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[Cormcolash]

Sure they're all just a bunch of sand-niggers anyway.

 

[Janer]

Brilliant special on the Palestinian struggle, including videos.

http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/plohistoryofrevolution/

 

[Froog]

kicking off again, mortars fired into israel and repsonded with israeli air strikes, all happening at the same time as the galloway aid convoy to gaza.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8447410.stm

 

[Vinnie]

kicking off again, mortars fired into israel and repsonded with israeli air strikes, all happening at the same time as the galloway aid convoy to gaza.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8447410.stm

Ominously, this week Israel vows to hit back at perceived aggresors even harder again than they did last December/January

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/25/world/middleeast/25israel.html?_r=1

Good article by Glenn Greenwald about the effects of US sponsored Israeli strikes in the Middle East

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/01/07/terrorism/index.html

 

[Scientician 0.8]

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0531/mideast.html

 

[shower another shower]

Being boarded by armed forces in international waters, to take control of the ships crew and cargo, is piracy.
The aid workers had every right to defend themselves.

 

[Lepra]

oh really? http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/martin-rules-out-sanctions-on-israel-123169.html

 

[Janer]

http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/2010/06/201062274848326213.html
Good read on the Apartheid South Africa and Israel around the 70s/80s

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/middle_east/10479846.stm

hamas need to sort that out.

 

[blairwitch]

People gotta realize that Israel is surrounded by hostile Muslim nations that want to see her to quote Ahmedinjad 'wiped off the face of the earth'. we never hear of the acts of terrorism committed by Palestinian on Israel.. no its always anti Israel this and that. Most of it boils down to suspicion and anti semetism.

 

[shower another shower]

was gonna say something there.

 

[D0njo]

People gotta realize that Israel is surrounded by hostile Muslim nations that want to see her to quote Ahmedinjad 'wiped off the face of the earth'. we never hear of the acts of terrorism committed by Palestinian on Israel.. no its always anti Israel this and that. Most of it boils down to suspicion and anti semetism.

If I had an improvised explosive device for everytime I've heard this I'd have the firepower of an IAF Fouga Magister

 

[therealjohnny]

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#!/video/video.php?v=10150155947010277

Breaking the Law of Return

 

[pete]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=CEGuvuSe0q4#t=76s

 

[steve albino]

People gotta realize that Israel is surrounded by hostile Muslim nations that want to see her to quote Ahmedinjad 'wiped off the face of the earth'. we never hear of the acts of terrorism committed by Palestinian on Israel.. no its always anti Israel this and that. Most of it boils down to suspicion and anti semetism.

terribly late with this but, can you dig up that quote? Not some paraphrasing of it but the original and it's translation? Not to be pedantic but, if memory serves (and this is in no way to defend the iranian) the origin of that "quote" was truncated and mis-interpreted and, as is the way with such things, the misinterpretation has been spread in lieu of the real quote;
by the way, do you think it's worth considering whether the hostility felt by Israel from it's neighbours (and i would be intrigued to see what you mean by "hostility" in real terms) could be, at least in part, due to it's own hostility towards them? or is it as cut and dried as it seems to be in your post?

 

[therealjohnny]

 

[D0njo]

What have they got under their hats though? Eh?

Ah no, fair play to them.

 

[Psycho Punk]

Hundreds of Beitar Jerusalem [football] supporters assaulted Arab cleaning personnel at the capital’s Malha shopping center on Monday, in what was said to be one of Jerusalem’s biggest-ever ethnic clashes. “It was a mass lynching attempt,” said Mohammed Yusuf, a team leader for Or-Orly cleaning services.

Despite CCTV footage of the events, no one was arrested. Jerusalem police said that is because no complaint was filed. Witnesses said that after a soccer game in the nearby Teddy Stadium, hundreds of mostly teenage supporters flooded into the shopping center, hurling racial abuse at Arab workers and customers and chanting anti-Arab slogans, and filled the food hall on the second floor.

“I’ve never seen so many people,” said A, a shopkeeper. “They stood on chairs and tables and what have you. They made a terrible noise, screamed ‘death to the Arabs,’ waved their scarves and sang songs at the top of their voices.”

Shortly afterward, several supporters started harassing three Arab women, who sat in the food hall with their children. They verbally abused and spat on them.

Some Arab men, who work as cleaners at the shopping center and observed the brawl, came to their rescue. “How can you stand aside and do nothing?” said Akram, a resident of the Old City’s Muslim Quarter who was one of the cleaners who got involved. CCTV footage shows that they started chasing the rioting youths, wielding broomsticks.
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It seemed the workers managed to chase the abusers away, but a few minutes later supporters returned and assaulted them. “They caught some of them and beat the hell out of them,” said Yair, owner of a bakery located in the food hall. “They hurled people into shops, and smashed them against shop windows. I don’t understand how none shattered into pieces. One cleaner was attacked by some 20 people, poor guy, and then they had a go at his brother who works in a nearby pizza shop and came to his rescue.”

“I’ve been here for many years and I’ve never seen such a thing,” said Gideon Avrahami, Malha’s executive director. “It was a disgraceful, shocking, racist incident; simply terrible.”
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Beitar fans are known for their staunchly anti-Arab positions and have been previously involved in attacks on Arabs.
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Beitar Jerusalem’s management said in a statement that the club “firmly condemns violence and leaves it to the treatment of the authorities.”
http://www.haaretz.com/print-editio...t-up-arab-workers-in-mall-no-arrests-1.420270

 

[Psycho Punk]

Jailed Palestinian leader Barghouti urges resistance

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-17522781


From his prison cell, Marwan Barghouti has remained an influential figure
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A jailed leader of the Palestinian Fatah movement, Marwan Barghouti, has called for a new wave of civil resistance against Israel.

In a message sent from Hadrim prison in Israel, Barghouti said the "launch of large-scale popular resistance at this stage serves the cause of our people".

He also called on the the Palestinian Authority had to halt immediately all co-ordination with Israel.

Barghouti was convicted on five counts of murder by an Israeli court in 2004.

But the trial turned him into household name and he enjoys widespread support among all Palestinian factions.

If Barghouti were ever released, many believe he would be a favourite to succeed to Mahmoud Abbas as Palestinian Authority president.

'Marketing an illusion'
Barghouti, the former leader of Fatah in the West Bank and chief of its armed wing, the Tanzim, issued his call ahead of the 10th anniversary of his detention by Israel.

Thousands of Palestinians are expected to protest against the Israeli government's land policies later in the week in an occasion know as Land Day.

"The launch of large-scale popular resistance at this stage serves the cause of our people," Barghouti said.

"Stop marketing the illusion that there is a possibility of ending the occupation and achieving a state through negotiations after this vision has failed miserably."

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Marwan Barghouti

Born in 1958 in Kobar, near Ramallah
Became active in Arafat's Fatah movement, aged 15
Emerged as West Bank leader of 1987 Intifada uprising
Elected to the Palestinian Legislative Council in 1996
Launched a campaign against human rights abuses and corruption by Arafat's officials
Survived an Israeli assassination attempt in 2001
Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade say Barghouti is their leader in 2002
Jailed in 2004 by an Israeli court on five counts of murder
Profile: Marwan Barghouti
"It must be understood that there is no partner for peace in Israel when the settlements have doubled," he said.

It is the Palestinian people's right to oppose the occupation in all means, and the resistance must be focused on the 1967 territories."

Barghouti also said the Palestinian Authority had to halt immediately "all co-ordination with Israel - economic and security - and work toward Palestinian reconciliation", rather than a peace agreement.

He called instead for "a renewal of efforts" to achieve recognition of Palestinian statehood, which was blocked at the UN Security Council by the US last year.

"The PA must turn to the UN General Assembly and the rest of its agencies."

Barghouti was arrested by Israeli troops in Ramallah in April 2002 and first appeared in an Israeli court the following August - charged with the killing of 26 people.

Throughout his trial, he refused to recognise the legitimacy of the Israeli court. His lawyers insisted he was only a political leader.

In 2004, Barghouti was convicted on the murder of four Israelis and a Greek monk, as well as attempted murder, conspiracy to murder, and membership of a terrorist organisation.

The court found there was insufficient evidence connecting him to the 21 other deaths.

From his prison cell, Barghouti has remained an influential figure, helping negotiate a short-lived truce declared by militant groups in 2003, and several other agreements.

 

[Psycho Punk]

Lunchtime Demo: Palestinian Prisoners Day – End EU Facilitation of Israeli Apartheid

To mark Palestinian Prisoners’ Day 2012, on Tuesday 17th April from 1-2pm the IPSC will be holding a symbolic lunchtime demonstration outside EU House, Molesworth Street (Dublin 2) to highlight the European Union’s ongoing facilitation of Israel’s apartheid policies and war crimes – including the imprisonment of over 4,400 political prisoners.

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Of these prisoners, over 300 have been interned without facing charge or trial under the Administrative Detention regime. Recently, two high profile successful hunger strikes by prisoners Khader Adnan and Hana Shalabi have brought this issue a great amount of coverage. Several other prisoners are also currently on hunger strike, and it has been annoucned that some 1,600 mopre are due to embark on an open ended hunger strike on April 17th to coincide with Prisoners’ Day.

Following the demo, activists will move to Grafton Street and conduct an information stall between 2.30 and 5.30pm, distributing information about Palestinian political prisoners.

- Why are we targetting the EU?

The EU is Israel’s biggest trading partner, and the Additional Protocol to the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement establishing an EC-Israel Association on an EC-Israel Agreement on Conformity Assessment and Acceptance of Industrial Products (ACAA) is currently being debated at the European Parliament and is likely to be adopted, thus increasing this trade.

We are calling on Irish MEPs in the EU Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade committees to vote ‘No’ to ACAA, and no vote in the plenary session of the European Parliament in June. Israeli apartheid must not be rewarded, it must be opposed by concrete actions by governments who declare they support human rights. Appeasing apartheid is simply not an option.

You can also take action on this by emailing all Irish MEPs here: http://www.ipsc.ie/press-releases/e-action-item-europea...ement

- Prisoners, Internment and Apartheid

Amnesty International says Israel uses Administrative Detention “to lock up Palestinian activists without charge or trial”. As Amnesty notes, these detention orders can be repeatedly renewed, “so in effect detainees can be held indefinitely. The process violates their right to a fair trial which is guaranteed by international law”.

However, Administrative Detention is only one aspect of the larger prison regime used by Israel to suppress Palestinian resistance to occupation and Apartheid. The vast majority of political prisoners are ‘convicted’ by non-jury Israeli Military Courts. These courts, biased from the outset, do not meet international fair trial standards. As Amnesty points out, Palestinians “continue to face a wide range of abuses of their right to a fair trial. They are routinely interrogated without a lawyer and, although they are civilians, are tried before military not ordinary courts”.

Furthermore, Amnesty says that ”consistent allegations of torture and other ill-treatment, including of children, were frequently reported. Among the most commonly cited methods were beatings, threats to the detainee or their family, sleep deprivation, and being subjected to painful stress positions for long periods. Confessions allegedly obtained under duress were accepted as evidence”. It is worth noting that Palestinians in the Occupied Territories are subject to Israeli military law, while Israel’s illegal settlers are governed by Israeli civil law – a clear example of Israel’s Apartheid system.

Since the beginning of the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza in 1967, over 650,000 Palestinians have been detained by Israel. This forms approximately 20% of the total Palestinian population in the Occupied Territories. Considering the fact that the majority of those detained are male, the number of Palestinians detained forms approximately 40% of the total male Palestinian population in the Occupied Territories – a truly staggering figure.

In turn, the brutal and repressive prison regime is only one aspect of the occupation of Palestine by Israel and its associated Apartheid regime. Indeed, when one considers the ongoing siege of Gaza and fragmentation of the West Bank, Palestine can be viewed as one large open air prison camp.

For more information about Palestinian political prisoners, please see the ADDAMEER website: http://www.addameer.org/

For more background to the EU and Israel, please see the relevant section of our website here: http://www.ipsc.ie/the-issues/the-eu-and-israel

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