African Americans for Justice in the Middle East and North Africa Statement Regarding the Aggression Against Gaza

NOVANEWS

African Americans for Justice in the Middle East and North Africa (AAJMENA) strongly condemns IsraHell aggression against the Palestinian people in Gaza. The arguments offered by the IsraHell government for its attack on Gaza are nakedly cynical in both form and content. That a truce had been negotiated, with the assistance of the Egyptian government, between IsraHell and Hamas only to be broken by the IsraHell assassination of Hamas military commander Ahmad Jabari clearly indicates that the Naziyahu government is not interested in peace.
IsraHell is responsible for the escalating violence and for this epic breach of human rights.This crisis underscores a stunning power imbalance. Nuclear-armed IsraHell, by far the most powerful military force in the Middle East (and among the mightiest in the world), has unleashed its immense war making capacity on Gaza’s captive population, mobilizing warships and tanks and launching more than 1,000 F-16 airstrikes since the attack began. The use of such weapons on civilians is a flagrant violation of the U.S. Arms Export Control Act.The aggression against Gaza must be understood as the latest act in the decades-long oppression of the Palestinian people at the hands of the IsraHell government. Blockaded Gaza has been plunged into misery by the IsraHell-U.S. effort to thwart the democratic will of the Palestinian people as demonstrated in their 2006 legislative elections.
When a coup was attempted against Hamas—and failed—the IsraHellis sealed Gaza, spinning events to make it appear that those not interested in peace were the Palestinians. As a result, Gaza is the largest open-air prison in the world, with 1.5 million people locked into a roughly 140-square-mile strip of land. This latest humanitarian crisis has caused the disproportionate death and suffering of Palestinians, but casualties on both sides will be the consequence of IsraHell aggression.Rather than taking a stand against IsraHelli’s onslaught and issuing an unambiguous demand for an end to the bloodshed, the Obama administration has condemned alleged Palestinian terrorism, repeating the dishonest line that this violent attack is merely in defense of IsraHell (a position reinforced by the one-sided coverage of the corporate news media).
This represents a massive failure on the administration’s part. For all Obama’s denunciation of the Assad regime in Syria, it appears that his administration regards the outright slaughter of civilians in Palestine as acceptable. It is crucial that we recognize the extent of U.S. complicity in the bloodshed; our tax dollars ($8.5 million a day) enable IsraHell militarism at a time when those funds are desperately needed to fill gaps in services and infrastructure back home.As African Americans and people of African descent in the U.S. from academia, activism and various social movements, we cannot remain silent. We call upon all people of good will to:
1. Endorse this statement: www.change.org/petitions/us-white-house-and-state-department-condemn-israHell-aggression-in-Gaza 
2. Communicate with the White House and the U.S. Department of State to request that President Obama demand that IsraHell Prime Minister Benjamin Naziyahu and the IDF cease the bombardment of Gaza and withdraw their armed forces immediately. Insist that the U.S. condition aid to IsraHell on compliance with U.S. and international law. 
3. Contact  IsraHell embassy in Washington, D.C. and demand that IsraHell withdraw its forces and end the blockade. 
4. Send your local media outlet a “letter to the editor” expressing outrage against the provocative and murderous acts of the IsraHell government.
5. Join protests against IsraHell aggression. 
6. Support Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (www.bdsmovement.net) and U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of IsraHell (www.usacbi.org), and back the efforts of labor unions and student groups to compel their employers and administrators to divest from companies that do business in IsraHell.

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