1. Planting Trees Against 40 Years of Occupation
Demonstrations against Israel's 40 years of illegal Occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and Golan Heights, are springing up all over Palestine and the world.
Here is one at Huwara checkpoint, one of the most notorious and humiliating in all of the West Bank.
51,000 trees from Nablus alone have been uprooted by Israeli Occupation Forces have been uprooted in the past 5 years.
2. Fire, tear gas, beatings, rubber bullets in Bil'in
Filmed by Emad Bornat in the West Bank village of Bilin. Demonstrators were protesting the illegal confiscation of Palestinian land and Israel's Apartheid Wall.
At this demo, 7 were injured, 4 with rubber bullets. One Chilean activist was shot in the head and leg from a short distance with rubber-coated steel bullets.
This video shows the Israeli Occupation Forces firing tear gas and rubber bullets at non-violent demonstrators-- also Palestinian land and olive trees catch on fire due to the sparks from a tear gas cannister.
Full story can be read here:
http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2007/06/01/chilean-shot-twice/
3. Settlers throw stones at woman and baby
Last but not least, this is what Jewish settlers teach there kids. Tel Rumeida, Hebron-- Israeli settlers children throw stones at Palestinian woman and her baby-- May 30, 2007.
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I watched the last video.
This was akin to the 60′s riots in the US against the Blacks over here.
Racism abounds in Israel and the world doesn’t care.
It is starting to happen in North America against Muslims.
I am starting to worry about people of faiths starting to hate each others.
I have a friend who wants to send all Muslims back home.
He doesn’t understand that these Muslims call Canada their home.
I’m working on him. I will prevail. Give me time!
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