Palestinian "Freedom Riders" Challenge Segregation

Drawing a comparison to American civil rights fighters, Palestinian activists boarded Israeli settler buses in the West Bank.
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On Tuesday six Palestinian activists boarded Israeli busses in an attempt to challenge the system of segregation in the West Bank. They were arrested at Hizmeh checkpoint, interrogated by Israel's internal intelligence agency, the Shabak, and released. In the West Bank, segregation is both visible with the separation wall, fence, and separate cities for Israelis and Palestinians and invisible with separate legal and security systems for the two peoples. The West Bank and the Gaza Strip have been under Israeli military occupation since 1967. The Real News' Lia Tarachansky spoke with Fesal Al Hatib, a Palestinian living in Hizmeh, a village divided in half by a road and the Wall.

Photo Credit: Anne Paq, ActiveStills.org

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[buff24seven]

The terrorist state of “Israel” (no relation to the real Israel) is the problem. That so many people still think that they’re the underdog is due to the power of their well-financed propaganda press and the U.S. politicians they own.

[BWCmike]

My prime minister also supports this war hungry rascal of a country Israel. When you have only 2 candidates to chose from and theyre both funded by israel through an incredibly corrupt system of foreign aid being returned in the form of campaign contributions, were paying to bribe our own politicians against our interest.

[DanteG9298]

Israelis don't want another people to coexist with.

Simple.

Yet that dosnt bother the UN or American politicians.

Even if It is that simple

[SunnySide247]

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GO BACK TO RUSSIA AND BROOKLYN YOU DIRTY, LYING, TERRORIST, PIECE OF DOG POOP - ZIONIST RETARDS.

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[koberpat]

good luck and god bless xo

[doritela2008]

@callouschristian

why should Israel let the people of Gaza into Isralei hospitals? Since when two rival countries take care of the citizens of the other?

[sdhjirhgh]

PALESTINIANS NEED TO GO BACK WERE THEY CAME FROM, WHICH IS JORDAN.

ISRAEL BELONGS TO THE JEWS SINCE ABRAHAM, WHEN ISRAEL WENT BACK TO THEIR HOMELAND THERE WAS HARDLY NO PALESTINIANS IN THAT LAND, IT WAS A GHOST COUNTRY.

JORDAN KICK THEM OUT FOR REBELS. ISRAEL IS GOOD ENOUGH TO LIVE WITH THEM IN PEACE, WHILE THEY WANT THE JEWS WIPED OFF THE MAP. GO HOME YOU TROUBLE MAKERS, ARABIA DON'T EVEN WANT YOU JORDAN DOES NOT WANT YOU, EGYPT DON'T WANT YOU BECAUSE YOU ARE NOTHING BUT TROUBLE.

[phellenic]

Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandella, Winnie Mandella, Ronald Kasrils, the South African Union of Students and the South African Student Congress have all called Israel's policies and actions toward the Palestinians as apartheid. On Aug 4, the South African students stated “We lived apartheid, we suffered apartheid, we know what apartheid is, we recognize apartheid when we see it. And when we see Israel, we see a regime that practices apartheid.”

[phellenic]

The Russell Tribunal on Palestine and its eminent panel of international jurists has determined that Israel's practices against the Palestinian people are in breach of the prohibition of apartheid under international law. Following two intense days in Cape Town listening to testimony from expert witnesses, the Tribunal concluded unanimously that "Israel subjects the Palestinian people to an institutionalised regime of domination amounting to apartheid as defined under international law."