Why are the Palestinians squatting in the chosen people's backyard?
Sky Pixie says go away
Let us approach them and say that we have no solution, that you shall continue to live like dogs, and whoever wants to can leave -- and we will see where this process leads. In five years we may have 200,000 less people - and that is a matter of enormous importance." Moshe Dayan
make their life so bitter that they will transfer themselves willingly Binyamin (Benny) Elon
And all of this talk of “why, why, why did Hamas do this?” Take a look at this list of settler initiated crimes against Palestinians from the last few weeks. What type of superhuman moral restraint do you expect Palestinians to continue? How long must they be intimidated by these thugs before they strike back? How long would Americans tolerate this sort of thuggish behavior before they fought back?
Jerusalem settlers assault 9 year old, parents say
Witnesses: Settlers beat 10-year-old Palestinian girl
Settlers harass family near settlement
Early morning settler attack on Palestinian family in Hebron area
Israeli Settlers Attack Families And The Military Abducts Two In Hebron
Masked settlers attack international peace activists in Hebron
Settlers Assault A Palestinian Woman In Hebron
Police: Family attacked by settlers after car crash
Israeli Settlers Attack Palestinian Farmers Near Salfit
PNI leader attacked by settlers
Witnesses: Armed settler threatens farmers
Dark days in Al Buwayra: a week of settler attacks
When Settlers Attack….Today (And Everyday) In The West Bank
Settlers Attack as a Palestinian Villagers try to Secure Water in the South Hebron Hills, Joseph Dana
East Jerusalem: Settlers Take Over Another House
Official: Settlers uproot 200 olive trees south of Nablus
Armed settler guards attack mosque in Wadi Hilweh, shots fired at Palestinian residents
Price Tag: Settlers riot after structures razed
Witnesses: Settlers raid house, burn crops
PA official: Settlers set fire to village land
Settlers Destroy Farm Lands, Troops Arrest Civilians And Invade Areas In Gaza
Israeli settlers try to seize lands in Jerusalem
Settlers torch farmland east of Nablus
Israeli settlers throw stones at Palestinian car
PA official: Settlers vandalize cars after Hebron shooting
Bus damaged by rocks near Nablus
Israeli army escorts 500 Jewish Israelis into controversial settlement near Nablus
"Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the Arabs of the territories." Benyamin Netanyahu
"Everybody has to move, run and grab as many hilltops as they can to enlarge the settlements because everything we take now will stay ours... Everything we don't grab will go to them." Ariel Sharon
Israel's "systematic oppression" of the Palestinian people in the West Bank and Gaza appears to constitute the "inhuman" and "degrading" practice of "apartheid," charged a United Nations investigator.
Richard Falk, U.N. Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories, chronicles Israel's human rights abuses in a searing 22-page report to the U.N. Human Rights Council — his final report after six years in the position. "Through prolonged occupation, with practices and policies which appear to constitute apartheid and segregation, ongoing expansion of settlements, and continual construction of the wall arguably amounting to de facto annexation of parts of the occupied Palestinian territory, the denial by Israel of the right to self-determination of the Palestinian people is evident," he writes.
Danny Muller, coordinator for Middle East Children's Alliance, told Common Dreams, "This report further documents the human rights violations committed against Palestinians — violations that happen every day under the US -funded Israeli occupation and apartheid system."
In East Jerusalem, the "revocation of residency permits" and "forced evictions of Palestinian families," as well as targeted demolition of Palestinian homes, amounts to a "gradual and bureaucratic process of ethnic cleansing," Falk writes.
In the West Bank, Palestinians are subject to military law and face systematic violation of their freedom of movement, assembly, and expression, as well as their rights to education and work, according to the report. Meanwhile, Israeli settlers live under a civilian legal code and enjoy rights that Palestinians living in close proximity do not.
The report charges that the "denial and lack of protection of Palestinian children’s rights" is built into the "Israeli military legal regime." An average of 700 Palestinian children are detained and prosecuted every year, and between January to October of 2013, 441 Palestinian children were displaced due to Israeli demolition of their homes, the report states. A tragic 344 children were killed by Israel's "Operation Cast Lead" attack on Gaza in 2008 and 2009, the report notes.
"Can anyone explain why collective punishment against children is allowed to continue?" asked Muller.
Faulk writes that the "unlawful" Israeli blockade of Gaza, combined with the ongoing occupation and continued military incursions, has contributed to "a serious emergency situation... that threatens the entire population." He continues, "The present situation is dire, as massive infrastructural failures cause daily hardship for the population, who are also at risk of epidemics."
Listed under "Acts potentially amounting to segregation and apartheid," Falk includes the "continuing excessive use of force by Israeli security forces (ISF) and a lack of accountability for violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law." He slams "lethal force against demonstrators," as well as the "policy of targeted killing, which resulted in the killing of 369 Palestinians during the period September 2000 – December 2013." Faulk charges that, "on average, for every person killed as a target of ISF, one or two other persons have been killed in any given operation."
The document, which was reportedly scheduled to be presented to the U.N. Human Rights Council next month, was published last week by pro-Israel group U.N. Watch.
Among several recommendations, Falk urges cessation of trade with settlements, as well as the lifting of the blockade on Gaza. He calls for the International Court of Justice to "assess allegations that the prolonged occupation possesses legally unacceptable characteristics of 'colonialism', 'apartheid' and 'ethnic cleansing.'"
17:104
And We said after Pharaoh to the Children of Israel, "Dwell in the land, and when there comes the promise of the Hereafter, We will bring you forth in [one] gathering.
5:21
O my people, enter the Holy Land which Allah has assigned to you and do not turn back [from fighting in Allah 's cause] and [thus] become losers.
26:59
Thus. And We caused to inherit it the Children of Israel.
Why are the Palestinians squatting in the chosen people's backyard?
Sky Pixie says go away
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I think the fact that the Israeli's seem to be using smart weapons from aircraft (and it appears giving a bit of warning) tends to indicate a specific targeting and an attempt to reduce casualties.
If they wanted to do a "proportional" response to the Hamas rockets they could do it far more cheaply (and safely for their forces) by using some long range artillery and just getting the general area.
As it is each of their weapons probably costs as much as dozens of the hamas rockets.
So they're either trying to deal with the rockets with reduced civilian casualties, don't care about the civilians, or want the civilians dead.
Given their choice of weapons I'm guessing they're trying to do it with reduced civilian casualties, if just for PR reasons.
All of this makes it perfectly okay to kill Palestinian civilians!! Now, where's my deck chair?
You do know that was the Quoran that I was quoting?
So you tell me why God wants the Jews to live in the crappest part of the world. Maybe he hates Jews too?
Not sure what that video proves? The Israeli F-15/16's all carry laser guided bombs and the conventional bombs are still accurate if you can cruise by at 1000ft.You only need to watch the first 10 seconds of this BBC news report video to find this. Ballistic weapons are expensive. Dropping bombs by plane are a lot cheaper.
Actually that was pulled from a muslim talking about whether or not muslims hating jews was a valid theological position. Not sure how that makes it out of context? Good luck if you can understand it though.quoting them out of content
Is it necessary to get excited about every single war that happens? Frankly far more people die on the road in the UK but I don't rage against that either.you have successfully portrayed yourself as a heartless individual
bla bla bla F16's, M109 Howitzers, stone throwing Palestinians are a threat to Israel.
I have literally never seen a muslim without an AK47 or an angry banner telling me about how Islam will rule the world.
Oh yeah me too!!
Oh yeah me too!! Every time I go for a hospital appointment, I see Muslim doctors and other health care staff with AK47, RPG and goats. (Seriously though, what's with the goats? In a hospital?) But I guess the UK can do without those Muslims, right? The world, the UK and the NHS can do without them.
I do genuinely feel sorry for you. Have a nice life.
It's odd he assumes everyone who disagrees with his warped opinions is Muslim
"The Christians in the west, most of them, they don't know the realities here. They don't know who is occupying who, who is oppressing who, who is confiscating whose land, who is building walls to try and separate people from one another," Alex Awad, who also pastors East Jerusalem Church, told The Christian Post.
"In the United States and much of Europe people — they just don't understand the realities on the ground," he added.
According to Awad, the reality is that the root causes of the Gaza conflict date back further than the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers. Instead, he blames Israel for not following through with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's plan under which the country was required to free Palestinian prisoners, whom he suggested were unfairly imprisoned after protesting the West Bank settlements. Awad believes that its failure to follow through with this condition enraged an already angered (and economically deprived) Palestinian population. He also called the current fighting a "cover-up" for the settlements and a diversion to focus attention to Gaza, even as the real crisis took place in the West Bank.