Mazin Qumsiyeh
17 May 2011

My family updated you using my email on what happened on Nakba day (the three messages are now posted at my blog http://popular-resistance.blogspot.com/2011/05/nakba-events-and-arrest-of-dr-qumsiyeh.html).   Hundreds of us were kidnapped by the apartheid soldiers from demonstration and hundreds were injuried and scores were martyred.  Before I give my report I wanted to thank every one who took action. I have far too many emails to thank each of you who wrote me and I do not know who are the hundreds of others who called or wrote to officials, media etc (I do know from inside information that hundreds did write just to the US embassy as an example).  The level of communication and action around Nakba was inspiring and critical around the world.  Ben Gurion said about the ethjnic cleansing of Palestine that “the old will die and the young will forget”.   Coming on the heels of an Israeli Knesset law to bar and suppress any comemorations of the Nakba, the day would actually turn out to be amazing. This day was the most important May 15 event since the weeks after May 15, 1948 when thousands of refugees “infiltrated” (as the Zionists labeled it) the borders to return to their homes and lands (a return that also meant many of them were shot on sight or re-expelled).

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The individual wearing a KATA sweatshirt @0:09 in this video and others appear to be wearing the same stocking cap. What are the words on the caps, anyone?

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Update 16 May 2011

via
NYT: Palestinians Mark 63rd Anniversary of the ‘Nakba’

more info:
Photo: Gun-toting Israeli soldier disguised as Palestinian woman

By Tamim Elyan / Daily News Egypt
May 15, 2011, 4:42 pm

CAIRO: Convoys carrying activists and aid heading to the Rafah border were turned back at Ismailia on Sunday as hundreds protested in front of the Israeli embassy in Cairo to support the “Third Palestinian Intifada.”

Activists said numerous checkpoints were set up on the road towards Rafah and no one was allowed to pass unless their national ID identified North Sinai as their residence.

A number of participants were arrested by the military, activists told Daily News Egypt.

“All convoys were blocked on Friday and Saturday at Al-Salam Bridge and Ahmed Hamdy Tunnel and were forced to turn back by the army. However, we decided to organize a protest in front of the Israeli embassy instead,” said Mohamed Al-Hadary, an activist who was part of the convoy that moved from Tahrir Square on Friday.

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Sky News
7:35pm UK, Sunday May 15, 2011

At least 14 people have reportedly been killed after Israeli troops opened fire on protesters on the country’s borders with Lebanon, Syria and Gaza.

via #IsraelsBloodySunday