To Detroit/Seattle
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March 27, 2024
Re: Demonstrate on Palestinian Land Day!
From Seattle Workers’ Voice, March 27, 2024, vol. 8 #5:
For nearly six months the IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) has been
waging a criminal war in the Gaza Strip. It has bombed neighborhoods,
schools and infrastructure into rubble. After ordering people to leave
their homes, IDF snipers have murdered civilians carrying white flags.
It has murdered journalists, ambulance drivers, aid-truck drivers and
water-truck drivers whose vehicles were plainly marked. It has arrested
and murdered doctors. It has used starvation as a weapon of war, and
murdered desperate people trying to get food from the rare aid trucks
that are let through the Israeli blockade. So in civilized ways like
these the IDF has so far killed over 32,000 Gazans, with thousands more
reported missing. And the majority of the victims have been civilians,
with roughly two-thirds of them being women and children.
And if that weren't enough, the IDF is closely working with the Israeli
settler land-grabbing in the Palestinian West Bank, which Israel
radically stepped up after October 7. More than 440 Palestinians had
been killed there before the end of February, mainly by the IDF, and
thousands more were arrested.
The leaflet continues with the following sections:
Demonstrate!
Pacific Northwest regional march to commemorate Palestinian Land Day
Saturday, March 30, 2:00 pm at Lake Union Park, 860 Terry Ave., Seattle.
For the full text, see https://www.communistvoice.org/Sea240327.pdf.
To contact Seattle Workers’ Voice, seattle.com.sg@gmail.com.
In 1975 a movement developed among Palestinians inside Israel against imminent plans for yet more confiscation of Arab land by the Israeli state. A National Committee for the Defense of Arab Lands in Israel was setup. Although the immediate confiscations that the Israeli government announced in March 1976 were only for the Galilee, the protest movement had spread among Palestinians throughout Israel. A general strike was called for March 30. On that day there were marches in Arab towns throughout Israel as well as the general strike. In solidarity with this, Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and in refugee camps in Lebanon also went on strike. The Israeli army (IDF) and police conducted extensive operations against the protests inside Israel and killed six unarmed Palestinians, wounded about a hundred, and arrested hundreds more. These events marked a major extension of Palestinian protest inside Israel. Since then, March 30 has been marked as Land Day by Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and the diaspora as well as by Palestinians in Israel.
-Joseph Green, Detroit Workers’ Voice
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