{"id":6865,"date":"2009-02-23T20:14:52","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T01:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=6865"},"modified":"2009-02-23T20:16:34","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T01:16:34","slug":"amnesty-international-calls-for-global-arms-embargo-on-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=6865","title":{"rendered":"Amnesty International calls for global arms embargo on Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lists.riseup.net\/www\/info\/epalestine \">Sam Bahour of epalestine writes<\/a><\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dear friends,<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, it has taken 60 years and 1,300+ (the killing continues) additional loss of lives in Gaza to get to this point, nevertheless, this is an opening we must support.\u00a0  It is the same track I mentioned in my last op-ed, <a href=\"http:\/\/epalestine.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/epalestine-end-occupation-first-by-sam.html\">End the  Occupation First<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The newly released Amnesty report noted in the two articles below may be downloaded from ePalestine, since I could not find it on Amnesty&#8217;s website:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epalestine.com\/Fuelling%20conflict%20-%20Foreign%20arms%20supplies%20to%20Israel-Gaza%20FINAL.pdf\">Fueling  Conflict: Foreign Arms supplies to Israel\/Gaza (PDF, 1.1MB)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every legislator in the world and every newspaper editorial and letters page in the world should be making the call to support an arms embargo on Israel.\u00a0 Please  act now and make this report known in your community. Organize, Organize, Organize: For Results.<\/p>\n<p>Stop the  Arms, Save the Children, All the Children,<br \/>\nSam<\/p>\n<p><strong>Amira Hass: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/spages\/1066231.html \">Amnesty International urges freeze on arms sales to Israel<\/a><\/strong>  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Telegraph.co.uk: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/middleeast\/israel\/4783612\/Amnesty- International-urges-Barack-Obama-to-suspend-militar \">Amnesty International urges Barack Obama to suspend military aid to Israel<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Bahour of epalestine writes: Dear friends, Sadly, it has taken 60 years and 1,300+ (the killing continues) additional loss of lives in Gaza to get to this point, nevertheless, this is an opening we must support.\u00a0 It is the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=6865\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-1MJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6865"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6870,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6865\/revisions\/6870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}