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The Unholy Land WAKE UP!! WAKE UP!! IT’S YER RIOT-WING... Friday 19th August 2011 Free/Donation Issue 784 and fuel. More than 300,000 protesters from THE U.N.HOLY LAND different backgrounds took to the streets on AS SchNEWS TAKES AN OVERVIEW OF EVENTS IN ISRAEL/PALESTINE the 11th of August, with rallies in Jerusalem, Holon and Haifa, as well as Lod, Hod Ha- The machine-gunning of an Israeli bus been residing there for over a quarter of a sharon and Nazareth. and the subsequent air-raids on Gaza rep- century. 299 of the prisoners have been there This is the largest ever Israeli protest over resent another dangerous turn of the screw over 20 years. Further indignation comes from socio economic issues. It seems Israel is hav- for Palestine. Anxious to rescue themselves the ever decreasing access Palestinian prison- ing its Arab Spring, even if it’s a bit of a late from their own domestic discontents (see ers have to education; 1800 Palestinians were bloomer. On Saturday the 13th demonstrators SchNEWS 781) another border war might ready to take their June examinations but were were encouraged to head out of Jerusalem be just what the Israeli authorities want. prohibited by the prison service. and Tel Aviv to support protests across the While it’s the shocking attack on the Israe- All facets of a prisoner’s life are suppressed. rest of the country. There was a call-out for li bus that’s grabbed the headlines, the slow Many in need of health care are simply denied demos in eighteen different cities. The gov- grind of the occupation is the reality on the it. Medicine, food parcels, clothing and blan- ernment response was passive and watchful, ground. Just in the last week there have been kets often don’t seem to reach them. A spokes- and some protesters accused them of using the usual assortment of never-ending attacks, man for Wa’ed, an organisation fi ghting for delaying tactics. One spokesman told Israeli raids, air strikes and killings, to name but a the rights of prisoners said, “Israel has been press “We don’t want a group that will just few of the daily realities each Palestinian preventing family visits to 750 Gazan prisoners hold discussions over and over again for has to endure. On Friday (12th) three chil- for fi ve years now.” Last week Palestinians en months.” A tenuous promise of change in dren were injured during an anti-wall protest route to see family members detained in South- the future just doesn’t cut it any more. The in the village of al-Ma’sara, West Bank by ern Negev prison were subjected to chants of weekend protests attracted 75,000, huge in Israeli troops. The children, Abada Brijiyah, “No visits for Gilad, no visits for you” from a a country of just 6 million. 11, Osama Brijiyah, 9 and Hareth Brijiyah, group of fi fty Israelis they passed. Confrontations between hundreds of Is- 10, were assaulted with rifl e butts and batons The latest addition to the jail house is Samer raelis and police took place on the 16th as by the Israeli military as they approached Allawi, a Palestinian journalist for Al Jazeera. a 500 strong march made its way towards the site of the wall. Many others were tear Allawi was detained on Wednesday(10th) as he the Israeli Knesset in Jerusalem. Inside the gassed and shot with rubber coated steel bul- was leaving the West Bank to return to his post Knesset sat the ruling elite plotting, erm... lets. In the village of Bil’in soldiers attacked in Kabul. He has not been charged. discussing the recent protests, as the protest- internationals and Israelis during the weekly The situation in the region is as dire as ers shouted “We want social justice”. The protest against the apartheid wall. Local vil- ever, yet the upper echelons in Palestine police were unable to restrain the demon- lagers have held non-violent demonstrations are pinning their hopes on gaining UN rec- stration and failed to keep it away from the every Friday for over 6 years in villages ognition for Palestinian statehood on 20th parliament. Recent polls suggest that 80% across the area. (see SchNEWS 673) September. While a Palestinian state could of all Israelis are against the policies of PM In the early hours of the 16th August Is- prove a diplomatic headache for the Israeli Benjamin Netanyahu, with 88% supporting raeli air strikes zeroed in on Zeitun, Gaza government, what would the title of ‘194th the protest movement. So far this move- City and Khan Younis respectively. The trig- member of the United Nations’ really mean ment has taken no position on the Occupa- ger for this attack was a report from an Is- for the people of Palestine? What difference tion, with mainstream peace groups standing raeli policeman claiming a rocket was fi red would it make? Israeli journalist Akiva El- back so as not to de-rail the popular uprising. into the Israeli city of Beersheba. The raid dar, writing in Ha’aretz had this to say, “This What implications it has for relations with on Zeitun resulted in three people being seri- time, too, Israel will accuse the Arabs of the Arab world remain to be seen. ously wounded. At the same time Amin Ta- unilateral steps, ignore the United Nations, lab Dabash, 38 years old, died after Israeli expand settlements in the West Bank, and UK ACTION: ROTTEN TO THE CORP. border police attacked him in East Jerusa- build more neighbourhoods for Jews in East Meanwhile back in London, pro-Pales- lem. According to one witness ‘he was killed Jerusalem.” tinian activists on Tuesday(16th) dumped deliberately’. The same day a 17 year old THE ZION SLEEPS TONIGHT rotten fruit in the foyer of UK/US invest- Palestinian was shot down dead by Israeli ment fi rm Apax Partners. The fi rm has ma- Meanwhile west of the Apartheid Wall jor investments in Carmel Agrexco, Israel’s gunfi re. The teenager was killed as he drew in Israel itself a story of suppression and nearer the border with Israel, at a refugee largest exporter of agricultural produce, har- reaction is unfolding. At the beginning the vested from illegal Israeli settlements on Oc- camp in the central Gaza strip. discontent arose from the continuing rise of cupied Palestinian land. The protesters then Talks between Hamas and Israeli offi cials the cost of living and rocketing house prices have been taking place in Cairo with Egyptians as well as the 5th highest income inequality held a boisterous picket outside the Apax acting as a (sort of) impartial go between. A amongst developed countries. One in four offi ces, handing out information and chat- hoped for prisoner deal could free 1,000 Pal- Israelis lives below the poverty line (See ting to passers-by. The solidarity action was estinians held in Israeli prisons in exchange for SchNEWS 781). This month numbers of part of the ongoing boycott, divestment and one Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, held since 2006. protesters have escalated and their demands sanctions campaign to halt the Occupation. At the moment at least 6,000 Palestinians are are changing from outrage over the sky-high *for more http://electronicintifada.net/ rotting in Israeli prisons, 219 sit in detention cost of living into calls for social justice, and http://www.bigcampaign.org/ cheaper housing, education, healthcare, food with no charge. Out of the detained, 44 have PARTY & PROTEST Copyleft For events listings updated weekly see Published in Brighton since 1994 www.schnews.org.uk/pap SHOCK TACTICS CRAP JUSTICE OF THE WEEK CHILE: EDUCATION RIOTS On Tuesday (16th) evening Dale Burns, a 27 year “This was about people showing indifference Riots hit the streets of Chile again this week old from Barrow, Cumbria died after been Tasered to right and wrong, people with a twisted as demands for education reforms continue 3 times by police at his home. Police had been moral code, people with a complete absence to ignored by the centre-right government. called to a “disturbance” and apparently felt the of self-restraint.” Protesters were asking for a increased spend- need to use a Taser to arrest Dale on suspicion of Fast-forward ten years and Cameron’s words ing on schooling and a ‘free and equal’ public criminal damage. might be a better description of the judicial lynch education. Tasers, which fi re 50,000 volts into anyone mob mentality taking hold in England’s court- Chilean schools are funded on a local level, unlucky enough to be on the receiving end of rooms right now. In what seems to be a sort of meaning rich areas also have the best education them, were fi rst issued to British police in 2003, ‘shock doctrine’ approach to criminal justice, facilities, while the majority are forced to attend but only to armed units as as a ‘non’-lethal the government have decided to wage “all-out understaffed, poorly maintained and overcrowded alternative to fi rearms. Years of gradual creep war” on gangs and gang culture. If anything schools. Many of the upper-class children are sent has seen Tasers issued to more and more ordi- illustrates the ruling elite’s fear of the mob it abroad or to private schools for their education, so nary bobbies – such as those that electrocuted is this return to transportation-era justice. Five there is little appetite for reform amongst the ruling Dale – being issued with them. Hundreds of months for receiving a pair of shorts, six months elite.
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