Saturday, August 23, 2014

Palestine-Israel, The war assault on Gaza failed to bring the expected results and even back fired


The war Israel started with the Hamas was intended to keep it weaker but independent of the west bank authority. A month and a half and Israel cannot stop the Hamas firing of rockets on Israel. The Hamas raised its demand about the lifting of the siege (closer) and the Israeli prime minister failed go get the support of his coalition for the needed compromise. To diminish the losses and to save face Israel with US backing are passing the decision to the UN security council the Israeli ruling elite evaded successfully so many years. The mounting economic pressures create cracks in the Israeli ruling elite and even the populist coalition party head - the foreign minister, start to promote the end of the 1967 occupation. And the joint popular grass root struggle continue - within Israel at the Arkib Bedouins as focus, Bil'in, Ma'asara, Neby Saleh, Ni'ilin, Qaddum, Sheikh Jarrah, South Hebron Hills.

Bilin

In spite of the heightened level of harassment of the Israeli state forces during the Gaza war, the joint struggle of Israelis, internationals, and Bil'iners persist in the efforts to try to march towards the gate in the separation wall. The previous Friday 15.8.14 we succeeded to reach the gate and even stay there for a while in spite of harassment. This Friday, in spite of a relatively large contingent of the Israeli anarchist-communist Ahdut (Unity) the Israeli state forces stopped us and after a short verbal confrontation they flooded us with tear gas and we retreated.
15.8.14 https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=624011894364813
22-8-14 https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=714794418574615
https://www.facebook.com/village.bilin/posts/1456457134619898
https://www.facebook.com/natali.babku/posts/10202643229742958
Haitham Al Khatib https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10203735594403329


Nabi Saleh 15.8.2014

israelpnm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSArFoDxq8o

Nabi Saleh

22/08/2014 Israeli and international solidarity activists joined Palestinian residents of the Ramallah-district village of Nabi Saleh to protest against the ongoing massacre in Gaza. So far, over 2000 people have been killed in five weeks, the majority of whom were civilians.
The march, which began at the village's center, continued to the main road, where the IOF attempted to disperse it using barrages of tear gas and rubber coated steel bullets. No major injuries reported.

Haim Schwarczenberg https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.588160331303665.1073741966.202358256550543
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.799740420070440.1073741934.113817528662736
David Reeb http://youtu.be/6kqpNRCdr08


Ni'ilin

22.8.2014 israelpnm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZvE2AemyU8


Qaddum

Despite four weeks of targeting and shooting live bullets at unarmed protesters, the weekly demonstration against the road block in kufr Qaddum continues!
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=667227196688362
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOzMgk5jr8Y

22-8-14
https://www.facebook.com/AlMasira.KufurKaddom/photos/a.788971167791605.1073741943.271405776214816/788971494458239/?type=1
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.788971167791605.1073741943.271405776214816



Sheik Jarrah

22-8-14 https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152656935162138



South Hebron Hills

Today 16-8-14 at the South Hebron Hills, accompanying Palestinian farmers to their land - quiet day. Grazing and working in the valley near Um-el-Amad which is closed by military order to Israelis (that's a good thing and it means success, after 2 years of struggle).
https://www.facebook.com/li.lorian/posts/596889443766094


Tel Aviv

Saturday 23.8.2014 like every other Saturday of the last weeks:
Protest against the war and the massacre in Gaza, Israeli activists protest in center Tel Aviv against the Israeli attack on Gaza, calling to end the war and the.occupation...
This Saturday the police changed their tactics: instead of mobile fences, they "mingled with the protesters at the national theater square. After about half an hour when the late comers arrived, the police "suggested" that the few hundreds of us will march (for security reasons) through the near by boulevard towards a more central intersection which is a less opened space - which we cheerfully accepted.
yisraelpnm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXt4raem4Mw

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* From my blog at: http://ilanisagainstwalls.blogspot.com - see there previous reports about the joint struggles the Anarchists Against the Wall take part in.
See also: http://awalls.org http://ilan.shalif.com/anarchy/glimpses/glimpses.html
Ahdut (Unity) blog: http://unityispa.wordpress.com/ and about the Palestinian struggle: http://www.anarkismo.net/article/27019

Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Palestine-Israel, Israel attack on Gaze ending with a defeat of its arrogant power show*


Israel started the attack on the Hamas to sabotage the Hamas compromise with the west bank authority, and restore a weakened Hamas independent rule in the Gaza strip. Hamas compromise was a response to Egyptian closer intended to dismantle the Hamas. The failed Israeli attack will force it to contribute its share to significantly open the closer of the border between Israel and the Gaza strip which was till the attack based on the bare minimal on the margin of humanitarian catastrophe. Whatever the details of the new cease fire and arrangements, the failure of Israel vicious assault to stop the Hamas from firing rockets on Israel is a significant "game changer". The failed attack on Gaza and the continuing popular struggle in the west bank are hastening the international pressures to end the occupation of the West bank and the closer of the Gaza strip.


Bil'in

As usual, Bil'in weekly demonstration took place today after the noon time prayers. About 20 Israelis with the anarchists against the wall initiative and more than a dozen internationals joined the Bil'iners and a group of the neighboring village Safa. The special theme of the demonstration today was against the newest slaughters in Gaza and the killing by an Israeli sniper a youth of the nearby village in a last week demo there against the slaughters in Gaza. The Israeli army was particularly brutal in their repression of today's demonstration. The army attacked the protests with tear gas long before we even reached the wall. After their failed attempt to disperse us by shooting from behind the wall, They invaded with their jeeps the Bil'in lands freed only 3 years ago and started shooting tear gas from them. Many of us suffered from suffocation and temporary blindness as a result.
https://www.facebook.com/ilan.shalif/media_set?set=a.861901590494278.1073741830.100000233353245
https://www.facebook.com/haytham.alkhateeb/posts/10203636480365540
yisraelpnmhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jhEFuZTwuY

Nabi Saleh

08/08/2014 As the ceasefire in Gaza was violated, resulting in more Palestinian casualties, the people of Nabi Saleh marched in solidarity with Gaza, calling to lift the siege and protesting the massacre. Over 1800 Palestinians were killed so far, about a quarter of them children. The IOF attempted to disperse the march with barrages of tear gas canisters and rubber coated steel bullets. No major injuries reported.
Haim Schwarczenberg https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.580957525357279.1073741964.202358256550543
David Reeb http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8CXUzkQ0KI
https://www.facebook.com/Tamimipresspage/posts/792320830812399


Qaddum

8-8-2014At the weekly kufr qaddum demo against the Israeli occupation, against the siege and attacks on Gaza, demanding to open the village's Road!
Over 200 unarmed dedicated demonstrators participated.
Today's first contact: snipers shoot two demonstrators in the leg and the back with silenced tutu bullets.seems Israel has a new widespread policy of firing at unarmed protesters.
Later shot a third protester. Also bombarded us with abrupt thick barrages of tear gas.
The shabab responded with some rocks and a lovely tire fire.
After two hours we dispersed.
https://www.facebook.com/amnonlotan/posts/10152619488807037
https://www.facebook.com/mohamed.b.yaseen/posts/620656974700305
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.782575535097835.1073741940.271405776214816


Sheikh Jarrah

Friday protest, https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=905796922768657&set=ms.c.eJyzNDA1tzQzNzMyN7MwMzfWs4TwzS1NjE2NjS2gfEsjsLypOQDr2gnS.bps.at.905796632768686.1073741937.100000150737581.625284013.100001008382622

Tel Aviv


Saturday 2.8.2014 Police try prevent protest against the Israeli attack on Gaza, in center TA
yisraelpnm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-Z9jfBimTE
David Reeb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAozGYURWac

Saturday 9.8.2014 protest against the massacre in Gaza, 8:00pm Taken at Rabin Square×¥ Israeli radical activists staged a demonstration against the massacre in Gaza after the police revoked the permit given to a protest organized by Zionist-leftist groups ad parties. Despite the ban, a few hundred protesters came to Rabin square in Tel Aviv, calling for the end of the siege and end the bloodshed.
https://www.facebook.com/972magazine/photos/a.171230172907049.44833.148081438555256/889792414384151
Haim Schwarczenberg https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.581568555296176.1073741965.202358256550543
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6pJF6BcDLs
David Reeb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOfVAeMSmts

Lod

Sunday 3-8-14 Demonstration against Israel war on the Gaza strip.
http://tv.social.org.il/politics/2014/08/04/demo-in-lod-against-tzuk-eitan
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* From my blog at: http://ilanisagainstwalls.blogspot.com
See at the blog previous reports about the joint struggles the Anarchists Against the Wall take part in.
See also:
http://awalls.org http://ilan.shalif.com/anarchy/glimpses/glimpses.html
http://ilan.shalif.com/anarchy/glimpses/glimpses-it.html
http://ilan.shalif.com/anarchy/glimpses/glimpses-heb.html

Ahdut (Unity) blog: http://unityispa.wordpress.com/
Ahdut (Unity) Position paper about the Palestinian struggle http://www.anarkismo.net/article/27019

Sunday, August 3, 2014

Palestine-Israel, The joint struggle in turbulent times*


The joint struggles in the locations of regular weekly activities of Bil'in, Ni'ilin, Ma'asara, Sheikh Jarah, Nabi Saleh, Qaddum, Western Hills of Hebron, in the week end actions and some in between focused on the war on Gaza as the more obvious aspect of occupation. To day, it seems Israel failed to establish a weakened but independent power in the Gaza strip - mainly because the atrocities of Israel failed to recruit international pressure on Egypt to open enough the siege on Gaza. It seems, there will be a revival of the accord between the Hamas and the west bank Palestinian authority Israel
invested so many efforts to sabotage. It is not clear yet how the the detail will be and how the last Israeli atrocities will influence the pressure of the imperial powers on Israel to end the 1967 occupation. Latest news: Israel started to retreat its forces from the Gaza strip with no resolution and with rockets still fired on Israel.

Bil'in

Saturday 19.7.2014 hundreds participated in protest demo held at Habima square
David Reeb http://youtu.be/9qhJ1JRQukI


Today 25/7/14 17 Israelis with the Anarchists Against the Wall initiative and few internationals were ready to start the weekly march to the gate of the separation wall. Just as we started the Israeli fucked forces who had already invaded the lands of Bil'in flooded us with tear gas grenades and later fired on us even using live ammunition. One Bil'iner who was shot at the Stomach was rushed by the ambulance to the Ramalla hospital.https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=810543742310208
Mohammed Basman Yasin https://www.facebook.com/mohamed.b.yaseen/posts/614316818667654
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=853440454673725

Friday 1.8.14 Demo - the strangest ever I participated in. A dozen Israelis, few internationals, and Bil'iner activists arrived at the Abu Lamun oak reservation park to start the weekly demo against the separation wall, the occupation, and Israel war on Gaza.
Israeli soldiers who waited there for us forbid us with added threats from even entering the reservation. After a complicated bargain we were allowed to sit under the first tree... so instead a marching demo we did a sit in one - one of the strangest Friday demonstrations in Bil'in - a sit in under a tree at the entrance to the Abu Lamun oaks reservation park. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10203587568822782


Ma'asara

Three Israelis and one international activists joined thirty Palestinians in the weekly demonstration in Ma'asara, with the theme of was resistance to the siege and massacre in Gaza.
We arrived late. When we arrived there were about eighty soldiers (much more than usual), some on the roofs of the houses, most of them with masks. Palestinian protesters made ​​ speeches in English, and then dispersed. Immediately after the participants scattered stones began to fly through the air and gas and stun grenades. Hard to determine who started it and it does not really matter anyway. The commanders of the soldiers explained that because leftists prohibited live fire. The soldiers entered the village, looking for stone-throwing, some were left outside in all kinds of positions. They stayed in the village for half an hour, but did not arrest anyone. Some people probably suffered a bit from the gas, but the ambulance which "visited" the village after the army left returned empty.

Also the following night did not stop anyone.

Nabi Saleh

Friday 25.7.2014 protest
David Reeb http://youtu.be/wBXy4pA7-kc
israelpnm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpEqBwd_2Kw
Nabi Saleh - 01/08/2014The weekly Friday demonstration in the village of Nabi Saleh was a show of #solidarity with the #Palestinians in Gaza, who have been under constant Israeli fire in the past few weeks. Around 1500 Palestinians have been killed in the #Gaza strip so far, about a third of them children. Villagers accompanied by international and Israeli activists marched today from the center of the village calling for an arms embargo on Israel, justice for the victims and an end to the #massacre. The Israeli army responded with barrages of tear gas, #rubber-coated steel bullets and a few rounds of live ammunition. No major injuries reported.
Haim Schwarczenberg https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.577379399048425.1073741961.202358256550543
David Reeb http://youtu.be/eAzJnXe2sRw


Ni'lin.

25.7.2014 Occupation forces tried to disperse the demonstration, through massive amounts of tear gas canisters that were fired directly at demonstrators, scores of rubber bullets aimed at torsos of protesters and live rounds which have wounded two demonstrators.
Anti-narrative https://www.facebook.com/antinarrative/posts/321542704676865
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lioBrUWvzm8


Ni'lin 1.8.2014
israelpnm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9WeJrCEK4w


Qaddum

25.7.2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCDe01bXG-A
1-8-2014 today.
Army snipers shot four protesters and one journalist holding a mic. They know who really threatens them...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlAltypBr1M


Tel Aviv - Jaffa

Thursday 24/7/14 Jaffa-based activists, Palestinian and Jews alike, staged a protest in the city's "Gazan Park" to commemorate the Palestinians who were killed in Gaza by the IOF and protest the ongoing massacre. Holding torches, protesters chanted against the occupation of Palestine and the massacre.
Haim Schwarczenberg https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.573753296077702.1073741957.202358256550543

Saturday 26-7-14 Thousands participated in demo held tonight at Rabin Square.
"Right wing thugs tried to attack the left wing activists that were protesting; as a response - members of Unity together with their AntiFa comrades tried to separate between the attackers and the protestors.
This is a fascist terrorism for its own sake!
We remind everyone that we must stay strong and on guard all the time!"
israelpnm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvyBx8JB0K4
David Reeb http://youtu.be/BtlNYdn6oXU

Saturday 1-8-14 Israel police tried to disperse a demo in the national theater square but they only succeed to to push the people to a noisy march along the roads to the park near the house of the ruling party. 14 were arrested but only 2 remained the all night in Jail to be brought to court Sunday morning.
israelpnm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-Z9jfBimTE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js8lIY4lSS4


Haifa

Monday 28-7-14 Vigil of refusnics (with anarchist core) demo in solidarity with Udi Segal going to jail.
Udi statement http://vimeo.com/101864895
https://www.facebook.com/noa.levy.noa/media_set?set=a.10151036672198697.426465.677248696
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152292545013697

Hazor military airport

Tuesday 29-7-14 Direct action at Air Force Base against the Massacre in Gaza.
15 Israeli activists protested against the massacre in Gaza outside Hazor Air Force Base. The Base is where planes depart to bomb Gaza. More than 1,000 people have been killed in Gaza so far, the majority of whom civilians, including more than 200 children.
The activists said: "Military violence, and the killing of Palestinian civilians, fuel the endless bloodshed and hate. This has to stop. We are here to express our objection, as Israelis, to the attacks committed in our names. Whole neighborhoods in Gaza have been wiped out, and the residents of southern Israel live in ongoing anxiety that cannot be relieved by military force or by weapons. We call for an end to the attack on Gaza, the end of the siege on Gaza and for genuine dialogue."
Haim Schwarczenberg https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.575684135884618.1073741959.202358256550543


Israeli activists staged another performance protest in front of the ‪#‎Egyptian‬ embassy in Tel Aviv, burning "blood-stained" dolls, symbolizing the ongoing ‪#‎massacre‬ of Palestinians in ‪#‎Gaza‬. The Egyptian military regime, headed by al-Sisi, is complicit in the ongoing siege and killing of Gazans by colluding with Israel's Netanyahu and by insisting on keeping the ‪#Rafah‬ border closed, thus preventing survivors' only route of escape.
https://www.facebook.com/schwarczenberg/photos/pb.202358256550543.-2207520000.1406720234./576230739163291/
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Don’t Say We Didn't Know 417

Now, while Israel and the Hamas wage war in Gaza, Israel's government continues to wage war against citizens whose only crime is that they were born Bedouins, in the Jewish State.

On Thursday, July 17, 2014, government agents arrived escorted by police to the cemetery of Al Arakib, and issued the inhabitants an order to clear their belongings from the site. After having destroyed the Bedouins' farming endeavors, demolished all the dwellings in the village, all other structures and the fence surrounding the cemetery, all possessions will be confiscated. So the inhabitants will not be able to remain on their land.

For further information:

amosg@shefayim.org.il
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See also
The present confrontation between the Zionist settler colonialist project in Palestine and the indigenous working people http://www.anarkismo.net/article/27175
Background to the present conflict http://www.anarkismo.net/article/27192
Israel burned the stew http://www.anarkismo.net/article/27220
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* From my blog at: http://ilanisagainstwalls.blogspot.com
See at the blog previous reports about the joint struggles the Anarchists Against the Wall take part in.
See also:
http://awalls.org http://ilan.shalif.com/anarchy/glimpses/glimpses.html
http://ilan.shalif.com/anarchy/glimpses/glimpses-it.html
http://ilan.shalif.com/anarchy/glimpses/glimpses-heb.html

Ahdut (Unity) blog: http://unityispa.wordpress.com/
Ahdut (Unity) Position paper about the Palestinian struggle http://www.anarkismo.net/article/27019