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Preliminary plans call for marches in the major cities of the United States and Canada.
This will depend in part on finding committed organizers in each city who can establish the local organization with the help
of our senior organizers.
At this time we are hoping to have marches in the following cities:
Canada -
Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary, Vancouver
United States -
Washington, New York, Chicago, South Florida, Los Angeles
This is our minimum goal, and hope to add further locations if possible. We are still studying the idea of doing
marches in Europe. Our fear is that it may be too late to do peaceful protests in Europe as the number of people hostile
to Jews and attracted to terrorism and Islamofascism may prevent marches there being peaceful.
We are now seeking nominations for local organizing chairpeople for those locations. Advertisements will soon appear
in local publications to seek such people.
This is a broad-based grassroots protest march and is not beholden to any one organization. There are so many people
who want to express their opposition to terrorism and anti-Semitism and the ideological confusion that is sweeping the West as
to how to deal with these evils. It is time that we call them "evils" and it is time to hit the streets.
This incident is from last year. It is one of the reasons we have to take to the streets on April
19th. A world that is not terribly bothered by Hamas inciting and praising this type of incident, but reserves all
its condemnation for the IDF when it, despite enormous measures to the contrary, kills Hamas supporting civilians, is clearly
immoral.
Bradley Burston writes for Israel's left wing newspaper Ha'aretz. Left wing and right wing are agreed on this.
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JERUSALEM - What, exactly, is a decent person supposed to think?
On a quiet and clear morning in Jerusalem, a woman is driving toward the heart of the city, her infant with her in the
car. There is nothing to fear.
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It is not a military area, it is not a sector of occupation, it is not a settlement - Jews
have lived and worked here for more than a century. Jewish doctors and nurses were treating Arab infants, women, the
elderly and the infirm here as early as 1902, when Shaare Tzedek Hospital opened across the street.
There is nothing to fear.
Except for the man behind the wheel of a bulldozer, who has taken it upon himself to kill Jews. Not Israeli security
force personnel, not occupation troops, not the Shin Bet. Jews. Women and children and the elderly and the infirm. Jews
who may be in favor of an independent Palestinian state. Jews who have nothing against Arabs. Jews who may work to end
the occupation. Jews.
When the killing starts, the woman behind the wheel does what Jews have learned to do since the Holocaust, and for
2,000 years before that: Save your child. Whatever it takes.
She manages to throw her infant out the side window and clear of the car before the Hero of Palestine steers the
massive earth mover toward her car for a second time and crushes it flat.
It doesn't take long, after the he has finished overturning buses full of Jews - and Arabs as well - and driving over
other cars, even backing up to crush one twice, before the public relations and marketing department of Hamas had
formulated its praise for the attack.
"We consider it as a natural reaction to the daily aggression and crimes committed against our people in the West Bank
and all over the occupied lands," Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri told the press.
Natural. Only natural.
The Islamic Jihad's armed wing could not have agreed more."The Jerusalem Brigades bless the heroic operation in
Jerusalem as the natural reaction to the crimes of the occupation," it announced.
The attack came after the latest in a series of attempts by groups in the states, some of them atheist/anarchist, some
of them Muslim, some of them Jewish, to lobby Prostestant churches and respected universities to divest from
Caterpillar, because the IDF uses its bulldozers to demolish Palestinian homes.
I would like to hear them now. Just once. I would like them to divest from terrorism. Not understand it as the natural
outgrowth of the crimes of occupation. For once, I would like my sisters and brothers on the left to be every bit as
hard on their comrades the Palestinians for taking a bulldozer and crushing Jews, as they are on Israel for bulldozing
homes.
Write a letter to Ismail Haniyeh, to Mahmoud Zahar, to Sami Anu Zuhri. Protest in your own communities, for once,
calling terrorism what it is. Intentional, brutal, premeditated, immoral. Murder.
What's a decent person supposed to think?
That it's all right to launch rockets against residential areas during a cease-fire, because the occupation is still
going on? That it's all right to crush Jewish civilians, because the occupation has not been halted and settlers
continue to build homes?
What's a decent person to think when Palestinian groups fall over one another trying to claim the bulldozer attack? And
when one of the groups is the Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade?
What's a decent person to think when the man who drove the bulldozer was himself the father of two, a construction
worker from East Jerusalem, whose desire to kill Jews - and, in so doing, further soil and damage the cause and name of
Palestine - was greater than his feeling for the mother who had to throw her baby from a car to save it?
I, for one, would like to ask for proof of what it is that Palestinians really want. I no longer believe that it's as
simple as wanting statehood.
This is what I don't yet want to admit: that for all these years, in 2008 no less than in 1902, what a critical mass of
Palestinians want most, perhaps even more than statehood, may be as simple as the vile thrill of vengeance, as
straightforward as nothing more than seeing Jews dead and gone.
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http://www.daatapril19.com/index.html
our email address is:
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Daat means knowledge in Hebrew. In Kabbalah, it means so much more.
Daat is the bridge between intellect and emotion.
We need both.
We need you.
In Kabbalah -
Da'at -is Knowledge, the bridge between the
intellect and emotion
The Da'at is the mystical state of unity of the 10
Sephiroth, also called the Tree of Life.
The Sefirot in Jewish Kabbalah
DAAT is also the Day Against Anti-Semitism and Terrorism
We shall march.
We shall be non-violent.
We shall, we must, believe that knowledge and goodness will prevail over ignorance and hate.
Da'at is the bridge between intellect and emotion.
In your mind and in your heart, you know it is time to march against anti-Semitism and Terrorism. This is our
opportunity to spread knowledge and goodness.
April 19, 2009.
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