International Solidarity Movement Nonviolence. Justice. Freedom. Originally published by the Palestine News Agency http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?id=4208 RAMALLAH, October 2, 2005, (WAFA)- Tens of Foreign and Israeli pacifists joined Palestinian peasants in picking olive behind the Apartheid Wall in the village of Bil’in, near Ramallah. The pacifists and Palestinian ...
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