Israeli Arabs mark Land Day
IMEDI News

JERUSALEM, March 30 (UPI) — Thousands of Israeli Muslims held their annual march Friday to mark the anniversary of Land Day.

On March 30, 1976, Israeli security forces killed six people during a protest over the seizure of Arab lands near Sakhnin in the Galilee.

The demonstrators included local officials, Arab members of the Knesset and Jewish sympathizers, YNetNews reported.

Palestinian Land Day - Frequently Asked Questions
By MIFTAH, March 29, 2004

- What does Land Day commemorate?
- What happened on Land Day?
- How Much Land has been confiscated by Israel since Land Day in 1976?
- How does Israel confiscate Palestinian Land?
- What is the Absentee Property law?
- Are there any relevant UN resolutions?

Land Day in Qalqilya
Dubai TV, UAE, via Mosaic on LINK TV

Land Day with olive seedlings
Palestine News Network

A group of farmers in western Ramallah’s Bil’in Village held its Land Day demonstration in much the same spirit as the weekly nonviolent protest against Wall and settlement expansion. A bastion of nonviolent resistance to occupation, Bil’in has not missed a Friday afternoon demonstration in three years.

For Land Day, however, there was a twist. As in many Palestinian towns and villages, including those in Salfit which were attacked by Israeli forces, Bil’in residents planted olive seedlings on what has become the dark side of the Wall.

13 Palestinians injured during Land Day protest in village of Budrus
Al Jazeera TV, Qatar via Mosaic on LINK TV

From Al Arabiya via Mosaic on LINK TV

CNN
Ben Wederman, reporting for CNN on the ongoing construction next to Al Aqsa is describing the construction the work as an excavation.

Dubai TV via Mosaic on LINK TV

Dubai TV is reporting on the potential damage to Al Aqsa and that the excavation is the beginning of the buildoing of a synagogue. Israeli prime minister Olmert approved the building of the synagogue as also reported here last week.

Israeli Broadcast Association News, via Mosaic, Link TV

Trevor Royle, Diplomatic Editor, Sunday Herald

…The extraordinary thing is that this ordinary woman did what she did. Having spent most of her life believing that Israel was her country right or wrong and that the Palestinians posed an undeniable threat to its wellbeing, some time in 2003 she decided to try to understand more about why the great divide existed and why it had come into being. Her pilgrimage took her to Jenin, where she came across hundreds of Palestinians, and for the first time in her life she began to understand the difficulties they faced and the sense of dispossession that was their daily lot.

According to the Israel Broadcast Association, “a political firestorm has erupted following the decision of education minister Yuli Tamir to restore the Green Line (pre-1967 border) to Israeli text books”.

[Source: Israel Broadcast Association: Via Mosaic on Link TV.]

The amount of grief given to Palestinians over issues concerning their textbooks has been extraordinary. The Jewish Virtual Library devotes a special section to Palestinian textbooks and incitement and includes 12 extensive studies.

According to Miftah, The Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue & Democracy:

Studies of Palestinian textbooks have revealed that any strong anti-Israel and anti-Semitic material in the curriculum comes from books that the Palestinians did not author and are replacing. (Ironically, these same books that were actually authored by Jordanians and Egyptians were distributed by Israel in east Jerusalem after only removing the cover.) Furthermore, books that were written by the Palestinian Authority in 1994, 2000, and 2001 are free of such material.

And the controversy in Israel is whether to even put the West Bank and Gaza into the textbooks. The minister is being accused of “wiping out 1/5 of the Jewish land that has served as the cradle of Jewish history.” The Jewish land to which they refer is the West Bank and Gaza.