MARCH WITH US FOR PALESTINIAN FREEDOM!

This unlawful occupation has been going on for far too long, causing
terrible suffering and injustice. For the sake of humanitarianism, justice,
peace and democracy, it is time to end it once and for all: and we in the UK
should use the ‘stick’ of international and EU law to put pressure on Israel
to do.…

GREEN PARTY AND GREEN LEFT CONTINGENT WILL MEET AT 1PM AT LINCOLN INN FIELD MARCH WITH US FOR PALESTINIAN FREEDOM!

MEP: ISRAEL MUST END OCCUPATION OF PALESTINE

GREEN MEP LUCAS TO ADDRESS ENOUGH OCCUPATION RALLY MARKING 40 YEARS SINCE
THE SIX-DAY -WAR

Event: Green MEP to address rally against Israeli occupation of
Palestine
Place: Trafalgar Square, London – after march leaving Lincoln’s
Inn Fields
Time: Saturday, June 9th. March leaves 1.30pm – Speeches from
3pm


GREEN Party Euro-MP Caroline Lucas has called on Israel to end the
occupation of Palestine and the UK to restore full links with the
Palestinian Authority to prevent a humanitarian disaster and an escalation
of the conflict.

“Forty years after the six-day-war, in which the Israeli army took military
control of the Gaza Strip and West Bank, including East Jerusalem, Palestine
is still under illegal Israeli occupation.

“The human rights of Palestinians are routinely abused: freedom of movement
and freedom from arbitrary arrest are almost non-existent for Palestine’s
Arab population.

“Schools and hospitals are chronically under-funded, there is widespread and
growing unemployment – and there has been a dramatic increase in the number
of Palestinians living in poverty in the last year alone.

“This unlawful occupation has been going on for far too long, causing
terrible suffering and injustice. For the sake of humanitarianism, justice,
peace and democracy, it is time to end it once and for all: and we in the UK
should use the ‘stick’ of international and EU law to put pressure on Israel
to do.

“Until Israel conforms to all previous security council resolutions and ends
the occupation, stops building its ‘separation barrier’ – also unlawful,
according to the International Court of Justice – and demonstrates it fully
respects the rights of Palestinians, we must suspend the EU-Israel
Association agreement, which governs political, economic and cultural links
between EU countries and Israel.”

Dr Lucas, who has just returned fro Palestine as a member of the European
Parliament’s official delegation to the occupied Palestinian territories,
made her comments ahead of a mass demonstration and rally against the
occupation in London this Saturday (June 9).

The MEP will speak alongside Palestinian Minister of Information Mustafa
Barghouti, former CND chair Bruce Kent, several MPs, Ismael Patel of the
friends of Al Aqsa and others. Full details are available on the Enough
Occupation! Website www.enoughoccupation.org.uk

She added: “Living conditions in the Palestinian occupied territories have
been deteriorating for years at the hands of the occupying Israeli forces,
and Governments in the EU are making this worse by refusing to deal directly
with democratically-elected Hamas members of the Palestinian Authority.

“This not only strikes a blow at the apparatus and legitimacy of the
Palestinian Authority, it undermines democracy in the Middle East, and sends
a clear signal to the Israeli government that it can take the same attitude.

“Israel must end the occupation, and the UK government must renormalise
relations with the Palestinian Authority – or life will get harder for
Palestinians as poverty, human rights abuses and conflict steadily worsen.”