Some 1,500 Israeli Arabs take part in Land Day protest in Lod

Demonstrators protest against government demolitions of illegal houses in Lod, other 'racist' government policies, burn pictures of Lieberman and carry signs reading 'Enough with the Ethnic Cleansing.'

By Gili Cohen and Haaretz Service Tags: Israel news

Some 1,500 Israeli Arabs protested in Lod on Tuesday against government policies which affect Israel's Arab sector, launching the events of Land Day, to be marked on Wednesday.

The protesters were demonstrating against the government demolition of the houses of the Abu Eid family, which left some 50 family members, 30 of them children, without a home.

The protesters raised Palestinian flags, carried signs reading "Enough with the Ethnic Cleansing" and burned pictures of Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman.

Israeli Arab Knesset members and Jewish residents of mixed cities also participated in the protest.

Ibrahim Abu Saluk, a member of the Popular Committee in Lod, condemned the burning of Lieberman's photo saying, "This is not the point of the protest, and whoever did that did it on his own accord. We want to show that the policy of demolitions is not the solution."

Abu Saluk emphasized that the main reason for the protest was to demonstrate against the demolition of houses in Lod.

"This problem requires an urgent solution," Abu Saluk said. "The authorities report 1,600 illegal houses throughout the city of Lod, and if they carry out the demolitions the same way they did with the Abu Eid family, a serious humanitarian problem will emerge. There is a problem here and the authorities are ignoring it. People are living here as though they were in a refugee camp."

On Land Day, which is marked on March 30, Israel's Arab citizens protest the expropriation of their lands by the government.

The first Land Day protests were held on March 30, 1976, to protest government expropriation of Galilee land for "security and settlement purposes." Those protests deteriorated into violent clashes with security forces, leaving six Israeli Arab protesters dead.

Thursday, March 10, 2011

World 2011 Cyber Word AE2011

Inside Outside.
I want to describe and share my experience Wednesday March 9th 2011 and itś Implications.
For the first time I was at Cinema City Mall Rishon Lezion which is very New Mall.
IBM invited us to an hours presentation of IBM Software Group with a lot of talk about Cloud Technology.
After that we saw "True Grit" the Cohen Brothers film on a very Large Screen and all the sound Effects.
When I arrived at the "City" it was rain and stormy weather. Inside we were cut off from the Outside News and Weather. Fully Air Conditioning and Heating. It was very Middle Class and I would say Upper Middle Class With big parking lots. You did not have too spend any Money but there are many attractions.
Now True Grit is very much Cowboyś and Indians period. But Texas is Texas and USA Federalism is basically the same for over 200 years. Texas is still very different to Massachusetts New York Chicago and California.
But I think the Cohen's (Coen's) are hinting on Present Law and Order, Lawlessness Power Violence and Politics Today. Karl Marx thought a revolution would happen in GB or Germany and he did not live to see it in Russia. All that Collapsed in 1989. Now we are going through the "Arab 1989" as some call it but the end results are not clear following the 2009 Crunch. And the Implications on the rest of the World, India, Pakistan and China too.
Inside I mean also those humans kept in Prison for Long Periods and In General living in "Bubbles".
Uncle Sam