Tuesday, December 7, 2010

The above video is of the May 3 demo at Bil'in. As opposed to Nabi Saleh, the protests at Bil'in have been non-violent & innovative. After an Israeli telcom broadcast an ad about Palestians & Israelis playing soccer, Bil'in protestors showed up with a soccer ball & kicked it over the wall, just as in the ad. After Avatar came out, protestors came out painted blue like the natives in the movie. But there still is violence.

Jonathan Pollak of Anarchists Against the Wall, a regular at the protests, has been injured several times. [12] On April 3, 2005, Pollak was shot in the head with a teargas canister causing internal brain hemorrhages and a wound requiring 23 stitches[13]In June 2005 an Israeli soldier lost an eye after being hit by a rock thrown by a demonstrator.[10]...
In August 2006 an Israeli lawyer, Limor Goldstein, was shot twice with rubber-coated bullets, sustaining serious injuries. [15]Mairead Corrigan, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976 for her work on the Northern Ireland dispute, was hit in the leg by a rubber-coated bullet and reportedly inhaled large quantities of teargas during a demonstration in April 2007.[16]In June 2008, European Parliament vice-president Luisa Morgantini and Julio Toscano, an Italian judge, were injured in Bil'in.[17]In April 2009, Bil'in resident Bassem Ibrahim Abu-Rahma died after a tear gas canister hit his chest.[18]

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