A few images from day long protests and strikes across Israel/Palestine in opposition to the Prawer Plan, which will forcibly move up 70,000 Bedouin from their unrecognized villages in Israel into government-approved towns. This action is receiving international protest and condemnation.
July 15th: #DayOfRage demonstrations against Prawer plan throughout Palestine. Blocking Yefet street in Yafa, Palestine48 (Photo & Caption: Ronnie Barkan)
Here’s a video from Jerusalem.
Following a weekly sit-in in the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)’s courtyard by families and supporters of Palestinian political prisoners held by Israel, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) rallied outside as part of a national “Anger Strike” against the Prawer Plan, an Israeli proposal to forcibly displace 40,000 Palestinian Bedouin in the Naqab (Negev). (Photo & Caption: Joe Catron)
Photo: #Akka is on strike! Stores closed pic.twitter.com/b025tj18NT #AngerStrike #StopPrawerPlan #برافر_لن_يمر
— لينة (@LinahAlsaafin) July 15, 2013
(Hat tip Kate)
May the protests grow all over the world……………… the US government should join in.
This is incredibly bad– speak up Mr. Obama, Mr. Kerry, Ms. Rice, Ms. Power and Congress.
NOW.
EU has announced boycott of illegal Israeli settlements – man this is a day to remember!
A senior Israeli official has condemned the European Union’s new directive banning EU dealings with settlements as “worrying” and counterproductive to peace talks.
From 2014, Israeli authorities must guarantee that all EU funding and co-operation projects are conducted within Israel’s pre-1967 border and not in east Jerusalem, the West Bank or Golan Heights.
Israel’s deputy foreign minister, Zeev Elkin, called the decision a “very significant and worrying move”, telling Israel radio that it does not help attempts by US Secretary of State John Kerry to restart peace talks with the Palestinians.
Former US president Jimmy Carter and former president Mary Robinson at the Department of Foreign Affairs Iveagh House during a visit hosted by Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons Former US president Carter calls for EU labelling of goods from illegal Israeli settlements
Report calls for EU ban on produce from Israeli settlements in West Bank
EU foreign ministers express dismay over Israeli settlement expansion
Mr Kerry returns to the region this week for consultations, but is not scheduled to visit Israel or the Palestinian territories.
Israel says the status of lands it captured in the 1967 Middle East war should be resolved through talks.
AP
link http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/middle-east/israel-condemns-eu-settlements-move-1.1465241
>> Israel says the status of lands it captured in the 1967 Middle East war should be resolved through talks.
How Zio-supremacist engage in “talks” (a.k.a. “dialog” [sic]):
Returning to the EU Notice, Noam Shaevsky today at 972mag mentions this:
the Commission Notice clarly states in its first articles that “The EU does not recognize Israel’s sovereignty” in any of the territories captured in 1967, including the Golan and East Jerusalem, “irrespective of their legal status under domestic Israeli law.” While this has been the European policy for years, the article makes it clear that without an agreement, Israel will not be able to treat the so-called settlement blocs and East Jerusalem as its own territory in the way it has been trying to do recently.
This is obviously an explicit repudiation of the policies of the current Israeli government. It seems a week hasn’t passed in the last few months without some government minister insisting that the annexation of the those territories is irreversible. Is Europe finally waking up?