Six actions
Action 1: Call for participation in Direct Action Saturday and beyond in
Palestine: We are the sons and daughters of Canaanites have established
Canaan Village on endangered Canaanitic Palestinian land. We declare that
it is our natural right to develop, reclaim, improve, use, and live on all
our lands free and without threats from occupiers/colonizers. Beginning
Saturday 9 February, we will have several days of direct work to help
farmers in the South West Bank to reclaim and improve agricultural lands.
If interested to help, meet us at Bab Zqaq in Bethlehem at 7 AM Saturday
when we will move to the location/s of the work or email us later to find
out what is going on and how you can help where on site or off site. We
call on people of conscience and media to join us as we work our lands and
thus defend it against attempts by foreign colonizers to usurp it.
Committee against the wall and settlements, Southwest West Bank.
Action 2: Palestinians call for a boycott of Israeli diamonds
http://www.australiansforpalestine.net/75295
Action 3: Ask the UEFA to cancel planned finals in Apartheid Israel
http://redcardapartheid.weebly.com/
Action 4: Sign petition to protect Cremisan area in Bethlehem District from
being taken over by Israeli settlers (note also press conference and prayer
vigil this Friday)
http://www.change.org/petitions/save-the-valley-in-cremisan-support-bridges-not-walls
Action 5: Why Palestine should take Israel to The Hague by George Bisharat,
a professor at the University of California s Hastings College of the Law
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-opinion/why-palestine-should-take-israel-to-the-ha
gue/article4370897.ece
Action 6: Palestinian Academic and cultural boycott of Israel grow. Vist
PACBI news letter
http://www.pacbi.org/newsletter/January2013.php
PS related to Action 5: In the last email I shared reports from UN and
human rights organizations about Israeli brutality and war crimes. I
alluded to the Turkish government report on Israeli crimes against the
freedom flotilla. Here is that full report of the Turkish National
Commission of Inquiry
http://www.mfa.gov.tr/data/Turkish%20Report%20Final%20-%20UN%20Copy.pdf
Finally, sometimes people say I use strong language. These are usually
people who have not been here to see what we see. Others who have been
here will say we are far too nice in our language and that we need much
stronger response to the atrocities. The following videos are of children
watching their home being demolished by occupiers /colonizers in Beit
Hanina, East Jerusalem area happened two days ago. It is one of thousands
of similar stories. The home is demolished by occupiers intent on changing
a country from multireligious and multicultural to a Jewish state .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_U83yMFVFM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxCX9j230x8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-FySzDyOTI
Stay human
Sincerely
Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD
I see Mazin is using the Canaanite identification for Palestinians. When I received the Canaan Peace Plan name as part of the Holy Land peace plan vision I was sure that Palestinians would find the name confusing to any Palestinian state plans. But it wasn't so. "Canaan" is found in Palestinian expressions of national heritage and even in businesses and products. Mazin' book Sharing the Land of Canaan is typical. So a Canaan Peace Plan is not so far off the mark especially since it is the only authentic name for the Holy Land that wasn't placed there by either Rome or one tribe out of all the Canaanite federation city-states and inland tribal nations.
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