B i s m i l l a a h i r R a h m a a n i r R a h e e m Assalaamu`Alaykum wa Rahmatullaahi wa Barakaatahu,
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Islam, I pray you are all well and in strength of eemaan by the grace of Allaah Subhaanahu wa Ta`aala. Aameen. Please forward the information below to as many non-Muslims as possible, inshaa`Allaah. The World, especially the Americans need to know the real reasons for Israeli's deceitful assaults on Palestine/Gaza. They need to be told about Israeli's theft of the Palestine land. The media and leaders are not telling it all because they are severely pressured by the many arms and agencies of the Israeli-Jewish lobby. a.. Please dont read it and shrug it off! b.. Please don't be silent! Please don't just weep and do nothing! c.. The World, especially the Americans need to know - let's all take action and inform them, inshaa`Allaah! d.. As their Government is Israels "enabler," the American citizens must not only need to know. They need to say NO! e.. Send this information via email - Facebook etc... f.. Print this information, 100-500 leaflets or compile them into little booklets or discs (include the links if pictures or charts fail to appear) - whatever you can afford, and distribute as often and extensively as you can to everyone in your city at the following places, inshaa`Allaah. (I have only provided USA links. For those living in Canada/South America/Europe/Africa/Asia/China/Japan/Australia/New Zealand/ etc., please google the venues for your respective Country/City): a.. Corporations-Offices (Google your city/town) b.. Schools http://allpublicschools.org/ // http://www.privateschoolreview.com/ c.. Universities http://www.schoolsintheusa.com/ // http://www.usastudyguide.com/ d.. Museums http://www.museumlink.com/states.htm // http://www.museumlink.com/canada.htm // http://www.museumlink.com/internat.htm e.. Libraries http://www.librarysites.info/ // http://lists.webjunction.org/libweb/Public_main.html f.. Parks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_National_Parks_by_state g.. Hospitals http://www.officialusa.com/stateguides/health/hospitals/index.html h.. Malls-Plazas http://www.officialusa.com/state/malls/index.html i.. Outlets lhttp://www.outletbound.com/usa50.html j.. Churches http://www.usachurches.org/ k.. Synagogues http://www.mavensearch.com/synagogues/synagogues.asp These are just some suggestions. I am sure you can think of other venues to distribute, inshaa`Allaah. Inorder not to break any laws, please check whether you are permitted to distribute "flyers/leaflets" outside or around the above-mentioned places. Here's a statement from the Central New York district which permits the distribution of "flyers-leaflets": What if you want to hold a rally or demonstration, or distribute flyers/leaflets in a public park, Square, Plaza, or Near a Public Building? <<< You are entitled to distribute flyers, or to have a rally, demonstration, or press conference in a public park, plaza, square or near a public building (i.e. not just on the sidewalk) >>> .... http://www.nyclu.org/regions/central/central_demonstrating_rights NB: "or near a public building" - this means you can distribute near a public building but cannot enter the buildings of corporations/offices, schools, universities, libraries, hospitals, churches, synagogues. Here's a statement from the Chicago Park district which does not permit the circulation or distribution of any leaflets, handbills, notices, pamphlets, books, documents or papers of any kind: Code of the Chicago Park District (pdf). <<< Chapter VII - Use of Parks Section C - Permits. 3. Permit Requirement a. General. No person shall, without a permit: (1) conduct a public assembly, parade, picnic, or other event involving more than fifty individuals; (2) circulate or distribute any leaflets, handbills, notices, pamphlets, books, documents or papers of any kind in any indoor facility, fieldhouse, garden, zoological garden or other special facility; [Understandable. However, we would like clarification as to parking facilities that directly connect to another facility underground.] ... (9) sell or offer for sale any goods or services; [We are not selling anything.] (10) display, post or distribute any placard, handbill, pamphlet, circular, book or other writing containing commercial advertising matter within the Park System; >>> The differences between the two (2) districts caused me some concern so I did some research vis-à-vis: Constitutional Concerns 1. In Hague v. C.I.O (Committee for Industrial Organization), 307 U.S. 496 (1939), New Jersey required citizens who wished to march or distribute literature to obtain advance permission of the city manager, In Hague v. C.I.O, the Court struck down this regulation. i.e the ordinance failed in part because of a defect inherent in licensing scheme - requiring the speakers, leafleters, marchers etc., to obtain "permission" before speaking, leafleting or marching grants enormous power to licensing official to determine what is acceptable speech, distribution in a public place. This risks the official denying permission arbitrarily or because speech or leaflets criticise government. Mr. Justice Owen J. Roberts delivered an opinion in which Mr. Justice Black concurred: http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/hague.html <<< "Wherever the title of streets and parks may rest, they have immemorially been held in trust for the use of the public and, time out of mind, have been used for purposes of assembly, communicating thoughts between citizens, and discussing public questions. Such use of the streets and public places has, from ancient times, been a part of the privileges, immunities, rights, and liberties of citizens. The privilege of a citizen of the United States to use the streets and parks for communication of views on national questions may be regulated in the interest of all; it is not absolute, but relative, and must be exercised in subordination to the general comfort and convenience, and in consonance with peace and good order; but it must not, in the guise of regulation, be abridged or denied." >>> The court noted that these rights are not absolute, and that the government has legitimate interests in preserving order, but cautioned that speech "must not, in the guise of regulation, be abridged or denied." This concept, that public streets and parks (and sidewalks) are presumptively open to the publice for communications such as leafleting, marching, or speaking became a key underpinning of the modern Court's jurisprudence of the "public forum." Mr. Justice Roberts dictum does not mean that public spaces ara always open for speech, marching, leafeting (e.g., consider the importance of maintaining highways for transportation), but does mean that the burden is on officials to justify restictions on their use for communicative activity. 2. In Lovell v. City of Griffin (Georgia): 303 U.S. 444 (1938), overturning the requirement to get permission before passing out flyers on a public sidewalk, Chief Justice Evans Hughes, Sr., delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court (Huhges, McReynolds, Stone, Brandeis, Butler, Roberts, Black, Reed - not partcipating Cardozo) stated: http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/comm/free_speech/lovell.html <<< "The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets. These indeed have been historic weapons in the defense of liberty, as the pamphlets of Thomas Paine and others in our own history abundantly attest. The press in its historic connotation comprehends every sort of publication which affords a vehicle of information and opinion. What we have had recent occasion to say with respect to the vital importance of protecting this liberty from every sort of infringement need not be repeated...." >>> <<< 'The ordinance cannot be saved because it relates to distribution and not to publication. "Liberty of circulating is as essential to that freedom as liberty of publishing; indeed, without the circulation, the publication would be of little value." Ex parte Jackson, 96 U.S. 727, 733..'" >>> I would very much like to hear from any legal eagles with a clearer point of view than this, inshaa`Allaah. I apologise if any of my brothers or sisters feel my suggestion above is inappropriate. I don't know what else we can do to help our brothers and sisters in Palestine from where we are located, respectively. May Allaah Subhaanahu wa Ta`aala Ta`aala have mercy on our Ummah. We humble ourselves before the Greatness and Justice of our Rabb, most Exalted, Who is All-Knowing of our weakness and the greatness of our need for His Help and Guidance. May Allaah Subhaanahu wa Ta`aala forgive us our sins, and may He Ta`aala grant us strength in sabr and guide us in the ways of peace and to be steadfast on the path of His Deen to do what pleases Him. May Allaah Subhaanahu wa Ta`aala guide and give us strength and determination in this endeavour for our brothers and sisters in Palestine and bless us with the sweetness of eemaan. Aameen. Fee Amaanillaah Your sister, K a r i m a DDN -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.uslaboragainstwar.org/article.php?id=18248&printsafe=1 How Palestine Became Israel In the late 1800s a small, fanatic movement called political Zionism began in Europe. Its goal was to create a Jewish state somewhere in the world. Its leaders settled on the ancient and long-inhabited land of Palestine for the location of this state.1 Palestine's population at this time was approximately ninety-six percent non-Jewish (primarily Muslim and Christian).2 Over the coming decades Zionist leaders used various strategies to accomplish their goal of taking over Palestine: 1.. Encouraging Jewish immigration to Palestine, partly through the invention of such deceptive slogans as "a land without a people for a people without a land," when, in fact, the land was already inhabited. Since the majority of Jews were not Zionists until after WWII, Zionists used an array of misleading strategies, including secret collaboration with the Nazis, to push immigration.3 2.. Convincing a Great Power to back this process. By turn, Zionists approached the Ottomans, the British, and the U.S. to further their cause. While the Ottomans turned them down, the British (being promised that American Zionists would push the U.S. to enter World War I on the side of England) eventually acceded, as did the U.S. (due to concerns of politicians like Harry Truman that they would lose elections otherwise).4 3.. Buying up the land (sometimes through subterfuges), proclaiming it Jewish for all eternity, and refusing to allow non-Jews to live or work on the purchased land. This was called "redeeming" the land and was financed by a variety of means, including by such wealthy banking families as the Rothschilds.5 Historic Palestine, the land now occupied by the state of Israel, was a multicultural society. The creation of Israel involved the expulsion of 750,000 men, women, and children from their homes. 4. Violence, if such financial dispossession should fail or prove too slow as it did.6 In the 1930s, Jewish land ownership had increased from approximately 1% to just over 6% of the land, and violence had increased as well. With the emergence of several Zionist terrorist gangs (whose ranks included a number of future Prime Ministers of Israel), there was violent conflict. Numerous people of all ethnicities were killed then, as now, the large majority of them Christian and Muslim Palestinians.7 The Catastrophe This growing violence culminated in Israel's ruthless 1947-49 "War of Independence," in which at least 750,000 Palestinian men, women, and children were expelled from their homes half of them even before any Arab armies joined the war. At every point in this war, Zionist forces outnumbered Arab forces. This massive humanitarian disaster is known among Palestinians and others as The Catastrophe, al Nakba in Arabic.8 Zionist forces committed at least 33 massacres and destroyed 531 Palestinian villages and towns. Author Norman Finkelstein states: According to the former director of the Israeli army archives, in almost every village occupied by us during the War of Independence, acts were committed which are defined as war crimes, such as murders, massacres, and rapes...Uri Milstein, the authoritative Israeli military historian of the 1948 war, goes one step further, maintaining that every skirmish ended in a massacre of Arabs.9 Count Folke Bernadotte, a former vice chairman of the Swedish Red Cross who saved thousands of Jews during World War II and was appointed U.N. mediator in Palestine, said of the refugees: "It would be an offence against the principles of elemental justice if these innocent victims of the conflict were denied the right to return to their homes.10 Injustice Continues Over the 60 years since Israels founding on May 14, 1948, this profound injustice has continued. Palestinian refugees are the largest remaining refugee population in the world. 1.3 million Palestinians live in Israel as Israeli citizens, but despite their status as citizens, they are subject to systematic discrimination. Many are prohibited from living in the villages and homes from which they were violently expelled, and their property has been confiscated for Jewish-only uses. In Orwellian terminology, Israeli law designates these internal refugees as present absentees.11 In 1967 Israel launched its third war and seized still more Palestinian (and other Arab) land. Israel also attacked a U.S. Navy ship, the USS Liberty, killing and injuring over 200 Americans, an event that remains largely covered-up today, despite efforts by an extraordinary array of high-level military officers and civilian officials to expose it.12 Israel militarily occupied the West Bank and Gaza Strip the final 22% of mandatory Palestine and began building settlements for Jewish Israelis on land confiscated from Palestinian Muslims and Christians. It has demolished more than 18,000 Palestinian homes since 1967. In 2005 Israel returned Gazan land to its owners, but continues to control its borders, ports, and air space, turning Gaza into a large concentration camp, where 1.5 million people are held under what a UN Human Rights Commissioner described as catastrophic conditions. Approximately 11,000 Palestinian men, women, and children are imprisoned in Israeli jails under physically abusive conditions (many have not even been charged with a crime) and the basic human rights of all Palestinians under Israeli rule are routinely violated. A number of prisoners tortured by Israel have been American citizens.13 American Involvement American taxpayers give Israel approximately $7 million per day far more than we give to all of sub-Saharan Africa put together. In its 60 years of existence, Israel, the size of New Jersey, has received more of our tax money than any other nation on earth. While most Americans are unaware of these facts (studies have shown that media report on Israeli deaths at rates up to 13 times greater than they report on Palestinian deaths) our governmental actions are making us responsible for a continuing catastrophe of historic proportions and which is, in addition, creating extremely damaging enmity to the US itself. Israel partisans have played a significant role in promoting U.S. attacks on Iraq and Iran.14 As more and more U.S. citizens across the political spectrum and of all ethnicities become informed on this issue, they are demanding that their elected representatives change current policies. In recent history, the Berlin Wall has fallen, Northern Ireland has achieved peace, and South African apartheid has ended. Change is possible and justice attainable when people become informed.15 Palestinian Loss of Land 1946-2005 Confusion about the origins of the conflict all too often has obscured Americans understanding of its true dimension. It began as a conflict resulting from immigrants struggling to displace the local majority population. All else is derivative from this basic reality. Donald Neff, former Senior Editor, Time Magazine, Fallen Pillars: U.S. Policy towards Palestine and Israel since 1945. The story of 1948... is the simple but horrific story of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine... Retrieving it from oblivion is incumbent upon us, not just as a greatly overdue act of historiographical reconstruction or professional duty; it is... the very first step we must take if we ever want reconciliation to have a chance, and peace to take root, in the torn lands of Palestine and Israel. Ilan Pappe, Israeli Historian, "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine" The Palestinian Holocaust is unsurpassed in history. For a country to be occupied, emptied of its people, its physical and cultural landmarks obliterated, its destruction hailed as a miraculous act of God, all done according to a premeditated plan, meticulously executed, internationally supported, and still maintained today... Dr. Salman Abu-Sitta, "Palestine Right Of Return, Sacred, Legal, and Possible" _____________________________ Check source of references at: http://www.uslaboragainstwar.org/article.php?id=18248&printsafe=1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.ifamericansknew.org/stats/settlements.html Israeli Settlements on Palestinian Land Current Illegal Settlements on the Others Land Israel currently has 121 Jewish-only settlements and 106 outposts on confiscated Palestinian land. Palestinians do not have any settlements on Israeli land. (View Source) The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies. - Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 Source: According to Peace Now's report, "Aerial Survey Settlements Summary 2006," there are 121 official Israeli settlements. According to their report, Periodic Report, May-October 2007 there are at least 106 outposts and more than 50 of them have been built since March 2001. _________________________________ http://www.ifamericansknew.org/stats/settlements.html Land Grab: Israels Settlement Policy in the West Bank Published in May 2002. BTselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, endeavors to document and educate the Israeli public and policymakers about human rights violations in the Occupied Territories, combat the phenomenon of denial prevalent among the Israeli public, and help create a human rights culture in Israel. Historical Background Since 1967, each Israeli government has invested significant resources in establishing and expanding settlements in the Occupied Territories. As a result of this policy, approximately 380,000 Israeli citizens now live on the settlements on the West Bank, including those established in East Jerusalem. The [peace] process between Israel and the Palestinians did not impede settlement activities, which continued under the Labor government of Yitzhak Rabin (1992-1996) and all subsequent governments. These governments built thousands of new housing units, claiming that this was necessary to meet the "natural growth of the existing population. As a result, between 1993 and 2000 the number of settlers on the West Bank (excluding East Jerusalem) increased by almost 100 percent. International Law International humanitarian law prohibits [an] occupying power [from transferring] citizens from its own territory to the occupied territory (Fourth Geneva Convention, article 49). The Hague Regulations prohibit the occupying power [from undertaking] permanent changes in the occupied area, unless these are due to military needs in the narrow sense of the term, or unless they are undertaken for the benefit of the local population. The establishment of the settlements leads to the violation of the rights of the Palestinians as enshrined in international human rights law. Among other violations, the settlements infringe on the rights to self-determination, equality, property, an adequate standard of living, and freedom of movement. Taking Control of the Land Israel has used a complex legal and bureaucratic mechanism to take control of more than fifty percent of the land in the West Bank. This land has been used mainly to establish settlements and create reserves of land for the future expansion of the settlements. Israel uses the seized lands to benefit the settlements, while prohibiting the Palestinian public from using them in any way. This use is forbidden and illegal in itself. As the occupier in the Occupied Territories, Israel is not permitted to ignore the needs of an entire population and to use land intended for public needs solely to benefit the settlers. The Policy of Annexation and Local Government The Israeli administration has applied most aspects of Israeli law to the settlers and the settlements, thus effectively annexing them to the State of Israel This annexation has resulted in a regime of legalized separation and discrimination. This regime is based on the existence of two separate legal systems in the same territory, with the rights of individuals being determined by their nationality. The areas of jurisdiction of the Jewish local authorities, most of which extend far beyond the built-up area, are defined as "closed military zones in the military orders. Palestinians are forbidden to enter these areas without authorization from the Israeli military commander. Israeli citizens, Jews from throughout the world and tourists are all permitted to enter these areas without the need for special permits. Encouragement of Migration to Settlements The Israeli governments have implemented a consistent and systematic policy intended to encourage Jewish citizens to migrate to the West Bank settlers and other Israeli citizens working or investing in the settlements are entitled to significant financial benefits. The Planning System The planning system on the West Bank, implemented by the Civil Administration, is one of the most powerful mechanisms of the Israeli occupation. As with the other bureaucratic systems, the planning system operates on two distinct tracks: one for Jews and the other for Palestinians. This system is responsible for transforming the map of the West Bank because it is the planning system that approves the outline plans for the settlements and issues building permits for the establishment and expansion of settlements and for the construction of by-pass roads. Israel changed the composition of the planning institutions on the West Bank and transferred numerous planning powers to the Jewish local authorities, while expropriating these powers from Palestinian planning institutions. While facilitating Jewish settlement, the planning system works vigorously to restrict the development of Palestinian communities. The main tool used to this end is to reject requests for building permits filed by Palestinians. In most cases, the requests are rejected on the grounds that the regional outline plans approved in the 1940s during the British Mandate prohibit construction in the relevant area of land. These plans do not reflect the development needs of the Palestinian population, and the planning system deliberately refrains from preparing revised plans. Houses built by Palestinians without building permits are demolished by the Civil Administration, even in cases when the construction took place on private land. Conclusions Israel has created in the Occupied Territories a regime of separation based on discrimination, applying two separate systems of law in the same area and basing the rights of individuals on their nationality. This regime is the only one of its kind in the world, and is reminiscent of distasteful regimes from the past, such as the Apartheid regime in South Africa. Under this regime, Israel has stolen hundreds of thousands of dunam of land from the Palestinians. Israel has used this land to establish dozens of settlements in the West Bank and to populate them with hundreds of thousands of Israeli citizens. Israel prohibits the Palestinians as a group from entering and using these lands, and uses the settlements to justify numerous violations of the Palestinians human rights, such as the right to housing, to earn a livelihood, and the right to freedom of movement. The drastic change that Israel has made in the map of the West Bank prevents any real possibility for the establishment of an independent, viable Palestinian state as part of the Palestinians right to self-determination. The settlers, on the contrary, benefit from all the rights available to Israeli citizens living within the Green Line [Israel proper], and in some cases are even granted additional rights. The great effort that Israel has invested in the settlement enterprise in financial, legal and bureaucratic terms has turned the settlements into civilian enclaves in an area under military rule, with the settlers being given priority status. To perpetuate this situation, which is a priori illegal, Israel has continuously breached the rights of the Palestinians. Particularly evident is Israels manipulative use of legal tools in order to give the settlement enterprise an impression of legality. In so doing, Israel trampled on numerous restrictions and prohibitions established in the international conventions to which it is party, and which were intended to limit infringement of human rights and to protect populations under occupation. _________________________ What every American (needs to know about Israel/Palestine Video: If Americans Knew What Israel Is Doing! VIDEO WAS CENSORED! History a.. A Synopsis of the Israel/Palestine Conflict - http://www.ifamericansknew.org/history/ b.. The Origin of the Palestine-Israel Conflict - http://www.ifamericansknew.org/history/origin.html c.. Maps of Israel and Palestine - http://www.ifamericansknew.org/history/maps.html#settlementsHistoric Palestine UN Partition of Palestine 1948 Israel, West Bank, and Gaza Strip Refugees and Depopulated Villages 1967 and Occupation Annexation of Jerusalem Israeli Settlements on Palestinian Land d.. Refugees and Ethnic Cleansing - http://www.ifamericansknew.org/history/refugees.html e.. A Jewish State - http://www.ifamericansknew.org/history/jewish_state.html f.. The History of Israels Sacred Terrorism Terrorism in Israel and Palestine - http://www.ifamericansknew.org/history/terrorism.html g.. The Prevalence of Torture - http://www.ifamericansknew.org/history/prevtorture.html h.. Religion in the Holy Land - The conflict in the Middle East is not a religious conflict - http://www.ifamericansknew.org/history/religion.html US Interests a.. US Interests and Israel/Palestine - http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/ b.. U.S. Middle East Policy - http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/policy.html c.. Pressure Groups on US Middle East Policy - http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/lobby.html d.. Israeli Spying on the United States - http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/spy.html e.. The USS Liberty - http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/ussliberty.html f.. Neoconservatives - http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/neocons.html g.. War on Iran? Is Iran Next? - http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/iran.html h.. Israel-Palestine and the 2008 US Election - http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/2008.html Facts about Palestine and Israel http://docs.google.com/gview?a=v&attid=0.1&thid=11f3a9c8b47a4db7&mt=application%2Fpdf&pli=1 http://www.google.co.th/search?hl=en&q=Facts+about+Palestine+and+Israel&btnG=Google+Search&meta=&aq=f&oq= -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ To subscribe send email to: [email protected] http://islammyreligion.wordpress.com What will you sacrifice this eid? 0800 520 0000 www.islamic-relief.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/muslim/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/muslim/join (Yahoo! 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