Two New Original AIC articles: On Israel's 60th Anniversary and the 32nd Annual Palestinian Land Day
Bryan Atinsky
On Israel’s 60th Anniversary of Independence, Israeli Crimes and Boycott
Written by Michael Warschawski, Alternative Information Center (AIC)
Throughout the world, Israel is celebrating the 60th anniversary of its birth. These commemorations are based on a double omission that renders theses celebrations unacceptable from any ethical perspective. First, they avoid mentioning the terrible fact that the creation of the State of Israel was made possible and intrinsically linked to the dispossession of the indigenous Arab population and its transformation into a people of refugees. Speaking about the creation of Israel while ignoring the fate of the Arabs of Palestine is like speaking about the creation of the United States of America while ignoring the Native Americans, a historical falsification and an ethical failure. Second, this anniversary is not celebrated in a vacuum, but at a moment during which Israel is one of the states systematically violating the basic rules of international law, humanitarian law and human rights, as confirmed by the International Court of Justice.
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Palestinian Land Day 2008: Eyewitness to the Failures of the “Peace Process”
Written by Ahmad Jaradat, Alternative Information Center (AIC)
Each 30th of March, Palestinians from all over the world commemorate Land Day with demonstrations in order to remind the international community of the ongoing Israeli injustice and oppression against them. Land Day (Yom al-Ard in Arabic), was initially established to honour the killing by Israeli troops of six Palestinians in the Galilee on 30 March 1976, during peaceful protests over the confiscation of Palestinian land from villages in this area. However, as land confiscation is part of a larger policy of Israeli colonialism in the Palestinian Territories, it has now become a day of demonstration to link all Palestinians in their struggle against the occupation and for self-determination and national liberation. Although the Israeli apartheid policies towards Palestinian citizens of Israel, Palestinians from the West Bank and Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, aimed to break and divide Palestinian society, land continued to play an important role in all their lives, and continues to be a core issue of the conflict. For this ruptured community, land is not only the main source of income, but also functions as a source of communal identity, purpose and honour.
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