Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: MIDEAST:  Villagers Fight for Promised Land

Storie di ordinaria violenza.
In quel contesto, e per quelle persone, il significato di quello che 
avviene è chiaro e inequivocabile: distante e indifferente rispetto agli 
infiniti distinguo, ai fiumi di parole, alle raffinate e complesse 
riflessioni che invadono i media, che ricamano innumerevoli merletti 
sulle ragioni e sui torti dell'uno e dell'altro.
Per i palestinesi, e per gli ebrei che gli sono accanto, sono 
significati semplici da capire: riguardano direttamente questioni come 
la vita, la morte, i figli, il futuro.
La difesa della casa che protegge dalle intemperie la famiglia; della 
terra che fornisce di che sfamarla; del rispetto di sè, che fornisce il 
motivo per continuare a vivere.
Ma per gli israeliani che sono lì, per quelli che vestono una divisa o 
per quelli che chiamano se stessi "coloni", quali sono questi significati?
Credo sia una domanda cruciale.
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MIDEAST:  Villagers Fight for Promised Land
By Zack Baddorf
BI'LIN, The West Bank, May 7 (IPS) - Some 1,700 Palestinians in the West 
Bank village of Bi'lin have been promised land, but so far it has not 
been delivered.
The Israeli High Court of Justice ordered the government Sep. 4 to 
re-route the controversial separation barrier built by Israel in the 
West Bank that divides Bi'lin from 60 percent of its agricultural land. 
The judges ruled that the current wall placement is "highly prejudicial" 
to the village residents, and not necessary for "security-military reasons."
But the Israeli Defence Force has not yet acted on these orders. The 
defence ministry announced in a statement last year it would "study the 
ruling and respect it." Israel's high court said a mile-long portion of 
the Bi'lin wall must be altered in a "reasonable period of time."
"If they want to destroy my home, they give us only 24 hours," Abdullah 
Abu Rahma, coordinator of the Popular Committee Against the Wall told 
IPS. "But about the wall, they take months and years, maybe."
Until they do deliver, about a hundred Palestinian, Israeli and 
international peace activists will continue to protest every Friday in 
Bi'lin against the wall that cuts through what even Israel's highest 
court calls Palestinian land. The demonstrators have been protesting 
weekly since January 2005 when bulldozers arrived to construct the 
barrier in the farming community located near Ramallah.
Israel started building the 425-mile wall in 2002. The mostly 
chain-linked fence is purportedly designed to prevent Palestinian 
suicide attackers from entering Israel.
The court victory for Bi'lin last year means the villagers should get 
back at least 250 acres, about half of the seized land. But the Israeli 
supreme court ruled a day later on Sep. 5 to legalise the Israeli 
settlement of Mattiyahu East, located on former Bi'lin land and home to 
about 700-1,000 Israelis. The back-to-back rulings mean the contentious 
settlement will remain in place but won't be expanded as planned.
Rahma told IPS the protests will continue until the "Annexation Wall" 
and the settlement are torn down.
So every Friday, the activists come to a portion of the fence and demand 
justice. Rahma described the struggle as "non-violent" even though the 
demonstrations typically lead to confrontation with Israeli soldiers.
"We need this land without blood, without shooting, without killing, but 
soldiers use violence and have injured many people," said the activist. 
In turn, protesters often throw stones at Israeli soldiers over the 
barbed wire section of the fence. Others try to tear down the fence or gate.
A 19-year-old resident of Bil'in, who protests against the wall every 
week and wanted his name withheld, described the tactics of the Israeli 
military in an IPS report filed Aug. 13 last year by Nora 
Barrows-Friedman. "When we come, the soldiers stop us and they use the 
gas, sound bombs and the rubber bullets. They use many kinds of weapons 
to stop the people, and the gas makes the people here very sick. There 
are many health problems now. And the (Israeli) settlers have shot us 
and beat us when we try to go to our land on the other side of the wall."
Elan Shalif, who has been to nearly all of the weekly protests too, told 
IPS the Israeli military does not use live ammunition because Israelis 
like him join in the protests.
"The Jew is regarded as a holy creature," said the 71-year-old anarchist 
from Jerusalem. "So they can't shoot Palestinians when we are among 
them, because it may endanger some holy Jew."
Just because the bullets are rubber coated, doesn't mean they can't do 
damage.
Ten protesters and seven journalists were injured by Israeli troops Mar. 
28. Documentary journalist Emad Bornot was shot and his camera destroyed 
by Israeli rubber-coated bullets Mar. 21. He claims he has been injured 
more than 15 times and has had five cameras destroyed documenting the 
struggle each week since its inception.
While working for the Reuters news agency as a freelance photographer, 
he was arrested by the Israeli military because, they said, he was 
filming with one hand and throwing rocks with the other. The military 
court agreed and sent him to jail for 20 days. He spent another 40 days 
under house arrest.
"They don't want the media, the cameras, the journalists to be here," 
Bornot told IPS. "Without cameras, they can do anything. They can shoot. 
They can arrest. But with cameras, there is a big problem for them."
Activist Rahma, a teacher, lives in Bi'lin. "When I sit in my home and I 
look from my window to the wall, I feel very bad about the future of my 
children, because I don't have land to build a home for them," Rahma 
told IPS in the front lawn of the house nicknamed International House 
because of the foreign supporters who rally there before the weekly 
protest. "I dream to achieve peace for my daughters to go everywhere 
without a problem, without a checkpoint, without a wall."
Shalif called the Israeli wall a "waste of material", and said it would 
eventually be torn down.
"They (the Zionists) are losing power. They are losing and losing and 
losing. At the end, they'll have to give in," he said. "By coming every 
week, every week, it's to persist in the struggle. We are not giving away."
Rahma told IPS he wants to tell the world that Palestinians love peace.
"We don't love blood. We are not terrorists. We are not against the 
Israelis. We are not against the Jewish. We are against the occupation. 
We need our land to live and to live in peace. We are thinking about our 
children about to have a country about to have a good life."
Israel plans to construct nearly 2,000 new apartments in Jewish 
settlements this year in the West Bank. (END/2008)
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[namib] Posso legalmente inneggiare al comunismo, ma non al fascismo.
L'una appartenenza è appunto *criminale*, l'altra no.
[tonibaruch] Purtroppo abbiamo questa legge idiota, è vero.
http://groups.google.it/group/it.politica.internazionale/tree/browse_frm/thread/3f0249225d16ae1d/9d60fe69c1a4658e

 avviene è chiaro e inequivocabile
E certo!!! E hanno pure nominato un *PIRLA ANTICONFORMISTA* a loro
portavoce :)
*LOL*
-Stefano

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è il caso di ricordare che i componenti della Corte sono tutti
sionisti di provata fede, come prova la loro adesione a movimenti
sionisti, il loro currisulum comprende esami universitari sul sionismo
e la sua storia, e per le loro sentenze fanno riferimento ad un corpus
di leggi che vengono definite Basic Laws e che definiscono il
carattere ebraico e sionista dello Stato di Israele.
L'esercito di Israele invece, nella sua risposta a questi giudici, si
appella a considerazioni di strategia e sicurezza che con il sionismo
non c'entrano nulla.
Pare difficile che riesca a convincere i pirla.