For Immediate Release
14 September 2006

On Saturday September 16, 2006 Join Al-Awda Riverside in a Community Demonstration for Justice in Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq! Justice for Sabra and Shatila!

Time: 12:00-3:00 pm
Place: 2266 Galleria at Tyler, Riverside Ca

For more information or to endorse call or email:
Amany @ 951-965-6244 freepalestine23@hotmail.com or
Mahmud @323-206-1961 mahmudahmad@sbcglobal.net

The Sabra and Shatila Refugee Camps Massacres took place between 16 to 18 September 1982. These massacres are considered the bloodiest single atrocity committed against the Palestinian people in living history. Similar in magnitude to the 11 September 2001 attacks on the US, which left close to 3000 innocent people dead, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross, more than 2,750 Palestinian men, women and children were massacred in the Sabra and Shatila camps in Beirut while the city was occupied by the Israeli army. The principal war criminal bearing legal responsibility for these massacres is then Israeli Minister of Defense, General Ariel Sharon - the perpetrator of the Kibya Massacre nearly thirty years earlier. Even Israel's Kahan Commission could not hide the fact that Ariel Sharon was "personally responsible" for the Sabra and Shatila massacres. Ariel Sharon is Israel's former prime minister.

The whole world condemned the U.S. and Israeli war that has rendered nearly one-quarter of Lebanon's entire population, nearly 1 million people, refugees in their home country. The US backed Israeli government, has undertaken yet another criminal and illegal war destroying the infrastructure of a nation, and massacring over 1100 civilians including women and children. The aftermath of this genocidal war has brought us UNSC resolution 1701 which does little
more than aim to disarm the Lebanese resistance through diplomacy after the Israeli war machine failed to do so militarily. 1701 is meant to enforce UN resolution 1559 and does nothing to hold Israel accountable for its criminal actions in Lebanon or Palestine.

In Palestine, the ongoing daily crimes against humanity perpetrated against the entirety of the Palestinian population by one of the most powerful and most ruthless military machines that history has scene continues without pause. Since their illegal displacement in 1948, nearly 7 million refugees continue to live in the most horrific conditions while the Zionist entity continues and in fact renews its ongoing project to end the quest for Palestinian liberation, justice and return of the refugees. We see this in the daily bombardment of all parts of Palestine from Rafah to Jenin, through the continued military assassinations and kidnappings of Palestinian leadership both elected and popular leadership, though the completion of the apartheid wall, through the ongoing annexation of Jerusalem ... and the list goes on and on.

Let us not forget the ongoing illegal occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan; resulting from wars that were sold under false pretenses to begin with. These wars were as the ensuing occupations continue to be illegal and baseless. We can not and will not allow the US and Israeli war machine to vilify, target, bomb and murder the civilian population of any Arab, Muslim, Latino or any other nation that posses natural resources; or that stand in the way of regional domination or global hegemony.

Join this community demonstration and support our demands for Justice from Palestine to Lebanon, Iraq and everywhere. We demand that Israel and the United States be held accountable for their renewed war crimes against the people of Lebanon during the month long war earlier this year. All responsible officials and officers in this war must be brought to justice before the international courts of justice for any level of participation. The participating war
criminals in the Sabra and Shatila massacres must also be brought to justice by trial and rightful prosecution before for the 24 year standing murder of over 3000 civilians. The Zionist entity must immediately and unconditionally end its occupation of all Arab lands starting with historical Palestine and all Palestinian refugees and exiles must be given the right to exercise their inalienable individual and collective right to return.

JUSTICE FOR PALESTINE, LEBANON!
RIGHT OF RETURN FOR ALL REFUGEES AND EXILES!
US OUT OF IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN, HAITI AND EVERYWHERE NOW!
JUSTICE FOR IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES AND COMMUNITIES OF COLOR IN THE US!

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