Sunday, May 12, 2024
We commemorate the Catastrophe that was the ethnic cleansing, the mass expulsion of 750,000 Palestinian women, children and men and the outright theft of their land and all their properties by a newly created Entity, the Israeli state created by terrorist acts on stolen land. That was in 1948.
Today, 76 years later, the same illegal Entity, created with the massacre of tens of thousands and maintained by the continued expulsion of hundreds of thousands more, is intent on creating a second Nakba, but doubling it to 1.5 million or more in GAZA. This, on top of the mass slaughter of some 35,000 Palestinians, the majority women and children, and some 79,000 injured over the past seven months.
A living, on-screen Genocide is taking place as the world watches, impotent to stop it because of the government of the United States of America.
And in the West Bank, the harsh consequences of the occupation by the racist apartheid regime have multiplied, with hundreds of persons murdered, thousands imprisoned without charge, thousands of home incursions and demolitions, the deliberate destruction of hundreds of commercial structures and thousands of trees. The theft of large areas of land and displacement of Palestinians to make way for Jews, the ethnic cleansing, has intensified.
Every human has the responsibility to help stop this Genocide and to struggle along with Palestinians for an end to occupation and Apartheid and for justice and peace.
PALESTINE MUST BE FREE, FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA!
You can make known your rejection of the Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing, the murder and theft being carried out before your eyes by the Entity and the government of the USA.
Join the millions of people in the USA and around the world, including tens of thousands of Jews, who are openly defying the genocide committers and enablers. Demonstrate, speak out, show your solidarity by whatever means you can, including social media.
A simple “tweet” on X or other platforms can make a difference.
How can we tell our children that WE stood by complacently and saw a genocide, mass murder of children, forced starvation of millions, taking place and were silent about it?
Solidarity,
Assad Shoman
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” — Frederick Douglass, 1857
(AMANDALA Ed. Note: For the benefit of younger Belizeans: Assad Shoman is a former Foreign Minister of Belize and is currently a member of the Belize legal team defending the country against the Guatemalan claim at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Assad, like a few other high-profile persons in our community, is a born Belizean of Palestinian descent. The nation/”entity”, Israel, that occupies Palestinian territory is a major ally and supporter of the country that claims Belize, Guatemala. Google “Nakba” for more information on the topic. Solidarity!)