[Sosfbay-discuss] [Fwd: Nobel Prize Peace Activist, Mairead Maguire, Not Allowed her Medications in Israeli Jail]

[Jim Stauffer]

FYI on the Free Gaza Movement...

Jim
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     Hi All,
     Had thought to incorporate later all the updates from prison.
But this is urgent, and as I am on the way to Jerusalem to pick up a
Palestinian undergoing chemotherapy and to bring him home, I will be
away from the computer till evening.  Please write not only to the
Israeli authorities but also to your own governments--local and
national.  If you know people in the media, make sure that they
receive this!  Not allowing a person in need of medication to
retrieve it from her personal belongings or not supplying it to her
in other means might at the worst be life-threatening (I hope not),
at the least is inhumane.

     Dorothy



     ----- Original Message -----
     From: Irish
     To: gazafriends ; fg-medialist
     Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 11:23 AM
     Subject: [GazaFriends] Message from Mairead

     The Israeli prison guards are denying the right for Mairead to
access her medicine. Continue to email and call Mark Regev and
Shlomo Dror and express your outrage over the treatment of the
FreeGaza21 while they are imprisoned. The women have no access to
their luggage or their clothing.

     Mairead is fasting, not just for her friends incarcerated along
with her, but for the 11,000 Palestinians also thrown into jail,
many without benefit of trial.

     Hear her eloquent interview with Al Jazeera.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v558kjFaYGQ&feature=player_profilepage

     --
     Greta Berlin
     Free Gaza Movement
     357 99 284 102
     www.freegaza.org
     www.flickr.com/photos/29205195 at N02/


Thanks Margaret. That indeed is precisely the kind of threat that
needs to be made! bds will eventually scare the government, because
it has the non-violent power of the people! Would it be ok to
circulate your letter--and if you prefer, without your name.
Dorothy


----- Original Message ----- From: "Maureen" <oflaherty at cruzio.com>
To: <mark.regev at it.pmo.gov.il>
Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 9:18 AM
Subject: Piracy with Impunity


     Dear Mr. Regev,

     As an American citizen I am outraged by the current behavior of
Israel in kidnapping and jailing members of an important
humanitarian aid group. We American taxpayers have given Israel more
tax dollars than any other country in the world. Yet Israel thumbs
its nose at us and commits crimes against us and other good citizens
from around the world. Israel, at this time is a rogue nation, not a
civilized state. You are so much like the Nazis who preceded you in
your criminal behaviors.
     Nazi crimes against humanity do not justify Zionist crimes
against humanity in Gaza, the West Bank or on the high seas.

     Until such time as Israel behaves in a civilized manner,
including ending the siege of Gaza, stopping the kidnapping of
people and supplies meant to alleviate the suffering in Gaza, and
removing the settlements that make a two state solution impossible,
I will due all I can to oppose funding to Israel and promote
sanctions against Israel. I'll start in my neighborhood and among my
contacts. I am not alone.

     Return the humanitarians, their supplies and their boat. Shame
on Israel!

     Sincerely,

     Margaret M Smith