Protests go on in Bilin despite arrest of media coordinator

Despite the middle-of-the-night arrest earlier this week of a leader of the Bilin protest movement, scores joined the protest yesterday at the separation wall amid a hail of teargas canisters. Friends of Freedom and Justice-Bilin  has a video of the protest at that link, and reports:

Today, activists managed to pull open the yellow gate next to the fence, after cutting through the surrounding barbed wire. This gate is regularly used by the army to invade and harass the people of Bilin. Beyond the gate you can see the Israeli army’s current encampment as well as fields and olive trees belonging to Palestinian families from Bilin. The apartheid wall usurps 60% of the village’s land. International demonstrator T.D. commented, “All the values and principles of morality that we know have been completely inverted and perverted here, its Orwellian.” His placard read, “War monger Obama receives Nobel Peace Prize.” Another sign read: "Rogue criminal state Israel: The only ‘democracy’ in the Middle East." This protest was held just two days after Abdulla Abu Rahme the Media Coordinator of Bilin’s Popular committee was arrested in Ramallah.

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  1. Citizen says:

    Obama said he’s engaged in a just war, equating Al- Quaida with Hitler. Funny, he didn’t mention the I-P situation at all.

    Why is it that our government and Israel equate our enemies with Hitler, while the world arrayed against the USA and Israel, those who say those two are the most dangerous countries to the world, equate the dynamic duo with Hitler?

    Gee, what would Hitler say?

    • Chaos4700 says:

      I think what really irks me is how Zionists actually made it illegal to even notice that Israel behaves like Nazi Germany in the way they treat Palestinians. It was quite a coup in subverting the debate and providing cover for their crimes against humanity.

  2. Citizen says:

    Here’s something to consider when dealing with hasbara from Witty on this blog:
    link to jewishpeacenews.blogspot.com

  3. Cliff says:

    Meh, Witty contradicts himself and reveals his snake nature in every thread he posts in. He’s transparent.

    • Citizen says:

      Hey, weren’t Dahmer and Manson also for their own self-determining/governing rights? Witty thinks by saying he is for the self-governing rights of the Jewish people
      that we are just to bow down to whatever that means in facts on the ground. What criminal is not all for his or her own self-governing? Wasn’t the Texas chain-saw Massacre also all about civil rights? How about states’ rights? How about that old bug-aboo Hitler? Didn’t he stand for German self-governance? Check out Witty’s
      ideals. What do they really mean?

  4. RE: “Despite the middle-of-the-night arrest earlier this week of a leader of the Bilin protest movement…” – Weiss

    From: Sydney Levy, Jewish Voice for Peace
    Sent: Fri 12/11/09 10:29 AM
    Help us get Abdallah Abu Rahmah out of jail‏…
    Please contact President Obama and ask for Abdallah Abu Rahmah’s release – link to salsa.democracyinaction.org

  5. Citizen says:

    Here’s some fun for you all–a few simple questions to see where you fit in among average USA adults in terms of your awareness of what affects you:
    link to pewresearch.org

    No wonder congress does what it does.