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avril 2, 2007
There is nothing festive in this posting. Passover, shmassover, I hate the holidays because while we celebrate, while us Jews babble slogans about freedom, and fantasize that we are a miserable enslaved nation, we are in fact busy enslaving the Palestinian people. It’s become banal and boring to repeat this a thousand times, but in my eyes, the hypocrisy cries out to the heavens. \[The Passover prayer\] ‘Oh bread of poverty’ is no longer the bread of poverty of Jews but of numerous Palestinian families in the Occupied Territories, who live off thirty or forty shekels the head of the household manages to scrounge together doing temporary jobs once every few days.avril 1, 2007
The residents of Bil’in are making a new move in the nonviolent resistance. With the Wall built on one side three years ago and the Israeli settlements expanding on the other, land confiscation and a sense of imprisonment have overtaken the western Ramallah town.
mars 29, 2007
Palestinian activists set up makeshift education facility on land they say Israel expropriated to expand Modi’in-Ilit.
mars 23, 2007
On Friday, the village of Bil’in, near the center West Bank city of Ramallah, conducted its weekly non-violent demonstration against the illegal Israeli wall. Local villagers supported by International and Israeli volunteers, raising flags and banners, in English, Arabic and Hebrew, and chanting slogans against the illegal Israeli wall being built on the village land, marched to the gate of the wall, separating the village from the lands. There they met with Israeli troops who directly opened fire and shot sound bombs and tear gas at the protestors.
mars 23, 2007
As a bastion of Palestinian nonviolent resistance to Israeli occupation, western Ramallah’s Bil’in Village hosted a conference for all regions of the West Bank. None of its districts are being spared the devastation of the Wall and settlement expansion. The People’s Committee to Resist the Wall, and the national and Islamic resistance movements, convened to strategize.