Kawther Salam – Palestinian Police Attack Demonstrators
By Kawther Salam • Jan 10th, 2009 at 10:50 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Features, Grassroots Activism, Israel, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Resistance, War, Zionism
Today, January 9, 2009, thousands of demonstrators protested against the Israeli war crimes in Gaza and chanted against the Israeli and Egypt governments. The demonstrators were free to chant what ever they wanted and to raise any flag and slogan they want. Everywhere in the world. We did not hear that the police used violence against demonstrators, attacked or beat them. In Vienna I saw the police were smiling and helping the demonstrators to be safe, and judging by their expressions they were as disgusted of the bestial crimes of Israel as the demonstrators. They closed the main street before transportation, so the demonstrators feel safe and free. The demonstrators chanted in front of Parliament, and in front of the houses of the President and the Chancellor.
The only immoral behavior of the police was seen in Palestine, in Ramallah and Hebron under the Palestinian Authority. Prime minister Salam Fayyad and his cabinet of traitors, the dogs representing the CIA and Israel and their police attacked the demonstrators and injured dozens of them. In Ramallah, the PA police clashed with demonstrators who dared to raise some green flags and chant slogans supporting Hamas. The Palestinian police attacked the demonstrators and beat them with cudgels and barred them from chanting against the Israeli occupation.
In Hebron, the Palestinian police used violence against the demonstrators and forced them to cancel their demonstration against the Israeli war crimes in Gaza using brutal violence and tear gas. Dozens were injured as a result of the violent excesses of the police. The victims were transferred for the medical treatment to various hospitals.
Ayman Daraghma, a Legislative Council member of Hamas said that the Palestinian 
demonstration in Hebron was an expression of solidarity with the people of the Gaza Strip who face the daily death, horror, ethnic cleansing of the Israeli war criminals. Daragma said that the Palestinian police prevented the demonstrators from raise the green flag which belongs to Hamas, and clashed violently with them. He added that the Palestinian situation in Gaza is horrible and that it is necessary to promote national unity. The PA police told the people that it was forbidden to demonstrate in solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza. The violence against the demonstrators was coordinated between the PA and Israel.
After the Palestinian police attacked the demonstrators and injured many of them, the demonstrators moved to the old city under the Israeli police control to express their anger against the murder of Palestinians in Gaza. The Israeli military faced the demonstrators with illegal rubber bullets, tear gas and live bullets, causing some injuries among the demonstrators.
Kawther Salam is a Palestinian journalist. She had a career of over 20 years working for various newspapers and TV stations in Palestine. She forced to live in the Exile in Vienna since 2002.
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The conclusive solution to silence radical Palestinian groups will be to establish an international military force to police Gaza and the West Bank headed by a contagion of forces from the more secular Arab countries to ensure the smooth transition to a strong Palestinian state. If there is a well crafted plan to create a Palestinian state, I think most of the Arab countries will readily send troops to help develop a viable Palestinian state.
A peaceful Middle East will definitely have a lot of ramifications. A peaceful Middle East will stem the tide and accelerate a decline in radical Islam. There is no greater hope than that the Israelis and Palestinians get tired of their tortuous past full of wars then sit down and work towards a peaceful Middle East.
@Richard – "The conclusive solution to" bring justice to the Palestinians "will be to establish an international military force to" dismantle the immoral illegal unlawful jewnazi state of Israhell, to give Palestine back to its owners, the Palestinians, and "to create a Palestinian state"…
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It's your sick thinking that creates a conflict that will never end.
@Richard – "t's your sick thinking that creates a conflict that will never end."
It's barbarians like you who started and continue (to support) the barbaric inhuman invasion, colonization and occupation of Palestine by the jewnazis' hands…
Kawthar. Salam… I think by now, all Palestinians should understand that Oslo was nothing more than a business transaction between the Jewish State and Arafat PLO/Fatah whereby Arafat and his PLO/Fatah became a subcontractors for the Israel Jewish Occupation. Under Oslo the PLO took on all of the responsibilities for the civil administration from the Jewish Army as such all of the costs for maintaining the Jewish Occupation shifted to the PLO/Fatah, thus saving Israel some $2.5 billions it used to cost Israel to maintain education, health and social services and transport. Israel then arranged for the US, Europe and the Arabs to fund the occupation via the PLO. In fact after the US, the PLO is the largest financial contributor to the Jewish Occupation. The PA Security Forces mission is not to protect the people and citizen from the IDF or criminal settlers, their mission is to protect, support the PA as a subcontractor for the occupation and of course to protect the occupation. We have seen this in Hebron and in Nablus. The PA Security Forces where no where to be seen when the criminal settlers went on rampage in Hebron and the PA Security Forces where no where when the IDF enters Nablus and destroy every thing on a daily basis. Sad to say the PA Security Forces should be seen as part of the occupation. So attacking demonstrators is part of their mission.