On 14 November 2012, Israeli occupation forces began a campaign of bombing Gaza starting with the killing of the leader of the military wing of Hamas. The occupation forces gave it a biblical name “The Operation of the Pillar of Cloud referring back to the old testament. The government in Gaza, Hamas, called it the Operation of stones of clay. Prior to the 2012 attack on Gaza, in 2009, occupation forces began an assault against Gaza, killig nine hundred sixty Palestinian civilians, including two hundred eighty-eight children and a hundred and twenty-one women.
So in response Justice for Palestine Brisbane/Meanjin asked Federal Member for Moreton to speak at a rally in King George Square to oppose the war on Gaza. This is one of the letters written to the Federal Member:
Mr Graham Perrett MP
Federal Member for Moreton
Dear Mr Perrett
Shells and bombs are raining down on children and other civilians in Gaza. People are dying as we speak. We ask you to show your solidarity with the concerns of large sections of your electorate by attending the rally whose details can be found below.
As you know, the crisis stems from occupation and apartheid. Both are abominations and do not belong to this, the 21st Century.
Australia, likes its mentor, USA, has a habit of asking: “Why the rockets ?” instead of:
- “Isn’t Occupation of another people and annexation of their land the cause of the rockets and also the most extreme form of terrorism?
- “Isn’t Occupation necessarily achieved and maintained by state terrorism?
- “Isn’t terrorism including state terrorism pre-ordained when one nation occupies and annexes another and the occupied are deniedredress by nations like Australia who vote in the UN to suppress discussion about Israel’s Occupation and the human rights abuse that it commits to maintain that Occupation? And that it is the Occupation that causes terrorism of both types and not the other way around?
Australia does not ask: “Have we really worked to end the Occupation-Annexation?”
Therefore, would you, as a representative of a large section of people with the REAL questions, be able to ask those questions for us in Parliament on an urgent basis and call an immediate halt to Israel’s ferocious assault on an already beleaguered and dehumanised population?
Thank you.
Yours sincerely
David Albuquerque,
19 November 2012
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Rally for Gaza
Raise your voice against the new massacre being carried out by Israel in Gaza. Already there have been more that 30 people killed and 300 people injured by the Israeli attacks. As they prepare for a new ground invasion, it is the duty of all those who believe in justice to join together to take action.
This Friday (November 23)
5pm in King George Square
~Please help spread the word~
Download flyer for distribution:
http://www.justiceforpalestinebrisbane.org/files/jfp/Rally%20for%20Gaza%20flyer.pdf
Download poster for distribution:
http://www.justiceforpalestinebrisbane.org/files/jfp/Rally%20for%20Gaza%20poster.pdf
Join the Facebook event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/246994805426101/
Postscript
The day after the rally, on 24 November 2012, Labor Prime Minister, JULIA Gillard, was forced by members of the Labor cabinet and caucus (led by Bob Carr) to abandon her personal opposition to Palestinians winning a seat in the United Nations – despite threatening to exercise a prime ministerial veto and demand Australia reject the bid.
During the course of the operation, the IDF claimed to have struck more than 1,500 sites in the Gaza Strip, including rocket launchpads, weapon depots, government facilities, and apartment blocks. According to a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) report, 174 Palestinians were killed and hundreds were wounded. – Wikipedia