[PAA-Discuss] UK Jews ask what is Israel doing?

[Paul Myers]

Why don't we hear about what is in the message below and what is in the Israeli newspaper editorial at the following link on KPFT?

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/752246.html<http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/752246.html>

Why don't we hear some in depth factual coverage and analysis about the root causes of the conflicts in the Middle East, that is absent from the US mainstream media, on KPFT?
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  From: Lee Loe<mailto:leeloe at igc.org> 
  To: 'Lee Loe'<mailto:leeloe at igc.org> ; annbrag at prodigy.net<mailto:annbrag at prodigy.net> ; discuss at paa-tx.org<mailto:discuss at paa-tx.org> ; Sissy Farenthold<mailto:emailsissy at gmail.com> ; 'hckiely'<mailto:hckiely at comcast.net> ; Hwsanborn at comcast.net<mailto:Hwsanborn at comcast.net> ; 'George Barnstone'<mailto:gbarnstone at pdq.net> ; 'code pink listserve'<mailto:codepinkhouston at lists.riseup.net> 
  Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2006 6:52 PM
  Subject: [PAA-Discuss] UK Jews ask what is Israel doing?


  WHAT IS ISRAEL DOING?

  _ 

  WE WATCH WITH HORROR the collective punishment of the

  people of Gaza. Everything reasonable must be done to secure

  Corporal Gilad Shalit's safe release but nothing Israel is doing

  contributes to that aim. Instead, it is using its enormously superior

  military might to terrorise an entire people.

  DESTRUCTION OF THE FRAGILE Gaza infrastructure will

  not release Shalit. Bombing power stations and cutting off fuel

  supplies deprives people of electricity, refrigeration, pumped

  drinking water and sewage disposal services. It holds hostage

  hospital patients on life support systems, or undergoing dialysis.

  It brings the threat of epidemics and starvation.

  AS GIDEON LEVY WROTE in the Israeli daily Ha'aretz, this

  is "not only pointless, but . blatantly illegitimate". Gilad Shalit

  has become a pawn in the Israeli government's ongoing battle to

  topple the democratically-elected government of the Palestinians.

  PRESENTING THIS AS AN ISOLATED hostage-taking incident

  ignores Israel's regular snatching of Palestinians from their

  homes.Thousands are held in 'administrative detention' without

  trial, women and children amongst them. A doctor and his

  brother - civilians - were kidnapped from their home in Al

  Shouka, near Rafah, the day before Corporal Shalit was captured.

  Like him, they need to be returned to their families in

  the established practice of prisoner exchange. And all elected

  MPs, punitively imprisoned by Israel in recent days, must be

  immediately released.

  FOR THE US AND ITS ALLIES merely to call for "restraint" is

  desperately inadequate - and evidently ineffective. This is a

  situation that requires determined action by the international

  community.

  SUPPORT THOSE ISRAELIS protesting against their government's

  destructive actions.

  WRITE TO YOUR MP to demand that the British Government

  act to achieve an immediate ceasefire.

  WRITE TO THE ISRAELI EMBASSY.Make them understand

  their actions are wrong, their explanations unconvincing.

  Organised by JEWS FOR JUSTICE FOR PALESTINIANS . PO Box 46081 . London W9 2ZF . http://www.jfjfp.org . Email: info at jfjfp.org

  A CALL BY JEWS IN BRITAIN

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