LET THE LIGHT SHINE ON THOSE WHO WANT NUCLEAR WAR AND WHO MASSACRE THE PEOPLE OF GAZA, GO IN PEACE

The Palestinian people have the rights all people have, or they should. Israel has decided otherwise. Today as I write the people of Gaza are in dire straights facing starvation, the denial of medical care and the termination of their water and energy resources.

Without the support of the United States this siege of more than a million people would not be happening and without the support of American clergy and congregations this would not be happening.

We need to demand that the clergy of every religion, denomination and faith based group step up and defend the right of the Palestinian people to food, water and the basic human rights all human beings deserve. Basta Ya! End the Siege of Palestine!

We must go in peace to all persons of faith to testify for and on behalf of the Palestinians. Their lives are in the hands of America's faithful and they must know the truth. They must know the truth if they say they are Christian. They must know the truth about the Palesinians if they are Jewish. and they must know the truth whatever their religion whether it be Abrahamic or not, denomination or faith based organization.

In particular those who have fooled themselves or allowed themselves to be misled in the religious communities need to be engaged in constructive dialogue and representation. Collective punishment is always a crime, isn't it?

The collective torture, starvation, deprivation, imprisonment, brutalization and murder of more than a million people is wrong and it is wrong for our clergy and tens of millions of their parishoners to silently proceed about their endless musings of the ancient texts when our brothers and sisters are on the verge of death. Let the light shine on those murdering the Palestinians and let the people of America see the truth at last.

We all are Palestinians!

OPPOSE THE INVASION OF GAZA WITH MASS CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE

The criminal siege of Gaza has now been followed by a new Israeli conducted Mumbai-like massacre including the murder of the Chief of Police in Gaza. The head of one anti-terror police agency was murdered by the ten terrorists in Mumbai earlier in the month. As I write the morning of December 27th the Israelis have murdered between one hundred and two hundred Palestinians but have required tens of millions of dollars and American F-16s to carry out their massacre.

Israel has declared this is part of a full scale invasion of Gaza and an effort to destroy Hamas, the elected government of Gaza. Meanwhile many Israelis want to expel the Palestinians from all of Palestine in much the way that they expelled Palestinians or killed them during the much misrepresented founding of Israel.

Mass civil disobedience should challenge the pro-war, pro-invasion constituency here in the United States especially those organizations and churches that support this mass murder of Palestinians and who have remained silent during the genocidal starvation of the entire people of Gaza.

Nonviolence is crucial because the Zionist aggressors want to escalate the violence. Nonviolence, resoluteness and educational efforts are crucial.

The Israeli-American strategy is to subjugate and/or expel the Palestinian people from all of Palestine. It may also include a plot to foment nuclear war between Pakistan and India. Israel and India are now military allies. Ironically the current Israeli regime and Al Qaeda may both want these terrible crimes against humanity as part of their own military strategies. Both Al Qaeda and American/Israeli imperialist aggression must be condemned by nonviolent educational and protest efforts. Immediately!