Monday, May 9, 2011

Nabi Saleh: A tiny village’s struggle againt the occupation

(The author of this piece, Idan Landau, entered jail today in Israel for refusing to serve in the West Bank.)

The Israeli army will lose. The settlers will lose. Israel will lose. On the road to that loss they will wound and displace countless Palestinians, but at the end they will lose. And they will lose because they do not understand what they are contending with.

In just over one year of unarmed demonstrations in Nabi Saleh, a small Palestinian community in the West Bank, 155 of the village’s 500 residents were wounded (about 60 of them children); 35 homes were damaged and dozens of the village’s people were detained. Yet even after the protest’s leader was put behind bars by the army, the struggle for the Nabi Saleh’s land continues


Nabi Saleh, April 8 2011 (photo: Tamimi Press)

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