{"id":4884,"date":"2006-08-21T13:56:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-21T10:56:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-14T19:12:48","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T17:12:48","slug":"epalestine-israeli-soldiers-attacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2006\/08\/epalestine-israeli-soldiers-attacking\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli soldiers attacking Palestinians with Nasrallah screen savers on their mobile phones"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Another reflection of what we are dealing with and at what level…what to do…cry, laugh, both, etc.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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I wonder, when Apartheid was at its end, did the government\/police start lashing out in such uncontrollable ways.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Israeli soldiers attacking Palestinians with Nasrallah screen savers on their mobile phones  <\/strong><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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(Jenin) Ali Samoudi    <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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As the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s popularity has grown, so has bizarre Israeli behavior. It is difficult to find another adjective to represent what is happening. Israeli soldiers are attacking Palestinian young people with Nasarallah’s photo as their mobile phone screen saver.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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And this is not because the Israeli administration believes these to be people working with Hezbollah or even to be members of the armed Palestinian resistance. It is that there is pride and respect for someone who stood up to the occupation that must be destroyed, according to Mahmoud Ibrahim. He is among the young men recently attacked for his cell phone photo.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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On Saturday morning Israeli soldiers attacked a group of young men and broke their mobile phones at the southern entrance of Jenin for having pictures of Hassan Nasrallah on them.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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The young man, Mahmoud Ibrahim, was among them, and reported to PNN that the soldiers imposed a barricade along the main road between Jenin and Nablus in the northern West Bank. The concern was not to check identification, but rather to check cell phones. Anyone with a Nasrallah photo was detained, and that meant a lot of cars lined up in the detention area.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Ibrahim added, “The request was strange, but then I realized what the occupation soldiers’ goal was. They said the screen saver incited riots and after beating people for an hour, they destroyed the cell and threatened everyone with arrest.”  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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“This is funny, sad, and strange, being treated like children and seeing the height of the warped nature of Israeli paranoia,” one West Bank journalist from Bethlehem said when asked for comment Saturday. He is a Palestinian man working for an international news agency and continued with the simple statement, “Screen savers do not incite riots, but restored pride does sometimes incite revolution against oppression.”  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Another young man, Abdullah Riyad, said, “Israeli soldiers detained several young men at the same barrier and examined their cell phones. There were ten youths with his photo. Five soldiers were kicking and beating them, screaming, ‘You support Nasrallah and that means you are against Israel.’ What do they think? Who is with the occupation?”  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Riyad added, “The rest of the detained people faced the same fate, with the soldiers using abusive words, their aggressive energy at a high level, and then besides the verbal abuse and the beatings, the punishment is not being allowed to travel and having their cellular phones destroyed.”  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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The young man concluded by telling PNN, “Israeli soldiers are also searching cars for cassettes as many sad songs for Beirut and Lebanon were released and other older songs became popular again. Several songs were written for Nasrallah also and then the regular nationalist music and the Allah victory song tapes too. Anyone found in procession of those now gets brutalized.”  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Dear friends,  Another reflection of what we are dealing with and at what level…what to do…cry, laugh, both, etc.  I wonder, when Apartheid was at its end, did the government\/police start lashing out in such uncontrollable ways.  Screen Saver Freedom Committee (under formation:-) Sam ———————————————————————– Israeli soldiers attacking Palestinians with Nasrallah screen savers on their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":"","_ppma_block_editor_authors":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[936],"class_list":["post-4884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"authors":[{"term_id":936,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sambahour","display_name":"Sam Bahour","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bca109c333bf6d8ae807746dd512adde46265d37c923f6cd0fc4aab437f8e9aa?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"1","first_name":"Sam","last_name":"Bahour","user_url":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour","job_title":"","description":"

Sam Bahour<\/strong> is a Palestinian-American business consultant, writer, and commentator based in Al-Bireh\/Ramallah, Palestine. He is the principal of Applied Information Management (AIM)<\/a>, a consultancy specializing in business development and startup advisory services.<\/p>\r\n

Bahour was instrumental in establishing two of Palestine\u2019s publicly traded companies: the Palestine Telecommunications Company (PALTEL) and the Arab Palestinian Shopping Centers (APSC). He co-founded Americans for a Vibrant Palestinian Economy (A4VPE), of which he is now an emeritus member, and served as an independent director on the board of Arab Islamic Bank P.L.C. from 2004 to 2025. He currently serves on the board of Just Vision<\/a> and The Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute (MAS)<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n

He frequently gives talks to delegations visiting Palestine on the subjects of Palestine\u2019s political economy, Palestinian Politics 101, and a general orientation to the state of affairs under Israeli military occupation.<\/p>\r\n

A prolific writer on Palestinian affairs, Bahour has been published in major international outlets including The New York Times, The Guardian, Haaretz, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, Al Jazeera America, Le Monde diplomatique, Al-Monitor, +972 Magazine, The Hill, and Arab News. He has appeared as a commentator on NPR, CNN, BBC, and other broadcast media.<\/p>\r\n

Bahour is the co-editor of Homeland: Oral Histories of Palestine and Palestinians<\/a><\/em> (Olive Branch Press, 1993) and was profiled in the bestselling anthology Kingdom of Olives and Ash<\/a><\/em>, edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, in a chapter authored by Chabon titled \u201cThe Tallest Man in Ramallah<\/a>.\u201d He holds an Associate\u2019s and Bachelor\u2019s degree in Computer Technology from Youngstown State University, and a Kellogg-Recanati International Executive MBA \u2014 a joint program of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and the Recanati Business School at Tel Aviv University.<\/p>\r\n

He tweets at @SamBahour<\/a>, blogs at www.epalestine.ps<\/a>, and may be reached at sbahour[AT]gmail[DOT]com.<\/p>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4884"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=4884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}