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John Lennon's 69th, me and U2
By Eileen Fleming (about the author) Page 1 of 3 page(s)
For OpEdNews: Eileen Fleming - Writer
And I will be at a U2 concert in Tampa tonight.
You
say you want a revolution? Well, you know we all want to change the
world, but when you talk about destruction, don't you know that you can
count me out: IN!
Me2!
The status quo must go,
Its demise is blowing in the wind,
Abbas has no clothes;
Punting the Goldstone Report
Thoroughly exposed the PA
Is just another layer of The Occupation!
Civil Society has risen up
Calling for Accountability not Impunity,
NONVIOLENT Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
Against Israel until the OCCUPATION Ends;
And there are equal human rights for all
And upholding of international law,
The fire has been lit
And we won't back down
Until there is FREEDOM, FREEDOM, FREEDOM
For Gaza Palestine
In
1985 Bono joined forces with a group of artists concerned about
Apartheid in South Africa. Inspired by his meetings with several of
them, he wrote "Silver and Gold"
Yep, silver and gold.
This song was written in a hotel room in New York City.
'Round about the time a friend or ours, little Steven,
was putting together a record of artists against apartheid.
This is a song written about a man in a shanty town outside of Johannesburg.
A man who's sick of looking down the barrel of white South Africa.
A man who is at the point where he is ready to take up arms against his oppressor.
A man who has lost faith in the peacemakers of the west while
they argue and while they fail to support a man like bishop Tutu
and his request for economic sanctions against South Africa.
Am I buggin' you?
If only Bono would bug US NOW and be a part of Civil Society who will break this monster's back:
Apartheid in the 'Holy' Land, which is in pieces: Bantustans!
Even
though in 2004, the International Court of Justice ruled that The Wall
is a violation of International Law because it cuts through the West
Bank appropriating Palestinian land and destroying Palestinian villages
and economy to make way for Israeli apartheid colonies, they have been
spun as 'neighborhoods' by the USA government and limp media.
In
a recent UN report, Haaretz columnist Danny Rubinstein admitted that
"Israel today was an apartheid State with four different Palestinian
groups: those in Gaza, East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Israeli
Palestinians, each of which had a different status...even if the wall
followed strictly the line of the pre-1967 border, it would still not
be justified. The two peoples needed cooperation rather than walls
because they must be neighbors." [1]
"An
apartheid society is much more than just a 'settler colony'. It
involves specific forms of oppression that actively strip the original
inhabitants of any rights at all, whereas civilian members of the
invader caste are given all kinds of sumptuous privileges." [2]
On
May 14, 1948, The Declaration of the establishment of Israel affirmed
that, "The State of Israel will be based on freedom, justice and peace
as envisaged by the prophets of Israel: it will ensure complete
equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants
irrespective of religion it will guarantee freedom of religion [and]
conscience and will be faithful to the Charter of the United Nations."
However,
reality intrudes, for "The truth which is known to all; through its
army, the government of Israel practices a brutal form of Apartheid in
the territory it occupies. Its army has turned every Palestinian
village and town into a fenced-in, or blocked-in, detention camp."-
Israeli Minister of Education, Shulamit Aloni quoted in the popular
Israeli newspaper, Yediot Acharonot on December 20, 2006.
How
could a state founded on "equality of social and political rights to
all its inhabitants" come to be such a state of hypocrisy?
A Little History:
July 5, 1950:
Israel enacted the Law of Return by which Jews anywhere in the world,
have a "right" to immigrate to Israel on the grounds that they are
returning to their own state, even if they have never been there
before. [3]
July 14, 1952:
The enactment of the Citizenship/Jewish Nationality Law, results in
Israel becoming the only state in the world to grant a particular
national-religious group—the Jews—the right to settle in it and gain
automatic citizenship. In 1953, South Africa's Prime Minister Daniel
Malan becomes the first foreign head of government to visit Israel and
returns home with the message that Israel can be a source of
inspiration for white South Africans. [IBID]
In 1962, South
African Prime Minister Verwoerd declares that Jews "took Israel from
the Arabs after the Arabs had lived there for a thousand years. In that
I agree with them, Israel, like South Africa, is an apartheid state."
[IBID]
August 1, 1967:
Israel enacted the Agricultural Settlement Law, which bans Israeli
citizens of non-Jewish nationality- Palestinian Arabs- from working on
Jewish National Fund lands, well over 80% of the land in Israel.
Knesset member Uri Avnery stated: "This law is going to expel Arab
cultivators from the land that was formerly theirs and was handed over
to the Jews." [IBID]
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