A while back, I saw and commented upon a disagreeable anti-Palestinian piece. Well, here's the flipside: a posting on SFIndymedia which thankfully has slipped off the front page (did someone get wise?)
It's a shame. There's a real case to be made about what's wrong with Israel's current policies and direction. There's a real case to be made that they need regime change like we do. There's a real case to be made that the actions against the Palestinians have caused much death and misery without making Israelis any safer.
This ain't it.
And here's whole damn thing. I've removed links and I'm not posting the page address because it's probably going to disappear altogether and I don't see why I should give them free publicity! Does the author really believe he or she is convincing anybody?
A milestone in the peace movement will take place in San Francisco on June 6 at 12 noon at the site of the baseball stadium swindle at King and 3rd Street: A protest of 56 years of Israel's genocide, apartheid, ethnic cleansing and defense of US oil profits in the MidEast for $5 billion per year from US taxpayers at a celebration of Israel's National Day.
The miserable hellhole called Israel is a US military base with a theocratic, racist, fascist government established by Nazi collaborators, the Zionists, whose decedents now collaborate with US imperialism, also known as Nazi USA. For more on the Nazi/Zionist collaboration, see:
Lenni Benner's Zionism in the Age of Dictators at:
buh-bye! [Well, I guess technically Jews and Nazis spent a whole lotta time together during World War II at the death camps. Somehow I doubt they planned this.]and
Ralph Schoenman's Hidden History of Zionism at:
snip!This baseball stadium swindle [paid for with private contributions, actually], supported by the Democratic and Republican Parties with a ballot measure altering height limitations in 1996, commonly known as PacBell Park, is accessible by lots of public transit including the N-Mission Bay (Inbound) streetcar and buses numbered 10, 15, 30, 42, 45. The 30 and 45 run down 4th Street (near Powell Street BART), turning around at Townsend, going back on 3rd Street and are the most frequent. You can also walk the 1 mile from Market Street down the Embarcadero, Second Street or Third Street to King Street.
There are of course very few baseball games, perhaps 20 per year, at this entertainment center so to make any money, it must be filled with other events. [there are a minimum of 80 games a year]
The 6/2/04 San Francisco Bay Guardian on page 20 has an excellent, informative ad for the protest, which ad in and of itself is an historic occasion. It is a tribute to the 56 years of Palestinian Resistance that we have this ad and this protest. Some of us have waited all our lives or 56 years, whichever is longer, for this occasion. At the beginning of the 21st Century, the lies of the 20th Century are simply no longer tolerable, and the glorification of Israel was one of the biggest lies.
The text from the ad reads as follows:
Israel's National Day. An Occasion to Celebrate. June 6th 12 p.m. PacBell Park
--Celebrate 56 years of Palestinian refugees living in refugee camps unable to return to their land and homes, in violation of UN Resolution 194, passed in the General Asembly over 110 times.
--Celebrate 37 years of brutal occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip in defiance of international law and the Fourth Geneva Convention.
--Celebrate that any Jew in the world can get Israeli citizenship and own land in Israel, while 5.5 million Palestinian refugees cannot even return to their homes despite the fact that 80% of the refugees live less than 60 miles away.
--Celebrate that land inside Israel cannot be sold to 'non-Jews" even if they are Israeli citizens.
--Celebrate the killing of more than 3,000 Palestinians since September 2000, 500 of whom are children below the age of 18.
--Celebrate the 600,000 Palestinians arrested since 1967, 80% of whom habe been tortured in "the only democracy in the Middle East.'
--Celebrate more than 5,000 homes which have been demolished by the Israeli army over he past 3 years alone.
--Celebrate the 1,000,000 trees the Israeli army has uprooted in the "land that made the desert bloom" over the past 3 years.
--Celebrate 6,000 house demolition orders against the homes of Palestinian citizens of Israel.
--Celebrate the 43 Palestinian schools the Israeli army has transformed into military bases
--Celebrate the assasination of hundreds of Palestinian grassroots and community leaders.
Israel's National Day: An Occasion to Celebrate occupation, apartheid, ethnic cleansing and institutional racial discrimination, funded by $5 billion of US Taxpayer money ANNUALLY. Come join the party!delete!
I bet this is the same guy who shows up at every peace march dressed up as Uncle Sam, with swastikas all over his hat and a sign saying "I want you to die for Israel". The hatemongers on all sides deserve each others' company; I wish we could be spared theirs.
As an antidote, may I recommend Common Ground News Service and Bitter Lemons?
