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Friends,
It seems quite natural that this week I should be focusing on IAW, Israel Apartheid Week, with the number of activities going on in the campuses around the world. By definition, “Apartheid” is defined as “the segregation of living spaces, concentrating one race in the cities and forcing people of other races into rural areas or the urban fringes. In addition to separating whites from nonwhites, apartheid also separated different races, and fraternization between Africans of different tribes, Asians, and Europeans was frowned upon. Whites and nonwhites held different jobs, lived in different regions, and were subject to different levels of pay, transportation, education, and health care.”
Anyone that knows Israel today in a true and objective way can, in no way, define Israeli society in these terms. A look at the first two photos below represents life in general, not to mention a view of our hospitals today which has no segregation either in the staffing of the hospital or the treatment of patients, (also from Gaza, Judea and Samaria!!). However, the statement by Abbas in picture three has all the trappings of genuine apartheid. My thanks to Elderofziyon.blogspot.com for these photos, more can be seen at http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/p/eoz-posters-for-apartheid-week.html
Another photo blog well worth seeing on this subject can be viewed at http://realjerusalemstreets.wordpress.com/2011/03/08/israeli-apartheid/
ACTION In conjunction with IAW, there is also a call for March 30th to be designated as a day to isolate and punish Israel through a proposed "day of action" that will promote the BOYCOTT of Israeli goods. Many pro-Israel organizations are calling for March 30 to be turned instead, into a day of special support for Israel by going out to buy Israeli products wherever you live.
Please forward this note to your friends and community members and ask them to join the movement to counter the "boycott Israel day" on March 30, and help make this movement a success.
BDS action
The boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, commonly known as BDS, sees its members following like sheep in making claims about Israel that have no basis in fact or reality. An alterative BDS campaign defines these initials as BLACKMAIL, DELIGITIMIZATION AND SLANDER. You can use this effectively in any letters you write to your newspapers or local and national representatives.
Success in the Bedouin community
Another success story that flouts the gathering tsunami of opinions about Apartheid Israeli is that of the first Bedouin woman to earn a Ph.D. as she navigates between her own culture and the Arab and Israeli culture as she blazes new pathways in higher education. The full story can be read at http://tinyurl.com/6a6nsmd
Gaza Crossing Point
In light of attacks on the Gaza Strip’s Karni Crossing, this crossing will be closed in the following months and the southern Kerem Shalom Crossing will be expanded, enabling a growth in imports and exports to the strip. No doubt there will be cries of the liberals shouting about Israelis again creating a “humanitarian” crisis.
The area around the Karni crossing is one of the most difficult to secure. Hamas and other terrorist organizations carry out diverse terrorist activities in the area and it has become difficult not only to secure the crossing but also to enable the local Israeli civilian population to live peacefully
Despite the change, preparations have ensured that import and export rates of the Gaza Strip will not be effected. In fact, the Kerem Shalom Crossing will be expanding and branching out. Thus, for example, during the second half of 2011, approximately 450 larger import and export trucks will pass through the crossing every day. This is 344% percent increase from the number of trucks entering and leaving over the same period of time last year.
Stuart Palmer
Director
Blog www.haifadiarist.blogspot.com
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