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In reply to the discussion: 25 years ago tonight: "Did you just hear what I just heard?" [View all]Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)8. Thank you for this moving story.. and history keeps happening:
http://www.juancole.com/2014/11/palestinians-apartheid-commemorate.html
Palestinians Break open Illegal Apartheid Wall to Commemorate Fall of Berlin Wall
JERUSALEM (Maan) Palestinian activists affiliated with local popular resistance committees in the villages northwest of Jerusalem on Saturday broke open a hole in the separation wall to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
No matter how high walls are built, they will fall. Just as the Berlin Wall fell, the wall in Palestine will fall, along with the occupation, the popular committees said in a statement.
The activists said that their aim in destroying the wall was also to stress that Jerusalem is an Arab and Palestinian city, and that neither the construction of the separation wall nor Israeli military reinforcement could prevent Palestinians from reaching Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa mosque.
The activists also called upon Palestinians to unite and take part in the battle for Jerusalem, and to defend the al-Aqsa mosque and all Islamic and Christian holy sites. (more at link)
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I've said it before- Thank you for taking us along to this significant time in history.
NBachers
Nov 2014
#5
"The activists also called upon Palestinians to unite and take part in the battle for Jerusalem"
DFW
Nov 2014
#9
The Germans accomplished it without a battle because the guards were ordered to stand down
Scootaloo
Nov 2014
#20
There is an interview going on right now with the main guard at the first border crossing to fall
DFW
Nov 2014
#30
but lots of shots had been fired, for many years.. looking ahead, one day all these walls come down.
Voice for Peace
Nov 2014
#22
(If only we could think of Citizens United as our own Berlin Wall, and push it over.........)
lastlib
Nov 2014
#13