From the unmatchable Alternative Information Center:
An official from the Israeli Military Prosecution recently stated to Attorney Gaby Lasky, who represents many activists arrested in the course of the weekly Bil’in demonstrations, that the objective of the military is to put an end to these demonstrations. This may explain why, on the night of 12 December, an army commando group raided the home of Abdallah Abu Rahmah and arrested him.
Abu Rahmah is one of the leaders of the Bil’in Popular Committee that is organizing the resistance of this Palestinian village against the Wall and Israeli colonization. Leader? Not in the usual sense: the Bil’in Popular Committee leadership is more a team of spokespeople than a leadership, for the resistance in Bil’in is a truly popular one, i.e., based on the active participation of the local community and led by whoever is taking part in the struggle. In that sense, Abdallah is the best kind of leaders, the kind that facilitate the self-leadership of the community.
Why put an end to non-violent demonstrations? Simple. They're dangerous. With the "miasma of elite power," the threat of colonial violence against anti-occupation demonstrators, cast away even by efforts at resistance, even by people daring to raise their heads, resistance can spread. Quickly. But if you keep on jailing leaders and repressing activists, guns popping and batons flailing and rocket-propelled tear-gas canisters "accidentally" killing people, maybe the natives will go home and quit resisting, even if just for a bit, Israel hopes. Israel really hopes--as Warchawski adds, "Bil’in is the Soweto, the Derry and the Chiapas of the beginning of the 21st century." No settler-colonial state wants a Soweto in its backyard.
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I think you’re right on target about non-violence in Palestine. Chomsky talks about the potential there, too. Crap, look at the track record — India, Jim Crow, SA apartheid — all done in by non-violence.
La lucha continua!
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