Solidarity with Gaza: Just the Beginning

The latest Israeli assault on the tiny Strip represents the failure of the siege to weaken Hamas and the Gazan people's resolve. It should come as a wake-up call to the world that placing 1.5 million people in a cage and denying them basic necessities, including food, medical supplies and fuel only takes that fuel from their hands and adds it to the fire, notes Hammam Farah.


The incessant sound of typing over the many laptops around me became the background theme sound of my life for the past two and a half weeks. Since Israel's latest assault on Gaza that began on December 27, my social circle of journalists and activists have besieged ourselves (no pun intended) in a friend's basement to write articles, coordinate with other groups, take interviews, and discuss strategies for raising awareness and taking action.

Already, the bone chilling, cold streets of Toronto have seen several mass demonstrations of solidarity with the people of Gaza and anger at an Israeli government that is increasingly being recognized as one of apartheid and racial exclusion. For our Palestinian people back home, the struggle consists of continued steadfastness and resistance. For us in the Diaspora, it's about education, solidarity, and the promotion of the global boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israeli apartheid and its institutions. For both those in Palestine and outside, the long-term goal is the ending of Israeli apartheid, and the immediate goal is breaking the world's silence over the two-year-old inhuman siege on Gaza and its culmination with this massive assault that has so far taken the lives of over a thousand people today.

This latest assault represents the failure of the siege to weaken Hamas and the Gazan people's resolve. It should come as a wake-up call to the world that placing 1.5 million people in a cage and denying them basic necessities, including food, medical supplies and fuel only takes that fuel from their hands and adds it to the fire.

When I phoned my grandmother who lives in Gaza to check on her last week, she said that there used to be a choice between bread and rice, but now there was only bread. The obvious next step is for even bread to disappear and the people left with nothing to eat. She went on to say that the electricity was out and that the water was dirty and had to be boiled to clean. The psychological aspect is even worse. People are left to constantly contemplate whether to stay home or seek shelter elsewhere within the narrow streets of Gaza, which is one of the few, if not the only, territories on earth where civilians are denied the chance to leave and seek refuge during a time of war or bombardment. The decision could determine whether they would live or die. To my increasing frustration, other relatives did not answer their phones because the Israeli intelligence has been calling people to intimidate them into collaborating.

But the suffering only strengthens our will to continue the struggle. Here in Canada, our government will have to answer for its overt support for the massacres. So do our universities. Several university presidents issued a statement in 2007 condemning Britain's University and College Union's motion to discuss the academic boycott of Israel, using the principle of academic freedom as justification. But they have remained silent over the bombing of the Islamic University of Gaza and other educational institutions. How dare they have the audacity to believe that condemnation of a non-violent boycott, but silence over the violence of bombs will go unanswered for? They, also, will have to answer to us. And all the student unions that refused or kept delaying the passing of boycott resolutions will now have to make a choice.

For this is just the beginning. It is inspirational to see the thousands of people who came out to the streets in protest and the many who attended a teach-in on Gaza last week. The number of unions who are pledging to boycott Israel is continuing to grow. The number of Jews opposing Israel's apartheid is continuing to grow and even the media has been finally reporting on Jewish condemnation and protest of Israel. And the governments of Venezuela and Bolivia have cut their ties with Israel.

And yet, Israel does not see the harm it has done to its own image. Even during this horrific onslaught on Gaza, the Central Elections Committee of Israel has just banned two of the largest and most popular Palestinian citizen ("Israeli Arab") parties from running in next month's Knesset elections. If this is how Israel plans to fight back the growing allegations of apartheid, then our work is going to be cut out for us much sooner than I predicted.

Many people are getting involved now, including people that were unaware of what's going on, people who were unsure which side to take, people who knew what was going on but didn't know what to do about it, people who supported the Palestinians but did not support the boycott and now do, and people who supported Israel and now don't.

Hammam Farah is a Palestinian Canadian who was born in the Gaza Strip as part of Gaza's small Christian community. He resides in Toronto and is a solidarity activist with the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA), which is spearheading the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaign in Canada. He can be reached at hammamf@gmail.com. This article appeared in The Palestine Chronicke

Declaration's of Sovereignty

1.

Declaration of Sovereignty
I, a sovereign person of this world, do declare that I will no longer be the slave
of those that would rule me by force.

I will no longer sit idle while my fellow human beings are subjected to oppression
and tyranny.

I will stand united with those that support the idea that ALL individuals are
sovereign and equal, that being controlled by force and/or deception is contrary to
human dignity.

No longer will I submit to wars, taxes, subjugation through ‘living wages’,
propagandistic educational systems, deceptive media, private monetary systems,
lying/unaccountable representation in communal matters, nor any other contracts I
have not personally approved.
I pledge that I will not resort to the tactics of my enemy, but will resist by
non-compliance to the directives of those trying to be my master.
I will make my decision known by speaking out to all who will listen.
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This is a copy of the attachment, thanks for getting me entered,….
Angel

2.

UNITED STATES NEW DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

When in the Course of human events, a madman, full of occult tendencies and engaged
in a secret society, full of evil and smoked in secrecy, bent totally on death and
destruction invades the Peoples’ Pennsylvania residence, and brings his evil clan
with him, we the people have a right to expose the dirty dog for the dirty dog, he
is, and evict him from OUR GOVERNMENT, and all TREASON TRAITORS ASSOCIATED WITH HIM.

When it becomes EVIDENTLY CLEAR to the point of RIDICULOUS AND ABSOLUTELY necessary
to cut off the CANCEROUS HANDS that have poisoned and polluted our very survival, WE
THE PEOPLE have a right to PRODUCE THE STOMPS AND PERFORM THIS VITAL operation.
Being said PERSONS LOVE THE ORDER OF DEATH, they have the right to choose the
COFFIN, THIS vital operation will entail and result in. Since they have done just
that for us, Tupperware coffins for them, should do nicely.

We hold these TRUTHS to be SELF EVIDENT, That these men have constantly LIED and
ARE DOING EVERYTHING THEY CAN TO DESTROY AMERICA, shredding the Constitution in the
NAME OF A LYING CAUSE, GOING ABOVE AND BEYOND ANY LAW OF THE LAND, INCITING CRIMINAL
ACTIVITIES, Pushing TORTURE, PERVERTED SEX, DRUGS, and giving all of our
Unalienable RIGHTS TO THE ALIENS. That whenever any Form of Government becomes
destructive of these ends, and also, allowing burglary without WARRENTS,
WIRETAPPING, ELECTRONIC EYES MONITORING EVERY FREE CITIZEN’S MOVEMENT, BUILDING
GAS CHAMBERS DESGUISED AS DETENTION CENTERS, and DESTROYING FREE SPEECH AND THE
RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS, INSTIGATING WARS AND TERROR ATTACKS, TRAINING MILITARY WITH
POLICE TO BECOME DARK VADERS, ENCOURAGING TASER USAGE AND KILLING INNONCENT
CIVILIANS, INTIMIDATING THE CITIZEN, IT IS THE Right of the People to alter or
abolish them, and THROW THEM ALL WHERE THEY BELONG…in the Said DETENTION CENTERS,
THEY THEMSELIVES HAVE CREATED. When a long, long, long, too long train of abuses
and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same OBJECT AND ARE BENT ON LIES AND
DECEPTION because there is NO TRUTH in them and are of their FATHER, THE DEVIL,
evinces a design to reduce them under absolute DESPOTISM, it is OUR RIGHT, it is OUR
DUTY, to throw off such GOVERNMENT, and to provide new Guards for OUR future
Security.

Such has been THE PATIENT SUFFERING OF THE CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
and WE ARE FED UP WITH THE TORMENT AND TYRANNY. We are TIRED of working for this
Government, when in reality, THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE WORKING FOR US, and FED UP WITH
PAYING FOR EVERYTHING, WHILE THEY WASTE AND GIVE TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES AND WE HAVE
LESS AND LESS. Working hour UPON endless, Tired hour, while THEY STEAL OUR
RESOURCES AND OUTSOURCE OUR JOBS AND OPPORTUNITIES. They are guilty and BENT ON
BANKRUPTING US. We, The People, ARE ESPECIALLY FED UP WITH THEIR CRIMINAL TAXATION
SYSTEM. If a Prince of DARKNESS AND OCCULTIC EVIL, HAS THE AUDACITY TO TREASON OUR
COUNTRY AND PRACTICALLY GIVE AMERICA TO A FOREIGN ENEMY ON A SILVER PLATTER, Then,
make plans to DESTROY OUR SOVEREIGNTY and Nation by conspiring to knock down our
boarders and unite Mexico and Canada, together as one, calling it THE AMERICAN
UNION, and planning a new currency to all, calling it an AMERO, Then, having the
AUDACITY TO WAVE OUR BELOVED FLAG, OUR BELOVED RED, WHITE, AND BLUE, WHICH MANY A
TRUE PATRIOT HAS DIED TO PROTECT, REFLECTING ALL THAT OLD GLORY REPRESENTS, Such
PARTIES ARE TREASONOUS AND SHOULD BE TAKEN OUT AND SHOT IMMEDIATELY, WITHOUT TRIAL,
AND LIKE THEY HAVE DISHED TO US, GUILTY AS CHARGED. MAXIMUM TAZER TORTURE SHOULD BE
ADMINISTERED, BEFORE THE FINAL, FATAL BLOW. We hold THESE ENEMIES OF AMERICA
responsible for all of THEIR BLOODY CRIMES. They have been warned, TIME AND TIME
AGAIN, AND WE THE PEOPLE, ARE HOLDING THEM RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR DESTRUCTIVE CRIMES
AGAINST HUMANITY AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General
Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude
of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these
UNITED STATES solemnly publish and declare, That these UNITED STATES are, and of
Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all
Allegiance to the WICKED ILLUNMINIST, BENT ON HITLER TACTICS, WHO HAS DONE
EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO DESTROY THIS COUNTRY AND KILL US, CONSTANTLY AT WORK NIGHT
AND DAY, FOR OUR DEMISE, and that all political connection between them and the
State of the DEVIL WORSHIPPERS, WHO LOVE DEATH, is and ought to be totally
dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy
War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other
Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of
this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we
mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
SIGNED, A PROXY FOR THOMAS JEFFERSON AND A CONCERNED CITIZEN THAT IS TAKING AMERICA
BACK TO THE REPUBLIC, SHE IS AND WAS MEANT TO BE, WITH A PRAYER THAT WE CLEAR THE
LAND OF TYRANNY AND START BURNING BUSHES…
AMERICA, LAND OF THE FREE, HOME OF THE BRAVE. UNITED WE STAND. DIVIDED WE FALL.

3.

The New Declaration of Independence

In the age of reason, we the people cannot withstand to deny the powers that be.
Tyrannical forces, employed by our government, imposed on the people through
strategic, psychological oppression, must cease to exist.

The proximity of our fate has causes us to reexamine the truths that we hold to be
self-evident. All men are created by God and are fearfully and wonderfully made.
Therefore, our unalienable rights of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness are
to be valued by all of whom that desire such qualities and secured by governmental
entities, instituted by the people, monitored by the people, and most importantly,
for the best interests of the people. However, our government has forsaken its oath;
hence, the trust once established and respected for our leaders has been demolished
as deception pollutes the once, free air of our homeland.

Therefore, the time has come for us to reclaim our freedom. No more shall we suffer
and be passive as our government attempts to subjugate our civil liberties; our
tolerance has grown cold. To authenticate our speech, facts will bear witness to our
assertion.

The government has embraced oligarchy, although the Law of the Land forbids it, and
which also imposes on our personal, political, and economic freedoms.

The government has failed to disclose information on acts of terrorism, both home
and abroad, although truth is a fundamental belief that should be shared and
practiced by all Americans.

The government has engaged in preemptive war without the civilian control of the
military.

The government has permitted the president to launch an unconstitutional invasion of
an independent nation without Congress declaring war on that nation; that which has
not been justified by the common defense of the United States.

The government has allowed the president to be the commander in chief in times when
he was not called into the actual service of the United States.

The government has used false flag terrorism and staged provocations in an effort to
justify their malicious objectives for global control.

The government has in many cases, verboten our right to petition and peacefully
assemble for a redress of grievances, which by doing so violates the First
Amendment.

The government has denied the presence of political diversity and has ruled our
country by a dual-party system.

Throughout the course of these Oppressions, many of us were ignorant to the fact
that our leaders were engaged in such atrocities. Some of us feared knowing the
truth; and instead, negated the facts as a defense mechanism to mask our
disappointment. Amongst the few, however, the truth was transparent, as we wrestled
against the pressures of conformity. Yet, we persevered and we will no longer allow
our government to be deaf to the voice of justice nor dilatory in amending the
current state of our nation.

We, therefore, the people of the United States of America, re-declare our popular
sovereignty. We are the ultimate authority of our government and our nation. We
expect and demand that the our government will belay from secrecy and cloth itself
in truth and integrity. We reject the status quo and are united in our pursuit to
bring into fruition the constitutional and foundational precepts of our great
nation.

4.

Outside Congress, July 4 2009
New Declaration of Independence

The unanimous declaration of the fifty united states of America

When our founding fathers did proclaim independence from the King of Great Britain on this day in 1776, they did sign a ‘legal but not lawful document’. The word ‘State’ implies a legal estate or possession. Thus the Crown Colonies became the Crown States.

Our founding fathers proclaimed independence to protect us from foreign tyranny and to uphold our fundamental inalienable rights, such as ‘life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness’. Today these basic freedoms have become severely curtailed, with an elected dictatorship dedicated to serving the New World Order in place of a monarch trying to preserve the Old World Order.

We the citizens of the united states of America assembled here today outside Congress do hereby disassociate ourselves from the former bankrupt corporation known as the United States of America. Furthermore we renounce once and for all political and legal ties to the British Crown, the Crown Temple, the Middle Temple, the Vatican and his Excellency the Pope, the United Nations, the European Union, the World Bank, and all other international institutions.

From this day forth the ultimate owner of the land of this great country of ours is the sovereign states of America and the supreme law is that of the united states of America deriving its authority from the sovereign fifty states who in turn derive it from the people. Should there be a return to tyranny in future days then the sovereign states reserve the right to secede from the united states or form a new system of government. This is our New Declaration of Independence and our guiding light for days to come. Read more:

Ex-Top German Judge - Holocaust Denial Should Be Legal

Ex-Top German Judge -
Holocaust Denial Should Be Legal -
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A former German Supreme Court justice has come under fire for saying Holocaust denial should not be banned. "If I were a lawmaker, I would not make Holocaust denial a punishable offense," Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem said Wednesday at a program at the Berlin Social Science Research Center. According to a report in the Berlin Tagesspiegel newspaper, the retired judge also criticized the state for what he considered an exaggeratedly tough confrontation with right-wing extremism. German Justice Minister Brigitte Zypries proposed a Europe-wide ban on Holocaust denial during German Chancellor Angela Merkel's tenure as EU president in 2007. Stephan Kramer, the secretary general of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, called Hoffmann-Riem's remarks "irresponsible, coming from such a distinguished expert on jurisprudence." Kramer told Tagesspiegel that he thought Hoffmann-Riem had given ammunition -- and, unwittingly, also a spokesperson -- to Holocaust deniers, and "not helped the cause of freedom of expression at all." In the Internet age, debate about the freedom of expression has increased in Germany, given the fact that Holocaust denial and the use of Nazi texts and symbols are banned in the country but not elsewhere -- notably in the United States. Kramer, who has challenged the Internet provider YouTube to filter anti-Semitic material, told Tagesspiegel he would "hate to see how bad it would look in Germany if Holocaust denial were not illegal." http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/109417.html

Alaska Independence Movement

There are many potential Kosovos in the international community – a great number of these within the United States of America itself, where the Lakota people claim their right to a huge swathe of territory across the north of the country, the peoples of Aztlan in the south proclaim their right to independence and today, the Alaska Independence Movement presents its case in PRAVDA.Ru-Continue