Archive for the 'Fasayil' Category

PRESS RELEASE - ISRAELI AUTHORITIES BAN THE BUILDING OF A SCHOOL

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

For More Info Contact Tom Hayes or Sarah Cobham on 07846506710 or thewallmustall@riseup.net

www.brightonpalestine.org/blog / tubas.brightonpalestine.org

This summer, the Popular Committee of Fasayil, together with the Palestinian Save the Jordan Valley Initiative of the Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign and the Brighton-Tubas Friendship and Solidarity Group, started to build the first and only primary school in Fasayil, a village in the heart of the Jordan Valley. The grassroots project is part of a solidarity project between community groups in Brighton and Tubas region in Palestine.

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Take Action against the Demolition of Fasayil School - What you Can Do

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

URGENT CALL

Palestinian Primary School in Fasayil
to be demolished on the 29th of November!

Education not Occupation

Stop the Occupation from destroying yet another community project aimed at
building a future for Palestinians
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Palestinian farmers under the Occupation

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

How do you make a living as a farmer when your land and water has been stolen from you by the Israeli invaders? The answer is that you don’t. You join the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in refugee camps in Jordan, or you work for a pittance in the illegal Israeli settlements spreading like a cancer over the once fertile land of Palestine. (more…)

Settlement Slavery

Sunday, October 28th, 2007

Waking up before dawn in the small village of Fasayil, deep in the heart of the Jordan Valley, we did not know what to expect. We were hoping to see, and maybe speak to some Palestinians that work in the nearby Israeli settlement farm: Tomer. (more…)

A Tale of Two Worlds

Sunday, October 28th, 2007
Edward Said used to say that Western support for the Palestinian cause could only be built through the creation of a national narrative strong enough to challenge Israel’s, and to do this the same story would have to be re-told over and over again until the world starts listening. Writing about a first visit to Palestine feels a bit like becoming a part of that essential retelling. Although I have read hundreds of accounts of everything I am now experiencing, nothing had quite prepared me for the reality behind the words. (more…)

When there is nowhere left to go

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

 

Life in Upper Fasayil is precarious. It is in the Jordan Valley that comprises 30% of the Palestinian West Bank. Since 1967 the local community have gone from being a thriving farming community to a group of families squeezed into a villages with mud roads, single story houses, and animal pens. All the farming land around their village has been stolen from them by Israeli settlers, now used to produce crops for profit. They are prohibited from building any new buildings, or from repairing their existing homes. (more…)

This is life in the Jordan Valley

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

We are now in Tubas which is a largish town in the north of the Jordan valley. We are staying with a delightful family, the father(quite young) is a journalist for the Palestinian news and writes all sorts of articles on what is happening here with the occupation etc. He told us that he met Tony Blair at a school in the Jordan valley which had just been set up bythe Palestinian authority. He was not very impressed. Tony was a bit surpised to realise that some of the children did not know who he was. He was surrounded by body guards. By all accounts he was told by the children about the awful hassle they experience every day going through the checkpoints.They explained that they are regularly made to raise their t -shirts to check they have no weapons-No reaction whatsoever. (more…)

Press Release - Brighton Residents Visit Palestine

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

BRIGHTON-TUBAS SOLIDARITY GROUP PRESS RELEASE

A delegation of ten people from Brighton arrived in the Tubas region of occupied Palestine this weekend. Their week-long visit is aimed at fostering links between grassroots groups in Brighton and Tubas.

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Brighton - Tubas Friendship and Solidarity Group delegation are now in Palestine

Sunday, October 21st, 2007

A ten person delegation, organised by the Brighton - Tubas Friendship and Solidarity Group arrived in Palestine this week. Watch this space for their reports.


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