Israeli army to demolish Rachel Corrie Peace Center

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The Rachel Corrie Peace Center in East Jerusalem is faced with the same fate that befell its namesake — to be crushed under the wheels of a bulldozer. You can help.
Dear Friends,

The Labor Art and Mural Project's delegation to Palestine/Israel is facing a grave challenge: This morning, four cars of Israeli authorities - the IDF, the Civil Administration, and the police department arrived at the work camp in East Jerusalem where LaMP activists are helping to construct a peace center in memory of Rachel Corrie. The authorities issued a 'stop work' order and confiscated building materials. They also announced that the building and mural - both scheduled for completion on Thursday - would shortly be demolished.

Israeli and Palestinian activists are massing to spend the night in the building, or arranging to be at the site at 4:30 tomorrow morning in an attempt to stall or prevent the demolition. Some activists will carry out civil disobedience. Your messages of protest are crucial as well.

The building, called the Beit Arabia Peace Center, is the project of the Israeli Committee against House Demolitions. As an act of resistance to the occupation, ICAHD is holding a work camp to rebuild on the site of the home of Arabia and Salim Shawamreh of Anata. The Israeli authorities have demolished the Shawamreh home four times. In addition to memorializing Rachel Corrie, the center will memorialize the death of Nuha Makadma Sweidan, a pregnant Palestinian woman killed in Gaza in March 2003 when an Israeli bulldozer demolished her home on top of her. The center will house a permanent exhibit of the ongoing tragedy of house demolitions, and will also serve as a center for educational activities, study tours, activist events and peace-building between Palestinians and Israelis. It is poignantly located across a valley from a new Israeli police and interrogation center.

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1. The Plan is to flatten it all.

no holds barred. doesn't matter what it is. It is called justifable retaliation and no one who can is stopping it. Jersualem bombing justifies it and that is the name of the game. If fact the demolitions never stopped in the last three years.

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2. So Israel can murder an American citizen in cold blood,

which is exactly what happened to Rachel Corrie, a citizen of the country from which Israel receives most of its economic and military support, and not only does nothing at all happen and the U.S. government not give a damn, but the Israeli government can act with impunity? Absolutely sickening!