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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><br><b><span style></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><span style>Amigas, os reenvío en adjunto el texto recibido el pasado día 25, procedente de las mujeres árabes en Jerusalem, ya traducido y revisado por nuestra incansable Yolanda Rouiller.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><br><b><span style></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><span style>Creo que tiene un inmenso valor por el momento que vivimos y por su procedencia.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><br><b><span style></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><span style>En Sevilla estamos saliendo a la calle con la Plataforma de Solidaridad con Palestina, llevando nuestros mensajes y con nuestra estética. <br>
</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><br><b><span style></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><span style>Un abrazo lleno de esperanza en que pare esta masacre</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><span style>Sofia</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><span style><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><span style><br>
</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><span style>De:</span></b><span style> Anne Remley
[mailto: </span><a href="mailto:agr1@me.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">agr1@me.com</span></a><span style> ] <br>
<b>Enviado el:</b> Viernes, 25 de julio 2014 03:43 AM <br>
<b>A:</b> anne r <br>
<b>Asunto:</b> Fwd: Amigos </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Read this message from women in Jerusalem about their demo today -- great
description! Please circulate</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">As outraged as we are,
Palestinian women in Jerusalem took <span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">to </span>the
streets, and Sarah and myself were in the streets since the morning. We
saw them militarizing our demonstration's space, and told them all we want<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">;</span> we showed them that they could put all the
soldiers and security people they want<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span>-
they can't stop Palestinians from resisting.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">The statement attached is in
both languages- <span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">we </span>wrote it together with
all the wonderful women's ideas and insights around me, and we hope to continue
our struggle. Just watching our first demonstration today <span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">at</span> Damascus Gate, one learns that it was not only
us feminist activists, it was not only women that are running civil society
organizations and women and feminist NGO's; it was women passers<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">by</span>, that were on their way to the market/suq, and
stopped to join us. It was women sellers that left their merchandise on
the side, and started chanting with us. When we moved to the second
demonstration opposite the EU offices, women heard our slogans, came out of
their houses and joined us<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">;</span> then when moving
to our third demonstration opposite the Red Cross, again, more women joined the
march..........It was all of us, from the various places, ages, positions,
political parties that joined hand in hand to demand stopping the massacres in
Gaza....and call Israel a terrorist state. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">The world might not hear our
voices and our demands, but, we needed to speak loudly, we needed to gather, to
share stories of pain and power, show our solidarity and love to each
other....as Love is a practice of freedom.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">Turning a Blind Eye to Israel’s Genocidal
Attacks on the Palestinian People is Complicity with Crimes against humanity</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">To turn a blind eye to Israel’s massacres in Gaza today is to be complicit </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">about </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">Israel’s
brutality </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">and genocidal attacks against
the Palestinian people. We are writing this statement to strongly </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">condemn Israel’s most recent massacres and war crimes committed against
civilians and families </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">in Gaza, and demand an immediate ce<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">s</span>s<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">ation</span> of the indiscriminate killings, an end to
the siege, and<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"> we</span> fiercely reject the
vengeful destruction of property, infrastructure<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">,</span>
and the livelihood of our people in Gaza.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">The continuous </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">dispossession of Palestinians’ right to life and to a safe future, the et</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">hnic cleansing of Palestinians
since 1948, and indeed the constant uprooting, displacement, housing
demolitions, fragmentation of families, land grabbing<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">,</span>
and incarceration, create desperate and hopeless li<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">ving</span>
conditions and stifle our possibilities for the future. To be silent amidst the
continuous criminalities, to accept military occupation and colonial violence,
to accept the killing of women and men, young and old, rural, refugee<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">,</span> and villagers, is to approve the various
colonial modes of dispossession, and deny Palestinians the right to a dignified
life.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">In the name of “Al</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">-tajam</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">o’ </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Al-nasawiy Almaqdasy, a group
of </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">“Coalition of Jerusalemite Women” and </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Jerusalemite feminists from all segments of
society, we write to convey our deep condemnation <span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">of</span>
the continuous loss of lives, as we express our rejection to the silence of the
global and regional communities and complicity with the cruel Zionist project.
We women are appalled with the unending dispossessions and mundane suffering of
our people in occupied Gaza, the West Bank, and Jerusalem. We refuse to accept
violence as part of the daily lives of the Palestinian refugees in the various
camps, as well as among Palestinians of 1948 in the Galilee, Naqab, Triangle<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">,</span> and more. We are outraged with the terrorism of
the Zionist settler colonial regime, as well as its machinery of oppression
that inscribes pain and marks the bodies and lives of our families, daughters,
sons, and communities as disposable objects, non-human </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">“</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Others</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">” </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">and unrecognized entities, as
naked bodies and lives, dispossessed of the right to life, to safety, and even
to the right of dying in dignity.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Today we stand as Palestinian
women who reject any denial of our right to rights and refuse to normalize or
justify the violence of the Israeli occupation and colonization, while firmly
demanding an end to the Zionist regime, machinery<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">,</span>
and its violent colonial structure. Over 60 years of Zionist structural
violence have passed, a long period of continuous dispossession, displacement,
and uprooting. And today, in Gaza, and throughout all of historic Palestine, we
re-experience the displacement and fragmentation of our families and our
communities<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">,</span> the creation of thousands of <span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">additional</span> refugees<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">;</span>
we re-experience Palestinian death and crimes against our people<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">;</span> we re-live the annihilation of our future and
rights for self-determination, while the world is watching.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Today we stand as Palestinian
women insisting on our right to resist the brutality of the settler colonial
regime, and asserting our inherent right to defend ourselves. We speak against
the persistent criminality, against and victimization of our people<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">;</span> <span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">we</span> demand an
end to the silence, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">an end to the international community’s willful
blindness<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">,</span> and the colonial aphasia that
surrounds </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">our catastrophe, and <span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">we demand the right </span>to speak out about our trauma
and our steadfastness. Today we stand with<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span>the
power of our ancestors, the power of our steadfastness<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">,</span>
and the power of our just cause. Our hope for the future and love of life fuel
our struggle against continuous injustices; we continue our long history of
popular resistance against the Zionist state for a life of safety and dignity.
We stand here to say</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">— </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">do not be voyeuristic observers<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">;</span> do not
be gravediggers<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">;</span> and support our struggle to
live life, not die it!</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">In the name
of the justness of our cause:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">1. First and foremost, we
demand an immediate end to the massacres and war crimes that the Israeli state
is now committing in Gaza. We demand an immediate end to the legality of our
victimhood- despite our Sumud/steadfastness--and urge you to stop the continuous
attacks and massacres that started in 1948 in Deir Yassin, Qufr Qasim,
Eilaboon, continued during the incursions in Hebron and Jenin, and included
Sabra and Shatila Refugee Camps in Lebanon, and continue today in Shejaiyya and
other neighborhoods of Gaza. We demand an end to the brutality, dispossession
and demonization that is marked on the Palestinian body, on the Palestinian </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">family, on women’s intimacy, on women’s sexuality, on women’s bodies, on
women’s pregnant bodies, on women’s birthing bodies, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">the pain that is inscribed even onto the bodies
of our dead.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">2. We call on the
international community and the Arab world, its daughters and its sons, to
pressure their governments, and stop the continuous Nakba, including the very
bloody attack on Gaza today.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">3. We appeal to civil society
organizations, regional organizations and international human rights and
humanitarian organizations to work together to help end the Israeli occupation.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">4. We demand an immediate end
to collective punishment that is caging Palestinians in closed and open</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">prisons, that is hunting
people in their homes, in their places of worship, in their schools, and even
in their graveyards.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">5. We claim the preservation
of safety for the brave Palestinian women that continue resisting colonial
oppression through their daily contributions, including daily attempts to
provide safety and security for the most vulnerable among our people</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">—</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">their beloved ones, their
babies even when in their wombs, their students, their youth, our children, the
elderly, and those in need</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">—</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">and to preserve our history, culture and
continuity as a people.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">6. We urge the international
feminist community, including Nobel laureates and other feminist activists, to
stand up against the continuous violence that is directed towards Palestinian
individuals and our society as a whole, and to work harder in preventing
continuous massacres, forced displacement, and destruction of our social
fabric.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> 7. We call on all people
of the world who have suffered from atrocities, dehumanization, displacement<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">,</span> and war crimes to stand with us and make their
voices heard.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">8. We demand holding the
criminals accountable, whether these criminals are representatives of the
Israeli state, private organizations<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">,</span> or
individuals, and holding Israel accountable for its war crimes and compelling
the state to respect international treaties including the 4th Geneva
convention, the Rome statute, and other related treaties.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">9. We urge all people of
conscience to support the Boycott, Divestment<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">,</span>
and Sanctions (BDS) Movement, divesting from Israel, imposing economic
sanctions on Israel<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">,</span> and excluding Israel
while defining it as a terrorist state.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Signed by
the Coalition for Jerusalemite Women</span></i></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">(The
Coalition includes women from all segments of Palestinian society, with all its
differences)</span></i></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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