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Press release

by MRN
January 1, 2013July 25, 2013

1st Anniversary – Mavi Marmara: Piracy on the High Seas

On the 31st May 2010, the military forces of the illegal Zionist state of Israel attacked a Turkish flotilla of ships carrying aid to 1.5 million economically blockaded and besieged people of Gaza. The convoy was led by the Marvi Marmara, which came under military attack by Israel. Nine Turkish volunteers were brutally murdered in the show of aggression. The attack took place in international waters and according to a UNHRC report, the state of Israel committed violations of a series of international laws including International Humanitarian as well as Human Rights Laws.

Almost to the day when US President, Barak Obama allowed Israel to murder good people, he reiterated his support for the illegitimate state of Israel during his address to the Annual AIPAC meeting in Washington DC on 19th May 2011. The people murdered by Israeli military were known for their moral conscience.

This time last year, Netanyahu, cancelled his scheduled meeting with Obama. Today, Netanyahu honored his date with Obama so that he could challenge any utterances by Obama that were not in line with Zionist thinking. Obama has once again confirmed the American Administration’s complicity in the ethnic cleansing of the people of Palestine.

The Media Review Network calls on all people of conscience, to remember those brave men and women so callously gunned down by the war machinery of one of the world’s nuclear powers. They lived by their ethical sense of right and wrong and paid the ultimate price for it. Their noble deaths must not be in vain. We also remember the people of the Gaza as being kind, hospitable and intelligent who have done nothing to deserve the misery inflicted on them by the Zionist regime and its supporters in the West.

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Muslim groups plan convoy to coincide with freedom flotilla 2

by MRN
January 1, 2013July 25, 2013

By Gavriel Queenann

(source: IsraelNationalNews.com)

Muslim organizations operating in South Africa are preparing a cross-continent aid convoy to Hamas-run Gaza to coincide with the second IHH “Gaza Freedom 2” flotilla, the Meir Amit Intelligence and Information Center says. Preparations for the convoy began earlier this year under the auspices of the Al Quds Foundation and Muslim Judicial Council. Both organizations have a long history of anti-Israeli activity and rhetoric.

The Al Quds foundation is a branch of the Al Quds International Institute, which promotes the “Arab identity of Jerusalem,” while the Muslim Judicial Council is a member of the Union of Good, which unites dozens of Islamic organizations, funds and foundations to transfer monies to Hamas. The Union of Good originated as a terrorism-supporting organization and has been outlawed by Israel and the United States. The AQF and MJC have been joined in the convoy effort by Muslim organizations, radio stations, charity foundations and Muslim schools, colleges and universities in South Africa.

The plan calls for the convoy to set out from Cape Town in late June 2011 and pass through Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Sudan and Egypt. The aid materials are ultimately destined for an Egyptian port, probably El-Arish, where they will be loaded onto boats headed for Gaza.

British prime minister steps down as jnf patron

by MRN
January 1, 2013July 25, 2013

By Asa Winstanley

(source: The Electronic Intifada)

Bedouins carrying signs reading “JNF robs Bedouin land” protest

in front of the Jewish National Fund office in Jerusalem, 1 February 2011.

A spokesperson for David Cameron on Friday refused to comment on the rationale behind the British prime minister’s decision to step down from his position as honorary patron of the Jewish National Fund (JNF). The move comes as pressure on the JNF steps up in Britain, and is being hailed by activists as a big victory in the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign.

Campaigners with activist group Stop the JNF had written to Cameron earlier in May calling on him to cut his links with the JNF. Registered as a charity in the UK, the JNF is involved in development of illegal settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, the destruction of Palestinian Bedouin villages in the Naqab (Negev) inside Israel and stands accused of institutionally racist practices and complicity in ethnic cleansing since 1948.

Cameron’s press office told The Electronic Intifada that the decision had been made after a review of all the charities Cameron supported: “This is not a particularly recent decision,” said a spokesperson on Friday. In a short statement Thursday, the prime minister’s office had said the JNF was one of a “number of charities” Cameron stood down from following the review which was undertaken “[f]ollowing the formation of the Coalition Government last year.”

The statement did not specify any reason for the move. When asked if it was related to the JNF’s involvement with Israeli settlements in the West Bank (which the British government, in line with international law, considers illegal) the spokesperson said they were “not going to get into any further details.”

The spokesperson implied that Cameron is only involved in local causes: “The charities that he’s currently involved with will normally be charities in his [local parliamentary] constituency … or a couple of national campaigns. There aren’t really any that deal with specific issues in specific foreign countries,” he stated. He would not comment on why this had changed after Cameron had become prime minister.

Who cares in the middle east what Obama says?

by MRN
January 1, 2013July 25, 2013

By Robert Fisk

(source: Information Clearing House)

This month, in the Middle East, has seen the unmaking of the President of the United States. More than that, it has witnessed the lowest prestige of America in the region since Roosevelt met King Abdul Aziz on the USS Quincy in the Great Bitter Lake in 1945.

While Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu played out their farce in Washington – Obama grovelling as usual – the Arabs got on with the serious business of changing their world, demonstrating and fighting and dying for freedoms they have never possessed. Obama waffled on about change in the Middle East – and about America’s new role in the region. It was pathetic. “What is this ‘role’ thing?” an Egyptian friend asked me at the weekend. “Do they still believe we care about what they think?”

And it is true. Obama’s failure to support the Arab revolutions until they were all but over lost the US most of its surviving credit in the region. Obama was silent on the overthrow of Ben Ali, only joined in the chorus of contempt for Mubarak two days before his flight, condemned the Syrian regime – which has killed more of its people than any other dynasty in this Arab “spring”, save for the frightful Gaddafi – but makes it clear that he would be happy to see Assad survive, waves his puny fist at puny Bahrain’s cruelty and remains absolutely, stunningly silent over Saudi Arabia. And he goes on his knees before Israel. Is it any wonder, then, that Arabs are turning their backs on America, not out of fury or anger, nor with threats or violence, but with contempt? It is the Arabs and their fellow Muslims of the Middle East who are themselves now making the decisions.