Madison-Rafah Journal

The vigil has been cancelled due to weather

Vigil in Support of the Gaza Prison Break and
Against the Continuing Siege of Gaza

Tuesday, January 29, 2008
6:15-7:00pm
Lowell Center, 610 Langdon St., Madison

The Madison-Rafah Sister City Project will hold a candlelight vigil to support our Rafah friends, and all the other people of Gaza, more than 350,000 of whom this week have courageously broken through the Israeli wall that starves and cruelly imprisons them. And we will protest the still on-going siege and bombardment of the Gaza Strip by Israel, financed and supported by the United States.

This vigil will take place from 6:15 to 7:00 pm on Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 outside the Lowell Center, where Mr. David Makovsky will be speaking on the current situation in the Middle East. Makovsky represents WINEP, or Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a prominent neo-conservative think-tank allied with the U.S. Israel lobby AIPAC, the Bush Administration, and the right wing in Israeli politics. It espouses the continuation of the siege and destruction of Gaza, as well as the rapidly escalating application of these inhuman and illegal policies to rest of the occupied Palestinian territories in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Makovsky, Director of the so-called Project on the Middle East Peace Process at WINEP is an adviser to Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice whose failed Middle East initiatives at Annapolis and elsewhere deliberately perpetuate policies contravening international law including the 1949 Geneva Conventions.

We invite the public to join us in a Vigil in Solidarity with the People of Gaza and against the on-going destruction of Palestine and the Palestinian national movement.