CPTnet
18 May 2007
 AT-TUWANI BLOG: "Two people with a Coleman tent have the power to dictate
where a village can and cannot graze."

NOTE: The following blog entries by CPTer Heidi Schramm have been edited.
To see her original entries and accompanying photos go to
http://heidischramm.livejournal.com]

10th April 2007

All good things must come to an end, and today may have been the last day of
grazing next to [the Israeli settlement outpost of Avigail.] Three teenage
settler boys came out of the outpost and, after over an hour of screaming,
kicking sheep and provoking the shepherds, succeeded in starting a fight
with the Palestinians. They called the police, and when the police arrived,
they detained the Palestinians and laughed and joked with the settlers. Two
Palestinians, including one from Tuwani, were arrested. They will be held
for at least one night.

I was in Khoruba today, where the Havat Ma'on settlers came out with their
faces covered and threw rocks with slingshots. I always think of Bart
Simpson or Dennis the Menace when I see the slingshots, but when the rocks
are flying through the air and you can hear them but can't see them, it is a
really scary weapon and becomes impossible to associate with a childhood
toy.

11th April 2007

The settlers from Havat Ma'on have begun to expand their outpost. Last
night, they set up a tent and two of them camped out over night. [Two
Operation Dove coworkers] saw them climbing out of it and stretching this
morning during school patrol. We called the police and DCO, but only
soldiers came out today and they say they can do nothing about it. In light
of all that has been happening in Avigail, this seems so small, but it has
me more worried than just about anything else. They are camping on a hill
that the Palestinians reclaimed just this season and graze their sheep on
almost every day. It makes me sick that two people with a Coleman tent have
the power to dictate where a village can and cannot graze.