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Ramallah commemorates the ongoing Nakba
May 29, 2008
Most Nakba commemoration events this year focused their attention on the 1948 War and the plight of the Palestinian refugees. Rightly so, for that war was in fact the implementation of a Zionist political and military strategy to forcibly remove the majority of Palestine’s indigenous inhabitants to pave the way for the creation of an exclusively Jewish state, creating the largest and longest-standing refugee issue in the world today. In commemoration, and as US President George W. Bush sang his messianic "happy birthday" speech to the Israeli Knesset, 50,000 or so demonstrators calling for the rightful return of the Palestinian refugees crammed into Ramallah’s Manara Square. Just a few meters away from the mass demonstration, where Ramallah ends and the twin city of al-Bireh unnoticeably begins, the Baladna Cultural Center opened its contribution to the Nakba commemoration events: a three-day exhibit entitled From the Scent of Bil’in’s Wall. The exhibit closed on 17 May, and we were the first guests that day.
When A Flag In The Wind Stops Settlement Extension Work
May 28, 2008
On Monday May 26 an urgent call for support arrived in Ramallah. It came from Bil’in, but not directly from the village. It was from the nearby settlement of Modi’in Ilit. The Palestinian village of Bil’in is well known for its lasting, popular non-violent struggle against the confiscation of its land for expanding a settlement and building the Apartheid Wall. A few months ago, the activist community “celebrated” the third anniversary of the weekly demonstrations, proof both of the villagers’ enduring will for peace and of their tragic powerlessness.
Israeli settlers and army started to expand illegal settlement on Bil'in land
May 26, 2008
Israeli settlers under the protection of the Israeli army started on Monday morning to install homes on lands that belong to villagers from Bil’in, located near the central West Bank city of Ramallah.
Nonviolent Palestinian resistance continues in spite of Israeli attacks and arrests
May 24, 2008
The nonviolent resistance continued its weekly demonstrations in southern Bethlehem on Friday.
Three injured during the weekly protest of Bil'in
May 23, 2008
Villagers from Bil’in, located near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, supported by international and Israeli peace activists conducted their weekly nonviolent protest, on Friday midday, against the illegal Israeli wall built on the village’s land.
