Event - General Football & Politics all with a Hibs Touch

[SunnyLeither]

Tues June 11
Edinburgh - morning: school visit
- evening: Quaker Meeting Hall, Victoria Terr 7.00 for 7.30pm
with Tony Higgins of Fifpro, International Footballers Union
& Jackie McNamara Sr., ex-Hibs and Celtic player


Mahmoud Sarsak was a member of the Palestinian national football team who was seized by Israeli troops, interned without charge and tortured over many weeks in Israel's notorious prison system.

After three years, i.e. six 'democratic and lawful' periods of six months imprisonment without trial or charge, Mahmoud went on hunger strike to demand that he be given prisoner-of-war status since he was being detained under Israel's Unlawful Combatants Law. He refused to accept exile to Norway as a condition for his release and, near death at half his usual body weight, Israel released him unconditionally.

Mahmoud will be hosted at meetings and participate in football events to raise awareness of Israeli's war against Palestinian football, the torture and abuse of Palestinian prisoners in Israel's gulag, and the role of multi-national G4S in running parts of Israel's illegal programme. He will be raising the cases of two players of the Palestinian national football team, Omar Abu Rouis and Mohammed Nemer who have been imprisoned for over a year now in Israel's dungeons with out any trial or charges being levelled against them.

Full details here: http://www.scottishpsc.org.uk/index.php/32-campaigning/coming-events/1554-mahmoud-sarsak-tour-of-england-scotland-and-ireland

[(((Fergus)))]

Lauded as "one of our noble members" by Islamic Jihad leader, Nafez Azzam. Would be interesting to ask him about the extent of his involvement in that group.

[SunnyLeither]

Lauded as "one of our noble members" by Islamic Jihad leader, Nafez Azzam. Would be interesting to ask him about the extent of his involvement in that group.

Feel free to go along and ask......:thumbsup:

[Sir David Gray]

Lauded as "one of our noble members" by Islamic Jihad leader, Nafez Azzam. Would be interesting to ask him about the extent of his involvement in that group.

Quite.

The PIJ has been held responsible for various attacks on civilians both in Israel and abroad which has resulted in a countless number of deaths of Israelis and foreigners alike. They refuse to recognise the right of Israel to exist and want the entire land of what is currently Israel and the Palestinian territories to be turned into an Islamic state and are prepared to use any means necessary to achieve that goal.

They also reportedly use minors to carry out many of their attacks and regularly indoctrinate young children in order to spread their anti-semitic views.

He denied the accusation from Israel that lead to his arrest, that he had helped to plant a bomb that had injured a soldier, which is fair enough. He was never charged with any crime and he shouldn't have been held for so long without being formally charged. However there do seem to be unanswered questions relating to his links with the PIJ and I hope he's given the opportunity to clarify this during his visit, since he's accused of being associated with a group that is considered by the British government to be a proscribed terrorist organisation.

[Future17]

Feel free to go along and ask......:thumbsup:

How did it go?

[lyonhibs]

Quite.

The PIJ has been held responsible for various attacks on civilians both in Israel and abroad which has resulted in a countless number of deaths of Israelis and foreigners alike. They refuse to recognise the right of Israel to exist and want the entire land of what is currently Israel and the Palestinian territories to be turned into an Islamic state and are prepared to use any means necessary to achieve that goal.

They also reportedly use minors to carry out many of their attacks and regularly indoctrinate young children in order to spread their anti-semitic views.

He denied the accusation from Israel that lead to his arrest, that he had helped to plant a bomb that had injured a soldier, which is fair enough. He was never charged with any crime and he shouldn't have been held for so long without being formally charged. However there do seem to be unanswered questions relating to his links with the PIJ and I hope he's given the opportunity to clarify this during his visit, since he's accused of being associated with a group that is considered by the British government to be a proscribed terrorist organisation.

D'ya think??? That's awfy becoming of you to admit that the Israeli state shouldn't have held him for 3 years without charge.

Anyway, that's for another thread. I hope the event went well.

[LiverpoolHibs]

Quite.

The PIJ has been held responsible for various attacks on civilians both in Israel and abroad which has resulted in a countless number of deaths of Israelis and foreigners alike. They refuse to recognise the right of Israel to exist and want the entire land of what is currently Israel and the Palestinian territories to be turned into an Islamic state and are prepared to use any means necessary to achieve that goal.

They also reportedly use minors to carry out many of their attacks and regularly indoctrinate young children in order to spread their anti-semitic views.

He denied the accusation from Israel that lead to his arrest, that he had helped to plant a bomb that had injured a soldier, which is fair enough. He was never charged with any crime and he shouldn't have been held for so long without being formally charged. However there do seem to be unanswered questions relating to his links with the PIJ and I hope he's given the opportunity to clarify this during his visit, since he's accused of being associated with a group that is considered by the British government to be a proscribed terrorist organisation.

Oh, he's at it again.

Despite having made the decision to become more of a reader than a poster on .net and despite your posts on here having negligible import, every single time that you accuse anyone of anti-Semitism, especially Palestinians, I'm going to make a point of coming on to make sure anyone reading knows what a total stinking hypocrite you, and people like you, are.

So, do we need to keep going over it? Your Christian Zionism and your belief in dispensationalism? Your support for Israel being based in a crackpot theory that history is inexorably progressing towards Armageddon, the 'glorious day' when any Jew that does not convert to Christianity is burnt to death for their heresy in a lake of hell-fire in order to facilitate the coming of a 1,000 yr. theocratic reign of Jesus Christ?

Or are you going to stop it?

I doubt it, so, until next time, tinkerty-tonk old thing.

N.B. On a slightly connected note, is Falkirk really as full of enormously scared and slightly mad sub-Poujadistes as this forum would suggest?

[SunnyLeither]

How did it go?

Apologies for the delay in responding, report below:

It was a first class meeting, with over one hundred people in attendance.



https://www.facebook.com/groups/371468392938401/






Mahmoud recounted what happened to him from the day he was stopped at the crossing from Gaza to travel to Nablus to join up with his team Balata. His story is well documented on various internet sites but to sit in the same room as someone who spent three years in jail without being charged with hunger strike as the only option he had left is truly harrowing. How he was tied to a chair for 15 days and how he was offered a blood transfusion only to find out that the blood was infected.




He lost half of his body weight and now, 12 months on he is trying not only to put his life together but also to tell the world about what happened to him and what happens to Palestinians every day. Unfortunately his is not a unique case.




It was fantastic that Tony Higgins and Jackie McNamara were there also, especially as they had asked to come along. Tony spoke about the work of FIFPRO (the international players union) and what they did to help secure Mahmoud's release and how they now trying to set up a PFA in Palestine. A report from Tony is on their website.




http://www.fifpro.org/news/news_details/2283




If anyone wants to keep up to date with Mahmoud's story or any other aspect of the plight of the Palestinian people why not email [email protected] ([email protected])7

Cheers Sean