[aha] PALESTINA: Arrestata Neta Golan dell'International Solidarity Movement - solidarietà della Rete Artisti

[Loredana Morandi]

Rete Artisti contro le guerre



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La Rete Artisti contro le guerre esprime la propria solidarietà agli operatori di Pace dell'International Solidarity Movement in questo difficile momento e si stringe con affetto vicino alla coraggiosa Neta Golan, che vive sulla propria pelle un arresto del tutto ingiustificato.

Gaza è divenuta nella realtà un campo di concentramento a cielo aperto per tutti i palestinesi, che vi abitano. Espressione moderna del concetto di sopraffazione violenta di un popolo. Sopraffazione perpetrata, a memoria di uomo, solo ad Auschwitz.

Dopo l'impedimento dato al Nunzio Apostolico Vaticano nel raggiungere Gaza per dire "Messa" e l'espulsione del relatore per i Diritti Umani dell'Onu, il giurista americano Richard Falk,  per comprendere cosa stia accadendo a Neta Golan dell'ISM è necessario ricordare le parole di Hermann Goering al processo di Norimberga:

"Che abbia voce o no, il popolo puo' essere sempre portato al volere dei capi. È facile. Tutto quello che dovete fare e' dir loro che sono attaccati, e denunciare i pacifisti per mancanza di patriottismo e in quanto espongono il paese al pericolo."

La Rete Artisti contro le guerre chiede all'Onorevole Presidente Giorgio Napolitano, recentemente ospite in Israele, e all'Onorevole Ministro degli Esteri Franco Frattini di voler accertare le condizioni e la qualità di vita della popolazione palestinese di Gaza e le condizioni in cui verte la dottoressa Neta Golan nelle carceri israeliane.

Gli Artisti chiedono, inoltre, ai due Onorevoli rappresentanti del Popolo Italiano di voler personalmente assicurarsi, che in occasione delle festività Israele rispetti le convenzioni internazionali per il Diritto alla Libera Professione della Fede Religiosa: dei Cristiani, dei Cattolici e dei Mussulmani in Gaza.

 
Rete Artisti contro le guerre Italia


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Network Artists Against War Italy



The Network Artists against war expresses its solidarity to the operators of Peace International Solidarity Movement in this difficult time is running out and with affection to the brave Neta Golan, who lives on her skin a completely unjustified arrest.

Gaza has become reality in an open air concentration camp and for all Palestinians living there. Expression of the modern concept of violent oppression of people. Oppression perpetrated in memory of a man, only in Auschwitz.

After the ground-up to the Vatican Apostolic Nuncio to reach Gaza for "religious rites" and the expulsion of the reporter for the Human Rights Assembly, the American lawyer Richard Falk, to understand what is happening to Neta Golan of the ISM is necessary to recall the words of Hermann Goering during the Nuernberg trial:

"Having voice or not, people can be brought to the will of the chiefs. It's easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger."

The Network Artists against war asks President Giorgio Napolitano who has been recently in Israel and Foreign Minister Franco Frattini to establish the conditions and quality of life of the Palestinian population of Gaza and the conditions of Dr.Neta Golan in Israeli prisons.

The Artists ask also the two important representatives of the Italian People to make sure personally that during the holidays Israel will respect the international conventions for the Right to Freedom of professing religion: Christians, Catholics and Muslims in Gaza.

Network of Artists Against War - Italy

per la Rete Artisti contro le guerre

Loredana Morandi
contact 348/7490558
www.artistsagainstwar.info
www.bloggersperlapace.org 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ISM Media Group" <media at palsolidarity.org>
To: "International Solidarity Movement" <palsolidarity at googlegroups.com>
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 6:40 PM
Subject: [ISM Updates] Neta Golan arrested leaving Gaza


> 
> For Immediate Release
> 
> 6pm 22nd December 2008 - Neta Golan, an Israeli citizen and co-founder
> of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), has been arrested by
> Israeli police while attempting to leave Gaza through the Erez border
> crossing.
> 
> Neta Golan, 38, arrived Gaza on 20th December, along with 17 human
> rights observers on the SS Dignity, the fifth boat to break the
> Israeli blockade of Gaza, organised by the Free Gaza Movement.
> 
> She will be taken to court tomorrow (23rd December) in Kiryat Gat.
> 
> Neta Golan's lawyer, Adnan Aladdin, condemned the arrest;
> 
> "Ms Golan's actions in no way constitute a crime. Her actions in
> entering Gaza were acts of necessity based on international law and a
> rejection of the policies of collective punishment pursued by the
> Israeli government"
> 
> "Humanitarian needs, such as those faced by the Palestinian people of
> Gaza due to the Israeli siege, make non-violent acts that are clearly
> a response to this act of collective punishment necessary. This is
> common sense and has precedent."
> 
> "The Defense of Necessity protects those who peacefully seek to
> prevent gross violations of human rights, grave breaches of
> humanitarian law, and war crimes from occurring. Non-violent civil
> disobedience in opposition to and aimed at preventing gross violations
> of human rights, grave breaches of humanitarian law, and war crimes
> has been recognized as justified by the necessity of self-defense and
> the necessity of defense of others in several jurisdictions around the
> world. (Source - The State of Israel vs.Ascherman, Arik; Omer, Ori;
> Hamburger, Shai Eliezer, January 2004, Criminal Case # 003751/03)
> 
> Under the Geneva Conventions of 1949, collective punishment is deemed
> a war crime. Article 33 of the the Fourth Geneva Convention states;
> "No protected person may be punished for an offense he or she has not
> personally committed," and that "collective penalties and likewise all
> measures of intimidation or of terrorism are prohibited." (http://
> www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/92.htm).
> 
> After successfully breaking the blockade with the Free Gaza Movement,
> Neta Golan spent three days in the Gaza Strip observing the effects of
> the Israeli siege on Gaza. She visited schools, hospitals and farmers
> who's lives have been devastated by Israel's policies of collective
> punishment.
> 
> She stated;
> 
> "How can an act against the collective punishment of over 1.5 million
> people be a crime? The policies of the Israeli State towards the
> people of Gaza is the real crime".
> 
> "I feel it is my duty to come to Gaza and attempt to raise awareness
> as to what the Israeli state is doing to the people here. We broke the
> siege on Gaza, now it is time for more from the international
> community to do the same in solidarity with the Palestinian people."
> 
> Neta Golan is one of the co-founders of the International Solicarity
> Movement which was nominated twice for a Nobel Peace prize. She has
> actively resisted the occupation, participating in hundreds of
> demonstrations against the wall and the illegal settler roads. She is
> married and lives in Ramallah with her Palestinian husband and two
> children.
> 
> 
> For More information:
> 
> Adnan Aladdin (Neta Golan's lawyer) - (+972) 0 546 664 571
> Adam (ISM Media Office) - (+972) 0 598 503 948
> 
> -------------------
> 
> The collective punishment of the people of Gaza has, according to the
> UN Relief and Works Agency, had a devastating effect on the local
> population. The siege has seen Israel allow only the bare minimum of
> essential materials allowed into the Strip. Last week even the UN food
> and cash distribution that was to be transferred was suspended by
> Israel (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/21/israel-gaza-strip-
> middle-east).
> 
> Figures collected by the UN also show that 51.8% of the people of Gaza
> are now living below the poverty line, a figure the UN described as
> "unprecedentedly high" (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/21/
> israel-gaza-strip-middle-east). The UN also announced last week that
> it had been forced to stop distributing food to the 750,000 people in
> need and forced to suspend financial distributions to a further
> 94,000.
> 
> The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) is a Palestinian-led
> movement committed to resisting the Israeli occupation of Palestinian
> land using nonviolent, direct-action methods and principles. Founded
> by a small group of activists in August, 2001, ISM aims to support and
> strengthen the Palestinian popular resistance by providing the
> Palestinian people with two resources, international protection and a
> voice with which to nonviolently resist an overwhelming military
> occupation force.
> 
> The International Solidarity Movement re-established its presence in
> the Gaza Strip following the first voyage of the Free Gaza Movement on
> the 23rd August 2008. ISM volunteers have been accompanying Gazan
> fishermen as they fish with Palestinian waters, working with farmers
> who have land situated along the Green Line and documenting aspects of
> the siege and occupation of Gaza. On the 18th November, three ISM
> volunteers were abducted from Palestinian waters by the Israeli navy
> together with fifteen Palestinian fishermen. The internationals were
> later deported from Israel, despite never having entered Israeli
> territory until taken into Israeli waters by the Israeli navy.
> 
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