Posts tagged Palestine

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Posted 1 year ago

A friend of mine is in Palestine right now. His friend had just been arresting for videotaping during a protest and in this video he’s trying to peacefully prevent the jeep with his friend from leaving. He ends up getting teargassed.

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Posted 1 year ago
Hebron Hands. Hebron, Palestine. Zoom

Hebron Hands.

Hebron, Palestine.

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Posted 1 year ago
Faces of Refugees. Another photo of refugee children living in the Balata refugee camp. Zoom

Faces of Refugees.

Another photo of refugee children living in the Balata refugee camp.

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Posted 1 year ago
Faces of Refugees. One of our Palestinian guides tries to get a young boy to smile as he sits outside of a cemetery in the Jenin Refugee Camp, West Bank. Zoom

Faces of Refugees.

One of our Palestinian guides tries to get a young boy to smile as he sits outside of a cemetery in the Jenin Refugee Camp, West Bank.

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Posted 1 year ago
Apparently we’re interesting. Another photo from the Balata Refugee Camp in the West Bank. All the children in the refugee camps apparently found us interesting and would crowd around and watch us. Zoom

Apparently we’re interesting.

Another photo from the Balata Refugee Camp in the West Bank. All the children in the refugee camps apparently found us interesting and would crowd around and watch us.

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Posted 1 year ago

another gaza

picturethis-that:

Israel has begun construction on a section of its West Bank wall that will completely encircle the village of Al-Walajeh, outside of Bethlehem.

Like Qalqilyah too.

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Posted 1 year ago
Making the best of his situation. A refugee making faces at us in Balata, the largest refugee camp in the West Bank and one of the most densely populated areas in the world. Zoom

Making the best of his situation.

A refugee making faces at us in Balata, the largest refugee camp in the West Bank and one of the most densely populated areas in the world.

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7-year-old shakedown. Another photo from the Jenin Refugee Camp in Palestine.I don’t know why those kids were dressed up (Funeral, wedding?) but they totally look like they’re about to break that other kid’s kneecaps for his chips. Or to quote Bolesta: “If you don’t pay us four candy bars a week, we can’t protect you. See? It’s for your protection.”

7-year-old shakedown.

Another photo from the Jenin Refugee Camp in Palestine.I don’t know why those kids were dressed up (Funeral, wedding?) but they totally look like they’re about to break that other kid’s kneecaps for his chips.

Or to quote Bolesta: “If you don’t pay us four candy bars a week, we can’t protect you. See? It’s for your protection.”

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Posted 1 year ago

Noam Chomsky: Obama on Israel-Palestine

The most significant acts to undermine a peaceful settlement are the daily US-backed actions in the occupied territories, all recognized to be criminal: taking over valuable land and resources and constructing what the leading architect of the plan, Ariel Sharon, called “Bantustans” for Palestinians [Bantustans were territories set aside for black inhabitants of South Africa under the system of Apartheid]— an unfair comparison because the Bantustans were far more viable than the fragments left to Palestinians under Sharon’s conception, now being realized. But the US and Israel even continue to oppose a political settlement in words, most recently in December 2008, when the US and Israel (and a few Pacific islands) voted against a UN resolution supporting “the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination” (passed 173 to 5, US-Israel opposed, with evasive pretexts).

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Obama began his remarks by saying: “Let me be clear: America is committed to Israel’s security. And we will always support Israel’s right to defend itself against legitimate threats.”

There was nothing about the right of Palestinians to defend themselves against far more extreme threats, such as those occurring daily, with US support, in the occupied territories. But that again is the norm.

Also normal is the enunciation of the principle that Israel has the right to defend itself. That is correct, but vacuous: so does everyone. But in the context the cliche is worse than vacuous: it is more cynical deceit.

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