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The Illegal Israeli Land-Grab, Apartheid Wall Must Be Turned Down
A Lecture By Dr. Hassan A. El-Najjar
ccun.org, November 13, 2008
A Contribution to the International Week Against the Wall Activities,
Organized by the Emory University Advocates for Justice in Palestine,
On November 10-13, 2008.
Greetings & Acknowledgement
It gives me great pleasure to be invited to a second educational event
in the Emory University to speak about an important aspect of the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its effects on peace and US foreign
policy in the Middle East.
Let me first thank the Emory University Advocates for Justice in
Palestine, particularly Kareem Tabba'a and Ilma Zejnelovic , for organizing this
educational event, which involved a direct action in Asbury Circle and
screening the movie, "Iron Wall," in addition to this invited lecture.
I also thank Emory University peace activists who made a difference when
they did not allow Emory University to be a pad for launching anti-Arab
and anti-Islamic hate campaigns.
I. Background
1. Basic information about the Wall
a. The Apartheid Wall in Beir Nabala Ghetto (One minute showing the Wall, then Interviews in Arabic) b. Israeli occupation soldiers guarding construction of the Apartheid Wall, shooting at protesters in Ni'lin, May 27, 2008 (1 minute, 36 seconds) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a4StsUfodg&feature=related c Israeli occupation soldiers guarding construction of the Apartheid Wall, shooting at protesters in Ni'lin, May 25, 2008 (1 minute, 32 seconds) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UvIhjldy_I&feature=channel d. Israeli soldier shooting at anti-wall protesters in Ni'lin, resulting in injuring one activist (3 minutes) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENFsmDyA2iQ&feature=related e. Israeli occupation soldier places a Ni'lin blind-folded, hand-cuffed protester in a position to be shot at by another soldier with cold blood, July 20, 2008 (1 minute) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WEcWNc3DQw&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8ST5m9pREQ&feature=related f. Testimonies of people from Ni'lin in their struggle against the Wall, few minutes of Israeli occupation forces cracking down on the peaceful protesters (8 minutes) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDiaBGtpTRo Maps and Photos
2. Why was it built?
3. Positions of the International Court of Justice at the Hague and the
UN General Assembly
II. History of Grabbing Palestinian Lands
1. The 1947 Partition and the 1948 Israeli war of dispossession
III. Enablers of the Israeli Theft of Palestinian Lands
1. US Zionist political appointees in the executive branch of government (Henry Kissinger, Larry Eagleburger, Richard Haass, Dennis Ross, Bob Kimmit, Martin Indyk, Paul Wolfowitz,
Richard Peale, Feith, Abramson, Sandy Berger, Madeleine
Colin
Powell and Condy Rice and their deputies and assistance).
2. Members of Congress in both houses from both parties, who keep their rubber stamps ready for any resolution
proposed
by AIPAC lobbyists.
A list of members of Congress who have received money from AIPAC (1999-2000) 3. Presidents and presidential candidates from both parties who never stop announcing their financial, military,
and
diplomatic support for the Israeli occupation government and
of
Congress.
justify
these actions. 5. Christian fundamentalist leaders who use their pulpits and TV broadcasts to preach loyalty to Israel and support
for
anything the Israelis do.
- The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy By John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt (TEXT) - Findley, Paul. A. Lincoln, "Deliberate Deceptions: Facing the Facts about the US-Israeli Relationship." (1990), They Dare to Speak Out: People and Institutions Confront Israel's Lobby. (1985). Video: Findley: Dares to Speak Again: opposingdigits.com/vlog/?p=478
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The Gulf War: Overreaction & Excessiveness
(Chapter 11) By Hassan El-Najjar
IV. Impact on US Foreign Policy
1. Rising anti-US sentiments in the Arab Middle East and throughout the
Islamic world, as the US is seen as supporter of Israeli continuous
assault on the Palestinian people through its financial, military, and
diplomatic support for the Israeli occupation government.
Through the unlimited US military support for the Zionist state, the
Israeli occupation forces have been enabled to continue the killing,
injuring, and kidnapping of Palestinians and demolition of their homes
and businesses on daily basis, for decades. The US continuous annual
financial assistance has enabled the Israeli occupation government to
build all the illegal settlements, Apartheid roads, and the Apartheid
Wall.
2. The 2003 unjustified and unwarranted US invasion and occupation of
Iraq has pleased Zionist Israeli expansionists, who had a strong Arab
state destroyed without shedding a drop of their blood. However, the US
has come out from this plunder as the second loser only after the Iraqi
people. The Iraq war has added about five trillion dollars to the US
national debt, which nobody knows how it will ever be paid. But
everybody knows that it is the cause of the collapse of the US-dominated
global capitalist system.
3. The example of the Israeli occupation of Palestine and how Israelis
brutally terrorize the Palestinian people told Iraqis, Afghanis, or any
other invaded nations that the US invasion and occupation would be the
same for them as the Israeli occupation for the Palestinian people. This
fact explains the fierce resistance to the US invasions and occupations
of Iraq and Afghanistan, and the US-backed Ethiopian invasion and
occupation of Somalia.
V. Solutions
2. Most of the Land-Grab, Apartheid Wall should be dismantled, except
for small areas near cities, towns, and villages. These parts of the
illegal Apartheid Wall should be kept as soveneur, and spots for artists
to record the brutality of Zionism, and reminder a reminder for
Palestinians, Israelis, and all humanities that tolerance to invasion,
occupation, and subjugation of other nations leads to killing people,
injuring them, destroying their homes, and dispossessing them of their
lands.
3. If Israelis would still feel better with a wall for protection, then
they should build it within the agreed upon borders after a peace
agreement decides where these borders are.
4. But better than walls, Israelis need to reconsider their brutal
anti-human Zionist ideology. They and their supporters everywhere should
try to think of themselves as humans, who share this planet with other
people. They should stop plotting and launching wars around the world.
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