Now, for a little satire. From the show "Eretz Nehederet" (Wonderful Country) on Israel's Channel 2.
The next video marks some sad news about Rabbi Menachem Froman, the religious leader of the settlement Tekoa in the West Bank, and who crafted a ceasefire with Hamas in 2008 that the Israeli government did not join. Richard Silverstein reports on his website the Rabbi has cancer. The below is a celebration in song & Torah study by the Rabbi & his disciples.
On New Year's Day, demonstrators in Tel Aviv protested the death of Jawaher Abu Rahma from teargas in Bilin. This is outside the military base at HaKirya.
This is the funeral in Bilin of Jawaher Abu Rahmah on New Year's Day.
The City of Jerusalem has approved construction of housing and a hotel on the abandoned Palestinian village of Lifta. The three thousand residents fled in 1948 during the Nakba.
This next video is from Anarchists Against the Wall.
Sami Abushhadeh, a PhD student at Tel Aviv University, discusses Jaffa's history in Mandate Palestine to the present. Hat tip to Mondoweiss.
Remi Kanazi recites a poem about Gaza at PalFest in Nablus on Oct. 27 2010.
From last year in Susya in South Hebron: settlers begin to plow land owned by Palestinians. Activists & the land owners stop the plowing, then two more settlers come rushing up, one brandishing a pistol. The police are called. Police & soldiers show up, along with more settlers, who start singing & dancing. Finally, the IDF shows the activists an order declaring the land an off limits military zone. The activists have to leave. They do, as a settler makes a veiled threat.
Women are joining militant groups in Gaza & are training to fight.
A woman visting Gaza films one family's story.
Boston activists on New Year's Eve do some skits about the Gaza siege, & record reactions.