Arab Population Accuses: Israel Systematically Acting to Impose Violent Confrontation

This coming Friday, 5 February 2010, a public campaign will be launched to defend the Arab population under the slogan “Meeting challenges and defending existence.” The campaign is organized by the Public Committee for Defending Liberties, under the auspices of the Higher Arab Monitoring Committee. All political parties and movements, in addition to civil society organizations, are partners in this campaign.

The public campaign will be a systematic and collective working method, the goal of which is to halt the institutional and political Israeli escalation as expressed in the demolition of Arab homes, political persecution against the leadership of the Arab population and an escalation of occupation policies in everything concerning East Jerusalem and the al-Aqsa Mosque. Additionally, the campaign will act to prevent the malicious use of legal mechanisms in an attempt to exhaust the Arab leadership. 

The campaign will include, amongst other things, a series of regional public seminars that will commence in the Naqab village of Laqiya on Friday 5 February 2010, in addition to a national mass conference on the eve of the beginning of the sentence of Sheikh Raed Salah, Chairperson of the Islamic Movement. Additionally, it was decided to organize demonstrations that will accompany the court hearings in the political trial against MK Mohammad Barakeh, which will commence on 10 March 2010, in addition to that of MK Sa’id Naffaa.

The campaign will also include a call to the international arena, including the submission of complaints to United Nations committees and demands to discuss the specifics of these complaints, in addition to recognizing the Arab population as a population in danger as a result of the escalation of oppression policies.

Within the campaign there will be a number of messages, first and foremost that we will not recoil from the systematic policy of oppression and that we place full responsibility on the state and its institutions for pushing toward the imposition of a violent confrontation on the Arab population.  

For more information write to Ameer Makhoul, Chairperson of the Public Committee for Defending Freedoms at: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Translation to English by the Alternative Information Center (AIC).