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Titolo: W. Bank settlers hold marches to protest UN bid

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W. Bank settlers hold marches to protest UN bid
By BEN HARTMAN AND MELANIE LIDMAN
09/20/2011 21:22
 
Around 200 march in northern Samaria to protest Palestinian statehood 
bid; “We’re here to show the world that this is ours," says resident.
 
With the United Nations special session on the Palestinian statehood bid 
set for Friday, around 200 settlers held a march in northern Samaria, 
which they said was meant to show that Israel would not be divided.
 
Followed by a battalion of foreign and local journalists, the march set 
out from the Fogel family household, where five members of the same 
family were murdered in a Palestinian terror attack in March. The march 
then made its way to a junction a few kilometers down hill from the 
settlement, where the crowd of mainly teenage boys danced and sang while 
a van full of Breslov Hassidic Jews blasted religious-themed techno music.
 
The Itamar march was the largest of four demonstrations held Tuesday, 
joining similar but smaller protests in the settlements of Bet El, 
Kiryat Arba, and Hebron.
 
Standing outside the Fogel house, Samaria Regional Council spokesman 
Yossi Dagan said the message of the march is “no to a state for 
murderers and no to a terrorist state.”
 
“We want to show the world that the people of Israel are alive, happy, 
and well, and we aren’t leaving here,” Dagan added.
 
Walking to the junction that leads to the Palestinian city of Nablus, 
which was closed to Palestinian traffic during the march (the junction, 
not Nablus) Benjamin Allen, a resident of nearby Yitzhar said “we’re 
here to show the world that this is ours.”
 
In regards to the upcoming Palestinian statehood vote, Allen, a native 
of Brooklyn, said “I think it’s just a side show right now. I think that 
there wont be much pressure on us because the United States wont go 
along with this vote. But I think if [US President Barack] Obama is 
reelected he’ll put pressure on Israel. Since he won’t be able to do 
anything domestically he’ll focus on foreign stuff and the first place 
will be here, then we‘ll feel the pressure.”
 
When asked if people in Yitzhar are fearful of the statehood vote, Allen 
said “the people in Yitzhak are very strong and they have a great deal 
of faith; they aren’t afraid of anything. We just carry on, its all we 
can do.”
 
Also Tuesday, about 15 demonstrators showed up at the entrance to Kiryat 
Arba waving Israeli flags, though the hordes of journalists on the scene 
had difficulty discerning who was protesting and who was waiting for a 
hitchhike into Jerusalem.
 
"'Peace' is one of the most frightening things," said Baruch Marzel, a 
right-wing activist. "Whenever there is 'peace,' Israelis are killed," 
he said, adding that attempts at negotiations inevitably led to more 
waves of terror attacks and more deaths of Israeli civilians.
 
Marzel said that he did not believe that a Palestinian state would be 
formed in the near future, but that the settlers were ready act against 
it. Right-wing group My Israel has planned "shadow marches" wherever 
Palestinians plan to march in support of the UN bid this week.
 
"We're going to fight, if Jews don't have a right to live in Hebron, 
where Jewish history started 3,800 years ago, then where do they have a 
right to live?" he asked. "Should we go back to Auschwitz?"
 
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?ID=238753&R=R1
 
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