http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article6584.shtml

…Chanting “Fight the power, turn the page: Heather, Jerry, hear our rage!”, one hundred and fifty protesters marched from the Israeli consulate to a nearby Indigo Books and Music store in Toronto on Saturday afternoon. They were protesting Indigo’s majority shareholders’ support for Israeli Apartheid. The day of action was organized by the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA) as the culmination of the third annual Israeli Apartheid Week.

Israeli Apartheid Week was a series of lectures held on campuses in Canada (Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa), the UK (Oxford, Cambridge), and the US (New York) to highlight Israel’s apartheid policies. On Friday in Toronto, the keynote address was given by Dr. Jamal Zahalka, a member of the Israeli Knesset. Dr. Zahalka faces investigation in Israel for incitement for his lecture, “Debunking the Myth of Israeli Democracy”.

This infringement on the free speech rights of an elected politician underscores the lack of democracy for Palestinians living under Israeli Apartheid. A law that would revoke the citizenship of those who express disloyalty to the idea of “a Jewish and democratic state” has already passed its first reading in the Knesset, Zahalka explained to the audience of 350 people who gathered at a University of Toronto auditorium on Friday. The law clearly targets the..—Diaries: Live from Palestine

ISRAEL ROLLED A FRIGGIN BULLDOZER OVER HER CRUSHING HER TO DEATH. Then the corporate media basically downplayed or ignored the murder, while playing up Palestinian crimes.

Even the COMMUNIST CHINESE found the prospect of crushing the Tiannenman Square “Tank Man” protester too much. And they say the Chinese are the Jews of the Orient? Not until they show the stomach for crushing a peace activist with a tank or bulldozer!

BTW Israel has apparently never paid restitution to Corrie’s family which has been pursuing a lawsuit since the heinous murder was committed.

Google Rachel Corrie. The Israelis stopped the play of Rachel Corries diaries and her horrific murder by the Israelis. After crushing her spine by running over her with a bulldozer, the Israeli “Defense’ Force the next day, during the funeral, triumphantly rode around the mourners in the bulldozer they murdered her with.

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Join the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation at the national office of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), 1732 Wisconsin Ave., NW, at 7PM on Thursday, March 22 for the kick-off DC local organizing meeting to help plan the June 10-11 mobilization against Israeli occupation.

Find out more about the plans for the weekend and how you can get involved in helping to organize what we hope will be the largest demonstration in the history of the United States for Palestinian human rights and a just peace between Palestinians and Israelis.

Leila @ 54

And why are those Arabs so angry?

signed,
an angry Arab-American

Because we’re (my government) killing Arab peoples, preparing to kill Persians and are colluding in the genocide of Palestinians. And stealing resources and destroying property.

In a world in which real genocide takes place with nauseating regularity — is taking place right now — and in which we ourselves are responsible for the deaths of orders of magnitude more Iraqis in the past 4 years than Palestinians have been killed in the past 60, this shoddy hyperbole will not do. Indeed in its implicit reference to the Holocaust, it comes very close to that old anti-Semitic smear Israel = Nazis. I suppose you imagine yourself to be a liberal, Oklahoma kiddo. You’re not.

There are no specific guidelines to tell Army field officers judging the claims how to evaluate the cash value of a life taken, Major [Anne] Edgecomb [an army spokesperson] said. She said officers “consider the contributions the deceased made to those left behind and offer an award based on the facts, local tribal customs, and local law.”

That’s a lie yes there are. They’re the field notes I suggested the ACLU make an FOI on and also the rules dealing with CERPS.

Jesus would not be pleased.

I’ve also visited with folks who’ve been designated with bringing official condolences.

And that Peterr is where I’m going to stick to my guns – because the simple horrible fact is that there’s a BIG difference between condolences and behaving like some mafia strongman making “an offer you can’t refuse” and that, threatening the survivors, is what is routinely goes on.

That Peterrr is assisting in the cover up of a war crime.

Good to see you drop by again here at the Lake.

My comments were in no way designed to minimize the shooting of civilians. What I was trying to say is that every culture tries to wrestle with putting a price on lives taken inappropriately. Here in the US, the closest equivalent is insurance settlements and legal settlements — and as my comparison to Katrina was intended to demonstrate, that is often less than equitable. Are payments made to shut people up? Yes, both here and there.

I’m a pastor, and I’ve been with folks who have been “collateral damage” in shootings. I’ve also visited with folks who’ve been designated with bringing official condolences. Neither the host nor the guest in these situations is terribly pleased with the event. Both pay a price. Different prices, to be sure — but I’d hate to pay either one myself.