Gaza youth still determined to welcome flotilla

By:Rami Almeghari, The Electronic Intifada, 7 July 2011

Gaza’s children are still planning a welcome ceremony for the Freedom Flotilla II, despite how Greece and other countries have connived with Israel to block its voyage of solidarity.

On Saturday last, many such children lined up on Gaza’s shore. News of their action appears to have reached the flotilla’s participants, who have injected more momentum and zeal into their attempt to break the siege of Gaza.

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http://electronicintifada.net/content/gaza-youth-still-determined-welcome-flotilla/10154

Challenging Israeli apartheid--by plane
By: Mazin Qumsiyeh, The Electronic Intifada, 5 July 2011

This week, hundreds of activists plan on challenging Israel’s apartheid apartheid by flying in to Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv as part of the “Welcome to Palestine” initiative. Heraclitis once stated that “There is nothing permanent except change,” and indeed human history is a chronicle of change — and the Welcome to Palestine project follows that tradition.

No change happens without challenging the status quo. Few people reflect even on modern history to understand how we achieved things like civil rights in the US, enlightenment in Europe, ending slavery, giving women the right to vote and establishing democracies around the world. All these changes from an unjust situation (the status quo) required the agency of mass movement.

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http://electronicintifada.net/content/challenging-israeli-apartheid-plane/10141

Al-Tuwani children's struggle to go to school
By: Samuel Nichols writing from al-Tuwani, occupied West Bank, Live from Palestine, 21 February 2011

On the afternoon of 7 February 2011, masked Israeli settlers from Havat Maon outpost chased a group of twelve Palestinian schoolchildren who were walking home from school in al-Tuwani village in the occupied West Bank's South Hebron Hills. The Israeli military had failed to arrive to escort the schoolchildren, forcing the children to take a longer path without the army's escort.

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http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11817.shtml