A-Infos (en) Issue No 6 of alfasail

["saeed slama" <saeedslama@hotmail.com>]

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Hi every one
Good greeting
If you want read all the issues from 1 to 6 from alfasail press
Or  if you want read Arabic texts from the radical left view

http://www.geocities.com/sameh562001

Or
http://homepages.msn.com/terminus/rouia/rouia1.html


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If you want read all issues from 1 to 17 from The Egyptian public committee 
for solidarity with the Palestinian people upsurge press

http://communities.msn.com/antizionism
Or
http://www.geocities.com/solidarity_palestine

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That are some messages had send to me
I shall grateful if  you send the message for other
Sameh
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Dear Friends, I have just read and signed the online petition: 
"International protection force for the Palestinian people. " hosted on the 
web by PetitionOnline.com, the free online petition service, at: 
http://64.4.18.250/cgi-bin/linkrd?_lang=EN&lah=b546da3c4964718628d2044667ca7522&lat=988225649&hm___action=http%3a%2f%2fwww%2ePetitionOnline%2ecom%2fpalpet%2f 
I personally agree with what this petition says, and I think you might 
agree, too. If you can spare a moment, please take a look, and consider 
signing yourself. Best wishes,
<http://www.petitiononline.com/palpet/petition.html>
you should try it.

<snip>http://www.ainfos.ca/01/apr/ainfos00366.html

MANDELA'S FIRST MEMO TO THOMAS FRIEDMAN
March 28, 2001
To: Thomas L. Friedman (columnist New York Times)
From: Nelson Mandela (former President South Africa)
Dear Thomas,
I know that you and I long for peace in the Middle East, but before you 
continue to talk about necessary conditions from an Israeli perspective, you 
need to know what's on my mind. Where to begin? How about 1964? Let me quote 
my own words during my trial. They are true today as they were then: "I have 
fought against white domination and I have fought against black domination. 
I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all 
persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an 
ideal, which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an 
ideal for which I am prepared to die."
Today the world, black and white, recognise that apartheid has no future. In 
South Africa it has been ended by our own decisive mass action in order to 
build peace and security. That mass campaign of defiance and other actions 
could only culminate in the establishment of democracy. Perhaps it is 
strange for you to observe the situation in Palestine or more specifically, 
the structure of political and cultural relationships between Palestinians 
and Israelis, as an apartheid system. This is because you incorrectly think 
that the problem of Palestine began in 1967. This was demonstrated in your 
recent column "Bush's First Memo" in the New York Times on March 27, 2001. 
You seem to be surprised to hear that there are still problems of 1948 to be 
solved, the most important component of which is the right to return of 
Palestinian refugees.
The Palestinian-Israeli conflict is not just an issue of military occupation 
and Israel is not a country that was established "normally" and happened to 
occupy another country in 1967. Palestinians are not struggling for a 
"state" but for freedom, liberation and equality, just like we were 
struggling for freedom in South Africa. In the last few years, and 
especially during the reign of the Labour Party, Israel showed that it was 
not even willing to return what it occupied in 1967; that settlements 
remain, Jerusalem would be under exclusive Israeli sovereignty, and 
Palestinians would not have an independent state, but would be under Israeli 
economic domination with Israeli control of borders, land, air, water and 
sea. Israel was not thinking of a "state" but of "separation". The valua of 
separation is measured in terms of the ability of Israel to keep the Jewish 
state Jewish, and not to have a Palestinian minority that could have the 
opportunity to become a majority at some time in the future. If this takes 
place, it would force Israel to either become a secular democratic or 
bi-national state, or to turn into a state of apartheid not only de facto, 
but also de jure.
Thomas, if you follow the polls in Israel for the last 30 or 40 years, you 
clearly find a vulgar racism that includes a third of the population who 
openly declare themselves to be racist. This racism is of the nature of "I 
hate Arabs" and "I wish Arabs would be dead". If you also follow the 
judicial system in Israel you will see there is discrimination against 
Palestinians, and if you further consider the 1967 occupied territories you 
will find there are already two judicial systems in operation that represent 
two different approaches to human life: one for Palestinian life and the 
other for Jewish life. Additionally there are two different approaches to 
property and to land. Palestinian property is not recognised as private 
property because it can be confiscated.
As to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, there is an 
additional factor. The so-called "Palestinian autonomous areas" are 
bantustans. These are restricted entities within the power structure of the 
Israeli apartheid system. The Palestinian state cannot be the by-product of 
the Jewish state, just in order to keep the Jewish purity of Israel. 
Israel's racial discrimination is daily life of most Palestinians. Since 
Israel is a Jewish state, Israeli Jews are able to accrue special rights, 
which non-Jews cannot do. Palestinian Arabs have no place in a "Jewish" 
state.
Apartheid is a crime against humanity. Israel has deprived millions of 
Palestinians of their liberty and property. It has perpetuated a system of 
gross racial discrimination and inequality. It has systematically 
incarcerated and tortured thousands of Palestinians, contrary to the rules 
of international law. It has, in particular, waged a war against a civilian 
population, in particular children. The responses made by South Africa to 
human rights abuses emanating from the removal policies and apartheid 
policies respectively, shed light on what Israeli society must necessarily 
go through before one can speak of a just and lasting peace in the Middle 
East and an end to its apartheid policies.
Thomas, I'm not abandoning Mideast diplomacy. But I'm not going to indulge 
you the way your supporters do. If you want peace and democracy, I will 
support you. If you want formal apartheid, we will not support you. If you 
want to support racial discrimination and ethnic cleansing, we will oppose 
you. When you figure out what you're about, give me a call.
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