Petition Tag - israel

When you look at all of the problems facing the world today--environmental exploitation, animal cruelty, hunger, poverty, greed, war, and many more--the fundamental problem can be seen as a fragmented mindset, one which perceives everything else as something separate from the self.

In the words of noted quantum physicist Dr. Amit Goswami:

"The ultimate disease--the root disease--is the illusory thinking that we are separate from the Whole. To heal the disease is to realize that we are Whole, that the separation is but an illusion."

Thus, the goal of this petition is to heal the fragmented mentality through promoting an ethical system based on the most fundamental, universal, unifying belief in the world: that everything emanates from One, Supremely Good and Beautiful Source, and, therefore, everything is essentially One.

This simple, universal belief has resounding ethical implications (e.g. we should treat all things with love, compassion, and respect), healing the world on a fundamental level.

This belief is so universal and so powerful, it is high time it receives its due honor and support.

So, please, take a stand with us and declare: We all are One!

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Since prayer has been taken out of schools we have seen an increase in stabbing, shooting, teachers having sexual relations with students, and drug abuse.

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UPDATE: Israeli Cabinet resolution rejects UN vote on Palestine and affirms Jewish rights in all the Land of Israel.

"The Jewish people have natural, historical, legal rights to its homeland with its eternal capital Jerusalem... The State of Israel as the state of the Jewish people has rights and claims to areas that are under dispute in the land of Israel...The Palestinian Authority's one-sided step at the U.N. constitutes a gross violation of the agreements that have been signed with the State of Israel; accordingly, the Government of Israel rejects the U.N. General Assembly decision."

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Sixty-five (65) years to the day, Resolution 181 was passed in the United Nations General Assembly recognizing the right of the Jewish people to their own State. Rejection by the Arab nations may have rendered Resolution 181 politically irrelevant. But the prophetic significance of the resolution’s passage remains undiminished. Leading up to the declaration of the State of Israel in May 14, 1948, the resolution marked the beginning of the fulfillment of Ezekiel’s dry bones prophecy - the restoration of the nation of Israel, at long last, in Eretz Israel, the land promised by HASHEM to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob:

‘O dry bones, hear the word of HASHEM! Thus says the Lord HASHEM/ELOHIM to these bones: Behold, I bring a spirit into you, and you will come to life. I will put sinews upon you, I will bring flesh upon you, and I will coat you with skin; then I will put a spirit into you and you will come to life; then you will know that I am HASHEM…He said to me, “Son of Man, these bones – they are the whole House of Israel.” Ezekiel 37:4-6

Yet, from Day 1, statehood for Israel has been fraught with challenges quite unlike any faced by other nations :

• Israel is the only state whose right to exist has been relentlessly questioned;

• Israel is the only UN member state that has been openly targeted for annihilation by another member state (Iran);

• Israel is the only country whose right to defend its citizens from aggression from its enemies, is up for debate among other nations;

• Israel is the only nation whose capital, Jerusalem, other nations have refused to recognize;

• Israel is the only country that has won all its major wars for self-defense, whose defeated adversaries get away with dictating the terms of peace;

• Israel is the only country that has been censured repeatedly by the UN Human Rights Council, which has adopted more resolutions condemning Israel than it has all other member states combined.

• Today, November 29, 2012, leaders of the Palestinian Authority, with the support of the United Nations, will take another major step towards statehood. A resolution will again be introduced at the UN for the recognition of Palestinian-controlled areas of Israel as “observer state” ultimately to be carved out of Israel as a separate state of Palestine, with Jerusalem as capital.

• More chilling is supreme guide of the Muslim Brotherhood Sheikh Mohammed Badie’s dismissal of the idea of a Palestinian State by UN efforts. Instead, Badie threatened that Jihad (war) on Jerusalem is the only way to seize control.

Against Your nation they plot deviously, they take counsel against those sheltered by You. They said, “Come, let us cut them off from nationhood, so Israel’s name will not be remembered anymore!” For they take counsel together unanimously, they strike a covenant against You … Psalm 83:4-6

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حفاظا على كرامة مصر و أبنائها، نهيب بكم بان تسارعوا لإنقاذ مصرنا من براثن الإرهاب والفتنة. و عليه فإننا نطلب منكم إغلاق المعابر في سيناء بصفة دائمة و الإسراع بتدمير الانفاق التي تتسبب في استجلاب الاسلحة

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PROTECTION OF HOLY PLACES LAW, 1967:

(1) The Holy Places shall be protected from desecration and any other violation and from anything likely to violate the freedom of access of the members of the different religions to the places sacred to them or their feelings with regard to those places.

(2) a. Whosoever desecrates or otherwise violates a Holy Place shall be liable to imprisonment for a term of seven years.
b. Whosoever does anything likely to violate the freedom of access of the members of the different religions to the places sacred to them or their feelings with regard to those places shall be liable to imprisonment for a term of five years.

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Manifestamos nuestro rechazo a la presencia en Latinoamérica, tanto física como por su influencia, de Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, dictador iraní, dictador para su pueblo y amenaza para el mundo.

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Although in summer 2011, Israeli masses protested by the thousands for government solutions to socio-economic issues, specifically the lack of affordable housing, the social justice movement was orchestrated and monopolized by the concerns of the Jewish Israeli middle-class.

In reality, housing issues are the most critical in the Palestinian Arab community, where citizens face systematic discrimination in land ownership, renting and basic services. The Mossawa Center was central in coordinating meetings between Arab community leaders and the Jewish leaders of the socio-economic protest in order to encourage the movement to adopt key demands specific to the Arab community’s needs.

Following the release of the governmental response via the Trachtenberg Committee, it was evident that these demands were not taken seriously.

Last summer was not the first time the Palestinian Arab community’s housing, land and planning issues were brought to the forefront. The international media has intensively covered issues of “disputed land,” especially house demolitions in the occupied Palestinian territories, since the Second Intifada.

In more recent years the international community has also begun to cover the deteriorating situation of the Palestinian Arab Bedouin living in the southern Negev desert. However, it remains understated how common issues of land, housing, and planning are for Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel, including citizens in the North (the Galilee), in the Triangle (the Center) and in mixed cities (Haifa, Akka, Jaffa, Lod, and Ramle). The Or Commission, founded after the events of October 2000, highlighted the housing, land and planning crisis in the Arab community and called on the Israeli government to allocate proportional resources to Arab localities. To this day, the government has not responded to the Commission’s request.

Land, housing, and planning are core issues of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. In Israel, these issues are the main source and indicator of inequalities amongst different strata of the society, especially amongst the Jewish majority and the Arab minority. According to a number of human rights organizations, fair and affordable housing for all citizens is the responsibility of state government. However Israeli Basic Law, the document that stands in place of a written constitution, does not enshrine the “right to adequate housing.” The Supreme Court does not interpret the “right to human dignity,” which is guaranteed under Israeli Basic Law, to include adequate housing.

According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, “everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing, and medical care and necessary social services” (Article 25.1).

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We push for a nomination for Ronny Edry, Michal Tamir and Israel Loves Iran to be nominated for the Nobel Prize for Peace and WE NEED YOUR HELP. DEADLINE for submission is FEBRUARY. We need as much international attention as we can get and such a prize would help us a lot.

So please, send this petition via e-mail to those who may nominate candidates for the prize. DEADLINE for submission is FEBRUARY. A nomination may be submitted by:

• Members of national assemblies and governments of states

• Members of international courts

• University rectors; professors of social sciences, history, philosophy, law and theology; directors of peace research institutes and foreign policy institutes

• Persons who have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

• Board members of organizations that have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

• Active and former members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee; (proposals by members of the Committee to be submitted no later than at the first meeting of the Committee after February 1)

• Former advisers to the Norwegian Nobel Committee

So please take action and send this petition to convince those who may nominate candidates for the prize. It could also finance future peace-projects such as our successful bus campaign. 70 busses carrying our message through Tel Aviv (see here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHVdqUXdvlA)

For further information on the process of nomination and selection of Peace Prize Laureates visit the official page: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/nomination/#nominators

For information about our campaign see the website: http://www.israelovesiran.com/
or Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/israellovesiran

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As is the case with so many others there are very serious, well-founded concerns that the charges brought against the below mentioned were politically motivated.

Israeli administrative detention orders are the subject of review and further appeal by a military court, neither lawyers nor detainees are permitted to see the “secret information” used as a basis for the detention orders.

This violates international human rights law, which permits some limited use of administrative detention in emergency situations, but requires that the authorities follow basic rules for detention, including a fair hearing at which the detainee can challenge the reasons for his or her detention.

1 These minimum rules of due process have been clearly violated in below mentioned cases, leaving them without any legitimate means to defend themselves.

1 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Art. 9.
2 Fourth Geneva Convention, Art. 78.

In addition to contradicting international human rights and humanitarian law the administration detention of the below mentioned also violates article 5 (the right to liberty and security) of the European Convention on Human Rights.

It is in this context that I call on you to act and in accordance with international human rights treaties to which Israel is a signatory state, as well as the Israeli Constitution itself, is therefore obligated to undertake the following:

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1. From 2010 to 2011 there was an over 50% increase in cistern demolitions in Area C of the West Bank. International and local NGO’s have underlined this as concerted political strategy to target essential livelihood structures and force the displacement of Palestinians. From 2009 to 2011, nearly four hundred Palestinians were internally displaced as a direct result of the destruction of water, sanitation, and hygiene infrastructure.

2. Israel simultaneously violates its legal obligations as an occupying power under IHL, clearly stated by Article 54 of Protocol 1 of the Geneva Conventions, by not refraining from demolishing objects indispensible to the survival of the civilian population. Israel also violates its obligations as a signatory to international human rights conventions to respect, protect and fulfill the right to water of Palestinians. Additionally, both Israeli and Palestinian authorities issued a joint declaration in 2001, “for keeping water infrastructure out of the cycle of violence,” essentially but ineffectively protecting cisterns.

3. Rain collecting cisterns are essential water sources in Area C of the West Bank - an area which faces chronic water shortages due to lack of infrastructure developments and inadequate resource distribution. The survival of hundreds of Palestinian communities is dependent on cisterns as the main source of water for livestock, crops and domestic use. Cisterns are structures that collect rain water posing neither a threat a threat to the environment, nor is their destruction required by imperative military necessity which under International Law would be the only legal justification.

4. The policies aimed at cistern demolitions should be viewed in the larger context of occupation and the enforcement of a restrictive planning regime controlled by the Israeli military. To date, all structures are subject to a permit procedure which rarely grants Palestinians building permits. This hinders nearly all development in Area C, and puts many structures at risk of being demolished, including cisterns. Rain collecting cisterns should be excluded from the inefficient planning system and should not be subject to demolitions.

5. Urgent action is need now - 2012 will be a critical year for at-risk communities living in Area C, with the High Court of Justice making unprecedented rulings on cases linked to planning and demolitions, greater pressure coming from settler organizations, and over 3,000 outstanding demolitions orders existing today.

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The mainstream media is full of leftist bias, reporting only what serves to further their statist agenda.

Worse is the media's bias against Israel, condemning them for defending themselves, while subsequently ignoring the true terror perpetuated by the Arab and Islamic communities.

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We support the right of Jews to live in Judea, Samaria, the Golan Heights and all of Jerusalem.

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The government of Israel has agreed (October 2011) to a transaction with the Hamas terrorist regime for the release of an Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, held hostage for more than five years.

In exchange, Israel is asked to release more than one thousand prisoners, all of them terrorists, many of them convicted murderers who have been sentenced to multi terms of life imprisonment. The list is long, but one terrorist in particular - a woman of 31 - stands out. Her name is Ahlam Tamimi and she is serving 16 life terms for a massacre which she engineered and helped to carry out.

We are asking that her name be removed from the long list of terrorists to be freed. She represents less than one tenth of one percent of the Hamas demands. Tamimi should remain in prison for the remainder of her days.

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Israel has been around since the beginning of time....
Way before the 1969 borders were put in place..... Israel has a right to exist as any other nation does... and they are about peace and helping those in need...

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Este mes de septiembre, la Asamblea General de Naciones Unidas podría votar si respalda o no un Estado Palestino declarado en forma unilateral. Los abajo firmantes, ciudadanos y residentes costarricenses, estamos convencidos que la ratificación de esta petitoria pondrá en peligro el proceso de paz, basados en los siguientes principios:

1. La paz solo resultará de un acuerdo mutuo y no de maniobras unilaterales ni de una imposición de la comunidad internacional. Así lo disponen las resoluciones 242 y 338 del Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU, así como los Acuerdos de Oslo, la Declaración de Camp David y la Hoja de Ruta, éstas últimas suscritas por la Autoridad Palestina e Israel.

2. No se puede negociar con una organización terrorista. Hamas, nuevo aliado de la Autoridad Palestina, se niega a reconocer la existencia del Estado de Israel y, más bien, procura su destrucción a través del uso del terrorismo y la violencia.

3. La comunidad internacional debe apoyar el derecho de autodeterminación del pueblo palestino y procurar su bienestar. Tal como lo manifestó el Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU, para resolver el conflicto es indispensable un acuerdo negociado entre ambas partes, reconociéndose mutuamente su derecho a existir bajo el principio de “dos Estados para dos pueblos” –uno para el pueblo judío y otro para el palestino-, con fronteras seguras, renunciando a la violencia y al terrorismo

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בחודש ספטמבר הקרוב, הרשות הפלסטינית, תוך הפרה ברורה של הסכמי שלום עליהם חתמה עם מדינת ישראל, מתכננת לבקש מהאו"ם להכיר ב"מדינה פלסטינית", על שטחים אשר עודם נמצאים במחלוקת, בצעד חד צדדי וללא הגעה להסכם עם מדינת ישראל. לאור צעד חד צדדי זה, למדינת ישראל לא נותר אלא להגיב בצעד חד צדדי מצידה, היה והרשות הפלסטינית תבצע את ההפרה.

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The involvement of Australian politicians in a "flotilla" which aims to encourage and support terrorism under the guise of humanitarian aid should result in the removal of their rights to run for any political position Australia.

They intend, like the last anti-israel provocation, to engage in illegal warfare with a foreign military (Israel) which is illegal. The red cross has stated that there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza and indeed Gaza has the highest standard of living and mortality rate in the entire arab world.

We must tell these MP's and the Australian government how disgusted we are with the involvement of the greens Sylvia Hale and Labors Lynda Voltz. The 2010 Flotilla resulted in the deaths of 9 IHH terrorists.

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In September 2011, the Palestinian Authority - which has recently merged and reconciled with the terrorist group, Hamas - plans to seek unilateral recognition of a Palestinian State based on the 1949 Armistice Lines at the United Nations.

Such a unilateral declaration of Palestinian statehood based on these borders will render Israel defenseless against the possibility of future conflicts with its Arab neighbors. Additionally, such a declaration of statehood and possible recognition by the United Nations will contradict the Oslo Accords, to which both Israel and the Palestinian Authority are bound.

The only way to establish a durable, secure peace between Israel and the Palestinian Authority - and thus be the basis for the legitimate formation of a Palestinian State - is through direct bilateral negotiations between the leaders of Israel and the Palestinian Authority; where the issues of finalized borders, the recognition of Israel as the Jewish State, security, Palestinian refugees and the status of Jerusalem will be resolved.

To ignore the peace process and unilaterally declare a Palestinian State would prolong the conflict and exacerbate and lend credence to hostilities.

Currently, Israel is seeking support from countries around the world to support the peace process and stop this ghastly resolution from being passed. Trinidad & Tobago has never taken an official position on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and has historically abstained from voting in any resolution at the United Nations General Assembly regarding this issue. However, with the new Peoples Partnership government in power, it is unclear whether Trinidad & Tobago will continue in this tradition, and so, this petition was started so that the foreign policy of abstaining will continue - or, if need be, Trinidad & Tobago should take the moral high-road and vote against any resolution at the United Nations General Assembly which recognizes the unilateral establishment of a Palestinian state outside of the peace process and negotiations.

Please note: This petition is not against the formation of a Palestinian state; rather, it is against the formation of a Palestinian state founded outside of the legally-binding peace process and outside of direct negotiations.

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Israeli Occupational Force are not only torturing Palestine's Children, but sexually abusing and molesting those children, who are in their custody.

Over 7,000 children had been arrested since September 2000, the beginning of the second Intifada. Some children as young as 10 are treated as harshly as adults, in violation of international law requiring special treatment for children.

Each year approximately 700 Palestinian children, some as young as 12 years, are detained and prosecuted in the Israeli military court system. The most common charge is for throwing stones. The overwhelming majority of these children are detained inside Israel in contravention of Article 76 of the Fourth Geneva Convention.

Please watch:
Stolen Children, Stolen Lives part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zaeERjVReE&feature=BFa&list=ULuma1ELkEOL0&index=1
Stolen Children, Stolen Lives part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9mDscNEws4&feature=related

UNICEF: Convention on the Rights of the Child
The articles of the Convention may be grouped into four categories of rights and a set of guiding principles:

1. Guiding principles (http://www.unicef.org/crc/files/Guiding_Principles.pdf): The guiding principles of the Convention include non-discrimination; adherence to the best interests of the child; the right to life, survival and development; and the right to participate. They represent the underlying requirements for any and all rights to be realized.

2. Survival and development rights (http://www.unicef.org/crc/files/Survival_Development.pdf): These are rights to the resources, skills and contributions necessary for the survival and full development of the child. They include rights to adequate food, shelter, clean water, formal education, primary health care, leisure and recreation, cultural activities and information about their rights. These rights require not only the existence of the means to fulfil the rights but also access to them. Specific articles address the needs of child refugees, children with disabilities and children of minority or indigenous groups.

3. Protection rights (http://www.unicef.org/crc/files/Protection_list.pdf): These rights include protection from all forms of child abuse, neglect, exploitation and cruelty, including the right to special protection in times of war and protection from abuse in the criminal justice system.

4. Participation rights (http://www.unicef.org/crc/files/Participation.pdf): Children are entitled to the freedom to express opinions and to have a say in matters affecting their social, economic, religious, cultural and political life. Participation rights include the right to express opinions and be heard, the right to information and freedom of association. Engaging these rights as they mature helps children bring about the realization of all their rights and prepares them for an active role in society.

The Israeli Occupational Force have broken and abused every principle of human rights in respect to the children of Palestine.

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Israel is our strongest ally. And for Pres. Obama to turn on them is a travesty and an endangerment to our own security.

Stand for Israel and tell Obama to back off.

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In 2008, Journalist Uri Blau from Haaretz newspaper published an article that was based on leaked documents – after receiving approval from the Israeli Military Censor. The article embarrassed the Israeli Defense Forces by revealing that the IDF had breached an order of a court ruling issued by the Israeli the Supreme Court restricting 'targeted assassinations' in the Occupied Territories.

Mr Blau was on vacation in late 2009 when he found out that the Israeli Government was looking to press charges against him for publishing classified information – at which point he chose to remain abroad until an agreement which gave total immunity to his sources could be reached with the Israeli authorities.

In April 2010, the Israeli Press council issued a statement concluding that “Without going into the facts of the case at hand, some of which are as yet unknown, the Press Council's position is that it is inappropriate to indict a journalist who obtains a classified document in the course of doing his journalistic work."

Since returning to Israel in October 2010, Mr Blau is now facing prosecution; the Israeli Justice Ministry is considering charging him with “holding classified information without authorization, and without intention to harm the security of the state”.

For the Israeli Attorney general to charge a journalist for what is widely accepted as “standard journalistic practise” sets a dangerous precedent and is likely to result in a degradation of constitutional rights to free speech in Israel. Should the Israeli government push through its attempt to intimidate and marginalize the journalistic community by prosecuting Mr Blau, it will no doubt lead to the stifling of public debate and a denial to Israeli citizens of their rights inherent to a vibrant and healthy democracy.

In a wider sense, the charges brought against Mr. Blau are a blatant and tragic attack on press freedom in Israel; Further information on the case – which has been widely covered across various media platforms - is accessible via the links below. Join us in taking a stand for the protection of journalistic rights and the preservation of freedom of speech in Israel!

Note: The petition has been altered from "We demand that the Israeli Attorney General's office drop all charges against the journalist Uri Blau" to "We demand that the Israeli Attorney General's office NOT charge the journalist Uri Blau" We apologize for the mistake.

LINKS:

http://kelevshmira.wordpress.com/2011/05/07/israeli-wikileaks-journalists-demand-not-to-persecute-haaretz-reporter/

Israeli journalists urge Shin Bet: Don't press charges against Uri Blau

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/israeli-journalists-urge-shin-bet-don-t-press-charges-against-uri-blau-1.284241

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israeli-soldier-faces-jail-for-passing-secrets-to-reporter-2206362.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/apr/08/anat-kamm-shin-bet-israel

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/02/israeli-journalist-anat-kam-house-arrest

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/haaretz-regrets-move-to-charge-uri-blau-for-doing-his-work-as-a-journalist-1.351455

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,687717,00.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israeli-leak-suspect-held-in-secret-house-arrest-1930672.html

http://www.haaretz.com/news/haaretz-editor-idf-censor-okayed-haaretz-articles-in-anat-kam-case-1.830

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اتفاقية تصدير الغاز المصري لإسرائيل هي اتفاقية وقعتها الحكومة المصرية عام 2005 مع إسرائيل تقضي بالتصدير إليها 1.7 مليار متر مكعب سنويا من الغاز الطبيعي لمدة 20 عاما، بثمن يتراوح بين 70 سنتا و1.5 دولار للمليون وحدة حرارية بينما يصل سعر التكلفة 2.65 دولار، كما حصلت شركة الغاز الإسرائيلية على إعفاء ضريبي من الحكومة المصرية لمدة 3 سنوات من عام 2005 إلى عام 2008[1] وقد أثارت هذه الاتفاقية حملة احتجاجات كبيرة دفعت عددا كبيرا من نواب مجلس الشعب المصري إلى الاحتجاج وتقديم طلبات إحاطة.
الأحكام القضائية18 نوفمبر 2008: فقد قضت محكمة القضاء الإداري بوقف قرار الحكومة بتصدير الغاز الطبيعي إلى عدة دول من بينها إسرائيل. حيث أن الحكومة اتفقت على تصدير الغاز الطبيعي لعدة دول أجنبية. ويحدد القرار سعر الغاز وكميته ويمنع تغيير الأسعار لمدة 15 سنة. يأتي هذا بعد أن أقرت الحكومة أن سعر الغاز الذي يصدر إلى إسرائيل أقل من الأسعار العالمية[5].
6 يناير 2009: قضت محكمة القضاء الإداري بمجلس الدولة في مصر، للمرة الثانية، في جلستها باستمرار تنفيذ الحكم السابق إصداره منها والذي قضى بوقف تصدير الغاز المصري لإسرائيل بأسعار تقل عن الأسعار العالمية وقيمتها السوقية وإلزام الحكومة بتنفيذ الحكم بمسودته، وذلك في تحد لطعن الحكومة علي الحكم السابق وقبل نظره يوم 2 فبراير 2009.وقضت المحكمة بقبول الاستشكال المقدم من السفير السابق بالخارجية المصرية إبراهيم يسري، الذي سبق له الحصول على هذا الحكم في 18 نوفمبر 2008 على ضوء دعواه التي أقامها مطالبا بوقف قرار بيع الغاز المصري لإسرائيل بأسعار أقل من الأسعار العالمية على اعتبار انه ينتقص من السيادة الوطنية ومصالح مصر [6].
2 فبراير 2009: قضت المحكمة الإدارية العليا بوقف تنفيذ حكم القضاء الإداري بمنع تصدير الغاز المصري لإسرائيل، وقبلت الطعن الذي تقدمت به الحكومة لإلغاء الحكم. وقالت في أسباب حكمها[4]. «إن قرار بيع فائض الغاز إلى دول شرق البحر المتوسط، ومنها إسرائيل، صدر من الحكومة بوصفها سلطة حكم، في نطاق وظيفتها السياسية، مما يدخل في أعمال السيادة التي استقر القضاء الدستوري والإداري والعادي على استبعادها من رقابته»
27 فبراير 2010: قضت المحكمة الإدارية العليا (الدائرة الأولى موضوع) برئاسة المستشار محمد الحسيني رئيس مجلس الدولة، بعدم اختصاص القضاء بنظر الطعن على قرار الحكومة المصرية بتصدير الغاز المصري إلى إسرائيل، باعتباره عملاً من أعمال السيادة. وأيضا قررت المحكمة وقف تنفيذ قراري رئيس مجلس الوزراء ووزير البترول بتصدير الغاز إلى إسرائيل الخاص بمدة التصدير والسعر المربوط له، لعدم تضمنيهما آلية للمراجعة الدورية لكمية الغاز المصدَّرَة، وأسعاره خلال مدة التعاقد، وإلغاء سقف الاستشارة للبترول الخام عند حد 35 دولارًا. وطالبت المحكمة بمراجعة أسعار التصدير طبقًا للأسعار العالمية، وبما يتفق مع الصالح العام المصري، ويعتبر هذا الحكم نهائي وغير قابل للطعن.

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UPDATES:
Gilad is Free!!


October 18, 2011**** - Gilad Shalit is freed from captivity in a prisoner swap with a ratio of 1027:1. Gilad greets the Prime Minister, the Defense Minister and the IDF Chief of Staff. He then greets his family and flies home to Mitzpe Hila, in the Galilee. Hopefully Gilad can recover from this terrible ordeal and still reclaim his youth.

March 31, 2011*** Mailing this letter Letter to Noam & Aviva Shalit the parents of Gilad Shalit in Jerusalem to show our support and remind them that we haven't forgotten about Gilad!

March 24, 2011 **GREAT RESPONSE from the Hon. Bryon Wilfert, Liberal MP Richmond Hill; includes letters sent by Mr. Wilfert to Hon. Lawrence Cannon (Minister of Foreign Affairs) and to Mrs. Miriam Ziv (Israeli Ambassador to Canada)
Wilfert's Personal Response

March 17, 2011 *Dear A. Rochman:

On behalf of the Right Honourable Stephen Harper, I would like to acknowledge receipt of your correspondence regarding the detention of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.

Thank you for sharing your concerns with the Prime Minister. You may be assured that your comments have been carefully reviewed.

M. Bredeson - Executive Correspondence Officer for the Prime Minister's Office***

BACKGROUND: Gilad Shalit (born August 28, 1986) is an Israeli soldier who was captured on June 25, 2006 by Hamas (classified as a terrorist organization by the U.S., Canada, the EU, U.K., and Japan) in a cross-border raid. He was abducted near the Kerem Shalom crossing (in Israel), and has been held as a prisoner in the Gaza Strip by Hamas since then (currently >1700 days in captivity) Gilad's treatment during his captivity has been and still is in strict violation of Articles 13, 14, 23, 30, 31 and 72, (and many others) of the III Geneva Convention, circa 1949. III Geneva Convention

While Israel is still technically at war with Hamas, Gilad's captivity has dragged on for much longer than the intended purpose of his capture. Even as the international community becomes outraged with the events of other terrorist/totalitarian regimes (i.e. Moammar Gaddafi, Mahmoud Ahmadeinejad, Kim Jong-Il, etc.) it has yet to address a truly humanitarian issue that has been in play for almost 5 years. The true reality and irony is that Israel has ~2000 Hamas prisoners in its' prisons today (for various crimes against humanity, including targeting civilians, training children to become terrorists, using children as human shields, etc.), yet, those prisoners have access to family visits, communication with the outside world and the use of technology (i.e. cell phones, internet access). Meanwhile, Gilad Shalit has NONE of these liberties, according to the III Geneva Convention.

Being held captive by the Hamas terrorist organization for almost 5 years is something NONE of us can comprehend or even imagine...but, ALL of us can sympathize with and do whatever it takes to demand fair and equitable treatment and ultimately make a difference.

WE MUST PUT AN END TO THIS TORTURE & INHUMANITY!

Link: What you can do from your own home!

Gilad Shalit Awareness Materials

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We the undersigned call on the United Nations to promote:

IFLAC: THE INTERNATIONAL FORUM FOR THE LITERATURE AND CULTURE OF PEACE.

This organization founded in 1999, creates bridges of Culture, understanding and peace. It promotes Conflict Resolution through Literature and Culture, and it publishes a daily IFLAC DIGEST NEWSLETTER on the Internet to spread the Culture of Peace. Its major project for 2011 is the PCTVI : the founding and development of a Middle East PEACE CULTURE TV AND INTERNET.

DR. ADA AHARONI, IFLAC FOUNDER - PRESIDENT
WWW.IFLAC.COM/ADA

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Ten local councillors from the suburb of Marrickville, New South Wales, Australia, in their official role as elected representatives of approximately 75,000 residents, have put forward an official resolution in December 2010 to:

"...boycott all goods made in Israel and any sporting, institutional, academic, government or institutional cultural exchanges...".

By this action, the ten councillors have formally aligned their municipality with terrorist organisations seeking to overthrow the State of Israel, the one free and democratic nation in the Middle East, fellow UN member, and notably the only multi-ethnic state in the region where freedom of expression, equality, non-discrimination, free union movements, freedom of press and the rule of law are established and guaranteed. In short, they have espoused totalitarian values over Australian democratic values. They are playing into the hands of the Islamist Global BDS Movement and supporting the Hamas and Hizbollah terror groups and other international racist and anti-Semitic organisations..

This irrational act is not only alarmingly naïve, but by supporting the worldview of totalitarian Islam, represents an appalling abuse of our democratic process.

A council’s brief is to act in the interests of their residents, by organizing such things as rubbish collection, social services, catching stray dogs and regulating fence heights. They are not elected to engage in partisan foreign politics or involve themselves in the domestic affairs of other states. In particular, they must never be seen to side with totalitarian, anti-democratic religious fanatics who use terrorism and murder in seeking to destroy the democratic nation of Israel, with which Australia has strong and friendly relations.

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According to Israeli police, 1200 Palestinian children have been arrested, interrogated and imprisoned in the occupied city of Jerusalem alone this year. The youngest of these children was seven-years old.

Children and teen-agers were often dragged out of their beds in the middle of the night, taken in handcuffs for questioning, threatened, humiliated and many were subjected to physical violence while under arrest as part of an ongoing campaign against the children of Palestine. Since the year 2000, more than 8000 have been arrested by Israel, and reports of mistreatment are commonplace.

Further, based on sworn affidavits collected in 2009 from 100 of these children, lawyers working in the occupied West Bank with Defense Children International, a Geneva-based non governmental organization, found that 69% were beaten and kicked, 49% were threatened, 14% were held in solitary confinement, 12% were threatened with sexual assault, including rape, and 32% were forced to sign confessions written in Hebrew, a language they do not understand.

Minors were often asked to give names and incriminate friends and relatives as a condition of their release. Such institutionalized and systematic mistreatment of Palestinian children by the state of Israel is a violation international law and specifically contravenes the Convention on the Rights of the Child to which Israel is supposedly a signatory.

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Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel

“There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part; you can’t even tacitly take part, and you’ve got to put your bodies upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop.” - Mario Savio, Student Leader of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, 1964

More than four decades of Israeli military occupation have passed, eviscerating the dream of building a viable, sovereign Palestinian state. 500,000 Jewish settlers now live in segregated, heavily fortified colonies in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, in violation of international law. They control most of the territory’s best land and water resources—land and water stolen from Palestinians. In Gaza, 1.5 million Palestinians, most of them refugees and terribly poor, are trapped in the world’s largest “open-air prison.”

Closures, checkpoints and roadblocks, targeted assassinations and settler terrorism, home demolitions, military incursions and arbitrary detentions, an economic blockade and massive “Separation Wall,” razed farm land, olive groves and fruit orchards, poisoned wells and livestock, interminable delays in movement—these measures of collective punishment, colonization and ethnic-racial separation make normal life impossible for Palestinians in the occupied territories.

For all who cherish justice and liberty it is time to unite in the cause of freedom for the Palestinian people and send an unequivocal message of nonviolent resistance to the state of Israel, just as we did to South Africa’s Apartheid regime in the 1980s.

It is time to BOYCOTT Israel and all businesses, academic centers and cultural institutions that support, maintain or benefit from the occupation of the Palestinian territories.

In 2005, over 170 civic organizations representing the breadth of Palestinian society issued a historic joint call to the world:

"We, representatives of Palestinian civil society, call upon international civil society organizations and people of conscience all over the world to impose broad boycotts and implement divestment initiatives against Israel similar to those applied to South Africa in the apartheid era. We appeal to you to pressure your respective states to impose embargoes and sanctions against Israel. We also invite conscientious Israelis to support this Call, for the sake of justice and genuine peace...."

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Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel

“There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part; you can’t even tacitly take part, and you’ve got to put your bodies upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop.” - Mario Savio, Student Leader of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, 1964

More than four decades of Israeli military occupation have passed, eviscerating the dream of building a viable, sovereign Palestinian state. 500,000 Jewish settlers now live in segregated, heavily fortified colonies in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, in violation of international law. They control most of the territory’s best land and water resources—land and water stolen from Palestinians. In Gaza, 1.5 million Palestinians, most of them refugees and terribly poor, are trapped in the world’s largest “open-air prison.”

Closures, checkpoints and roadblocks, targeted assassinations and settler terrorism, home demolitions, military incursions and arbitrary detentions, an economic blockade and massive “Separation Wall,” razed farm land, olive groves and fruit orchards, poisoned wells and livestock, interminable delays in movement—these measures of collective punishment, colonization and ethnic-racial separation make normal life impossible for Palestinians in the occupied territories.

To Vermonters who cherish justice and liberty, who are inspired by the state motto—“Freedom and Unity”—it is time to unite in the cause of freedom for the Palestinian people and send an unequivocal message of nonviolent resistance to the state of Israel, just as we did to South Africa’s Apartheid regime in the 1980s.

It is time to BOYCOTT Israel and all businesses, academic centers and cultural institutions that support, maintain or benefit from the occupation of the Palestinian territories.

In 2005, over 170 civic organizations representing the breadth of Palestinian society issued a historic joint call to the world:

"We, representatives of Palestinian civil society, call upon international civil society organizations and people of conscience all over the world to impose broad boycotts and implement divestment initiatives against Israel similar to those applied to South Africa in the apartheid era. We appeal to you to pressure your respective states to impose embargoes and sanctions against Israel. We also invite conscientious Israelis to support this Call, for the sake of justice and genuine peace...."

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Since May 14 1947 Israel has continued to ignore all of UN resolutions on the rights of Palestinians.

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