PaRCha - JNU - AISA - 2007 ID-3842
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For Hindi Version All India Student's Association (AISA) 4.9.03 See Overleaf .
Join.
Public Meeting .
Massive Protest Demo. .
Whe Question Of Palestine Implications OfThe Emerging India-US-Israel Axis Against .
Speakers Ariel Sharon's India visit India Gate-Shahjahan.
Achin Vanaik, Noted Political Commentrator .
Road Crossing.
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Prof. S.D. Munl, SIS, JNU 9.9.03 (Tuesday)4-9-03 (Tonight), 9.30PM.
Sutlei Mess, 11 AM .
Killer Sharon Go Back I Oppose The Saffron Pact With Sharon 1 .
Stand By India's Principled Support For The Cause Of Palestine 1 .
On the anniversary ofthe 9/11 attack on the WTC towers, the BJP government has rolled out the red carpet for the Israeli PM Ariel .
Sharon. The message the BJP wishes to send is nakedly clear -"Israel, the US' close friend, is now India's ally in the 'fightagainst .
terror'" !According to BJP, "both India and Israel are nationswhose people are inhabiting their "splrituaVscriptural homeland'", and .
are victims ofterrorism at the hands ofIslamic intruders within their nations." We, the democratic people ofIndia can neither accept .
BJP's communally distorted vision ofour country nor the alliance with Ariel Sharon who is the leader of one of the most racist .
.
colonial regime in existence today. .
The state of Israel as a "homeland" for the Jews came into being with the backing ofBritish colonial powers-the Balfour Declaration .
.
of 1917 followed by the British Mandate of 192~Winston Churchill, boldlyjustified the takeover ofPalestine by Israel, asserting that .
therewas nothing in the dispossession of the Palestinians who had lived on the land for centuries, just as there was nothing wrong with the ethnic cleansing ofRed Indians of America or BlackAustralians by a "higher-grade race" I .
Israeli PM Menachem Begin called Palestinians "two legged beasts", while another PM called them "gra~hoppers"whocould be crushed. It is a tragic irony that this is the racist logic used tojustify the existence ofa state created as a home for the victims of the Nazi racist Holocaust. Can we Indians, who have experienced similar racist abuse and colonization, support the Israeli occupation .
of Palestine ? .
In 1947, the UN allotted more than halfofPalestifle to Israel, and in the following years Israel gobbled up all the remaining territory .
aim today is not.
.
through continuous war, incursions, and occupation which are continuing till date. lnspite ofthis, the Palestinians' to end the existence of Israel. Their struggle is onlyfor Palestine's right to co-exist as a sovereign nation based on the principles of secularism and democracy along with Israel and for basic human rights and equality for Palestinian citizens. From the Palestenian perspective, accepting the idea oftwo states has been an enormous concession, one that involves giving up almost 80% of the historical Palestinian homeland.(The West Bank and Gaza Strip which constitute only 22% ofthe historical Palestine is underdiscussion for the future Palestine state.) Yet, Palestinians today are routinely driven offtheir lands into refugee camps, their homes are demolished, they are subjected to different laws, differentcoloured 10 cards and licenseplates, and even different roads marked "Non-Jewish.. I Are these humiliations not a replication ofthe racism ofNazi Germany, where Jews were forced to displaythe "Yellow StarofDavid? In 1993, the US mediated Oslo Accords promised the formation ofa sovereign Palestinian state. Instead, the result was more .
sophisticated occupation and apartheid. Nowthe Bush sponsored "Road Map to Peace" once again promises Palestinian statehood. But far from being committed to Palestinian sovereignty this is nothing but a move by the US to set itselfup as "bringer of peace to .
the region" after its occupation of Iraq. .
Palecstinians daily suffer genocide and terror at the hands of the Israeli regime-yet Israel projects itself as the 'victim' of terror. The .
truth is that for decades, the broad mass of the Palestinians have conducted their brave liberation struggle, armed with nothing but stones and rifles in the face of the Israeli tanks and F-16 fighterjets. Suicide bombings by desperate Palestinian youths, which .
target innocent Israeli civilians. are highly condemnable. But these acts of despair are all that Israel has to justify the state -sponsored terror, which its state-of-the art US b·acked military daily inflicts on unarmed Palestinians. .
Take a look at Ariel Sharon's own history of conducting genocides. As a commander of the notorious Israeli Army Unit 101,Sharon cold-bloodedly killed scores of Palestinian civilian men,women and children rendered thousands of them homeless and shot dead Palestinian freedom fighters. In 1982, Sharon conspired with the despised Phalange militia in the gory massacre of thousands of Palestinian civilians in the refugee camps ofSabra and Shatila. Even the Israelis and Americans who support the Palestinian cause are not spared . In March 2003, for instance, the 23-year old American woman Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by an Israeli Army bulldozer and 22-year old Brilisher Thomas Hundall was shot dead by an Israeli soldier when they shielded Palestinian homes from demolition . .
Hitler's massacre of Jews was a crime against humanity; are Sharon's massacre and killings any less ofan inhuman crime? It is an irony ofhistory that the leader of the state founded to "compensate" for the horrors ofthe Nazi regime, is not only replicating Hitler's racist agenda, but coming to India tojoin hands with the Saffron Hitlers. But the people of India must speak out to say-Ariel Sharon Go Back 1You Have Blood on Your Hands I Indians Will Never Support Your Killer Regime I .
Sd. lnteshar Ahmad, Gen.Secy., AISA,JNUSd. Radhika Menon, President, AISA, JNU .
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PaRCha - JNU - AISA - 2007 ID-3842
.
Jf .
.
... .
.
~: . .
Ill .
..t .
.
' .
.
-.
.
~ .
For Hindi Version All India Student's Association (AISA) 4.9.03 See Overleaf .
Join.
Public Meeting .
Massive Protest Demo. .
Whe Question Of Palestine Implications OfThe Emerging India-US-Israel Axis Against .
Speakers Ariel Sharon's India visit India Gate-Shahjahan.
Achin Vanaik, Noted Political Commentrator .
Road Crossing.
-.
Prof. S.D. Munl, SIS, JNU 9.9.03 (Tuesday)4-9-03 (Tonight), 9.30PM.
Sutlei Mess, 11 AM .
Killer Sharon Go Back I Oppose The Saffron Pact With Sharon 1 .
Stand By India's Principled Support For The Cause Of Palestine 1 .
On the anniversary ofthe 9/11 attack on the WTC towers, the BJP government has rolled out the red carpet for the Israeli PM Ariel .
Sharon. The message the BJP wishes to send is nakedly clear -"Israel, the US' close friend, is now India's ally in the 'fightagainst .
terror'" !According to BJP, "both India and Israel are nationswhose people are inhabiting their "splrituaVscriptural homeland'", and .
are victims ofterrorism at the hands ofIslamic intruders within their nations." We, the democratic people ofIndia can neither accept .
BJP's communally distorted vision ofour country nor the alliance with Ariel Sharon who is the leader of one of the most racist .
.
colonial regime in existence today. .
The state of Israel as a "homeland" for the Jews came into being with the backing ofBritish colonial powers-the Balfour Declaration .
.
of 1917 followed by the British Mandate of 192~Winston Churchill, boldlyjustified the takeover ofPalestine by Israel, asserting that .
therewas nothing in the dispossession of the Palestinians who had lived on the land for centuries, just as there was nothing wrong with the ethnic cleansing ofRed Indians of America or BlackAustralians by a "higher-grade race" I .
Israeli PM Menachem Begin called Palestinians "two legged beasts", while another PM called them "gra~hoppers"whocould be crushed. It is a tragic irony that this is the racist logic used tojustify the existence ofa state created as a home for the victims of the Nazi racist Holocaust. Can we Indians, who have experienced similar racist abuse and colonization, support the Israeli occupation .
of Palestine ? .
In 1947, the UN allotted more than halfofPalestifle to Israel, and in the following years Israel gobbled up all the remaining territory .
aim today is not.
.
through continuous war, incursions, and occupation which are continuing till date. lnspite ofthis, the Palestinians' to end the existence of Israel. Their struggle is onlyfor Palestine's right to co-exist as a sovereign nation based on the principles of secularism and democracy along with Israel and for basic human rights and equality for Palestinian citizens. From the Palestenian perspective, accepting the idea oftwo states has been an enormous concession, one that involves giving up almost 80% of the historical Palestinian homeland.(The West Bank and Gaza Strip which constitute only 22% ofthe historical Palestine is underdiscussion for the future Palestine state.) Yet, Palestinians today are routinely driven offtheir lands into refugee camps, their homes are demolished, they are subjected to different laws, differentcoloured 10 cards and licenseplates, and even different roads marked "Non-Jewish.. I Are these humiliations not a replication ofthe racism ofNazi Germany, where Jews were forced to displaythe "Yellow StarofDavid? In 1993, the US mediated Oslo Accords promised the formation ofa sovereign Palestinian state. Instead, the result was more .
sophisticated occupation and apartheid. Nowthe Bush sponsored "Road Map to Peace" once again promises Palestinian statehood. But far from being committed to Palestinian sovereignty this is nothing but a move by the US to set itselfup as "bringer of peace to .
the region" after its occupation of Iraq. .
Palecstinians daily suffer genocide and terror at the hands of the Israeli regime-yet Israel projects itself as the 'victim' of terror. The .
truth is that for decades, the broad mass of the Palestinians have conducted their brave liberation struggle, armed with nothing but stones and rifles in the face of the Israeli tanks and F-16 fighterjets. Suicide bombings by desperate Palestinian youths, which .
target innocent Israeli civilians. are highly condemnable. But these acts of despair are all that Israel has to justify the state -sponsored terror, which its state-of-the art US b·acked military daily inflicts on unarmed Palestinians. .
Take a look at Ariel Sharon's own history of conducting genocides. As a commander of the notorious Israeli Army Unit 101,Sharon cold-bloodedly killed scores of Palestinian civilian men,women and children rendered thousands of them homeless and shot dead Palestinian freedom fighters. In 1982, Sharon conspired with the despised Phalange militia in the gory massacre of thousands of Palestinian civilians in the refugee camps ofSabra and Shatila. Even the Israelis and Americans who support the Palestinian cause are not spared . In March 2003, for instance, the 23-year old American woman Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by an Israeli Army bulldozer and 22-year old Brilisher Thomas Hundall was shot dead by an Israeli soldier when they shielded Palestinian homes from demolition . .
Hitler's massacre of Jews was a crime against humanity; are Sharon's massacre and killings any less ofan inhuman crime? It is an irony ofhistory that the leader of the state founded to "compensate" for the horrors ofthe Nazi regime, is not only replicating Hitler's racist agenda, but coming to India tojoin hands with the Saffron Hitlers. But the people of India must speak out to say-Ariel Sharon Go Back 1You Have Blood on Your Hands I Indians Will Never Support Your Killer Regime I .
Sd. lnteshar Ahmad, Gen.Secy., AISA,JNUSd. Radhika Menon, President, AISA, JNU .
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