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Politics, Mature and taboo => Political Pundits => Topic started by: Blasted on August 14, 2009, 04:32:24 PM
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Sign this petition twats: www.freeezra.org
Without international intervention Israeli human rights activist Ezra Nawi will most likely be sent to jail.
Ezra Nawi has been active for years in the area known as South Mt. Hebron. The Palestinians in this small desolate area in the very south of the West Bank have been under Israeli occupation for almost 42 years; they still live without electricity, running water and other basic services, and are continuously harassed by the Jewish settlers who constantly violate both Israeli and International law, and are backed by a variety of Israeli military occupation forces, all of which operate in an effort to cleanse the area from its Palestinian inhabitants and create a new demographic reality in it.
Nawi's persistent NON VIOLENT activity in the area is aimed both at aiding the local population in its plight to stay on their lands, but also at exposing the situation in the area to both the Israeli and international public eye. The latter is very much not in the interest of the Israeli settlers who complain that Nawi is disturbing the "status quo" in the area. Nawi has received threats on his life from the settlers in the past. The chief of the investigations in the Hebron Israeli Police once admitted that what Nawi is doing in the area is "exposing the dirt laying under the rug..."
Ezra Nawi's efforts have been fruitful in the sense that the attempt to cleanse the South Mt. Hebron from its Palestinian inhabitants has become a visible, internationally acknowledged issue.
The settlers, military occupation forces and Israeli police have a strong interest to restrict his movement and ban him from the area. Therefore they constantly falsely accuse him of violating the law. Lately he has been pronounced guilty of assaulting a police officer who was demolishing a Palestinian house on July 22, 2007. He will be sentenced on August 16, 2009 at 8.30 AM, at the Jerusalem peace court.
As chance would have it, the demolition and the resistance to it were captured on film and broadcasted on Israeli news. As depicted on the film (a must see), Nawi, the man dressed in a green jacket, not only courageously protests the demolition, but after the bulldozer destroys the buildings he also tells the border policemen what he thinks of their actions. Sitting handcuffed in a military vehicle following his arrest, he exclaims: "Yes, I was also a soldier, but I did not demolish houses... The only thing that will be left here is hatred..."
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysIaQUJWBdk)
Nawi's case is not only about Nawi. It is also about Israel and Israeli society, if only because one can learn a great deal about a country from the way it treats its human rights and pro-democracy activists.
Statement from Ezra:
"I have been harassed and targeted throughout the years, because I embody three elements which provoke bigotry in the Israeli society: I am a homosexual, I am a Mizrahi Jew, and I devote all my time to fighting for the human rights of Arab Palestinians.
I am a simple person. I did what my heart told me to do. Looking back, I know that what my friends and I have done is changing the harsh reality of the occupation in the whole area of south Hebron."
International Committee Supporting Ezra:
Noam Chomsky
Elle Flanders
Charles Glass
Naomi Klein
Sheldon Pollock
David Norris
Eliot Weinberger
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Here is the Facebook group for anyone interested: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=78657164089&ref=ts
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The sad thing is that all his actions change absolutely nothing, in Israel the political choice is between the mainstream far right and George Galloway. If you think the Israelis (i.e. their government) care what we think, you are naive here. Best thing is to hope he gets a good lawyer.
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Couldn't really give a shite about him, not signing it.
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The sentencing result is on Sunday. All we can do is hope it goes well. If it doesn't there's always the Israeli Embassy.
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Couldn't really give a shite about him, not signing it.
Shleed why write here if you're not interested in politics or anything to do with human rights anyway?
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Because I am bored and picked a thread at random to post in due to my recent inactivity. :zoinks:
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where are the i2 nazis? id think theyd want to sign just from their hatred of jews.
you dont want the jews to get more land do you?
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It's nothing to do with me and I just felt like showing off my blatant selfishness. Kikes can take whatever land the sandniggers own for all I care. Humans are cunts in general, signing a petition won't do any good. Nothing can change that in my opinion.
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Protesting does sometimes change things though. Just look at Rosa Parks and the Civil Rights Movement.
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Change *can* sometimes happen, I do agree there - but it never does seem to go as planned. People start nitpicking, some disagree with it after supporting it, the opposition will protest to change the change and in general is most probably inevitably temporary. Plus that change will only affect one part of the world, while the other parts will still have these problems. Also, the fact that it will not stop people even if it's the law. There's anti-racism laws yet it doesn't stop the racists being racists, for example. You can't drill it out of them, the problem will always be there, just masked in a bundle of PC-soon to be un-PC nonsense.
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Kikes can take whatever land the sandniggers own for all I care.
There's anti-racism laws yet it doesn't stop us racists being racists, for example. You can't drill it out of us, the problem will always be here.
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i think they're all a bunch of fucking nutcases :thumbdn:
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Kikes can take whatever land the sandniggers own for all I care.
There's anti-racism laws yet it doesn't stop us racists being racists, for example. You can't drill it out of us, the problem will always be here.
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I hate most people, so I'll use whatever "racist" terms I want to. Paki, kike, nigger, paddy, beaner, all good. :laugh:
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Protesting does sometimes change things though. Just look at Rosa Parks and the Civil Rights Movement.
In the right circumstances, yes. These ones, he hasn't got a help in hell. If you want to protest against anyone, may as well protest against the Yanks. They bankroll Zionism, after all.
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Protesting does sometimes change things though. Just look at Rosa Parks and the Civil Rights Movement.
Unfortunately in most other cases, it ends up being great sacrifice that ultimately changes things.
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Protesting does sometimes change things though. Just look at Rosa Parks and the Civil Rights Movement.
Unfortunately in most other cases, it ends up being great sacrifice that ultimately changes things.
QFT. Real changes usually cost blood; lots of it.
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Protesting does sometimes change things though. Just look at Rosa Parks and the Civil Rights Movement.
Unfortunately in most other cases, it ends up being great sacrifice that ultimately changes things.
QFT. Real changes usually cost blood; lots of it.
Can we have your blood? For the cause and all of course. :green:
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No, I'd only shed my blood for my cause. 8)
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all talk no bloodshed
Coward :thumbdn:
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This thread is useless with out blood.