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PPRC Denounces
Bush’s Ultimatum to UN, Condemns Israeli
Bulldozer-Murder of American Volunteer, Prepares for
War.
Event: PPRC Condemns Bush’s Decision to Attack.
Date: Monday, March 17th, 2003
Time: Immediate Release
Place: N/A
“The death of Rachel Corrie, crushed to death
by an IDF bulldozer as she tried to prevent the destruction
of a Palestinian home, painfully emphasizes to us the
moral degradation of the Israeli government and of the
US foreign policy that supports the occupation,”
said Will Seaman, a volunteer with the PPRC. “The
IDF’s indiscriminate use of extreme brutality
and intense violence has now been illustrated by the
tragic deaths not only of Palestinians, but of two Israelis
and a young, courageous 23-year-old from Olympia, Washington.”
Seaman was referring to the death last week of two Israeli
security guards who were killed when they were mistaken
for Palestinian “terrorists”. “This
is the future that Bush is planning for the rest of
the world,” said Seaman. “A future of indiscriminate
tragedy inflicted upon combatant and noncombatant alike,
brutal murder of friend and foe, a future of pain, violence
and despair.”
“With Bush’s ultimatum to the UN, and his
call for the UN inspectors to leave Iraq, he has signed
the death warrant for countless innocent Iraqis and
for countless innocent Americans and British who will
doubtless be the target of bloody retaliation,”
said Seaman. Seaman cited a Los Angeles Times report
that repeated earlier CIA assessments predicting increased
terrorist attacks in response to the US war.1 “Like
Ariel Sharon in his campaign to ethnically cleanse the
occupied territories, George Bush has embraced a strategy
that deliberately provokes terror in order to frighten
Americans into supporting a foreign policy that they
would otherwise reject,” said Seaman. “If
you want to know our future, look at the horrible violence
of the Israel/Palestine conflict, an endless cycle of
violence that has blinded almost everyone to the underlying
injustice that is fueling the conflict.”
If the war begins, the PPRC along with many other anti-war
groups, will hold an emergency rally at Terry Schrunk
Plaza at 4:00 p.m.. If the war begins after 4:00 p.m.,
the emergency rally will be held the following day at
4:00 p.m.. “We face now what we’d hoped
to prevent, a criminal and unnecessary war,” said
Seaman.
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