Israels True Face: Israeli settlers using violence to illegally take Palestinian Homes
Israel continues to turn a blind eye on its atrocities against a defenseless people by destroying homes, burning olive groves and killing many innocent children, women and other innocent people.
When will this madness stop? My guess is only when Israel acquires all the land and natural resources for themselves at the cost of innocent lives.
(PIC courtesy of www.kawther.info and shows young armed jewish settlers)
Here's the story:
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The Minister of Jerusalem Affairs says that repeated attempts by settlers to break into Palestinian homes in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood are done with the cooperation and encouragement of the Israeli police.
The East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah has resisted attempts to overtake its land and homes for years. This is the neighborhood that hosted the solidarity tent that became the house for Umm Kamal Al Kurd after the Israeli administration forced her out.
Since that time Israeli settlers have regularly attempted to seize homes in the area making the program of the military and government even more difficult for Palestinians to combat.
Ongoing court cases disputing land ownership go hand in hand with attacks by settlers on body and property.
Several weeks ago the Fateh party began to stage its own form of nonviolent resistance by creating a human chain around a Palestinian home that Israeli settlers were attempting to overtake. Settlers ran off each time but the situation is not improving with round the clock guards necessary.
Palestinian Minister of Jerusalem Affairs, Hatem Abdel Qader said today, "We see the seriousness of the repeated attempts by settlers to break into Palestinian homes in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood and see that they are with the cooperation and encouragement of the Israeli police."
Fateh spokesperson in Jerusalem, Dimitri Dliani added that the home seizure was prevented this time, but that this was a severe provocation from the settlers. He placed the responsibility for the incident on the Israeli police.
A court case has been in progress for 37 years over the ownership of the land on which this house and others are built. Settlers claim ownership of this land from before 1948, but Palestinian residents have documents of ownership and say that settlers' evidence is forged. The case was proven in favor of the Palestinians with documentation even sent from Turkey however the Israeli prosecutors ignored it. The next hearing is due in September.
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This is a "Military Order" issued by the IDF to Palestinians. This is how the Israeli government covers up land theft by "legalizing" it.
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When will the U.N. insist that Israel comply to the 65 or so resolutions which have been adopted by the U.N. General Assembly against Israel and its criminal behavior ?
When will countries around the world stop financing this institution which supports and covers up wars of aggression and genocide, as it has repeatedly done ? Some examples of the attitude of the U.N. before genocide and wars of aggression are Palestine, Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and currently Somalia / Ethiopia. In all of these cases, what happened or is still going on could have been avoided, had the U.N. not studiously looked the other way.
What goal does the U.N. pursue by looking away and thus supporting and covering up genocide, in Palestine and elsewhere ?
Who does the U.N. serve when it supports and covers up genocide and wars of aggression ?
When will the U.N. put in place an International Court of Justice which will not allow criminal states like Israel to decide whether its officials will be prosecuted ?
Israel has complied with exactly NONE of the conditions which it accepted when it joined the U.N. - Why has Israel not been expulsed from the U.N. ?
When will countries around the world understand that crimes against humanity have nothing to do with politics and everything to do with crime, and act accordingly ?
picture: Yehuda Fuchs, the angry man at the right, is the new occupier of Hebron
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The Daily Life of Kawther Salam:
I was expelled by the Israeli Army from my home in Hebron in 2002 because of my work as a journalist, but before that I had been sexually harassed, beaten, insulted and slandered by the IDF and the illegal Jewish settlers, my home was repeatedly vandalized by the illegal Jewish settlers and IDF. I was hospitalized several times due to these mistreatments. I lost several jobs in a row due to Israeli pressure on my employers despite being a well-known and recognized journalist; I was defrauded of the fruits of my work by Israeli associates who made use of the inequality of Palestinians before Israeli law, and my work was subsequently used by the Israeli military to endanger my life. I live in Austria as a refugee under the Geneva Convention since 2002.Here are some of my official complaints to the israeli Police regarding the misconduct and abuses commited against me by IDF soldiers and the illegal jewish settlers in Hebron. All the complaints refer to episodes which happened during my work. Filing each complaint means waiting for a whole day behind closed doors and outside of the police station for the officers to accept it.
None of the complaints I presented resulted in any action by the police. There was either no response at all, a response that the prepetrators could "not be identified", or the file would be closed without action. The israeli police implements the military law of the occupying IDF and has no regard for Palestinian civil laws.
Police officers who would investigate criminal complaints against settlers would normally be thrown out and transferred elsewhere. As an example, the police Colonel Ish "Bono" Jemini was transferred from Hebron to Herzliya by demand of the settlers, because he dared to investigate law violations commited by settlers. Another officer, police investigator Omri Ben Meir, was transferred from the investigation unit in Hebron to a position without any influence, also because he was investigating crimes commited by settlers. Eventually he found his way to an internal investigation unit of the police at Giva'at Shaul.
Yet another officer, Colonel Efraim Arditi, a police commander in Hebron, was in good terms with the settlers until he dared to arrest Moshe Levinger, an extremist settler who would not make a deposition with the police and then issue a press release characterizing the settlers as a criminal gang. Because of this he was also transferred from Hebron to Jerusalem due to intervention of the settlers.
The documents will be posted below, each one with a short explanation.
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Her complaint against Israel for sexual misconduct against her...more documents relating to her at:
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Major Israeli settlement 'unlawful'
By Tim Franks
BBC News, Ofra
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Israeli settlements on occupied territory are seen as illegal by the rest of the world. But now an Israeli human rights group is saying that even under Israeli law, one of the most significant and well-established settlements is unlawful.The human rights group B'tselem has published a report in which it states that almost 60% of the settlement of Ofra has been built on land which remains in private Palestinian ownership.
The settlement was established in 1975, just to the north-east of Ramallah.
A history of the settlement recounts how about 20 Jewish settlers, with sleeping bags and jerry cans, came one Sunday to set up camp.
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Picture is Israeli settlers training their children to use weapons against the unarmed Palestinians in order to steal land
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WorldpeaceTV, you make many excellent points, but this one stands out
Israel has complied with exactly NONE of the conditions which it accepted when it joined the U.N. - Why has Israel not been expulsed from the U.N. ?
We know they rob, harass and kill the Palestinians. Yet America gives £3billion per annum in aid to Israel, when it should be handing it to the Palestinians and the aid workers that Israel is blockading at present.
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- Highr0ller
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your 100% right highroller. the money that Israel recieves from this country is BS. All that money should be given to the palestinians to help rebuid what Israel destroyed
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"Violence will only aggravate an already grave situation in the region." But violence will not be ended by empty condemnation of the victims and craven appeasement of the occupier. It will end when governments take action to make Israel, as the occupying colonial power, accountable
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- Highr0ller
- 4 months ago
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You know what would piss of Israelis, is if we gave the Palestinians a piece of the American back country..
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"There have been periods of history in which episodes of terrible violence occurred but for which the word violence was never used.... Violence is shrouded in justifying myths that lend it moral legitimacy, and these myths for the most part kept people from recognizing the violence for what it was. The people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment thought of their act as violence; rather they thought of it as an act of divinely mandated righteousness. The same can be said of most of the violence we humans have ever committed": ~Gil Bailie
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You people gotta remember that the American state of mind is much more different then the middle eastern state of mind...We see thing's as they are giving to us by the media stand point,(Independent or Mainstream)...While they see thing's as seen...I say we need to think about what's going on here in America first before we can give our own reflection on what we think is right or wrong in those countries,Unless you are a neutral (Non-Israeli/Not-Palestinian) person who has lived in one of those countries for year's,Where you can actually make a legit statement. Straight-Up.
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- Day2Day1nSociety
- 4 months ago
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but spreading hate is so much more fun for some
