Post by alanwen on Jan 19, 2009 20:23:24 GMT
This discussion was originally posted on the Ning but thought it best to carry the discussion over here, with a couple updates given the recent changes in the crisis
1000 dead and nothing said.
Perhaps the latest chant at the third Saturday mass protest since Israel's assault on Gaza began on Saturday 2th December. How much use is protesting having on the current situation that just seems to get worse, with international leaders only further outraged that they have become part of the casualty (eg. shelling of UN school, killing evacuees and UN compound, resulting in loss of vital food and medical supplies).
Israel may have announced its ceasefire and declared victory but it's a deal that neither involves Hamas nor includes any of its demands (lifting the economic blockade being the major one) . Though we should all feel relief for an end to the escalating violence, can we really expect after all this that Hamas will just lay down their rockets and onto their knees while Israeli military remains in Gaza?
With the conflict apparently 'over', will we just go back to the next big story and forget about the thousands of injured Gazans left to die without adequate supplies and can we seriously believe that the Gazans have been freed at last from what is still the world's largest open-air prison?
If anyone's interested in learning more and participating in something that will hopefully be more practical, meaningful and progressive than just marching and shouting, this coming Saturday is Palestine Solidarity Campaign's Annual General Meeting, which calls for the building of an anti-apartheid movement
www.palestinecampaign.org/index9b.asp?m_id=1&l1_id=3&...
Some more reading material from Naomi Klein: www.naomiklein.org/articles/2009/01/israel-boycott-divest-sanction
1000 dead and nothing said.
Perhaps the latest chant at the third Saturday mass protest since Israel's assault on Gaza began on Saturday 2th December. How much use is protesting having on the current situation that just seems to get worse, with international leaders only further outraged that they have become part of the casualty (eg. shelling of UN school, killing evacuees and UN compound, resulting in loss of vital food and medical supplies).
Israel may have announced its ceasefire and declared victory but it's a deal that neither involves Hamas nor includes any of its demands (lifting the economic blockade being the major one) . Though we should all feel relief for an end to the escalating violence, can we really expect after all this that Hamas will just lay down their rockets and onto their knees while Israeli military remains in Gaza?
With the conflict apparently 'over', will we just go back to the next big story and forget about the thousands of injured Gazans left to die without adequate supplies and can we seriously believe that the Gazans have been freed at last from what is still the world's largest open-air prison?
If anyone's interested in learning more and participating in something that will hopefully be more practical, meaningful and progressive than just marching and shouting, this coming Saturday is Palestine Solidarity Campaign's Annual General Meeting, which calls for the building of an anti-apartheid movement
www.palestinecampaign.org/index9b.asp?m_id=1&l1_id=3&...
Some more reading material from Naomi Klein: www.naomiklein.org/articles/2009/01/israel-boycott-divest-sanction