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Israel’s attack on a Palestinian school. I did not put dozens of dead students’ pictures. I cannot bear it, nobody can.
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And Palestine <3
Palestinian boy shows an Israeli soldier a portrait of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with writing below it in English which reads ‘You are a terrorist’ during a protest in the West Bank village of Maasarah on September 30, 2011 in support of thousands of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, who are on a hunger strike
I love the look on his face.
Omg the cutest kid ever!
Malcolm X with the early leaders of the Palestine Liberation Organisation.
“How can you thank a man for giving you what’s already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?”
“The Zionist argument to justify Israel’s present occupation of Arab Palestine has no intelligent or legal basis in history.”
Malcolm X
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“A Child’s View From Gaza”
An Oakland children’s museum, citing pressure from the community, canceled a planned exhibit of artwork by Palestinian youth ages 8-14 that depicted the Israeli assault during the 2008-09 Gaza conflict.
These are a few of the images.
Credit: libyanana for posting it on her wall. (;Oh nice, I’m glad somebody made this post so I don’t have to. The EI post on it is worth a read.
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Greenwald on Turkey, Israel, the United States and Palestine
Watching the U.S. Government refuse even to pretend to care that Israel killed one of its unarmed citizens was one of the most glaring episodes yet demonstrating how defending Israel is prioritized by the U.S. above even a defense of its own citizens. Prime Minister Erdogan himself noted that bizarre behavior:
He faulted the United States, as well, for failing to demand a similar apology for the killing of its citizen in the commando raid. “One of the victims was an American from Turkish origin, but America did not protect the right of its citizen after that,” he said.
A far bigger test still of the U.S. Government’s willingness to prioritize its own citizens’ interests above Israel’s will come with the expected U.N. vote this month on whether to recognize Palestinian statehood. Most of the world is expected to vote in favor and its passage is virtually guaranteed, unless the U.S. vetoes it. Long-time U.S. ally, Saudi Prince Turki al-Faisal, this weekend credibly detailed the multiple, serious harms to U.S. interests if it exercises its veto. But if past is prologue, those interests will pale in the face of the political imperative of supporting this foreign government. >continue<
Perhaps a cry can go out from the Occupy Wall Street event on the 17th for the U.S. recognition of Palestine at the UN.
Try and witness these pictures without having your heart moved in some way.
Rachel Corrie (April 10, 1979 – March 16, 2003)
She was an American who fought for the freedom and solidarity of Palestine. She was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer while trying to protect a Palestinian home from being demolished in Gaza.
4 Israeli Defense Force soldiers “detaining” a Palestinian girl, while posing for a picture with their rifles pointed at her head. Fucking outrage.
What a fucking disgrace.
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Anarchists Against the Wall (AAtW), sometimes called “Anarchists Against Fences” or “Jews Against Ghettos”, is a direct action group composed of Israeli anarchists and anti-authoritarians who oppose the construction of the Israeli Gaza Strip barrier and Israeli West Bank barrier. The AAtW calls the West Bank barrier the ‘Apartheid Wall’. Although AAtW has no official membership, it claims to have around 100 active participants who coordinate with Palestinians and groups like the International Solidarity Movement to organize nonviolent marches, civil disobedience, and direct action.
A member of Anarchists Against the Wall has described the construction of the barrier as part of a strategy of ethnic cleansing, “one of the greatest threats the Palestinian population has known over the last century… which is to make life so appalling for the Palestinian people that they will be left with one choice: move out.”
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(But, really, does this mean she’ll be a bigger part of the show this time?)