Posts Tagged ‘The Wall’

What you don’t see on CNN: IOF Shoot Live Ammunition on Peaceful Protest

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Warning: Parental Guidance Suggested!
June 13 2008 - A young man from Bilin was shot with live rounds during the weekly Bilin Protest. Ibrahim Burnat who was shot in his right thigh was taken directly to Sheik Zaid Hospital in Ramallah and was described by doctors as being in critical condition. Ibrahim posed no threat to [...]

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Video: Na’alin - Direct action to stop bulldozers - 25-5-08

This item was filled under [ Israel, Palestine, Terrorism, The Wall, Videos, War Crimes, Zionism ]

Palestinian youths, men, women, elders and foreigner supporters against the coward Israeli Terrorist Forces, protesting building part of the Apartheid Wall on Na’alin – near Ramallah, Occupied Palestine.

Update:
On 27th May 2008, Robert Birch, an Australian retiree from Pacific Palms, was shot in the lower-back by a rubber-coated steel bullet while participating in a non-violent demonstration [...]

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Palestinian children cut off from their homes

This item was filled under [ Education, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine, Videos, War Crimes ]

Video Transcript:
Cameraman: What are you doing here?
Girl: Going back home from school!
Cameraman: Where are you going now?
Girl: Home!
Cameraman: Where is your home?
Girl: Behind the Wall!
Boy: My home is behind this wall. We study at Bet Nabal!
Cameraman: What happened here today?
Boy: They closed the passage, we are not able to go through
Cameraman: Where do you live?
Boy: [...]

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Violinist Nigel Kennedy in Israel on the wall

This item was filled under [ Israel, Music, The Wall ]

Punk rebel with a classical cause
Via: Haaretz
“…And today, I was really shocked when I saw the wall here. It’s a new type of apartheid, barbaric behavior. How can you impose collective punishment and divide people from one another? We are all residents of the same planet. I would think that the world learned something from [...]

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The Iron Wall

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Colonisation of Palestine - Zionism Must Go Forward!
The Iron Wall
by Mohammed Alatar
In 1923, Vladmir Jabotinsky – father of the Zionist right – wrote: “Zionist colonization… can proceed and develop only under the protection of a power that is independent of the native population – behind an IRON WALL, which the native population cannot breach.”
From that [...]

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For Your Action:

This item was filled under [ Human Rights, Middle East, Palestine, Peace, Too Much Free Time ]

Action: The House of Representatives will vote on Tuesday, May 9 on HR4681, the so-called “Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act of 2006″. This bill imposes draconian economic and diplomatic sanctions against the Palestinian people for exercising their democratic rights. TAKE ACTION Monday!
Call your Representative and urge a NO vote on HR4681.
Talking Points at http://www.endtheoccupation.org/article.php?id=1188
(scroll to bottom). [...]

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Roger Waters Refuses to be Another Brick in Israel’s Wall

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Why do I love Roger Waters? Why do I respect him more now…
Update: Roger Waters has moved his summer concert from Tel Aviv to the joint Jewish-Arab village of Neve Shalom.
PACBI April 18, 2006
Ramallah — Reiterating his opposition to the Israeli occupation and expressing his support for the Palestinian people in their struggle to [...]

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Another wall for security!

This item was filled under [ Defence, Failures, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria, War ]

Saudis plan to fence off border with chaos
Via: Times online
Just what Iraq’s need. Saudis Arabia plan to fence off Iraq. They have invited bids for the construction of a security fence (isn’t that the same name used for what is called the Israeli Apartheid Wall?) along the entire length of its 900km (560mile) desert border [...]

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Posters that says it all

This item was filled under [ Art, Culture, Palestine, Peace, Sabbah, War ]

The first is an impressionable painting entitled “The Flutes and the Walls of Israel”, created by the Italian artist Giuliano Giuggiolo, copies of this painting feature the Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign. You can find more here and here!

The second poster is of the “Syriana” movie. Reviews said (I’ve not seen it yet) that Syriana provides a [...]

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Arofish Hits Iraq, the West Bank, and Gaza

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arofish is a graffiti artist living in London who recently went into Iraq, the West Bank, and Gaza “vandalising the already ruined walls - painting over bullet scars.” We were blown away by arofish’s work in the Middle East. For us, the work that he does is incredibly haunting. The people he paints seem to come off the wall and into your soul.

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A Letter from the Hunger Strikers’ Tent

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Protesting Israel’s Apartheid Wall
By TOUFIC HADDAD writing from day 5 of the solidarity tent in Ar Ram where at least 17 people have joined in on the hunger strike protesting Israel’s apartheid wall. Despite the heat wave (36 centigrade) there is a good atmosphere in the tent, and the hunger strikers - though visibly more [...]

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