Mais pour la première fois depuis des décennies, les dirigeants israéliens se trouvent confrontés à une vaste campagne de protestation de l'opinion publique, de boycott, de désinvestissement et de sanctions.
Et un nombre croissant de femmes et d'hommes du monde entier se préparent à participer à la Marche Internationale contre le blocus de Gaza.
Des personnalités aussi diverses que Mgr Jacques Gaillot, ( http://www.europalestine.com/spip.php?article4441 ), le groupe musical "Ministère des Affaires Populaires", la sénatrice Alima Boumediene-Thiery, Omar Slaouti, tête de liste du NPA en Ile de France, aux dernières élections européennes, le cameraman Chris Den Hond, des anarchistes israéliens( http://www.europalestine.com/spip.php?article4431 ), participent et appellent à cette marche.
A Nanterre, (en région Parisienne) l'association Entraide, aidée par l'Imam d'Aubervilliers, a recueilli 5.000 euros de dons pour permettre à cinq jeunes de participer à la marche et pour apporter plus de la moitié de la collecte aux familles de Gaza !
Plus nous serons nombreux et plus le message de refus de la barbarie transmis au monde entier sera fort.
Plus nous serons nombreux et plus la population de Gaza pourra continuer à résister, réconfortée de savoir que le sens de la justice et de la fraternité n'ont pas disparu de ce monde.
Il est encore temps de s'inscrire ou d'aider d'autres personnes à participer à cette démarche, à condition de faire vite ! Toutes les infos sur http://www.europalestine.com/MarchePourGaza
Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip continue, as does the siege imposed on 1.5 million people, but for the first time in decades Israeli leaders find themselves confronted with a vast public opinion protest campaign of boycotts, disinvestment and sanctions.
A growing number of Israeli leaders can no longer enter certain countries such a England, for fear of legal action taken against them. The UN Human Rights Counsel, in spite of Israeli/USA manouevering has demanded to see the Goldstone Report. Ehud Olmert was not able to pronounce his speech last Thursday at the University of Chicago due to student booing (see the video at: http://www.europalestine.com/spip.php?article4442). Confronted with protest, the Mayor of Paris 18ème turned back his invitation to the Israeli firm Soda Club who was due to participate in a grape harvest festival in Montmartre last week.
And a growing number of women and men around the workd are going to participate in the International March Against the Blockade of the Gaza Strip.
Gaza Freedom March
In less than a month, in France alone, 150 people are already signed up to participate in the March, which will begin on 27 December, a year after the beginning of Gaza bombings last winter, and will end on 2 January 2010. (Fly to Cairo, then bus to the frontier at Rafah for entry into the Gaza Strip.)
A broad spectrum of people including Mgr. Jacques Gaillot (http://www.europalestine.com/spip.php?article4441) the musical group Ministère des Affaires Populaires, Alima Boumediene-Thiery (MP), Omar Slaouti (NPA candidate for the European elections), Chris Den Hond (reporter), Israeli anarchists (http://www.europalestine.com/spip.php?article4431), will be participating.
Francois René Quercy, an astro-physicist from Toulouse has written: I am an astro-physicist of the Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées in Toulouse, I was also an expert for the United Nations on Middle Eastern Space Science. My objective in going to Gaza is also to visit a young fellow astrophysicist, Dr. Suleiman Barakat, whose house in Gaza had been destroyed by a targeted bomb during the Israeli invasion, and whose 10 year old son was killed during the bombings. I have just presented a project concerning the astronomic clock of Gaza (5th century) and I sent him the document to show that we do not forget him. Thank you for your initiative.
At Nanterre (in the Paris region) the asssociation "Entraide", with the help of the Imam of Aubervilliers, has collected 5000 Euros in gifts, last Sunday, to allow 5 young people to participate in the March and to bring over half the sum collected to families in Gaza
Depart to Cairo is being organized in a number of French cities such as Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Nice and Lille. Our Belgian collegues have already organized a group of some 40 people. And our Italian friends have booked 100 seats on a flight.
The more numerous we are, the more the message of the refusal of the barbarism will be heard throughout the world.
The more numerous we are, the more the population of the Gaza Strip will be able to continue to resist, comforted in the knowledge that the sense of fraternity and justice has not disappeared from the world.
It is still time to sign up or to aid others to participate in this March. All the information is available at: http://www.europalestine.com/MarchePourGaza
Yours,
CAP-JPO-EuroPalestine
