７月22日の夜、ビリン村ではこんな夜のデモが行われました。
毎週金曜日のデモだけでなく、いろんなパターンを用意しながら、連帯するイスラエル人や世界の活動家たちと歩く夜、そこに危険（時には命の危険さえも）も困難もたくさんあることには違いないけれど、「地球人の一人として仲間を思う連帯の気持ち」を持って、等しく灯りを手に歩く夜は、どんなに素敵だっただろうと思うのです。
ただ、最近だけで17人の村人が現在逮捕・拘束されています。それを思うと、一刻も早く彼らの身を守る闘いも必要になっています。
地道に声を上げ続けて行くこと、諦めずに訴え続けて行くこと、そして世界中に一人でも多くの「連帯の気持ちを持った仲間」を増やしていくこと、愚直でもそれこそが闘いの道だと思います。その為に自分に出来ることは何か、自分なりの道を探るべく遠い日本でワタシも頑張らなくてはなりません。
ワタシはこの下の文章の最後の部分、イスラエルの兵士にあてて書かれた呼びかけを読んで、危うく泣きそうになりました。人口1800人の農村に、突然現れた入植地と分離壁。村人たちが戸惑う間にもどんどん推し進められた工事と造られた既成事実。ただオリーブを育て、ミツバチを育て、山羊や羊を育てていた人々に、突然押しつけられた「農地没収」の宣告。反対の声を上げれば「暴力をあおっている」と逮捕され、銃撃を受け、挙句には失われてしまった一人の命。マスクをして顔を隠し、夜中や明け方に村人の眠りを妨げながら、轟音を上げるジープで押し入り「軍事封鎖地域」と指定し、村への侵入と逮捕を繰り返すイスラエル軍。
一体全体「テロリストはどっちなの？」
以下、ＦＦＪ公式ＨＰより。
＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊
Over 100 hundred Palestinian, Israelis and internationals marched tonight in the streets of Bilin towards the wall, calling the soldiers, only some hundred meters away to stop the raids on the village, the arrests of teenagers in the middle of the night, the wall and the occupation. Marching with flash lights and Palestinian flags in their hands, some of the demonstrators reached a hill not far from the village and facing the soldiers continued calling the soldiers to go home. Inspired by the lights some lit camp fires on the slope of the hill and lit fireworks. The soldiers responded this time only with light bombs that lit the area, showing this special gathering of supporters of Bilin in the Middle of the night, but almost putting the olive trees on fire. If it was not so sad it could have been a beautiful night, but the feeling was clear that any moment the soldiers can shoot tear gas or rubber bulits and people can get killed as some times happens.
This action was initiated by the popular committee against the wall in Bilin, and joined by Israeli and international peace activists after the Israeli army arrested in the past month 17 people, most of them teenagers. In this action, the demonstrators asked the soldiers to stop the nightly raids on the village and the arrests. The people of Bilin have the right to continue the non-violent struggle against the construction of the wall on lands that were confiscated from the village in order to build a settlement on them. The organizers printed a leaflet and left it near the wall for the soldiers to find in the morning.
The leaflet said: “We, the people of Bilin, know that you have practiced a lot all sorts of oppression against us and against our rights. In your eyes we are all wanted only because we choose to struggle for our rights for freedom and dignity. You must realize that we are not afraid of you. On the contrary, we are convinced more than ever that we are doing the right thing. For several weeks now, you have let none of us sleep. Even if you knocked gently on our doors, both you and us know that you are harassing unarmed children and their families. Intimidating children and sick people constitutes as collective punishment on civilian population. These kind of actions have a name: terror. Why do you hide your faces? You are not in some important battle, as your commanders lie to you. Everybody knows your actions are criminal, there is no need to cover your faces. Get rid of the masks, in any way you can not hide the truth – the truth, that by raiding the village and depriving sleep from the entire village throughout weeks, you are acting as terrorists.”
ハイサムが撮った映像はコチラ↓↓↓
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wfq0zV9cUpw&feature=player_embedded
毎週金曜日のデモだけでなく、いろんなパターンを用意しながら、連帯するイスラエル人や世界の活動家たちと歩く夜、そこに危険（時には命の危険さえも）も困難もたくさんあることには違いないけれど、「地球人の一人として仲間を思う連帯の気持ち」を持って、等しく灯りを手に歩く夜は、どんなに素敵だっただろうと思うのです。
ただ、最近だけで17人の村人が現在逮捕・拘束されています。それを思うと、一刻も早く彼らの身を守る闘いも必要になっています。
地道に声を上げ続けて行くこと、諦めずに訴え続けて行くこと、そして世界中に一人でも多くの「連帯の気持ちを持った仲間」を増やしていくこと、愚直でもそれこそが闘いの道だと思います。その為に自分に出来ることは何か、自分なりの道を探るべく遠い日本でワタシも頑張らなくてはなりません。
ワタシはこの下の文章の最後の部分、イスラエルの兵士にあてて書かれた呼びかけを読んで、危うく泣きそうになりました。人口1800人の農村に、突然現れた入植地と分離壁。村人たちが戸惑う間にもどんどん推し進められた工事と造られた既成事実。ただオリーブを育て、ミツバチを育て、山羊や羊を育てていた人々に、突然押しつけられた「農地没収」の宣告。反対の声を上げれば「暴力をあおっている」と逮捕され、銃撃を受け、挙句には失われてしまった一人の命。マスクをして顔を隠し、夜中や明け方に村人の眠りを妨げながら、轟音を上げるジープで押し入り「軍事封鎖地域」と指定し、村への侵入と逮捕を繰り返すイスラエル軍。
一体全体「テロリストはどっちなの？」
以下、ＦＦＪ公式ＨＰより。
＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊
Over 100 hundred Palestinian, Israelis and internationals marched tonight in the streets of Bilin towards the wall, calling the soldiers, only some hundred meters away to stop the raids on the village, the arrests of teenagers in the middle of the night, the wall and the occupation. Marching with flash lights and Palestinian flags in their hands, some of the demonstrators reached a hill not far from the village and facing the soldiers continued calling the soldiers to go home. Inspired by the lights some lit camp fires on the slope of the hill and lit fireworks. The soldiers responded this time only with light bombs that lit the area, showing this special gathering of supporters of Bilin in the Middle of the night, but almost putting the olive trees on fire. If it was not so sad it could have been a beautiful night, but the feeling was clear that any moment the soldiers can shoot tear gas or rubber bulits and people can get killed as some times happens.
This action was initiated by the popular committee against the wall in Bilin, and joined by Israeli and international peace activists after the Israeli army arrested in the past month 17 people, most of them teenagers. In this action, the demonstrators asked the soldiers to stop the nightly raids on the village and the arrests. The people of Bilin have the right to continue the non-violent struggle against the construction of the wall on lands that were confiscated from the village in order to build a settlement on them. The organizers printed a leaflet and left it near the wall for the soldiers to find in the morning.
The leaflet said: “We, the people of Bilin, know that you have practiced a lot all sorts of oppression against us and against our rights. In your eyes we are all wanted only because we choose to struggle for our rights for freedom and dignity. You must realize that we are not afraid of you. On the contrary, we are convinced more than ever that we are doing the right thing. For several weeks now, you have let none of us sleep. Even if you knocked gently on our doors, both you and us know that you are harassing unarmed children and their families. Intimidating children and sick people constitutes as collective punishment on civilian population. These kind of actions have a name: terror. Why do you hide your faces? You are not in some important battle, as your commanders lie to you. Everybody knows your actions are criminal, there is no need to cover your faces. Get rid of the masks, in any way you can not hide the truth – the truth, that by raiding the village and depriving sleep from the entire village throughout weeks, you are acting as terrorists.”
ハイサムが撮った映像はコチラ↓↓↓
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wfq0zV9cUpw&feature=player_embedded
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