Thank you very much for organizing this peacefull demonstrations every friday. The last three week i myself took part on this demonstrations and I’m very gratufull, that i could be witness with my own eyes, what is going on in Artas, Um Salomona, Al Walajeh, Cremisan… by robbering the palestinian land, uprooting the trees, building the appartheitwall. I saw the violence and power from the israelien soldiers against the peaceful and non violent protest of the villagers, their kids and old people, their families, the israelien and foreign peaceactivists – doing nothing else as to try to hold their land and their future, which Israel will cut.
I m very gratefull, not only to hear or see this by video, but my own eyes.
I m very gratefull, that you give the people in the world at least an impression of all these actions. Please show us and the world also in future the weekly demonstrations by video and description: Nobody in the world is allowed to say: I didn’t know. Thank you very much!!!!!!!!!!!
Many greatings from Germany also to the people of Walajeh on this friday
Father Rainer

Here is a sample of Israeli occupation practices against Non-Violent demonstrations south of Bethlehem against apartheid wall construction.

[Hat tip: Sami Awad]
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The 62nd anniversary of America’s atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki went by in the USA, with barely a wimper.

As a child, I could not comprehend how my country could cold bloodedly target and murder an estimated 110,000 Japanese citizens and severely injure another 130,000 innocent civilians in order to ’save’ American lives.

As an adult, I am aggrieved that my government has still not repented for their terrorism nor expressed public sorrow for the lives that were vaporized and devastated in 1945, when by 1950, another 230,000 innocent Japanese had died from injuries or radiation poisoning.

If THAT DAY, we call 9/11 taught us anything, it should be that America’s nuclear arsenal cannot keep us safe or secure from the actions of a few violent mad men who target and murder innocent ones.

2,000 years ago, a social justice, radical revolutionary Palestinian devout Jewish road warrior and prophet rose up and challenged the job security of the corrupt Temple by teaching the people that they did not have to pay the high priests for ritual baths or to sacrifice livestock to be OK with God; for God already loved them just as they were; sinners, outcasts, diseased, cripples, poor and oppressed common folk, widows, orphans and prisoners enduring under military occupation.

2,000 years ago the Roman Occupying Forces routinely crucified any agitator for disturbing the status quo of the elite. A particular social justice, radical revolutionary Palestinian devout Jewish road warrior and prophet named Jesus, issued a political statement and is quoted in Mark’s Gospel, “If any want to be my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.”-Mark 8:34.

2,000 years ago, “the cross…was neither a religious icon nor metaphor for personal anguish or humility. It had only one meaning: that terrible form of capitol punishment reserved by imperial Rome for political dissenters. The cross was a common sight in the revolutionary Palestine of Mark’s time; in this recruiting call, the disciple is invited to reckon with the consequences facing those who dare to challenge the hegemony of imperial Rome.”-Ched Myers, Sojourners Magazine , August 2007, page 28.

Speaking from USA, but have been to Palestine five times, I am always filled by the witness of all who endure under and nonviolently resist the occupation; living examples of what Jesus was all about.

Godspeed on justice, human rights for all and an end to the occupation.

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