Friday, October 24, 2014

Courage without Justice is just Brutality








“Courage without Justice is just Brutality.”

Professor J.Rufus Fears, University of Oklahoma, ‘The World was Never the Same: Events that Changed History,’ Great Courses, disc 1, lecture 3, ‘The Enlightenment of the Buddha.’

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 “ . . .the Israeli state is implementing an apartheid system based on the dominance of Israeli Jews over Palestinians. Beyond the prolonged siege and collective punishment of the Palestinians of Gaza, the ongoing settlement project in the West Bank, and the now regular massive military assaults on the civilian population of the Gaza Strip, one must add the increase in aggravated racist hate speech.”

The Russell Tribunal  on Palestine: 

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Unequal Justice

" . . . law is different depending on whether you are an Israeli citizen or a Palestinian, as reporter Daniel Estrin revealed and co-authored in an investigative report for the Associated Press.

“Israeli settlers are prosecuted under Israeli civilian law, but Palestinians, who live just a few minutes away from those Israeli settlers, are subject to a completely different set of laws — military laws and the military justice system . . . ”


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"Discriminatory Policies in Israel and Palestine" 

“In East Jerusalem, Palestinian areas do not get serviced by public buses, garbage collectors or ambulances (to call an ambulance requires a police escort).”  Much, much more covered in the article:


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Under Israeli apartheid, Palestinians are subjected to:

No right of free speech, assembly or movement
Arrest and imprisonment without charge or trial
Torture
House searches without warrant
Assassination, extra-judicial murder
No right to vote for the Israeli government (even though it controls their lives)

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Send a letter to the White House and to Congress:
http://boycott4peace.blogspot.com/2014/10/why-does-us-fund-and-arm-ethnic.html

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