Bring peace by boycotting Israel

Readers Letter
Irish Examiner
29 July 2002

The Israeli bomb attack on an apartment block in Gaza, which left 15 people dead, nine of them children, is another example of Ariel Sharon's government's campaign of terror against the Palestinian people.

Since the present Palestinian Intifada began in September 2000, the Israeli military have killed more than 1,600 Palestinians, the vast majority of them civilians. Israel has used its helicopter gunships, F-16 fighter aircraft and tanks to destroy Palestinian apartment blocks, houses, schools and police stations in the West Bank and Gaza. The infrastructure of the Palestinian National Authority lies in ruins and most Palestinian towns and cities are under Israeli army occupation.

Because the Irish Government, the EU and the UN have failed, so far, to impose sanctions on Israel in protest at its continued occupation of Arab lands, the people must act.

Please impose your own individual sanctions on Israel by boycotting Israeli goods and services. If it's from Israel, don't buy it. Remember, the boycott of South African produce helped end apartheid a boycott of Israeli goods can help bring justice to the Palestinians and peace to the Middle East.

Martin Gleeson,
Illaunree Drive,
Coolough Road,
Galway.