Happy Passover, Palestine!

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"Israeli army closes West Bank for Passover"–JTA.

And do you worry about women wearing headscarves in the West? Have you ever experienced the cattle-station checkpoints for Palestinians and Israelis-only roads of the occupied West Bank? Have you been yelled at by a young soldier from a different ethnicity from your own?

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Philip Weiss is Founder and Co-Editor of Mondoweiss.net.
Posted in Israel/Palestine, US Politics

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  1. potsherd says:
    March 28, 2010 at 1:57 pm

    I don’t think BYahoo is going to be having a very happy Passover this year.

  2. potsherd says:
    March 28, 2010 at 2:33 pm

    Passover apparently means a ban on Easter. What was that bit about Israel ensuring freedom of worship for all faiths?

    link to maannews.net

    Bethlehem – Ma’an – Israel detained 11 Palestinians in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Sunday, amid protests over restrictions preventing Christians from performing religious rites in Jerusalem over Easter.

    Dozens of protesters, joined by international peace activists and Muslim supporters, took to the streets after Sunday prayers held for the Christian holiday of Palm Sunday in the Nativity Church.

    Participants performed the symbolic march of Jesus Christ to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, carrying palm branches and banners denouncing Israel’s wall and continued settlement expansion.

    The rally reached the Gilo checkpoint, used predominantly by tourists and through which West Bankers can only pass with permission from Israel. Participants tried to transit the military installation before being barred by waiting Israeli soldiers. Border guards, some donning riot gear, were seen on the opposite side of the barrier.

    Israeli peace activist Jonathan Pollack said that protesters managed to transit the checkpoint and enter Jerusalem. “Once blocked, the demonstrators, who all remained peaceful throughout the protest, held speeches, and then began heading back. It was at this point that the police staged its unprovoked attack on the retreating protesters.”

  3. Pamela Olson says:
    March 28, 2010 at 8:47 pm

    It never fails. I did enjoy one very nice Passover seder in Herzliyya in Israel with a college friend’s family, but otherwise my main memories of Jewish holidays is hunkering down behind closed checkpoints in the West Bank. Unlike me, most Palestinians haven’t experienced a nice Passover seder.

    link to

  4. yonira says:
    March 28, 2010 at 9:47 pm

    I bet Abdel-Basset Odeh enjoyed his time at the Passover Seder in Netanya.

    link to en.wikipedia.org

  5. Citizen says:
    March 29, 2010 at 12:53 am

    You’d think G-D could have come up with a more benign way of showing who was boss than this:
    link to angelfire.com

    I mean, like who dreams up such a god?

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  8. Elliot says:
    March 29, 2010 at 9:26 am

    Pamela,
    I enjoyed reading Chapter 1 of your book “Fast Times in Palestine.” Is the rest of the book available online?
    I hope you succeed in getting the book published.

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  10. nigelparry says:
    March 29, 2010 at 3:28 pm

    Spin Alert! :-)

    It should be noted that reports of the West Bank being “closed” for this or that Jewish holiday are misleading. The West Bank is always closed to almost all Palestinians.

    How many Palestinians have permits to pass through the checkpoint between the West Bank and Jerusalem currently? A few thousand? It’s been like that since Oslo. That’s not “open” by any definition.

  11. Kathleen says:
    March 29, 2010 at 3:36 pm

    Must be tough to say those prayers. So filled with lies and contradictions. Words only applied to Jews. Really kind of pathetic. I have been to many many Passover’s with Jewish friends. A good 15. While the food, the ceremony is symbolically beautiful. Most of my Jewish friends know little to nothing about what is going on in the conflict and they basically do not care.

    Have always found the prayers, the symbols empty and so hypocritical just as I have often found the Christmas, Easter holidays symbolically rich but action empty.

    Heard someone say one person to bring up during a Passover dinner is to bring up Judge Goldstone and how he is one of the most honorable Jews alive right now. And has set an honorable bar of justice for us all

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