Avnery hoy y marcha en Tel Aviv este sábado 6 de junio "End the Occupation - Start Living"

Gracias nuevamente a Eduardo Mosches.

de Uri Avnery:
"The President of the US understands the interests of Israel much better than Israel's own government. Obama offers a real hope to Israelis and Palestinians while Netanyhau's 'Government of Yesterday' has nothing to offer"
"As an Israeli patriot I must say, without the shadow of a doubt, that at this moment the President of United States understands the interests of Israel much better than Israel's own Prime Minister and his ministers" says Uri Avnery of Gush Shalom, the Israeli Peace Bloc. "In his memorable Cairo speech, as in his entire career so far, President Obama has opened up a horizon of real hope to the citizens of Israel as to the Palestinians and to all Arabs and Muslims â€" as he brought hope to the citizens to the US, who elected him. Conversely, Netayahu's is 'Yesterday's Government' offers no solution of any kind, and whose policy consists of clinging blindly to continued occupation and settlement expansion.
Each year in the beginning of June, Israeli peace seekers demonstrate, in order to remind their fellow- citizens that our country is maintaining a cruel occupation rule over millions of Palestinian inhabitants, already for more than two-thirds of Israel's total history. This year we are also demonstrating in the concrete hope that the end of the occupation is near, the beginning of peace between the state of Israel and the state of Palestine to arise, between Israel and the entire Arab world.
On the short term, the demand for ending settlement expansion, made so forcefully by President Obama, is a correct and justified demand. Not only because the President of the United States is demanding and pressuring, but mainly because that is the true and vital Israeli interest. Construction should be halted in all settlements without exception â€" not a house and not hut, not in isolated settlements and not in settlements blocks, neither natural growth nor artificial growth.
What has no right to exist naturally has no right for natural growth, either. The settlements should never have been built in the first place, and should not continue to exist. Young settlers should be told that they cannot build homes in an occupied territory which would not remain under Israeli rule, and that they must find their future within the recognized borders of Israel â€" the Green Line borders. Soon, their parents would join them. "
Contact: Uri Avnery 0505-306440, Adam Keller 0506-709603


Israeli peace Groups to hold protest march in Tel Aviv, Saturday night, June 6 Will call "End the Occupation - Start Living"

On the night of Saturday, June 6, Gush Shalom members will join with those of other peace groups to hold a protest march marking 42 years to the occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. The rendezvous point would be at Tel-Aviv's Rabin Square at 6.00 pm, from where demonstrators will march along the Ibn Gvirol Street until the Tel Aviv Museum Plaza.
In their joint call for the Saturday march, the peace groups say that ongoing occupation caused a violent narrative of anti-Arab racism and fascism to become prevalent in Israeli society, as manifested in the "Nakba Bill" (aimed at forbidding Arab Israeli citizens commemorating their 1948 disaster), or the "Loyalty Law" (aimed at disenfranchising them altogether). The end of the occupation is needed in order to protest basic democratic rights, also within Israel's own borders.
Also, occupation and frequent wars have brought about a government budget of which half is devoted to pay for past and present military expenditures and settlement maintenance. The 2009-10 budget, too, is marked by sharp slashing of the education and welfare budgets, while military and settlement expenditures are increased. This reinforces the message of the demonstration's main slogan: "End the occupation - Start living".
Contact: Adam Keller (Gush Shalom) 0506-709603
Yoav Goldring (Hadash) 054-6634443
Eilat Maoz (Coalition of Women for Peace) 0508-575729