Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Chi ci ricorda

http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/article.php?pg=11&ar=687
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A 19-year old Swedish human rights worker had her cheekbone broken by
an Israeli settler in Hebron today. Tove Johansson from Stockholm
walked through the Tel Rumeida checkpoint with a small group of human
rights workers to accompany Palestinian schoolchildren to their homes.
They were confronted by about 100 settlers in small groups, who started
chanting in Hebrew "We killed Jesus, we'll kill you too!", a
refrain the settlers had been repeating to internationals in Tel
Rumeida all day.
After about thirty seconds of waiting, a small group of very aggressive
settler men surrounded the international volunteers and began spitting
at them, so much so that the internationals described it like
"rain." Then settler men from the back of the crowd began jumping
up and spitting, while others kicked the volunteers from the back of
the crowd and from the side. The soldiers who were standing just a few
feet behind the internationals at the checkpoint just looked on as the
internationals were being attacked.
One settler then hit Tove on the left side of her face with an empty
bottle, breaking it on her face and leaving her with a broken
cheekbone. She immediately fell to the ground and the group of settlers
who were watching began to clap, cheer, and chant. The soldiers, who
had only watched until this point, then came forward and motioned at
the settlers, in a way which the internationals described as "ok...
that's enough guys...."
The settlers, however, were allowed to stay in the area and continued
watching and clapping as internationals tried to stop the flow of blood
from the woman's face. Some settlers who were coming down the hill
even tried to take photos of themselves next to her bleeding face,
giving the camera a "thumbs-up" sign.
At this point, an international was taken into a police van and asked
to identify who had attacked the group. The international did this,
pointing out three settlers who the police took into their police
vehicles. However, the settlers were all driven to different areas of
the neighborhood and released nearly immediately. When one settler was
released on Shuhada Street, the settler crowd that was still
celebrating the woman's injuries applauded and cheered.
A settler medic came to the scene about 15 minutes after the attack and
immediately began interrogating the internationals who had been
attacked, about why they were in Hebron. He refused to help the
bleeding woman lying on the street in any way .
Five minutes after the settler medic arrived, the army medic arrived
and began treating the injured woman. When she was later put on a
stretcher, the crowd of settlers again clapped and cheered.
Police officers at the scene then immediately began threatening to
arrest the remaining internationals if they did not immediately leave
the area, though they had also just been attacked.
The injured woman was taken to Kiryat Arba settlement and then to
Hadassah Ein Keren hospital in Jerusalem.
Internationals were later told by the police that the police had not
even taken the names of the settlers who were identified as having
attacked the internationals and that one of the main assailants had
simply told the police that he was due at the airport in two hours to
fly back to France.
Earlier in the day at least 5 Palestinians, including a 3-year old
child, were injured by settlers, who rampaged through Tel Rumeida
hurling stones and bottles at local residents. Palestinian
schoolchildren on their way home were also attacked. The IDF, which was
intensively deployed in the area, did not intervene to stop the
settlers.
http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/article.php?pg=11&ar=703
Ingrid Steinitz, a 72-year-old Danish Jew, has alleged she was
strip-searched and harassed by Ben-Gurion Airport security for hours
and on a second occasion told to spread her legs and place her hands
against a wall. But Ben-Gurion security officials said Monday that
everything was done according to procedures, and that the treatment the
grandmother and left-wing activist had received was entirely justified.
Steinitz travels annually to Israel, both to visit her daughter, Michal
and her four grandchildren who live in the Sharon area, and also to
participate in NGO projects, such as helping Palestinians during the
olive harvest.
Steinitz says that each year, airport security guards harass her more
and more. In November 2005, the security check included a search that
required her to remove what she described as "almost all" of her
clothing.
Last week, Steinitz landed in Israel for her annual trip. According to
Steinitz, immediately upon her arrival, airport officials took her
passport and requested that she present her purse to the security
guard. Steinitz said that despite repeated requests for a written
document authorizing the seizure of her passport, no such documentation
was provided. After refusing to hand over her handbag without a police
officer present, a police officer arrived on the scene as airport
officials emptied out all of her bags.
Following the search, Steinitz was taken for a physical examination,
during which she was told to stand with her back to the woman
conducting the search and to spread her legs. When Steinitz told the
woman searching her that the treatment reminded her of a concentration
camp, the woman's supervisor allegedly yelled at the elderly woman.
Steinitz responded that as a girl, she and her families had fled
Nazi-occupied Denmark in 1943.

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E con lista di stronzate senza nulla a sostegno.
Come al solito.
-Stefano

 an Israeli settler in Hebron today. Tove Johansson from Stockholm
A me la prima cosa che è venuta in mente è una leggendaria sua quasi
omonima, che alla stessa età, contribuiva indubbiamente
all'innalzamento del livello culturale europeo.