Sunday, July 5, 2009

26 June 2007

The Australian Federal government should remove Hizboullah from the lists of terrorist organizations
The Social justice Network would like to support strongly the many voices of community leaders and members to remove Hizboullah from the list of terrorist organisation. The network notes that the Australian government is going against the international will by supporting blindly the Israeli aggression against its neighbours.

“The Australian government decided on June 2003 to list Hizboullah's military wing as a terrorist ogranisation despite the UN and EU refusal to put the party on the list of terrorist organizations” said Jamal Daoud, the spokesperson for the network. “This also came despite the fact that the party is represented in the Lebanese Parliament and Cabinet. Its military arm was regarded to be legitimate by the Lebanese government and parliament, according to Taif agreement, 1989”

The party and its military arm is not conducting any military operations outside the Lebanese border, never vowed to carry out indiscriminate violence acts against Westerners and has never been involved in any.

The Network notes too that Phillip Ruddock, when reused to ban Hizb ut Tahrir, January 2007, said that “Hizb ut Tahrir is being monitored but its activities in Australia do not warrant banning it”. The network notes in this regard that Hizboullah Party and its military wing was never a threat to Australian national security, as it never vowed to target Australia or Australians, unlike the Al Qaeda terrorist organisation.

The Network strongly supports the allegations made by Mr Kamal Mousselmani that Australian government is encouraging terrorism by encouraging Israel to kill people daily through opposing resolutions to condemn Israel and demand its recognition and implementation of UN resolutions.

“We condemn the Australian political parties represented in the parliament who did not stand up against this listing, June 2003”

We note the Australian parliament’s deadly silence on Israel illegal activities, which mounted on several occasions to crimes against humanity, including genocide against the Palestinian people.

“The Australian parliament did not move to limit Australians' contact with the state of Israel, despite many reasons to do so. Israel committed many war crimes against its neighboring countries, this including occupying parts of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Palestine. We saw lately many reports about Israel using internationally-forbidden weapons of mass destruction, like cluster bombs, phosphoric bombs, and depleted uranium ammunitions”

The network strongly supports the call for the removal of Hizboullah from the list of terrorist organisations in Australia, to be in line with the UN and the rest of the world. Such move, we believe, will help promote peace in the Middle East.

For media interviews, you can call Jamal Daoud, the spokesperson for the network, on 0413467367

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