Caravan from India to Gaza

India established diplomatic and military relations with Israel ever since 1993 when the Oslo Accords were signed between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. The main premise of the Oslo Accords was the creation of a Palestinian state, which was assumed would be carried out by Israel after a few years. Instead, Israel began building more settlements in the occupied territories and expanding existing ones. This along with an added advantage was that Isreal need not bother too much about uprisings and militancy in Palestinian areas in the West Bank and the Gaza strip as they would be taken care of by the so called Palestinian Security Forces. Its literally asking the occupied people to provide security to the occupier, one of the oldest forms of colonialism. However due to Israeli underestimation, Palestinians rose up violently in 2000-2004 killing 2000 Israelis and 5000 Palestinians. After this, life became worse for the Palestinians.

Despite all this, India did not show any sympathy towards the Palestinians. Ties, especially military ties grew stronger after both nations claimed to be fighting the so-called 'War on terror'. Looking at the recent attack by Israel of an aid flotilla heading towards Gaza in international waters, one cannot tolerate the 43 year old occupation any more and people all around the world are waking up to the Palestinian cause.

India is sending a caravan to Palestine and people all over Asia are due to join mostly from Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt.

Those who would want to participate in the convoy are requested to send in their names, organization, socio-political background & passport details.

In Solidarity with the Intifada.

Brigadier Sudhir Sawant, Feroze Mithiborwala, Kishore Jagtap, Aslam Ghazi, Com. Vasudevan, Arif Kapadia, Varsha V V, Winnie Thomas, Chetna Birje, Reshma Jagtap, Yawar Ali Qazi, Mukta Srivastava, Asif Khan, Syed Iftikhar Ahed, Sayeed Khan, Munawwar Khan, Amol Madame, Vilas Gaikwad, agdish Nagarkar, Mulniwasi Mala, Shyam Sonar, Sudhir Dhawale, Bajrang Sonawane, Sheikh Muhammad Hussain, Ghazala Azad, Munawwar Azad, Ihtishaam Ansari, Sanjay Shinde, & others

India Palestine People's Solidarity Forum

0091-9820897517 / feroze.moses777@gmail.com

http://www.asiatogaza.org