Dutch Band Attacked By IDF For Bringing Happiness To Oppressed Palestinian Children
By Madison Ruppert
Editor of End the Lie And Intel Hub Contributing Writer
July 30, 2011
A 25-piece Dutch street band has been traveling through the embattled West Bank for two weeks now, enlivening and engaging the downtrodden Palestinian people.
What do they get in return? Lungs full of tear gas.
Today the Palestine News Network reported that tens of Israeli Army thugs fired tear gas canisters at the Amsterdman-based Dutch street orchestra called Fanfare van de Eerste Liefdesnacht, which means “the First Night of Love Brass Band” during their performance.
When they were attacked, the band was playing in the northern West Bank villiage of Kufr Qadum, near Nablus.
This village is mostly Palestinian but has suffered recent attacks from radical Jewish colonists.
The people of Kufr Qadum have been victims of arson, physical violence, and destruction of property. There are also Israeli military checkpoints regularly erected around the roads leading in and out of the village.
The brave Dutch musicians have been travelling around the West Bank, visiting various villages, towns, and refugee camps. Their shows are interactive and engaging, and involve working with Palestinian children from a refugee camp east of Bethlehem.
The performers play along with the children and dance in the streets together, bringing joy to the lives of children who live in constant poverty with the fear of death at the hands of Israeli extremists.
Kufr Qadum is just one of the many villages that are being actively targeted by illegal Israeli settlers who, in direct opposition to international law, steal the land of the Palestinian people.
Traditionally, the corporate-controlled special interest media in the West portrays the Palestinians as brutal, freedom-hating terrorists seeking to destroy Israel and the entire concept of Western civilization and democracy.
This could not be further from the truth and this case shows this to be true, yet again.
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The town council of Kufr Qadum invited the 25 Dutch musicians to their town to perform and entertain the Palestinians who are victimized daily by the Zionist invading forces. How does this fit with the propagandized picture of rabid Islamic radical terrorists who hate the West and all who reside there?
If this is the case, we would not see a large group of white Dutch people traveling around the West Bank for an entire two week period without being targeted by the so-called terrorists of Palestine. It would be quite easy for anyone to attack a bunch of unarmed middle-aged musicians standing in a group, but it does not happen. Why?
It is quite simple: the people of Palestine do not hate people who realize that the Israeli government and their allies like the United States have created a completely false picture of the Arab holocaust that is currently being carried out.
The people of Palestine realize that the Israelis loathe anyone who supports the right of Palestine to exist as a sovereign state just as much as they loathe the Palestinians.
An Israeli soldier would just as happily kill an Israeli Jew who was defending the Palestinians as they would a Palestinian attempting to fend off tanks by throwing rocks.
Simply put: if you question the terrorist actions of Israel and the radical Zionist cause, you are against Israel and are therefore an enemy.
This was made quite clear by the Israeli Army today with their attack on the peaceful band who was entertaining crowds and giving them a moment’s respite from the hellish environment of the West Bank.
I look forward to seeing how the media spins this one. Maybe the Dutch band members were secretly terrorists and inside of their tubas and trombones were AK-47s and rockets they were smuggling to Hamas?
It never ceased to amaze me the lengths that the Israeli media and their Zionist allies across the world will go to in order to justify their crimes.
I might have a little bit more respect for the state of Israel if they would just come out and admit that they intend to massacre Palestinians, even women and children, for the foreseeable future, or at least until every Palestinian leaves their ancestors’ home.
At least then they would have a tiny bit of integrity, enough to admit that they are engaging in ethnic cleansing no different than any of the genocides carried out by maniacal tyrants throughout the ages.
Watch the Dutch street orchestra perform the song “Unadikum” at the Yabous Festival in East Jerusalem below.
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has suffered recent attacks from radical Jewish colonists.’
It is amazing how Israel cries about how the world treats Israel then I sends the IDF to protect the “colonist”. They are not colonist but out of work thugs employed by some evil money group who fund the 40,000 or so illegal settlers. None of the illegal setters have a job but they have money to sit and drive neighbors crazy with bad behavior. It has been a game played from the first zionist. I wonder if the bad conduct is learned or just the basic nature of the disgusting individual who happen to be illegal settlers. If it is the basic nature it would explain why they had so much trouble in the lands they came from. If I had the choice of having a pack of rattlesnakes or illegal israel settlers as neighbors I would take the snakes. They would be much more desirable than the settlers. It is a game that served Israel well but now pretty much tells the world that Israel is the problem in the middle east.
Amen, amen, amen. A brief look at history would solve a lot of the ignorance out there.
My comment was replying to truthseeker1
The perceived oppressors of Palestine: Israel. The perceived oppressors of Israel: Hamas, Hezbollah, and Islam in general which actually do hate Jews and Christians and actually do want to do evil violent bloody things to them and all women in general, like carve out their genitals, chop off body parts of people in public, stone people in public, laugh and torment the weak and helpless, slavery, and various other barbarian type activities never seen in Norway, the Netherlands, or the USA. This is not propaganda, but a direct account from someone who lived in an Islamic country and immigrated to the USA to flee such barbarians. Yet, there has been this kind of delusion washing upon people who have no intimate understanding of Islam in its home countries that they are harmless fluffy little vegetable eating pets. Everyone who supports Palestine who isn’t Palestinian or understand Islam basically is saying “F-U” to Jews and Israel. (This is different from supporting a Palestinian who doesn’t live in Palestine.) There is the entire political basis of the area, which you can blame on old Europe and Britain. Palestine and Israel are two brothers with the same father who cannot resolve their hatred for one another. Is this the business of the Dutch? Absolutely not. Should people feel bad for human suffering across the planet and exercise compassion? Of course they should, and also do something about it where it exists, right at home. Stupidity and bravery are not the same thing.
Sorry, this is same content as just submitted, with correction to a few typos. You would be thanked to substitute it for the previous version! Thanks.
The “truth” is that you have hard headed people on every side. The “truth” is that Palestine is just a pretext for the Israel-hating faction to focus on, and to illuminate and magnify all the resistance actions it takes against it’s self-declared enemies in Hamas it’s sympathizers in the ME, and around the world, for that matter.
Consider that the small amount of land that Palestine is fighting for could be very simply accommodated without ANY hardship, by Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, and any of it’s neighbors who wish to annihilate Israel. They won a war in 1967. They took land that they believed by history belonged to them, by the promise of God to Abraham. Which one of you does not live in a LAND or TERRITORY which was NOT SECURED BY CONQUEST, AT SOME POINT IN IT’S HISTORY??! And do you have the conquered party raising hell with the world courts and civilizations to make the case that the land they lost must be returned to them? And the Arabs were the ones to START the war!
Nobody can make an honest case that IF Israel acquiesced and turned over all the land that the PLO, et al, demands, that “that would be the end of the struggle”…. NOBODY but the most deluded fanatic would actually BELIEVE that. It would ONLY be a stepping stone for further escalation and tension, only much harder for Israel to defend than now. If they give up the Golan Heights, they would concede the military high ground, from which no defense could be made. It was tried, so they took it back after that was demonstrated.
This is about a biblical deep seated hatred by the Arab descendent of Abraham, and the then-predicted animosity between his two sons (the first-born with his servant, [son was Ishmael], and the 2nd to his wife Sarah, Isaac) and their descendants. The ONLY thing that will bring ultimate peace to them is their mutual acceptance of a shared fallen state and dependancy on the redemption found in the Christ who died for every one of them, Arab and Jew.
Of course the Jews are the ones who martyred Jesus, and they are the ones who maybe hate him the most, but also among those who are the most contrite, who have come to believe in their fallen state. {‘He who is forgiven much, loves much’ (Bible)}
I feel sorry for the Palestinian people who have come into this innocently. Also for the Israelis, who were saddled with the burden of being the race that called for it’s prophesied Saviour, to be crucified. I also feel sorry for the Norway youth, who grew up in either Israel-hating households, or else were indoctrinated in their liberal schools to be such. Many Norwegians stand with Israel, and understand the conflict. So many of us are unwitting products of our upbringing, and need to know and accept Truth on it’s own.
Bill Clinton had the Israeli’s giving the PLO nearly EVERYTHING they had put on the table for demands! The Israeli people in majority WERE LIVID at the prospect.. but the PALESTINIANS REJECTED IT!!! NEVER FORGET THAT!
This is ALL ABOUT CONQUEST, not “LIVING PEACEABLY” and co-existing with Israel!!! The Palestinians are merely puppets, being used by Israels haters.
The Dutch band no doubt received a welcome (as would most any Palestine supporting group from anywhere, including the WEST, or the FAR EAST, OR anywhere) who proclaimed to sympathize with the cause of their fight! This is NO “proof” of their “innocence” and desire for “peace”. This could well have been orchestrated as a propaganda event (by the Palestinians… who invited the group!) just to MAKE THE CLAIM that you espouse!! If you think not likely, don’t forget all your ‘false flag’ operations that you point out, and what they actually import.
We need to stay engaged in this struggle, to defend Israel’s historical right to exist, and to hold EVERYONE to the same standard of responsibility of coexistence where borders are shared. I certainly do not give the Israelis OR the Arabs a free pass, when their individual and collective actions provoke responses, and the consequences there from.
If the Nederlands was under siege by rebel groups in Belgium, across the border, do you think for a moment that they would not take measures to respond? Silly me.
There are useful idiots aplenty on all sides of this conflict. I’d rather not be one of them. Remember, when we point fingers at others, at least 3 point right back at us!
Be very careful whose yoke you take upon yourself… it may be the one which you cannot carry, or breaks your back.
Christ is the answer,
midwestern USA
Sorry again!! Hope this is physically moderated.. wish there was a feature here to edit our posts, for this reason.. mea culpa.. but I felt it was best to clarify a point for those who don’t recognize a historical fact I implied.. here’s the correction… If the mods are on this, you could please just insert the correction [They,(Israel)won a war..]. Thank you.
Consider that the small amount of land that Palestine is fighting for could be very simply accommodated without ANY hardship, by Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, and any of it’s neighbors who wish to annihilate Israel. They (Israel) won a war in 1967. They took land that they believed by history belonged to them, by the promise of God to Abraham. Which one of you does not live in a LAND or TERRITORY which was NOT SECURED BY CONQUEST, AT SOME POINT IN IT’S HISTORY??! And do you have the conquered party raising hell with the world courts and civilizations to make the case that the land they lost must be returned to them? And the Arabs were the ones to START the war!
Sorry Truthseeker1 that you are so taken with the illegal state of Israel. As Israel possesses hundreds of nuclear weapons, no one is going to try a serious war with them again until they have a fighting chance. If not for the billions of US dollars sent to the illegal state of Israel every year using every US taxpayers money, they would have eased to exist decades ago. By continuing to support Israel’s illegal status and crimes against humanity, Muslims will question US motives, and extremists will target US citizens. Perhaps you should travel to Palestine someday and see for yourself what actually happens there. Zionists are no better than Fascists as they one and the same.
It is a fact that I have not personally been there, but have been in the region at large.. I do however have intimate friends who are American Christian Jews, who work IN the West Bank with childrens orphanages, (under great threat to their safety at times) supporting their efforts with their OWN funds, not part of an NGO, or relief org.! I am not a Jew either, but a Swiss by descent. I am not blind to faults on both sides, but at the same time I do not excuse blind hatred for a people who are for myriad reasons, defending themselves against a mindset that they ‘are illegitimate’, when in fact they are as perfectly legitimate as any nation who has a legitimate gov’t, who has lawful elections, and a seat at the UN. The fact that you don’t like that is your issue, I don’t like what’s happening in N.Korea or Somalia either, but that doesn’t mean they don’t have a right to exist.
Yes the rogue settlements are an issue, and the Israeli gov’t is willing to deal with that, in fact have destroyed many of them at the outrage of their own people. The only time there is ‘peace’ in Israel is when the Palestinians stop sending bombs and rockets into Israeli territory or into their populations.
When the Israelis turned over parts of the Negev to the PLO, they LET STAND their greenhouses and irrigated cropland, all of which was crucial to support food production for many people. The Palestinians promptly destroyed it all… I suppose so they could continue to play the victim card?? I don’t know… one can only guess what kind of insanity that describes..
BTW, interesting that the ‘fascists’ were so intent on destroying ‘zionists’ in their time…
Maybe you are the fascist..
Peace,
Christ is the answer!
from midwest USA