Violating court order, Israeli occupiers forcibly remove Bab Al Shams village from Palestinian land | The Electronic Intifada »
Demonstrating the illusory nature of the rule of law in Israel when it comes to the rights of Palestinians, Israeli occupation forces on Sunday morning violently expelled dozens of Palestinians who had on Friday established a village they called Bab Al Shams on privately-owned Palestinian that has been seized for Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank.
As Haaretz reported:
Israel’s Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the Palestinian outpost, built in the geographically sensitive area known as E-1, could remain for six days while the issue of the removal of the tents was being discussed. [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu ordered the evacuation immediately, however, despite the court’s ruling.
Netanyahu vowed that Israel’s plans to colonize the land would go ahead. [++]
“[The court] has made its decision, now let them enforce it!” - Asshole Jackson
I keep hearing about this “Palestine” thing.
But it’s not on any map that I look at.
It doesn’t have any actual geographic boundaries, which means it can basically exist everywhere and encompass everything.
So… we’re talking about Narnia.
Palestine as a term stretches back to Egyptian times and has always referred to the land between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. This is literally a wikipedia search away.
I’m about two posts away from adding CommunismKills to Tumblr Savior and honestly don’t understand why you all bother (same goes for LuchadoreOfLiberty) BUT VIA FromPalestineWithLove an passport, from 1953, recognizing Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital:
OK? OK.
Also, regardless of even Wikipedia it is pretty easy to obtain a history of Palestine and its borders and colonialism in the region and etc…
But also also also also also: Let us say hypothetically, for only a moment, that we are ignoring history and facts and all those things and say there was no location or country or thing which could be called Palestine, does that change one iota that what Israel has done is systematic robbery of land and ethnic cleansing? no, it would not change that. OK, back to reality now where there is an actual “thing” called Palestine consisting of not just land but actual human beings who Historically identify as Palestinian (despite what racist shitheads might say to try and justify their crimes)
But just in case that wasn’t enough for you….
Here’s a map from 1783 labeling Palestine:
Here’s a map from the 1800s identifying Palestine:
and finally here is a map from fucking 1650 labeling and identifying Palestine:
There’s your fucking maps. Happy?
Moral of the story: Add CommunismKills to your Tumblr Savior, do yourself and us all favor.
Stop blockading and shelling Gaza but only if they stop... »
Stop blockading and shelling Gaza but only if they stop firing missiles at Israel but only if they stop blockading and shelling Gaza but only if they stop firing missiles at Israel but only if they stop blockading and shelling Gaza but only if they stop firing missiles at…
I reject this attempt at analysis.
Imagine if a member of Team USA Basketball - let’s say Kobe Bryant – had been traveling to an international tournament only to be seized by a foreign government and held in prison for three years without trial or even hearing the charges for which he was imprisoned. Imagine if Kobe was allowed no visitors from family or friends. Imagine if he was left no recourse but to effectively end any future prospects as a player by terminating his own physical health by going on a hunger strike. Chances are we’d notice, yes? Chances are the story would lead SportsCenter and make newspaper covers across the world. Chances are all the powerful international sports organizations - the IOC, FIFA – would treat the jailing nation as a pariah until Kobe was free. And chances are that even Laker-haters would wear buttons that read, “Free Kobe.”
This is what has happened to Palestinian national soccer team member Mahmoud Sarsak.
Judge Sang-Hyun Song, President of the International Criminal Court, being a typical shitheel for the organization which, as John Glaser points out, has rejected the Palestinian bid to investigate Israel’s repeated and unchallenged war crimes.
And of course the big elephant in the room as far “war crimes” and “impunity” is the biggest, baddest war monster of them all, America:
- “CIA Committed ‘War Crimes’ Bush Official Says
- “But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.”
Nixon: The only place where you and I disagree … is with regard to the bombing. You’re so goddamned concerned about civilians and I don’t give a damn. I don’t care.
Kissinger: I’m concerned about the civilians because I don’t want the world to be mobilized against you as a butcher.
Nixon wasn’t even indicted before he was pardoned, and that wasn’t even for War Crimes. Kissinger meanwhile still freely walks about, collects money for talking to people about things where his opinion is apparently, somehow valued…
Happy (former) Palestinian Land Day! »
Juan Cole reveals that the Israeli government is proceeding with several programs to take more land from people already living on it, and giving it to Israeli settlers.
It has just come out that the Israeli military has earmarked ten percent of the land in the Occupied West bank for Israeli settlements. In addition, the Israeli government is moving forward with an outrageous plan that will mean the expulsion of tens of thousands of Bedouin citizens in the Negev desert. The context is the warning issued by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in a 2010 government meeting that a Negev “without a Jewish majority” would pose “a palpable threat”.
You won’t be told about this by television news, your elected representatives, or the US State Department (in fact, when asked about the Negev displacement plan they dismissed it as an “internal Israeli matter”). But this is the inconvenient truth that prompted the UN’s Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination to recently issue what according to one expert was the most cutting “condemnation of a legal system of segregation since apartheid South Africa”. That is why Land Day, beginning with the struggle for the land, is now marked all over the world as the movement for decolonisation and equality in Palestine/Israel gains momentum.
I get the sense that this is a deliberate antagonization of people in the West Bank in an attempt to get a response they can use as justification for escalating their military presence. My heart goes out to the displaced and disenfranchised of the West Bank.
me: At what point does this [the ethnic cleansing via “settlements”] end?
Helrond: when it’s all settled
me: so when the Solution is Finalized you mean?
Auschwitz survivor: “I can identify with Palestinian youth”
also relevant to most current nation-states he says:
In the long-run the country is destructing itself this way by inducing their Jewish citizens to become paranoid. In 2005 [then Prime Minister Ariel] Sharon illustrated this by saying in the Knesset [the Israeli parliament], we know we cannot trust anyone, we only can trust ourselves. This is the shortest possible definition of somebody who suffers from clinical paranoia.
