Citizens arrest, disruption of Olmert in San Francisco

[Fakhri Dweik]

Citizens arrest, disruption of Olmert in San Francisco

Press release, Northern California Palestine justice groups, 23 October 2009

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Twenty-two activists were arrested at Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's speech to the World Affairs Council on 22 October between 6:30 and 7:30pm at the Westin St. Francis Hotel at Union Square in San Francisco. Inside the auditorium, activists began disrupting the event by placing Olmert under citizens arrest. Every couple of minutes, more activists disrupted his speech, barely allowing him to speak, by reading the names of the children killed in Gaza last winter, reading from the recently published Goldstone report and displaying banners that read "Lift the Siege on Gaza" and "War Crimes are Not Free Expression!" Activists were removed from the auditorium chanting "war criminal!" and taken to the Tenderloin Police Station where they are being held for citation. Ten additional persons participated in the action but were not arrested.

Olmert ordered Israel's brutal attacks on Gaza beginning in late December 2008, code-named Operation Cast Lead. Last week, the UN Human Rights Council passed a resolution endorsing the Goldstone report, an independent investigation into the Gaza operation, which found that Israel violated international law and possibly committed crimes against humanity.

"Israel is an apartheid state guilty of war crimes and its leaders should not be welcome in San Francisco," said Lisa Nessan, a Jewish resident of Oakland, who has traveled several times to Israel and Palestine, most recently in May. "For the past 60 years, under leadership like Olmert's, Israel has denied Palestinians their basic human rights, built settlements on their lands, and killed civilians -- all to force them from their homeland."

A lively protest also gathered across from the hotel in Union Square, where about 150 persons carried signs bearing the names and pictures of children killed during Operation Cast Lead. Olmert is making several appearances in the US this month, and has been met with strong protests at locations including the University of Chicago and Tulane University in New Orleans. "We join with people around the world who believe that Israel and its leaders must be held accountable for their actions. Israel killed 1,400 people during its attacks on Gaza last winter alone, and many more have died or suffered from the effects of siege, occupation, and apartheid on their daily lives," said Monadel Herzallah, a Palestinian activist who lives in Fairfield and whose 21-year-old cousin was killed in Gaza in January.

Organizers also expressed outrage that US President Barack Obama has ignored the findings of the Goldstone report. The US has pledged more than $3 billion each year in unrestricted aid to Israel. "Israel's use of US aid and military equipment violates our own laws," said Rae Abileah, an organizer with CODEPINK whose father is Israeli. "Why are we giving aid to a country that is destroying people's homes and attacking civilians, while our own nation is struggling with unemployment and underfunded social services?"

Eduardo Cohen of San Francisco sums up the sentiment: "The war crimes in the Goldstone Report are not an exception, but a reminder that Israel's apartheid law is itself criminal. We must not only hold Olmert accountable, but all of Israel's leaders, our own elected officials, and other companies and individuals that profit from these crimes. Only then can true justice be reached."

The protest was sponsored by: Arab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC), Bay Area Campaign to End Israeli Apartheid (BACEIA), CODEPINK Women for Peace, Friends of Deiribzi'a, Northern California International Solidarity Movement, Middle East Children's Alliance (MECA), South Bay Mobilization, Stop AIPAC, CAL Students for Justice in Palestine, US Palestine Communities Network (USPCN), Bay Area Women in Black.

Video produced by The Electronic Intifada.


Related Links

• "Olmert visit sparks Palestine movement at US university," Emily Ratner (20 October 2009)
• "EI exclusive video: Protesters shout down Ehud Olmert in Chicago," Video by The Electronic Intifada and text by Maureen Clare Murphy (16 October 2009)

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10851.shtml

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert “arrested” in San Francisco

Posted by Rae -

Thu, Oct 22, 2009

San Francisco – More than 22 activists, including several CODEPINKers, were arrested after disrupting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s speech to the World Affairs Council on Thursday, October 22, 2009 at the Westin St. Francis Hotel (Union Square). Inside the auditorium, activists read the names of the children killed in Gaza last winter, publicly charging Olmert with killing innocent civilians, held up bloody hands, and displayed banners that read “Lift the Siege on Gaza” and “War Crimes are Not Free Expression!” The protests began when three activists approached the stage and read a citizen’s arrest warrant for Olmert’s arrest (see warrant below). The activists were charged with “disrupting public assembly”, held at the Tenderloin police station, and released after the event had finished.

Olmert ordered Israel’s brutal attacks on Gaza beginning in late December 2008, codenamed Operation Cast Lead. Last week, the UN Human Rights Council passed a resolution endorsing the Goldstone Report, an independent investigation into the Gaza operation, which found that Israel violated international law and possibly committed crimes against humanity.

“Israel is an apartheid state guilty of war crimes and its leaders should not be welcome in San Francisco,” said Lisa Nessan, a Jewish resident of Oakland, who has traveled several times to Israel and Palestine, most recently in May. “For the past sixty years, under leadership like Olmert’s, Israel has denied Palestinians their basic human rights, built settlements on their lands, and killed civilians – all to force them from their homeland.”

A lively protest has also gathered across from the hotel in Union Square, where about 150 people are carrying signs bearing the names and pictures of children killed during Operation Cast Lead. Olmert is making several appearances in the US this month, and has been met with strong protests at locations including the University of Chicago and Tulane University in New Orleans. “We join with people around the world who believe that Israel and its leaders must be held accountable for their actions. Israel killed 1,400 people during its attacks on Gaza last winter alone, and many more have died or suffered from the effects of siege, occupation, and apartheid on their daily lives,” said Monadel Herzallah, a Palestinian activist who lives in Fairfield and whose 21 year old cousin was killed in Gaza in January.

Organizers also expressed outrage that President Obama has ignored the findings of the Goldstone Report. The US has pledged more than $3 billion each year in unrestricted aid to Israel. “Israel’s use of US aid and military equipment violates our own laws,” said Rae Abileah, an organizer with CODEPINK who is of Israeli descent. “Why are we giving aid to a country that is destroying people’s homes and attacking civilians, while our own nation is struggling with unemployment and underfunded social services?”

Eduardo Cohen of San Francisco sumed up the sentiment: “The war crimes in the Goldstone Report are not an exception, but a reminder that Israel’s apartheid law is itself criminal. We must not only hold Olmert accountable, but all of Israel’s leaders, our own elected officials, and other companies and individuals that profit from these crimes. Only then can true justice be reached.”

The protest was sponsored by: Arab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC), Bay Area Campaign to End Israeli Apartheid (BACEIA), CODEPINK Women for Peace, Friends of Deiribzi’a, Northern California International Solidarity Movement, Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA), South Bay Mobilization, Stop AIPAC, CAL Students for Justice in Palestine, US Palestine Communities Network (USPCN), Bay Area Women in Black.

Updates will be posted live via Twitter at http://twitter.com/ProtestOlmertSF

Warrant for the Arrest of Ehud Olmert

October 22, 2009

Under the authority provided under the international law principle of Universal Jurisdiction, this warrant authorizes the arrest of Ehud Olmert for high crimes against the Palestinian people, especially in the Gaza Strip, and the people of Lebanon committed during his tenure as Prime Minister of Israel.

Whereas, crimes which are liable for prosecution under universal jurisdiction include genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, torture, forced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, and crimes against humanity; and

Whereas, The International Independent Fact-Finding Mission authorized by the United Nations Human Rights Council (the Goldstone Report) found evidence that Israel is guilty of “war crimes” and “crimes against humanity” in its prosecution of “Operation Cast Lead;” and

Whereas, under Mr. Olmert’s personal direction, involvement, planning and knowledge, the crimes perpetrated during Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip include, but are not limited to the following:

1. Crimes against peace (Article VI (a) of the Nuremberg Principles):
Planning, preparing, initiating and waging a war of aggression on a civilian population in which:

• 1400 Palestinians were killed, the majority of which were civilians and non-combatants including over four hundred children,

• 5300 Palestinians were injured, and

• the reckless and illegal use of white phosphorous caused untold suffering.

2. War crimes (Article VI (b) of the Nuremberg Principles):
Plunder of public and private property, wanton destruction of cities, towns, and villages, and devastation not justified by military necessity, in which:

• more than 400,000 Gazans were left without running water, and

• 4,000 homes were destroyed or badly damaged, leaving tens of thousands of people homeless, and

• more than 1000 buildings were bombed, including schools and mosques.

3. Crimes against humanity (Article VI (c) of the Nuremberg Principles):
Persecutions on political, racial or religious grounds, when such acts are done or such persecutions are carried on in execution of or in connection with any crime against peace or any war crime.

4. Violations of the requirements of the US Arms Export Control Act of 1976 as documented by Congressman Dennis Kucinich in January, 2009.

Whereas, six Norwegian lawyers have filed a lawsuit against Ehud Olmert and other Israeli officials over the Gaza war, citing “massive terrorist attacks” during the war which led to the killing of civilians; and

Whereas, Ehud Olmert, because he no longer has diplomatic immunity, can no longer travel to the UK, Norway, Spain, or Belgium, for fear of prosecution for war crimes via “universal jurisdiction”.

Ehud Olmert, as the Israeli Prime Minister during Operation Cast Lead, is charged with “war crimes” and possible “crimes against humanity” and is hereby authorized to be placed under arrest by and for citizens of the state of California, and for the international community in the name of justice.

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http://codepink4peace.org/blog/2009/10/former-israeli-prime-minister-ehud-olmert-arrested-in-san-francisco/

[Fakhri Dweik]

Olmert visit sparks Palestine movement at US university

Posted: 25 Oct 2009 11:57 AM PDT

Activists stage a sit-in to protest former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's visit to Tulane University. (Abdul Aziz/Penta Press)

By Emily Ratner *

On 13 October, Tulane University, an elite university in the southern United States, hosted former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert as a featured speaker. Forced from office due to corruption charges and under indictment in his own country, Olmert's speaking engagements at respected American universities should at the very least raise questions as to the propriety of such events. That he and members of his military and political cabinet have been accused of war crimes during the 2006 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and last winter's invasion of Gaza requires people of good conscience to raise their voices in dissent. In response to his visit, a coalition of students, teachers, activists and community members — Muslims, Jews, Christians, Palestinians and their allies — rallied in opposition and protest inside and outside the event. Despite much hostility, they also found a great deal of support and more momentum for their organizing efforts.

Although outnumbered, we were more powerful than the war criminal and his Mossad protectors and stronger than his security checkpoints and his electronically amplified lies. We strapped red tape to our bodies and stashed fake-bloodied clothes in our packs. Those of us who had the required documents, who had student IDs from New Orleans universities, passed through the checkpoints while our barred friends and allies gathered outside, armed with truths painted on poster board and voices amplified by our growing numbers. With less than two weeks' notice, we had formed a broad coalition that planned a multi-phased action to reclaim the same campus that is home to TIPAC (the Tulane-Israel Public Affairs Committee). In 2007, the university hosted conservative commentator Ann Coulter for "Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week" in 2007 and had invited Olmert for a brief respite from international and Israeli courts. As Tulane University constructed a safe-haven and solicited interviews and meetings on behalf of its delinquent guest, dozens of our neighbors began to organize. And scores more responded to the call for action.

Tulane has long been an unwelcoming environment to our broader community, as well as to Muslim and Arab students. Olmert's strategists and local friends chose the city's most Zionist and "secure" nonreligious institution for his visit, and many activists questioned the wisdom of challenging a hostile student body and a sometimes even more hostile private police force. Tulane voices have been almost entirely absent in a great many community dialogues and meetings about Palestine solidarity work, and the prospect of initiating a campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions on Tulane's campus has always seemed laughable. But New Orleans is a city where so many feel linked to the Palestinian struggle through shared themes like the experience of diaspora, the right of return and near-daily racist violence and oppression by police and military authorities. There is no space in our city where Israeli war criminals will not be challenged.

Tulane was as hostile an environment as we expected. Hundreds of Tulane students showed up to hear Olmert speak, and many laughed and applauded when he made jokes about the comments of overwhelmed Palestinians who threw up their hands in exasperation at his remarks (i.e., lies) and walked out of the building. Many of our own group were only kept silent by the red tape we'd hidden on our bodies and then used to cover our mouths when Olmert first walked onto the stage. Scrawled on the tape were words that enumerated some of Olmert's administration's crimes, such as "human shields," "illegal settlements," "white phosphorous" and "occupation."

We breathed deeply and sat through an onslaught of racist lies about our Palestinian friends and family, until Olmert began to talk about the mistake Israel had made in "withdrawing" from Gaza. Then, one by one, our jaws aching from biting down on our testimonials of what we have seen with our own eyes and what our families and friends continue to suffer, we rose from our seats throughout the auditorium, slowly made our way to the aisle, and walked out.

Olmert's audience became our own for a moment. They gasped and whispered as more than 20 individuals stood glaring at Olmert and his guards and then marched out of the auditorium. As we left, we heard the chants of our friends, and breathed freely for what felt like the first time in over an hour. The hostility inside was palpable, but we were embraced by our friends outside whose numbers had easily tripled since we'd last seen them. They'd been shouting for two hours now, competing with calls of "Heil Hitler" and "Palestinians are Nazis" from students passing by. A Muslim woman in a hijab (headscarf) was hit with plates of food thrown from an adjacent third floor balcony while campus police looked on.

Within 20 minutes we'd set up the next phase of our action: four persons dressed in bloodied clothes laid down on the ground in front of the auditorium, and we placed cardboard grave markers with the numbers of massacred Palestinians and Lebanese around them. As students began to flow out of the auditorium, we handed out fliers detailing Olmert's war crimes and tried to stop passersby from spitting on our friends on the ground. We were mostly successful, and prevented a student from urinating on one of the participants.

We were not at all surprised by the hostility we faced, but we were surprised by the positive responses of far more Tulane students than we expected. Members of Tulane Amnesty International, Tulane American Socialist Students United and individual undergraduate and graduate students were active in every phase. They were joined by students from the General Union of Palestine Students and Amnesty International of University of New Orleans and students from Loyola University. As a result of this action, the challenges we face in our local solidarity work seem more surmountable. Indeed, Olmert's visit marked the beginning of Tulane's Palestine solidarity movement.

* Emily Ratner is an organizer and mediamaker based in New Orleans. She is a member of the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, and a graduate of Tulane University (class of 2007). In June, she joined a New Orleans delegation to Gaza. She can be reached at emily A T nolahumanrights D O T org.

Related Links:
Multimedia: Audio: Interviews with Olmert protesters in San Francisco (23 October 2009)
Opinion/Editorial: Why I disrupted Olmert (23 October 2009)

Source: Electronic Intifada

http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/10/25/olmert-visit-sparks-palestine-movement-at-us-university/

 

[Gordon Sturrock]

YESYESYES! MAKE ME PROUD TO BE AMERICAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MonaA]

I sent this to some friends who said that the same thing happened in Chicago!!

[CJ Cameron]

Very useful information! And I cannot but approve of all the comments.
I am using this in my appeal to several people.
THANK YOU.
Chantal Cameron

[Margaret]

Thank you for posting.. I also posted this on my site FightingForLiberty.ning.com

[eileen fleming]

I know 2 of those who were arrested in SF-they are thoughtful and nonviolent men.

But as I viewed the tape of the disruption, and noted the faces of the crowd, I imagined they were not winning over public opinion, and might be misjudged as the 'lunatic fringe'.

I am totally for making a ruckus outside of any hall where war criminals are speaking-but inside at the event cunning is required!

Imagine if the activists had waited until Olmert concluded his propaganda and en-mass lined up for the Q+A, and then nailed him one at a time with calm point blank statements that exposed exactly why he is a war criminal.

The greatest obstacle to peace in our world, is the violence in our individual hearts-and I am speaking from experience here-not condemning the activists- only suggesting they employ different tactics;

Case in point:

On September 29, 2009, a Palestinian bid to enact international law and universal jurisdiction by seeking the arrest of Israeli defense chief Ehud Barak for war crimes during his visit to Britain did not result in his arrest; but it was seriously debated by UK Judges for five hours and led to Vice Prime Minister Moshe Ya'alon, to cancel his scheduled trip to London next month.

[Mand Mitchell]

We protested his pressence in New Orleans as well. This is one of the few times when I can say I was actually really proud to be from the U.S.

[jerry gates]

Thanks to Fahkri for presenting this victory for Gaza against a major crime boss associated with the criminal nation of the zionist entity in Palestine and the USA.

What we saw is the results of colonial invasion and occupation after fifty years of lies, murderous assults on human beings and escalation of the invasions and occupations by the US England ,Canada, the EU and austrailia, Nato is next for this treatment.

Death to war criminals was ther chant that hung Saddam Hussein and this precedent of invasion, murderous ariel attacks on civiliam infrastructures and homes, incarceration and hanging of leadership and murder of nationally elected leadewrs has led to stron dissent of the Zionist era in world history by those willing andf able to stand tall for basic human rights as the way out of zionist tyranny,and this is only the beginning.

The short woman with the golf cap is Jewish, she is a committed activist and organizer who has traveled the globe and throughout the United States , gathering dissent, organising BDSS and rally the :troops" for the final assult on Zionist occupation of Muslim lands. I spoke with her at lenghth in a holtel lobby in Arlington Virginia and can assure every witness to her groups dissent that she is unwaveringly committed to bringing her people and the ones under Zionist occupation out of such darkness into the light if reason and fairness in international discourse and law.

Palestine waited while this protestant group formed to carry their banner in every US city. To the credit of the Palestinian people, this kind of peaceful civil disobedience is now gathering for it's own perfect storm, the clouds are tyhick, hale winds blow, and the rains of truth fall in this now pervasive action taken to stop mass murderers in their tracks.

There is no convincing argumant for Israeli occupation and intransigence. What is done by the cabal of the willing in the warrooms of the US, UK, Canada and France, Germany and the EU is disgusting to the world body politic and no arrogant and feckless leaders will prove otherwise, Zionism is a scourge against Human rights and this is a war crime of epic magnitude that is no longer hidden from view, but fully unmasked to the world of witness and to international courts of law convening to prosecute such criminality to the fullest extents of the law.

It is apparent that Abbas and his negotiating team have ended talks with the Regime in the Zionist entity due to broken promises concerning Jerusalem, settlements and illegal military acts of criminality against the children and people of Gaza, Hebron, The West Bank and Lebanon. Saeb Erekat has decried this intransigence, Abbas has now signaled his intentions to end talks until the agreements made to evacuate settlements to the 1967 line is undertaken by the zionist entity in earnest with rapid removal of settlements and the handing over of east Jerusalem to the Hamas leadership to carry forth as their capital of Palestine to their nationals people.

Hamas is entitled to an election and the freedom of their imprisoned leadership from zionist incarceration. The people od Gaza are entitled to bare witness to their suffering in international courts, have representation of theoir cases and make the statments neccessary to procure justice from the zionist entity to include the death sentence for war criminals as was done to Saddam Hussein.

George Bush, war crimianl, Ehud olmert war criminal, Donald Rumsfeld, war criminal. Ehud Barak, war criminal Gabi Askenazi, war criminal, Condoleeza Rice, war criminal, Hillary clinton, war criminal, Tsipi Livni, war criminal, Avidor liborman, war criminal. Benjamin Netenyahu, war criminal, Barack Obama, war criminal, Rahm Emanuel, war criminal, Nancy Pelosi, war criminal, Judith Miller, war criminal, Rupert Murdock, war criminal, Colin Powell , war criminal, Robert Gates, war criminal.

Might is NOT right in international law. This is an immutable truth that needs to be cemented in the minds of those who seek clemecy or immunity due to their positions as heads of state, The US set this precedent by turning Saddam Hussein over to collaborators with their occupation to be hanged by the neck until dead. His might, saved him not, nor will the collective might of the AIPAC lobby, it's Israel Shin Bet and their operatives, Mossad and the US CIA receive any quarter if their guilt is established with corroborating documentary evidences shared with defense attorneys for the accused nations and their ministers. This is an edict of international law that precedes diplomatic immunity standards set by the nations in prosecution for war crimes against the people of Palestine. Jurisdiction for citizen arrest is international and stops not at any blockage of their designated duty as world body citizens, given the jusrisdiction of the ICC, the citizen body responsible for detection, arrest and detention, to include legal extraordinary rendition as cited in US protocals during wartime for the arrewst, incarceration and interrogation, by any means legally sanctioned under the Geneva conventions to gather incriminating evidences to be used in a court of convention against such conspiracies to corrupt the leadership of Palestine, murder it's leaders opposed to settlements and incarcerate without due process the citizens of Palestine in zionist prisons without access to representation and visitation under the auspices of the Fourth Geneva conventions and Nuremberg principles established as the legal code of conduct for occupiers.

I applaud the citizens of the Bay Area for standing up to gutless arrogant criminality, white collar war criminals with strong ties to Jewish organized crime throughout the globe are due no respect from the citizen body which is forced to bare witness to their crimes as no authority in the US has.

Until the USA, which sullied the weapons for the murderous assult on Palestine for the last fifty years is committed to ending the Zionist strangulation of the Palestinain people, Barack Obama is no less and war criminal than Ehud Olmert and deserves, as the kingpin and commander in chief of US forces and it's weapons appropriations to war crimianls in the Zionist entity to represent his nations efforts, whether intransigent and criminal or jurisprudential and within the bounds of legality, the crimes committed by Israel against the people of Palestine are now done on his watch and under his direct jurisdiction as the commander in chief of US forces in the Zionist entity complicit in every way with the war crimes delineated in the Goldstone report and documented by UN resolutions and acceptance of said report and it's findings.

The peoples courts are convened, the sentences are p[passed the the extraordinary rendition of offenders sanctioned under international law.

It is a matter of very little time before the reality of agression, illegal occupation, crimes against humanity, war crimes and the debaucheries of torturing of innocents during their legal resistance to illegal occupation and the most onerous crime in God's book, that of aggressive warring for colonialist expansion and resource theft to include, oil, water, energy, labor, courts, ministries and governance of for and by the people of occupied territories by illegal aggressors intent on permanent occupation to garner hegemony, which is not a legal goal for aggressors.

When justice is left undone by those powerful and mighty with massive arms and armies, no recourse exists save for the citizens arrest and the protesting, dissent in public forum and forceful mass rioting against the establishments that deny justice to those under their warring and aggressive colonizations.No quarter will be given to such as deny justice to others by labeling them as terrorists,

Terrorism is aggressive warfare against defenseless civilians to intill abject fear of occupation armies that ends in submission to occupiers by citizens under siege by forces too well enabled by criminal elements to fight face to face in battles for sovereignty and freedom.

Israel has no leagl charter to occupy the West Bank or set Gaza under siege. These acts of colonial expansion are clearly labeled as war crimes and this indictment is binding, legal and if not honored by the offenders and their co conspirators immediately the citizens have no recourse but to exact their satisfaction any way they can, This dissent is wholly legal and if no remittance comes in the form of US capitulation to the letters of law delineated in the Goldstone report, war is sanctioned against such deviants until their arrest, indictment , prosecution and sentencing and punishment are carried out to the fullest extents of the law.

No physical warfare can dethrone despots with fascist religions from their principalities and powers in high places when no will to do so exists in the international community.

Palestine has waited for this pipe dream long enough. No support, military or interventionist by paramilitary will serve to dislodge settlements form the West Bank or end the siege of Gaza. This is a work of honesty, love for justice and the sure path, narrow and right, that is entered by good stewards of humanity in defense of innocents injured in unjust military actions by war criminals with superpower status.

Russia looks on while Palestine dies, China looks on while Palestine dies, India supports the zionist entity while Palestine dies, Saudi Arabia is embedded with the US arms industry and complicit in denying military support for Palestine due to it's defenses set by US military forces and their arms. The EU is complicit in supporting the apartheid regime and is intransigent in asking foir justice for Palestine directly and without reservation to both Israel and the USA and yet 21 US citizens bare this burden withoput flinching while these powers allow their detractors to humiliate them and Palestine with out a whimper.

Forget YOU gutless war crimes deniers, OK, We the People will sacrifice our freedom to fight against that which all of these nations and people know is wrong.

If the western cabal of occupation and aggression has no challengers of it's false paradigms, we the people will find the resolve to do this ourselves and die for the causes of equal rights for all people, fair decisions for refugees of unjust military actions and the emancipation proclamations that set peoples free of this tyranny of Zionist power in principalities and high places. To continue on an errant and debauch path is suicide for Israel and it's people.

[pam hardyment]

If any other war criminal comes to the UK then we have to employ this tactic, and then refuse to be removed so easily because by lying on the floor it takes up time and if two or three did it at once they would have their hands full, I would also have pointed a finger at the jews in the audience and asked them why they have nothing to say about this holocaust, he got off lightly. Not next time. Serial interruptions, thats the way, brilliant brave people now in jail, its the only way forward because the UN is powerless. It is up to us. I did nptice a few of the hecklers were jewish whichis also encouraging, they should state they are, in such a meeting and put the others to shame.

[Sami Jamil Jadallah]

I could swear he is the same man that the Palestinian leadership of Abbas, Qurai, Saeb and Abed-Rabou were negotiating with for over 3 years while he was expanding settlements ( 2,500 units in his last year in office) same man who ordered eviction and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Jerusalem, same man who set up more and more security checkpoints, building more Jewish Only Roads, same man who ordered the targeted assasination of a number of Palestinians and yes, by the way he is also the man who dropped 2 million cluster bombs over civilian targets and who presided over the war on Gaza. looks very familiar with the one that Abbas was having regular coffee and dinner with, same man declared by Abbas as his negotiating partner.. while at the University of Chicago, Olmert declared Jerusalem for ever Jewish and united under Israeli control. Perhaps Abbas and Qurai took a new course in history where East Jerusalem is now defined as Abu-Diss where the Palestinian Authority, well Palestinian leadership, invested tens of millions building offices for the Political Capital of Palestine ( Abu-Diss) and of course where the leadership also made a ton of money out of the deal. I guess 300 extra VIP passes worth all the dead in Gaza. After all did't these people vote for Hamas?