{"id":2793,"date":"2014-01-27T13:47:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T13:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hopoi.org\/?p=2793"},"modified":"2014-01-27T13:47:10","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T13:47:10","slug":"petition-end-the-siege-of-yarmouk-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hopoi.org\/?p=2793","title":{"rendered":"Petition: End the siege of Yarmouk Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"yarmouk_camp_bild\"<\/a>A group of eleven of us, including Noam Chomsky, Mazin Qumsiyeh and As\u2019ad Abukhalil have sent a letter to the Iranian government asking them to talk to the Assad government of Syria and insist that it end its siege of the Yarmouk refugee camp.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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We start off the letter by explaining we are opponents of any warfare or sanctions against Iran and that we opposed President Obama\u2019s plan to bomb Syria.\u00a0 We want to make it clear that we are not cooperating is U.S. or Western imperial plans for Syria.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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On the other hand we\u2019ve been asked by Palestinians in Syria to speak out against the literal starvation going on inside Yarmouk camp just a few miles from downtown Damascus.\u00a0 There are tens of thousands left inside the camp facing a siege by pro-Assad forces that has gone on for more than 180 days.\u00a0 A siege directed mostly against civilians is cruel and illegal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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An appeal to the Iranian government might seem a hopeless, useless effort, but at this time Iran might not want to be embarrassed on this issue. The Iranian government is seeking to make agreements with the U.S. so does not want bad publicity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Join us in an open letter to the Iranian government.\u00a0 Click here:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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http:\/\/petitions.moveon.org\/sign\/end-the-siege-of-yarmouk<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

150 signers after the first day online\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A group of eleven of us, including Noam Chomsky, Mazin Qumsiyeh and As\u2019ad Abukhalil have sent a letter to the Iranian government asking them to talk to the Assad government of Syria and insist that it end its siege of the Yarmouk refugee camp. We start off the letter by explaining we are opponents of … <\/p>\n

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