Letters and Announcements to Al-Jazeerah Editor, July 28, 2006

Cartoon idea?

I don't know if you could pass this idea on to a cartoonist but I thought the picture of Americans proudly standing around their latest "Weapons delivery system" labeled "Israel," as truckloads of weapons are dumped into the weapon delivery system and shot automatically into the Arab lands.

It is an appropriate perception of the current scheme and Israel's true significant role.

Emma and Tim Gibbens

Letter to Condoleezza Rice

Email: condoleezza_rice@nsc.eop.gov

Dear Ms. Rice:

Colonizing the Middle East as the English, the French and now the United States is up to is the most horrible thing that can happen to the Arab and Muslim peoples. What was your purpose in visiting the Middle East if the fighting has not been stopped?

In fact, we see you in photos always smiling, and the American people are disgusted with your ways, and your closeness to a President that does not have any idea what he is doing. How can you smile while thousands are being blasted away?

This current wave or real genocide or even a Holocaust toward Lebanon and Gaza and Palestine, is not only disgusting, it is illegal, inhumane, and it is obvious to most that Israel has broken international laws, and is continuing to do so. Hopefully, our "leaders" may wake up and STOP THIS DESTRUCTION.

Israel has no right to its past and present actions against innocent people. Israel should be stopped and NOW!

Sincerely,

Paul and Carol Bradford, Central Massachusetts

Condolences

On behalf of the Association of Former International Civil Servants in Lebanon, Syria and Jordan ( AFICS) I wish to express our deepest Sympathies and sincere condolences to Secretary-General Kofi Annan and to the Commander of UNIFIL over the wanton killing of four UNIFIL observers by the criminal Israeli forces.

Mr. Annan's condemnation of the"apparently deliberate" act is fully justified given the numerous warnings to the Israelis to stop firing at and near the UNIFIL post at Al Khiyam. This cowardly attack on the UNIFIL post is only the latest in many violations by Israel of the sanctity of the United Nations and its peace-keeping mission. It also recalls Israel's dastardly attack on the UNIFIL post at Qana in 1996, which killed over a hundred innocent civilians who had taken refuge there.

Farouk Mawlawi,

President Association of Former International Civil Servants in Lebanon, Syria and Jordan (AFICS)

In Lebanon, all Canadians should run for their life

Four peacekeepers were killed when four bombs hit their post during a bombardment in a town near the border with Israel. One of them was a Canadian. Major Paeta Derek Hess-von Kruedener was a member of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. Prime Minister Stephen Harper says Israel's deadly attack on the UN observation post in Lebanon was a "terrible tragedy" but didn't call for a cease-fire in the region. Weeks before, he offered brief condolences to the families of eight Canadians killed in Lebanon, but has not asked Israel for an explanation for their deaths. He neither back down from his earlier comment that Israel's bombing of Lebanon was a "measured" response to the Hezbollah kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers. The Canadian Prime Minister message is clear. He won’t protect Canadians in Lebanon. There is one logical thing to do in such situations. All Canadians citizens and troops should be asked to leave Lebanon as soon as possible. If you are a Canadian in Lebanon, you should run for your life.

Michel Gourd

L’Ascension-de-Patapédia

Québec, Canada

Canadian Arab Federation

La Fédération Canado-Arabe

CAF calls upon Canadians to express their solidarity with the Lebanese and Palestinian people, and to denounce Stephen Harper’s policies which have endangered the lives of Canadians in Canada and abroad

(Toronto, Ontario) The Canadian Arab Federation (CAF) will be holding a major demonstration to express solidarity with the Lebanese and Palestinian people; to condemn the Harper government for aiding and abetting Israel’s war crimes in Lebanon and Occupied Palestine; and to denounce government policies that are endangering the lives of Canadians in Canada, Lebanon and occupied Palestine.

WHEN: Saturday July 29, 1:00 p.m.

WHERE: Israeli Consulate, 180 Bloor Street West, Toronto

On June 25 Israel began its assault against Gaza and followed it with its aggression against Lebanon on July 12. Israel’s indiscriminate shelling of cities has resulted so far in the death of over 520 civilians and the destruction of most civilian infrastructure. Israel has now blockaded both Lebanon and Gaza and is bombing, terrorizing and starving their population.

While most of the world was asking for an immediate ceasefire, Stephen Harper stated that it is too early to call for a ceasefire and he described Israel’s actions as a “measured response”, thereby completely disregarding the danger Israel’s carpet bombing posed not only to the lives of fifty thousand Canadians but to those of four million Lebanese. A few days later, when eight Canadians were killed by Israeli bombing Harper refused to criticize Israel.

Louise Arbour, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, accused Israel of committing war crimes in Lebanon. According to UN chief Kofi Annan, Israel on July 25 deliberately bombed a UN observer post in southern Lebanon killing four peacekeepers, one of them a Canadian. A Canadian-born pilot serving in the Israeli Air Force was killed Monday after the helicopter he was flying crashed near the Lebanese border. How many Canadians are participating in the killing of Palestinians and Lebanese? What do Stephen Harper and Peter Mackay have to say about this?

CAF accuses Harper of failing to provide protection to fifty thousand Canadians in Lebanon; of turning a blind eye to war crimes being committed against Lebanese civilians by Canadians serving in the Israeli army; and of failing to take action under Canada’s Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act to prosecute Canadians serving in the Israeli army.

While Canadians, Lebanese and Palestinians were being terrorized and killed by Israel in Lebanon and occupied Palestine, Arab Canadians are facing a rise in racist attacks and increased harassment from CSIS. CAF staff have received threatening telephone calls and emails; CSIS agents are harassing Lebanese Canadian groups and families; and a Sudanese Canadian was viciously assaulted by racists. CAF attributes all these actions to Harper’s support for Israel’s war crimes which is perceived by hate mongers as a green light to harass and attack Arab Canadians.

CAF urges the Canadian government to call for an immediate cease fire, and to call for an international investigation into the killing of Canadian civilians, and a Canadian UN peacekeeper by Israel.

For more information, please contact:
Khaled Mouammar

National President

Tel.: 416-879-6766 (cell)

416-493-8635 (office)

www.caf.ca

Established in 1967, the Canadian Arab Federation is a national, non-partisan, non profit and membership-based organization. CAF represents Canadian Arabs on issues relating to public policy.

The Danish Minister of Justice is the criminal

The Danish Minister of Justice Lene Espersen wants Said Mansour, who has been in custody since September 2005, convicted for encouraging terrorism. His “crime” is possession/distribution of different material on the legitimate armed resistance struggle against the torturing Western occupation forces in Afghanistan and Iraq.

In March 2003, the very same Minister of Justice and sixty members of the Danish parliament lied Denmark into the war on Iraq, a war violating the UN Charter. These mass murderers have the blood of thousands of Iraqis on their hands.

“To initiate a war of aggression is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime,” the Nuremburg Tribunal stated during the trial against the responsible for the aggressions of Hitler Germany.

Today, Denmark, “a state governed by law” has a Minister of Justice, who has committed the supreme international crime, and together with all the other responsible for the aggression on Iraq in the name of justice should be in front of an international war crimes tribunal or be extradited to a coming Iraqi liberation government and be punished there for what they have done to the peaceful Iraqi people.

By Carsten Kofoed,

Free Iraq Blog of Denmark,

Hjemmeside/Website: http://fritirak.blogspot.com/

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