To Americans with Love…

If Palestinians did that, this would make headlines in the U.S media.

Tove Johansson from Stockholm walked through the Tel Rumeida checkpoint with a small group of human rights workers (HRWs) to accompany Palestinian schoolchildren to their homes. They were confronted by about 100 Jewish extremists in small groups. They started chanting in Hebrew “We killed Jesus, we’ll kill you too!” — a refrain the settlers had been repeating to internationals in Tel Rumeida all day.

After about thirty seconds of waiting, a small group of very aggressive male Jewish extremists surrounded the international volunteers and began spitting at them, so much so that the internationals described it as “like rain.” Then men from the back of the crowd began jumping up and spitting, while others from the back and side of the crowd kicked the volunteers.

The soldiers, who were standing at the checkpoint just a few feet behind the HRWs, looked on as they were being attacked.

One settler then hit Tove on the left side of her face with an empty bottle, breaking it on her face and leaving her with a broken cheekbone. She immediately fell to the ground and the group of Jewish extremists who were watching began to clap, cheer, and chant. The soldiers, who had only watched until this point, then came forward and motioned at the settlers, in a manner which the internationals described as “ok… that’s enough guys.” [Source]

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PLEASE CONTACT YOUR MEDIA TODAY

And then people wonder why the hell do some people bomb themselves just to kill a few other people. If Palestinians are denied the simplest rights such as the right to play football, can we expect them to love the tyrant who on the top of everything else deprived them from playing football?

This is not about a stupid football game, this is about depriving a nation from the little joy and pride they get from representing their country in international sports events. Add this to the endless list of Israel’s human rights violations, from genocide to home demolitions, assassination of freely elected political figures and violating children’s rights. And we still ask why would someone ever become a suicide bomber? hunger, absence of water and electricity, terrorizing sonic bombs, using people as human shields, murder, jail, torture…some prefer to die than live such a life.

This tumour called Israel will never heal if it continues to be an occupier.

Israeli travel restriction against Palestinians are no news, not only within Palestine, but also in and out of Palestine. Those who are traveling to represent Palestine in various cultural events are especially targeted with such restrictions as part of Israel’s efforts to deny and abolish Palestinian identity [More]