US Activist Detained in Israeli Jail Condemns Blockade of Gaza »
Posted By hyperbola 1 year ago in ReligionIsrael’s tightened blockade of a million and a half Palestinians in the Gaza Strip is now entering its third week. On Monday, the Israeli navy seized fifteen Palestinian fishermen and three international activists off the coast of Gaza. The fishermen were released, but the activists remain in an Israeli jail. We speak to Darlene Wallach from inside the Masiyahu Prison near Tel Aviv.
...American Darlene Wallach, Italian Vittorio Arrigoni, and Scottish Andrew Muncie had arrived by boat into Gaza in late August as part of the first Free Gaza delegation. They remained in Gaza working with the International Solidarity Movement alongside Palestinian fishermen, documenting any harassment by the Israeli navy.
So, I want to make sure that people understand, when they talk about the ceasefire, Israel has violated the ceasefire from day one; before it even was created, they were violating it. The ceasefire supposedly was going to lift the blockade and allow goods and services and food and fuel and that kind of thing, and Israel has never lifted that blockade.
Israel has violated the ceasefire every day by, when the fishermen go out to fish, Israel navy comes and shoots at the boats. They use high-pressure water power; they have a water cannon that they shoot at the boats that damages the boats, injures people. They’ve cut the cables. The fishermen have lost their fishing nets.
On a daily basis, the farmers who try to go out and farm their fields get attacked. So, Israel created this buffer zone, 300- to 500-meters wide, along the whole length of the Gaza Strip. And that was done around May 1st. And that was a desert area, that whole area, where they demolished all kinds of crops, homes, wells. And in the crops, it was like citrus, dates, olives. Any kind of crop they had, it was all demolished. And farmers now are trying to go back out and start, you know, planting their fields and being able to harvest their fields. And we’ve been accompanying them.
And even just standing out there in the fields, where it’s just farmers, obviously knowing with any kind of military—no militants, just farmers, just people trying to tend their fields—the Israeli military comes by in their jeeps and gets out and starts shooting. So we’re a presence to be witness to that. We’re a presence to make sure that people aren’t killed. And when they start shooting, we’re standing out in the fields with our florescent vests on, some of us. And we stand there until the Israeli military leaves. We don’t back off. When they start shooting, we stand in the fields and having the bullets, you know, come around us, over our heads or by our feet.
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bubba21 year ago
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Where is all that talk about not ever letting a "holocaust" happen again?
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The Israelis are supposed to know what it is like to be persecuted and to be targeted for no reason other than their ethnicity.
Yet they perpetrate similar abuses on Palestinians just for "who they are".
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Thinker221 year ago
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> The Israelis are supposed to know what it is like to be persecuted and to be targeted for no reason other than their ethnicity. Yet they perpetrate similar abuses on Palestinians just for "who they are".
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Apparently, you believe that 60 years of terrorism, deliberate murder of thousands of innocent Israeli men, women and children, thousands of missiles lobbed daily from Gaza into Israel is "no reason" and than only the Arab ethnicity of the Palestinians is the reason Israel has to take measures to protect its citizens and its territory from terrorist murderers?
Of course, for you and your ilf killing Jews is not a crime...
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Thinker221 year ago
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There are several reasons for that.
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First, there are no 'Palestinian' waters for as long as there is no Palestinian state. No one can fish in the non-existing waters. Did not you argue that the Palestinians lived in Israel? If so they're trying to fish in ISRAELI waters (at least, according to YOUR logic).
Second, there is a war between Israel and the Palestinians and Israel has every right to defend itself from terrorist murderers. One of these measures is closing the possible ways for terrorists to enter Israel from land as well as from the sea. In the past terrorists used fishing boats to sneak into Israel and this is the main reason Israel has to prevent this from happening again.
Third, if the Palestinian fishermen and Palestinians in general did not like Israeli treatment they would demand their government to NEGOTIATE A BETTER DEAL, don't you agree?
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Endoscopy1 year ago
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This is a stupid story full of far left wing Israel hate. Starting in 1948 when the UN created Israel it has fought against being wiped out by the surrounding Muslims. They have attacked more than once saying they were going to drive the Jews into the sea and kill them there.
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Today and for years the Palestinian children are taught to hate and kill Jews. Over half of the children under 9 wish to grow up and be a suicide bomber. Islamic TV has kid shows teaching this as well.
Hyper ignores all of this and calls Israel protecting itself aggression. He has all of these Zionist plots most of which are vapor. There are a few nutty Jews that think like him so those are the only ones he quotes. This foolish person who was in a war zone and thinks that she is being picked on is foolish. Is she so ignorant that she thinks that if you consort with terrorists that Israel will just ignore her.
Obama was given a tour of a city where the Gaza terrorists have been sending missiles into the town but when he was shown the devastation he said nothing. Typical liberal Jew hating response.
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