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We, the undersigned citizens of the world, call on the international Olympics Committee to rescind Israel’s participation in the London 2012 Olympics. Israel’s attack on a humanitarian aid fleet on Monday 31 May 2010, its murder of 9 human rights activists in international waters, and wounding many more, demonstrate that Israel rejects the structural tenets of our shared humanity, manifested in a global moral consensus and international law.
Israel was established on the ruins of another country, Palestine. In 1948 more than half the population of Palestine was uprooted from their cities and villages, 400 of which were completely destroyed. The state of Israel has never allowed Palestinian refugees to return and today their number has reached 7 million, many of whom are still stateless, living in refugee camps in Palestine and other Arab countries
Since its establishment the state of Israel has consistently violated international law. To date, it has defied 246 UN Security Council Resolutions. As a direct consequence, seven million Palestinians are excluded from the right to live on land internationally acknowledged to be theirs; and increasingly, they are being excluded from their right to any future at all as a nation. The 4 million Palestinians in the occupied territories have endured over 40 years of brutal occupation and denied even the most basic Human rights. The 1.4 million who remain in Israel are second class citizens.
The daily brutality of the Israeli army in Gaza and the West Bank continues; Palestinian land continues to be stolen, houses demolished and crops destroyed. For years now the state of Israel has been carrying out a slow genocide in the Gaza Strip, maintaining a tight blockade over its inhabitants and repeated bombing raids all of which are contrary to International Laws which prohibit collective punishment.
Palestinian civilians and medics run to safety during an Israeli strike over a UN school in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip early on January 17, 2009. A woman and a child were killed early today in the Israeli strike on the UN-run school in northern Gaza where civilians were sheltering from the fighting, medics and witnesses said. Fierce clashes were underway around the school as Israeli tanks exchanged fire with Palestinian militants, they said. Pic. Credit: AFP – Mohammad Abed
The Israeli military used white phosphorus munitions in the 2008-2009 Gaza war. The IDF acknowledged it’s use after the war ended.
Several reports from human right groups during the war indicated that white phosphorus shells were being used by Israel in violation of international law. Human Rights Watch said shells exploded over populated civilian areas, including a crowded refugee camp, a UN compound where food was stored, and a United Nations school where civilians were seeking refuge.
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3 comments
bill bard
July 10, 2010 at 11:47 am (UTC 1)
Any individual having read the forgoing and not signing the petition should search their concience,
One day soon they might just wish that they had sood up and been counted.
To allow these atrocities to continue without protest, is tantamount to saying it’s OK to continue with Genocide.
nikki
July 12, 2010 at 11:01 am (UTC 1)
I am disgusted with what I read here. If you weren’t so taken in by the propaganda you are subjected to you might have a more balanced view. Noone mentioned the fact that the Palestinians fire at the IDF from within school grounds, behind children used as shields. The Israeli’s do not have their 6 year olds trained on how to fire guns & kill.
If Palestinians put down their weapons there would be no war, if Israel put down their weapons there would be no Israel.
Steve Reply:
July 12th, 2010 at 12:58 pm
Thank you for your comment and opinion. Unfortunately, it is you that are subject to propaganda. here is proof of Israel teaching their children to kill and to enjoy it. To me, that is disgusting.