Tear down THIS wall!
By Mary Rizzo • Nov 9th, 2009 at 16:11 • Category: Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Grassroots Activism, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance
A group of Palestinians from the popular committees and Fatah movement tore down a part of the Apartheid Wall separating occupied East Jerusaelm from the rest of the West Bank.On Monday 9 November a hundred Palestinians waving Palestinain flags and wearing florecent jackets saying "WE ARE GOING TO JERUSALEM" took down a piece of the concrete wall near the Kalandia airport.
The following leaflet was distributed by a group of Palestinians who tore down the Wall near Jerusalem:
On 9 November 1989 the world witnessed the moment of the demolition of the Berlin Wall.
Similarly, at this moment, twenty years later, a group of Palestinians have demolished part of the Apartheid Wall around Jerusalem.
Jerusalem, that bleeds every day… Jerusalem whose children are homeless under the rain. These young boys and girls who were promised by the martyr president Yaser Arafat that they would raise the Palestinian flag on the churches and mosques of Jerusalem. Mosques and churches who's sanctity is defiled while we passively wait for salvation unaware that the responsibility lies with each and every one of us.
Rebuilding popular resistance is essential for Jerusalem and Palestine.
In this event we are calling for a return to the achievements of the popular uprising that began on 9 December 1987. This year, on 9 December, we are calling on people to move en masse towards Jerusalem.
We are calling for the formation of a unified national leadership to lead a mass popular uprising of which all the Palestinian people, groups and political factions are a part of. This popular uprising will be pro-active and innovative with a strategy to mobilize international support for the justice of our cause, as a way out of the current political impasse. We will use this support to create international pressure to end the occupation, and establish an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, and to restore unity amongst our people, from the West Bank to Gaza.
For the release of our innocent martyrs, the freedom of our political prisoners, and a return to our unity.
For more details:
Abdallah Abu Rahmah (Arabic): +972599107069
Sasha Solanas (English and Russian): +972549032981
Jonathan Pollak (Hebrew and English): +972546327736
مجموعة من المتظاهرين يقومون بهدم مقطعا من الجدار قرب قلندية
"على القدس رايحين"
الاثنين 9\11\2009
بمناسبة مرور عشرين عاما على هدم جدار برلين ووفاء لروح القائد الشهيد أبو عمار في الذكرى الخامسة لاستشهاده قامت مجموعة من المتظاهرين من كافة أنحاء الوطن ومن اللجان الشعبية الناشطة في مقاومة الجدار بهدم مقطع من الجدار الإسمنتي المحيط بمطار قلندية، وقد تمكن المتظاهرون من العبور إلى ساحة المطار ورفع الأعلام الفلسطينية فيه، وتأتي هذه الفعلية ضمن سلسلة فعاليات تقوم بها قرى بلعين ونعلين والمعصرة ضد بناء الجدار، وقد عبر المتظاهرون في هذه المناسبة التي هُدم فيها الجدار في برلين أنه علينا التحرك سريعا لهدم الجدار في فلسطين وعلى الشعب
الفلسطيني التحرك ضمن فعاليات وتظاهرات ضد بناء الجدار ووجود الاحتلال في كافة المناطق.
وتحت شعار " على القدس رايحين" هذا الشعار الذي كان يردده الرئيس الشهيد أبو عمار، فقد عبر المتظاهرون الذين رفعوا هذا الشعار عن وفائهم لروح الشهيد في ذكرى استشهاده الخامسة وأنهم على دربه سائرون نحو القدس التي هي بحاجة ماسة لأبنائها في الوقت التي تتعرض فيه للتهويد وهدم البيوت وحفر الأنفاق تحت المقدسات .
لمزيد من المعلومات مراجعة:
عبدالله أبو رحمة – منسق اللجنة الشعبية لمقاومة الجدار والاستيطان \ بلعين
0547258210 أو 0599107069
E-mail – lumalayan@yahoo.com
(thanks Miriam)
Mary Rizzo is an art restorer, translator and writer living in Italy. Editor and co-founder of Palestine Think Tank, co-founder of Tlaxcala translations collective. Her personal blog is Peacepalestine.
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TheIsraeli Apartheid Wall is the most perfect "monument of shame" for illustrating what Zionist ideology is all about: Racism, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. The civilized societies of the world will be able to point to its destruction, one day soon, and declare that this final act was what led to the end of Zionist Apartheid in Palestine.
The Zionist goal is not only to grab our lands, but also to create all the necessary conditions to make Palestinians lose hope and leave their Homeland Palestine.
Palestinians will never ever lose hope. They should develop various methods of peaceful resistance that allows them to stay on their lands and make life miserable for the Zionist oppressors.
To me and thousands of people around the world, the brave Palestinians who pulled down 2 sections of the Apartheid Wall are heroes. This is one of the types of activities that fall under "peaceful resistance", yet can expose Israel's despicable colonialism to the world. The more sections of the wall are pulled down the merrier. Ideally, this Christmas should see more sections fall, particularly in Bethlehem and Jerusalem, in order to allow the "3 wise men" to penetrate Israeli tyranny and come worship together with their Christian, Muslim, and Jewish brothers and sisters at the Manger in Bethlehem.