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1) Al-Rowwad Children Theater Group is performing at a number of events in
NY, NJ, CT, VT, and KY. These Children live in the Palestinian refugee camp
of Aida (6000 people living on 6 acres) in the Bethlehem area. Tickets for
the performances range from $10-20 for adults depending on location. For
details on the group, visit http://alrowwad.virtualactivism.net/ and
http://alrowwad.blogspot.com/
Here are appearances fom June 18-26 in NY/NJ/CT (Details for Vermont and
Kentucky forthcoming)"
Saturday, June 18, 6:00 PM Passaic County Technical Institute, 45
Reinhardt Rd Wayne, NJ
Monday, June 20, 7:00 p.m. - Barrow St. Theater - 27 Barrow St. New York
City
Tuesday, June 21, 7:00 PM - CUNY Graduate Center - 365 5th Ave, New York
City
Wednesday, June 22nd, 7:00 PM Al-Noor School, 675 4th Ave (at 20th St)
Brooklyn, NY
Friday, June 24, 8:00 PM. Housatonic Valley Regional High School, Warren
Turnpike & Rt. 7, Town of Canaan (Falls Village), CT,
Saturday, June 25, 5:30 PM. at 16th annual Grove Festival, Town Grove,
Lakeville/Salisbury, CT, Free, Dabka (Palestinian Folk Dances) only (Free).
See http://www.projecttroubador.org/Grove_Fest_new.html
Sunday, June 26, 2:30 PM, Charter Oak Center, 21 Charter Oak, Hartford,
CT,
Sponsors in NY/NJ/CT and more detail on events and tickets are on these
websites:
http://www.pac-national.org/
http://www.al-awdany.org
http://www.al-awda.org/connecticut
http://www.newjerseysolidarity.org
http://thestruggle.org
2) Some Quotes to (re)read for the month of June
"Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies,
but has liberators..." General F. S. Maude, Commander of British Forces,
Baghdad, IRAQ, March 19, 1917
"Unlike many armies in the world, you came not to conqueor, not to occupy,
but to liberate, and the Iraqi people know this." Donald Rumsfeld, US
Secretary of Defense, Baghdad, IRAQ, April 29, 2003
"We can be the vanguard of culture against barbarism." (Theodore Herzl, 19th
century advocate of Political Zionism as quoted in Tom Segev, "One Palestine
Complete," p. 150)
"It was not as though there was a Palestinian people in Palestine
considering itself as a Palestinian people and we came and threw them out
and took their country away from them. They did not exist." (Golda Meir, 15
June 1969)
"Everybody has to move, run and grab as many hilltops as they can to enlarge
the settlements because everything we take now will stay ours... Everything
we don't grab will go to them." (Ariel Sharon, 15 November 1998)
"We consider these settlements to be contrary to the Geneva Convention, that
occupied territory should not be changed by establishment of permanent
settlements by the occupying power." (President Carter, 13 June 1980)
"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)
"[The] formula for the parameters of unilateral solution are: To maximize
the number of Jews; minimize the number of Palestinians; not to withdraw to
the 1967 border and not to divide Jerusalem.? (Ehud Olmert, Member of
Sharon's Cabinet, 5 December 2003)
?You don?t simply bundle people onto trucks and drive them away?I prefer to
advocate a positive policy, to create, in effect, a condition that in a
positive way will induce people to leave.? (Ariel Sharon, 24 August 1988)
"Apparently the [Israeli] public is accepting a situation in which military
activity in Palestinian towns is accompanied by indiscriminate killing."
(Haaretz editorial writer, 29 January 2004)
?The Court is not convinced that the construction of the wall along the
route chosen was the only means to safeguard the interests of Israel against
the peril which it has invoked as justification for that construction.?
(International Court of Justice, July 2004)
?Settlements can be built, but there is no need to talk about it and come
out dancing every time a building permit is given. Let them build but
without talking.? (Ariel Sharon, 22 June 2003)
"Sharon certainly does have a plan: to protect Eretz Yisrael, avoid
returning any territories and make sure the settlements stay where they are.
Everything else is tactics." (Aluf Benn, 18 September 2003)
"We walked outside, Ben-Gurion accompanying us. Allon repeated his question,
What is to be done with the Palestinian population?' Ben-Gurion waved his
hand in a gesture which said 'Drive them out!'" (Yitzhak Rabin, 23 October
1979)
"If I was an Arab leader I would never make [peace] with Israel. That is
natural: we have taken their country." (David Ben Gurion, The Jewish
Paradox, 1978, p. 99)
"How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them
to." (Golda Meir, 8 March 1969)
?The significance of the disengagement plan is the freezing of the peace
process . . . . Effectively, this whole package called the Palestinian
state, with all that it entails, has been removed indefinitely from our
agenda . . . . All with a presidential blessing and the ratification of both
houses of Congress." (Dov Weisglass, October 2004)
"It is clear that the present government of Israel simply does not tell the
truth." (Arthur Hertzberg, 7 January 2004)
?No settlement can be just and complete if recognition is not accorded to
the right of the Arab refugee to return to the home from which he has been
dislodged?? (UN Mediator for Palestine, Count Folk Bernadotte, 1948; he was
assasinated by a group led by Shamir who later became Israeli prime
minister)
"The settlement of the Land of Israel is the essence of Zionism. Without
settlement, we will not fulfill Zionism. It's that simple.? (ex Prime
Minister Yitzhak Shamir, 21 February 1997)
"The Partition of Palestine is illegal. It will never be recognized ....
Jerusalem was and will for ever be our capital. Eretz Israel will
be restored to the people of Israel. All of it. And for Ever." (Menachem
Begin, a future prime minister, Simha Falpan, p. 32)
"Zionist colonialism inhabits the space between two extinct models -- those
provided by South Africa and French practice in Algeria. It is not a blend
of the two, but rather a distillation of the worst in each." (Azmi Bishara,
8 January 2004)
?The Court has reached the conclusion that the construction of the wall by
Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory is contrary to international
law?? (International Court of Justice, July 2004)
"The United Nations is under no more of a legal obligation to maintain
Zionism in Israel than it is to maintain apartheid in South Africa."
(William Thomas Mallison, 1986)
"To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on
the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of
compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in
this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it
destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places
- and there are so many - where people have behaved magnificently, this
gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this
spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in
however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand utopian future.
The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we
think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is
itself a marvelous victory." Howard Zinn (You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving
Train: A personal history of our times, p. 208)
More quotes at
http://www.qumsiyeh.org/quotablequotes/
http://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Famous-Zionist-Quotes/Story637.html
and background on Israeli leaders posted at
http://www.qumsiyeh.org/israelihistory101/
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Mazin Qumsiyeh
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http://palestineremembered.com
http://www.one-democratic-state.org
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