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ARTICLE MANIFESTER  WE APPEAL TO THE UN Le 14 03 2005 à RAMALLAH
Despite Occupation Checkpoints and Blocked Gates of the PNA Compound: Over 5000 Protestors Refuse to Accept the Apartheid Wall Making Their Voices Heard in Front of Kofi Annan
Latest News, The Grassroots Palestinian Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, March 14th, 2005
RAMALLAH (WEST BANK), PALESTINE - While villagers were delayed, and in many instances barred entry at Occupation Checkpoints throughout the West Bank, a huge crowd of over 5000 thronged the streets of Ramallah to protest at the gates of the Muqata’, the compound of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), where Secretary-General of the UN Kofi Annan was holding talks with Mahmoud Abbas.
The crowd assembled at al-Manara Square in the morning, with numbers swelling as they marched through the city to the Muqata' to deliver a memorandum to Kofi Annan, issued by the National Committee To Resist The Apartheid Wall.
In front of the barred main gates of the PNA Compound locking out the people and their demands, rallying speeches from the representatives of the local committees to resist the Apartheid Wall buoyed the crowd. Slogans and chanting condemned the Secretary-General for the UN policy that fails to apply pressure on Israel to abide by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) decision that the Apartheid Wall is illegal, and must be torn down. Anger was directed at the latest UN report on the Wall, published in February, which regards the Apartheid Wall as a matter of compensation, funding and humanitarian aid, and not as a political issue intrinsic to the whole colonial settler-based project which Israel is escalating in the West Bank. The UN report even goes so far as to adopt and give legitimacy to the Israeli position which calls the Apartheid Wall a 'security' measure.
Deep hostility has been created by Annan’s refusal to visit any areas of the Apartheid Wall, or any of the refugee camps which had invited him.
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La double mobilisation (anti-guerre et anti-mur) a permis la défaite de la doctrine de Bush et Sharon Le 26 10 2004
[...] La manière dont Israël a décidé et construit son 'Mur' a entraîné le même processus de refus, articulé sur le précédent [la mobilisation contre la guerre en Irak et le refus de l'ONU de la valider]. Il est apparu en effet de plus en plus clair aux yeux de l'opinion, touchée à des degrés divers par la campagne contre le Mur, que le droit international établit des obligations claires pour la puissance occupante concernant les intérêts de la population civile occupée et que ceux-ci ont été violés de manière flagrante avec la construction du mur. Par conséquent, c'est cette double mobilisation : anti-guerre et anti-mur, diffusant à une échelle de masse inédite une conscience publique plus rigoureuse axant la nouvelle culture de la paix sur la nécessité du droit, qui a permis la défaite, au moins sur le plan idéologique, de la doctrine de Bush et Sharon.[...]
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