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19 August 2009

AT-TUWANI BLOG: "Newsflash-Palestinian nonviolence abides"

by Sam Nichols

[Note: This blog has been edited.  To see the original and Nichols' other blogs, go to http://samuelnichols.blogspot.com/]

 7.10.2009

Today there was a nonviolent training in the South Hebron hills village of At-Tuwani.  There were workshops for women and for men.  People came from Mfaqqara, Rakiis, Juwayya, and of course, At-Tuwani.

This goes out to all the doubters.  This goes out to Obama, for critiquing Palestinian violent resistance without acknowledging Palestinian nonviolent resistance or mentioning Israeli violence.  This goes out to all the people who believe Hamas militants are representative of 100% of the Palestinian population.  This goes out to people who don't recognize that there is an occupation of Palestine, and thus fail to correlate the ongoing resistance with the ongoing occupation.  This goes out to all the people who think the sword is more powerful than the pen.  This goes out to all the people who believe that guns are more powerful than the voice.  This goes out to all the people who believe that power and oppression are louder than the cries for justice and peace.  This goes out to all the people who don't believe there is hope.