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PITTSBURGH, WAKE UP!
by JONAS Monday, Jan. 26, 2004 at 7:01 PM
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Pittsburgh. Wake up. Join fellow Pittsburghers in educating this city about the plight of the Palestinians under brutal Israeli Occupation-- join us in Pittsburgh's March 20 "STOP WAR AND OCCUPATION" convergence

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WANT TO JOIN THE PALESTINE SOLIDARITY IN MARCHING AGAINST WAR AND OCCUPATION, BOTH OF IRAQ AND PALESTINE AND BEYOND?

email: palestineexist@yahoo.com
to find out how to get involved....

THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS TAKEN FROM "http://www.ifamericansknew.org"

These are just some reasons as to why you should get involved.


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2,655 Palestinians* and 909 Israelis** have been killed since September 29, 2000.
* This number is from the Palestine Red Crescent Society, a national humanitarian society that provides a wide range of health, social and other humanitarian services for the Palestinian People throughout the Middle East. It is also an observer member in the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). (Visit their statistics page.)

The exact number of Palestinians killed during the current uprising is very difficult to ascertain. This is caused in part by the chaos that ensued following the invasion of the West Bank during March and April 2002. The estimates range from the number given above to 2,782 (Health Development Information and Policy Institute - View their statistics page).

** This number is from Israel’s military, the Israel Defense Forces. (Visit their statistics page.)

The Israeli military is the main source for Israeli casualty information.

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Israel is the target of at least 65* UN Resolutions and the Palestinians are the target of none**.
* This number covers resolutions passed from 1955 through 1992. The source of this information is Paul Findley’s Deliberate Deceptions (1998, pages 192-4). Buy it online! (View the list of resolutions below.)

Numerous additional resolutions against Israel have been passed since 1992. We are in the process of researching these resolutions. Check out the list of all resolutions on the issue.

** There do not appear to be any UN resolutions violated by the Palestinians.

UN Resolutions Against Israel, 1955-1992
Resolution 106: "...‘condemns’ Israel for Gaza raid"
Resolution 111: "...‘condemns’ Israel for raid on Syria that killed fifty-six people"
Resolution 127: "...‘recommends’ Israel suspend its ‘no-man’s zone’ in Jerusalem"
Resolution 162: "...‘urges’ Israel to comply with UN decisions"
Resolution 171: "...determines flagrant violations’ by Israel in its attack on Syria"
Resolution 228: "...‘censures’ Israel for its attack on Samu in the West Bank, then under Jordanian control"
Resolution 237: "...‘urges’ Israel to allow return of new 1967 Palestinian refugees"
Resolution 248: "...‘condemns’ Israel for its massive attack on Karameh in Jordan"
Resolution 250: "...‘calls’ on Israel to refrain from holding military parade in Jerusalem"
Resolution 251: "...‘deeply deplores’ Israeli military parade in Jerusalem in defiance of Resolution 250"
Resolution 252: "...‘declares invalid’ Israel’s acts to unify Jerusalem as Jewish capital"
Resolution 256: "...‘condemns’ Israeli raids on Jordan as ‘flagrant violation"
Resolution 259: "...‘deplores’ Israel’s refusal to accept UN mission to probe occupation"
Resolution 262: "...‘condemns’ Israel for attack on Beirut airport"
Resolution 265: "...‘condemns’ Israel for air attacks for Salt in Jordan"
Resolution 267: "...‘censures’ Israel for administrative acts to change the status of Jerusalem"
Resolution 270: "...‘condemns’ Israel for air attacks on villages in southern Lebanon"
Resolution 271: "...‘condemns’ Israel’s failure to obey UN resolutions on Jerusalem"
Resolution 279: "...‘demands’ withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon"
Resolution 280: "....‘condemns’ Israeli’s attacks against Lebanon"
Resolution 285: "...‘demands’ immediate Israeli withdrawal form Lebanon"
Resolution 298: "...‘deplores’ Israel’s changing of the status of Jerusalem"
Resolution 313: "...‘demands’ that Israel stop attacks against Lebanon"
Resolution 316: "...‘condemns’ Israel for repeated attacks on Lebanon"
Resolution 317: "...‘deplores’ Israel’s refusal to release Arabs abducted in Lebanon"
Resolution 332: "...‘condemns’ Israel’s repeated attacks against Lebanon"
Resolution 337: "...‘condemns’ Israel for violating Lebanon’s sovereignty"
Resolution 347: "...‘condemns’ Israeli attacks on Lebanon"
Resolution 425: "...‘calls’ on Israel to withdraw its forces from Lebanon"
Resolution 427: "...‘calls’ on Israel to complete its withdrawal from Lebanon’
Resolution 444: "...‘deplores’ Israel’s lack of cooperation with UN peacekeeping forces"
Resolution 446: "...‘determines’ that Israeli settlements are a ‘serious obstruction’ to peace and calls on Israel to abide by the Fourth Geneva Convention"
Resolution 450: "...‘calls’ on Israel to stop attacking Lebanon"
Resolution 452: "...‘calls’ on Israel to cease building settlements in occupied territories"
Resolution 465: "...‘deplores’ Israel’s settlements and asks all member states not to assist Israel’s settlements program"
Resolution 467: "...‘strongly deplores’ Israel’s military intervention in Lebanon"
Resolution 468: "...‘calls’ on Israel to rescind illegal expulsions of two Palestinian mayors and a judge and to facilitate their return"
Resolution 469: "...‘strongly deplores’ Israel’s failure to observe the council’s order not to deport Palestinians"
Resolution 471: "...‘expresses deep concern’ at Israel’s failure to abide by the Fourth Geneva Convention"
Resolution 476: "...‘reiterates’ that Israel’s claims to Jerusalem are ‘null and void’
Resolution 478: "...‘censures (Israel) in the strongest terms’ for its claim to Jerusalem in its ‘Basic Law’
Resolution 484: "...‘declares it imperative’ that Israel re-admit two deported Palestinian mayors"
Resolution 487: "...‘strongly condemns’ Israel for its attack on Iraq’s nuclear facility"
Resolution 497: "...‘decides’ that Israel’s annexation of Syria’s Golan Heights is ‘null and void’ and demands that Israel rescind its decision forthwith"
Resolution 498: "...‘calls’ on Israel to withdraw from Lebanon"
Resolution 501: "...‘calls’ on Israel to stop attacks against Lebanon and withdraw its troops"
Resolution 509: "...‘demands’ that Israel withdraw its forces forthwith and unconditionally from Lebanon"
Resolution 515: "...‘demands’ that Israel lift its siege of Beirut and allow food supplies to be brought in"
Resolution 517: "...‘censures’ Israel for failing to obey UN resolutions and demands that Israel withdraw its forces from Lebanon"
Resolution 518: "...‘demands’ that Israel cooperate fully with UN forces in Lebanon"
Resolution 520: "...‘condemns’ Israel’s attack into West Beirut"
Resolution 573: "...‘condemns’ Israel ‘vigorously’ for bombing Tunisia in attack on PLO headquarters
Resolution 587: "...‘takes note’ of previous calls on Israel to withdraw its forces from Lebanon and urges all parties to withdraw"
Resolution 592: "...‘strongly deplores’ the killing of Palestinian students at Bir Zeit University by Israeli troops"
Resolution 605: "...‘strongly deplores’ Israel’s policies and practices denying the human rights of Palestinians
Resolution 607: "...‘calls’ on Israel not to deport Palestinians and strongly requests it to abide by the Fourth Geneva Convention
Resolution 608: "...‘deeply regrets’ that Israel has defied the United Nations and deported Palestinian civilians"
Resolution 636: "...‘deeply regrets’ Israeli deportation of Palestinian civilians
Resolution 641: "...‘deplores’ Israel’s continuing deportation of Palestinians
Resolution 672: "...‘condemns’ Israel for violence against Palestinians at the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount
Resolution 673: "...‘deplores’ Israel’s refusal to cooperate with the United Nations
Resolution 681: "...‘deplores’ Israel’s resumption of the deportation of Palestinians
Resolution 694: "...‘deplores’ Israel’s deportation of Palestinians and calls on it to ensure their safe and immediate return
Resolution 726: "...‘strongly condemns’ Israel’s deportation of Palestinians
Resolution 799: "...‘strongly condemns’ Israel’s deportation of 413 Palestinians and calls for their immediate return.

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2,202* Palestinian homes have been completely destroyed by Israel (14,436* partially destroyed) and 1** Israeli home has been destroyed by Palestinians since September 29, 2000.
* These numbers are from the Health Development Information and Policy Institute, an independent non-profit Palestinian organization. HDIP is devoted to policy research and planning regarding the Palestinian health care system in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. HDIP is devoted to advocating appropriate health and development policies, and to building a democratic Palestinian civil society.

This number only covers through June 30, 2002.

** There has only been one case of Palestinians destroying an Israeli home. (See Yahoo! News for the story.)



According to MIFTAH, since June of 1967, Israel has demolished more than 6,000 Palestinian homes in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and more than 2,500 in East Jerusalem.

On top of the Palestinian homes demolished, 16,638 Palestinian homes have been destroyed or seriously damaged by Israeli shelling. Such destruction has affected over 96,100 Palestinians (out of the 3.3 million Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza). HDIP

The ongoing Israeli occupation and invasions caused over $660 million in damage to property and infrastructure. (In just one month, the Israeli military was responsible for $361 million worth of damage and looting of Palestinian property.) HDIP

Israel has also destroyed a number of places of worship. At least 12 churches and 30 mosques have been destroyed.

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UN Resolutions Against Israel
by JONAS Monday, Jan. 26, 2004 at 7:02 PM
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House Demolitions by the Israeli government
by JONAS Monday, Jan. 26, 2004 at 7:02 PM
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