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April 17th Protest at UCB

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On April 17th at noon, UC Berkeley students gathered to protest Israel's policies in Palestine and remind people of the refugees caused by the war in 1948.
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In the 1948 war the Palestinians were largely defenceless, and sought to avoid getting caught in the fighting which broke out. A significant proportion of the Palestinian population was terrorized into leaving.

At first this was the result of threats, intimidation and acts of terror, in cities like Jaffa and Jerusalem, carried out by two Jewish terror organizations, IZL (Irgun Zvai Leumi) and LEHI (Lohamei Herut Israel). Of such acts the most notorious occurred on 9 April 1948 at the village of Deir Yassin on the western side of Jerusalem, when 120 villagers were killed. Deir Yassin had a devastating impact on Palestinian civilian morale, in the words of Israeli military intelligence,
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Even after the armistice agreements of 1949, Israel continued to expel or coerce thousands of Palestinians into leaving, notably from the "Little Triangle", a strip of West Bank land ceded by Transjordan during negotiations, and in the south from Majdal ("Ahkelon") on the coast, to Faluja and Bir Saba. the environs of Hebron, and from the demilitarized zone east and north of the Sea of Galilee. In 1953 it expelled another 7,000 bedouin.

Only 17 percent of the Palestinian population, approximately 160,000 remained in what became Israel. What had just taken place was the second major case of ethnic cleansing in the post-war world.

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http://www.electronicintifada.net/historicalmyths/chosetoleave.html
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by I Support Israel
Nothing could have been better for us pro-Israel students than for our fellow UCB students to get a good visual comparison of your hate, while enjoying a fun and festive day munching on free falafel.

Maybe you guys can take over Dwinnelle Hall next week?

hahaha
Hey SJP'ers didn't y'all promise not to go taking over any UCB buildings in the Daily Cal that came out on April 9? So what happened in the intersecting 24 hours? Really credible operation you've got going there. You must really enjoy disrupting midterms.
by Still Waiting
Care to answer the question about the building takeover on April 9?
by Che (Zapatista21 [at] hotmail.com)
You were disrupted for midterms? Oh, I'm sure if SJP knew that people were taking midterms, they wouldn't have taken over that particular building. Yea right! Get over yourself, you spoiled little brat. Your little inconvenience doesn't compare to the every day inconveniences and injustices that the Palestinians are living with. Good job, SJP. No justice, No peace! US out of the Middle East.

by Just Asking
Did or did not SJP commit in the Daily Cal that it had no plans to take over a building?

Nice try at evading the question at hand.
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