BLITZKRIEGBILLY

Anti-war coalition calls for emergency actions:
Stop the attacks! Cut off U.S. aid to Israel!

Destroyed Gaza bridge
A bridge destroyed by Israeli army warplanes
on a main road in northern Gaza (photo: AP)

Click here to demand the U.S. stop
funding Israel’s war against Palestine

Using the capture of one of its soldiers as the
pretext, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF)
launched a brutal assault on the entire population
of Gaza in the early morning hours of June 28.
U.S.-supplied F-16 fighter-bombers destroyed the
main power station in Gaza and destroyed bridges
on the only major roads linking the northern and
southern sections of the region. The people of
Gaza are now without water and electricity — and
many will die. The use of U.S. planes and other
military goods against illegally occupied territories
is a violation of both international and U.S. law.

Israel is also threatening to widen the war, sending
war planes over Syria to “buzz” the home of Syrian
President Bashir al-Assad, whose government the
U.S. has been actively working to bring down for
more than two years.

The Palestinian population of Gaza, one of the
poorest and most densely populated areas of the
world, was already suffering severe shortages of
food, medicine and other necessities due to
Israel’s blockade of Gaza and the cut-off of
international aid to the West Bank and Gaza, in
effect since January 2006. The new Israeli assault
has resulted in the cut-off of power, water and food
supplies to most of the people in Gaza. The
situation constitutes a deliberately created
humanitarian disaster.

Deliberately attacking the civilian population, with
the intent of causing maximum suffering, is clearly
a crime against humanity. What we are witnessing
today in Gaza is collective punishment against the
population as a whole. It is just one part of Israel’s
colonial policy toward the Palestinians. In historic
Palestine, whether the West Bank, Gaza or inside
the 1948 borders of Israel, an apartheid system is
in place, where many rights reserved for Jewish
Israelis are denied to Palestinians. More than six
million dispossessed Palestinians are denied the
right to return to their homeland.

Israeli tanks outside Gaza
A field of Israeli tanks on the border of Gaza at the
Rafa Crossing.

Click here to demand the U.S. stop
funding Israel’s war against Palestine
Israeli apartheid and the latest assault on Gaza is
supported by the Bush regime, Congress and the
corporate media, because of Israel’s vital role in
Washington’s project of Middle East domination.
That is why Israel receives more military and
economic aid from the U.S. — over $3 billion
annually — than any other country.

While a great hue and cry is heard in the mass
media about one captured Israeli soldier, the same
media pays no attention whatsoever to the 9,800
Palestinian political prisoners being held illegally (it
is illegal for an occupying power to transfer
prisoners from occupied territory) under terrible
conditions in Israeli prisons. At least 335 of these
prisoners are children. Palestinian prisoners are
systematically tortured after arrest. Just two days
ago, the Israeli parliament gave the Shin Bet (the
secret police) the right to double the time for
secret “interrogation” of Palestinian prisoners — a
green light for even greater torture.

The A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition
(http://www.answercoalition.org/ ), which has
organized the largest anti-war protests in
Washington, DC and in other U.S. cities over the
past five years, including the historic
demonstration of over 100,000 people supporting
Palestinian rights in Washington on April 20, 2002,
is calling for and supporting protests at Israeli
embassies, consulates and U.S. federal buildings,
to demand:

* The immediate end to the U.S.-supplied Israeli
assault on Gaza
* The release of all Palestinian political
prisoners from Israeli jails
* An end to all U.S. aid to Israel
* An end to colonial occupation, support for self-
determination for the Palestinian people including
the right of return.
* No new U.S.-Israeli war against Syria.

A.N.S.W.E.R is also calling on justice-minded
individuals and organizations to contact Congress
and the White House demanding an immediate
end to U.S. aid to Israel. Click here to send your
message. For more information go to
http://www.answercoalition.org/

A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition
Act Now to Stop War & End Racism
http://www.answercoalition.org/
info@internationalanswer.org