Campaigners call for US Government to end aid to Israel
By Americans AGAINST Apartheid
This past week throughout the world, Palestine solidarity campaigners called for America to end its aid to Israel. In London, a protest took place outside the US Embassy in answer to an appeal by the Popular Committee of Bil’in:
Dear Friends
The popular committees-Palestine asks all those who support peace and justice in Palestine to organise demonstrations in September outside the US embassies of their countries calling for the end of US aid to Israel. Demonstrations are already planned in front of the White House on September 15th and in front of the United Nations building in New York on September 15th, but to be successful we need to globalize the resistance.
American tax dollars go toward supporting an illegal and humiliating occupation of Palestinian land; the construction of illegal settlements; the annexation of Palestinian farmland; the purchase of weapons and arms used in night raids and military strikes. Right now American money finds its way to this part of the world where children and innocent civilians are killed, injured, and made to suffer. It also empowers the Israeli government to further ignore international law and perpetuate its intransigence.
These demonstrations in September will tell the US government to stop supporting this occupation and stand up for justice and freedom in Palestine, lets spread them far and wide across the planet.
Salaam
Iyad Burnat
Head of Bil’in popular committee
America is seen around the world as facilitating the Israeli occupation and complicit in the suppression of Palestinian human rights. This is thanks to the US$30 billion in aid America promised to Israel from 2009 to 2018. This aid fuels the occupation of Palestinian land and buys weapons that Israel uses against Palestinian civilians.
On Saturday, September 17th, Palestine Solidarity campaigners staged a protest in front of the massive US Embassy building near Grosvenor Square carrying banners and placards that read ‘Stop funding US aid to Israel’, ‘Stop stealing Palestinian land’ and ‘Stop funding the Israeli war machine.’ One protester displayed a large sign of Uncle Sam that read ‘I’m Israel’s bitch and so are you.’
The protest attracted attention and support from many passersby, several who joined with campaigners to call for an end of US aid to Israel.
Opponents claim Israel – which is the only recipient of American aid that doesn’t have to account for how it is spent – has a right to self-defence. However with the right of self-defence comes responsibility which Israel has squandered in its abysmal human rights record and its flouting of international laws.
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Thanks from the nation across the Atlantic in the nation where people get no say in is President’s veto. What he forgets, we do get a say in the 2012 Presidential election.
Thanks for contacting us Jack.
You Americans are, at present, stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Hopefully, things will change for the better before the next election, as there seems to be no real alternative to Obama.
Keep up the struggle and good luck!
Thanks for contacting us Jack.
You Americans are, at present, stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Hopefully, things will change for the better before the next election, as there seems to be no real alternative to Obama.
I was very impressed with the enthusiasm and creativity of activists I met throughout America, especially in DC and NYC.
Keep up the struggle and good luck!
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