Palestina/Izrael:
Popular Resistance in Palestine: A history of Hope and Empowerment - Book by Mazin Qumsiyeh
Over two-thirds of the 10 million native Palestinians in the world are refugees or displaced people. This outcome, like all other similar situations in history such as in South Africa, could not have come about without resistance to the violence of colonialism. But most of this resistance has been in the form of civil/nonviolent resistance that is little discussed elsewhere. This book will answer an acute need in the literature on this neglected area. Because there has been key transformative events that bookmark chapters of our history, we use the intervening periods as indeed chapters to discuss what acts of civil resistance transpired and what lessons are drawn from them. These periods: the resistance to Zionism during the Ottoman rule (from the first colonies in 1878 til 1917); the British era from 1917 (Balfour Declaration) to 1935; the 1936-1939 uprising; the period between the start of WWII and the Nakba of destruction of hundreds of Palestinian towns and villages between 1947-1949; the period of fragmentation of the Palestinian population in exile and divided among the rule of Israel, Jordan and Egypt (to 1967); the unification under one ethnocentric Jewish state after 1967 to 1987; the uprising of 1987-1991; the Oslo years 1992-2000; and the Al-Aqsa Intifada starting in 2000. Various UN resolutions and customary International law affirmed the legitimacy of armed resistance. For example, UNGA A/RES/33/24 of 29 November 1978 "Reaffirms the legitimacy of the struggle of peoples for independence, territorial integrity, national unity and liberation from colonial and foreign domination and foreign occupation by all available means, particularly armed struggle". The principle of self-determination itself provides that where forcible action has been taken to suppress the right, force may be used in order to counter this and achieve self-determination. Considering decades of ethnic cleansing, violence, destruction, it is actually surprising how few Palestinians engaged in violent resistance as a whole (whether internationally sanctioned or not). In fact, from the first Zionist colony in 1878 until the 1920s, we show in this book that nearly 50 years had elapsed of popular nonviolent resistance.
Pro-Peace Groups to Confront AIPAC's Love-Fest for Israeli Militarism
A cultural and political rift is widening within the Jewish-American community. It's a divide that will be on display later this month in Washington, DC, as the American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) holds its annual meeting and a broad coalition of progressive groups answer with a dueling “Move Over, AIPAC” conference highlighting the powerful PAC's disproportionate influence over U.S. policy in the Middle East. “We hope to show the Congress and the administration that AIPAC is not the only game in town,” Code Pink's Medea Benjamin, one of the campaign organizers, told AlterNet. “It doesn't represent all of the opinions of the Jewish community or of the population at large, and it's time for U.S. policy in the Middle East to be made in the interest of the United States and not in the perceived interest of Israel.”
Lord Dubs raises concerns for Palestinian child detainees in UK Parliament
We went to see how children are treated by this system of military justice. Approximately 700 Palestinian children are prosecuted every year in these courts, and at the end of January this year some 222 were in jail. In the court we visited we saw a 14 year-old and a 15-year-old, one of them in tears, both looking absolutely bewildered. What shocked me as much as anything was to see that these young persons-children-had chains or shackles around their ankles while sitting in court. They were also handcuffed as they went into court. Although the handcuffs were taken off while they were in court, they were put on again as they left the court. When being interogated these young people do not have the security of video recordings, lawyers or parents present. In fact, if parents want to visit, their permission might take 60 days to come through, by Which time the young person might have served his or her sentence. The court proceedings are in Hebrew, with translations of a doubtful quality. The Verdicts are mostly based on uncorroborated confession evidence.
Palestinian teen buried in Jerusalem
buried in Jerusalem killed a Palestinian juvenile (14 May 2011.)
Around 2,000 people gathered for the funeral of a Palestinian teenager Milada Said Ayyash (16) who was killed on Friday during a protest by Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem. Protests in the Palestinian territories, the Arab countries, Israel and around the world marks the 63rd Anniversary nakba. The funeral procession moved from Ayyashevog home in the neighborhood of Ras Al-Amud near nearby kolonističkog exclusively Jewish settlements, where the Israeli security forces fired tear gas at youths who pelted them with stones. Israeli media reported that there were wounded and arrested. The protesters carried Palestinian and Fatah flags and Palestinian flags zavijorila is the roof of the mosque where prayers were held for the deceased. One Ayyashov relatives told reporters that the murdered man in the abdomen gunshot hit a Jewish settler in the neighborhood Silwan, while police claimed that Ayyash shoulder suffered minor injuries, whose cause is still unknown, and that the investigation is ongoing. Police argues that neither the settlers nor the security forces did not use valid gunpowder ammunition. The family was murdered izrealskoj refused to allow police to conduct an autopsy and picked up his body from a hospital in East Jerusalem where he died from injuries sustained during the night. Israeli police on Friday arrested 34 Palestinian youths who were suspected of having violated the public order, while on Wednesday and Thursday arrested 13th Police said that in clashes with demonstrators who threw stones at police and Molotov cocktails easier ozblijeđena 3 officers and 3 demonstrators. An AFP correspondent's claims that the Silwanu saw at least 4 Palestinians were injured by rubber bullets police fired at youths who pelted the Silwanu stones. Clashes also erupted in neighborhoods Issawiya, Al-Tur and Ras al-Amud, which is located next to the Old City of Jerusalem. Palestinian organizations on Sunday organized mass rallies and protests, including in neighboring Arab countries. The Egyptian army propalestinskim protesters blocked access to the Sinai Peninsula. Protesters plan on Saturday to go from Cairo to the Gaza Strip. 63 years ago, during the creation of Israel, out of their homes has been expelled or avoid more than 760 000 Palestinians - the vast majority of indigenous peoples. Tim is a people and their descendants, whose number is now estimated at 4.7 million, are still prevented from returning to their homeland, just because the Palestinians, not Jews. Only 160 000 Palestinians inside Israel's borders. They now have about 1.3 million and represent 20% of the Israeli population.
Alice Walker - "This is the Freedom Ride of this era" (video)
"Notes on Palestine / Israel"
No stranger to colonization, the British saw that the Zionists were undermining the stability of British rule over Palestine and began limiting Jewish immigration to Palestine and Jewish halted purchases of land in Palestine. This prompted a response by the Zionists: terrorism. Some chose to target Arab villages Which could no longer legally be depopulated by land purchases, and others chose to target the British colonial authorities. The Haganah, the predecessor to the current IDF, targeted Arab villages and civilians in campaigns of ethnic cleansing and intimidation to provoke the exodus of Palestinians. The UN Partition Plan to create a Jewish and an Arab state in Palestine would have assigned the Jewish state 55% of the land when in reality they only owned 6%. The alternative offered by the Palestinians and other Arabs was the creation of a single democratic, secular state in Palestine. The hopes for an UN-mediated solution were dashed when the UN Emissary Count Folke Bernadotte was assassinated by Zionist terrorists from Irgun, comprised of extremist Zionists and led by future Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, which targeted not only the British but engaged in not just ethnic cleansing but massacres in Palestinian villages such as Deir Yassin. Future Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was the commander the Zionist forces that massacred the Muslim men of Lydda and sent the rest of the population into exile including the future founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine George Habash. The Palestinians who refused to be driven from their homes or intimidated into exile make up the current Arab population of Israel, and they were subject to martial law from 1948 until 1967. … The two-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is just as illegitimate now as it was in 1948. The final resolution of the conflict must include the repatriation of the 1948 refugees to their original homes, not consignment to the rump Palestinian state which would be formed from the leftovers of the Green Line. A just solution must recognize the right of the Palestinian people to live in all parts of historic Palestine with total freedom of movement along with full citizenship coupled with recognition of responsibility for the 63-year-old refugee crisis and reparations from the Zionist state. The ideas and dreams of Zionists have no right to take precedence over the reality of Palestine which was obliterated in 1948. The original solution proposed by the Arab Higher Committee remains the best solution in respects to both Jewish and Palestinian people in Palestine: a single democratic, secular state.
Prof. Rashid Khalidi on Hamas-Fatah agreement (video)
The biggest difference is the earthquake that has affected the entire Arab world and which is one of the main reasons there is an agreement between these two factions. The state of Arab disarray, the decadent authoritarian regimes, most of them aligned with the United States of course, but in the case of Syria it is not, held up the status quo in Palestine. They effectively supported Israel's occupation and were the major factor, besides pressure from Israel and the United States, in keeping the Palestinians divided. That stagnant status quo has now broken like a log jam. The Arab Spring has burst the entire regional structure which effectively upheld Israel's occupation and which was instrumental in keeping the Palestinians divided. Specifically, the fall of the Mubarak regime removed the major obstacle to Palestinian reconciliation. The so called malaf, the folder of Palestinian reconciliation was in the hands of Omar Suleiman for four years. For those four years he worked ceaselessly to ensure that there would be no Palestinian reconciliation because that was Egyptian policy, it was Israeli policy, and it was American policy, and he faithfully followed that policy. Within two months of Omar Suleiman's disappearance the Egyptian Military Intelligence, the same agency that he headed, brokered a reconciliation agreement. It is impossible not to conclude that the fall of the regime in Egypt removed the largest obstacle to Palestinian reconciliation, which means the Mubarak regime was a faithful agent of American and Israeli policy and of its own paranoid fantasies about Hamas. ... I think that American military aid should be stopped entirely. I do not see it doing any good besides fostering war, death, and destruction. … In the case of Palestine, as far as I am concerned, aid to Palestinian security forces which do the work of Israel without protecting Palestinians is monstrously misbegotten on the part of the Palestinians. I do not see why the Palestinians are taking American money in order to repress their own people in a situation where Israel is not reciprocating. If Israel were dismantling the occupation, removing settlers, closing down settlements, and negotiating in good faith on issues like the right of return, on issues like Jerusalem, like giving up water resources then you might have an argument. Palestinian security forces should both protect the security of Palestinians and prevent the agreement from being disrupted by attacks on Israelis. But, in a situation where Israel is expanding settlements, is further entrenching its occupation, and refusing to negotiate in good faith, I do not see why the Palestinians want that. If they want to preserve security and do so in whatever way they chose that is their business. But, if American aid is conditional on doing something which is entirely a one way street, Israel gets what it wants and the Palestinians get nothing, then good riddance to such aid.
Why We Must Sail to Gaza
Now an even larger flotilla, with the participation of more ships and more activists from more countries -- including, crucially, the U.S. ship Audacity of Hope -- is preparing to set sail in June. And -- God willing -- when the Audacity of Hope sets sail, I will be on it. It is our hope and expectation that the Israeli government, after all the negative publicity it received for its attack on last year's flotilla, will allow our ships to pass to Gaza unimpeded. It is our hope and expectation that the Obama Administration will pressure the government of Israel not to attack us, especially with a U.S. boat with well-known American peace activists on board participating in the flotilla. Nonetheless, there is certainly some risk of confrontation with the Israeli authorities. I can say with absolute confidence that everyone on the American boat is committed to nonviolence; if I were not confident of that, I would not go. If the Israeli authorities attempt to seize our boat, we may engage in nonviolent resistance, but we will not attack anyone and we will neither have nor use any form of weapon. If Israeli authorities attack us physically, the world will know that the Israeli authorities attacked unarmed Americans who were not a threat to anyone. That's a key component of what nonviolent resistance, from Montgomery to Tahrir to Budrus, is all about: not providing any excuse for the violence of the oppressor. We engage in this voyage because the world, having accepted and even embraced the right of self-determination of Egyptians and Tunisians, cannot any longer deny this right to the Palestinians.
Israeli army killed unarmed Palestinian demonstrators on the border
within the occupied areas of tens of thousands took to the streets, many holding the keys to their family homes lost 1948th Israel yesterday introduced a halt throughout the West Bank, closing many crossings and checkpoints. The conflict of protesters and Israeli troops took place in Hebron, Wallajehu and Jerusalem, while on the Erez border crossing in Gaza, at least 15 unarmed civilians were wounded Israeli fire. IDF fired by what are called "warning shots", including tank shells and bullets from machine gun directed towards the open field next to the protest. One Palestinian, who Israeli authorities say the bomb was asked, was shot to death. In Egypt, thousands protested outside the Israeli embassy. More than a hundred people were injured, when Egyptian security forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets after he allegedly attempted to storm the building. Al Jazeera reports that at least twenty people were arrested. The worst violence occurred outside the village of Maroun al-Ras in southern Lebanon where thousands of people gathered at the border fence. The protesters were allegedly hung on the barbed wire of the flag and sang songs, and some young men threw stones across the border, before the Israeli and Lebanese soldiers started to shoot. Lebanese forces were initially cracked warning shots, although it remains unclear whether they fired on the crowd. Israeli forces were allegedly responsible for killing. It was the worst violence done to Lebanon since the Israeli invasion 2006th Those who were killed yesterday on the Syrian border were the victims of the Israeli operation re-taking the village of Majdal Shams. According to a report of two hundred protesters who crossed the border waving flags and posters, more than a hundred were wounded in an Israeli attack, showing a reckless use of force. Before the attacks, the villagers were warmly greeted by protesters, the Independent reported that "local residents welcomed the newcomers as heroes and joined them as they marched towards the main square, chanting and waving Palestinian flags. "One of the protesters, Muhammad Umran (35), the Yarmouk refugee camp in the Syrian capital of Damascus, spoke with the Washington Post. "We can not tolerate this anymore," he explains. "We demand their right to return. Do not be afraid. "
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Activists Confront Condoleezza Rice at Stanford University (video)
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Meet The Workers Who Make Your iPad: 100 Hours Of Overtime No-Suicide pacts, Standing For 14 Hours A Day
Back in March, Sen.. John McCain (R-AZ) claimed that the astoundingly iPad and iPhone are "built in the United States of America." This news must have been a great surprise to the Chinese workers who work for a Taiwanese-based manufacturing giant Foxconn, Which is notorious for the poor conditions at its factories and the wave of suicides at its plants.
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