1978);
8) Demand all Governments and organizations, including the United Nations, to live-up to their obligations and unequivocally condemn Zionism as a form of racism as formally expressed under United Nations Resolution 3379 of 1975; and
9) Establish International Criminal Tribunals against "Israel" and all of its quasi-governmental organizations, including the World Zionist Organization, for their grave crimes against humanity including genocide and illegal occupation.
TUPOCC-NLG Palestine Sub-Committee & NLG Middle-East Steering Committee Strongly Condemn "Israel's" On-Going Genocide Against the Palestinian Arab People and Crimes Against Humanity in the Gaza Strip
January 7, 2009
The United People of Color Caucus (TUPOCC) Palestine Sub-Committee of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) and the NLG Middle-East Steering Committee (NLG-MESC) call upon the international community to join us in our strong condemnation of "Israel's" on-going genocide, crimes against humanity, and brutal six-decade-old occupation of Palestine. "Israel" has, yet again, intensified its ruthless campaign to intentionally destroy the Palestinian Arab People by murdering over 700 Palestinians—including scores of women and children—and brutally injuring over 3100 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
Over the past twelve days "Israel" has perpetrated round-the-clock carpet-bombing of Palestinian civilians, civil infrastructure, and civil institutions, including schools, markets, and refugee camps/neighborhoods in the Gaza Strip--one of the most densely populated areas on Earth. "Israel's" savage bombardment and deadly siege against Gaza has relentlessly deprived Palestinians of any ability to obtain the necessary fuel, electricity, food, clean water, medical supplies and basic necessities of life—"Israel's" admitted "starvation diet" campaign. "Israel" now demands that Palestinians leave Gaza to "avoid" death – a blatant and transparent attempt at permanently expelling Palestinians from their land.
"Israel" is callously perpetrating the "holocaust" against Palestinians as threatened by "Israeli" official Matan Vilnai in February 2008. "Israel's" on-going saturation bombing campaign savagely targets the over 1.5 million Palestinians civilians in the Gaza Strip—a majority of whom are refugees from the 78% of Palestine illegally occupied by Zionist forces in 1948.
"Israel's" genocide, occupation, and grave crimes against humanity in Gaza and the whole of occupied Palestine could not have been perpetrated without the direct and indirect complicity of the world governments, including the US, EU, and puppet Arab regimes. Moreover, the "green light" for genocide also stems from the dehumanization of Palestinian Arabs by Western corporate media outlets only to be reinforced by organizations who fail to condemn Zionism and its product, "Israel," or who advance the patently false symmetry between the occupied Palestinians and their Zionist occupiers.
Accordingly, TUPOCC's Palestine Sub-Committee and the Middle-East Steering Committee of the NLG call upon the international community and all people of good conscience to stand with the victims of Zionism and its product "Israel" by taking immediate action to put an end to the Zionist genocide against Palestinians. In reaffirming TUPOCC's "Statement in Support of Palestinian Liberation and Dissent from the National Lawyers Guild's Official Position on Palestine and Zionism," TUPOCC's Palestine Sub-Committee and NLG-MESC urge the international community to:
1) Support a full and comprehensive campaign of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions against "Israel";
2) Send desperately needed humanitarian aid to the Palestinian People suffering due to the on-going genocide by "Israel." Please go to http://www.kinderusa.org and make an online donation of $500, $250, $100, or whatever you can afford;
3) Demand an immediate end to all "aid" to "Israel," including the billions of taxpayer dollars which fund Israel's on-going genocide, occupation, and crimes against humanity waged against the Palestinian People;
4) Immediately end any recognition, legitimization, or normalization with "Israel";
5) Demand that the United Nations live-up to its Charter by immediately and permanently expelling "Israel" from the United Nations;
6) Support the Palestinian Arab People's right of self-determination and liberation throughout all of occupied Palestine—both the areas occupied in 1948 and 1967—as guaranteed to Palestinians by international law and the UN Charter;
7) Support and reaffirm the legitimacy of the Palestinian Arab People's right to struggle for independence, territorial integrity, national unity and liberation from colonial and foreign domination and foreign occupation by all available means, particularly armed struggle. (United Nations Resolution A/RES/33/24 29 November 1978);
8) Demand all Governments and organizations, including the United Nations, to live-up to their obligations and unequivocally condemn Zionism as a form of racism as formally expressed under United Nations Resolution 3379 of 1975; and
9) Establish International Criminal Tribunals against "Israel" and all of its quasi-governmental organizations, including the World Zionist Organization, for their grave crimes against humanity including genocide and illegal occupation.
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