Jewish Voice for Peace backs US protests over Israeli attack
staff writers 31 May 2010
--ekklesia.co.uk--


Jewish Voice for Peace, a US-based organsiation of Jewish people working for a just peace in Israel and Palestine, has condemned Israel's attack and killing of members of the Freedom Flotilla aiming to bring much-needed aid to the besieged Gaza Strip. Before the flotilla was attacked, Yigal Palmor, an Israeli foreign ministry spokesman, said: "If we let them throw egg at us, we appear stupid with egg on our face. If we try to prevent them by force, we appear as brutes," JVP reminded supporters today.

The NGO commented: "Israel has more than egg on its face. Israel has blood on its hands. At least 10 passengers have been killed by Israel and about 30 wounded in international waters. This is just another deadly escalation of Israel's harsh repression of nonviolent protests against the occupation, paid with American tax-dollars."

"President Barack Obama should call for an immediate lifting of the siege of Gaza. He should support an international and impartial investigation into the tragic killing of civilians in a humanitarian mission. And he should suspend military aid to Israel until he can assure the American public that our aid is not used to commit similar abuses." (cont...)