A photographer inside a cloud of tear gas shot by Israeli soldiers during the weekly march against the Separation Wall in Bil’in, January 1, 2010. (Photo: Oren Ziv/ Activestills.org)
Here’s a video of today’s march in Bil’in, which protested the ongoing theft of the village’s land and commemorated the one year anniversary of the Israeli attack on Gaza:
And in Nil’in:
link to maannews.net
A bit off the subject but par for the course –
ISRAEL’S DIRTY HANDS IN AFRICA
“Ziv and Tzur became involved in Guinea following a military coup d’etat by Capt. Moussa Dadis Camara, who took power in December 2008 after the death of previous ruler Lansana Conte. Camara, who suspended the constitution, clamped down on freedoms in the country and would later be a victim of a failed assassination attempt by one of his generals.
Wary of both his gendarmerie and the old presidential guard, Camara began looking for a security expert who would train his own guard of loyalists…
Although there are no official diplomatic ties with the country, some Israelis frequent Guinea for business, including international diamond dealer Benny Steinmetz, whose company, BSGR, received a concession to mine iron ore in the country. Steinmetz has received further concessions from Camara…
The first was the establishment and equipping of the presidential guard unit, and a larger force composed of members of the president’s tribal loyalists…
In September, the president’s soldiers slaughtered demonstrators who had gathered in the soccer stadium in Conakry. According to human rights organizations, 157 people were killed in the massacre, dozens of women were raped by soldiers and hundreds of demonstrators were beaten. The French government and the United Nations approached Israel with a request to examine the involvement of Israeli military advisors in Guinea. “
The author said it is todays march, but the video shows 1-1-2009.
Just nitpicking :-)
Holy cow. Those IDF stooges really are total cowards.
Great use of all that military aid our tax dollars pay for, huh, gassing civilian protesters.
i recognize wittys friends in the bottom pic on the left….. they actually remind me of witty!! all that protective gear with not a spot of vulnerability…. who else does that remind me of? humm….
The IDF spends most of it’s time fighting kids with rocks, so yea – this must be a step up for them.
Interesting to compare the price in US tax dollars of each one of those Israeli gas canisters tossed over the fence by those well-equipped heros, and the Palestinian “gas masks”–a plastic grocery bag for the lucky ones. How smug can you be? Note the face
of that IDF soldier listening to the Palestinian listing the IDF crimes against his family and friends.