Pro-Palestine group erects fence, checkpoints

[Scurrilous]

http://www.dailypennsylvanian.com/vnews/display.v/ART/406a8b6059a2f

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"A student group called the Free Palestine Action Network erected a mock refugee camp on College Green yesterday and Monday, attracting interest and debate from passers-by.

The display -- complete with fencing, fake barbed wire and a checkpoint, all encircling a makeshift tent in the center -- was specifically based on the West Bank district of Qalqiliya, which organizers described as "completely surrounded by the wall."

Organizers say the display -- which was built as part of Palestine Awareness Week -- was meant to draw attention to the barrier Israel is building along the border of the West Bank. The display also prompted members of Penn's Pro-Israel Activism Committee to hand out flyers detailing the group's position on the West Bank barrier."

[drdon326]

1. Oh....*THAT* Free Palestine Action Network !

I'm also soooo sure the display showed....

the mutilated dead victims of suicide bombers.
the effects of suicide bombers on the bodies of survivors.
the tortuous physical therapy on the survivors.
the gut-wrenching saddness of children growing up w/o parents.
the psychological effects of disfigurement b/o suicide bombers.
the endless depression of losing a loved one b/o suicide bombers.

Yuuuup....i'm sure they included that in their little display.

Maybe someone can remind them.

[tinnypriv]

2. I'd like to quote the Jewish relative of a person murdered

In a suicide bombing. Maybe you can take it on board:

Don’t Use My Mother’s Blood ¹

On Monday, February 23, our finest boys rallied in the streets of The Hague, wielding – against the enemy who lays siege to our wall – the doomsday weapon: the corpses of Israeli citizens. 1250 names, 927 photos. Anxiety choked me for a few seconds when I came across this piece of information.

Will she be there too? Could they pinch my own dead out of her grave and march her through the streets, a smiling Shaheedah, to fight in the Israeli government’s Jihad? Dare they? I feared they might. Not long ago I had learned that every year her name is read out in Memorial Day services for the IDF dead. Who asked me anyway?

The big attraction in the Wall campaign was the burnt skeleton of bus number 19 which was hit in Jerusalem. The bus is an excellent gimmick. In my case it managed to undo the lace of feelings, and throw me ten years back in time, to the afternoon of April 6, 1994, the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day when my mother, Ilanna Schreiber, was waiting for another bus in the city of Afula. There was a bombing there too.

The government of Israel and its spin doctors have coined a new incendiary equation: Wall = no bombings. They present terrorist victims as the accusers in a bogus public trial. It is a brilliant trick; Try telling an orphan, a widow or a bereaved mother that a “fence against terror” is a bad thing. How can one look them in the eye and wave statistics about 875,000 Palestinians harmed, about 65% of the agricultural land they’d lose, about inaccessible hospitals and families broken in two on different sides of the barrier? How would one point out to them that only in Newspeak could a wall eight meters high be called "a fence"?

...

For ten years I was not really able, or willing, to get out of this closet. Today I cracked. I realized that my silence is compliance, a blank ballot, equally split between parties I would never vote for, not in my worst nightmares. So here, I place a different ballot in the box: I am the victim of hostile attack, I lost my mother to a cruel, tendentious, and unnecessary war. Millions of arrested, starved, humiliated, or dead Palestinians couldn’t fill the void inside me. On the contrary, each death in this symbiosis of violence makes it deeper. This blood is not a national asset to be incorporated and used as oil in the wheels of the occupation machine. You are not allowed to annex my tragedy.

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1. Published in Ha'aretz (Hebrew only), 29 Feb 2004.

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[newyorican]

4. ouch

:0

[number6]

5. good point ...

bmp

[Gimel]

6. British checkpoints

Checkpoints have a long history in Israel. The British made all civilian buses stop, the passengers disembark for search. There is a junction north of Haifa still referred to as Checkpost, which was a British stopping point for all traffic.

Roadblocks, of course, were also used, and this was a combination of both.