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  • Muslims Must Capitalise On Economic Leverage To Condemn Israeli Oppression Against Palestine

    Muslims Must Capitalise On Economic Leverage To Condemn Israeli Oppression Against Palestine

    From time to time, as a community, we tend to react when we feel There’s injustice done to certain groups of people we feel are oppressed.

    These may include the Rohingyans, Palestinians, Syrians etc.

    We do this by for E.g. Making Facebook postings on the issue. We share articles and memes portraying the injustices. We also start online petitions.

    These help in creating awareness of the issue. And it is a positive thing that we at least show empathy for our fellow brethren in faith that’s going through severe hardship.

    Beyond awareness there is little, methinks, by way of impact.

    I think collectively we do have some leverage. Economic leverage. What we can do for e.g. Is to join the BDS movement worldwide. In a nutshell, the global movement encourages boycotting of Israeli goods by way of peaceful protest against the oppression of the Palestinian people.

    Next time we shop, take a little time looking at the product barcode. Do not purchase items worth the barcodes beginning with 729 and 871.

    No need for petitions or writing letters to embassies. These are generally ignored.

    Let our wallets do the protesting. God willing it could lead to significant changes. BDS has scored some significant victories along the way.

    Let’s join the movement.

    At least on Yaumul Qiyamah we can stand in front of Allah azzawajal and say ‘Oh Allah. I am very weak. I’m swimming in sin. I at least try to help
    My Palestinian brothers in this small way. Please forgive me.’

    Remember that Allah azzawajal is al Ghafoor and ar Raheem. May He look upon us with Mercy and may He accept our deeds n forgive us our shortcomings n transgressions.

    Wallahualam.

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    Please read previous posting. Additionally there’s some companies here you may wish to consider not purchasing from.

     

    Source: Syed Danial

  • Providing More Aid To Palestine Should Not Be Used As Bargaining Chip For Singapore Government To Invite Israel PM

    Providing More Aid To Palestine Should Not Be Used As Bargaining Chip For Singapore Government To Invite Israel PM

    Assalamualaikum,

    Bros i think we have heard the news by now – Israel PM is coming to Singapore. I won’t even mention his name because I think he is inhuman for all the injustices that he has sanctioned against our brothers and sisters in Palestine.

    In the past, the Singapore government has been very careful not to invite the Israel PM because they were sensitive to the views and conscience of the local and regional Muslim population.

    So what has happened? What has caused a change in the attitudes so much so that they don’t care about our feelings anymore?

    What i know is that every living Muslim cannot condone the presence of someone like the Israeli PM, who, by many accounts, can be counted as a war criminal.

    So what if they appointed Hawazi Daipi as a non-resident representative to Palestine? So what if they double the technical assistance package to $10 million? So what if we allowed high-level Palestinian officials to Singapore to learn from our experience? This gesture of recognizing Palestine and providing a large amount of aid should be a magnanimous one because it is only decent for us to help an oppressed people. Like how we helped our friends in Aceh during the tsunami.

    Don’t use it as a bargaining tool to justify the unjustifiable.

     

    Fuad

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  • Petition: Protest Against Israeli Apartheid

    Petition: Protest Against Israeli Apartheid

    Under the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, which prohibits countries from moving population into territories occupied in a war, Israeli settlements in the Israeli-occupied territories are considered illegal by the international community. The United Nations Security Council, the United Nations General Assembly, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the International Court of Justice and the High Contracting Parties to the Convention have all affirmed that the Fourth Geneva Convention does apply.

    Israel maintains that they are consistent with international law because it does not agree that the Fourth Geneva Convention applies to the territories occupied in the 1967 Six-Day War.

    Legal or Illegal, the ones who suffer the most are the Palestinians Arabs themselves. They live under conditions comparable to non-white people under an apartheid regime:

    ·       No right of free speech, assembly or movement

    ·       Arrest and imprisonment without charge or trial

    ·       Torture

    ·       House searches without warrant

    ·       Assassination, extra-judicial murder

    ·       No right to vote for the Israeli government (even though it controls their lives)

    ·       Israel controls all Palestinian borders, all imports and exports, and all movement between towns and cities.

    ·       The Gaza Strip, still surrounded, besieged and controlled by Israel, has been sealed off and effectively turned into the world’s largest open-air prison.

    With the recent Israel’s parliamentary approval of a controversial bill to retroactively “legalise” illegal Jewish outposts built on privately owned Palestinian land, things have gotten worse off for Palestinians.

    The so-called regulation bill paves the way for Israel to recognise thousands of illegally built Jewish settler homes constructed on privately owned Palestinian land in what opponents have dubbed a “theft” and “land grab”.

    The law retroactively legalises the construction, with the original landowners to be compensated either with money or alternative land – even if they do not agree to give up their property.

    We believe in justice and fairness for everyone, Palestinians,  Arabs, Muslims, Christians and Jews alike. If injustice is perpetuated in the lands, there will never be peace.

    We protest the injustice faced by the Palestinians who find day to day life difficult. Palestinian face continued severe poverty and chronic food insecurity. Due to restrictions, the economic situation of the Palestinians is dire.

    We demand that the Israeli government:

    ·       Recognise right of free speech, assembly and movement for Palestinians

    ·       Stop arrest and imprisonment without charge or trial for Palestinians

    ·       Halt house searches without warrants in the occupied territories

    ·       Stop assassination and extra-judicial murder of Palestinians

    ·       Give Palestinians the right to vote for the Israeli government

    ·       Recognise the rights of Palestinians and their legal status

    There will be no peace if people are not given their intrinsic rights to a normal life. Punitive and unilateral action by the Israeli Government has not and will not solve the issue, it will only exacerbate the situation for all parties involved.

    Every human deserves the basic right to survive. Yes, war is destructive, bombs can be blind, but the systematic denial of the right to survive on unarmed civilians, denial of aid to the populace in desperate need is unjustified.

    Support this petition, to show your support for Palestinians, to show your support for humanity. We sign this petition to show our solidarity against Israeli Apartheid, so that this humanitarian disaster and festering wound in the middle east shall heal and peace shall reign again.

    For more information, click here.

     

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    Source: www.change.org

  • Benjamin Netanyahu ‘Told New Zealand Backing UN Vote Would Be Declaration Of War’

    Benjamin Netanyahu ‘Told New Zealand Backing UN Vote Would Be Declaration Of War’

    Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly told New Zealand’s foreign minister that support for a UN resolution condemning Israeli settlement-building in the occupied territories would be viewed as a “declaration of war”.

    According to reports in Israeli media, the Israeli PM called Murray McCully, the foreign minister of New Zealand, before Friday’s resolution, which was co-sponsored by Wellington. Netanyahu told him: “This is a scandalous decision. I’m asking that you not support it and not promote it.

    “If you continue to promote this resolution, from our point of view it will be a declaration of war. It will rupture the relations and there will be consequences. We’ll recall our ambassador [from New Zealand] to Jerusalem.”

    McCully, however, refused to back down, telling Netanyahu: “This resolution conforms to our policy and we will move it forward.”

    A western diplomat confirmed that the call took place and described the conversation as “harsh”.

    The details of the call – disclosed in Haaretz – suggest a mounting sense of panic on the part of Netanyahu in the run-up to the UN security council resolution that passed on Friday demanding an end to settlement building.

    As well as the Netanyahu call, a senior official in Israel’s foreign ministry called New Zealand’s ambassador to Israel, Jonathan Curr, and warned that if the resolution came to a vote, Israel might close its embassy in Wellington in protest.

    Israel responded furiously to the vote, threatening diplomatic reprisals against the countries that voted in favour. Diplomatic ties with New Zealand were temporarily severed and ambassador Itzhak Gerberg was recalled.

    But in a sign that the international pressure may be being felt by the Netanyahu administration, scheduled plans to consider for approval 600 new settlement houses in occupied east Jerusalem were abruptly removed from the agenda of the city’s municipality on Wednesday.

    Netanyahu’s language and behaviour – which has resulted in ambassadors being reprimanded and consultations with foreign leaders, including the UK’s Theresa May, cancelled – has raised eyebrows among foreign diplomats, who point out that the UN resolution does no more than confirm the longstanding view of the international community on Jewish settlements.

    Later on Wednesday the US secretary of state, John Kerry, will make a speech outlining the parameters for how the Obama administration sees a settlement of the Middle East peace process.

    Kerry’s speech, less than a month before Barack Obama leaves office, is expected to be the current administration’s last word on a decades-old dispute that Kerry had hoped to resolve during his four years as America’s top diplomat.

    It could also be seen in Israel as another parting shot at Netanyahu, who has had an acrimonious relationship with Obama since they both took office in 2009. Israel’s public security minister, Gilad Erdan, told Israel Army Radio that the planned speech was a “pathetic move” and “anti-democratic”.

    The US on Friday broke with a longstanding approach of diplomatically shielding Israel and abstained on a United Nations security council resolution that passed with 14 countries in favour and none against.

    An Egyptian paper supportive of the country’s president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, reported what it said was a leaked memo allegedly confirming Israel’s allegations that the Obama administration and Palestinian officials had coordinated positions over the wording of the resolution to allow the US to abstain in the vote. The state department denied the report.

     

    Source: www.theguardian.com

  • Israel Delays Votes On Mosques, Palestinian Homes

    Israel Delays Votes On Mosques, Palestinian Homes

    JERUSALEM: Israel on Wednesday (Nov 30) delayed parliamentary votes on controversial bills that would limit the volume of calls to prayer at mosques and legalise several thousand Jewish settler homes in the West Bank.

    The votes were put off until next week following a decision by government ministers, a parliament spokesman told AFP.

    Deputies were to take a preliminary vote on a bill to prevent the use of loudspeakers for late night and early morning calls to prayer at mosques, a proposal that has angered Muslims.

    A first reading of a bill to legalise around 4,000 settler homes in the occupied West Bank was also planned, but both were delayed.

    The noise bill was put off until Dec 7, while the settlement bill was to come up on Monday.

    Israeli media reported that the votes were put off because a majority could not be assured. Discussions were continuing on both measures.

    The noise bill would prohibit the use of loudspeakers between 11pm and 7am. It would officially apply to all religions, but it is widely seen as targeting calls to prayer at mosques.

    The bill’s backers say it is needed because the loudspeakers are a nuisance and can also be used to broadcast inciting messages.

    Government watchdog groups say the measure is an unnecessary provocation that threatens freedom of religion. Israeli President Reuven Rivlin is among those against the bill.

    The settlement bill has tested Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition, widely seen as the most right-wing in the country’s history.

    Netanyahu does not want the bill to pass, warning that it could violate international law and result in repercussions at the International Criminal Court.

    Countries including the United States have also strongly criticised the bill and Netanyahu is concerned over an international backlash.

    But he is also faced with holding together his coalition and not being seen as acting against the powerful settler movement.

    DEFYING NETANYAHU

    The international community considers all Israeli settlements in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem and the West Bank to be illegal, whether they are authorised by the government or not.

    The Israeli government differentiates between those it has approved and those it has not.

    The settlement bill has been pushed by hardline members of Netanyahu’s coalition, led by Education Minister Naftali Bennett, who defied his pleas not to move forward.

    The country’s attorney general says the legislation will never hold up in court.

    But those who support it say the move is urgently needed to protect a Jewish outpost in the occupied West Bank called Amona.

    The outpost, where some 40 families live, is under a high court order to be demolished by Dec 25 because it was built on private Palestinian land.

    The bill, however, goes far beyond legalising Amona and would allow an estimated 4,000 Jewish homes in the West Bank to be legalised, according to settlement watchdog Peace Now.

    Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon, whose centre-right Kulanu party holds 10 seats, has been key and has said he will not support a measure that “harms” the country’s high court.

    The statement was a reference to Amona and the high court ruling against it – signalling he would oppose the bill if the outpost is not removed from it.

    There has been speculation that the bill could even cause the government to collapse – though a number of analysts caution that a compromise seems more likely for now.

    Peace Now called the legislation “a grand land robbery, which will lead not only to the expropriation of 8,000 dunams (nearly 2,000 acres, 800 hectares) of private Palestinian lands but might also rob Israelis and Palestinians of the possibility of arriving at a two state solution”.

     

    Source: www.channelnewsasia.com