Togethernet Greetings,

The following news story taken from Shadi Fadda's "Palestine Today" news
service has immediate implications for normal alias
"Gentile" Americans of the law-enforcing sort.
First, of course, we have to sort out the true meaning of words
like "justice & law" and then create an organization to implement
our findings. Only after those two steps will we be able to call our own
demonstrations and to deploy thereat our own police &
camera crews to defeat
these typical spook counter-measures as described below.
--H.W.

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Savage Attack On Peaceful Palestinian-Israeli Demo
Friday, 29 April 2005, 1:31 pm
Opinion: Translation by Sol Salbe

Savage attack on peaceful Palestinian-Israeli demo against the wall in Bili'in

[Over the past few hours this news service has received several reports about
events at the Palestinian village of Bili'in. They
are disturbing indeed. The use of agents provocateurs (apparently captured by
Israeli TV stations) by the authorities to provoke
a bloody confrontation is something that ought to be condemned by all who care
about civil liberties, whether they support the
aim of the demonstration or not,

Professor Avraham Oz of Haifa University summarised the events this way:

"While extreme religious zealots are rioting against the building of a new
Israeli motorway, because they think its route
collides with some ancient Jewish graves (were those Muslim ones, none would
protest); and while the settlers are gathering
masses of demonstrators to proclaim civil disobedience against Sharon's
disengagement plan, where does the Israeli police reveal
its genuine creativity? A fairly modest joint Jewish-Arab demonstration against
the bulldozers building the evil wall is
infiltrated by undercover soldiers clad as Arabs; At a certain point the
undercover provocateurs start throwing rocks at the
police; the police answers by throwing tear-gas at the demonstrators. The rest
is anything but silence: several demonstrators,
including MK Mohammad Barake are injured, other arrested. The police has brought
back law and order to my country."

The most comprehensive report is from Gush Shalom. It is included below. Gush
Shalom (pronounced like Bush Sharon), the Israeli
Peace Bloc has included the URLs for various Israeli media reports below. -Sol
Salbe]

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Quote:

The cameras succeeded in proving a shocking fact: the stones which were thrown
at the security forces and served as pretext for
their savage behaviour, were thrown by undercover members of the special unit
disguised as Arabs (called Mista'aravim
"Arabised"). They mingled with thedemonstrators and threw big rocks at the
soldiers. When they were exposed, they turned on the
nearest demonstrators and arrested four - two Palestinians and two Israelis.

[The independent Middle East News Service concentrates on providing alternative
information chiefly from Israeli sources. It is
sponsored by the Australian Jewish Democratic Society. The views expressed here
are not necessarily those of the AJDS. These are
expressed in its own statements]

Bili'in, April 28

On the invitation of Bili'in village, west of Ramallah, Gush Shalom participated
today (Thursday, 28.4.05) in a demonstration
against the Separation Fence which is being built on the land of the village.
The fence, which almost touches the houses of the
village, separates the village from most of its land, on which the
ultra-orthodox settlement of Kiryat Sefer will be enlarged
even more. This settlement is built wholly on land taken from the adjoining
Palestinian villages.

Together with Gush Shalom, "Anarchists Against the Wall", "Ta'ayush" and the
Women's Coalition for Peace" took part.

All the participants - about 1000 Palestinians and 200 Israelis - undertook in
advance to avoid all violence. However, before
the demo could reach the site of the fence, it was savagely attacked by the
security forces, which bombarded it with tear gas
bombs without the slightest provocation.

Many of the demonstrators succeeded in going around the chain of soldiers, but
clashed further on with a second chain and were
attacked with tear gas. The first section of the demo, which included the
Palestinian minister Fares Kadura [A supporter of the
Geneva Accord], presidential candidate Mustafa Barghouti, Uri Avnery and Knesset
members Barakeh, Dahamshe and Sakhalka, got to
within 50 meters of the bulldozers, when they were viciously attacked. A tear
gas bomb was thrown between the feet of MK Barakeh
from a distance of less than a meter. Barakeh was slightly wounded. A soldier
pushed Avnery violently and threw him down.

Only then the reason for this violence became clear: for the first time, a
special unit of the Prison Service, called Masada,
was put into action, using new means of riot control, such as specially painful
plastic bullets covered with salt, pepper bombs
and more. Several demonstrators, both Israeli and Palestinian, were wounded.

The cameras succeeded in proving a shocking fact: the stones which were thrown
at the security forces and served as pretext for
their savage behaviour, were thrown by undercover members of the special unit
disguised as Arabs (called Mista'aravim
"Arabised"). They mingled with the demonstrators and threw big rocks at the
soldiers. When they were exposed, they turned on the
nearest demonstrators and arrested four - two Palestinians and two Israelis.

The clashed lasted for four hours, and the demonstrators agreed to withdraw only
after they were promised that the arrested men
would be released.

(A video film of the demonstration will be shown on the Gush Shalom website
immediately after the completion of the editing work.)

See also:

MK Barakeh hurt by stun grenade at anti-separation fence rally
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/570137.html

We were in Bili'in today at the big demonstration against the fence
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=2262

Hebrew original: http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=2258

Ma'ariv (Hebrew): Undercover police "demonstrating" against the fence
http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART/927/720.html









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