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category national | anti-war / imperialism | feature author Saturday June 02, 2007 04:45author by David L - IPSC Report this post to the editors

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Staff at EU commission offices resist Occupation

"Today, a dozen activists conducted a direct action to highlight the European Union’s support for 40 years of Israeli occupation of Palestine. We tried to peacefully occupy the EU Commission’s office for 40 minutes, one minute for every year of occupation. "

In a report filed to the Neswire today, DavidL from the IPSC stated:

"The EU supports the occupier and punishes the occupied Specifically, we were protesting against EU policy of enforcing sanctions on the Palestinian people in the Occupied Territories, while offering major trade privileges to Israel, the occupying power. The Euro-Mediterranean Association Agreement offers trade and other privileges to Israel, which helps it sustain its economy and maintain its occupation of Palestine. This is despite the fact that Israel is in clear breach of the human rights clause of this agreement."

Related Links: June 9th Demo at Central Bank |


The EU parliament in 2002 called for a suspension of this agreement. The Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs last year unanimously called for a review of this agreement.

While the EU offers privileges to Israel, it offers sanctions to the Palestinian people. Since it disagreed with the results of Palestine’s democratic elections last year, the EU has cut off aid and assistance to the Palestinian people. This is in direct response to Israeli demands. The effect this has in augmenting the Israeli attack on Palestinian life is appalling.

EU opposed to occupation of EU shock!
We hoped that the EU Commission would have no cause for complaint for our 40 minute peaceful occupation, since they have happily acquiesced in 40 years of military occupation of Palestine by the Israeli army. However, our luck was out. After the first few activists had entered through the locked doors of their public information centre on Dawson Street, they refused to let any more in and promptly called the guards to clear out the activists inside.

The guards arrived immediately, and shoved the remaining activists out to the street. There, we continued our demonstration for the allotted 40 minutes; our message that the EU should stop supporting Israeli occupation got a friendly reception from passing pedestrians, and an enthusiastic one from honking motorists.

So, we have learnt that the EU is against occupations, unless that is, they are carried out by the Israeli army. The speed with which the EU Commission used the forces at its disposal to end this small and peaceful occupation only serves to highlight its failure to attempt to end the somewhat more serious forty-year occupation of Palestine.

Protest the Occupation!
Next week marks the 40th anniversary of the Israeli invasion of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. There will a series of events around Ireland to mark this, culminating in a demonstration on Saturday 9th June, part of an international day of action against the longest military occupation in modern history. The demonstration will assemble at the Central Bank, Dame Street at 2 pm on Saturday 9 Jun. Join us to protest against the occupation and the failure of the EU and Irish government to bring pressure to bear on Israel.

EU use gardai to end occupation (if only they were so enthusiastic about ending the occupation of Palestine)
EU use gardai to end occupation (if only they were so enthusiastic about ending the occupation of Palestine)

The protest continues
The protest continues

Stop EU support of Israeli occupation
Stop EU support of Israeli occupation

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Great work!     DM    Fri Jun 01, 2007 16:42 
   good stuff     DOL    Fri Jun 01, 2007 17:16 
   Keep up the good work!     Noddy    Fri Jun 01, 2007 19:38 
   well done     nlf    Sat Jun 02, 2007 00:24 
   more links for the article     David L    Sat Jun 02, 2007 09:24 
   Not exactly an occupation     SNíB    Sat Jun 02, 2007 11:00 
   Thanks Comrades     Johnny H    Sat Jun 02, 2007 16:15 
   Pathetic     avi15    Sun Jun 03, 2007 13:11 
   Gesture of Protest     Des    Sun Jun 03, 2007 14:35 
 10   Protests in the eye of the beholder     MichaelY    Sun Jun 03, 2007 15:01 
 11   In solidarity with the Dublin action     TD    Sun Jun 03, 2007 16:50 
 12   Somebody still has a conscience     john mcdermott    Mon Jun 04, 2007 00:19 
 13   Nice one     Ali H.    Mon Jun 04, 2007 12:17 
 14   An Extra Photo     Red Tito    Mon Jun 04, 2007 17:42 
 15   good stuff     nlf    Mon Jun 04, 2007 19:15 
 16   Myth and Reality     Dave    Mon Jun 04, 2007 20:02 
 17   David's Myths and Political Reality     MichaelY    Mon Jun 04, 2007 20:28 
 18   Re:Michael Y     Dave    Mon Jun 04, 2007 21:00 
 19   Dave's lies     Feyadeen    Mon Jun 04, 2007 21:02 
 20   Re: Feedayeen     Dave    Mon Jun 04, 2007 21:21 
 21   More pathetic lies     Feyadeen    Mon Jun 04, 2007 21:39 
 22   Just a small bit of advice DAVE     Rascal    Tue Jun 05, 2007 07:54 
 23   Great Action     Libertarian Infusion    Tue Jun 05, 2007 09:30 
 24   The Palestinians in their own words     Dave    Tue Jun 05, 2007 11:35 
 25   Back to reality     MichaelY    Tue Jun 05, 2007 12:02 
 26   " Daves" Tripe     Nodin    Tue Jun 05, 2007 12:19 
 27   Israel does not want to occupy Palestine     Dave    Tue Jun 05, 2007 12:36 
 28   More trolling bilge     Feyadeen    Tue Jun 05, 2007 13:00 
 29   Peace loving Zionists ? Lol!!     MichaelY    Tue Jun 05, 2007 13:21 
 30   Re: Feyadeen     Dave    Tue Jun 05, 2007 13:49 
 31   Pathetic drivel     Feyadeen    Tue Jun 05, 2007 13:57 
 32   Are they even Palestinians?     Leon    Wed Jun 06, 2007 13:53 
 33   Dave, dave, dave.....     Nodin    Wed Jun 06, 2007 14:52 
 34   to stupid questions     stpid answers    Wed Jun 06, 2007 15:04 
 35   Myth And Reality?     Schmaik    Sun Jun 17, 2007 23:06 


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