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The Irish Anti-War Movement

ASSASINATION PASSPORT OUTRAGE FURTHER PROOF THAT ISRAEL IS A ROGUE STATE

Press Release – Feb 18th 2010

 

-IAWM SAYS ISRAEL SHOULD BE ISOLATED LIKE APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA

 

In a statement, the Irish Anti-War Movement (IAWM) has said that the almost certain responsibility of Israel for the outrage where falsified Irish and other passports were used to facilitate the assassins of senior Hamas figure, Mahmoud Al Mabhouh, in Dubai, were further proof that Israel is a rogue state that has no respect for international law or human rights.

 

The IAWM said that, following the horrors inflicted by Israel on the people of Gaza last year and decades where Israel had denied Palestinians the most basic human rights, this latest Israeli action was proof of the need for the international community to isolate and boycott Israel economically and diplomatically.

 

Press Release – Feb 18th 2010

 

-IAWM SAYS ISRAEL SHOULD BE ISOLATED LIKE APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA

 

In a statement, the Irish Anti-War Movement (IAWM) has said that the almost certain responsibility of Israel for the outrage where falsified Irish and other passports were used to facilitate the assassins of senior Hamas figure, Mahmoud Al Mabhouh, in Dubai, were further proof that Israel is a rogue state that has no respect for international law or human rights.

 

The IAWM said that, following the horrors inflicted by Israel on the people of Gaza last year and decades where Israel had denied Palestinians the most basic human rights, this latest Israeli action was proof of the need for the international community to isolate and boycott Israel economically and diplomatically.

 

The IAWM called on the Irish government to expel the Israeli ambassador and institute sanctions on Israel as were done to apartheid South Africa.

 

The IAWM said, these latest events, made very timely the meeting it is hosting in Dublin’s Gresham Hotel this weekend (Sat 20th), where leading Israeli, Palestinian and Jewish experts on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would speak about the need for an alternative “one-state” solution to the conflict, given the very apparent failure of the two-state strategy being pursued by the US and major western powers.

 

Israeli historian, Illan Pappe, Palestinian writer Ghada Karmi and Jewish Socialist author John Rose –all leading advocates of the one-state solution – will speak on the subject: "Can Israelis and Palestinians live in One-State?" At 2pm in the Gresham Hotel, O Connell St in Dublin.

The meeting will also be addressed by Zoe Lawlor, who has recently returned from Gaza and IAWM chairperson, Richard Boyd Barrett.

 

Richard Boyd Barrett chairperson of the IAWM said:

 

"It is patently obvious that this assassination was carried out by Israel and that they are responsible for stealing Irish and other passport numbers and manufacturing false passports.

 

The assassination is further evidence of the cold-blooded brutality of Israel and its utter contempt for international law and human rights.

 

It is a brazen affront to this country that Israel would misuse Irish passports to commit this crime and in the process potentially endanger Irish citizens and passport holders. It shows they have absolutely no respect for our laws, our international standing or the safety of our citizens.

 

With this outrage, we have got a taste of Israel’s criminal immorality as a state and the sort of brutality and flagrant disregard for human rights that is experienced, day in day out, by the suffering Palestinian people.

 

Surely now, after this outrage and the horrors inflicted on the people of Gaza, and the ongoing persecution of the Palestinian people, it is time to recognise that Israel is a rogue state that should be boycotted and isolated by the International community.

 

Just as the International community finally acknowledged after many years that apartheid South Africa was an obnoxious entity that had no place in the community of nations and had sanctions imposed on it, surely the time has come to treat Israel in the same way.

 

This latest Israeli atrocity makes very timely the meeting we are holding in Dublin this Saturday on the “one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. We are very privileged to have very prominent Israeli, Palestinian and Jewish academics and writers who will explain why Israel is not a normal state and why a very different peace strategy is needed to the one currently being pursued if the conflict is ever to be resolved."

 

For more information/confirmation:

 

Richard Boyd Barrett 086-7814520

Jim Roche 087-6472737

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