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Limerick Vigil for Gaza
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Sunday January 11, 2009 00:30 by Zoe Lawlor - Limerick branch Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Vigil in Solidarity with the People of Gaza As the slaughter in Gaza continues, as Gaza burns and Israel continues to murder with impunity, there was a vigil in Limerick today to express solidarity with the Palestinian people. |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2At least three, and possibly four, US airforce hercules C130 have passed through Shannon over the past few days. We dont know yet whether their missions were to resupply munitions and war materials to the killing fields of Gaza, or to the killing fields of Iraq and Afghanistan.
In Gaza are we seeing an ongoing phase in a final solution to the Palestinian people living in Gaza? By making living conditions in Gaza as difficult as possible, Israel has forced tens of thousands of Palestinians to flee from Gaza, with Israel hoping they will never return. Now we are seeing state terror being used to kill, maim and psychologically damage as many people as possible, thereby encouraging many more people to leave Gaza. Israel wants its Arab neighbouring countries to be forced to take in the Palestinian people, therby making them someone else's problem, and leaving as much of the Palestinian lands as possible in Israeli Jewish possession. The casualty rate in most of the recent conflicts between Israel and the Palestinian people has been almost 100:1 which amounts to a massacre by any standards.
Given that almost six millions Jewish people were killed in the genocide committed in German death camps, known as the Holocaust.
I might seem outrageous to now accuse the Jewish Israeli Government of genocide against the Palestinian people. However, an examination of the Genocide Convention 1948 reveals that Israel may well be in serious breach of several aspects of the Genocide Convention in its treatment of and attacks on the Palestinian people since 1948, and in particular in its most recent attacks on Gaza.
Israel is one of the 142 countries that have ratified the Genocide Convention 1948. Given the horrific Jewish experiences of the Holocaust Israel should be one of the strongest supporters of the Genocide Convention, and should be exemplary in its compliance and enforcement of this convention. Yet a study of the behaviour of the state of Israel since its foundation in 1948 shows that the treatment of the Palestinian people by the Israeli state has been in breach of the spirit and in some cases the letter of international laws on genocide. The full title of the convention is: Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Its first two articles are:
Article I: The Contracting Parties confirm that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law which they undertake to prevent and to punish.
Article II: In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious groups, as such:
a. Killing members of the group;
b. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group.
c. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
d. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
e. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Israel has been in very serious breach of Article II especially, including in the following respects:
1. The virtual ethnic cleansing of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their lands and homes in 1948, and is subsequent conflicts, and by other means including restrictive planning, purchase, and destruction of property including farm land and crops.
2. The deliberate targeting of religious buildings particularly Mosques.
3. The killing of large numbers of the Palestinian group in a very disproportionate manner (approximately 100:1) contrary to Article II a.
4. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group, contrary to Article II b.
5. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part, contrary to Article II c.
In recent years prominent national leaders and others from several countries, including, Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia, Rwanda and Liberia, have been brought before international courts for crimes against humanity. The leaders of Israel should be no exception, and if any Palestinian leaders have been involved in crimes against humanity, they should also face trial before international courts.
Given the above legal situation, it behoves the Irish Government and the Irish people to ensure that Ireland and its territory and airspace are in no way being used to facilitate or be complicit in war crimes that may amout to acts of genocide.
US Airforce Hercules C 130 at Shannon Sat 10 Jan 08
(all photos by Shane Serrano)
Mayor John Gilligan addressing the people of Limerick
Crowd gathered infront of Pennys listening to the speeches
Limerick residents from Palestine
Sean Clinton (IPSC.org) addressing the Limerick gathering
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