700 Israelis Arrested For Protesting Against War

[tekisui]

Source: Middle East Online

PACIFICA – About 700 Israelis have been arrested for protesting against the war on Gaza since the beginning of the deadly offensive, said Neve Gordon, chair of the Department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel on Monday.

"700 Israelis have been arrested since this war began, because they protested this war. This has not made it to an international media, and it’s an act of intimidation by the state against those who protest the war," Gordon told Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!.

On the number of Israeli deaths, Gordon said: "between ten and twenty people, Israelis, have died from rockets in the eight years that rockets have been launched from the Gaza Strip into Israel. During the same amount of time, 4,000 Israelis have died from car accidents."

But Israel still used that as an excuse to bomb Gaza.

"From these twenty people, we’re allowed to enter into the Gaza Strip and bomb them from the air into their cage and kill 275 children," said Gordon, who is also the author of the book Israel’s Occupation.

Gordon criticized Israel's continuous violations of international law.

"Disproportionality is a term from international law. Israel has been defying international law and international agreements and international decisions from 1967, or probably from before. One of these decisions is that Israel must return these (Palestinian) territories. And by maintaining and holding onto these territories through violent means," said Gordon.

more: http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=29734

[Idealism]

1. Jailing dissidents and banning Arab parties from elections...

A role model for democracy, Israel.

[IndianaGreen]

6. An apartheid state, and an increasingly fascist state.

meanwhile:

919 Palestinians killed, with more than 4,150 injured, a third of them women and Children

http://twitter.com/ajgaza

[coruscate]

8. Remind me why we support them again?

n/t

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[tekisui]

4. Your "I/P Recommend" works.

That is the language I have adopted. Although it won't reach the Greatest, it will be recorded, and kicked.

[delad]

3. Israel, a beacon of light in a sea of darkness n/t

[patrice]

5. May the long-time sun shine upon them, All Love surround them and the

Pure Light within them guide their way on.

[Sebass1271]

7. Wow! this reminds me of BUsh... for some reason...

and the americans that had protested against the war in Iraq.

[coruscate]

9. There are some good people in Israel

I just hope that the greatest effect of this war, like in our own country, dislodges the insane and replaces them with people who believe in moral law and righteousness with other human beings.

[bunnies]

10. Freedom of speech? Eh, who needs it.

First silence the press, now silence the people. :thumbsup:

[HeraldSquare212]

11. See, those Arabs just don't understand democracy and will never....oh, sorry.

[ShadesOfGrey]

12. Very telling statement...

On the number of Israeli deaths, Gordon said: "between ten and twenty people, Israelis, have died from rockets in the eight years that rockets have been launched from the Gaza Strip into Israel. During the same amount of time, 4,000 Israelis have died from car accidents."

Does ANYONE believe this massacre is because of the rockets anymore?

[Hell Hath No Fury]

13. 700 Heroes....

My hats off to them! :applause:

[EFerrari]

14. Neve Gordon is among those who spend time in bomb shelters with his family

to get out of the way of rockets and yet here he is speaking up against this slaughter.

[methinks2]

15. thanks for the reality check

:yourock: there are a few posters here who still think Israel is a democracy.