----- Original Message ----- From: "abukholdun mahmood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2005 7:00 AM Subject: Fw: THE SLOW MASSACRE OF PALESTINIANS BY THE ZIONISTS
> Dear all I am forwarding this article from mpf (Muslim professionals forum > egroups) > > As we remember the 8,000 Bosnian Muslims massacred by the Serbs 10 years > ago in Sebrenenitsa, our Palestinian brothers and sisters are being > massacred in a slow manner. In the last 10 years more Palestinians have been > killed and many more jailed and almost all of them made to live under > terrible conditions, with their pride and rights reduced to rubbles. Do pray > for our Palestinian brethren, and may GOD punish the Zionists as soon as > possible! > As'kum, > > Dr Abu Kholdun > > > > [Quite Amazing that this was published by the Herald Tribune. Perhaps if > the Western media begins telling the true story, people might begin to think > differently. ] > > > > > > > > > > http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/07/11/opinion/edkhatib.php > > > > > > > > Help us stop Israel's wall peacefully > > > > By Mohammed Khatib International Herald Tribune > > TUESDAY, JULY 12, 2005 > > > > BILIN, West Bank While the international media has been focusing on > >Israel's planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, in my village of Bilin, > >near the West Bank city of Ramallah, we are living an equally important but > >overlooked story. Though Israeli forces plan to withdraw from Gaza, they > >are simultaneously expanding their West Bank settlements. On our village's > >land, Israel is building one new settlement and expanding five others. > >These settlements will form a city called Modiin Illit, with tens of > >thousands of settlers, many times the number to be evacuated from Gaza. > >These settlements consume most of our area's water. Throughout the West > >Bank, settlement and wall construction, arrests, killing and occupation > >continue. > > > > > > > > One year ago, the International Court of Justice handed down an advisory > >ruling that Israel's construction of a wall on Palestinian land violated > >international law. Today, Palestinians in villages like ours are struggling > >to implement the court's decision and stop construction using nonviolence, > >but the world has done little to support us. > > > > > > > > Bilin is being strangled by Israel's wall. Though our village sits two > >and a half miles east of the Green Line, Israel is taking roughly 60 > >percent of our 1,000 acres of land in order to annex the six settlements > >and build the wall around them. This land is also money to us - we work it. > >Bilin's 1,600 residents depend on farming and harvesting our olives for our > >livelihood. The wall will turn Bilin into an open-air prison, like Gaza. > > > > > > > > After Israeli courts refused our appeals to prevent wall construction, > >we, along with Israelis and people from around the world, began peacefully > >protesting the confiscation of our land. We chose to resist non-violently > >because we are peace-loving people who are victims of occupation. We have > >opened our homes to the Israelis who have joined us. They have become our > >partners in struggle. Together we send a strong message - that we can > >coexist in peace and security. We welcome anyone who comes to us as a guest > >and who works for peace and justice for both peoples, but we will resist > >anyone who comes as an occupier. > > > > > > > > We have held more than 50 peaceful demonstrations since February. We > >learned from the experience and advice of villages like Budrus and Biddu, > >which resisted the wall nonviolently. Palestinians from other areas now > >call people from Bilin "Palestinian Gandhis." > > > > > > > > Our demonstrations aim to stop the bulldozers destroying our land, and > >to send a message about the wall's impact. We've chained ourselves to olive > >trees that were being bulldozed for the wall to show that taking trees' > >lives takes the village's life. We've distributed letters asking the > >soldiers to think before they shoot at us, explaining that we are not > >against the Israeli people, but against the building of the wall on our > >land. We refuse to be strangled by the wall in silence. In a famous > >Palestinian short story, "Men in the Sun," Palestinian workers suffocate > >inside a tanker truck. Upon discovering them, the driver screams, "Why > >didn't you bang on the sides of the tank?" We are banging - we are > >screaming. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > In the face of our peaceful resistance, Israeli soldiers attack our > >peaceful protests with teargas, clubs, rubber-coated steel bullets and live > >ammunition, and have injured over 100 villagers. They invade the village at > >night, entering homes, pulling families out and arresting people. At a > >peaceful protest on June 17, soldiers arrested the brothers Abdullah and > >Rateb Abu Rahme, two village leaders. Soldiers testified that Rateb was > >throwing stones. An Israeli military judge recently ordered Rateb's release > >because videotapes showed the soldiers' claims were false. > > > > > > > > The Palestinian people have implemented a cease-fire and have sent a > >message of peace through our newly elected leadership. But a year after the > >international court's decision, wall building on Palestinian land > >continues. Behind the smoke screen of the Gaza withdrawal, the real story > >is Israel's attempt to take control of the West Bank by building the > >illegal wall and settlements that threaten to destroy dozens of villages > >like Bilin and any hope for peace. > > > > > > > > Bilin is banging, Bilin is screaming. Please stand with us so that we > >can achieve our freedom by peaceful means. > > > > > > > > (Mohammed Khatib is a leading member of Bilin's Popular Committee > >Against the Wall and the secretary of its village council.) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Copyright © 2005 The International Herald Tribune | http://www.iht.com/ > > > > New Profile - Movement for the Civil-ization of Israeli Society > > POB 3454, Ramat HaSharon 47100, Israel > > E-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Voice box: ++972-(0)3-516-01-19 > > Website: http://www.newprofile.org/ > > *************************************************************************** {Invite (mankind, O Muhammad ) to the Way of your Lord (i.e. Islam) with wisdom (i.e. with the Divine Inspiration and the Qur'an) and fair preaching, and argue with them in a way that is better. Truly, your Lord knows best who has gone astray from His Path, and He is the Best Aware of those who are guided.} (Holy Quran-16:125) {And who is better in speech than he who [says: "My Lord is Allah (believes in His Oneness)," and then stands straight (acts upon His Order), and] invites (men) to Allah's (Islamic Monotheism), and does righteous deeds, and says: "I am one of the Muslims."} (Holy Quran-41:33) The prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: "By Allah, if Allah guides one person by you, it is better for you than the best types of camels." [al-Bukhaaree, Muslim] The prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) also said, "Whoever calls to guidance will have a reward similar to the reward of the one who follows him, without the reward of either of them being lessened at all." 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