Free Gaza Movement announces postal service to Gaza

[PalestineMyHeart 1,897]

FREE GAZA MOVEMENT ANNOUNCES POSTAL SERVICE TO GAZA

Date : 09-05-2008

In August 2008 the Free Gaza Movement shattered the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip by peacefully sailing from Cyprus to Gaza and back again. It was the first time in over forty years that international ships docked in Gaza Port, and the first time in over sixty years that Palestinians freely entered and exited their own country.

On September 22nd the Free Gaza Movement will return to Gaza to demonstrate that the sea lanes between Gaza and the rest of the world have been permanently opened, and we're going to take the mail with us!

Currently, all mail sent to Palestinians from abroad must first be delivered to Israel. Mail is regularly blocked by Israel and prevented from being delivered to the people of Gaza. We believe that the mail must go through, so we're going to take it in ourselves.

The Free Gaza Movement is announcing two programs for delivering mail to Gaza: Family & Friends, and Letters from the World.

FAMILY & FRIENDS PROGRAM

If you have family or friends in Gaza and would like to send them a letter, then please place the letter in an unsealed envelope, and address the envelope in both Arabic and English. Place this envelope in a larger envelope and mail it to:

Family & Friends Mail to Gaza

Free Gaza Movement

P.O. Box 5341

Beverly Hills, CA 90209-5341

USA

Please DO NOT send money, checks, packages, or valuable items. We CANNOT accept money, valuables, or packages - only letters.

LETTERS FROM THE WORLD PROGRAM

If you do not know anyone in Gaza, but would like to get to know someone, we want to help you try and find a pen pal. This program is available to people of all ages and from all places in the world. We would especially like to encourage schools to participate in the Letters from the World Program.

Place your letter in an unsealed envelope, and address the envelope to the type of person you would like it to be delivered to (for example: "For an 8-year-old girl," or "For a male high school student," "For a teacher," "For a fishermen," etc...). Please include your email address if possible. Place the envelope in a larger envelope and mail it to:

Letters from the World

Free Gaza Movement

P.O. Box 5341

Beverly Hills, CA 90209-5341

USA

http://www.freegaza.org/index.php?module=l...656&offset=

[akdiver 3]

Blockade busters to deliver mail

I misread that as "Blockbuster's to deliver mail" and I was like, "huh? what? why??"

In any event - it's Israel. They have no oil, so who cares?

Place your letter in an unsealed envelope, and address the envelope to the type of person you would like it to be delivered to (for example: "For an 8-year-old girl," or "For a male high school student," "For a teacher," "For a fishermen," etc...). Please include your email address if possible.

I wonder if they will accept envelopes addressed to "For a terrorist/freedom-fighter" ? Edited September 6, 2008 by akdiver

[Ban Hammer 13,645]

Blockade busters to deliver mail

I misread that as "Blockbuster's to deliver mail" and I was like, "huh? what? why??"

In any event - it's Israel. They have no oil, so who cares?

Place your letter in an unsealed envelope, and address the envelope to the type of person you would like it to be delivered to (for example: "For an 8-year-old girl," or "For a male high school student," "For a teacher," "For a fishermen," etc...). Please include your email address if possible.

I wonder if they will accept envelopes addressed to "For a terrorist/freedom-fighter" ?

[PalestineMyHeart 1,897]

Blockade busters to deliver mail

I misread that as "Blockbuster's to deliver mail" and I was like, "huh? what? why??"

In any event - it's Israel. They have no oil, so who cares?

Gaza = Israel ? Wow I bet Tel Aviv will be thrilled to know they have 1.5 million more Arab citizens.

Israel wants Gaza for sure, but not before it finishes ethnically cleansing the place of all (or most) of its Palestinians. First Israel tried driving them out, now it's trying to starve them out.

Oh and BTW Gaza *does* have oil:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?con...va&aid=9136

Israel will want that, too.

I wonder if they will accept envelopes addressed to "For a terrorist/freedom-fighter" ?

[Ban Hammer 13,645]

Blockade busters to deliver mail

I misread that as "Blockbuster's to deliver mail" and I was like, "huh? what? why??"

In any event - it's Israel. They have no oil, so who cares?

Gaza = Israel ? Wow I bet Tel Aviv will be thrilled to know they have 1.5 million more Arab citizens.

Israel wants Gaza for sure, but not before it finishes ethnically cleansing the place of all (or most) of its Palestinians. First Israel tried driving them out, now it's trying to starve them out.

Oh and BTW Gaza *does* have oil:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?con...va&aid=9136

Israel will want that, too.

I wonder if they will accept envelopes addressed to "For a terrorist/freedom-fighter" ?

are you getting mellow in your old age?

[akdiver 3]

Gaza = Israel ?

Sure it is - plenty of people will tell you so.

Oh and BTW Gaza *does* have oil

If they're not sending it to us, they don't have any. Edited September 6, 2008 by akdiver

[IAMX 3,055]

Blockade busters to deliver mail

I misread that as "Blockbuster's to deliver mail" and I was like, "huh? what? why??"

In any event - it's Israel. They have no oil, so who cares?

Gaza = Israel ? Wow I bet Tel Aviv will be thrilled to know they have 1.5 million more Arab citizens.

Israel wants Gaza for sure, but not before it finishes ethnically cleansing the place of all (or most) of its Palestinians. First Israel tried driving them out, now it's trying to starve them out.

Pwnt.

Gaza = Israel ?

Sure it is - plenty of people will tell you so.

Yikes, talk about someone with their head in the sand.

Without the British mandate, there is no Israel. Guess what also this mandate did? Gave Gaza to the Palestinian Authority. It's not Israel. That's why they are illegally occupying it rather than building cities. Also why the rest of the world has condemned their actions.

So no, it's not Israel.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

I wonder if they will accept envelopes addressed to "For a terrorist/freedom-fighter" ?

OMG those are so hard to differentiate.

[Saddle Bronc 124]

Gaza = Israel ?

Sure it is - plenty of people will tell you so.

Yikes, talk about someone with their head in the sand.

Without the British mandate, there is no Israel. Guess what also this mandate did? Gave Gaza to the Palestinian Authority. It's not Israel. That's why they are illegally occupying it rather than building cities. Also why the rest of the world has condemned their actions.

pwn'ed--History 001:

• 1948/05/20 -- Palestine Mandate ends, Israel formed as nation (along 1947 plan)
• 1948/05/21 -- Five Arab nations, Egypt and Jordan amongst them, invade Israel
• 1949/01/06 -- Israel/Egypt Armistice Agreement; Gaza strip goes under Egyptian control, following 1906 International border
• 1956/10/29 - 1957/02/28 -- Suez Crisis, Israeli troops take Gaza Strip and part of Sinai after clobbering Nasser's army
• 1967/06/10 -- End of 6-day War, Egypt again clobbered, loses Gaza Strip
• 1994 -- Palestinian Authority established

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Authority Edited September 6, 2008 by CherryXS

[PalestineMyHeart 1,897]

Gaza = Israel ?

Sure it is - plenty of people will tell you so.

Yikes, talk about someone with their head in the sand.

Without the British mandate, there is no Israel. Guess what also this mandate did? Gave Gaza to the Palestinian Authority. It's not Israel. That's why they are illegally occupying it rather than building cities. Also why the rest of the world has condemned their actions.

pwn'ed--History 001:

• 1948/05/20 -- Palestine Mandate ends, Israel formed as nation (along 1947 plan)
• 1948/05/21 -- Five Arab nations, Egypt and Jordan amongst them, invade Israel
• 1949/01/06 -- Israel/Egypt Armistice Agreement; Gaza strip goes under Egyptian control, following 1906 International border
• 1956/10/29 - 1957/02/28 -- Suez Crisis, Israeli troops take Gaza Strip and part of Sinai after clobbering Nasser's army
• 1967/06/10 -- End of 6-day War, Egypt again clobbered, loses Gaza Strip
• 1994 -- Palestinian Authority established

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Authority

Hmmmm there seem to be quite a few major historical events omitted from your timeline. No matter -- it's all beside the POINT, which is:

Gaza is not part of Israel (nor has it ever been part of Israel.)

[Saddle Bronc 124]

Hmmmm there seem to be quite a few major historical events omitted from your timeline. No matter -- it's all beside the POINT, which is:

Gaza is not part of Israel (nor has it ever been part of Israel.)

MK, the (bulletted) list was not meant to be exhaustive, but only to refute SRVT's mistake.

[alienlovechild 75]

Is easier to an RPG smuggled into Gaza than a letter. Gaza is one of the poorest places on the planet and the "oil" is nothing.

Remember when people actually thought if Israel left Gaza there would be peace? The Palestinians only want war whenever and whereever they can find a platform to attack Israel.

Israel wants Gaza for sure, but not before it finishes ethnically cleansing the place of all (or most) of its Palestinians. First Israel tried driving them out, now it's trying to starve them out.

Um, it's the Palestinians who want to eliminate Jews off PA territory. There are very few Jews in the West Bank or Gaza but about 1 million Arabs in Israel. The PA and Hamas have failed the Palestinian people for the last 14 years.

[PalestineMyHeart 1,897]

Is easier to an RPG smuggled into Gaza than a letter.

Really ? And your source for this information is.... ?????

Gaza is one of the poorest places on the planet and the "oil" is nothing.

Wellllll 40 years of brutal occupation, closures and general strangulation of the economy kind of disrupts prosperity.

In fact, the oil revenues could do quite a bit to improve the dire economic situation in Gaza.

Remember when people actually thought if Israel left Gaza there would be peace?

Oh please. Israel never left. It merely pulled its illegal settlers out of the way while keeping full control of all borders, seacoast and airspace. Then it moved its soldiers to the perimeter of the cage, locked all the doors behind them, and started shelling the captive and mostly defenseless population -- like shooting fish in a barrel.

Yes, Palestinian militants occasionally fire some homemade rockets, but very few Israeli civilians have been killed by them -- a total of 14 over the last 7 and a half years. That's a tiny number compared to the hundreds of Palestinian civilians who have been killed by Israel's heavy artillery -- at least 1260 Palestinian civilians slaughtered during the same time period. So the IDF has killed about 90 Gaza civilians for every Israeli civilian killed by a Gaza rocket. (And the IDF was shelling Palestinians in Gaza even before there *were* Qassam rockets.)

The Palestinians only want war whenever and whereever they can find a platform to attack Israel.

Oh brother. More demonization of an entire people in order to try to excuse the State of Israel's criminal behavior. As if the Palestinians are occupying Tel Aviv.

Israel seized both the West Bank and Gaza (along with Jerusalem, the Sinai and the Golan Heights) in 1967 -- the war that *Israel* started, which it launched in order to annex territory and water sources. Do I have to post the quotes from Israeli leaders admitting it again ????? And despite world condemnation and scores of UN resolutions, Israel defies international law and refuses to leave. Instead, Israel is conducting a slow-motion ethnic cleansing of what remains of Palestinian land, appropriating it piece by piece. *That's* what's causing the problem.

Um, it's the Palestinians who want to eliminate Jews off PA territory.

Um the Zionists have been publicly proclaiming their intention to shove Palestinians out of all of Palestine, by force if necessary, in order to seize the entire territory since the Zionist movement began. Do I have to post the quotes of their leaders again ????? And that's pretty much what they've been doing ever since -- they already drove most of the Arab population out of what is now Israel, and are attempting to the same thing in the West Bank.

So in fact it's Israel that has been eliminating Palestinians from their land, not vice-versa.

And most of the Jews in "PA territory" arrived just over the last 40 years -- since Israel siezed control of it and starting building illegal colonies in order to transfer its civilian population into them. Which is a blatant violation of the Geneva convention.

There are very few Jews in the West Bank or Gaza but about 1 million Arabs in Israel.

"Very few" ????? Where in the world do you get these ideas ??? There are now approximately half a million Jewish settlers living illegally in the West Bank. And that figure is growing all the time, as Israel constantly expands the illegal settlements, despite international law and Israel's explicit agreement with the U.S. government to *stop* that.

The PA and Hamas have failed the Palestinian people for the last 14 years.

And yet Israel's the one that refuses to negotiate, refuses to carry out its agreements, and refuses to abide by international law.

Again -- Palestinians aren't occupying Tel Aviv. Israel is the illegal occupier, and that puts Israel in the wrong. You might want to brush up on the law (and the Geneva convention) before you post again. Because *both* give Palestinians the *right* to oppose their occupiers by any and all means.

[IAMX 3,055]

Gaza = Israel ?

Sure it is - plenty of people will tell you so.

Yikes, talk about someone with their head in the sand.

Without the British mandate, there is no Israel. Guess what also this mandate did? Gave Gaza to the Palestinian Authority. It's not Israel. That's why they are illegally occupying it rather than building cities. Also why the rest of the world has condemned their actions.

pwn'ed--History 001:

• 1948/05/20 -- Palestine Mandate ends, Israel formed as nation (along 1947 plan)
• 1948/05/21 -- Five Arab nations, Egypt and Jordan amongst them, invade Israel
• 1949/01/06 -- Israel/Egypt Armistice Agreement; Gaza strip goes under Egyptian control, following 1906 International border
• 1956/10/29 - 1957/02/28 -- Suez Crisis, Israeli troops take Gaza Strip and part of Sinai after clobbering Nasser's army
• 1967/06/10 -- End of 6-day War, Egypt again clobbered, loses Gaza Strip
• 1994 -- Palestinian Authority established

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Authority

That refutes.. absolutely nothing. It has been under Palestine Authority for years, not under Israel, just because Israel wants to try and squeeze people out, if it were legitimately Israel's, they'd be able to take it by force and run the Palestinians over. Why aren't they? Hmm, maybe because it isn't theirs. I would welcome this as it would give justification for a re-invasion of Israel. Way to own at your timeline which suggests the same thing I did.

Edited September 6, 2008 by SRVT

[alienlovechild 75]

Is easier to an RPG smuggled into Gaza than a letter.

Really ? And your source for this information is.... ?????

"Since January 2003, the tunnels have been used to smuggle large amounts of various types of weapons into the Gaza Strip, including dozens of RPG rockets and launchers, hundreds of kilograms of explosives, hundreds of rifles (mainly Kalashnikov AK47s) and tens of thousands of bullets, cartridges and other types of ammunition"

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/worl...icle4228420.ece

Oh please. Israel never left. It merely pulled its illegal settlers out of the way while keeping full control of all borders, seacoast and airspace. Then it moved its soldiers to the perimeter of the cage, locked all the doors behind them, and started shelling the captive and mostly defenseless population -- like shooting fish in a barrel.

If the Israelis didn't guard their border the attacks would cease? Some prior examples please?

Yes, Palestinian militants occasionally fire some homemade rockets, but very few Israeli civilians have been killed by them -- a total of 14 over the last 7 and a half years. That's a tiny number compared to the hundreds of Palestinian civilians who have been killed by Israel's heavy artillery -- at least 1260 Palestinian civilians slaughtered during the same time period. So the IDF has killed about 90 Gaza civilians for every Israeli civilian killed by a Gaza rocket. (And the IDF was shelling Palestinians in Gaza even before there *were* Qassam rockets.)

Shooting into Israel just gives the Israelis a reason to shoot back with better weapons.

Israel seized both the West Bank and Gaza (along with Jerusalem, the Sinai and the Golan Heights) in 1967 -- the war that *Israel* started, which it launched in order to annex territory and water sources.

Yep, Israel struck first but what about Egypt, Jordan and Syria? Land and water weren't the main reasons for the 6 day war.

"In his speech to Arab trade unionists on May 26, Nasser announced: "If Israel embarks on an aggression against Syria or Egypt, the battle against Israel will be a general one and not confined to one spot on the Syrian or Egyptian borders. The battle will be a general one and our basic objective will be to destroy Israel."[66][67]

Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban wrote in his autobiography that he found "Nasser's assurance that he did not plan an armed attack" convincing, adding that "Nasser did not want war; he wanted victory without war".[68][69] Writing from Egypt on 4 June 1967 New York Times journalist James Reston observed: "Cairo does not want war and it is certainly not ready for war. But it has already accepted the possibility, even the likelihood, of war, as if it had lost control of the situation."[70]

Writing in 2002 American National Public Radio journalist Mike Shuster expressed a view that was prevalent in Israel before the war that the country "was surrounded by Arab states dedicated to its eradication. Egypt was ruled by Gamal Abdel Nasser, a firebrand nationalist whose army was the strongest in the Arab Middle East. Syria was governed by the radical Baathist Party, constantly issuing threats to push Israel into the sea."[71] With what Israel saw as provocative acts by Nasser, including the blockade of the Straits and the mobilization of forces in the Sinai, creating military and economic pressure, and the United States temporizing because of its entanglement in the Vietnam War, Israel's political and military elite came to feel that preemption was not merely militarily preferable, but transformative."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Day_War

Um the Zionists have been publicly proclaiming their intention to shove Palestinians out of all of Palestine, by force if necessary, in order to seize the entire territory since the Zionist movement began.

Why doesn't Israel just kick the Palestinians out of the West Bank? Hmm?

So in fact it's Israel that has been eliminating Palestinians from their land, not vice-versa.

There are no Israelis in Gaza.

And most of the Jews in "PA territory" arrived just over the last 40 years -- since Israel siezed control of it and starting building illegal colonies in order to transfer its civilian population into them. Which is a blatant violation of the Geneva convention.

I agree with you that the settlements were/are a bad idea.

"Very few" ????? Where in the world do you get these ideas ??? There are now approximately half a million Jewish settlers living illegally in the West Bank.

You are correct.

Again -- Palestinians aren't occupying Tel Aviv. Israel is the illegal occupier, and that puts Israel in the wrong. You might want to brush up on the law (and the Geneva convention) before you post again. Because *both* give Palestinians the *right* to oppose their occupiers by any and all means.

I'm for an independent Palestinian state but I don't see any indication that the PA will really give up on getting "their" land back in Israel which would be the rest of Israel. Agreements and what is said mean little when military power is the only thing that really decides the borders in the Middle East.