Relentless solidarity with Palestine from Galway, Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign

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Sunday April 15, 2007 16:50

by TD - Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign

Israel : Rogue state created by ethnic cleansing, specializes in state-terrorism and humanitarian crimes, sponsored by the US and EU

"The Palestinian intifada is a war of colonial liberation. We Israelis enthusiastically chose to become a colonialist society, ignoring international treaties, expropriating lands, transferring settlers from Israel to the occupied territories, engaging in theft and finding justicication for all these activities ... we established an apartheid regime." (Michael Ben-Yair, Israeli Attorney General 1993-36).

Yesterday, for six hours, activists from the Galway branch of the IPSC manned an information stall outside Lynch's castle in Shop Street, gathering signatures for an Israeli Blood Diamonds petition and ...

Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings ...

urging the signees to also boycott Atlantic Homecare and Woodie's DIY stores on account of their unethical selling of Israeli manufactured goods, our information leaflet pointed out to them that the EU grants Israel special trading priviledges under the terms of the Euromed Agreement provided that Israel complies with international law and human rights requirements and this proviso is being blatantly and cynically ignored by the EU and Irish government, the info leaflet further pointed out to them that in 2005, Israeli gemstone exports were valued at $16 billion bankrolling the Israeli Ministry of Defence budget which in 2007 is $12 billion (in 2007, the value of Israeli gemstone exports is estimated to reach $18-20 billion).

This Saturday, we'll be at it again outside Lynch's castle from 12 noon to 6PM bearing witness to suffering Palestinian and baring our contempt and outrage against the spineless EU and Irish government, please join there if you can?.