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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3The Israeli suppression and violence seems to be increasing exponentially, it must be terrible to live in the West Bank and Gaza?. The brutal heart of the matter is that the so called "international community" and the irredeemably corrupt and collaborationist PA wants you and all Palestinians to die in silence. Solidarity, keep resisting, we are with you.
Targeting [Non-Violent] Civilians: Israel's Specialty
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/05/targeting-civilia....html
Qumsiyeh teaches and does research at Bethlehem and Birzeit Universities in the West Bank. Earlier he taught at Yale, Duke, and the University of Tennessee. Interested mainly in media activism and public education, he's been a board, steering, and executive committee member of numerous activist organizations, and is President of the Palestinian Center for Rapprochement Between People and coordinator of the Popular Committee against the Apartheid Wall and Settlements in Beit Sahour. His most recent book is titled, "Popular Resistance in Palestine: A History of Hope and Empowerment."
On the morning of May 6, Qumsiyeh and three others were arrested, handcuffed, and taken to an unknown destination. He explained what happened.
In Al-Wallaja, his "ten hour ordeal" began at 8:30AM. The village is near the Green line. Israel's Separation Wall route will encircle it. It's already lost much of its land. Residents fear losing the rest, so to prevent it they resist.
Israeli bulldozers have demolished numerous homes. Heroic villagers inspired others, "including Internationals and Israelis to join them in their popular resistance....Today's started as we came through the woods and sat in front of the bulldozer."
"As the soldiers gathered their forces around us, you could feel (them) preparing themselves for attack. We remained calm and peaceful. They dragged us one by one forcefully from the bulldozed lands. They picked the four of us for arrest for no obvious reason" - Qumsiyeh, two Palestinian brothers, and a Canadian activist.
They beat, clubbed, rifle-butted, and pepper-sprayed the two brothers. All four were then taken to a military checkpoint, told to sit and wait, then ordered "to sign a paper claiming....we were not beaten or mistreated."
They refused, then taken to "the investigation offices near Qubbit Raheel (Rachel's tomb), (and) locked up in a metal container." Hours later, they were interrogated individually, asked, but refused, to sign other papers. Painfully handcuffed, they were returned to the container.
Next on to Talpiot police station to be fingerprinted and photographed. "It was now nearly 5:30 and we were starving....Finally they br(ought) us some bread, each a slice of cheese and a small packet of jam." Together they were "dragged in front of a new investigator who asked us to sign a release form that says we are told to stay away from the wall....for 15 days and if we don't we will (each) have to pay" about $1,200. They signed, were released, but not given their ID cards. Later they got them. "Life goes on in the land of Apartheid. Stay tuned."
As coordinator of the Popular Committee against the Apartheid Wall and Settlements in Beit Sahour, Qumsiyeh leads Palestinian grassroots resistance against "Israeli occupation and colonization" as well as "stopping and dismantling" what the International Court of Justice (ICJ) called illegal, ordering the Wall's demolition and for Israel "to make reparation for all damage caused by the construction....including in and around East Jerusalem."
You named it Nora.And the 'international community' morphs into the 'coalition of the willing' when needs must.Or the UN blue helmets or berets as the shot requires.Complicated war.And only warming up.Pity ireland doesn't have a government instead of a crush of bullocks.And no matter how many times we pay their expenses to go abroad they keep on boomeranging.Is it true tedium is named after their TDious speeches?