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Army Shot Protestors While Protesting Against Wall
Three Palestinians died after the Israeli Army fired live ammunitions at unarmed demonstrators.
Army Shot Protestors While Protesting Against Wall
Friday, 27 February 2004, 9:07 am
Press Release: International Solidarity Movement
Four Palestinians Killed By The Army While Protesting Against The Wall Of Apartheid
The Israeli Army fired live ammunitions at unarmed demonstrators
[Biddu, Occupied Jerusalem] On the third day of protests against the Wall in the region of Biddu/Beit Surik, 4 Palestinians have been killed as a consequence of the Israeli Army repression. Since early this morning, the Israeli Army has shot rubber and live ammunitions and large amount of tear gas to the unarmed demonstrators in Biddu, killing 3 young Palestinians: - Zacharia Mahmoud Eid, 26 year old from Beit Iksa, - Mohamed Rayan, 26 year old from Beit Diggo - Mohamed Saleh Bedwan, 20 year old who got shot in the head by a rubber bullet. Another man named Abu Nabil Abu Eid died from a heart attack, provoked by excessive amount of tear gas. Eye witnesses from the ISM reported that snipers were shooting directly at the crowd. An ambulance was also shot in the back window early in the afternoon and 50 Palestinians are reportedly injured. The shootings are still going on.
The demonstrators have been attempting to stop the bulldozers from destroying more olive groves for three days. About a hundred olive trees have been uprooted since the beginning of the protests.
One Israeli female activist was reportedly arrested earlier this morning in Beit Surik. 3 young Palestinians were arrested by plain-clothed forces in the protesters crowd.
7 ISM Volunteers are still in Biddu to show solidarity with the villagers' struggle for their farmlands and to protest against the use of excessive violence to disperse the demonstrators.
Friday, 27 February 2004, 9:07 am
Press Release: International Solidarity Movement
Four Palestinians Killed By The Army While Protesting Against The Wall Of Apartheid
The Israeli Army fired live ammunitions at unarmed demonstrators
[Biddu, Occupied Jerusalem] On the third day of protests against the Wall in the region of Biddu/Beit Surik, 4 Palestinians have been killed as a consequence of the Israeli Army repression. Since early this morning, the Israeli Army has shot rubber and live ammunitions and large amount of tear gas to the unarmed demonstrators in Biddu, killing 3 young Palestinians: - Zacharia Mahmoud Eid, 26 year old from Beit Iksa, - Mohamed Rayan, 26 year old from Beit Diggo - Mohamed Saleh Bedwan, 20 year old who got shot in the head by a rubber bullet. Another man named Abu Nabil Abu Eid died from a heart attack, provoked by excessive amount of tear gas. Eye witnesses from the ISM reported that snipers were shooting directly at the crowd. An ambulance was also shot in the back window early in the afternoon and 50 Palestinians are reportedly injured. The shootings are still going on.
The demonstrators have been attempting to stop the bulldozers from destroying more olive groves for three days. About a hundred olive trees have been uprooted since the beginning of the protests.
One Israeli female activist was reportedly arrested earlier this morning in Beit Surik. 3 young Palestinians were arrested by plain-clothed forces in the protesters crowd.
7 ISM Volunteers are still in Biddu to show solidarity with the villagers' struggle for their farmlands and to protest against the use of excessive violence to disperse the demonstrators.
For more information:
http://www.palsolidarity.org/
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CALL FOR ACTION – STOP SHOOTING UNARMED DEMONSTRATORS!!!
On February, 26, 2004, in Biddu, Occupied Jerusalem, the Israeli Army shot
dead 3 young Palestinians and a fourth one died from a heart attack after
inhaling an excessive amount of tear gas. The Israeli Ministry of Defense is
attempting to deny the disproportion of the repression of this demonstration.
Please protest this unacceptable use of violence by:
* Sending faxes to Ruth Bar, assistant to the Israeli Minister of Defense;
Fax: +972.3.69.62.757
* Calling or sending faxes to your Representative Offices to Palestine:
- UK: Tel: +972.2.58.28.263, Fax: +972.2.58.14.063
- France: Tel: +972.2.62.59.481, Fax: +972.2.62.59.178
- Sweden: Tel: +972.2.58.28.212, Fax: +972.2.58.28.801
- USA: Tel: +972.2.62.27.230, Fax: +972.2.62.49.462
- Australia: Tel: +972.2.24.07.710, Fax: +972.2.24.08.290
- Canada: Tel: +972.2.29.58.604, Fax: +972.2.29.58.606
- Denmark: Tel: +972.2.24.02.330, Fax: +972.2.24.00.331
- Germany: Tel: +972.2.29.84.788, Fax: +972.2.29.84.786
- Italy: Tel: +972.3.51.04.004, Fax: +972.3.51.00.235
- Spain: Tel: +972.3.69.65.218, Fax: +972.3.69.65.217
* Writing to your Representatives/Member of Parliament
* Calling the Israeli Embassy of your country
PROTESTING IS NOT A CRIME!
For more information, please contact:
ISM Media Office: +972 2277 4602
Neal (ISM Activist): +972 6 346 165
On February, 26, 2004, in Biddu, Occupied Jerusalem, the Israeli Army shot
dead 3 young Palestinians and a fourth one died from a heart attack after
inhaling an excessive amount of tear gas. The Israeli Ministry of Defense is
attempting to deny the disproportion of the repression of this demonstration.
Please protest this unacceptable use of violence by:
* Sending faxes to Ruth Bar, assistant to the Israeli Minister of Defense;
Fax: +972.3.69.62.757
* Calling or sending faxes to your Representative Offices to Palestine:
- UK: Tel: +972.2.58.28.263, Fax: +972.2.58.14.063
- France: Tel: +972.2.62.59.481, Fax: +972.2.62.59.178
- Sweden: Tel: +972.2.58.28.212, Fax: +972.2.58.28.801
- USA: Tel: +972.2.62.27.230, Fax: +972.2.62.49.462
- Australia: Tel: +972.2.24.07.710, Fax: +972.2.24.08.290
- Canada: Tel: +972.2.29.58.604, Fax: +972.2.29.58.606
- Denmark: Tel: +972.2.24.02.330, Fax: +972.2.24.00.331
- Germany: Tel: +972.2.29.84.788, Fax: +972.2.29.84.786
- Italy: Tel: +972.3.51.04.004, Fax: +972.3.51.00.235
- Spain: Tel: +972.3.69.65.218, Fax: +972.3.69.65.217
* Writing to your Representatives/Member of Parliament
* Calling the Israeli Embassy of your country
PROTESTING IS NOT A CRIME!
For more information, please contact:
ISM Media Office: +972 2277 4602
Neal (ISM Activist): +972 6 346 165
sfres, can you read? the people whose deaths this posting reported are palestinians, people trying to live in peace under an occupation. given the role of the u.s. in funding and weapons equipment of this particular occupation (among others), i would say that u.s. residents have an enormous responsibility to challenge the violence of the IDF, and for some people that includes the time-honored tradition of nonviolent witnessing and advocating on the ground to support the leadership of palestinians. as well as groups back here in the u.s. who are working to bring attention to the crisis situation.
it doesn't make you look like a particularly moral and humanitarian person to talk about how it's cool when young people get shot to death by an occupying army building an apartheid wall. it makes you look pretty smug, disconnected, and repellent.
it doesn't make you look like a particularly moral and humanitarian person to talk about how it's cool when young people get shot to death by an occupying army building an apartheid wall. it makes you look pretty smug, disconnected, and repellent.
I guess Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Ze'ev Boim was right about that gene that causes violence in certain Middle Eastern populations. (See Jerusalem Post, 24 Feb. 2004.) He was just wrong about which Middle Eastern populations! But it shouldn't be suprising, after all, that a violence gene, if one existed, would be most prevalent in those Middle Easterners who had spent a couple of thousand years living among and occasionally interbreeding with the notoriously violent peoples of Europe!
Indeed, Mr. Boim posed a question reeking of racism. But you have now engaged in even more foolishness by making your racist observations.
You're also compromising the efforts of *some* leftists who've been trying to drive home that they shouldn't be seen as anti-Semites for criticizing certain Israeli policies and actions, to not be viewed as anti-Semitic.
Damn shame.
You're also compromising the efforts of *some* leftists who've been trying to drive home that they shouldn't be seen as anti-Semites for criticizing certain Israeli policies and actions, to not be viewed as anti-Semitic.
Damn shame.
Critical Thinker seems not to appreciate irony or sarcasm.
In any case, my genes are from the same pool as those of the Ashkenazi pigs who run Israel together with some European Sephardim, and I'm not a violent person – in practice. I certainly am, however, a supporter of violence directed against the people who run the world. I doubt that my inclinations in either direction are shaped by my genes, but who knows?
that some (or many) naive souls would read into your ironic musings some rather serious insights.
As for those Sepharadim who partake in the Israeli government, quite a few of them aren't from European descent or location - minister of foreign affairs Silvan Shalom (born in Tunisia), 2nd treasury minister Meir Sheetrit (born in Morocco), etc., etc.
I'm afraid you have become fixated on the ridiculous (at best) notion being espoused by many extreme anti-Zionists that seems to maintain that all the decision makers in Israel are European. Please evolve out of it.
As for those Sepharadim who partake in the Israeli government, quite a few of them aren't from European descent or location - minister of foreign affairs Silvan Shalom (born in Tunisia), 2nd treasury minister Meir Sheetrit (born in Morocco), etc., etc.
I'm afraid you have become fixated on the ridiculous (at best) notion being espoused by many extreme anti-Zionists that seems to maintain that all the decision makers in Israel are European. Please evolve out of it.
""The demonstrators have been attempting to stop the bulldozers from destroying more olive groves for three days. About a hundred olive trees have been uprooted since the beginning of the protests.""(from above article)
Why not just stop Palestinians land Confiscations?
Why not just stop Palestinians home Demolitions?
Why not just stop uprooting Palestinian Olive and Fruit Trees?
Why not stop building the Wall/Fence/Barrier inside the West Bank and Build it on the Green line (pre 1967 Borders)?
Why not allow 4,000,000 or so Palestinian People to be free in their own State on 22% of the land that is today Israel, West Bank and Gaza?
There would be much more land per person left in the 78% for some 5,000,000 or so Israeli. Then their would be land per person in the 22% for the 4,000,000 or so Palestinians.
If Israel really wants Peace they would start doing things that are just and right instead of continuing to commit atrocities that only go to fuel the Intifada.
Why not just stop Palestinians land Confiscations?
Why not just stop Palestinians home Demolitions?
Why not just stop uprooting Palestinian Olive and Fruit Trees?
Why not stop building the Wall/Fence/Barrier inside the West Bank and Build it on the Green line (pre 1967 Borders)?
Why not allow 4,000,000 or so Palestinian People to be free in their own State on 22% of the land that is today Israel, West Bank and Gaza?
There would be much more land per person left in the 78% for some 5,000,000 or so Israeli. Then their would be land per person in the 22% for the 4,000,000 or so Palestinians.
If Israel really wants Peace they would start doing things that are just and right instead of continuing to commit atrocities that only go to fuel the Intifada.
When I referred to "the Ashkenazi pigs who run Israel together with some European Sephardim", I was referring to the people who own the country, not the politicians who administer it for them! In looking through the book, The Global Political Economy of Israel by Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler, it seemed to me that the richest families mostly have names that are clearly recognizable as European, including a few Spanish- or Italian-sounding ones, which I presume to be Sephardic.
I can't claim much expertise on these matters, so if Critical Thinker or anyone else has pointers to info on the make-up (ethnic and otherwise) of the Israeli big bourgeoisie, I'd appreciate it!
The book has it right - the richest Israeli families are mostly Ashkenazi. There are some Sepharadim among Israel's richest, such as the Recanati family and Benny Gaon (whose parents knew and spoke Judezmo or Ladino). I couldn't establish through a Google search whether they came from Europe or not.
Most well off Sepharadi Jews from north Africa and the Middle East opted to emigrate to Europe, north and south America rather than move to Israel.
Most well off Sepharadi Jews from north Africa and the Middle East opted to emigrate to Europe, north and south America rather than move to Israel.
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