Posted on 04/23/2007 2:51:15 PM PDT by Alouette
Tali Fahima lights torch at Yesh Gvul alternative Independence Day ceremony in Jerusalem, in honor of Jenin's Al-Aqsa Brigades commander
Roi Mandel Published: 04.23.07, 22:39 / Israel News
Lefist Tali Fahima lit a torch Monday in honor of Zakaria Zubeidi, the commander of Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades (Fatah's military wing). "I light this for my friend Zakaria Zubeidi, with whom I have demolished fortresses," she said.
Fahima, along with some 2,000 other people, was participating in an alternative torch-lighting ceremony for Independence Day led by the Yesh Gvul (There is a Border) movement, in front of the prime minister's office in Jerusalem.
Just like in the formal state ceremony, 12 torches were lit. In this case, they were meant to serve as a reminder of "violence and occupation" as well as the "injustices against the 'other' in Israel".
As in the past ten years, the ceremony took place at the spot where 'Peace Now' member Emil Greenzweig was killed during an anti-war demonstration in 1983.
Among the torch-bearers at the alternative service were Prof. Kelman Ettleman - a member of Israel's communist party, Johannes Bayu – the director of African refugee development, peace activist Anat Hoffman, human rights lawyer Gaby Laski, and women's rights activist Lakia Yardeni.
Bayu called on Israel to accept African refugees, stating that centuries of Jewish persecution had created an Israeli obligation to help others. "If Israel will not protect persecuted people, who will?" he said.
Another torch-bearer Tamir Foster, who had refused his call to reserves during the second Lebanon war, was told by his father prior to the ceremony: "Tali Fahima will be speaking before you; you'll be speaking after a corruptor of Israel."
Fahima, while lighting her torch, spoke in honor of, "Palestinian captives, political prisoners who are Israeli citizens, Lebanese captives in Israel, and the Israeli captives in Lebanon and Gaza." She also referred to the rocket-plagued residents of Sderot and the Western Negev as "captives of the Israeli government's destructive policy."
Fahima said that "Israel calls Palestinian political prisoners 'security prisoners' and uses this categorization as a tool to ignore the issue of the Palestinians' struggle for liberty.
"I call on anyone who wants in their own life liberty, mutual respect and equality to use their body as a human shield to stop Israel's violence in the territories, which is becoming crueler, and thus, tightening around our necks like a noose," she said.
Fahima served time in jail for contact with a foreign agent, transferring information to the enemy, and refusal to obey legal orders after her connections to Zubeidi were revealed. She was released in early 2007 on the condition that she is not allowed to leave the country or enter the Palestinian territories.
Regarding her connection with the al-Aqsa commander, Fahima said at the ceremony that "true friendship does not fall apart in a storm…The Shin Bet cannot destroy the strong connection between us or the hope that we have built."
This is the equivalent of the Washington Post running a fawning article about Johnny Jihad Walker Lindh lighting a torch in memory of the 19 hijackers on Memorial Day. Hmm, come to think of it, they would do that.
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What is it with leftist’s and wanting to get their head chopped off?
Better yet, I don’t want to know, I just want them to stop trying to force my neck onto the chopping block with them.
Wish we had one.
There's that idiotic (and ultimately totally arbitrary) "other" again! The Western Left hates itself and worships this "other," while Third World Leftists are encouraged to engage in self-worship and racial pride of national socialist proportions! Are these even the same ideology?
I’m all in favour of Israel temporarily taking in refugees, particularly from Sudan, until stability is restored. We as Jews know where that kind of violence and chaos can lead, so we do have a moral responsibility. I still don’t see why Fatah is involved with this.
Tell me again why Israel has to take in refugees from all over the world, is it because Israel has a larger land mass than Canada and has so much room for all these people?
I’m mainly thinking of Sudanese refugees, as genocide is imminent there, if it is not existent already. Other countries have responsibilities too. However, just because they are not meeting theirs does not absolve us of ours. For example, just because Canada was terrible with taking in Jewish refugees during the Holocaust, does that mean that excused (picking a random country) Australia?
Canada has a responsibility too. That doesn’t mean the refugees get a right to live here as citizens indefinitely; when their country clears up, they have to go back. But G-d said be a light unto the nations. That’s more than a polite suggestion.
Israel is a tiny country whose leaders are even now planning to make it even tinier, and you are suggesting that they have a responsibility to take in everybody’s refugees (except for the “Palestinian refugees”). Where are they going to put 500,000 Sudanese when they can’t even provide decent housing for their own citizens who were removed from Gush Katif?
Israel does not have the capacity to be the receptacle for the whole world’s homeless, helpless, poor, tempest-tossed, wretched refuse yearning to breathe free.
How many Sudanese refugees are welcome to live indefinitely as guests in your house in Toronto? 20? A dozen?
Jihadists often have an alternate lifestyle, so it fits..
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