The well-organized Palestine conference in Detroit brought more than 4,600 there, with a heavy Palestinian presence.
Most of the speakers in the plenaries were genuine Palestinian activists tested in battle, not well-known writers or professors.
The over 270 journalists who have been targeted and murdered for informing the world of the endless U.S.-Israeli slaughter of civilians were honored throughout the three days, that included more than 20 sessions and plenaries, exhibits, including Palestinian cultural performances, a grand vendor fair and art exhibits.
It was made clear that Israel is the U.S. garrison state in the Middle East, out to break the Palestinian people’s resistance.
U.S.-Israel aim to destroy their confidence in the ability to resist and fight back, and as the Final Solution, to wipe Palestinians off their homeland.
The U.S.-Israeli military operations, through relentless carpet bombing, mass shootings of civilians and starvation, aim to kill Palestinians until they decide to flee.
If this is a war, then so are the mass shootings in the U.S., with the perpetrators shooting school children and civilians presented as an army of snipers in an armed conflict against their recalcitrant enemy.
Dr. Mohammed Mustafa, a Palestinian emergency doctor now living in Australia who has done medical missions to Gaza, spoke in the plenary Gaza is the Center of the World: “Health care in Gaza is not a failure by accident but sabotage by design with doctors killed and aid blocked. That is the reality of Gaza. It is a mirror that is being held up to humanity. Why is it that baby formula is banned from Gaza? Why is it that feeding a child is considered a threat? Why are ambulances and hospitals turned into targets of war? When did bread and milk become weapons? When did saving lives become a crime? Gaza is the only place on Earth where nourishing a baby is an act of resistance. It is the only place where life itself is viewed as a weapon of war.” (more...)
The Peoples Conference for Palestine: Another Step Forward
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