Israleft.org brings you excerpts from Rami Elhanan’s Speech at an alternative Memorial Day Ceremony held by Combatants for Peace, held on the Israeli Memorial Day, on Monday, April 19th. The excerpts were edited and translated from Hebrew by @normands, and handed over to us by @notIDFspokesman, who is a great source of information about Israeli [...]
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A few weeks ago, one of my friends asked me about the protests in Bil’in: Why do they continue? Haven’t the supreme court already ruled that the “separation wall” there should be taken down?
Indeed, the Israeli court did acknowledge that the path of the wall near Bil’in was laid not based on security requirements [...]
The military Captain1 declared loudly that the demonstration was “Illegal”, and asked the protesters to leave the scene. The protesters didn’t move. They have been demonstrating every weekend for years now, at the same place. There’s always an officer yelling that this is an illegal demonstration, and if they happen to get too close to [...]
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