700 Israelis arrested for protesting

Crescent · January 17, 2009, 4:54pm

It seems as the “only democracy” in the middle east is showing its “democratic” colours.

PACIFICA – About 700 Israelis have been arrested for protesting against the war on Gaza since the beginning of the deadly offensive, said Neve Gordon, chair of the Department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel on Monday.

“700 Israelis have been arrested since this war began, because they protested this war. This has not made it to an international media, and it’s an act of intimidation by the state against those who protest the war,” Gordon told Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!.

On the number of Israeli deaths, Gordon said: “between ten and twenty people, Israelis, have died from rockets in the eight years that rockets have been launched from the Gaza Strip into Israel. During the same amount of time, 4,000 Israelis have died from car accidents.”

But Israel still used that as an excuse to bomb Gaza.

“From these twenty people, we’re allowed to enter into the Gaza Strip and bomb them from the air into their cage and kill 275 children,” said Gordon, who is also the author of the book Israel’s Occupation.

Gordon criticized Israel’s continuous violations of international law.

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Waahid_Doyum · January 17, 2009, 8:41pm

Re: 700 Israelis arrested for protesting

At least they can even protest, unlike in Arab countries if somebody even decided to protest against Hamas terrorism.