This story was published yesterday in the alternative press because no major news sources seem to be carrying it. “Happy Thanksgiving” was Phil Weiss’ cynical appraisal as Israel apparently used the American holiday to mete out more destruction of Palestinian life in the West Bank, life that already exists on the edge of abject poverty.
Israeli forces demolished Palestinian homes in the Jordan Valley and the South Hebron Hills today in what seems as a wave of demolitions following yesterday’s demolitions all across the West Bank. Non-violent leaders from Beit Ummar have also been arrested in night raids. Grassroots organizers Mousa and Yousef Abu Maria were arrested from their homes as harassment continues in Beit Ummar
After carrying demolitions in the villages of Qarawat Bani Hassan near Salfeet, al-Jiftlik in the Jordan Valley and Hizma near Jerusalem yesterday, Israeli bulldozers returned to the Jordan Valley today. At 6:30 this morning, Israeli Civil Administration bulldozers accompanied by soldiers and armored military jeeps entered the Jordan Valley village of Khirbet Yarza, east of Tubas, and demolished the village’s mosque, houses and four animal shelters. The demolitions rendered eleven people homeless.
LINK: http://mondoweiss.net/2010/11/israel-conducts-wave-of-demolitions-including-mosque-across-west-bank.
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the new Israeli settlements there?
It’s anyone’s guess.
This earlier report from Ma’an News:
In the Book of Exodus, the Israelites come from Egypt to the Land of Canaan, promised to them by God, but occupied by other persons. The Israelites killed them, raped the women, and stole the land then.
It’s the will of God.
Not to be redundant but my comment is a better fit on your new post:
You never see a non-violent protest in the media. If a Hamas renegade shoots a homemade Estes model rocket into the Israeli desert, you will see that headline along with the cruel response.
I cannot imagine the frustration of the people in Gaza and the West bank. On and on with blame the victim. They have to be so hopeless.
Why do Obama and H.Clinton want to give Israel F35 fighters? Using my tax money. Why in the name of all that is good and pure would you do that? A three month stop of ILLEGAL settlements and not in Jerusalem? Its a cover to cozy up to Bibi the Clown and his minions. Very disappointed in the U.S. administration on that insane negotiation its absolute BS.
Shergald, continue to post do not get discouraged the Palestinian people have real friends here at the pond.
U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation
All good questions whose answers seem to lie in the power of The Lobby to influence presidential politics. George Bush I seems to have been the last president capable of standing up to this influence. Clinton bent to it and did more damage to the peace movement than any president before or since. Since Bush I, they have all been what Booman called “poodles” to the Israeli PMs whomever they were. Obama is only the last after a feable attempt to take the reins back.
All the rest of us can do is to keep publishing the reality.
Israel looks more and more like a terrorist state. After all destroying the homes and places of worship of civilians must ramk as terrorism. Im sure if it were Iran doing it to their Jewish minority it would result in utter outrage and the useless propaganda apparatus known as the free media going into meltdown