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Israel Closes Off West Bank in Preparation for Palestinian & Arab ‘Land Day’ Protests

Israel Prepares for Anti Israel Protests | Palestine

Israeli soldiers stand on the border fence between Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights, and Syria, as security is tightened ahead of Land Day, Thursday, March 29, 2012. March 30 is traditionally marked by Israeli Arabs as "Land Day," a time of protests against the confiscation of Arab-owned lands by Israel. In recent years, Palestinians have joined in.(AP Photo/Hamad Almakt)

JERUSALEM (The Blaze/AP) — Israeli security forces in riot gear prepared Friday for Palestinian and Arab demonstrations, deploying at traditional flashpoints and along Israel’s frontiers and confining West Bank Palestinians to their territory.

(Related: Israeli Military Cancels Traditional Passover Vacation & Orders All Troops on Alert)

By midday, minor skirmishes had broken out between protesters and security forces in the Jerusalem area. Palestinians threw rocks and Israeli troops responded with stun grenades. No casualties were reported.

Here’s some alleged footage from the event:

Elsewhere things were calm.

Palestinians were banned from entering from the West Bank except for medical emergencies, and police barred Palestinian men under 40 from visiting a volatile Jerusalem holy site. Military deployments along Israel‘s borders were reinforced to repulse any attempts to breach Israel’s borders as demonstrators did twice last year, touching off deadly clashes with Israeli troops.

The Land Day rallies are an annual event marked by Israeli Arabs and Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza who protest what they say are discriminatory Israeli land policies. Supporters in neighboring Arab countries also planned marches near the Israeli frontier.

Israel Prepares for Anti Israel Protests | Palestine

Security forces were bracing for trouble in the Jerusalem area and in northern Israel, where a large portion of Israel’s Arab minority lives. Troops fanned out along the frontiers with Lebanon and Syria in the north, Jordan to the east, and Egypt and the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip to the south.

In southern Lebanon, more than 3,000 Lebanese and Palestinians gathered outside the Crusader-built Beaufort castle 15 kilometers (9 miles) from the Israeli border, waving Palestinian flags, singing Palestinian national songs and performing the traditional dabke dance. Security forces kept them from moving any closer to the border.

Sobhiyeh Mizari, 70, said she always taught her 12 children “never to forget Palestine.”

“We will liberate our land against the will of Israel and its backers,” said Mizari, adding that her husband was killed in Israeli shelling of Lebanon in 1978. “I would have preferred to be at the border today.”

Israel Prepares for Anti Israel Protests | Palestine

Israeli soldiers killed at least 38 Arab demonstrators on two other charged occasions last year after protesters headed for Israel’s northern frontier. Palestinian and Arab authorities said they would keep marchers from reaching borders this time to minimize clashes.

Several dozen Palestinians who live in east Jerusalem waved their national flag outside Jerusalem’s walled Old City. “One, one homeland!” they chanted.

Because of restrictions preventing them from entering the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam’s third-holiest site, the demonstrators performed their communal Muslim Friday prayers where they stood, praying on their flags instead of traditional mats.

They were surrounded by what appeared to be an equal number of Israeli security forces – police on horseback, riot police with batons and shields, military police and regular blue-clad forces.

Many Palestinians, energized by Arab Spring uprisings that have overturned decades-old authoritarian regimes, see massive, coordinated marches as one of the most effective strategies to draw attention to their cause.

“After the Arab revolutions, there’s awareness of the importance of popular participation,” said Arab activist Jafar Farah. “This has rattled the Arab regimes, and now it’s frightening the Israeli government.”

Yesterday, The Blaze reported that Israel Defense Forces will not have the Passover break that is traditionally offered to troops and personnel. Instead, all staffers and units will be on alert and acting as per normal.

Comments (21)

  • MetalPatriot
    Posted on March 31, 2012 at 6:20pm

    I pray for Israel…seriously.

    I can’t stand people being bullied.

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  • SamIamTwo
    Posted on March 31, 2012 at 8:51am

    Bolton Charges Obama Purposely Undermining Israel

    http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/bolton-israel-iran-obama/2012/03/29/id/434288?s=al&promo_code=E8D1-1

    And I do believe Obama did this…in previous centuries a president and left nuts in the house and senate would be run out on a rail…today…not a bloody whisper.

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  • deano24
    Posted on March 30, 2012 at 10:24pm

    I have a feeling that the GMJ movement is a setup for the Israeli’s to make them look bad.

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  • universalphilos
    Posted on March 30, 2012 at 6:35pm

    A prophecy from January 29, 1988: “This is a question in general. In 1973, you spoke of the Red Horse, to beware of the Red Horse. Who is the Red Horse? And who is China?”

    “China is the Dragon. And the Red Horse is Pakistan. For what you have given unto this country, Pakistan, you have given unto the ‘Black September.’ And for what the nations shall give unto the power of the Palestinians is but a short time they shall have it back, for this is a nation of terrorists, murders, who have cared not, for they have not known of God, nor shall they ever − for they are the Anti-Christ.
    Yet, they shall come unto you and say, ‘Woe is me.’
    But when they kill you and kill your children, and rob your churches − and they have already done these things and proven themselves that which they are − they condemned themselves in the eyes of God. And we say unto you, the sins of the mother and father shall go into the fifth generation. For as in the days of Lot, the Lord would look upon them and say, ‘SHOW ME TEN RIGHTEOUS MEN AND WE SHALL NOT DESTROY THEM.’
    But yet, you have freedom of choice.”

    [Google Black September, the movement begun by Yasser Arafat in 1970, later called the Father of modern terrorism.]

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    • universalphilos
      Posted on March 31, 2012 at 3:04am

      July 7, 1974: “For the Red Horse [Pakistan] hands out a false hand of peace, and the Bear [Russia] stands and sharpens its claws. Leste the Eagle [U.S.A.] be not ready to fly and spread its wings and protect this land of Israel, then Armageddon should be lost….
      “We say unto you…war shall come once again upon your earth, yet there shall be rumors of war before this time….Yet the Lord, God, shall take those nations who should stand as nations under God, and therefore, protect of them….
      “The northern proportion of your European nation shall divide and separate. The armies shall march forward. Cities shall be obliterated. Great masses of land shall be turned into nothingness. Yet the earth, and God, shall prove that He is the God of all. For with His hand He shall turn the tide of battle.”

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  • Mamma Bear
    Posted on March 30, 2012 at 4:51pm

    What a setup! Bring the woman and children out and then be sure and get it on film. If you don’t get it on film then be sure and get some old footage and let the media play that. Foolish

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  • thetrumpet2012
    Posted on March 30, 2012 at 12:33pm

    Soon the muslims will take East Jerusalem by force. Read the bible and you know that’s the start of the tribulation. Check out http://www.thetrumpet.com. Time to prepare fellow Blazers!

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    • db321
      Posted on March 30, 2012 at 5:25pm

      Hey Trumpet – I agree with you – I’m prayed up, packed up and looking up – I’m looking forward to going up.

      They may try to attack Jerusalem – but when the dust settles – Israel and Jerusalem will still be standing. Satan has mighty power, but God has almighty power! Israel is the “Apple of Gods Eye”
      God Said – What you do to Israel – God will do to you! I‘m glad America’s borders are safe!

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    • SamIamTwo
      Posted on March 31, 2012 at 8:55am

      What wait, we have safe borders? last time I talked to my relative who is serving on the border, that ain’t so.

      Asked what should we do, his reply to you would be to send in the marines.

      Report Post » SamIamTwo  
  • The_Jerk
    Posted on March 30, 2012 at 11:07am

    Walled in ghettos. Just like the Reich.

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    • jeffile
      Posted on March 30, 2012 at 12:07pm

      The Israeli‘s didn’t create the ghettos. Place the blame where the blame lies.

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    • tzion
      Posted on March 30, 2012 at 4:53pm

      Holocaust Ghettos were walled in urban areas that were intentionally overpopulated. People were forcibly resettled to these locations, which all suffered from a short supply of food and other essentials. Disease alone caused hundreds if not thousands of deaths.

      For this to be a Ghetto, you’d have to show me that the area is at least as overpopulated as the smallest Ghetto was under the Nazis.

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  • cloudsofwar
    Posted on March 30, 2012 at 9:59am

    wheres rev wright? i thought he was going to lead the march on Israel? did he chicken out?

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  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on March 30, 2012 at 9:19am

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    Ok General when the Palestinians are there in a great big bunch chunking rocks. Drone Strike……

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  • TEARS FOR AMERICA
    Posted on March 30, 2012 at 8:54am

    While Obama gives Israel’s secrets away to her enemies, best buddy Jeremiah Wright aligns himself against God’s chosen people…good luck on that one…God is not mocked.

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  • Locked
    Posted on March 30, 2012 at 8:39am

    “ISRAELI CLOSES OFF WEST BANK IN PREPARATION FOR PALESTINIAN & ARAB ‘LAND DAY’ PROTESTS”

    Which Israeli did it? Must be a Jewish Superman is one Israeli can close off all of the West Bank!

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on March 30, 2012 at 8:36am

    Good luck and God’s blessing Israel; with Obama stabbing you in the back yet again, you will need it.

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    • EqualJustice
      Posted on March 30, 2012 at 9:06am

      AND the worst part is.. many American Jews STILL support Obama? What’s WRONG with them? Is it that difficult for some to ADMIT they were WRONG.. DEAD WRONG?

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    • Jenny Lind
      Posted on March 30, 2012 at 11:20am

      He will pay the price for his choices to go against God’s will-worse he is in a position to help and denies it to God’s chosen. Glad I’m not him, and very glad so many in America understand and support Israel.

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on March 30, 2012 at 8:36am

    Good old Reverend Wright will be there. I sure would hate it if a Palestinian rocket landed on him.

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    • SamIamTwo
      Posted on March 31, 2012 at 8:56am

      Yeah, my wife mentioned that to me and I thought, that sounds about right…Obama’s spiritual leader.

      Report Post » SamIamTwo  

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