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Philippine Government Should Sever Ties with Israel PDF Print E-mail
STATEMENT ON ISRAEL'S WAR CRIMES

by the Stop the War Coalition-Philippines
5 January 2008

We at Stop the War Coalition Philippines, a broad coalition of civil society organizations, social movements, labor unions, political parties, human rights, women's, students, religious and other organizations, strongly condemn Israel's war crimes against the people of Gaza and the international community.

These latest attacks are not only disproportionate, they are completely unjustifiable.

At the root of the continuing tragedy in the Middle East is the continuing illegal occupation of Palestine by Israel. That Israel is able to continue this occupation and that it is able to bomb and kill indiscriminately without restraint points to the incapacity of the international community, including the United Nations and the world's governments, to uphold peace and justice. It is this unwillingness to act that will ensure that more blood and tears will flow from this escalating war.

We in the Philippines must help stop this war not only because thousands of Filipino migrant workers are caught in the crossfire but because we have a stake in creating a world with peace and justice.
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Peace Group Demands Shutdown of Israeli Embassy PDF Print E-mail
PRESS RELEASE
13 January 2008

‘SEVER TIES WITH WAR CRIMINALS’ SAYS GROUP

Carrying a giant eviction order and a mock padlock, the broad anti-war group, Stop the War Coalition-Philippines, went to the Israeli embassy today to symbolically order its closure.

The group sought to express its opposition to Israel’s ongoing aggression in Gaza which has already killed more than 800 people, a third of which are children.

The coalition had earlier called for the Philippine government to sever its ties with Israel and to expel the Israel ambassador to express its rejection of Israel’s aggression in Gaza.

For three weeks, Israeli bombs and rockets have pounded the Gaza strip placing almost 1.5 million fearing for their lives and have shunned initiatives by the international community to put an end to the attacks.

“We want to drive home the point that no country and no people should tolerate Israel’s barbarity,” said Atty Corazon Fabros, one of the group’s spokespersons.

“Israel is guilty of war crimes and we should not have diplomatic relations with criminals,” she added. “The world has to sanction and isolate Israel otherwise its mass murder of the Palestinians will continue.”

Israel, the group says, is guilty of violations of international law such as collective punishment, targeting of civilians, and disproportionate military response.

“The embassy should only be re-opened and diplomatic ties should only be restored once Israel complies with international law,” said Fabros.

Stop the War Coalition-Philippines is a coalition of over 50 organizations and networks.#

CONTACT:

Cora Fabros: (0917) 8871153  // Dj Janier (0926)4263516
 
The Philippines and Israel: A History of Complicity, an Imperative for Action PDF Print E-mail
By Herbert Docena

In 1947, the future of the Middle East stood before a vote at the United Nations General Assembly. The British empire had earlier expressed support for a Jewish “national home” in colonized Palestine, effectively promising to give away land they did not own. This promise was seized on by Zionists who had envisioned the creation in Palestine of an exclusively Jewish state, a project which drew more support following the Holocaust.

The only problem: Palestine, which Zionists describe as a “land without people for a people without land,” happened to have people.

On the table at the UN was Resolution 181, which – in proposing to partition Palestine between Arabs and Jews – effectively sought to legitimize settler-colonialism. Under the plan, the Jewish state was to be allocated 55% of the total land, even though the Jewish population at that time constituted only one-third of Palestine’s population and owned only 6% of the land.
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MEDIA STATEMENT: Biazon did not find ‘US bases’ in Zambo because he was looking for the wrong kind PDF Print E-mail
Biazon did not find 'US bases' in Zambo because he was looking for the wrong kind
US bases in the south different from Subic and Clark, says think-tank

"If Senator Rodolfo Biazon was looking for US military bases such as the ones the US had in Subic and Clark, then he really was not going to find them. What the US now has in Zamboanga City are military bases of the new, more sophisticated kind. Unlike in the past, these bases hide within local military bases, they don't fly the American flag, they have more austere facilities but are no less of a "base" in their functions."

This was the reaction of researcher Herbert Docena of the Bangkok-based international think-tank Focus on the Global South to Senator Biazon's claim that there are no US bases in the South after the latter visited facilities in Zamboanga City last October 2.

Docena, who has written a number of reports on the issue has been monitoring and researching the US military presence in the Philippines and in the region for the last six years.
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STATEMENT: US Troops Out of Mindanao; Genuine Self-Determination for Moros Now PDF Print E-mail
The United States' involvement in the war in Mindanao can no longer be denied. Several times in the last month, at the height of Philippine military offensives against Moro fighters, US soldiers were repeatedly seen with Filipino troops, helping recover bombs, evacuating casualties, or joining Filipino troops in Philippine military camps throughout Mindanao. The Philippine military itself categorically confirmed that the US military has been providing it with "technical assistance" in pursuit of Moro rebels.

All these continue a pattern of reports that have accumulated in the last few years: Just in February, a Filipino general confirmed that it was the crew of a US spy plane that provided the intelligence which resulted in an operation in which eight civilians, including a pregnant woman and two children, were killed in Maimbung, Sulu.



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