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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 2. Juni 2010 / Time Line June 2, 2010
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Israel's Ruthless Criminality' - WRI statement on attack on
Freedom Flotilla
War Resisters' International - an international pacifist network
with more than 80 affiliates in more than 40 countries - condemns
the murderous Israeli attack on the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza and
calls for an immediate lifting of the blockade on Gaza.
The Israeli state has been responsible for many outrages in its
history, especially against the population of Gaza. To put it at
its mildest, as reported last week by the UN Food and Agriculture
Organisation, after a thousand days of the Israeli blockade, 61 per
cent of the households of Gaza are "food insecure".
The international nonviolent activists killed in the attack on the
Free Gaza Flotilla did not regard their lives as more important
than those of Palestinians - not more important, but nevertheless
more visible. The ruthless criminality of this attack on an unarmed
flotilla of nonviolent activists bearing humanitarian aid
demonstrates for those who did not know before just to what extent
the state of Israel regards itself as immune from international
norms.
In view of the involvement of some of our own members in organising
this, we also know full well that this flotilla is not a tool of
Hamas, let alone of Al Qaeda or any other spectre the Israeli
propaganda machine seeks to raise. Knowing the nonviolent
preparations undertaken for this flotilla, and knowing a number of
the activists involved and their principled commitment to
nonviolent forms of action, we suggest that only those who want to
excuse Israel can believe that Israeli commandos who boarded the
ships were then attacked.
This is a state that has acquired nuclear weapons illicitly and
offered them to at least one other racist state, apartheid South
Africa. This is a state whose secret services have carried out acts
of assassination, kidnapping, sabotage and espionage throughout the
world. This is a state which day after day has committed violence
against Palestinians, indeed whose own sense of security depends on
subjection and expropriation of Palestinians.
War Resisters' International works in support of those Israelis who
speak out against or refuse to cooperate with the criminality of
their government. Our affiliates pressure their own governments and
also particular corporations to withdraw support from the Israeli
government and its politics of paranoia and persecution. We work
too alongside Palestinians to develop nonviolent strategies that
offer hope for justice and ultimately peace - strategies including
the nonviolent Freedom Flotilla.
War Resisters' International now calls once more
- for disinvestment from companies supporting the state of Israel,
- for a boycott of products marketed by institutions identified with the Israeli state and support for the fair trade products of Palestinian cooperatives.
- for support for the war resisters in Israel itself
- for support for Palestinians in persevering with nonviolent strategies for justice and freedom
06/02/2010
Veteraner på pension
Af Holger Terp
Jeg ser gerne at de traumatiserede danske krigsveteraner tildeles
førtidspension så de slipper for aktivering.
Førtidspensionen er i disse tilfælde endog meget dyre
lærepenge, men jeg er ikke sikker på, om
førtidspension er den bedste økonomiske
løsning for krigsinvaliderne.
Grundet dårligt syn fik jeg, der er pacifist,
førtidspension for 12 år siden.
Jeg fik tildelt den mellemste pension og min personlige erfaring er
den, at når de faste udgifter er betalt, er der ikke meget at
slå til Søren med. Ingen bil, stort set ingen
nyanskaffelser og ringe social altivitet er hverdagen. Det er sidst
på måneden året rundt. Enten er der faste
regninger der skal betales eller også er der regninger der
lige er betalt.
Krigsveteraner på førtidspension vil få et nyt
chok over den fremtidige stramme økonomi, som der ikke er
nogen vej ud af.
Løsningen ser ud til at være at hæve
førtidspensionen, men det er næppe politisk muligt i
øjeblikket.
Endelig, hvorfor skal kommunerne og ikke det ministerium der sender
de unge mennester i krig betale regningen?
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