Fresno's Paper for Arts, Entertainment, News, and Political Analysis
Heroic Women blocks Israeli Rifles Aimed at Gaza demonstrators
NEWS DISSECTOR: DANNY SCHECHTER
Is The Brutal War on Gaza A Stalking Horse For War On Iran?
DeepDishTV: Heroic Women blocks Israeli Rifles Aimed at Gaza demonstrators
A Korean camera crew in Gaza documented one of the most heroic actions we have ever seen or heard of. In the spirit of Rachel Corrie, who gave her life to defend a Palestinian home. Unlike the iconic image of the Chinese man standing in front of the tanks come to crush the Tiananmen protests in Beijing, 1989 and images splashed all over the world's media, you are unlikely to see this video or its images in the U.S. media. It is also a video of some hope. Her courageous action seems, at least, momentarily successful.
WATCH VIDEO HERE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2UE4GWfB58
She has been identified as Huwaida Arraf, a co-founder and central figure in the International Solidarity Movement and, recently, the Free Gaza Movement (the folks organizing the boat trips from Cyprus to Gaza).
The stated mission of the ISM is to resist the Israeli occupation using nonviolent tactics. Arraf is married to Adam Shapiro, another ISM co-founder, whom she met while both were working at the Jerusalem center of "Seeds of Peace*," an organization that seeks to foster dialogue between Jewish and Palestinian youth.
Arraf, who is Christian, is the daughter of a Israeli Arab father and a Palestinian mother. Arraf majored in Arabic and Judaic studies and political science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She also spent a year at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and studied Hebrew on a kibbutz.
Huwaida later earned a JD at American University's Washington College of Law. Her focus was on International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, with a particular interest in war crimes prosecution.
Thanks to Brian Drolet of DeepDishTV for calling this video to our attention. And, thanks to YouTube.com for enabling people to break through the censorship blockade.
* DISCLOSURE: I directed the first feature-length documentary about Seeds of Peace in 1996. For more information, visit the film catalog at Globalvision.org.
User login
Navigation
Syndicate
Comments
That area is so sensitive
That area is so sensitive these days, need to be careful.
Large Israeli force invade Jenin city, Jewish soldiers loot home
Large Israeli force invades Jenin city, soldiers loot homes
2009-02-16
Zionist soldiers seized a young man from the West Bank city of Jenin on Monday morning, transporting him to an undisclosed location.
Palestinian Authority security sources said that “Zionist military jeeps invaded the city from every directions, broke into several homes—ransacking them—while intensely firing live ammunition and percussion grenades.”
The same sources added that the young Palestinian man was identified as 24-year-old Shadi Jamil Zeidan. On Sunday, the Zionist military seized a 13-year-old boy, Tha’er Bayan Itbib, from the village of Izbat At-Tabib near the West Bank city of Qalqilia, his family reported.
Bayan, Tha’er’s father, said that Zionist soldiers detained his son while he was walking to a store on the main street in the village. The reason for the detention is not known.
The youth is being held at an unknown location. On Saturday morning, Zionist forces seized three Palestinians from Nablus and the neighboring villages of Salem and Beit Wazan.
Thirty-two-year-old Imad Abu Eisha from Beit Wazan reported the detentions, saying Zionist forces stormed his village at 3:00am and ransacked several homes before arresting a 23-year-old woman identified as Rima Abu Eisha, a student at An-Najah National University in Nablus.
Local sources in the village of Salem east of Nablus told said Zionist forces arrested 24-year-old Ali Ishtayya from his home after they raided the village. In Nablus, 22-year-old Abdullah Al-Ikir was seized on Asira Ash-Shamaliyya street after several Zionist military jeeps stormed the city
http://www.alqassam.ps/english/?acti...etail&fid=1465
The County of Fresno was
The County of Fresno was formed in 1856. It was named for the abundant mountain ash trees lining the San Joaquin River. Fresno is the Spanish word for white ash trees. The county was much larger than it is today as part of Tulare County, comprising its current area plus all of what became Madera County and parts of what are now San Benito, Kings, Inyo, and Mono counties.Millerton,golf hats then on the banks of the free-flowing San Joaquin River and close to Fort Miller, became the county seat after becoming a focal point for settlers. Other early county settlements included Firebaugh's Ferry,golf grip Scottsburg and Elkhorn Springs.The San Joaquin River flooded on December 24, 1867, inundating Millerton. Some residents rebuilt, others moved. Flooding also destroyed the town of Scottsburg that winter. Rebuilt on higher ground, Scottsburg was renamed Centerville.
In 1867, Anthony Easterby purchased land bounded by the present Chestnut, Belmont, Clovis and California avenues.putters Unable to grow wheat for lack of water, he hired Moses J. Church in 1871 to build an irrigation canal. Church then formed the Fresno Canal and Irrigation Company, a predecessor of the Fresno Irrigation District.