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Dear Starbucks Customer,

First and foremost I want to thank you for making Starbucks the $6.4 billion global company it is today, with more than 90,000 employees, 9,700 stores, and 33 million weekly customers. Every latte and macchiato you drink at Starbucks is a contribution to the close alliance between the United States and Israel, in fact it is – as I was assured when being honoured with the “Israel 50th Anniversary Friend of Zion Tribute Award” – key to Israel’s long-term PR sccess.

Your daily chocolate chips frappucino helps paying for student projects in North America and Israel, presenting them with the badly needed Israeli perspective of the Intifada. Starbucks, through the Jerusalem Fund of Aish HaTorah, an international network of Jewish education centres, sponsors Israeli military arms fairs in an effort to strengthen the special connection between the American, European and Israeli defense industries and to showcase the newest Israeli innovations in defense. As my contribution to the fight against the global rise of anti-Semitism, the reason behind the current conflict in the Middle-East, I help Aish HaTorah sponsoring the website “honestreporting.com” and produce material informing of Israel’s side of the story.

Withou you, my valued customer, I wouldn’t be able to raise hundreds of millions of dollars each year to support Israeli citizens from terrorist attacks and keep reminding every Jew in America, to defend Israel at any cost. $5 billion per year from the US government are no way near enough to pay for all the weaponry, bulldozers and security fences needed to protect innocent Israeli citizens from anti-Semitic Muslim terrorism. Corporate sponsorships are essential.

Having the bigger picture in mind, Starbucks have donated a store to the US army to help in the “War on Terror”. I cannot emphasise enough, how vital the “War on Terror” is for the continued viability and prospering of the Jewish State. So next time you feel like chilling out at a Starbucks store, please remember that with every cup you drink at Starbucks you are helping with a noble cause.

Howard Schultz
Chairman & Chief Global Strategist
Starbucks Coffee Stores
Last Updated (Friday, 14 July 2006)

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In a statement marking the 40th anniversary of Quds occupation, the Society highlighted the Judaization policies and stifling Apartheid Wall aimed at stripping Al Quds from its Arab identity, holding it captive and fragmenting it. The illegal and unbridled influx of Jews into Palestine are meant to displace Palestinians and deprive them of their fundamental rights as well as Judaize the city’s religious sanctities, the Society noted. The Arab-named Al Buraq Wall was forgely renamed as “The Weeping Wall” while the unabated and continuous digging threatens to pull down Al Aqsa Mosque which is also subject to explosive device attacks and forceful incursions and runs the risk of having part of it confiscated and allocated for Jewish prayers, the Society added.

Since 1967, the Israeli occupation forces have been tightening their strangehold on Al Quds by building around 30 settlements in its environs in a bid to create a Jewish majority by displacing Palestinian indigenous citizens and trying to efface their identity, the Society explained. Given its highly-venerated Islamic sanctities, topped by Al Aqsa Mosque, Al Quds will remain a stronghold of resistance and a beacon of home for liberation that keeps inspiring the coming generations, the statement asserted.

The second week of June will mark forty years since the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza in the 1967 Six Day war. This is now the longest enduring military occupation in the world. While the Israeli government evades negotiations that would end the occupation and lead to a just peace, the lives of Palestinians continue to be crushed daily by closures and economic strangulation, their land confiscated for settlements and their communities made into prisons by the Segregation Wall.

At the same time, violence in the region continues to supply ideological fuel for the G8 governments in their ‘War on Terror’, explicitly declared as a never-ending, pre-emptive global war which justifies erasing civil liberties, supporting oppressive regimes, and attacking refugees and migrants. We are all victims of this war: in Palestine and Israel, in Iraq and in Colombia, in Germany and in the U.S.A.

With the occupation at forty it should be clear to all that its forceful hegemony cannot be resisted by established political means alone. This is both morally insufficient and doomed to practical failure. As a strategic and practical alternative, the “Occupation 40″ coalition is calling for six days of actions to mark forty years of occupation, on June 6 to 12 2007. A Global Day of Action has also been called on June 9.

The coalition is a democratic and non-hierarchical action platform of grassroots Israeli groups and organizations. Peace organizations, artists, students’ groups, internal refugees, anarchists, animal rights activists, communists and individuals participate in this initiative. The six-day convergence in Israel will include demonstrations, direct actions, discussions and cultural events.

This is a call-out for international direct actions against the occupation on June 6-12. We call in particular for actions against corporations profiting directly from the occupation that publicly shame them and/or cause them economic damage. Information on corporations involved with the occupation is available from http://www.boycottisrael.co.uk and many other sources, including a recent report by War on Want available at http://www.waronwant.org/download.php?id=443.

We hope that actions will be organized to be decentralized and trust them to the initiative and self-organization of affinity groups around the world. These days of action fit well into this summer’s international action calendar:

* June 5 – An international day of action against militarization, wars and occupations, in the run-up to the G8 summit in Germany.
* June 6-8 – Protests against the G8, with the participation of Palestinian and Israeli activists and Palestine Solidarity groups from around Europe.
* June 5-11 – 6 days of action against the Occupation, in Palestine/Israel and Internationally
* June 9 – Rally in London , Global Day of Action Against the Occupation
* June 10-11 – Protest, teach-in and lobby in Washington DC

Please distribute this call widely, and please organise for action with your groups and networks. We can use this symbolic moment to hit out at those who benefit and profit from the pain and despair in Palestine , and to send the Israeli and G8 governments a message they cannot ignore.

Kibush 40 Coalition

The nightmare in Iraq worsens daily. It’s make-or-break time — but next Thursday in Egypt, we could start to turn the tide. Because on May 3rd – for the first time ever – top US and Iraqi leaders will meet with Iran and Syria plus international powers. They can agree on negotiations to end the war — or escalate their bloody conflict.

Iraq: It Ends on May 3rd Avaaz is launching a major advertising and text-message campaign inside Iraq this week to bring Iraqi voices to this decisive meeting. As citizens around the world, let’s join our voices with theirs to end this war — sign the petition calling for negotiations and a withdrawal of US troops here:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/iraq_new_plan/

To make sure we’re heard, we’ll hand-deliver our petition to the leaders’ conference in Sharm El-Sheikh on May 3rd, and project Iraqi text-messages on to a huge wall near the US Capitol building in Washington.

Thousands of Iraqi Avaaz members have supported our N.E.W. plan — for all-party “Negotiations”, “Empowering” international mediators and the responsible “Withdrawal” of US troops. Please read the personal email below from Khalid, an Iraqi Avaaz member. Khalid and our other Iraqi members need a show of global support from the rest of us. The campaign is already supported by over 75,000 people as well as key international experts — let’s gather a massive, united voice of Iraqis and citizens round the world to tell our leaders to do the right thing in Iraq:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/iraq_new_plan/

With hundreds of thousands dead and 4 million made refugees, just criticising the US government for this catastrophe is not enough. It’s now the responsibility of all of us to help save Iraq, and the only solution is a political solution.

Khalid Jarrar and his mother Faiza Jarrar have been wonderful supporters of Avaaz in Iraq. We asked Khalid to write a message to Avaaz members, here’s what he emailed us yesterday:

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feel free to edit it if its too long.
and just for the record, i am not a drama queen, these were written for real, and tears in my eyes are my witness…

Dear AVAAZ,

I want to introduce myself, and tell you a story, but i don’t know how to start, and where to stop.

My name is Khalid, i am an environmental engineering student and i am 24, but this is the least important to know about me, what’s really important for me to tell, and for you to know, is that I am Iraqi, and that I have a deep, deep wound in my soul, that has been bleeding for over four years now.

Iraq, my soul, is bleeding. And i had to leave it against my will, because of the incredibly bad security situation that led to me getting kidnapped and my family paying a huge ransom, which made me leave immediately after i was released in fear that i would be kidnapped again. I left Iraq one month before my graduation and had to come to Jordan, which made me lose two years of my university time and life, but even worse, made me lose the company of the Tigris and the Euphrates.

I had to travel, leaving Iraq behind me, to live like a refuge, one of a million other refuges, in a country of less than five millions people, that already has its own financial problems without needing our additional burden to add to it. I am an Iraqi refuge in Jordan.

Since I left in July 2005, things have exponentially deteriorated in every possible aspect, now people hardly get 1 hours of electricity a day, they have water problems, regular lack of gas that its prices multiplied about 20 times since the war. Let alone the main and real problems of the actual presence of an occupation that is leaching on the country and causing the destruction to its people, unity, sovereignty, infrastructure and economy.

Iraq is the loving mother, that gave birth to thinkers and builders, people that enriched humanity with their contributions in all aspects of life, people that their civilization accumulated for over 7000 years till now.

Iraq, the noble wisdom, the land of the two flowing rivers, the land of the mosques and churches, is in crises, and needs your help.

yes.
it needs your help.

Iraqis need the support of the world, of every human being that believes in the values of justice and peace, of every person that cares about the judgment of history on what the world did when Iraq needed its support the most. Iraq, needs your voice, to support the voices of its own people, to help remove that injustice, and help it rise up again and stand on its feet.

Help us demand to give Iraq back to Iraqis, and to prove to the future generations once more, that occupations don’t last, that occupations are wrong, and that the will of people is invincible. Help us clear to them that our hearts and minds, our values and sense of justice, are stronger than any tank, battleship or rocket. Help us by singing AVAAZ petition that will be presented to the politicians discussing the future of Iraq security, help by asking your friends to do so, let our voices be louder than the roars of weapons and the madness of greeds, help us, sign AVAAZ petition now, let our voice be heard, support Iraq today, and once the last occupying soldier leaves iraq, and once we rebuild our country with out own hands, we will reciever you in Baghdad, and you will see the love and gratitude competed by nothing but Iraqi hospitality. Together we can prove that our brotherhood is strong, together we can prove that our bonds are real, I can see that day coming, really soon.

Khalid

Click below to join Khalid in telling US, Iraqi and international leaders to do the right thing for Iraq:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/iraq_new_plan/

With hope,

Ricken, Graziela, Paul, Tom and the whole Avaaz team

Avaaz.org is a global organization with almost 1million members all over the world. Our goal is to use technology and the internet to make the values and view of the world’s public opinion heard by global decision makers on important world issues.

Greetings,

In my capacity as chairman of the PLO Executive Committee and President of the Palestinian National Authority and after reviewing the Basic Law and based on the authorities vested in me:

First: I commission you to form the next Palestinian government within the set period as stipulated in the Basic Law.

Second: after concluding the formation of the government and presenting it to us, the government will be presented to the Palestinian Legislative Council to get the confidence vote.

Third: I call upon you as PM of the next government to abide by the interests of the Palestinian people and to preserve their rights and maintain their accomplishments and develop them and work on achieving their national goals as ratified by the resolutions of the Palestinian National Council (the PLO’s legislative body) meetings and the Basic Law articles and the national conciliation document and Arab summit resolutions and based on this, I call upon you to respect the Arab and international legitimacy resolutions and agreements signed by the PLO.

May God help you in your steps and duties.

Sharing of ministries

The preliminary agreement on the distribution of ministerial portfolios reads as follows:

– The current PM Ismail Hanieh shall assume the PM post in the national unity government.

– President Abbas shall appoint a deputy PM.

– Ziad Abu Amr (Independent) shall be appointed as Minister for Foreign Affairs.

– Salam Fayyad (Independent) shall be appointed as Finance Minister.

– Hamas will nominate an independent figure for the Interior Ministry on condition that President Abbas approves to this nomination.

– Hamas will get eight ministries: Education and Higher Education, Islamic Waqf, Labour, Local Government, Youth and Sports, Justice, Telecommunications and Information Technology, Economy, and a state minister.

– Hamas will also name an independent figure to the Planning Ministry and another independent figure as state minister.

– Fatah will get six ministries: Health, Social Affairs, Public Works, Transportation, Agriculture and Prisoners Affairs.

– Fatah will name the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Ziad Abu Amr) and an independent figure as state minister.

First: to ban the shedding of Palestinian blood and to take all measures and arrangements to prevent the shedding of Palestinian blood and to stress the importance of national unity as the basis for national steadfastness and confronting the occupation and to achieve the legitimate national goals of the Palestinian people and adopt the language of dialogue as the sole basis for solving political disagreements in the Palestinian arena.

Within this context, we offer gratitude to the brothers in Egypt and the Egyptian security delegation in Gaza who exerted tremendous efforts to calm conditions in Gaza Strip in the past period.

Second: Final agreement to form a Palestinian national unity government according to a detailed agreement ratified by both sides and to start on an urgent basis to take the constitutional measures to form this government.

Third: to move ahead in measures to activate and reform the Palestine Liberation Organisation and accelerate the work of the preparatory committee based on the Cairo and Damascus Understandings.

It has been agreed also on detailed steps between both sides on this issue.

Fourth: to stress on the principle of political partnership on the basis of the effective laws in the PNA and on the basis of political pluralism according to an agreement ratified between both parties.

We gladly announce this agreement to the Palestinian masses and to the Arab and Islamic nation and to all our friends in the world. We stress our commitment to this agreement in text and spirit so that we can devote our time to achieve our national goals and get rid of the occupation and regain our rights and devote work to the main dossiers, mainly Jerusalem, refugees, Al-Aqsa mosque, prisoners and detainees and to confront the (West Bank separation) wall and settlements.

Ismail Haniyeh, just returned from his pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia said “many oppressors who have exercised all forms of persecution against peoples would not have been brought to justice – had there been justice in dealing with the file of president Saddam Hussein? – Where is the international justice towards what many Israeli leaders have been exercising throughout the past decades against the Palestinian people?”

The Prime Minister called the Palestinians from Mecca to unite firmly against the hard challenges “This is the message of the pilgrims – and we, from this hallowed place stress the importance of the national unity,” he said.

When asked about the swap deal agreed by the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israel’s Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Haniyeh said “the agreement brought about nothing new”- and that there were no new results regarding the issue of the prisoners.

Haniyeh also slammed the Israeli government as saying that, “the Israelis show no concern with ending the long suffering of the prisoners.”The Israeli stand is arrogant that is based on procrastination, with aim of gaining time.”Haniyeh accused rightly the Israelis of making advantages of any meeting with an Arab leader to salvage its slumping general relations and to rescue the decreasing approval ratings of its Prime Minister which he got by his government’s weak show against the militias of Hezbollah.