Saturday, February 09, 2008

Ramattan News Agency: "Human Rights Groups Ask 'Beatles' not to Participate in 60th Anniversary of Israel"

EOZ recently posted about Israel's apology for not letting the Beatles play in the Zionist Entity 40 years ago. Now "40 Human Rights organizations"--that's 10 per Beatle--are asking the surviving Beatles not to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Nakba:
Over 40 Human Rights organizations from around the world called on the "Beatles" to boycott Israeli 60th anniversary, asserting that what happened in 1948 was a brutal ethnic cleansing and massacre of Palestinians and theft of their land.

In an open letter, received by e-mail, the organizations who campaign for peace and justice for the Palestinian people called the surviving Beatles, Ringo Starr and Sir Paul McCartney, and to the families of George Harrison and John Lennon, asking them not to accept any invitation to join in the 60th Anniversary.

The letter describes what happened in 1948. This was not a peaceful legally conducted creation of a safe haven for Jews escaping Europe but a brutal ethnic cleansing and massacre of Palestinians and theft of their land.
Somehow, in the course of that "massacre of Palestinians," almost a percent of the Jewish population was killed.
"The Zionist movement had set out to claim the whole of Palestine for the creation of a Jewish state long before the Nazi atrocities had occurred. In 1948 they took 78% of the land and brutally exiled or killed 750,000 Palestinians and destroyed over 400 villages," the organizations of Palestine Solidarity campaign said.

An invitation was delivered last week by the Israeli ambassador to Britain, Ron Prosor, during a visit to the Beatles Museum in Liverpool. [...]
The Beatles were also called upon to renounce the words "But when you talk about destruction/Don't you know you can count me out."

Crossposted on Soccer Dad

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