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DESCRIPTION:Bay Area Emergency Demonstration for Palestine\n\n\nThe Israeli army killed 
 11 Palestinians in Nablus (West Bank) on February 22. Sixty Palestinians 
 have been killed since the beginning of the year. What is the cause of this 
 escalation?\n\nAfter Jenin and Jericho, it was in Nablus, in the north of 
 the West Bank, that the Israeli army unleashed its violence, leaving 11 
 dead and more than 100 injured. B’Tselem, the main Israeli human rights 
 organization denounced this assault: “Israeli forces have killed 60 
 Palestinians since the beginning of 2023, an average of more than one 
 murder per day. The international community is allowing this, and the 
 United States has just covered for Israel at the UN Security Council.” 
 (February 23)\n\nIsrael’s repeated attacks owe nothing to chance. The 
 Israeli State is in the grip of an internal crisis that is tearing the 
 whole society apart from the bottom up. The crisis pits supporters of the 
 new far-right government against those who, in large weekly demonstrations, 
 claim to oppose it with “democratic values” — without ever 
 questioning, however, what B’Tselem describes as “the Apartheid regime 
 that rules between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River.”\n\nIn the 
 Israeli daily Haaretz, journalist Amira Hass asks: “Is there a link 
 between the bloody raids of the past few months in Jenin, Jericho and 
 Nablus, and the overthrow of the judicial system by the Netanyahu 
 government?” (February 23)\n\nThe Electronic Intifada addresses this 
 question: “According to some knowledgeable observers, the new far-right 
 government in Tel Aviv may be deliberately seeking an escalation of 
 violence in order to provide a pretext to implement its goals of annexing 
 land in the West Bank and consolidating its colonial and Apartheid 
 regime.”\n\nThe Palestinian people responded to the Nablus massacres with 
 a general strike – a general strike that was taking place, according to 
 Israeli news outlets, at the very same moment that “senior aides of 
 Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President 
 Mahmoud Abbas were holding secret talks.\n\nThese negotiations were 
 negotiated directly through the Biden administration and continued after 
 the Jenin massacre on January 26, when Abbas said he had ended his 
 “security cooperation” with the State of Israel.\n\nCan there be a 
 democratic solution, or are the people of Palestine doomed to this spiral 
 of massacres?\n\nTo this question, the “One Democratic State” campaign 
 answers as follows:\n\n“Palestinians and Jews who oppose Apartheid and 
 colonialism must continue to build a united resistance movement. They must 
 not be distracted by protests that only legitimize a false democracy and 
 actually reinforce its repressive system of colonization and control. This 
 movement must propose a clear alternative: the construction of a single 
 democratic State in Palestine, historically on the ruins of the Apartheid 
 regime.”(February 21)\n\n(article reprinted/translated from Issue No. 379 
 of Tribune des Travailleurs / Workers Tribune)\n\n\nAnd then it was the 
 turn of Huwara, in northern West Bank, just south of Nablus, to be 
 subjected on February 26 to what can only be described as an 
 Israeli-settler-led pogrom of Palestinians…\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/03/06/18854723.php
SUMMARY:Hands Off Hawara | Hands Off Palestine
LOCATION:Israeli Consulate\n456 Montgomery Street\nSan Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/03/06/18854723.php
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