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Israel overrides court, removes Palestinian protest settlement - Yahoo! News
Israel today evacuated a Palestinian tent village in the sensitive E1 area near Jerusalem, overriding a court order and invoking military powers to shut down the nonviolent demonstration.
Palestinians established the Bab Al-Shams village two days ago, pointedly mirroring a tactic used by some Israeli settlers to establish facts on the ground, to protest the steady expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Its part of what they hope will become a broader nonviolent movement to pressure Israel.
We have to move from reaction to taking the initiative, as we did with this activity, said
Mohammed Khatib, a protest leader from the town of Bilin and one of the protests at Bab Al-Shams. I think it will be an inspiration and a turning point for Palestinians to participate in this activity.
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Israel signaled that it was unwilling to tolerate nonviolent protest in E1, citing security concerns. But while E1 is among the most poignant and provocative locations Palestinian protesters could have chosen, critics of the Israeli governments crackdown say it hardly amounted to a security threat.
Is this going to incite the local goat population to sedition? asks Daniel Seidemann, an Israeli attorney and founder of Terrestrial Jerusalem, which tracks developments that could jeopardize a two-state solution. It is transparent that this was a use of military authority in order to thwart
Israel today evacuated a Palestinian tent village in the sensitive E1 area near Jerusalem, overriding a court order and invoking military powers to shut down the nonviolent demonstration.
Palestinians established the Bab Al-Shams village two days ago, pointedly mirroring a tactic used by some Israeli settlers to establish facts on the ground, to protest the steady expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Its part of what they hope will become a broader nonviolent movement to pressure Israel.
We have to move from reaction to taking the initiative, as we did with this activity, said
Mohammed Khatib, a protest leader from the town of Bilin and one of the protests at Bab Al-Shams. I think it will be an inspiration and a turning point for Palestinians to participate in this activity.
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Israel signaled that it was unwilling to tolerate nonviolent protest in E1, citing security concerns. But while E1 is among the most poignant and provocative locations Palestinian protesters could have chosen, critics of the Israeli governments crackdown say it hardly amounted to a security threat.
Is this going to incite the local goat population to sedition? asks Daniel Seidemann, an Israeli attorney and founder of Terrestrial Jerusalem, which tracks developments that could jeopardize a two-state solution. It is transparent that this was a use of military authority in order to thwart