PRESS CONFERENCE

'A W A M I B H A R A T'

"FOR A NATIONAL STRUGGLE AGAINST IMPERIALISM & ZIONISM"

PRESS CONFERENCE

INDIA VOTES AGAINST ISRAEL IN FAVOUR OF THE 'GOLDSTONE REPORT'
ON THE GAZA GENOCIDE AT THE UNHRC.

ISRAEL RESPONDS WITH FALSE TERROR THREATS TO MUMBAI SYNAGOGUES !!

:SPEAKERS:
Comrade Sanjay Singhvi (Trade Union Centre of India, General Secretary) FEROZE MITHIBORWALA (National Convenor - Awami Bharat), S. S. Yadav - (Economist & Dalit Intellectual) & Kishore Jagtap (Ganai Sanskrutik Andolan).

VENUE: PRESS CLUB, AZAD MAIDAN, CST, MUMBAI.
DATE: 21st October '09 (Saturday) / TIME: 3-4pm

In a pathbreaking vote, The government of India voted in favour of a resolution supporting the UNHRC backed 'Goldstone Report' that has clearly accussed Israel of 'delibeartely targeting civilians & of having used excessive force in Gaza.'

The 575-page report concluded that Israel has 'punished & terrorised the civilians in Gaza during its 3 week opeartion - Cast Lead'. The mission also concluded 'that actions amounting to war crimes & possibly in some respects, crimes against humanity were committed by the Israeli Defence Force (IDF)' as well as 'grave breaches of the Geneva Convention'. The Israeli siege & war amounted to 'collective punishment'. The report has accussed Israel of 'shootings of civilians with White Flags, using Palestinians as human shields, deliberate targeting of UN shelters, use of white phosphorous & excessive high-explosion military shells that led to the deaths of 1400 civilians, including 300 children''. This is a clear violation of humanitarian laws & the UNHRC says the report, should refer the case to the International Criminal Court at the Hague.

Thus lies the distinct possibility of the political & military leadership of Israel meeting the fate of Milosevic & his ilk. Therefore in a state of utter panic & anger at the Indian vote, Israel began to issue terror warnings to Israeli tourists, forbading them to visit India. But far more dangerous is the fact that Israel has also stated that 'terrorists could target it's Synagogues in Mumbai'.

This is an extremely dangerous game that Israel continues to play. The Israeli Mosaad has a history of staging false flag terror operations across the world & have even blown up Jewish Synagogues in Baghdad in 1948.

Thus we fear that once again the Mossad will target the Synagogues in Mumbai, as well as stage major terror attacks globally so as to deflect attention away from the Israeli war crimes in Gaza.

We thus appeal to the Government of India & Maharashtra as well as the Mumbai police to guard against the same & moreover provide extremely high security to the Synagogues & other places of worship.

We also again congratulate the GOI for it's vote at the UNHRC & at the coming debate at the UN general assembly, we expect our government to maintain it's principled position in support off the 'Goldstone Reort' & the larger Palestinian cause.


:ORGANIZERS:
ASIF KHAN, RESHMA JAGTAP, SYED IFTIKHAR AHMAD, SAYEED KHAN, AVINASH KAMBLE,
MUNAWAR KHAN, YAVAR KAZI, MUNAWWAR AZAD, GHAZALA AZAD, VILAS GAIKWAD, ARIF KAPADIA, JYOTI BADEKAR & SHADAB SHEIKH

Varsha V V,Chetna Birje (Awami Bharat), Rehan Ansari, Kazim Malik (Jamaat-i-Islami-Hind), Dinu Randive (Senior Journalist), Sudhir Dhawale, Shyam Sonar (Republican Panther), Maulana Milli Rehman (All India Milli Council), (National Minorities Federation), Jagdish Nagarkar, Mulniwasi Mala (Phule-Ambedkari Vichar Manch), Madhav Wagh, Dattatreya Dalvi (OBC Parishad),
Amol Madame (Republican People of India), Harshvardhan Vartak (Marathi Bharti),
Mehmood Parvez Ansari (NEEDS), Pooja Badekar, Tejasvini Bhonkar (Vidyarthi Bharti), Shadab Sheikh (Muslim Intellectual Forum), Valjibhai Virash (Gujrati Intellectual Forum), Harshavardhan Vartak (Hindu Vikasini), Vilas Gaikwad (Jhunzaar - Republican Students Organization),
Christian Panther (Tito Eapen) & Aarti Balekar, Nilesh Pokade (Yuva Sarkar)

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JAI HIND !!! JAI BHARAT !!
FOR A SOUTH ASIAN UNION !!
ONE ASIA - UNITED ASIA !!
INQUILAB ZINDABAD !!