Independent presidential candidate Anisa Abd el Fattah slams the Paul Ryan budget plan. She calls for the poor, middle class, labor and people of all faiths to unite to defeat the plan.

Press Release

April 28, 2012

For Immediate Release

            Independent presidential candidate Anisa Abd el Fattah has come out against the Ryan budget plan. Citing the plan’s wrong approach to reducing government debt, Abd el Fattah opined, saying “stiff austerity measures are the wrong approach to solving US economic woes.” 

“It is simple common sense that any American can understand” she said. “You cannot cut public services and destroy the economic safety nets that protect Americans from abject poverty, while also refusing to create jobs that pay a living wage.  To do that means essentially that most of us will be forced into poverty, and there will be nothing to save us, or protect us from becoming penniless, homeless and from starving. That includes our children.”  Abd el Fattah said the Ryan plan budget is a plan to relieve the rich of their responsibility to pay the debt they imposed upon the United States with their wars, and failed economic schemes.  "They want the poor and middle class to suffer and pay. We say no and we won’t allow it“

            Abd el Fattah said, “12 years ago we had a budget surplus. Now we are trillions of dollars in debt that cannot be paid off because of compound interest schemes and continued increases of the debt limit. Mass joblessness, hunger and homelessness will not solve these problems, and neither will perpetual war and continued fiscal irresponsibility. Summing up her position, Abd el Fattah said “It is time that we reject the obviously wrong ideas of the so called fiscal conservatives who indebted and bankrupted our country. We need a new plan, and a new economic deal for America. We need investment in our people and our infrastructure. “

US Presidential Candidate Anisa Abd el Fattah calls for 16, rather than 12 years of free public education for American students.

Candidate says what was considered higher education 100 years ago, is basic education in today’s global environment. 

Press Release

For Immediate Release

April 25, 2012

For more Information contact Paul Barrow: paul@anisarebellion.com

Today, presidential candidate Anisa Abd el Fattah in response to the ongoing debate on student loan interest rates, said that not only should young people not be burdened with debt in order to get an education, American students should receive 16 and not only 12 years of free public education.  “US policy makers are still living in the past and not only do they refuse to acknowledge that we are way behind other countries in respect to educating our young people. What we are asking our students and families to pay for in respect to higher education is a rip off. What our students are being taught in our institutions of higher education, is what students in other parts of the world are being taught for free and as part of their basic education programs. Failure in our elementary schools and high schools means that much of what our colleges and universities are teaching is remedial and below the standard of what is considered in the global educational environment a “higher education.” 

The candidate suggested that the way to resolve this problem is to restructure our system of education. “Not only should our students and families not be burdened with debt to pay for inadequate education,” she said, “we should not be asking students and families to pay for our policy failures. Our students graduate from college and they cannot find jobs in the US, and cannot any longer compete with graduates from other parts of the world. Our employers are asking for immigration laws that accommodate more graduates and professionals from foreign countries where young people are receiving higher education and they are rejecting our graduates because they cannot compete.” 

Abd el Fattah concluded saying, “We owe it to American students and families to offer 16 rather than 12 years of free public education. We need our undergraduate universities and institutions of higher learning to be government funded, tuition lowered and curriculum improved. If we truly believe that education is part of an improved economic future for our country, we need more emphasis on investment in our students and less on profits for banks.  

                                                                    

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Progressing towards Freedom in Palestine: Targeting Israel’s System of Apartheid

                  

We so often hear people speak of ending Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine, yet outside of the negotiated settlement peace process, we don’t hear much about how one would go about liberating Palestine, without falling into the current peace process scheme, which is a land for peace model.  In response to this obvious deficiency in respect to options, or alternative plans to achieve Palestinian’ liberation, it might serve our purpose to look at a dismantlement of the system of apartheid as a first tactical step towards liberation. 

Israel has positioned its checkpoints in a strategic pattern, the purpose of which is to control and limit the movement of the Palestinian population. This control is accomplished by militarizing the checkpoints and implementing a rigid policy, the aim of which is to protect the checkpoints and also to deter Palestinians from any effort to bypass or to seek to breech the checkpoints as in forcing their way through or overcoming any physical barriers. The policy that dictates the control and protection of the checkpoints is so strict, that many deaths have occurred at checkpoints and also many births, due to the fact that the seemingly arbitrary process of identifying and clearing Palestinian travelers is purposefully long, humiliating and unpredictable. 

There has been lots of conversation about the effectiveness of the checkpoints and their real aim. Many argue that the checkpoints are not effective in respect to providing Israel with security from resistance attacks and they cite the incident in Dimona as an example. People also argue that the checkpoints cause unnecessary hardship for Palestinians, while making life more secure for Israelis simply because they separate Palestinians from one another, which inhibits opportunities to plan and organize resistance operations and to move weapons.  They also effectively create separate areas of living for Israelis and Palestinians in the West Bank. This creates a sense of security for the illegal settlers and other Israelis, while facilitating the Israelis economic control of the West Bank resources, trade and commerce. 

All of this makes it very clear that the checkpoints are a major aspect of Israel’s system of apartheid and occupation. Even Israel’s military experts and policy makers admit that the checkpoints are not really part of Israel’s actual security apparatus, yet they do effectively separate the two peoples, who are divided mostly due to religious and not security reasons. Zionism which is the Talmudic religion or ideology, strictly prohibits Jewish Zionists from sharing the land with what they refer to as Goyim, or Gentiles.  What this also means in respect to international law, including the Geneva Conventions, is that the checkpoints are legal targets for any Palestinian entity that is interested in eliminating the system of apartheid and occupation in Palestine.  Unfortunately international and Palestinian political pressure to remove the checkpoints has failed, with even US policy makers complaining that Israel’s refusal to dismantle at least the supposedly temporary checkpoints is a violation of its failed peace process agreements. 

 What this recalcitrance on the part of Israel suggests is that the illegal checkpoints are fair and legal targets for forcible removal by the Palestinian people.  Since the checkpoints are manned by armed Israeli soldiers who will use likely lethal force against civilians who attempt to remove the checkpoints, it probably is not a good idea for civilians to target the checkpoints for armed operations. It does suggest that the checkpoints are perfect targets for nonviolent takeovers by mass numbers of Palestinians who have the legal right to peacefully retake their land and to dismantle the checkpoints. 

Of course once dismantled by force of numbers, the question is how to keep the roads and land under Palestinian control. Since Israel is already dismantling and abandoning some of the checkpoints, it might be possible for Palestinians to first take control of the abandoned checkpoints, prohibiting Israeli soldiers from using the checkpoints, and also preventing them from becoming operative again.  This would require the cooperation of the PA security which is questionable. They mostly serve the occupation.

It also appears completely legal for the Palestinians, with the possible cooperation of the PA, to dismantle the abandoned checkpoints and to reclaim the land upon which they were established. How? By pressuring the checkpoints. Of course, only the Palestinian people can actually answer that question, but what is certain is that the removal of illegal checkpoints, and reclamation of land are key to ending the occupation overall, since the checkpoints and the system of apartheid, while they may not lend much to Israel by way of actual security, they are a major psychological and strategic barrier to Palestinian freedom and unity and essential to sustaining the occupation.  The same is true for segments of the illegal wall that Israel has been ordered to remove, but stubbornly refuses.

There are of course those who will argue that such efforts will only lead to Palestinian deaths and Israel tightening the noose on Palestinian villages to prevent future efforts to dismantle, or at least to pressure the occupation at its seams. Consider that Israel will be hard pressed to explain to the international community why it can dismantle checkpoints, but Palestinians can’t dismantle abandoned checkpoints and why Palestinians cannot reclaim the land, especially since it is illegally occupied land. For Israel to resort to massacres or excessive force is not likely or wise, since it would cause Israel to loose the security argument and there are not many people who will accept that Israel has a right to kill Palestinian people in mass at checkpoints, to preserve an illegal system of apartheid, ethnic cleansing and occupation. Also, people frustrated by Israel's arrogance and stubbornness in respect to ending the illegal occupation, might even see the removal of the checkpoints and reclamation of the land by the Palestinians as major and much needed progress towards peace. 

If the right strategy is employed, the occupying entity might realize that its system of checkpoints is not sustainable without the use of excessive force and experiencing losses of its own, most importantly, it will loose much of the dwindling support it presently enjoys.That alone would be a major victory for the people of Palestine.There is a good chance that it could also loose some of its security aide from patrons if the case can be made successfully that Israel is in violation human rights law and do  is not eligible for continued aide according to the laws of some countries.

References

http://www.nad-plo.org/print.php?id=72

http://itisapartheid.org/Documents_pdf_etc/IsraelViolationsInternationalLaw.pdf

http://www.israelpolicyforum.org/analysis/understanding-checkpoints

http://www.kabobfest.com/2009/07/removal-of-israeli-checkpoints-just-an-illusion.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEpkGZ0KbcY

A message to the Zionist Church 

from 

Presidential candidate Anisa Abd el Fattah

On the Murder of Shaima Alawadi

                Today is Sunday. Many of you will go to church today and you will pray and sing praises to your gods and make requests to them for prosperity and all things that are good, but only for yourselves. You will pray for protection and for the guidance of your gods, and you will say repeatedly that you are saved by god’s blood and that you are blessed. You will drink the blood of your gods and then eat their flesh. You will do this as you send unmanned drones to murder innocent brown and black people, women and children, as they gather in their countries to attend weddings, or to share a meal, or as they walk to school, or as they sleep in their homes, in their beds at night.  You kill them because in spite of the fact that God has indeed given you everything, you want more and you want others to have nothing. You kill these people in order to steal their land and their oil and other natural resources, even though God provided you with enough wealth to buy oil and all of the things you need.  Instead of using your wealth for trade and commerce among mankind, you wasted trillions on war, to the extent that you bankrupted our country to steal what you could have purchased for much less, considering that you also sacrificed the lives of your children, sending them off to kill innocents, while lying and telling them that they were going to fight and die for freedom. 

            I was born in the United States and raised as a Christian. My father’s family was mostly protestant ministers and for years I attended Catholic schools and studied the catechism as a way to lessen my tuition. I studied the Bible as a young adult for 8 years of my life, seeking to make sense of all of the many things I had been taught by the Church, hoping to understand how one book could say so many different things, to so many different denominations of people, all professing belief in the same book, while the majority lived contrary to what it teaches.   

As I studied, I asked myself why Blacks and whites who worship the same god can’t worship in the same churches, or go to the same schools, or live in the same neighborhoods.  I asked myself why a people who claim Jesus can live in such stark contrast to his message.  I wondered why you hated and killed and persecuted homosexuals, but you are fornicators and adulterers, liars and thieves and you go unpunished.  I asked myself why you kill abortionists and call yourselves pro-life and you have slaughtered millions of innocent children because they are not white, or Christian, or Jewish.  Your clerics live like kings, while the people live in poverty. I asked myself why you hate and why you teach hate and profess Jesus Christ.  I wondered how the Ku Klux Klan was founded in the Church and why Darwin was paid by the Church to deny that God had created all men equally and that God and not man is the true sustainer. You lied on God and said that he had created too many people and caused poverty, when in fact God created a world that yields enough of everything, for everyone. It is greed and corruption that causes poverty. 

            I listen as you profess to be people of a Judeo-Christian tradition.  There is nothing in the Bible called Judeo-Christian. It is something you created for political purposes in order to impose your beliefs upon everyone in the country, under the guise of advancing culture and tradition.  This, in spite of the fact that the Constitution of which you claim ownership, prohibits your attempts to impose your religious views upon other Americans, denying us our rights to religious choice, freedom of expression and practice of our own faiths.  You claim to be the guardians of the country and the faith, but I wonder.  You allowed your so called friends and allies along with people in our own government, to attack the US on September 11, 2001 and to slaughter approximately 3000 people.  Rather than to investigate and seek the truth, and to bring the guilty to justice, you commissioned people to hide the truth and to report lies so you could use that horrific incident  as a cause for your racist wars , motivated by hatred and greed. You want power, and you think there is power in numbers, so you killed 5 million people, hoping to convert 1.5 billion.  Not to save their souls, but to get their money ad to control their minds. 

            Yesterday, March 24, 2012 a Muslim woman named Shaima Alawadi died. She died from wounds, resulting from a brutal assault carried out against her by one or more cowards. They apparently broke into her home and hid inside and when she came home they beat her repeatedly over the head with a tire iron. Her daughter came home and found her lying in a pool of her own blood.  As tragic as that situation is, it is only one of many hate crimes against Muslims that has taken place in our country. Several years ago a young Palestinian American man was found bound and gagged in his car, which had been driven into a pond. The police said his hands were taped to the steering wheel and his foot to the gas pedal. They called it a suicide and closed his case.  In another incident a Palestinian man in Texas was tied to a truck and dragged through the streets until dead. There has not been an investigation, nor has anyone been arrested for that crime. Prior to that, a young pregnant Muslim woman’s home was attacked by a mob reacting to wrong news reports that Muslims had blown up a building in Oklahoma City.  From the stress of the terror she miscarried and her child was born dead.  No one was ever arrested and the media refused to apologize for the lies they told.  A Turkish American human rights activist had his brains blown out by Israeli commandoes while delivering aide to the Gaza strip.  Because he was a Muslim who was killed by Zionist Jews, and who didn’t look like Obama’s son would look, our president wouldn’t even mention his name, or offer any comfort to his family. 

Over the past ten years or more, Muslims in the US have been profiled, targeted for assassinations , spied upon, denied religious freedoms, kidnapped, tortured, murdered, entrapped, lied on,  humiliated and persecuted. This is all the result of an ongoing campaign of anti-Muslim hatred being carried out against Muslims by the Zionist Church and synagogue. It is being instigated by our bought and paid for political and pseudo religious leaders, whose racist rants and rhetoric are amplified by the Zionist controlled media.  Religious fanatics who follow the likes of John Hagee are the likely culprits in many of these crimes. John Hagee said at an AIPAC conference, after the murder of a Palestinian American activist that he and his followers had proven that their devotion to Israel goes beyond mere talk. 

You should be advised that no matter what you do to believing Muslims, we will never worship your gods. We will never eat their flesh and drink their blood. We will never call them God, or son of God. We will never sacrifice our, or anyone else’s children to them.  

We want justice for Shaima Alawadi and all of the Muslims who have fallen, victims of your lies, hypocrisy, persecution and crimes and we will have it. "Jesus wept" (John 11:35).

A Blueprint for Peace in Palestine

A solution whose time has come: No Justice, No peace 

Anisa Abd el Fattah

Executive Summary

          With the failure of the Oslo Peace Accords as well as the Bush peace process to bring peace to the Palestinian people and to end the illegal occupation of Palestine, it has become a matter of great urgency that a new proposal be presented. We need a proposal that addresses the real barriers to peace that have frustrated every attempt at peacemaking made along the negotiated settlement path that led to nowhere.  

          Whether we believe that negotiations failed due to a lack of sincerity by either of the parties involved, or whether we believe they failed simply because the right formula for peace could never be agreed upon, the reality is that a negotiated settlement that is not rooted in an enforceable body of international law and treaties cannot succeed and neither can any plan that does not end the illegal occupation that is the source of the conflict as a first step and a matter of urgency..  

          Most observers would agree that all along the path of the Zionist project in Palestine, the road to peace has been strewn with violence, racism and lawlessness.  The Palestinian people, who by legal definition, are the aggrieved party in this dispute, have been subjected to the worse types of political gamesmanship , ethnic cleansing and genocide as Israel has expanded its colonization project far beyond the parameters of the British mandate. Israel has done this by relying upon the sympathies of the international community and our institutions that regret the Holocaust and so has allowed Israel too much latitude for its efforts to establish a Jewish homeland for the protection of Jewish people.  Israel has been made an exception to the law and has been given a license to kill and to act with impunity for more than 60 years. Now their ambitions have expanded far beyond the British mandate and their objectives are no longer to merely establish a safe haven for Jewish people. Their ambitions have expanded to the establishment of something mythical called Greater Israel that has led to the destabilization of the entire region, wars, and a great loss of innocent life and destruction of property.

          The international community supported the Zionist project as an effort to establish a secular democratic state that would serve as a homeland and safe haven from anti-Semitism. The reality that stands before us, to all of our shame, after more than 60 years, is a racist Eastern European colony of Talmudic extremists, who are racists and who persecute African and other non-white Jews and converts.  The Talmudic Jewish authority has denied religious rights to Jews of varying sects of Judaism, even going to the extent of compelling Jewish people to renounce the Torah and to swear loyalty only to state sanctioned rabbis and the Talmud.  The religious authorities are denying equal rights to women and are resorting to the worse types of persecution of women, including forcing women to ride on separate buses, forcing non-religious women to cover their hair in public and preventing women access to the synagogue and schools of religious learning. Rather than serving as a safe haven for Jewish people, Israel has become a persecutor of Jews and is also intolerant of other faiths and people of other faiths. The growing persecution of Christians in Israel has resulted in a mass exodus of Christians from Bethlehem, the birth place of Jesus Christ.  The Christians, who are indigenous to the land, are leaving to escape physical and verbal assaults and violence carried out by of Jewish settlers who destroy their property, spit upon them verbally and physically assault and threaten them. The Jewish settlers, under Israel military and police protection routinely desecrate the holy sites of peoples of non-Jewish faiths.

          There is nothing that any longer compels the international community, and people of good faith to support the Zionist project in Palestine. By any method of measurement and assessment, it is clear that the project has failed, and cannot be redeemed.  Not only has the project become prohibitively expensive, Israel has never achieved economic independence, or self-sufficiency. The project has also cost the entire world by nearly normalizing Israel’s brutish and bullying attitude towards the rest of the world, its arrogant lawlessness and incessant threatening of other governments and people with its illegal nuclear arsenal.  Only the most ignorant and irresponsible among us will argue that the Zionist project in Palestine has become anything except a burden to the world and a serious threat to world peace. 

          For these reasons, and others, including Israel’s establishment of apartheid, in violation of international law, and it’s persistent attempts at ethnic cleansing and the genocide it is carrying out in Palestine, we have no choice except to withdraw unconditional support for the Zionist project in Palestine and to move with urgency to end the illegal occupation of Palestine and to restore fully, the human rights of the indigenous people of that land, Christians, Muslims and Jews.  With this in mind, we submit for your review and approval, our blueprint for peace in Palestine.  It is a comprehensive plan that moves the people forward from occupation to a bi-national transitional government and finally, after approximately ten years of reconciliation of the people and rehabilitation of the land, to a one state government which will oversee the full exercise of rights by the people and administer their political, economic, and other essential governmental affairs. 

The Blueprint for Peace has four primary points that will be presented in detail in several occasional papers. They are as follows.

1). International Law and the Palestine/Israel conflict: Establishing the Legal Parameters for Peace. 

2). Ending the Illegal Occupation of Palestine: Justice as the natural solution to injustice

3). Overcoming Check points and Apartheid in Palestine: A discussion of the dismantlement of the Zionist apartheid state of Israel and the establishment of an equitable society in modern Palestine.

4). The Transitional Bi National State and the Future of Palestine: 10 year plan for reconciliation and rehabilitation of the people and the land.

These papers will be presented at an upcoming international conference that is still being planned.  We are presenting this brief abstract hoping to stimulate interest in what we believe is a new paradigm in thinking and responses to the situation in Palestine.

Abd el Fattah Presidential campaign submits “Blueprint for Peace in Palestine” to UN head.

Plan calls for immediate end to the illegal occupation of Palestine and establishment of a transitional bi-national state. 

Press release

March 21, 2012

For Immediate release

Contact Paul Barrow: paul@anisarebellion.com

            Presidential candidate Anisa Abd el Fattah has drawn up a peace plan for Palestine. Her campaign has dubbed the plan “A Blueprint for Peace in Palestine.” According to Abd el Fattah, “the plan is called a Blueprint because it does not address issues traditionally associated with Palestinian statehood, or any of the issues considered final status issues in the Oslo Peace Accords.”  She added, “What I have attempted to do is to tackle the essential issues, such as ending the illegal occupation and dismantlement of the Zionist regime, along with the entire system of apartheid, including checkpoints and the walls along with integrating the economies and health care systems.  Our plan also proposes the establishment of a transitional bi-national government that will oversee an approximately ten year process of reconciliation and rehabilitation of the people and the land, resulting finally in  one Palestinian state for all Palestinian citizens, Christians, Muslims, Jews and others. "

The plan also addresses the issues of migration to and from Palestine. We expect that there will be many Zionist Jews who will not want to live as equals with Palestinians. They will be assisted with migration. We also anticipate that there will be Palestinians returning from refugee camps and other places outside of Palestine where they have spent years in exile. We also have a plan for their repatriation.

            When asked why she feels she can accomplish something this ambitious and that has never been considered or done successfully, Abd el Fattah replied saying: “I won’t be the one accomplishing it.  The people of Palestine and the former Israelis who are tired of the violence and conflict and who want to live together in peace, they will accomplish it. What I have done is simply to provide a Blueprint, to show how it can be done.”  “ My challenge now,” she said, “is to get my idea into the market place. If the Palestinian and non-Zionist Jewish people like the idea, they will create the mass will, and the movement that will make this plan successful. If not, like Oslo and the Quartet peace process, it will fail.” 

As a first step to getting the overall Blueprint and its details, which will be presented through a series of occasional papers, into the market place of peace processes ideas, Abd el Fattah is looking for organizations to help plan and present an international conference where the papers will be presented and all issues discussed.  They are hoping to hold the conference tentatively by the spring of 2013. There will be a series of meetings among interested parties prior to the conference. 

As a final thought, Abd el Fattah said, “I realize this is merely a first step, and I hope the Palestinian people will find this idea worthy of their support and that they, along with their Israeli counterparts will follow this path, a path that I am convinced will lead to a real, sustainable peace between the two people.”  I am submitting the letter to the UN to peak their interest and to let them know there is an alternative view that is competing with their peace process. That alone might cause some important changes and move us closer to peace” she concluded. 

            The Blueprint letter being submitted to the UN can be found at the campaign website, anisarebellion.com.

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US Presidential candidate Anisa Abd el Fattah calls for immediate US withdrawal from Afghanistan and an end to the US war on terrorism.

Press Release: March 14, 2012

For Immediate Release

Contact Paul Barrow: paul@anisarebellion.com

US presidential candidate Anisa Abd is Fattah is calling for an immediate US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan and an end to the so called war on terrorism. Her call for immediate withdrawal is based upon a series of actions by US military on the ground in Afghanistan, indicating the US Pentagon has either lost interest in the day to day conduct of the so called war in Afghanistan, or the troops are simply no longer under the control of the Pentagon.

“A spate of unfortunate and tragic events that not only cost the lives of innocent civilian Afghan citizens, but also seriously jeopardizes US military personnel, and that violate international law have taken place in Afghanistan” said Abd el Fattah. “The Quran burning incident, the recent massacre of more than 16 Afghan citizens, all killed  while sleeping, mostly woman and children,  is a clear indication that the US Pentagon has lost control of this war and apparently have also lost control of the troops on the ground,” she added. 

Abd el Fattah stated, “This war has gone on for too long and with no clear or obtainable mission. This is obviously having a very negative effect on our troops, many who are on their third or fourth deployment to Afghanistan. We are asking our soldiers and Marines to do the impossible and it is time for this to end. There is no victory to be had in Afghanistan, only more misery for the Afghan people, our troops and our country. Add to this that we can no longer afford this misadventure. It is costing us too much money and too much US credibility.”

The Abd el Fattah campaign, which is also being called an American Uprising and a movement, plans to contact the various committees in Congress that have oversight over the Armed Forces and the Pentagon, requesting that an exhaustive investigation of the Qur’an burring incident, the massacre and the seeming attempt to cover up facts related to the massacre be conducted, seeking to determine if in fact the so called war on terrorism is still under US Pentagon control and accomplishing anything. The campaign will also initiate a call in the form of a petition drive, for the US to immediately end the controversial US war on terrorism. 

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US Presidential Hopeful Condemns Israel’s illegal military assault on the Gaza Strip. Calls upon UN to immediately intervene on behalf of the Palestinian people.

Press Release

March 10, 2012

For Immediate Release                                     

 For more Information contact Paul Barrow, paul@anisarebellion.com

Presidential candidate Anisa Abd el Fattah, in response to Israel’s attack on the Palestinian Gaza Strip that began this morning and ended in the early afternoon leaving more than 15 people dead, condemned Israel. She called upon the UN to intervene on behalf of the Palestinian people.

Anisa stated that “since 1948 the people of Palestine have been subjected to some of the worse injustices imaginable, including the deprivation of human rights. The repeated massacres and the persistent ethnic cleansing, which is in fact genocide, have been ongoing for 54 years. It is time for the illegal occupation of Palestine to end and for Israel to be held accountable for its violations of international law and war crimes “  

The Gaza Strip, along with the West Bank, which includes Jerusalem have been subjected to escalating Israeli violence since the failure of a peace  agreement between Palestine and Israel negotiated in the 1990s known as the Oslo Accords. Even the Bush era peace process failed to bring about a negotiated settlement between Israel and Palestine, mostly due to the unfair advantages granted Israel, the illegal occupier by the international community. The UN, EU and US have refused to demand that Israel abide by the terms of its agreements, and according to Abd el Fattah, “have instead armed Israel with sophisticated weaponry, a license to kill and impunity.” 

“Decent people of the world have tired of this ongoing injustice and demand that it ends,” said Abd el Fattah. “As President, I will demand that the United Nations, along with the conscientious members of the international community do everything in their power to end this half a century of violence, illegal land confiscation and occupation, thereby bringing peace to the entire region.”  She added, “My administration would seek balance, but most importantly we will demand conformity to international law and treaties and an end to US complicity in the illegality of the occupation and the crimes against humanity associated with it.  In an Abd el Fattah administration, US foreign policy towards the region will be balanced and it will be based upon the law, and not the tribal and religious sentiments of any one group of people.”  

When asked what she can do now to help the situation Abd el Fattah replied, “Not very much unfortunately. Yet, I do feel that by taking leadership on this issue, I can perhaps use that position to encourage other conscientious leaders to also take a stand for justice and peace in the world, and to work with me and others to end the occupation and all the war crimes and injustices resulting from it. My campaign will be in contact with UN and others, doing all that we can to get the UN involved and to get a proper and just response from the General Assembly, if not the UNSC.”   

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