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Palestine A State? Condemn Israel? ITUC's Stand

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The International Trade Union Confederation on Wednesday condemned Israel’s intention to build yet another 1,000 settlement dwellings in East Jerusalem and occupied West Bank and has called on the whole international community of goodwill to recognize Palestine as a state and Israeli’s settlements as illegal. 

 

“Binyamin Netanyahu’s government is treating the international community with total contempt, and trampling further on the rights and livelihoods of Palestinians with this provocative and illegal move,” Sharan Burrow, ITUC General Secretary stated in a written statement today. “Governments around the world should respond by giving formal recognition to the State of Palestine, and acting to stop any form of international involvement in building and sustaining these illegal settlements.”

 

Still, today, however, many people of governments around the world continue to misunderstand the history of the stuggle, instead believing in what Jewish Voices For Peace calls the “Pallywood” version promoted by Zionists.

 

“This video [belwo] is a creation of Jewish Voice for Peace, and not the creation of ‘Pallywood’ as some Zionist supporters below would state. This is a Jewish organization and these views are backed by Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein and Neturei Karta Jews,” Jewish Voices For Peace state about their recently released video, Israel and Palestine 2014: War Explained!

 

 

Unlike what many Americans think, the war against Palestinians is not about religion. It’s about land, power, resources, which is why the United States is involved and heavily supporting Israel’s human rights abuses against Palestinians, as explained and learned firsthand by an American-Jewish woman who spent many months there, Anna Baltzer. Baltzer provides the commentary in the video below.

 

 

The Irish Senate adopting last week a Resolution to recognise the State of Palestine follows the Sweden’s government announcing its plan to formally recognise Palestine, and a recognition motion passed overwhelmingly by the UK Parliament earlier this month.

 

“Well over 100 countries have now formally recognised the Palestinian State, with parliaments in many others also passing symbolic motions.  Symbolic recognition needs to be turned into action, so that the long-promised two-state solution for Israel and Palestine can become a reality,” said Burrow.

 

“There is every reason for Palestinians to have international recognition, and no good reason for yet further delay.  The status quo is a threat to peace and stability in the region and a denial of human rights for the Palestinian people.”

 

The United States Congress has unanimously voted to support Israeli’s aggression against Gaza. Today, that Israeli aggression was responsible for running over another Palestinian child.

 

 

 

Special Protection of Palestine

 

Israeli’s driving over Palestinian children has become a favorite way to kill them. Yes, imagine if a Palestinian ran over an Israeli child – if you can, since highly unlikely.

 

The ITUC is also supporting the call by the Palestinian Authority on UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for the UN to afford special protection status to Palestine. 

 

“The international community needs to step up to the task of helping rebuild the Gaza Strip, and the political stagnation which is stopping progress needs to be turned into real action by the global community to break the impasse,” said Burrow.

 

 

The ITUC represents 176 million workers in 161 countries and territories and has 324 national affiliates. (See ITUC 2014 Congress Statement http://www.ituc-csi.org/IMG/pdf/ituc-3co-e-5-congressstatement-en-210×297-01-140819.pdf and ITUC 2010 Congress Statement http://www.ituc-csi.org/IMG/pdf/2CO_09_Peace_Disarmament_and_UN_03-10-2.pdf )



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    • paul brown

      Only 31 readers in 36 hours. 5,996 readers of end-time demons crap in 18 hours. Is this a great country or what?

    • Econdemocracy

      The ” Israel and Palestine 2014: War Explained!” is definitely good. I’ve seen it on youtube a week or two ago. It’s good to see that there are others on beforeitsnews that, like me, are not ultra right wingers (or any right wingers)

      A great website of a peaceful but strongly principled Israeli group working against the many abuses of power by their government is Gush Shalom (“peace block” in Hebrew) see:

      http://zope.gush-shalom.org/index_en.html

      They cover things that are hard to find elsewhere. Their founder is 91 years old, Uri Avnery, former Knesset (Israeli Parliament) member, who fought in the 1948 War but has turned many many decades ago to a fighter for freedom, for peace, and justice…

      The website is also a good source of hard to find elsewhere photos of joint Jewish-Arab / Jewish/Palestinian peaceful demonstrations..

      Like this photo with a red sign for a “Palestinian State besides Israel” I believe it says:

      http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/galleries/gallery_1406284132/flags_def.jpg?display=medium

      See also ” End collective punishment in East Jerusalem! ”

      http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/events/1414586004

      They also run ads in Israeli newspapers and even the Israeli media (which is far from “great” to put it mildly) lets them run criticisms of Israel that here in the U.S. you’ll have a hard time getting into the paper…U.S. media is more “pro-Isarel” than even Israeli media….But the “pro” Israel right-wing position is not really “pro” Israel…It’s pro militarism, pro abuses, pro reactionary….

      The “pro” Israel posiition is really against the interests of Israelis…it’s even worse in what it does to Palestinians, of course…but it hurts Israelis just like U.S. “adventures” abroad hurt ordinary U.S. citizens…don’t let anyone get away with saying they are “Pro Israel” if they mean pro right wing, pro militariam…ask them politely, gently but assertively, what is “pro” about hurting Israel’s future, gonig more right wing (lower and middle class Israelis suffer, cuts to programs, etc, more ultra-religious Israeli Jews tell Secular Israelis “how to live” day to day life….more cuts to domestic programs etc) all while not only doing very immoral and illegal things to Palestinians but also ultimately hurting the future of Israel’s Jews, just as surely as the 99% of Americans are getting screwed by so many government programs here…Would it make sense fo rsomeone to day “I’m pro-Americans” by supporting programs that hurt 99% (more like 99.99%) of Americans? Nope..check out Gush Shalom !

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