ACTION 2: email or telephone an MP, MEP etc   URGENT: MEPs to discuss Goldstone Report on 10 March - please email your Members of European Parliament The European Parliament is due to vote on its attitude to the Goldstone Report on March 10. Please URGENTLY email your MEPs - if possible by the end of today. Use www.writetothem.com to email all your MEPs directly. Remind them of Justice Goldstone's words in his report to the UN - every time a report is published and no action follows, this 'emboldens Israel and her conviction of being untouchable'. Please ask your MEPs to support the: 1. Immediate and full implementation of the Goldstone Report, and demand accountability for all violations of international law committed by Israel in its war on Gaza; 2. Unconditional, immediate and sustained opening of the crossings into Gaza, including from the sea. Official visitors from EU countries, including the new High Representative Catherine Ashton, should routinely include Gaza when visiting the region, to see the devastating effects of the two and a half year old blockade of Gaza and Operation Cast Lead; 3. Removal of Hamas from the EU terrorist list. Ex-US President Jimmy Carter asked President Obama in 2009 to remove Hamas from the US' terrorist list. Palestinians elected their parliamentary representatives in elections declared free and fair by the international observers. The collective punishment of 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza, which was severely tightened after the parliamentary election, is inhumane and illegal and must end; 4. Ending of the Israeli government's obstruction of the work of Human Rights organisations and NGOs in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Further information: 1. The resolutions tabled so far are here http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sed/agenda.do?offLang=en&sessionDate=20100310.. 2. The Goldstone report found that Israel had employed a policy that involved 'the direct targeting and arbitrary killing of Palestinian civilians; that Israel had used weapons proscribed by international law; that the Israeli military carried out a 'deliberate and sustained' attack upon civilian targets such as private homes, food installations and water treatment works; and that 'the Mission is of the view that some of the actions of the Government of Israel might justify a competent court finding that crimes against humanity have been committed' in Israel's continued implementation of a blockade upon Gaza. The Goldstone report also noted 'that the international community has been largely silent and has to date failed to act to ensure the protection of the civilian population in the Gaza Strip and generally the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Suffice it to notice the lack of adequate reaction to the blockade and its consequences, to the Gaza military operations and, in their aftermath, to the continuing obstacles for reconstruction'. For the text of the Goldstone Report, visit http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/specialsession/9/docs/UNFFMGC_Report.pdf   * * * * * * * stop press: despite the shameful "NO VOTE" by our government, the UNHRC did refer the Goldstone report on War Crimes to the UN General Assembly & it will probably be debated on this Wednesday 4th November 2009 - Please email David Miliband NOW or phone the Foreign Office on 020 7008 1500 and ask for Mr Miliband or Mr Lewis, otherwise the Israel desk: to demand that if there is ever to be justice for the Palestinians, this UN implemented report MUST be acted on - please will you also tell him how disgraceful it was that Gordon Brown recently hugged and invited to dinner the Israeli suspected WAR CRIMINAL Ehud Barak, who should be IN JAIL, not invited to NO 10 Downing Street. (other than 40 year old impotent rhetoric), what is Britain doing to put REAL pressure on Israel to stop the Illegal Occupation? why have we only paid lip service to Opening Gaza where children are still dying one year after the Israei massacre, because of Natanyahu's inhuman blockade? Why aren't we making stronger protests and initiating punitive measures against the Illegal Ethnic Cleansing of the Arab Capital of East Jerusalem and the rest of the West Bank? Why did Britain not vote to endorse the Goldstone Report - being in talks with Netanyahu & Sarkozy is NO excuse for this - if we don't keep up the pressure, Netanyahu will take more and more. Why do we continue to support and reward Israel for their Illegal Occupation with the EU Israel trade agreement? What plans does this government have to put more pressure on Israel and to keep up this pressure - being friendly and "diplomatic" hasn't really worked has it in the last 40 years or so? Why won't we seek a full Boycott of Israeli goods & services as we successfully did to remove the similar Apartheid in South Africa? if you are telephoning and they give you some claptrap referal to their website, just explain that you don't have access to the internet and you were hoping for a human being to answer your specific polite and reasonable questions.   If you are an MP contacting Mr Miliband then he lists a different address which is: msu.correspondence@fco.gov.uk Freedom of Information enquires: 9621 84848 (looks strange, but this is the correct number) Ministry of Defense: 0870 607 4455   ******* Please protest to the following Israeli's about the Illegal Occupation, Settlements & cruel blockade of Gaza.  You could simply say that current policy and refusal to resolve the military & "civil" Occupation is losing Israel support and friends from all over the world. Mr. Ehud Barak, Minister of Defence, Ministry of Defence, Hakirya, Tel-Aviv 64743, Israel. E-mail: sar@mod.gov.il or pniot@mod.gov.il Tel.: ++972-3-6975540 or ++972-3-6975423 Fax: ++972-3-6976711 Commander of Military Prison No. 6, Military Prison No. 6 Military Postal Code 01860, IDF Israel Fax: ++972-4-9540580 Avichai Mandelblit, Chief Military Attorney Military postal code 9605, IDF Israel Fax: ++972-3-569-45-26 Gadi Agmon, Commander of Induction Base, Meitav, Tel-HaShomer Military Postal Code 02718, IDF Israel. Fax: ++972-3-737-60-52 ******* You could maybe write a letter to the moderate Israeli paper Ha'aretz saying how the government's blockade of Gaza is ruining Israels reputation in Europe: Ha’aretz (English edition): 21 Schocken st. Tel-Aviv, 61001 Israel Fax: +972-3-512-11-56 e-mail: letters@haaretz.co.il