{"id":15875,"date":"2010-01-02T08:39:44","date_gmt":"2010-01-02T08:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anjameulenbelt.nl\/weblog\/2010\/01\/02\/sabbat-in-gaza\/"},"modified":"2010-01-02T08:43:21","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T08:43:21","slug":"sabbat-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anjameulenbelt.nl\/weblog\/2010\/01\/02\/sabbat-in-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabbat in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Even wist ik niet wat ik zag, toen het Internationaal Strafhof in Den Haag de uitspraak zou doen dat het bouwen van de muur illegaal was en een groep mensen er een wake hielden. Een man die er evident uitzag als een orthodoxe jood, zwarte hoed, peijes, en in zijn hand hield hij… een Palestijnse vlag. Even dacht ik te maken te hebben met een gek of iemand die de boel op stelten kwam zetten. Maar nee. De man kwam van Neturei Karta, een organisatie van orthodoxe joden tegen het zionisme.
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\nNu wordt er vaak gedaan alsof in principe alle joden vierkant achter Israel staan, maar eens was het heel normaal om je uit te spreken tegen het zionisme, dat waren niet alleen de joden die geloofden dat het mogelijk moest zijn om in de westerse wereld te leven als jood en als staatsburger van het land waar je woonde waaronder veel intellectuelen, het waren ook de mensen van de Bund, de socialistische joden die eenheid wilden tussen alle proletari\u00ebrs, en dus ook tussen Arabieren en joden, en het waren de orthodoxe joden, die Jeruzalem wel zagen als spiritueel centrum, maar die er niet in geloofden dat het nodig was om een land te bezitten en overheersen. Het eerste verzet tegen de zionistische onderneming in Palestina kwam van de daar wonende orthodoxe joden, die, en ze hebben erg gelijk gekregen, dachten dat het vestigen van een joodse staat het evenwicht tussen de er wonende joden, christenen en moslims volledig zou verstoren, en zou leiden tot eeuwige strijd. (Zie hierover het boek van Yakov Rabkin, In naam van de Thora, De geschiedenis van de natizionistische joden. Ik kocht het bij de Slegte)<\/p>\n

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Gisteren waren ze er weer, de mannen in het zwart met Palestijnse vlaggen in de hand, bij de mars naar Gaza. Uiteindelijk werden van de 1400 deelnemers 100 mensen toegelaten. De vier mannen van Neturei Karta gingen in Gaza sabbat vieren. Hier.<\/a><\/p>\n

Het was niet de eerste keer dat de in Gaza waren. Arafat stelde een van hen symbolisch aan als adviseur voor joodse zaken, en toen hij in 2004 in Parijs stierf was daar ook een delegatie van Neturei Karta die voor hem bad. Kort geleden waren ze in Gaza om kennis te maken met president Haniya.<\/p>\n

Over de Gaza Freedom March en de demonstraties verscheen een artikel in de Jerusalem Post. <\/p>\n

The Jerusalem Post
\nJan 1, 2010 1:19 | Updated Jan 1, 2010 9:58<\/p>\n

Hundreds protest Israel’s Gaza policies as Sderot rally releases peace
\nballoons
\nBy RON FRIEDMAN<\/p>\n

A year after Operation Cast Lead, hundreds of Arab Israelis and
\nleft-wing activists, led by Arab MKs, gathered at the Erez crossing to
\nthe northern Gaza Strip on Thursday to protest against Israel’s Gaza
\npolicies and to express solidarity with the Strip’s residents.<\/p>\n

At the same time, on the Gazan side of the border, 100 foreign
\nactivists and some 500 Gazans held their own demonstration.<\/p>\n

At both protests, people held Palestinian flags and banners and
\nshouted slogans accusing Israel of war crimes and calling on it to
\n“end the siege.”<\/p>\n

During the demonstration in Israel, Hamas Prime Minister Ismail
\nHaniyeh addressed the protesters, via mobile phone, thanking them for
\ntheir support and telling them that Palestinians in Gaza remained
\nstrong despite the war.<\/p>\n

“We have overcome the occupation, and will meet at the Aksa Mosque in
\nJerusalem, which will remain Arab and Muslim,” said Haniyeh.<\/p>\n

Lana Khaskia, general coordinator for the Women’s Coalition for Peace,
\nsaid people came from across Israel to take part in the demonstration.<\/p>\n

“People came from as far away as Haifa and Acre to show solidarity
\nwith the people of Gaza and to show that we are a united people
\ndespite the barriers thatIsrael placed between us,” Khaskia said. “We
\nremember the war crimes and will continue to take action to end the
\nsiege. The blockade is an ongoing war crime. Children in Gaza suffer
\nfrom anemia because of malnutrition. Gazans cannot rebuild their homes
\nbecause Israel won’t allow them to import building materials.”<\/p>\n

She said that the demonstration was part of an international campaign
\ncalled the Gaza Freedom March, organized by American anti-war group
\nCode Pink.<\/p>\n

“Some of the international activists were able to make it into Gaza
\nand join the protests, but hundreds more are stuck in Egypt, not
\nallowed to enter because of the Egyptian government’s restrictions,”
\nKhaskia said.<\/p>\n

According to a press release issued by Code Pink, 1,362 activists from
\n43 countries were prepared to enter Gaza through Egypt’s Rafah
\ncrossing on December 27, but were barred from doing so by President
\nHosni Mubarak. Activists later accepted an Egyptian offer to allow 100
\ndelegates through.<\/p>\n

One activist who did make it into Gaza was Rabbi Dovid Feldman, from
\nNew York. Feldman, who belongs to the fiercely anti-Zionist Natorei
\nKarta sect, saidIsrael’s offensive in Gaza last winter was “against
\nPalestine, against Judaism, against the Jewish people and against
\nhumanity.”<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a small group of Israeli youngsters led by Sderot Mayor
\nDavid Buskila and Minister for Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs
\nYuli Edelstein gathered near Kibbutz Nir Am, opposite Gaza, to release
\nballoons attached with messages of peace from thechildren of Sderot
\nfor the children of Gaza. ( See story below.)<\/p>\n

Edelstein said he heard that there was a demonstration being planned
\nand thought Israel had to do something to counter the messages
\nconveyed by the pro-Palestinian activists.<\/p>\n

“We wanted to do something that went beyond the ping-pong of
\naccusations and counter-accusations. We wanted to convey a different
\nmessage,” he said. “Their side was full of hate, while our side sent a
\nmessage of longing for peace.”<\/p>\n

Edelstein told The Jerusalem Post that the peace rally illustrated the
\ndifferences between the Israeli and Palestinian societies.<\/p>\n

“Israeli children take it for granted that despite all the fear and
\nsuffering that they went through, their government owes them a normal
\nlife. The fact that Haniyeh and his cronies steal from theirchildren
\nand use their resources to buy rockets cannot be blamed on Israel,” he
\nsaid.<\/p>\n

Edelstein said he was concerned by the foreign activists who came to
\nsupport the Palestinians.<\/p>\n

“Some of them are cynical, radical left-wing activists whose world is
\nblack and white, where Israel is always in the black, but others don’t
\nreally understand what’s going on and instead of promoting peace and
\nhelping the children of Gaza, they are assisting the murderers and
\nterrorists of Hamas,” he said.<\/p>\n

Khaskia said she was aware of the Israeli demonstration taking place
\nat the same time as theirs, but said the two groups could not cooperate.<\/p>\n

“They were carrying Israeli flags and for us it was clear it [what was
\nneeded] was a protest against Israel’s policies. We waved Palestinian
\nflags, the children of Sderot were waving the flag of the country that
\ncommitted war crimes a year ago,” she said.<\/p>\n

AP contributed to this report.<\/p>\n

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