Occupation

Zion's Zealots

[Miami, Fl. November 6, 2007] The James L. Knight Center was packed to the rafters with John Hagee's tribe of Christian Zionists and south Florida's right wing Jewish community. Zion's Fire Banners, dancers, singers and a band whipped the crowd into a frenzy of spinning, jumping, clapping, twirling and moved the rotund Hagee to link arms with men in skull caps and dance the Hora-not to Hava Nagila, but to repeated choruses of:

Shout for joy and victory! Bat Yerushalyim

From one end of the stage to the other, the largest American and Israeli flags I have ever seen were draped side by side and by the end of the evening I imagined every star on the red-white-and blue had morphed into the Star of David.

Miami-Dade County Commissioner Joe Martinez pointed to the flags and exclaimed: "Isn't that beautiful up there together? I get goose bumps! All nations have been created by an act of man, except Israel was created by an act of God."

Published first on 09/28/07 @
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The Political Question and Moral Accountability
eileen fleming

"My aim is to agitate & disturb people. I'm not selling bread, I'm selling yeast." ~ Unamuno, wall graffiti in Paris, May 1968

Last week in the Al Bureij refugee camp, in central Gaza, a USA made Caterpillar bulldozer was the weapon that brutally murdered 19 year old Mahmoud Khafafi. Bulldozers and tanks entered Mahmoud's farmland village at dawn and uprooted olive trees, razed the land and demolished thirteen homes. Young Palestinians threw stones at the tanks, which began shooting in return. The victim ran behind an olive tree and when the bulldozer began to uproot the tree, Mahmoud was shot in the neck, yet attempted to flee until the blade cut his head off and his brains spilled out. [http://www.mezan.org human rights organization in Gaza gathered the details]

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PUBLIC AI Index: MDE 15/062/2007
UA 247/07 Fear for Safety 21 September 2007
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OCCUPIED 1.5 Million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip
PALESTINIAN
TERRITORIES (OPT)

Ever since I returned to America on July 28, 2007, I have been haunted by the memories of Palestinian children who only know Israelis through the barrel of a gun or through their bullet proof glass tombs at the hundreds of checkpoints in Palestine. That is, until I received an email from...

First Published @ http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_eileen_f_070801_zz_top_2c_gone_f...

Six days before my fifth trip to Israel Palestine, Bon, my best friend from the 1970's and concert companion, phoned me, "I have two tickets and back stage passes for ZZ TOP appearing at the Verizon in Birmingham, and one of them has your name on it."

"Oh, Bon, I just can't, I will be home less than three days from two weeks in occupied Palestinian territory and after four trips, I know I will be whipped."

"Well, think about it."

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_eileen_f_070730__22preach_to_you...

July 31, 2007
by eileen fleming

"There’s a very clear and powerful connection between how much time you serve in the territories and how F#%@&D in the head you get." -Former Israeli Soldier

I returned from my 5th journey to Israel Palestine on July 29, 2007.
All of the indigenous Christians I spoke with cannot understand the apathy of American Christians to their EXODUS. I told them the USA government and media do not report the truth and so they are clueless. I hope this article may WAKE them UP!

[Occupied West Bank, July 27, 2007] On Wednesday July 25th, the most numinous encounters occurred, because of being in the right place at the right time...

published first http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org at 12:01 AM July 17, 2007

[Jerusalem, July 16, 2007] ICAHD, Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions is a non-violent do something group opposed to the occupation of Palestine which resists the Israeli demolitions of Palestinian homes in the Occupied Territories. This summer ICAHD has committed to rebuild 300 of the -so far 18,000 homes the Israeli government has destroyed which has resulted in creating 18,000 homeless families who legally own their land.

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http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2007/06/14/p1753...

[Washington, D.C. June 10, 2007] The final speakers at the 27th annual ADC/Arab-American Anti-Discrimination conference inspired a wave of hope amongst the SRO crowd in the Empire Room at the Omni Shoreham, by announcing that this summer ten boats will be sailing through international waters to bring food, water, medicine directly to the people of Gaza.