P10K Updates

P10K Obtaining Ever Growing Palestinian/Israeli Support
April 21st - Present
Meetings thus far; Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, Dr. Moustafa Barghouthi, Mohammed Hourani, Qadora Fares, Ziad Abu Ein, Jamal Tarifi, Jamal Shobaki, Fadwa Barghouthi, Radi Jarai, Samir Rantisi, Ghassan Abdullah, Renad Qubbaj, Abo Hzah, Dr. Mohamed Aboshi, Tanya Reinhart.
It is my great pleasure to secure uniform support for the P10K Plan by virtually every Palestinian whether they be leaders or common people; it is clear that the climate of violence that is being accelerated by Israel's assassination policy makes P10K the very best option for a ceasefire and ultimate resolution to the conflict (photos)... more

Marwan Barghouti, arrested in Jenin in 2002
Tuesday 20th April, 2004
Marwan Barghouti calls for attacks from Gaza to stop in exchange for an end to Israeli occupation...more

Diana Buttu, a Legal Advisor in the Negotiations Affairs
Department of the PLO
British Media mimics US-Israeli policy of ignoring Palestinians
Thursday 15th April, 2004
British TV media outlets demonstrated incredible bias in their reporting of yesterday’s Washington press conference, at which George Bush and Ariel Sharon attempted to tear up international law by re-writing the right of return for millions of Palestinian refugees, and by re-drawing the borders of a future Palestinian state. Bush pushed the importance of a new “reality on the ground”, referring to illegal settlements which have continued to steal Palestinian land and carve up the West Bank throughout Sharon’s tenure as Prime Minister...more

Sharon’s message to Palestinians, by Hanan Ashrawi
Monday April 12, 2004
‘To every man, woman, and child in the Palestinian territories. YOU are my target; you will be made to suffer; and you shall pay for the original crime of being a Palestinian – and for being there... more

Jo Wilding's Iraq Diary from Falluja
Sunday April 11th, 2004
"...It appals me that all those men would be trapped in a city which is about to be destroyed. Not all of them are fighters, not all are armed. It’s going to happen out of the view of the world, out of sight of the media, because most of the media in Falluja is embedded with the marines or turned away at the outskirts. Before we can pass the message on, two explosions scatter the crowd in the side street back into their houses..." more

Article by Israeli professor mirrors P10K strategy
Thursday 1st April, 2004
Tanya Reinhart, a professor of linguistics at Tel Aviv University and former student of Noam Chomsky has written an article in Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot which mirrors several aspects of P10K strategy.
Discussing the implications of Sheikh Yassin’s assassination, Professor Reinhart’s analysis of international law, illegal occupation, non-violent direct resistance and the “war on terror” are virtually identical to the relevant sections of the P10K mission... more

Sharon assassinated Yassin to save his own political skin
Wednesday 31st March, 2004
The murder of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin - Ariel Sharon’s cynical attempt to deflect attention away from two corruption cases - backfired on Tuesday when it was leaked that Israel's Attorney General Menachem Mazuz has recommended he be formally charged...more

Organisers finalise schedule to announce P10K to the people of Palestine
Saturday 27th March, 2004
On Thursday April 22nd - just a day after Mordechai Vanunu's release from prison - P10K will be offically announced to the people of Palestine and the world at a press conference in Al-Quds-Jerusalem... more

Sheikh Yassin was ready for “a new phase of calmness” - so they killed him
Friday March 26th, 2004
Sheikh Ahmed Yassin made statements about his willingness to talk peace just four days before he was murdered by an Israeli Apache gunship in the early hours of March 22nd... more

Support for non-violent direct resistance from Palestinian Leaders
Friday 26th March, 2004
Just days after the illegal assassination of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin in Gaza - a crime under international law which provoked outrage from around the world (except the from the US government, which vetoed a UN resolution condeming the act) - seventy prominent Palestinian politicians and intellectuals have warned their fellow nationals that violent retaliation against the Israelis will play into Ariel Sharon's hands and damage the struggle for independence... more

Hamas will continue to play a part in war and peace
Wednesday March 24, 2004
Dr Mahmoud Zahar, the newly elected deputy of Hamas following the assassination of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, has said that despite Israel's escalation in violence, Hamas is still, "willing to sit down and discuss the issues and find agreement..." more

Ken O Keefe: Sheikh Yassin's murder only strengthens P10K
Tuesday, 23rd March, 2004
Aloha All, If you are receiving this email it is because you are part of a relatively small group who are in one way or the other related to or active with the PALESTINE10000 Action. And I thank all of you for what contribution you have made already and those you will make in the future as well... more

Michael Moore’s Letter to President Arafat in “Stupid White Men”
Dear President Arafat,
We’ve never met. That’s not an attempt to cop an invite over for dinner or a game of horseshoes. You’re a busy man, I’m a busy man (though I can’t get anyone in the office here to call me President, or respond to my directives with, “Ya, Sir!”)... more