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<DIV>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?</DIV>
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<DIV><A title=http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/752246.html
href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/752246.html">http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/752246.html</A></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>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?</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>From:</B> <A title=mailto:leeloe@igc.org
href="mailto:leeloe@igc.org">Lee Loe</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=mailto:leeloe@igc.org
href="mailto:leeloe@igc.org">'Lee Loe'</A> ; <A
title=mailto:annbrag@prodigy.net
href="mailto:annbrag@prodigy.net">annbrag@prodigy.net</A> ; <A
title=mailto:discuss@paa-tx.org
href="mailto:discuss@paa-tx.org">discuss@paa-tx.org</A> ; <A
title=mailto:emailsissy@gmail.com href="mailto:emailsissy@gmail.com">Sissy
Farenthold</A> ; <A title=mailto:hckiely@comcast.net
href="mailto:hckiely@comcast.net">'hckiely'</A> ; <A
title=mailto:Hwsanborn@comcast.net
href="mailto:Hwsanborn@comcast.net">Hwsanborn@comcast.net</A> ; <A
title=mailto:gbarnstone@pdq.net href="mailto:gbarnstone@pdq.net">'George
Barnstone'</A> ; <A title=mailto:codepinkhouston@lists.riseup.net
href="mailto:codepinkhouston@lists.riseup.net">'code pink listserve'</A>
</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, August 19, 2006 6:52
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [PAA-Discuss] UK Jews ask what
is Israel doing?</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Formata-BoldCondensed color=black
size=7><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 43pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Formata-BoldCondensed">WHAT
IS <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">ISRAEL</st1:place></st1:country-region>
DOING</SPAN></FONT></B><B><FONT face=Formata-BoldCondensed color=black
size=7><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 77pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Formata-BoldCondensed">?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Universal-NewswithCommPi color=#9a9a9a
size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 5pt; COLOR: #9a9a9a; FONT-FAMILY: Universal-NewswithCommPi">_
</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Bembo color=black size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Bembo"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Formata-Bold color=black size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 15pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Formata-Bold">WE
WATCH WITH HORROR </SPAN></FONT></B><FONT face=Bembo color=black size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Bembo">the collective
punishment of the<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Bembo color=black size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Bembo">people of <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Gaza</st1:place></st1:City>. Everything
reasonable must be done to secure<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Bembo color=black size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Bembo">Corporal Gilad
Shalit’s safe release but nothing <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region> is
doing<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Bembo color=black size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Bembo">contributes to that
aim. Instead, it is using its enormously superior<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Bembo color=black size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Bembo">military might to
terrorise an entire people.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Bembo color=black size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Bembo">DESTRUCTION OF THE
FRAGILE </SPAN></FONT><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><FONT
face=Bembo color=black size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Bembo">Gaza</SPAN></FONT></st1:place></st1:City><FONT
face=Bembo color=black size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Bembo"> infrastructure
will<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Bembo color=black size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Bembo">not release Shalit.
Bombing power stations and cutting off fuel<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Bembo color=black size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Bembo">supplies deprives
people of electricity, refrigeration, pumped<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Bembo color=black size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Bembo">drinking water and
sewage disposal services. It holds hostage<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Bembo color=black size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Bembo">hospital patients on
life support systems, or undergoing dialysis.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Bembo color=black size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Bembo">It brings the threat
of epidemics and starvation.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Bembo color=black size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Bembo">AS GIDEON LEVY
WROTE </SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Bembo color=black size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Bembo">in the Israeli daily
Ha’aretz, this<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Bembo color=black size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Bembo">is “not only
pointless, but … blatantly illegitimate”. Gilad
Shalit<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Bembo color=black size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Bembo">has become a pawn in
the Israeli government’s ongoing battle to<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Bembo color=black size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Bembo">topple the
democratically-elected government of the
Palestinians.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Bembo color=black size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Bembo">PRESENTING THIS AS
AN ISOLATED </SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Bembo color=black size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Bembo">hostage-taking
incident<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Bembo color=black size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Bembo">ignores
<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s regular snatching of
Palestinians from their<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Bembo color=black size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Bembo">homes.Thousands are
held in ‘administrative detention’ without<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Bembo color=black size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Bembo">trial, women and
children amongst them. A doctor and his<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Bembo color=black size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Bembo">brother – civilians
– were kidnapped from their home in Al<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Bembo color=black size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Bembo">Shouka, near Rafah,
the day before Corporal Shalit was captured.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Bembo color=black size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Bembo">Like him, they need
to be returned to their families in<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Bembo color=black size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Bembo">the established
practice of prisoner exchange. And all elected<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Bembo color=black size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Bembo">MPs, punitively
imprisoned by <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region> in recent days, must
be<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Bembo color=black size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Bembo">immediately
released.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Bembo color=black size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Bembo">FOR THE US AND ITS
ALLIES </SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Bembo color=black size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Bembo">merely to call for
“restraint” is<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Bembo color=black size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Bembo">desperately
inadequate – and evidently ineffective. This is a<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Bembo color=black size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Bembo">situation that
requires determined action by the international<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Bembo color=black size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Bembo">community.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Bembo color=black size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Bembo">SUPPORT THOSE
ISRAELIS </SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Bembo color=black size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Bembo">protesting against
their government’s<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Bembo color=black size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Bembo">destructive
actions.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Bembo color=black size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Bembo">WRITE TO YOUR MP
</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Bembo color=black size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Bembo">to demand that the
British Government<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Bembo color=black size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Bembo">act to achieve an
immediate ceasefire.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Bembo color=black size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Bembo">WRITE TO THE
ISRAELI EMBASSY</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Bembo color=black size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Bembo">.Make them
understand<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Bembo color=black size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Bembo">their actions are
wrong, their explanations unconvincing.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Formata-Medium color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Formata-Medium">Organised
by </SPAN></FONT></B><B><FONT face=Formata-Medium color=black size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Formata-Medium">JEWS
FOR JUSTICE FOR PALESTINIANS </SPAN></FONT></B><B><FONT face=Formata-Medium
color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Formata-Medium">•
PO Box 46081 • London W9 2ZF • http://www.jfjfp.org • Email:
info@jfjfp.org<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
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w:st="on">BRITAIN</st1:place></st1:country-region><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
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