Letters to the Editor, November 20, 2005

Encyclopedia of Palestine Problem, By Issa Nakhleh

This is a superb source of historical information about Palestine.

SEE: http://www.palestine-encyclopedia.com/EPP/Start.htm

The pictures are especially moving SEE: http://www.palestineencyclopedia.com/EPP/Photos_Volume1/index.htm

SEE: http://www.canpalnet-ottawa.org/

Hilmi Salem

Please Light A Candle For Palestine

Go To:
http://www.pakin.no/candle.asp?showpage=273

NEW FALLUJAH VIDEO

http://www.rainews24.rai.it/ran24/inchiesta/en/video.asp

Mocadelphia

OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF ROMANIA: Concerning US Bases at Babadag, Fetesti and Constanza

by sarah meyer

index research, 18 November 2005

Dear President Basescu,

I understand from a Reuters article today

http://today.reuters.com/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2005-11-17T105801Z_01_RID739372_RTRUKOC_0_US-ROMANIA-US-BASES.xml

that you are close to an agreement with the United States for the establishment of US bases at Babadag and Fetesti, as well as the continued use of the US base at Constanza.

It is reported that torture takes place in some prisons in or near US Bases abroad, as well as in other countries where US “rendition” (kidnapping and transport to a foreign country) is practiced.

Recently, I wrote an article about United States prisons on bases in Afghanistan.

http://indexresearch.blogspot.com/2005/11/cias-secret-prisons-in-afghanistan.html

I requested that "The public should be allowed to see all documents pertaining to US base agreements. If plans for torture were omitted from these agreements, then all governments should make sure that torture limits are retrospectively imposed on the United States and made illegal in the future."

With respect, Mr. President, I ask, on behalf of all the decent and law abiding people on our planet, that you publicly confirm that your agreement with the United States firmly states that no torture is to take place on any US base in Romania.

Yours sincerely,

Sarah Meyer

Sussex, UK, Email the President of Romania: procetatean@presidency.ro

Sarah Meyer is a researcher and lives in Sussex, UK. http:indexresearch.blogspot.com

She may be reached at: sarahmeyer@freedom255.com

Canadian Palestinian Organizations Urge Canadian Zionists to Recognize Inalienable Palestinian Rights and to Stop Supporting Israeli War Crimes

November 18, 2005

The Canadian Hadassah-WIZO is holding its 38th National Convention in Vancouver, November 19th - 23rd, 2005. In addition to the Israeli Ambassador to Canada, Alan Baker, as one of their "Distinguished Guests", also in attendance will be the new Jordanian Ambassador to Canada, Nabil Barto. Barto will be addressing the Gala Banquet that will be held Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2005 and will also be speaking on Monday, Nov. 21 alongside the same Israeli Ambassador at a forum called "Partners in Peace", moderated by the Canadian Minister of Western Economic Diversification and Sport, Stephen Owen, a leading member of "Liberal Parliamentarians for Israel".

The Canadian Hadassah-WIZO (Women's International Zionist Organization) is by name a Zionist organization, although it claims to be "a non-political women's volunteer organization". It is "the largest constituent organization of the Canadian Zionist Federation"; it "serves on the Board of Directors of the Canada-Israel Committee" and is "represented on the Executive of the Canadian Jewish Congress"; and part of its Mission Statement says it "highlights the role of Israel in today's world".

Simply put, this Canadian Hadassah-WIZO, as part of the Zionist movement, is directly responsible for the dispossession of the Palestinian people and the physical liquidation of the Palestinian nation.

Without peace and security for the Palestinian people, without recognizing the injustices that befell the Palestinian nation since 1917, without the realization of the Palestinian inalienable rights, including the right to self-determination, the right to be free from occupation and the right to return to their homeland, Israel, as a supremacist state, should not be rewarded for its continued war crimes against the Palestinian people.

For all the above reasons and recognizing that peace will not be achieved without justice and equality for all, we the undersigned organizations denounce the Jordanian ambassador to Canada and all those* who are giving a cover for brutal Zionist practices. We hold them responsible for Israel's flaunting of international law and conventions, and accordingly hold them complicit in Israel's war crimes and military ventures.

Canada Palestine Association, Vancouver www.cpavancouver.org
Canadian Palestinian Foundation of Quebec (CPFQ)
Palestine Community Centre www.palestinecommunitycentre.com
Palestine House www.palestinehouse.com
Palestine Solidarity Group - Vancouver www.palsolidaritygrp.org
Robin Hood Collective, University of Toronto
Voice of Palestine, Vancouver www.voiceofpalestine.ca

(Please send individual letters of protest to:
Embassy of Jordan
100 Bronson Avenue, Suite 701, Ottawa, Ontario, K1R 6G8, Canada
Tel: (613) 238-8090
Fax: (613) 232-3341
Or email the Embassy of Jordan in the USA HKJEmbassyDC@aol.com)

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* Others attending the Canadian Hadassah-WIZO National Convention in Vancouver are:

· Iona Campagnolo, Lieutenant Governor of British Colombia.

· Joy Macphail, Former Head of BC NDP Party

· Dr Martha Piper, President, University of British Columbia

· Kathleen Bartels, Director, Vancouver Art Gallery

· Patricia Graham, Editor in Chief, Vancouver Sun

· Dr. Grace McCarthy, OC, OBC, former B.C. Cabinet Minister

· Barbara Yaffe, Vancouver Sun Journalist

· Marc Gold, Chairman, Canada Israel Committee

· Rosalie Zalis, Member of the Executive Committee of AIPAC

· Dr. Karen Gelmon, Head of BC Cancer Society, Breast Cancer Screening