The Iron Wall
In 1923 Vladimir Jabotinsky, leading intellectual of the Zionist movement and father of the right wing of that movement, wrote:
"Zionist colonization must either stop, or else proceed regardless of the native population. Which means that it can proceed and develop only under the protection of a power that is independent of the native population – behind an The Iron Wall, which the native population cannot breach." First published in Russian under the title O Zheleznoi Stene in Rassvyet, 4 November 1923.
From that day these words became the official and unspoken policy of the Zionist movement and later the state of Israel. Settlements were used from the beginning to create a Zionist foothold in Palestine.
The Iron Wall documentary exposes this phenomenon and follows the timeline, size, population of the settlements, and its impact on the peace process. This film also touches on the latest project to make the settlements a permanent fact on the ground; the wall that Israel is building in the West Bank and its impact on the Palestinian people.
[Hat tip: Robin]
The atrocities of the last few days could intensify unless we focus attention on them and insist they be exposed by the media and stopped immediately.
Palestinians have called for an international week of action against the Apartheid Wall, and against the ghettoization of Palestine for November 9-16:
http://stopthewall.org/worldwideactivism/1328.shtml.
Please write about this subject to all national and local media outlets as well as to all elected officials (including newly elected officials). The following two links are lists of media contacts:
* Palestine Media Watch press list:
http://www.pmwatch.org/pmw/contact/media.asp
* American-Arab Anti-Descrimination Media Guide:
http://capwiz.com/adc/dbq/media
People across the world are taking action against the atrocities in Gaza and the Apartheid Wall.
In London there was a protest on Thursday evening at the Prime Minister's home at the UK government's silence. A protest was held in the centre of the Norwegian capital, Oslo, on Friday evening and other protests are planned worldwide this weekend. Today, a joint Israeli-Palestinian protest is taking place at the Erez checkpoint into Gaza. [Sources: ISM]
To kick off the international week against the Apartheid Wall, the Melbourne Palestine Solidarity Network erected a 3 metre-high wall in the centre of Melbourne containing photos and information about the Wall: http://stopthewall.org/worldwideactivism/1334.shtml
For more about events taking place worldwide visit:
http://stopthewall.org/worldwideactivism/1332.shtml
Take action against the Gaza atrocities at Israeli embassies, consulates and other institutions supporting Israeli brutality, and join the events taking place worldwide against the Apartheid Wall.
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And why don't you take action against Arabs killing Sudanese women and children in Darfur, delibrately? Why don't you take action against Arabs killing Arabs in Iraq, Algeria, and in the Palestinian Authority? You're full of it.
Someone,
I promise you, when I'm done with arranging the furniture in my home, the home which Israel is occupying now and will return to me tomorrow… I promise you that I will turn to solve the problems in Haiti and Sudan.
Get real people!
Someone,
Instead of questioning "someone" else about why they are concentrating on problems in THEIR neck of the woods in THEIR homeland, why don't you ask why the US just vetoed a proposed peacekeeping trip by the UN to Darfur, NOT their neck of the woods.
http://www.innercitypress.com/unhq111106.html
And instead of questioning "someone" else about the atrocities in Iraq who has covered this subject MANY times, why don't you question why Israeli armaments are being used by the insurgents in Iraq to kill each other?
http://www.ziopedia.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2219&Itemid=0
And instead of questioning "someone" else about why they feel the way they do, why don't you try educating yourself.
http://www.alnakba.org/
And last but not least, why don't you see if you'd like to live like the people do in the film above, the ones whose LAND this belongs to per INTERNATIONAL LAW, the SUBJECT of this post.
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