On this day in 1976, Palestinians initiated a campaign of resistance, including a general strike, occupations, and violent confrontation with police, in opposition to Israeli settlement plans. The uprising is commemorated annually as Land Day.
Land Day was not a spontaneous uprising, but the result of months of planning. On May 21st, 1975, activists and Arab intellectuals held a meeting in Haifa to discuss a strategic response to Israel stepping up its campaign to appropriate Palestinian-owned land. This began a series of meetings over which the campaign was conceptualized, including a general congress that was the largest public gathering of Palestinians in Israel since 1948.
On February 14th, 1976, more than 5,000 residents rallied in the village of Sakhnin, calling for a general strike in response to Israeli repression. To prepare for the strike, local land defense committees and branches of the Communist Party distributed leaflets, organized demonstrations, and held meetings in several Arab towns and villages.
The first confrontations began on the eve of Land Day, March 29th as demonstrators in Arraba demanded the release of a local activist, closing the streets and setting fire to tires. Israeli soldiers fired on demonstrators with live ammunition, injuring many of them.
The following day, the general strike was initiated in Arab towns and villages, including the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and refugee camps in Lebanon. Israeli troops and border guards in military trucks and tanks raided Arab communities to arrest activist politicians and disperse demonstrators.
In total, six people were killed, approximately fifty were injured, and three hundred were arrested. When some of the injured applied for compensation, the Israeli Ministry of Defense categorized the Land Day confrontations as "combat activity".
The Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question describes Land Day's legacy this way: "Land Day was a turning point in the orientations and tools adopted for Palestinian struggle inside Israel. After Land Day the Palestinians in Israel gradually structured their presence as a national group inside Israel in a way that went beyond their local struggles."
During Land Day protests in 2018, seventeen Palestinians were killed, including five Hamas members, and more than 1,400 were injured in shootings by the Israeli Army during a march calling for the Palestinian right of return at the borders with Gaza.
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Tim Pool had a skateboard park? Does he skate?
apparently yeah, he lives on some sort of compound with all his bros / employees and built a skatepark on it. I only know this from the majority report libs making fun of him, as both Sam and Emma have visited the compound
Holy shit, here he is playing the weakest game of skate ever. Fucking first minute are just bullshit shove it variations and not even good ones, like one foot shove it's but he dangles his foot in different places. It's the same trick
https://youtu.be/-gUS4VzwkW4
Waited till he finally bailed doing 180 shove it variations and his fucking kick flips and tres were awful. Dude basically took a letter on a fakie tre. Dude barely landed a popped shove it. He can do fucking hang ten grounded ones like anyone in their first year csn be he over rotated on a normal pop shove and caught it bad. Holy shit, his fucking front side 180 was pathetic. He set a decent pressure flip but once again, that's a trying to win at skate trick and he's clearly trying to win instead of looking good on the video which really means more. The other guy actually matched it. Good for him. Pim sets a nollie big spin that he had to revert the last 90 degrees, nollie big spins are surprisingly easy and if you can't get a nolline 360 all the way around you're skaing wrong. Fucker even says 'I've lawyered my way to advantage ' cause he took a really cheap first three letters with variations on basically a no comply 180 shove cause he learned your foot doesn't actually need to touch the ground for a one foot 180 shove. The other guy never learned old school tricks and therefore lost letters. I pulled that shit when I first started but after a year made sure my weird tricks didn't suck. He tries to finale with a weird varial double flip thing that he has clearly only landed twice or so and looks like one of those tricks thst looks complex but is really just about kicking super hard. His nollie kick flips was solid. Worst fakie heel and that should have been a redo, it rolled on the ground. Can't Casper flip and clearly hasn't tried. Really bad varial kickflip, landed like 5 feet to the right of where he kicked off. Can't impossible which is surprising cause of the pressure flip. Lost to I think a laser flip or maybe just a vsrial heel, footage is bad. That is a hard trick tbf.
In conclusion he is okay at skating but has a disturbing lack of steez. Dude can barely land the tricks he has consistent and is sketchy af the whole time. It's like he built his trickset around winning SKATE games cause you can't bring em anywhere and they aren't fun and look bad. I am sooo far past my prime and I'd kick his ass. Especially cause I can do all his sill shove its