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Israeli leftists have a racist past, too
The serene liberal loves to be appalled by the right’s racism. But the older form of racism, that of the center-left, can actually teach us something about its origins.
{http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/israeli-leftists-have-a-racist-past-too-1.334181}

2 January 2011 Last updated at 11:38

Palestinian shot by Israelis at West Bank checkpoint.

A Palestinian man has been shot dead after trying to attack Israeli troops at a checkpoint near the West Bank city of Nablus, the Israeli army and Palestinian officials say.

The man, in his 20s, tried to attack troops with a bottle when he was refused permission to pass through the checkpoint, they said.

The incident happened early on Sunday.

On Friday, a Palestinian woman died after inhaling gas fired by Israeli troops at a protest in Bilin.

An Israeli army spokeswoman said the contents of the glass bottle were not known.

“The soldiers apparently felt threatened,” she added.

‘Cover-up’

The lawyer of the woman who died on Friday has accused the military of a cover-up.

“Once again the army is covering up the actions of its men, instead of apologising and conducting a serious inquiry,” Michael Sfard told Israel’s army radio after the military announced an investigation into the death of Jawaher Abu Rahmeh.

It is not clear how Ms Abu Rahmeh died as tear gas is not meant to be lethal.

Doctors say the gas can kill on rare occasions if a victim has a pre-existing condition.

Although some reports said Ms Abu Rahmeh had suffered from asthma since childhood, her parents are reported to have said she was healthy and did not have the respiratory condition.

Rateb Abu Rahmeh, a doctor and a spokesman for the Bilin protesters, said she had a “weak immune system”, the Associated Press news agency reports.

Dr Mohammed Eideh, who treated Ms Abu Rahmeh in the Palestinian city of Ramallah, said she died of “respiratory failure and then cardiac arrest” caused by tear gas inhalation. He said he did not know if she had a pre-existing condition.

{http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12104336}

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Approximately twenty five Israeli protesters gathered in front of the residence of American ambassador to Israel, James B. Cunningham around 1am local time. The protesters ‘returned’ loads of spent tear gas canisters collected in the West Bank village of Bil’in in protest of the murder of Bil’in’s Jawaher Abu Rahmah. The demonstrators also made noise throughout the Ambassador’s neighborhood informing residents of how American military aid to Israel is being used to kill unarmed and nonviolent demonstrators in the West Bank. They chanted, “one, two, three, four stop the occupation stop the war. Five, six, seven, eight end the funding (US) end the hate.”

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{http://mondoweiss.net/2011/01/demonstrators-‘return’-tear-gas-canisters-to-us-ambassador’s-home.html}

Five were arrested at this protest.

in show of hands in early ’03, even jewish voices for peace voted for protest against israel.
only one or two people protested that decision!
because my wife had been diagnozed with the alzheimer, i cannot go to the meetings nor protest. tnx

* mary said on December 31st, 2010 at 3:21pm # POSTED

* lizburbank said on December 31st, 2010 at 2:18pm #
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At the threshold of the New Year, I write to wish you a new year of freedom and liberation. This has been an unbelievable year for me in both highs and lows. A year during which I have witnessed how, despite repression, ordinary people all across Palestine take to the streets for freedom.

In my village, Bil’in, thousands of people marched on the Wall today to take it down. During the demonstration, one protestor, a 36 year old resident of the village, Jawaher Abu-Rahmah, was critically injured by severe tear-gas inhalation. She is currently hospitalized in Ramallah, unresponsive to medical treatment as the doctors are fighting for her life.

Bil’in has been struggling for almost six years against the Wall that was built on our lands. The illegality and absurdity of this wall has been recognized worldwide, and even by the Israeli Supreme Court, which ruled it must be dismantled over three years ago. Yet the Wall still stands. We, the people of Bil’in, the people of Palestine, have waited enough. Today was therefore declared by the Bil’in Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements as the last day of the Wall. Together with our supporters, we managed to bring a substantial part of the wall down but we still have a long way to go.

On a personal note, the beginning of 2011 also strikes notes of fear. In just a few days, on January 3rd, 2011, my trial in front of an Israeli military court will draw into conclusion. Captain Sharon Rivlin, the soldier-judge presiding in my case, will hand down my verdict. If found guilty of “incitement”, my next letter will likely be written from inside a prison cell; If found guilty, despite having proved that evidence against me was falsified, I will proudly join my friend and comrade, Abdallah Abu Rahmah, who is now spending his second new year’s eve behind bars. PSCC’s media coordinator, my friend and brother in struggle, Israeli activist Jonathan Pollak, will also be going to prison, again, for three months on January 11th, for protesting Israel’s siege on Gaza.

We are all facing tremendous challenges, as individuals and as a movement. It is our pride and strength that keeps us going. It is your support and involvement, which is becoming more crucial than ever. Join us – take our struggle forward, so that the year of 2011 will become an historical year of Palestinian liberation and a just peace.

In solidarity,
Mohammad Khatib

{https://twitter.com/PSCC_Palestine}

in any case, crimes to continue and increase in severity.
however, even on these sites, people are quite satisfied by just blaming, blaming; calling names people who say what i have said so often? tnx