[WCUSP] [womeninblack] Tali Fahima lights torch at Yesh Gvul alternative Independence Day ceremony

[yvonne simmons]

> Subject: [womeninblack] Tali Fahima lights torch at
> Yesh Gvul alternative
> 	Independence Day ceremony
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> >           >                   Tali Fahima lights
torch at Yesh
> Gvul alternative Independence Day ceremony in
> Jerusalem, in honor of Jenin's Al-Aqsa Brigades
> commander 
> 
>                   Roi Mandel Published:  04.23.07,
> 22:39 / Israel News  
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>                   Lefist Tali Fahima lit a torch
> Monday in honor of Zakaria Zubeidi, the commander of
> Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades (Fatah's military wing).
> "I light this for my friend Zakaria Zubeidi, with
> whom I have demolished fortresses," she said. 
> 
> 
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>                   Fahima, along with some 2,000
> other people, was participating in an alternative
> torch-lighting ceremony for Independence Day led by
> the Yesh Gvul (There is a Border) movement, in front
> of the prime minister's office in Jerusalem. 
> 
> 
> 
>                   Just like in the formal state
> ceremony, 12 torches were lit. In this case, they
> were meant to serve as a reminder of "violence and
> occupation" as well as the "injustices against the
> 'other' in Israel". 
> 
> 
> 
>                   As in the past ten years, the
> ceremony took place at the spot where 'Peace Now'
> member Emil Greenzweig was killed during an anti-war
> demonstration in 1983. 
> 
> 
> 
>                   Among the torch-bearers at the
> alternative service were Prof. Kelman Ettleman - a
> member of Israel's communist party, Johannes Bayu
> – the director of African refugee development,
> peace activist Anat Hoffman, human rights lawyer
> Gaby Laski, and women's rights activist Lakia
> Yardeni.
> 
> 
> 
>                   Bayu called on Israel to accept
> African refugees, stating that centuries of Jewish
> persecution had created an Israeli obligation to
> help others.  "If Israel will not protect persecuted
> people, who will?" he said.
> 
> 
> 
>                   Another torch-bearer Tamir Foster,
> who had refused his call to reserves during the
> second Lebanon war, was told by his father prior to
> the ceremony: "Tali Fahima will be speaking before
> you; you'll be speaking after a corruptor of
> Israel."  
> 
> 
> 
>                   Fahima, while lighting her torch,
> spoke in honor of, "Palestinian captives, political
> prisoners who are Israeli citizens, Lebanese
> captives in Israel, and the Israeli captives in
> Lebanon and Gaza." She also referred to the
> rocket-plagued residents of Sderot and the Western
> Negev as "captives of the Israeli government's
> destructive policy."  
> 
> 
> 
>                   Fahima said that "Israel calls
> Palestinian political prisoners 'security prisoners'
> and uses this categorization as a tool to ignore the
> issue of the Palestinians' struggle for liberty. 
> 
> 
> 
>                   "I call on anyone who wants in
> their own life liberty, mutual respect and equality
> to use their body as a human shield to stop Israel's
> violence in the territories, which is becoming
> crueler, and thus, tightening around our necks like
> a noose," she said. 
> 
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> 
> 
>                   Fahima served time in jail for
> contact with a foreign agent, transferring
> information to the enemy, and refusal to obey legal
> orders after her connections to Zubeidi were
> revealed. She was released in early 2007 on the
> condition that she is not allowed to leave the
> country or enter the Palestinian territories. 
> 
> 
> 
>                   Regarding her connection with the
> al-Aqsa commander, Fahima said at the ceremony that
> "true friendship does not fall apart in a
> storm…The Shin Bet cannot destroy the strong
> connection between us or the hope that we have
> built."
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