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04 September 2008

PRESS RELEASE

BREAK THE GAZA SIEGE: HELP THE STARVING PALESTINIANS DURING THE MONTH OF RAMADHAAN

The MEDIA REVIEW NETWORK expresses its admiration for, and solidarity with, the Egyptian judges leading a convoy to the Rafah border post, to break the siege on Gaza.

The Egyptian masses, relief organisations, lawyers and doctors unions, as well as members of parliament, will join the fleet on the 10th September 2008, carrying food and medicines, to alleviate the enormous suffering of the Gazan people imposed by the International community.

This event follows a successful challenge to the 14 month siege by the Free Gaza Movement (FGM) in which two boats from Cyprus brought humanitarian aid to the Palestinians, braving death threats from Israel.

An Israeli, Jeff Halper, one of the 46 participants from 17 countries, stated that “to end the siege, end the occupation, end sanctions, the people have to do it, because the governments will not do it and the UN won’t do it because it is controlled by governments.”

The Egyptian convoy deserves widespread support as it emanates from the ground in opposition to a tyrannical Egyptian regime in cahoots with the Zionist Israeli entity imposing the unprecedented policy of starvation on 1,5 million innocent people.

The MEDIA REVIEW NETWORK urges all humanitarian and relief organisations, legal, social, medical, political and religious, NGO’s  as well as the SA Government, to  proffer whatever kind of support, moral or material, to the Egyptian judges and their associates, in this mission of mercy.

Issued by:
Dr. Firoz Osman
Secretary-General
Media Review Network

PS: Financial contributions should be deposited in the following account –

Name of Account:  Humanitarian Relief Committee
Bank:                        Banque Misr
Branch:                    Abu-el-Abbas
Account No:            914
City:                         Alexandria
                                 Arab Republic of Egypt

 

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The Pope is welcomed, but….
By Khalid Amayreh in occupied East Jerusalem

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Pope Benedict XVI will not be shaking the hands of survivors of the Gaza holocaust

As hospitality is a key Arab-Muslim character, the Pope of the Vatican, Benedict XVI, should be accorded all the respect he deserves as the religious leader of hundreds of millions of Roman Catholics, many of them stand alongside Muslims in rejecting the criminal policies and practices of the Israeli state.

The recent genocidal blitz against the effectively imprisoned and thoroughly starved people of Gaza is only one example of Israeli criminality, a criminality that can be compared with the evil deeds of the worst offenders in history.

I understand that the Vatican often refrains from calling the spade a spade for a variety of reasons. We are talking after all about a unique religious-political entity that is expected to satisfy and please a whole spectrum of people with different, even discordant, political orientations.

 

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