Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Why Int'l Solidarity Activists Are "Useful Idiots"

The details of how the murderers of the Fogel Family members entered the community of Itamar were published. The fact that footprints leading to the Arab village of Awarta was published. There were claims by terror groups taking responsibility (see here).

But that hasn't provided the so-called International Solidarity activists with any food for thought. For example:

Three Scandinavian ISM activists trapped by curfew in Awarta village following settlers’ murder

*14 March 2011 | International Solidarity Movement*

*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*

Today the village of Awarta, near Nablus, is facing the second day of a
severe curfew imposed by the Israeli military, following Friday morning’s
murder of a settler family in the settlement Itamar . Three ISM activists–Cinda, 23, Chad, 25, from Sweden, and Cissy, 53, from Norway–are currently trapped in the village. Anyone caught stepping outside of their house is arrested. Soldiers have said that they’ll maintain the curfew until they’ve
apprehended the settler family’s murderer. The army hasn’t presented any
evidence that the murderer was from Awarta, and villagers have said to the
ISM that they strongly doubt the murderer was even Palestinian as the
settlement is so heavily guarded it would be impossible to break in
.
Soldiers are beating people and continuing their house raids: destroying houses from the inside, cutting off electricity, and polluting the drinking water by throwing mud in the water-tanks. 30 homes were occupied by soldiers last night. Computers and phones have been destroyed and money and property were stolen by the soldiers. In the last two days soldiers have been throwing sound grenades inside and outside the houses, and shooting in the air. The ISM activists may be arrested soon, but they intend to stay as long as possible because they feel their presence improves the behavior of the soldiers, and villagers have asked them to stay. As of 12:30pm the ISM activists are locked in a room with the children of the family that they’ve been staying with while soldiers search the house. They've heard an unconfirmed report that 100 village men were taken into detention at the school for interrogation a few hours ago. [note: this unconfirmed report is worthy, not the announcement of suspicions that the murderers came from Awarta]

*For more information:*
Cinda, ISM activist inside the village: +972 59 741 4023
ISM Media Office, Ramallah: +972 59 760 6276

Feel free to engage them, or communicate witrh them or whatever.

In the name of humane solidarity.

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Those kind of Swedes Nablus is welcome to keep!We sure don't want them. And when the day comes, may it be soon B*H, and Shechem is liberated, then we'll talk whether perhaps these two morons from Sweden might be allowed to return. Chad and Cinda do not sound like typical Swedish names. We have enough Swedish natives making a fool out of themselves in the case of Israel, we don't need newly Swedes to copy. Oh give me a break!