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There is more and more....Solidarity With Terror
By Lee Kaplan
FrontPageMagazine.com | July 2, 2004
This June I attended a training session of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), an organization of volunteers whose purpose is to obstruct Israeli defense forces attempting to protect the civilian population from terrorist acts. The ISM was set up by the Palestinians after Arafat broke off the Oslo peace talks and launched the second intifada. Its organizers were Ghassan Andoni, a physics professor from Bir Zeit University in the West Bank, and Palestinian activists George Rishmawi and George Qassis. The idea was to bring in international volunteers, mostly radical students from the United States, Canada and Europe, as nonviolent peace activists who would interfere with the Israeli armys anti-terrorist operations. If the volunteers were injured or arrested, the international repercussions would be detrimental to Israel, a propaganda win for the PLO. The operation costs the Palestine Authority very little since many of the radical volunteers pay their own transportation costs and live in the homes of Palestinians during their stays in the Middle East.
The ISM made international headlines when one of its activists, Rachel Corrie, a college radical from Olympia, Washington, was killed while attempting to block an Israeli bulldozer. The bulldozer was attempting to destroy tunnels from the Gaza strip through which the terrorists imported weapons and explosives. Corrie became a martyr to the cause, and inspiration to other radicals to follow.
The most visible American figure in the International Solidarity Movement is Adam Shapiro, a Brooklyn Jew and college radical,who became a human shield for Yasser Arafat when the Israeli army surrounded Arafats Ramallah compound following the massacre of 30 Israelis some of them Holocaust survivors -- at a Passover seder, shortly after the Intifada was launched. When I interviewed him last year, Shapiro told me point blank that he does not consider himself a Jew. He is married to Huwaida Arraf, a Palestinian-American activist from Michigan whose father holds Israeli citizenship. They have become the spokespeople for the ISM in the United States. In articles on the ISM website where they discuss their goals of dismantling Israel by supporting Palestinian terrorists they use euphemisms such as legitimate resistance or support for legitimate armed struggle while claiming that they are nonviolent. The ISM uses as its motto by any means necessary.
Such means include the hiding of terrorists like Shadi Sukiya, who was arrested in an ISM office in the West Bank. An arms cache was also found in an ISM office. Two suicide bombers gained entry for their murderous agendas under the auspices of the ISM. These Pakistani Muslims from Great Britain entered Israel through Jordan as clients of the Alternative Tourism Group, an operation set up by Andoni to aid ISM volunteers coming to Israel. They then met with the ISM at their offices for an entire day in Gaza before proceeding on to Tel Aviv where they bombed a popular beach bar, Mikes Place, killing three people.
In the last three years the ISM has developed an extensive presence in the United States, while operating under several organizational names to avoid unwanted scrutiny of its operations. One of these entities, Al Awda (the Return in Arabic), is also known as the Palestine Right to Return to Return Coalition (PRRC). It is led by Mazen Qumsiyeh, a Yale geneticist. There are Al Awda chapters all over the United States, particularly in the vicinities of U.S. college campuses. Other ISM groups under the name SUSTAIN (Stop U.S. Taxpayer Assistance to Israel Now) operate in Los Angeles and New York. In New Jersey, the ISM supporters call themselves Palsolidarity. When the volunteers go to the Middle East to aid the PLO they go under the umbrella name of the International Solidarity Movement. When they hold events in the U.S. and Canada they call themselves the Palestine Solidarity Movement.
The party line, however, is always the same. The right of so-called Palestinian refugees to return to Israel is unconditional and Israel itself must become Palestine. The number of actual refugees from that part of the former Ottoman empire where Israel was established in 1948 was 600,000, most of whom are no longer alive. The number of refugees the Palestine Authority now recognizes is close to 5 million. The population of Israel is 6 million, including 1 million Israeli Arabs. The math is simple and the desired result: the liquidation of the Jewish state.
At the Palestine Solidarity Conference held at Ohio State last year, Adam Shapiro told me that the ISM has Palestinian handlers, or undercover supervisors at all demonstrations against Israel. These supervisors direct attacks against the separation fence that is being built to keep suicide bombers and armed terrorists from infiltrating into Israel and other targets. One of the handlers leading the current attacks on the security fence at the start of this summers campaign is a veteran of the Marxist terrorist group PLFP named Hisham Jam Joun. The ISM website, www.palsolidarity.org , openly proclaims that the organization is Palestinian-led.
So peace activists are radicals?? why not call them Thugs or Terrorists while your at it??
Anti-Terrorist? The IDF Kills 3x more Innocent civilians (babies, children, mothers) than all Palestinian fighters combined.. and you have the nerve to call them anti terrorist?
Rachel Corrie, an American Jew, was trying to prevent Buldozers from Destroying innocent palestian homes that were built without permits
You still don't get it do you?? why do you think there are so many Jews paying their own tickets to protest against Israel??
First of all, the right of return must be unconditional if one is to follow international law
Originally posted by r2200t
Pics of Rachel Before and During Murder, note her RED jacket, and megaphone, ensures that the driver deliberately ran her over (routine Israeli training)
http://www.jedimaster.net/rachelcorrie4.jpg
http://www.jedimaster.net/rachelcorrie5.jpg
http://www.jedimaster.net/rachelcorrie6.jpg
Demolitions of homes of innocent Palestinians in Palestinian Territories without (unavailable) Israeli Permits, LINKS:
"Recently there has been a spate of demolitions of houses and shops in the occupied territories whose Palestinian owners are not connected to any militant groups or attacks on Israelis, on the basis that they were built without the correct permits."
http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=5970_Dont_Mourn_for_Corrie
"on the basis that they were built without the correct permits"
amptoons.poliblog.com/blog/000748.html
"refused to comment on why four applications for building permits"...
there are millions of quotes.. those should be enough
Who gives a flying fig? i'll tell youthe entire world does:
www.us-israel.org/jsource/UN/usvetoes.html
This link clearly depicts World opinion when it comes to Israel. EVERYONE wants peace, it's very simple, send international monitors, of course, the strongly lobbied US government protects the Apartheid state of Israel with it's veto (see above link)...
Why is Israel afraid of international Peacekeepers? are they hiding anything?
Peace and love
Originally posted by r2200t
Try to spin it all you want, the fact is she was wearing a Bright colored shirt. She was murdered. OR Israel deploys blind bulldozer drivers in the palestinian territories..remember, not in israel, in the palestinian territories, Israel is destroying homes that are not within it's own borders!
Again, i think you missed something
www.us-israel.org/jsource/UN/usvetoes.html
This link speaks for itself and you cannot defend it in anyway; no rational person can give a good reason to why the US (alone against the rest of the world) vetos resolutions like a "Call for UN Observers Force in West Bank, Gaza"..."On the killing by Israeli forces of several UN employees and the destruction of the World Food Programme (WFP) warehouse"..Condemned acts of terror, demanded an end to violence and the establishment of a monitoring mechanism to bring in observers"....et caetera
Peace and Love
Originally posted by r2200t
"Sorry, can't let this pap go unnoticed: All jedi sites are non-informational. LGF demonstrates why Corrie wasn't murdered, but rather suicidal. The Israeli site are a list of UN resolutions through 1982. Beware of whom you look to for info..."
Sorry, i just went on google, really quick, i didn't know about jedi...(other than starwars..)
About the links to your articles, the first 2 are written by Jewish journalists, i sure hope there is no conflict of interest (or extreme bias) ..knowing that we are debating the Isr/Pali issue...
The Israeli link is perfectly adequate, it lists blocked resolutions from '82 till now, and best of all i used an Israeli site to bash Israeli policy (priceless).
Peace and Love
