Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...condemnation of oppression. Having campaigned against racism in our country, apartheid in South Africa, the iron fist of Pinochet, the atrocities of the Khomeni regime and against funding of Contra terror and death squads in Central America, we cannot turn a blind eye to the oppression visited upon the Palestinian people as they try to end Israeli occupation. One and a half million have been protesting day after day for almost a year, sacrificing their lives by the hundreds and enduring beatings and torture by the thousands. They ask only for the same right of self-determination desired...
Question 5 on the ballot in Cambridge and Somerville enables us to voice our opposition to Israeli violence against the Palestinians in a way that commands the attention of our political leaders--with our votes. As most of our community knows by now, Question 5 calls for an end to U.S. funding of the occupation and for an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza living at peace with Israel. To argue that this issue should not be on the ballot is to deny us an effective way of making our opinion known and to advocate a silence...
...Palestinian rights advocate James J. Zogby and Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz engaged in an emotionally charged debate over a controversial Cambridge resolution to cut federal funding to Israel last night...
Question 5 calls for the U.S. Representative from this didstrict to vote "in favor of a resolution calling upon Congress to stop all expenditure of U.S. funds for Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza," and demands that Israel end its violations of Palestinian human rights...
...resolution, which was placed on the ballot by the Coalition for Palestinian Rights, also advocates the establishment of an independent Palestinian state "with peace for all states in the region, including Israel...