16 September, 2009 — Palestine Video
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Shortly after 1:30am, Israeli forces invaded Bil’in again. They raided the house of Abdullah Mahmoud Aburahma in an attempt to arrest him. However, he was not home at the time. Palestinian and international activists intervened by jumping over the wall into the garden since the soldiers had shut the gate closed. Some international activists were threatened with arrest unless they move back. The soldiers had sealed off the house while operating inside. They forced open two doors breaking the locks and destroying the doors. They trashed several rooms and beat Mohammed Khatib who had come to the rescue of Abdullah’s family. He was taken to hospital in Ramallah for treatment and returned to the village later.
Military reinforcement arrived in five Jeeps. Outside the house, one Palestinian activist, Emad Burnat, who was filming, was pushed to the ground. One soldier also broke his camera. Hamde Aburahma and other Palestinian journalists were threatened with arrest unless they stop filming. They hit Ashraf Aburahma, another activist, with the gun injuring his right hand. The house of Abdullah’s brother, Khaled Aburahma, was raided as well, which traumatized his children that were pulled brutally out of their sleep. The invading forces said that until they find Abdullah, the entire neighborhood was theirs. They searched every room and trashed one room downstairs next to the store. They stole Palestinian flags, banners and posters used during demonstrations, and then left the house.The invading forces exited the village around 3am without any victims.Abdullah Aburahma called all the Human Rights organizations worldwide to help stopping the night raids in Bil’in, and to support the demonstrations against the occupation which is a legal activity.”
[One of the main goals of PTT has been to debunk, uncover and counter the ways that Israel and its advocates use the tools of propaganda. They are very good at their propaganda, especially because they have the economic possibilities to exploit it to its maximum potential. PTT (and Peacepalestine blog before it) has been analysing the Hasbara Handbook and The Israel Project on many occasions. One of The Israel Project’s most devious aspects is that it was “born” to look like it was just a lot of caring individuals, young mothers, especially, who wanted to express their beliefs in the way they were convinced that Israel was getting bad press that it didn’t deserve, and with their free time and good will, they would be benefitting the cause close to their hearts. As they were just regular folks like you and me, we wouldn’t even think of looking at it as a major propaganda or marketing ploy, nor in any way directly related to Israel, which, in fact, it is all of those things and more. The “moms” were a fake (in fact, they don’t even promote themselves that way anymore, since everyone discovered that Miri Eisin, in the photo, one of the “moms”, is Olmert’s Press Advisor) and it is precisely what we’d all fear and suspect it was. This is but one aspect of TIP which makes it an item worth looking into and exposing. We are in the process of compiling our own “Counter Hasbara Guidebook”, an on-going project, and the new additions to the revised version of TIP give us more stimulus to achieve this project. In the meantime, we offer this excellent commentary by Stuart Littlewood, a companion piece to the 
The New Dark Age 