[R-G] [Fwd: Justice Will Reach All Those Who Are Complicit in War Crimes]

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Subject: Justice Will Reach All Those Who Are Complicit in War Crimes
From:    "Hanna Kawas" <hkawas at msn.com>
Date:    Fri, January 2, 2009 11:50 pm
To:      "Info CPA" <info at cpavancouver.org>
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The following message was sent to Michael Ignatieff, leader of the Liberal
Party in Canada, on Jan. 3, 2008.
Hanna
_________________________________________________________________________________________

Mr. Ignatieff:

In the first part of your media release on "the situation in Israel and
the Gaza Strip" dated 		December 29, 2008  you state:
"I am greatly concerned by the deepening violence in Israel and the Gaza
Strip and the fear and suffering on all sides that this mounting
instability has caused. The Liberal Party of Canada unequivocally condemns
the rocket attacks launched by Hamas against Israeli civilians and calls
for an immediate end to these attacks. We affirm Israel's right to defend
itself against such attacks, and also its right to exist in peace and
security."  http://www.liberal.ca/story_15558_e.aspx

Your party "unequivocally condemns" Hamas, but not the government of
Israel and its disproportionate military bombardments.  Can you not see
the double standard in your position?
I am sure you are aware of who broke the cease-fire.  If you cannot

research these basic facts, then Canada is in real trouble if you
become our Prime Minister.

I do NOT want to burden you with my side of the story, and I am not
hopeful that you will change your position.  Since your father's
involvement (George Ignatieff) in the UN Partition Plan in 1947,
official Canadian policies have favored the aggressor (Israel and the
Zionist Movement) against the victim (the Palestinian People).

However,I would like to remind you that the current Canadian government,
as a signatory to the Fourth Geneva Convention, and your Liberal Party in
government and in opposition are all complicit in Israeli war crimes by
legitimizing and giving cover to these atrocities.  History has shown that
eventually justice will reach all those who commit and are complicit in
war crimes; and just as previous war criminals were brought to the
International Court of Justice, so to will Israel's military generals and
those who supported them be held accountable for their heinous actions.
By supporting these atrocities and war crimes, are you truly standing up
"for Canada's best interest"?

Just to show you the contrast between your war-mongering position and the
position of peace loving Israelis, I would like to forward the following
message I just received from them (see below).

Hanna Kawas
Chairperson, Canada Palestine Association www.cpavancouver.org

Co-Host, Voice of Palestine, Canada www.voiceofpalestine.ca


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From: otherisr at actcom.co.il
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 02:12:59 +0200
CC:
Subject: Speaker from Ashdod at anti-war demonstration
To: pressme at mailman.gush-shalom.org


Press
Release
Supreme
Court clears police obstruction of Tel Aviv anti-war procession

Thousands of Jews
and Arabs to take part in Tel Aviv march

Protest against
the Gaza War
"Stop the
killing! Stop the siege"!
Saturday
night,January 3, 2009 at 6.30 pm
The march will
set out form Tel Aviv's Rabin Square (at the corner of Frishman St. and Chen
Boulevard) and will culminate at the Tel Aviv Cinemateque.
Following an
urgent proceeding at the Supreme Court on Friday morning, the way was
cleared to
holding an mass anti-war march in Tel-Aviv, with judges instructing the
police
to grant a permit to the demonstration and not to interfere with the
political
message expressed in it. Specifically, the police had to give up its
demand that
no Palestinian flags be raised during the procession, should some of the 
participants wish to do so. There is no law forbidding the raising of 
Palestinian flags in Israel, and indeed on some occasions such flags were 
displayed during official ceremonies at the Prime Minster's Residence in 
Jerusalem. The judges ruled that the fact that raising Palestinian flags
might
anger some people is no reason to forbid flying them; rather, the police is
obliged to protect the demonstrators' freedom of speech and prevent any
act of
violence against them.
Thousands of demonstrators, among them
Jewish and Arab Knesset Members and public figures, are expected to take
part in
the march and call for a cease-fire, for the sake of the inhabitants on both
sides of the border,  and for
immediate removal of the Gaza siege. Marcel Abarjil, a peace activist from

Ashdod whose home is within range of the missiles shot from the Gaza
Strip, is
also joining the demonstration and will address the rally at its end, so
as to
help disprove the assertion made in the media that all inhabitants of
southern
Israel are in support of the war and the bombing of Gaza. There will also be
read out a special message from Dr. Eyad Sarraj, Palestinian peace
activist and
head of the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme.

We are going out on the streets in
these dark days in order to reiterate together: Jews and Arabs refuse to be
enemies! We demand ceasefire and the immediate removal of the Gaza  siege.
Hundreds were killed and
thousands wounded in Gaza, and the bombings continue to sow fear and 
destruction.  The siege on Gaza
continues – a lack of vital goods, of medicines, and of fuel harms gravely
all
inhabitants of the Strip. The government of Israel and the heads of the army
threaten to invade the Strip and perpetrate even more destruction, while 
ignoring all the calls for a cease-fire.

We call upon all peace-seekers in Israel
to join us for a mass demonstration against the war!

The coalition of anti-war groups and organizations:
Ahoti, Alternative  Information Center (AIC), Anarchists against the
Fence, Balad, Banki,  Bat Shalom, Coalition of Women for Peace, Combatants
for Peace, Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), Da'am – Workers'
Party,  Gush Shalom, Hadash, Hithabrut – Tarabut, Indymedia, Israeli
Communist Party (Maki), New Profile, Public Committee Against Torture
(PCATI), Ra'am – Ta'al, Sadaka-Re'ut, Social TV, Student  Coalition – Tel
Aviv University, Ta'ayush, Tandi (Democratic Women), The Campus is Not
Silent, The Shministim (Highschool Seniors') Letter, Women in Black, Yesh
Gvul, Zochrot,



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