This happened today in Palestine

by on March 18, 2010 8

Israelis prevented Palestinians from crossing checkpoint near Qalqilya so that they could get from their homes to school. Palestinians held the classroom at the checkpoint.

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  1. Citizen says:
    March 18, 2010 at 11:03 am

    Just how poignant can reality get? Meanwhile, on Fox News cable channel, there’s a constant ad asking for money to help weeping Jewish Holocaust survivors in Russia, or from Russia, to obtain the basic needs of life, e.g., a simple temple to worhship in as jews. Everyday, the ad plays multiple times here in the USA.

    • zamaaz says:
      March 19, 2010 at 5:48 am

      If the Israelis cannot allow Palestinians to cross borders for education (for whatever reason) they must at least build a school for Palestinians in their communities…The Jews must consider that the enemy of their enemy is their friend…and the enemy of Islamic militancy is substantial and comprehensive education…These Palestinians children must be WELL educated!

    • zamaaz says:
      March 19, 2010 at 5:53 am

      If the Israelis cannot allow Palestinians to cross borders for education (for whatever reason) they must at least build a school for Palestinians in their communities…The Jews must consider that the enemy of their enemy is their friend…and the enemy of Islamic militancy is substantial and comprehensive education…And the comrade of their enemy is their enemy…The comrade of militancy is ignorance of ‘Law’…
      These Palestinians children must be WELL educated!

  2. Chu says:
    March 18, 2010 at 11:27 am

    Sub- human treatment is part of the Jewish states value system, which contradicts their lofty democratic ideals – the ideals were supposed to be aligned with in the US. The Third Reich is probably looking down from above and saying, this is what we were fighting against – the tribe of Judah and their superior and sickening mentality.

    • DICKERSON3870 says:
      March 18, 2010 at 12:40 pm

      RE: “The Third Reich is probably looking down from above and saying…” – Chu
      MY COMMENT: No. The Third Reich is more likely looking up from below and thinking:
      “Perhaps ‘we’ were wrong about ‘them’. ‘They’ just might not be that different from ‘us’. Perhaps things would have turned out differently if ‘we’ had allied ourselves with ‘them’ and instead blamed Germany’s problems on the “Islamofascists” (and, of course, the gays, Romani etc).

  3. RoHa says:
    March 18, 2010 at 11:25 pm

    With the flip-chart and the photographer, I suspect they were ready to do this if they were stopped.

    Still gutsy, though.

    • Avi says:
      March 19, 2010 at 4:00 am

      It’s safe to assume that this has already happened in the past and that they came prepared this time, just to make a point. It’s called Symbolic Resistance.

      As you probably know, in the context of the occupation this is another “normal” day for Palestinians and incidents like this where freedom of movement is non-existent are happening all over the occupied territories on a regular basis. The point of this article is to give readers a sample, a sense, an idea of the kind of hurdles Palestinians have to overcome on a daily basis.

      • RoHa says:
        March 19, 2010 at 6:56 am

        “It’s safe to assume that this has already happened in the past and that they came prepared this time, just to make a point”

        Of course it has, and I’m sure the teachers discussed it before hand, and said (in Arabic) “If those fnckers stop us this time, we’ll have the lboody lesson right there at the sodding checkpoint.”

        And more strength to them, say I.

        Just a pity the pictures won’t be shown in the MSM.

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