Al-Walaja August 4, 2010

Today (Wednesday) was another honorable and painful chapter in the struggle of the village of Al-Walaja. Apartheid soldiers assaulted children and adults protesting peacefully, injured many, and arrested six Palestinians. The destruction of the beautiful ancient village land was stopped for over 1.5 hours. I was especially touched by the courage of Omar and his two children, one of them was hit by a soldier with his gun on top of his head. Please see this video and be both angered and inspired by the courage of the Walajans. The villagers need our support in many ways especially to demand Israel release those they abducted. Come join us PLEASE and act.

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[msmcis]

@fightforone1 Toxic waist? Perhaps Israelis want to kill all islamofascists. What a lovely thought!

[msmcis]

@fightforone1 Can you show facts to all those claims, as I have shown? "Humanitarian International Law"? Israel has recently opened a field hospital in Japan in order to help the wounded after the tsunami. Israel has done the same in Haiti, and in the Congo, just to mention a few. Every country has the right to demolish a home that is built without a permit. "Torture"? Please provide facts! Terrorists do not require a trial. The settlements are legal by law. Would you like to read the facts?

[fightforone1]

@msmcis

What happens to those who commit treason in the US? Also, Israel has a much more horrendous record of breaking humanitarian international laws. (Demolitions, discrimination, torture, imprisonment without trial for long periods of time, annexing of land, illegal settlements, soldier impunity, illegal methods of dumping toxic industrial waste in palestinian land and build such toxic infastucture near palestinian neighborhoods, etc) Countless accounts recorded by Amnesty, HRW, Btselem etc.

[italstal07]

if americans knew this is being done funded by their taxdollars given away by traitors in congress...Americans should treat zionists the same way here in america slowly uproot them and send them to gitmo..

[msmcis]

@b18k4705 Human rights commission calls for halt of executions in the Gaza Strip- 09/12/10 Gaza - "Palestine" Press - The "military court" sentenced to death-by-hanging, Mamdouh Mohamed Al-Attar (34 years), on charges of spying for "hostile parties", according to the Revolutionary Penal Code of 1979 - Penal Code No. 74 of 1936. The issuance of this provision is a serious human rights violation and the right to a fair trial, which is provided for in International Human Rights and the law.

[msmcis]

@geofftrapp The Financial Times noted that PA politician Badr Abu Ayyash was arrested in September by the “Preventive Security Unit,” which allegedly tortured him to the point that he can hardly walk today. Other prisoners were quoted as saying that Hamas members are routinely beaten and tortured.

Human Rights Watch last month stated that “reports of torture by Palestinian security forces keep rolling in.”

[msmcis]

@b18k4705 The Financial Times noted that PA politician Badr Abu Ayyash was arrested in September by the “Preventive Security Unit,” which allegedly tortured him to the point that he can hardly walk today. Other prisoners were quoted as saying that Hamas members are routinely beaten and tortured.

Human Rights Watch last month stated that “reports of torture by Palestinian security forces keep rolling in.”

[b18k4705]

@msmcis thats its no more banana for 2 weeks

[msmcis]

@b18k4705 Particular concern to rights groups is the significant number of Palestinians sentenced to death for allegedly collaborating with a rival Palestinian faction as well as the broad number of offences for which capital punishment can be meted out. "Executing prisoners convicted in unfair trials would only undermine Abu Mazen’s [PA President Mahmoud Abbas’ nickname] attempt to bolster his ‘law and order’ credentials," says Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director of Human Rights Watch.

[msmcis]

@geofftrapp Particular concern to rights groups is the significant number of Palestinians sentenced to death for allegedly collaborating with a rival Palestinian faction as well as the broad number of offences for which capital punishment can be meted out. "Executing prisoners convicted in unfair trials would only undermine Abu Mazen’s [PA President Mahmoud Abbas’ nickname] attempt to bolster his ‘law and order’ credentials," says Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director of Human Rights Watch.