indiscriminate slaughter

While the Palestinians in Gaza endure another night of bombings and indiscriminate slaughter, another battle is underway in the west. The Zionist propaganda machine is engaged in a high-level offensive to win the hearts and minds of the ordinary man and woman.

To facilitate their misinformation dissemination they have enlisted the help of the internet as well as the usual media outlets. A particular piece of software developed by the Jewish Union of Students states that 'Today's conflicts are won by public opinion. Now is the time to be active and voice Israel's side to the world'. GIYUS is in effect a giant lobbying tool designed to manipulate public opinion – and make no mistake, manipulation is the goal – forget about truth!

In addition to this, the Zionist war machine has also taken over media outlets, today witnessed the ethnic cleanser apologist to Ireland, Zion Evrony featured on Newstalk, and prominent pro-Zionist articles in two major newspapers. To further their manipulation, the Zionists have prohibited all foreign journalists from entering Gaza, the news you receive will be vetted and expunged of any evidence of the war crimes this bellicose state is engaged in.

Despite this clampdown, the truth is getting out and it paints a very different picture. We have learned that the vast majority of the dead are civilians, we have witnessed the scores of dead children, and we have seen the devastation. We have seen through the lies and now the truth must be told.

1. A letter to Zion Evrony.
2. Zionists kill civilians
3. Attempted Holocaust in Gaza
4. Children blown to pieces by Zionist missile
5. A warped justification for murder
6. Rabbis say OK to kill civilians

7. Top five Zionist lies.

Mujahid

Is Israel right to try to destroy Hamas?

HEAD TO HEAD : Yes: Sean Gannon . No: David Morrison.

YES

THE IRELAND-PALESTINE Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) has long appeared to operate according to the principle of "my enemy's enemy is my friend". Throughout the so-called Second Intifada, it generally defended the irredeemably corrupt arch-terrorist Yasser Arafat and championed as his successor Marwan Barghouti, sentenced to five life sentences for his murderous role in that conflict.

Nevertheless, the IPSC's recent embrace of Hamas still has the capacity to shock. For the IPSC it seems its victory in the January 2006 Palestinian general election has miraculously turned Hamas from reviled paramilitaries into respected parliamentarians deserving of international support and assistance, and it has castigated the world's refusal to conduct a business-like relationship with the Gaza regime.

But the fact is that Hamas is an unreconstructed jihadist organisation, the Palestinian arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, whose self-declared raison d'etre is the "liberation of the region from the impurity of the Jews". According to its 1988 charter, the entirety of Mandated Palestine (today's Israel, West Bank and Gaza) is an Islamic Waqf [territorial trust] "for all the generations of Muslims until the Day of Resurrection", no part of which can be abandoned or renounced "for renouncing any part of Palestine means renouncing [our] religion".

The existence of Israel is therefore, in the words of Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, "an affront to Islam" and Hamas's campaign against Israelis is "an expression of the Divine Will".

And not just Israelis, but all Jews: Article 22 of the charter is an anti-Semitic screed, blaming the Jews for all the ills of the world, from the French and Bolshevik revolutions to the first and second World Wars, and Article 7 states that Judgment Day will not come to pass until Muslims have killed all the Jews.

According to Yassin, Israel cannot be removed "except with force of weapons" and consequently Article 13 of the charter dismisses "peace initiatives" and "peaceful solutions" as "contrary to [our] beliefs". For Hamas "there is no solution to the Palestinian problem except by jihad", a jihad which has to date claimed over 500 Israeli lives.

The Hamas charter thus makes a nonsense of the claim of the IPSC (and many others) that recent statements by Hamas leaders such as Khaled Meshaal offering a long-term truce with Israel in return for a withdrawal to the 1967 borders are indicative of the increasing moderation and pragmatism of the organisation.

Indeed, one need only look to Gaza to see what such an withdrawal/truce would involve. Hamas has repaid Israel's complete evacuation of the Gaza Strip with a rocket, missile and mortar campaign against Israel's southern communities; 5,600 have been fired since August 2005, 3,000 in the last year alone. Today, half a million Israelis are living within range and only sheer good fortune has prevented mass casualties.

Meanwhile, Hamas used the recent six-month truce with Israel to accelerate the process of turning Gaza into a de facto terrorist statelet, stockpiling massive quantities of locally manufactured rockets and smuggled Iranian-supplied missiles, weaponry and explosives, and building an extensive military infrastructure in Gaza city and along the border with Israel, including over 50kms of tunnels, underground bunkers and other fortifications.

With Iranian assistance, it has also created what amounts to a 15,000-strong standing army highly trained in field warfare and weaponry. And according to PA president Mahmoud Abbas, it has allowed al-Qaeda to establish a presence in the Strip.

Hamas has facilitated the process of Gaza's militarisation by ousting it rivals in Fatah in a June 2007 murderous coup (one Palestinian human rights group estimates that over 700 Fatah members were killed) and through the political repression of Gaza's population by means of arrests, arbitrary detentions, kidnappings, beatings and killings.

Its campaign to Islamisise Gaza society has led to the intimidation of secular Muslims through arson, sackings and other daily harassments, while the Strip's tiny Christian population has been subject to violent attacks.

Furthermore, Hamas has exploited Gaza's civilians as human shields by positioning its military installations in residential areas, what one commentator described as placing its "infantry among infants".

In this, Hamas has effectively subjugated Palestinian interests to its own religious and ideological agenda and Gaza today is paying the price. Little wonder that the PA, while decrying Israel's recent actions, has laid the blame for them squarely at Hamas's door and that Arab governments such as Jordan, the Gulf States and Egypt (which has described Hamas-run Gaza as its "border with Iran") are, though compelled to assuage so-called Arab street anger with harsh anti-Israel rhetoric, privately hoping that Operation Cast Lead deals Hamas a death blow.

The fact is that, like al-Qaeda, no political accommodation is possible with the extremists of Hamas, either with Israel or within Palestinian society. If there is to be any prospect of a Middle East peace, it must therefore be destroyed.

Seán Gannon is chairman of Irish Friends of Israel

NO

IN 1967, Israel took over the West Bank and Gaza by force, contrary to Article 2 of the UN Charter. It has held on to the fruits of this armed aggression to this day.

Israel also annexed East Jerusalem and the Syrian Golan Heights. It has built settlements throughout the occupied territories, contrary to Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention. This states: "The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies". Today, and illegally under international law, around 500,000 Israeli settlers now live in enclosed settlements on Palestinian territory and the number is growing all the time.

There seems to be no limit to Israel's ambition to plant settlers on Arab land.

Israel has resisted all pressure from the international community to reverse this land grab. It has refused to comply with UN Security Council demands to cease building settlements and remove those it has built (resolutions 446, 452 and 465).

It has also refused to comply with Security Council resolutions demanding a reversal of its annexation of East Jerusalem (252, 267, 271, 298, 476 and 478) and of the Golan Heights (497).

Invasion, occupation and plantation of Arab land is the reality that Palestinians have faced for decades and still face on virtually a daily basis, as their country is reduced remorselessly.

The right of resistance to unlawful occupation is an established international principle. It is the circumstance in which Palestinian resistance, including armed resistance, has arisen. How can French resistance to Nazi occupation in the second World War be celebrated while Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation is condemned as "terrorism"?

A political process must be initiated to bring about a just settlement for Palestinians, a settlement that would eliminate the need for Palestinian resistance of any kind.

That process must be backed up by the international community ensuring that Israel comply with outstanding Security Council resolutions on annexations and settlements, so that Palestinians are assured that Israeli expansion is at an end.

In January 2006, Hamas contested the elections to the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) and won a majority of the seats, 74 out of 132.

It had not engaged in armed resistance for nearly a year, having announced a truce and ceased suicide bombings in Israel in February 2005. Hamas spokesmen made it clear that they were seeking a long-term truce with Israel, the price being Israeli withdrawal from the occupied territories. This was an opportunity for a more peaceful phase in the Middle East.

But, instead of taking this opportunity, the Quartet (the US, the EU, Russia and the UN secretary general) refused to accept the verdict of the ballot box and deal with the elected Hamas-led governments, despite universal agreement that the elections were free and fair.

This refusal by the US and the EU to accept the Hamas electoral mandate made it easy for Israel to do likewise and to set about attempting to destroy Hamas as a political and military movement.

Elected members of the PLC from the West Bank, belonging to Hamas, including the Speaker, were detained - nearly all of them are still detained - and a fierce military assault was mounted against Hamas in Gaza, despite it being on ceasefire. In all, nearly 700 Palestinians (and 23 Israelis, including 17 civilians) were killed in 2006, a year which began with Hamas on ceasefire and engaging in electoral politics for the first time. But this attempt to destroy Hamas failed.

There was hope in 2008 that Israel might be prepared to deal with Hamas rather than attempting to destroy it. While in February Israel's deputy defence minister Matan Vilnai was threatening a "shoa" (the Hebrew term for the Nazi Holocaust) against Gaza if rocket fire didn't cease, by June a ceasefire was in place, brokered by Egypt.

Israel agreed to cease military operations in Gaza and its economic strangulation of Gaza in exchange for Hamas and other groups ceasing the firing of rockets into Israel.

The agreement brought about comparative quiet along the border between Israel and Gaza for over four months, even though Israel failed to honour its commitment to lift its economic blockade of Gaza.

On November 4th, Israel broke the ceasefire altogether with the killing of six Palestinians, and on December 27th, the "shoa" threatened by Matan Vilnai last February was finally unleashed, with the overt aim of destroying Hamas.

It has failed to achieve that aim. The most likely outcome, after more than 420 dead and 2,000 injured, is a reinstatement, under international pressure, of the ceasefire, which, unlike the current military action, had been successful in protecting Israeli citizens from rocket fire out of Gaza.

David Morrison is political officer with the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign

This article appears in the print edition of the Irish Times

MEDIA

• Zionist ambassador Zion Evrony on Newstalk this morning 0630-0900. Send comments to: breakfast@newstalk.ie
• Ian O'Doherty of the trash Irish Independent tries his hand at supporting the Zionists, he commends Zionist restraint. Write a letter to the editor and let O'Doherty know what you think. email: independent.letters@independent.ie
  
• Sean Gannon, Chairman of Irish Friends of Israel, writes that Hamas has no right to exist.
  

Abdul Haseeb

Emergency Motion

In a show of startling hypocrisy, Cllr Eric Byrne of Labour has voted against a motion to call the Child Killer Apologist Zion Evrony to account for his criminal state's barbaric atrocities in Gaza.

Cllrs Eric Byrne, Bill Tormey (Fine Gael) and Julia Carmichael (Fianna Fail) vehemently opposed the sole condemnation of the Zionist State, pushing for a motion that equally condemned Hamas. Cllrs Daithi Doolan and Killian Forde of Sinn Fein expressed a willingness to amend the motion, but pointed out that to water down the current motion was to incorrectly present the war as being a two-sided conflict, a situation Cllr. Forde maintained was simply at odds with reality.

On a forum yesterday evening L'Chaim, a nom-de-guerre of the Zionist State's many apologists, confidently stated that while Muslims were out in the cold, chanting and waving placards – they were busy lobbying those who matter. On this, we must agree, we have now witnessed the strength of such lobbying at DCC. Time to learn, while we march, they shape the politic!

You can watch the debate here, counter setting 02:22. You can also write to Cllr. Doolan thanking him for his support.

Emergency Motion

"That Dublin City Council condemns in the strongest possible terms the recent Israeli attacks and invasion of Gaza and we urge the Lord Mayor to invite the Israeli Ambassador to meet with Leaders of all political parties as a matter of urgency to discuss the situation."

Post your comments here.

Mujahid

'why' of Israel's bloody onslaught on the besieged people of Gaza

Writing in the New Statesman, John Pilger calls on 40 years of reporting the Middle East to describe the 'why' of Israel's bloody onslaught on the besieged people of Gaza - an attack that has little to do with Hamas or Israel's right to exist.

"When the truth is replaced by silence," the Soviet dissident Yevgeny Yevtushenko said, "the silence is a lie." It may appear the silence is broken on Gaza. The cocoons of murdered children, wrapped in green, together with boxes containing their dismembered parents and the cries of grief and rage of everyone in that death camp by the sea, can be viewed on al-Jazeera and YouTube, even glimpsed on the BBC. But Russia's incorrigible poet was not referring to the ephemeral we call news; he was asking why those who knew the why never spoke it and so denied it. Among the Anglo-American intelligentsia, this is especially striking. It is they who hold the keys to the great storehouses of knowledge: the historiographies and archives that lead us to the why.

They know that the horror now raining on Gaza has little to do with Hamas or, absurdly, "Israel's right to exist". They know the opposite to be true: that Palestine's right to exist was cancelled 61 years ago and the expulsion and, if necessary, extinction of the indigenous people was planned and executed by the founders of Israel. They know, for example, that the infamous "Plan D" resulted in the murderous de-population of 369 Palestinian towns and villages by the Haganah (Jewish army) and that massacre upon massacre of Palestinian civilians in such places as Deir Yassin, al-Dawayima, Eilaboun, Jish, Ramle and Lydda are referred to in official records as "ethnic cleansing". Arriving at a scene of this carnage, David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister, was asked by a general, Yigal Allon, "What shall we do with the Arabs?" Ben-Gurion, reported the Israeli historian Benny Morris, "made a dismissive, energetic gesture with his hand and said, 'Expel them'. The order to expel an entire population "without attention to age" was signed by Yitzhak Rabin, a future prime minister promoted by the world's most efficient propaganda as a peacemaker. The terrible irony of this was addressed only in passing, such as when the Mapan Party co-leader Meir Ya'ari noted "how easily" Israel's leaders spoke of how it was "possible and permissible to take women, children and old men and to fill the roads with them because such is the imperative of strategy … who remembers who used this means against our people during the [Second World] war... we are appalled."

Every subsequent "war" Israel has waged has had the same objective: the expulsion of the native people and the theft of more and more land. The lie of David and Goliath, of perennial victim, reached its apogee in 1967 when the propaganda became a righteous fury that claimed the Arab states had struck first. Since then, mostly Jewish truth-tellers such as Avi Schlaim, Noam Chomsky, the late Tanya Reinhart, Neve Gordon, Tom Segev, Yuri Avnery, Ilan Pappe and Norman Finklestein have dispatched this and other myths and revealed a state shorn of the humane traditions of Judaism, whose unrelenting militarism is the sum of an expansionist, lawless and racist ideology called zionism. "It seems," wrote the Israeli historian Ilan Pappe on 2 January, "that even the most horrendous crimes, such as the genocide in Gaza, are treated as desperate events, unconnected to anything that happened in the past and not associated with any ideology or system... Very much as the apartheid ideology explained the oppressive policies of the South African government , this ideology – in its most consensual and simplistic variety – has allowed all the Israeli governments in the past and the present to dehumanise the Palestinians wherever they are and strive to destroy them. The means altered from period to period, from location to location, as did the narrative covering up these atrocities. But there is a clear pattern [of genocide]."

In Gaza, the enforced starvation and denial of humanitarian aid, the piracy of life-giving resources such as fuel and water, the denial of medicines and treatment, the systematic destruction of infrastructure and the killing and maiming of the civilian population, 50 per cent of whom are children, meet the international standard of the Genocide Convention. "Is it an irresponsible overstatement," asked Richard Falk, the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and international law authority at Princeton University, "to associate the treatment of Palestinians with this criminalized Nazi record of collective atrocity? I think not."

In describing a "holocaust-in-the making", Falk was alluding to the Nazis' establishment of Jewish ghettos in Poland. For one month in 1943, the captive Polish Jews led by Mordechaj Anielewiz fought off the German army and the SS, but their resistance was finally crushed and the Nazis exacted their final revenge. Falk is also a Jew. Today's holocaust-in-the-making, which began with Ben-Gurion's Plan D, is in its final stages. The difference today is that it is a joint US-Israeli project. The F-16 jet fighters, the 250-pound "smart" GBU-39 bombs supplied on the eve of the attack on Gaza, having been approved by a Congress dominated by the Democratic Party, plus the annual $2.4 billion in war-making "aid", give Washington de facto control. It beggars belief that President-elect Obama was not informed. Outspoken on Russia's war in Georgia and the terrorism in Mumbai, Obama's silence on Palestine marks his approval, which is to be expected, given his obsequiousness to the Tel Aviv regime and its lobbyists during the presidential campaign and his appointment of Zionists as his secretary of state, chief of staff and principal Middle East advisers. When Aretha Franklin sings "Think", her wonderful 1960s anthem to freedom, at Obama's inauguration on 21 January, I trust someone with the brave heart of Muntadar al-Zaidi, the shoe-thrower, will shout: "Gaza!"

The asymmetry of conquest and terror is clear. Plan D is now "Operation Cast Lead", which is the unfinished "Operation Justified Vengeance". The latter was launched by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in 2001 when, with Bush's approval, he used F-16s against Palestinian towns and villages for the first time. In the same year, the authoritative Jane's Foreign Report disclosed that the Blair government had given Israel the "green light" to attack the West Bank after it was shown Israel's secret designs for a bloodbath. It was typical of New Labour Party's enduring, cringing complicity in Palestine's agony. However, the 2001 Israeli plan, reported Jane's, needed the "trigger" of a suicide bombing which would cause "numerous deaths and injuries [because] the 'revenge' factor is crucial". This would "motivate Israeli soldiers to demolish the Palestinians". What alarmed Sharon and the author of the plan, General Shaul Mofaz, the Israeli Chief of Staff, was a secret agreement between Yasser Arafat and Hamas to ban suicide attacks. On 23 November, 2001, Israeli agents assassinated the Hamas leader, Mahmud Abu Hunud, and got their "trigger"; the suicide attacks resumed in response to his killing.

Something uncannily similar happened on 5 November last, when Israeli special forces attacked Gaza, killing six people. Once again, they got their propaganda "trigger". A ceasefire initiated and sustained by the Hamas government – which had imprisoned its violators - was shattered by the Israeli attack and home-made rockets were fired into what used to be Palestine before its Arab occupants were "cleansed". The On 23 December, Hamas offered to renew the ceasefire, but Israel's charade was such that its all-out assault on Gaza had been planned six months earlier, according to the Israeli daily Ha'aretz.

Behind this sordid game is the "Dagan Plan", named after General Meir Dagan, who served with Sharon in his bloody invasion of Lebanon in 1982. Now head of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence organisation, Dagan is the author of a "solution" that has seen the imprisonment of Palestinians behind a ghetto wall snaking across the West Bank and in Gaza, effectively a concentration camp. The establishment of a quisling government in Ramallah under Mohammed Abbas is Dagan's achievement, together with a hasbara (propaganda) campaign relayed through a mostly supine, if intimidated western media, notably in America, that says Hamas is a terrorist organisation devoted to Israel's destruction and to "blame" for the massacres and siege of its own people over two generations, long before its creation. "We have never had it so good," said the Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Gideon Meir in 2006. "The hasbara effort is a well-oiled machine." In fact, Hamas's real threat is its example as the Arab world's only democratically elected government, drawing its popularity from its resistance to the Palestinians' oppressor and tormentor. This was demonstrated when Hamas foiled a CIA coup in 2007, an event ordained in the western media as "Hamas's seizure of power". Likewise, Hamas is never described as a government, let alone democratic. Neither is its proposal of a ten-year truce as a historic recognition of the "reality" of Israel and support for a two-state solution with just one condition: that the Israelis obey international law and end their illegal occupation beyond the 1967 borders. As every annual vote in the UN General Assembly demonstrates, 99 per cent of humanity concurs. On 4 January, the president of the General Assembly, Miguel d'Escoto, described the Israeli attack on Gaza as a "monstrosity".

When the monstrosity is done and the people of Gaza are even more stricken, the Dagan Plan foresees what Sharon called a "1948-style solution" – the destruction of all Palestinian leadership and authority followed by mass expulsions into smaller and smaller "cantonments" and perhaps finally into Jordan. This demolition of institutional and educational life in Gaza is designed to produce, wrote Karma Nabulsi, a Palestinian exile in Britain, "a Hobbesian vision of an anarchic society: truncated, violent, powerless, destroyed, cowed... Look to the Iraq of today: that is what [Sharon] had in store for us, and he has nearly achieved it."

Dr. Dahlia Wasfi is an American writer on Palestine. She has a Jewish mother and an Iraqi Muslim father. "Holocaust denial is anti-Semitic," she wrote on 31 December. "But I'm not talking about World War Two, Mahmoud Ahmedinijad (the president of Iran) or Ashkenazi Jews. What I'm referring to is the holocaust we are all witnessing and responsible for in Gaza today and in Palestine over the past 60 years... Since Arabs are Semites, US-Israeli policy doesn't get more anti-Semitic than this." She quoted Rachel Corrie, the young American who went to Palestine to defend Palestinians and was crushed by an Israeli bulldozer. "I am in the midst of a genocide," wrote Corrie, "which I am also indirectly supporting and for which my government is largely responsible."

Reading the words of both, I am struck by the use of "responsibility". Breaking the lie of silence is not an esoteric abstraction but an urgent responsibility that falls to those with the privilege of a platform. With the BBC cowed, so too is much of journalism, merely allowing vigorous debate within unmovable invisible boundaries, ever fearful of the smear of anti-Semitism. The unreported news, meanwhile, is that the death toll in Gaza is the equivalent of 18,000 dead in Britain. Imagine, if you can.

Then there are the academics, the deans and teachers and researchers. Why are they silent as they watch a university bombed and hear the Association of University Teachers in Gaza plea for help? Are British universities now, as Terry Eagleton believes, no more than "intellectual Tescos, churning out a commodity known as graduates rather than greengroceries"?

Then there are the writers. In the dark year of 1939, the Third Writers' Congress was held at Carnegie Hall in New York and the likes of Thomas Mann and Albert Einstein sent messages and spoke up to ensure the lie of silence was broken. By one account, 3,500 jammed the auditorium and a thousand were turned away. Today, this mighty voice of realism and morality is said to be obsolete; the literary review pages affect an ironic hauteur of irrelevance; false symbolism is all. As for the readers, their moral and political imagination is to be pacified, not primed. The anti-Muslim Martin Amis expressed this well in Visiting Mrs Nabokov: "The dominance of the self is not a flaw, it is an evolutionary characteristic; it is just how things are."

If that is how things are, we are diminished as a civilised society. For what happens in Gaza is the defining moment of our time, which either grants the impunity of war criminals the immunity of our silence, while we contort our own intellect and morality, or gives us the power to speak out. For the moment I prefer my own memory of Gaza: of the people's courage and resistance and their "luminous humanity", as Karma Nabulsi put it. On my last trip there, I was rewarded with a spectacle of Palestinian flags fluttering in unlikely places. It was dusk and children had done this. No one told them to do it. They made flagpoles out of sticks tied together, and a few of them climbed on to a wall and held the flag between them, some silently, others crying out. They do this every day when they know foreigners are leaving, believing the world will not forget them.

Source: John Pilger

unified condemnation of the current Israeli Holocaust

Greetings everyone and Salams to Muslims...

It would be wrong to think that Muslims would get a unified condemnation of the current Israeli Holocaust from Irish Politicians... Even if Ireland were to expel the Israeli Ambassador like Venezuela did... it would make little meaningful difference to the people who are suffering... Despite all my opposition to MPAC and its method for bringing change I am in no way opposed to their efforts to influence local politicians (directly that is)... Dont get me wrong on that... But the real people who CAN make a difference and bring an end to the Israeli Occupation are the following... The comparison speaks for itself...

	Population	Military Manpower	Military Manpower fit for service	Military Expenditure $bn
Israel	7,112,359	3,353,936	2,836,722	11.8187
Egypt	81,713,520	41,654,185	35,558,995	13.7836
Iran	65,875,224	39,815,026	34,344,352	19.0725
Jordan	6,198,677	3,371,706	2,886,132	2.4467
Syria	19,747,586	10,218,242	10,218,242	5.33183
Saudi	28,146,656	14,928,539	8,461,049	54.6
Turkey	71,892,808	39,645,893	33,444,999	45.2567
Yemen	23,013,376	9,932,593	3,585,947	3.71184
Libya	6,173,579	3,293,184	2,821,855	2.91408
Lebanon	3,971,941	2,229,474	1,883,155	1.25364
Kuwait	2,596,799	1,601,065	1,393,356	7.42
Oman	3,311,640	1,429,296	1,207,291	6.94146
Morocco	34,343,220	18,233,410	15,382,861	6.25
Algeria	33,769,668	19,327,735	16,357,759	7.3359
Tunisia	10,383,577	5,905,068	5,005,257	1.06498
Sudan	40,218,456	18,961,029	11,264,895	2.4294
Muslim - Middle East	431,356,727	230,582,445	182,058,952	179.81263

The brother who compiled this list left out Pakistan which is the sixth largest army of the world and a nuclear armed state... I was shocked to learn that Egypt has more than 200 F16s... It is difficult to imagine the level of deterrence and even damage such a number of Falcons can cause...

So we have a situation when our own people... those who can stand up to defend the lives, land and honour of Muslims watch in silence at a massacre that is not really new but is a problem that is half a century old... Does any Cllr got a meaningful influence to bring real change compared to the people that I am pointing at?

Instead of harassing local politicians who dont even share a common belief with Muslims and have nt seen (or possibly care about) the suffering of Muslims in Gaza or any other part of the Muslim world... and who have no claim of brotherhood towards the Muslim Ummah, I think it would be more empowering if we account the Muslim rulers... approach their embassies in demos and harrass their ambassadors wherever we are... including Ireland...

This is something specially for Muslims to ponder upon... I expect that those who have shamelessly defended the sinful and unjust rulers in the Muslim world in the past might have already realized their mistake by now... God willing...

Take Care everyone and God bless!!!

Yours truly...

Dr Qasim Afridi

Boycott Israel Campaign. مقاطعة المصنعات الاسرائيل

1. Boycott Israel Campaign.

2. Palestine Charity Nasheed Night.

1. Boycott Israel Campaign.

According to Al-Jazeera, 763 people have been killed in Gaza including more than 200 children, since air raids first began on December 27. More than 3,121 people have also been wounded. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/01/2009181482839688.html

For almost 2 years there has been an economic blockade on Gaza solely because the exercised their right of voting their leaders.

But interestingly the United states congress and tax payer sends almost 5 billion dollars to Israel annually. http://www.aqsa.org.uk/Portals/0/Leaflets/LF_15_Facts.pdf

Its ironic that when the west promised "never ever again" to another holocaust that the Bosnian crisis starts in the 90's with the death of thousands of thousands of innocent peope, crimes perpetrated were identical to the Nazi war crimes during world war II. Promises are broken again when Chechnya is attacked by Russia, and whilst this battle has been forgotten, the war on Palestinians continues. We must stand up for the innocent people of Gaza.

One of the ways we can stop this aggression is by the boycott of Israeli products and companies supporting the zionist entity is about ordinary people around the world using their right to choose what they buy in order to help bring about an end to oppression in Palestine. Its a peaceful means of putting international pressure on the racist state of Israel and follows in the footsteps of the successful boycott against South African racist apartheid.

Boycott the following major companies that support the Illegal Zionist state of Israel.

1.Starbucks (interesting how they have a Starbucks in the USA base of Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay ). http://www.inminds.co.uk/boycott-starbucks.html

[Try Butlers and Insomnia instead].

2. Coca-Cola http://www.inminds.co.uk/boycott-coca-cola.html [Switch to Pepsi if you love cola, as Pepsi dont support Israel]

3. Marks & Spensers http://www.inminds.co.uk/boycott-marks-and-spencer.html

4. Mac Donalds [Why eat there when there is O'Briens, Spar or a local kabab shop availiable] http://www.inminds.co.uk/boycott-mcdonalds.html

For the full list of companies that support Israel are

http://www.inminds.co.uk/boycott-israel.php

Note: This part of the email may note be an event but its the action of the ordinary people that can make it work as one. The choice is yours.

2. Palestine Charity Nasheed Night.

NB: If you would like to donate to the innocent people of Gaza then send you funds to AIB with the following:

BANK NAME: AIB Clonskeagh

ACC NAME: Federation of Student Islamic Societies

ACC NO: 18102047

SORT CODE: 93-11-87

please enter statement as 'For Gaza' as we need to know how much to send off

Note: Islamic Relief will be the organization that will receive the funds in full and they will spend fully on food and medical supplies. They are already at ground level in Palestine and you can keep up to date with them by visiting: http://www.islamic-relief.com/Emergencies-And-Appeals/emergency.aspx?emID=47

Fundraising activities will be done in support of the ongoing HUMANITARIAN FUND FOR GAZA.

Details
Date: 25th January 2009 (Sunday)
Time: 11.00am
Venue: Aras Ui Chathail, NUIG

What to look out for?

• Amazing talents from muslim students all over IRELAND …revealed!
• Guest Artist: Izzat from Malaysian nasyeed group, 'Mirwana' and Ust Erfino Johari
• MINI BAZAAR (you can even contact the organizer to open up a sale-booth) Certain percentage of total income will be allocated for GAZA
• First place winners will get up to 200 euros* worth of cash voucher for air tickets to Nasyeed Extravaganza Sheffield 2009 (15 March 2009)

How to get there??

• There will be a bus chartered for DUBLINERS who wants to get to the event on the day. We hope to be able to visit some famous tourist attractions in Galway as well! (look up for updates!)
• Tickets : 3 Euros each. 2 euros from the tickets is for GAZA .

To Participate
Please contact: azribohari@yahoo.com
For tickets and more info please visit: http://nexteire.blogspot.com

DON'T MISS IT!!!

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Finally please keep the people in your duwaas.

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Israel Says" doesn't target civilians" its a lie

Mujahid