Palestinians plan organized revolt in a few hours time... [Archive]

JoeyB

11-15-2011, 06:03 AM

This is from an email I received earlier. It's really stunning when you think about it. I support the Palestinians fully here.

In the next few hours, history could be made in Palestine. A small number of brave Palestinians will brave attack and arrest to commit a forbidden act -- they will board a public bus.

Lacking their own state, Palestinians are forbidden to use buses and roads reserved for non-Arabs -- part of a host of race-based rules that US President Jimmy Carter has called "apartheid". 50 years ago, African-Americans in the US challenged these rules by simply and non-violently refusing to follow them. In a few hours, Palestinians will take the same approach, and their actions will be live webcasted.

As diplomats stall in the fight for a Palestinian state, the Palestinian people are taking the fight into their own hands, one public service at a time. And they're doing it with the simple, elegant and unstoppable moral force of non-violence in the tradition of Gandhi and Martin Luther King.

Deepsepia

11-15-2011, 12:20 PM

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Lacking their own state, Palestinians are forbidden to use buses and roads reserved for non-Arabs -- part of a host of race-based rules that US President Jimmy Carter has called "apartheid". 50 years ago, African-Americans in the US challenged these rules by simply and non-violently refusing to follow them. In a few hours, Palestinians will take the same approach, and their actions will be live webcasted.

This has nothing to do with race-- its a simple issue of security.

You'll recall that the government of Gaza is at war with Israel. Here's a recent news item of why buses are separate

At least nine people have been killed and many more injured after co-ordinated attacks in southern Israel, reports have said.

Two Egyptian security men were killed during a raid along the Israeli border with Egypt.

Their deaths followed a series of other attacks near the border where attackers targeted a passenger bus, a private car and a group of soldiers.

A military spokesman said the attackers appeared to have used heavy weapons and explosive devices.

The bus, carrying Israeli civilians to the southern resort city of Eilat, was ambushed by a group of gunmen.

Sky's Emma Hurd said an Israeli military vehicle arriving at the scene of the attack was then hit by a roadside bomb.

Soon after, another car was reportedly hit by a missile or mortar.

A gunfight then took place between Israeli forces and the attackers, in which several assailants are believed to have been killed.

A military spokeswoman said at least nine people were injured in the first incident involving the bus.

and another example

JERUSALEM — A 16-year-old Israeli boy was critically wounded on Thursday when an antitank missile fired out of Gaza struck a school bus in southern Israel, according to military officials, setting off a new round of hostilities along the Israel-Gaza border.

This was the first time that an antitank missile had hit a civilian target in southern Israel, sharply raising the stakes for residents of the area. It also prompted one of the most intensive Israeli retaliatory bombardments of Gaza in the past two years, killing five.

The military wing of Hamas, the Islamic militant group that controls Gaza, claimed responsibility for the attack on the bus,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/08/world/middleeast/08gaza.html

and of course, this:

The Avivim school bus massacre was a terrorist attack on an Israeli school bus on May 8, 1970 in which 12 Israeli civilians were killed, nine of them children, and 25 were wounded. The attack took place on the road to Moshav Avivim, near Israel's border with Lebanon. Two bazooka shells were fired at the bus.[1] The attack was one of the first carried out by the PFLP-GC.[2]

and more recently

JERUSALEM suffered its first bombing in seven years today when an explosive device hidden in a shopping bag blew up at a bus station during the rush hour, killing one woman and wounding 30.

There were chaotic scenes close to Jerusalem's central bus station and convention centre as commuters and men from a nearby ultra-Orthodox area gathered close to the bomb site.

Shattered glass from the windows of the bus were strewn across the pavement, which was scorched and smeared with blood.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/bus-bomb-blast-follows-deadly-gaza-bombing-raids/story-e6frg6so-1226027190433

I could go on. Palestinian terrorists have long targeted transportation for attacks, and the Israelis concern is scarcely exaggerated.

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As diplomats stall in the fight for a Palestinian state, the Palestinian people are taking the fight into their own hands, one public service at a time. And they're doing it with the simple, elegant and unstoppable moral force of non-violence in the tradition of Gandhi and Martin Luther King.

I don't recall Martin Luther King or Gandhi firing bazookas into school buses . . . do you?