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Loading ...This picture won the Pulitzer Breaking News Photography 2007 award. Photo’s citation reads, “Awarded to Oded Balilty of The Associated Press for his powerful photograph of a lone Jewish woman defying Israeli security forces as they remove illegal settlers in the West Bank.â€?
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Photographer:Oded Balilty (Associated Press)
Source: www.photojournalism.org
someone said ( JEW)
”that was a legal area oF israel”’ , Well i dont think that there is a ( legal) area of israel . Everybody knows that israel us we know it us a state , was created on 1948 , im not saying that israely are evil people. i dont have the right to blame a group of 10 people , for example , and say that everybody are assholes , if one of the group is an asshole 
im from greece 
i think that there are many people in the world that follow orders & lies like sheeps.
My friends…… everybody , we can live peacefully , just DONT let few evil people, to put lies in your head so they can succeed their own interests
Here are some informations about the (CREATION OF ISRAEL) us we know it now , antil 1997 sorry for my spelling
1845: In Palestine, living about 12.000 Jews.
1897: Born in Sweden to the Zionist movement to establish a Jewish state in Palestine secured by public law.
1917, November 2: Declaration of Balfour. Letter to British impose foreign minister Arthur Balfour, to the British Zionist leader, Lord Rothtsailnt, formalizing the government support the aims of the Zionist movement.
1918 – 1939: organized Jewish communities around the world with their own socio-political principles which are relevant to local communities. In Jerusalem, founded the Hebrew University which promotes Jewish language and culture.
1922: The community of nations adopted the Balfour Declaration of allowing Britain to regulate the affairs of Palestine to build a “home” for Jews in this area. The Jews make up only 11% of the native population (85 000 Jews, Palestinians 670.000).
1930 – 1939: With the rise of Nazi Germany, many Jews fleeing the area of Palestine and establish new cities and communities. Hundreds of Jewish settlements spring up in Arab lands.
1931: 175.000 Jews and 860.00 Arabs living in Palestine (17%)
1936: The Arabs protesting against the continued Jewish immigration to Palestine. The two nationalities are in conflict with the very closing of Jewish settlements in Jerusalem. The British are not reacting to suppress the rebellion by 1939. 385.000 Jews and 980.000 Arabs living in Palestine (28%).
1937: Britain proposes to divide Palestine into a Jewish and an Arab state.
1939: The British decide to stop Jewish immigration. So far, 450.000 Jews and 1,060,000 Arabs living in Palestine (30%).
1945: By the end of the second world and the horrors of the Holocaust, the Zionist movement requires the establishment of a Jewish self-managed state. From now on illegal immigration to Palestine organized by the Zionist movement itself.
1947: The UN takes control of Palestine.
November 29: Presented to a UN plan for partition of Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab and the transformation of Jerusalem an international city abroad. The plan was welcomed by the Arabs with strong and violent protests directed against the illegal Jewish settlers. 590.000 Jews and 1,320,000 Arabs living in Palestine.
1948, May 14. The highest Jewish council proclaimed the creation of Israel. President sworn in Prime Minister Jaime Vaizman and the famous Zionist leader David Ben Gurion. Meanwhile, an undercover Israeli army, Chagkanach, formed in the years after the Holocaust is presented now as a regular army of the State of Israel. The Chagkanach is equipped with cutting-edge weapons from England and America.
15 May: The first Arab – Israeli War. One day after the proclamation of the State of Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq invaded the territories of Palestine and begin large-scale clashes with the Israeli army.
1948 – 1951: Approximately 700,000 Jews immigrate to Israel.
1949, February 24: Peace in the Middle East. Egypt stated that the ceasefire does not imply recognition of Israel. During the first Arab – Israeli war, Israel territory has increased by 15.500 sq. stipulated by the UN, at 20.700 sq. km. The Gaza Strip goes to Egypt and the West Bank to Jordan. Out of 800.000 Arabs living in the area that Israel remained only 170.000. Thousands of displaced Arab refugees in neighboring countries in refugee camps.
1950: Due to the high influx of Jewish immigrants in Israel, the economy faces serious difficulties. The U.S. in cooperation with Jewish lobby launches worldwide program of economic assistance to Israel, which continues today.
1956: Second Arab – Israeli War. Israel invaded the Sinai Peninsula with the help of British and French troops in response to the nationalization of the Suez Canal by Gamal Abdel Nasser in Egypt’s new president. At year’s end the UN forces of three countries to withdraw their troops but Israel does not surrender all the territories conquered. The Gaza Strip remains occupied.
1957: Israel withdraws from Gaza after a U.S. commitment that the vital port of Aqaba will be able to accept Israeli ships. Naser a year ago had ruled this port with the Egyptian navy causing economic blow to Israel.
1963: Ben-Gurion resigned as prime minister (but remains the undisputed leader of Israel) and is succeeded by Levi Eshkol.
1967, June 5. The war of 6 days.
1967, June 10: Israel doubles the territory. Conquers the Golan Heights from Syria, the West Jerusalem from the Palestinians, the West Bank from Jordan, the Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula from Egypt. About 1,500,000 Arabs in such areas.
1969: Golda Meir becomes the new prime minister of Israel.
1972: At the Munich Olympics, athletes of the Israeli Olympic mission kidnapped and held hostage by Palestinian gunmen who seek the release of their comrades imprisoned in Israel. After intervention by the West – German police at Munich airport, which ends in fiasco, the Palestinians blow up the helicopters that were on board the Israeli athletes with killing 11 Israeli hostages, five Palestinians and one policeman. Three Palestinians were arrested but released a few months later when it occurs in an airplane hijacking in west-German airlines. The Mossad in the coming years will identify and kill the two while the third lives in hiding in Egypt today.
1973, October 6: The war of Yom Kippur. The Arab countries funded from Saudi Arabia and Israel is forced to spend huge sums on military equipment and bankruptcy.
1974: With the political responsibility for the losses in the war, Golda Meir cannot form a government. Yitzhak Rabin becomes prime minister.
1977: The Rabin cannot cope with the enormous economic problems the country’s defeat in the parliamentary elections. The Menachim Vetzin elected prime minister but despite the new economic policy of the Israel’s economy faces serious difficulties.
1977, November 19: President of Egypt Anwar Sadat let’s Visit to Jerusalem and begin peace negotiations with Israel.
1979, March 26: signed in Camp David peace accord between Egypt and Israel. Israel agrees to withdraw from the Sinai after the Gaza Strip and West Bank. The last part of the agreement is never applied.
1980: The Israeli parliament proclaimed undivided Jerusalem (the occupied territories) as the capital of Israel.
1981, June 7: Israeli bombers destroy the nuclear plant was recently constructed with French supervision in Baghdad, Iraq. The Israeli government claimed that the plant used to make nuclear weapons will be unleashed against Israel. It is the first step of pre-emptive war policy adopted by then and the Americas.
1982; on June 6: The Israeli army invaded Lebanon in an attempt to destroy the bases of the rebel Fatah around Beirut. The campaign was crowned with success, but the Israeli economy is suffering once again.
1984, July 23: After an unprecedented coalition of labor and the patriotic party, Shimon Peres of the Labor Party is elected prime minister. After two years the position is taken by the Minister Yitzhak Shamir’s Likud party patriotic.
1987, December 10: Starts the first Palestinian Intifada. The Israelis respond with violent repression, but realize that what fuels the will and the militancy of the Palestinians. The Intifada influences many liberal groups in Israeli society and is the forerunner of peace accords in the early 90′s.
1989 March: The coalition dissolved and Shamir becomes prime minister of a provisional government for 15 months. With the collapse of the Soviet bloc, hundreds of thousands of eastern Jews immigrating to Israel.
1993 August: After secret talks in Oslo, Palestinians and Israelis reach a peace plan in the model of “freedom land”. 1999 as the year of creation of an independent Palestinian state that includes the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The final agreement signed between Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in Washington while the U.S. had no intervention.
1994 July. Peace agreement between Israel and Jordan. In 1994 was marked by deadly attacks by Hamas against Israeli and Israeli right-wing against Arabs.
1995, April 27: Israel appropriates Palestinian land and begin to create homes for Israelis in which the Palestinian Authority has no right.
1995, September 24: Signing of the second Oslo agreement.
November 4: Yitzhak Rabin assassinated by Jewish right-wing organization Yigal Amir.
November 22: New prime minister sworn Shimon Peres.
1996, February 25: Palestinian bombings in Jerusalem killed 26. Israel closes border with Palestine.
April 11: The massacre at Qana. The Israeli army launches attack on refugee camp in Qana in Lebanon, killing more than 100 children. The attack was a military failure as there were no military targets in the camp. The slaughter is so shocking that journalists who rushed to cover the event, collapsed in front of the cameras. The UN never punish Israel for this historic atrocity (Qana massacre). The attack, however, raises the popularity of Shimon Peres.
May 29: The elections are won by Benjamin Netanyahu, with little difference from Shimon Peres.
August 2: Netanyahu allows the creation of new Jewish settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. The new policy of Netanyahu intended to increase the Jewish presence by 35%.
1997 March: The Netanyahu government starts building blocks only for Jews in occupied East Jerusalem.
1997, March 31: The Arab states started a boycott against Israel in response to the violation of the Oslo agreement.
well i think this is an amazing photo and to me it looks like the woman had done a run up and hit into them and that was when the photo was taken. enough confrontation, at the end of the day, this is still a very famous and powerful photo.
she is only holding of one police man he has one riot shield like the rest but as they run forward she stops the first one and the pic is taken at a brilliant time
Its hard to believe some of the stupid comments Ive just read
Knowledge Is Power
I think this happened in the disengagement from Gaza. Israel gave up the Gaza strip in 2005, forcing all Jewish occupants to move out. This woman probably didn’t want to leave, and this is one of the things that happened. I can’t imagine riot police in the west bank, that’s more of an army thing.
Simply amazing…
I agree a bit with george, however I might add that not everything is black and white…the world is filled with gray! Remember there are two sides to every story. In my humble opinion both the Jews and the Palestinians have strong cases for their ideologies.
omg, i thought this was photoshopped like the 9/11 tourist photo,…unbelievabe.
Just amazing.
omniphiliac demonstrates the Muslim propaganda inspired by Gebles. For a person who lives in Israel his comment to this photo looks rather stupid and funny but I am sure that many of the readers actually believed him because they don’t have a clue about what is really going on. After all, when you watch channels like the BBC you can really believe that Israel is committing a holocaust in the Palestinian, killing millions at least. And the funny part is that in Sudan there is a true holocaust and no one gives a f##k since the Christians being slaughtered there don’t have oil like the Arabs.
There is only one or two people pushing so it’s not really that amazing.
The picture catches a moment during a struggle. Seconds after the picture was taken the women fall back and trampled. BTW, few of those policemen were afterwards punished for use of unnecessary violance against those citizens. There are pictures for that part as well but those were less interesting.
Nice pic. But it is ruined… I cannot help but think, why didn’t they just go around?
If this is what they do with an israeli woman…imagine what they would do with the palestenians…
Well i have pics of what they do…
she owning
Some ignortant ass holes just love making fun of people who are unbelievably poor, do your research first then flap your shit hole, this picture was taken one second, ONE SECOND before she was trampled by those “security forces.”
She defends her right to live in a land where she does not want to be bothered, and you fucking pathetic ass holes are making fun of this whole situation? Useless waste of life.
Why Don’t They Just Walk Around The Thing? Than Making The Woman Look Like ” The Hulk “!!!!!
It never fails to amaze me how ardently people fight for that which ultimately stems from something as absurdly fictitious as religion… : /
’99.98% of the world’s population are idiots’ -Sablicious
Ive done research- the picture was taken seconds before the woman was trampled.
A lot of people seem to think this is fake.
What it clearly is is simply great timing by the photographer, the lady isn’t holding that wall of police back- the photo was taken just as the wall of police hit her giving that impression
end arab occupation: what a crock of lies. Stop spreading lies and hate.
Arab countries ejected over one million Jews from the 1940s through the 1950s, twice as many as the Arabs who fled the creation of modern Israel. Arabs now occupy their homes, their farms, their businesses, their olive tree groves, their lands, as well as Jewish religious shrines in Israel. Yet those Jews have received no compensation from the Arabs, they have no “right of return” to their former homes, they were stuffed into temporary camps like Bat Yam that ended up being their homes. Thise who criticize Israel without simultaneously criticizing the Arab occupation of Jewish lands and religious sites are racists.
That beautiful picture reminds me that in tough times it is the fighters who overcome adversity.
obviously, that happened for a second ONLY! This is the power of photography!
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Anyone know what happened to the woman?
What a shame for israle soldiers
“that was legal area of israel”
there is no legal area of Israel
btw. nice foto
What a pile of BS. Israeli riot police not being able to remove single woman? Had she been Palestinian she would be beaten and hauled away if she tried such thing.
what a visual metaphor.
its the people versus the oppressing elitists.
they try to intimidate us into submission and cause the majority to leave apathetically and insist its for our own good. while only a few stand up for the rights we have, only to be outpowered while the rest loathe and whimper in fear.
I see you have no idea what happend there
that was legal area of israel
but the settlers there doesnt agree to evacuate from there home
they know that wouldent improve the situation between the israelis and the phalestins
and as we see today all this area is used by the phalestins to throw bombs on israeli cities.
Dude, that’s totally a wall hax0r. obvious
Maybe this was taken just before the lady gets thrown away by the policemen
What a hero! An illegal settler of what amounts to someone else’s land, and she’s brave enough and strong enough to defend the object of her theft. I want to be like that when I grow up *eye roll*
Wow… She’s thinks that she’s superman.
No, seriously, that’s a heck of a spirit.
We souldn`t look at the picture in “hax”/fizic way, may be propaganda, in that case we should ask ourselfs “what this mean” .. to us .. to them ..
what a lame…. they don’t really push (not yet) plus they don’t wanna hurt here? especially in fromt of phorographer. And in the end every picture with political meanning is a propoganda as propoganda is the absolute product in political media.
They’re riot shields not fences, but still, how strong is that little Jewish lady??
Why don’t they just walk around the fence?
how is this a propaganda stunt? The website you quoted is from Isrealis that oppose these actions and this woman could be a supporter of this cause. Whose propaganda is this then?
i think it sends a very powerful message.. but i agree with omniphiliac with they said it’s propaganda.. that can’t really be true
wtf hax for sure
What a propaganda stunt. Here’s what’s really going on:
The Israeli army returns to continue the destruction in South Hebron.
The Israeli army invaded the villages of Qawawis and Towani south of the city of Hebron in the southern part of the West Bank, uprooted trees and demolished houses on Thursday midday.
http://www.icahd.org/eng/news.asp?menu=5&submenu=1&item=430
Wow. she must be uber strong. or haxing