Truth unintentionally revealed about "peace-activists" at Nativity Church/Bethlehem {my title}

Nativity Update: For Immediate Release: by imc-pal • Friday May 10, 2002 at 06:59 AM

May 10 (Bethlehem) Today at 2:40 pm, the Israeli army stormed the Church of the Nativity and arrested ten internationals, who had risked their lives last week to bring food and medical supplies to the priests, monks and Palestinian citizens held inside the church. Those inside had been reduced to eating grass and leaves until the internationals brought in rice, lentils, salt and other essential foodstuffs. One of the internationals, Mary Kelly - a trained nurse, was able to treat the injured and sick who had been denied access to medical treatment until then.

This week, during the negotiations for the release of all the parties inside, Yasser Arafat’s office assured the internationals that the Church officials would protect them from any harm or arrest by the Israelis.

However, yesterday, priests from the Latin, Greek and Armenian denominations along with the lawyer for the church, Anton Salman began to pressure the international citizens to leave the Church and turn themselves in to the Israelis. The internationals appealed to President Arafat’s office to intervene and President Arafat himself informed the internationals that they should remain in the Church until the Israeli army withdraws from the city of Bethlehem and that no one would turn them in. Today, the Church officials ignored President Arafat’s order and mounted so much pressure on them that the Fathers surrounded the internationals inside the Church, insulted them, pushed and shoved several of internationals and locked all of them into a room.

According to eyewitnesses, the forced removal of the internationals by the Israeli military and police forces was carried out with church officials in attendance.

At the moment, the internationals are detained on bus in handcuffs and are en route to an unknown location. The lawyer for the internationals has not been informed or provided with any access to them. Four other internationals who were arrested by the Israeli army during the attempt to bring in the food, are being held at Ramle prison by the Israelis and have been hunger striking to protest their deportation since last Thursday. Three are refusing water.

The list of the internationals is as follows: 1. Nauman Zaidi, USA 2. Robert O’Neill, USA 3. Larry Hales, USA 4. Kristen Schurr, USA 5. Alister Hillman, UK 6. Allan Lindgaard, Denmark 7. Stefan Coster, Sweden 8. Erik Alger, Sweden 9. Mary Kelly, Ireland 10. Jacqueline Soohen, Canada

"Today at 2:40 pm, the Israeli army stormed the Church of the Nativity and arrested ten internationals, who had risked their lives last week to ~~bring food and medical supplies to~~" get publicity for their Communist organization and cause...

Here are a few tidbits on Kristen Schurr (one of the 10 or 11 mentioned in the article for this thread):

Article on Kristen

"Local activist and journalist Kristen Schurr says one presumed cop was asked to leave a meeting of the Anti-Capitalist Convergence after he said he found out about it through their website. Schurr said there was no such listing, "But it was on the list serve and we do know that the police monitor the list serve."
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"Schurr says she and a handful of people were also followed after the snake march, both by undercover officers and, at one point, three black SUVs with tinted windows. Fearing that they were "about to picked off," Schurr said they ducked into a bar near Union Square and when they left an hour later, one of the SUVs was still out front."

http://www.honestreports.com/palestine.asp
"Americans acting as human shields in Palestine
TO SCHEDULE AN INTERVIEW WITH AMERICANS ACTING AS HUMAN SHIELDS IN PALESTINE PLEASE CALL (212) 541-4226 x241 OR IN PALESTINE KRISTEN SCHURR 011 972 2 056 622 017."

http://monkeyfist.com/pipermail/bonobos/Week-of-Mon-20020401/000753.html
"We are here in solidarity with the Palestinian peoplein order to bring attention to the brutal military occupation, sanctions, killings, and daily humiliation Palestinians face at the hands of Israeli military and government." ..."tell Bush and the US government that their funding of the Israeli military is a terrorist atrocity which must not be stood for."

http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=64792
In response to 9/11 Kristen writes "If this is the collapse of the Empire (signs are in place heavy debt, heightened militarization) or an excuse for war (signs also in place here domestic unrest, impending recession) I hope the people of the world come together to mourn all of the victims of U.S. imperialism, its own citizens included, protect one another from aggression and hate, and use our time wisely and kindly. PEACE. Kristen Schurr"

http://www.animalrights.net/discussion/fullthread$msgnum=40190
"Even mainstream organizations like People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) are now being targeted. In February, the Center for Consumer Freedom testified before congress that PETA donated small sums of money to Earth Liberation Front (ELF) and Animal Liberation Front (ALF) supporters in efforts to shut them down. " ... Kristen goes on to complain that "according to the JTTF in Arizona, anarchists, or so-called "anti-globalization" activists, the same who attend demonstrations against the WEF, FTAA, World Bank, IMF, and WTO, are "domestic terrorists," and "urban riot agitators."

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