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Mark · Site Admin Joined: 13 Nov 2007 Posts: 1052

A West Bank Town's Fight to Survive

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080804/gordon

Excerpt:

Another aspect of Ni'lin that goes against existing stereotypes is that Palestinians and Jews are not fighting on different sides of this fray, but rather scores of Jewish Israeli and international activists are standing beside the Palestinians residents as they try to stop military bulldozers from destroying Ni'lin's land. Indeed, among those injured are many Israelis.

The story of Ni'lin is, in other words, the story of a colonized people resisting colonization. This is not the way the mainstream media has been accustomed to portraying the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and judging from the Google news results, most editors are not ready to change their approach. The historic campaign in Ni'lin--as well as many other nonviolent, mass civil disobedience campaigns against the occupation in places like Bi'lin and A'ram--is still unfit to print.
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(Don't know about you guys, but this low-income senior just sent Anarchists Against The Wall twenty bucks. Whenever and wherever the people unite against tyranny, they deserve the support of all good people everywhere. --Mark)

Mark · Site Admin Joined: 13 Nov 2007 Posts: 1052

In my email:

Dear Mark,

Thank you very much for your donation to our legal fund. There are
few bright spots in the situation in Palestine right now but surely
one of them is the inspiring courage of Palestinian farmers refusing
to be beaten shot and tear gassed off of their lands. We try very hard
to make sure they can count on us to stick with them and if that is
true, it is so to a large extent due to the fact that we can count on
you in this fight.

peace, kobi (for AATW)