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Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
No. 25/2006
22- 28 June 2006
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Escalate Attacks on Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), and Isolate the Gaza Strip from the Outside World
· A Palestinian was extra-judicially executed by IOF.
· IOF warplanes launched a number of air strikes and mock air raids on the Gaza Strip; a number of civilian facilities were destroyed or damaged.
· IOF conducted 48 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank.
· IOF moved nearly one kilometer into the east of Rafah, arrested two Palestinians and seized control over Gaza International Airport.
· 63 Palestinian civilians, including 5 children and a woman, were arrested by IOF.
· 5 houses were transformed by IOF into military sites.
· IOF have continued to impose a total siege on the OPT; IOF have imposed a tightened siege on the Gaza Strip; IOF positioned at checkpoints in the West Bank arrested 7 Palestinian civilians; and IOF arrested the Palestinian Minister of Labor, Mohammed al-Barghouthi.
· IOF have continued to construct the Annexation Wall in the West Bank; IOF resumed land leveling near Bethlehem and uprooted at least 200 olive trees; IOF have continued to construct sections of the Wall near "Shavi Shomron" and "Ariel" settlements in the north of the West Bank; and IOF started to establish a fence near "Teena" settlement.
· Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property in the OPT; 3 Palestinian civilians were injured; and 5 houses were damaged.
Summary
IOF have started to implement threats made by the Israeli prime minister, Knesset ministers and the chief of staff to launch a wide scale offensive on the Gaza Strip. The offensive, named "Operation Summer Rain", has included incursions, air strikes and artillery shelling on civilian targets in the Gaza Strip. These attacks followed a military operation by Palestinian resistance members on 25 June 2006 in the Kerem Shalom area, southeast of Rafah, in which two IOF soldiers and two members of the Palestinian resistance were killed, and a third IOF soldier was captured by the Palestinian resistance. Hundreds of IOF vehicles have been deployed along the border of the Gaza Strip, waiting to move into Palestinian areas. The incursions are expected to cause many casualties among Palestinian civilians. IOF have also imposed a tightened siege on the Gaza Strip.
PCHR strongly condemns acts of retaliation and collective punishment against the Palestinian civilian population in the Gaza Strip, including the destruction of civilian facilities. PCHR calls upon the international community, particularly the High Contracting Parties to the 1949 Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, to force IOF to comply with the Convention, including the prohibition of reprisals against protected persons and their property (article 33). PCHR calls also upon the High Contracting Parties to apply article 1 of the Convention, which calls for respecting the Convention and ensuring respect the Convention in all circumstances.
Israeli violations of international law continued in the OPT during the reported period (22-28 June 2006):
Killing: On Thursday evening, 22 June 2006, an IOF undercover unit extra-judicially executed a member of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the military wing of the Fatah movement in Ramallah. During the reported period, 6 Palestinian civilians, including 3 children, were wounded by IOF gunfire in the West Bank.
In the Gaza Strip, IOF launched a series of air strikes using fighter jets and helicopter gunships on civilian facilities. The air strikes completely destroyed two bridges in the Gaza Valley, one on Salah El-Deen Road and the other on the coastal road. These two bridges connect the northern part of the Strip with the center and southern parts. A secondary bridge was also destroyed. Transportation to and from the north of the Strip has been completely cut off as a result, threatening people's lives and security by depriving them of access to health and educational institutions. The aerial bombardment also destroyed the main water pipe feeding Nusairat and al-Boreij refugee camps. Furthermore, panic was caused among civilians, especially children and patients by bombardment, mock air raids and sonic booms over the Strip.
In addition, IOF warplanes bombarded the Gaza Strip's only electricity generation plant, located to the north of Nusairat refugee camp. Key sections of the plant were completely destroyed and fire broke out throughout the plant. The bombardment has cut electricity off for nearly half the population of the Gaza Strip. The bombardment destroyed the six main generators that provide 45% of the electricity needs of the Strip. Restoring the plant and resuming its operations could take up to 6 months and at a cost of approximately US$15 million.
Incursions: During the reported period. IOF also conducted at least 48 military incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank. During these incursions, IOF raided houses and arrested 63 Palestinian civilians, including 5 children and a woman. Thus, the number of Palestinians arrested by IOF since the beginning of 2006 has increased to 1843. IOF also transformed 5 houses into military sites. In these incursions, IOF employed undercover units and trained dogs. On 24 June 2006, IOF moved into al-Shouka neighborhood in the southeast of Rafah, and arrested two Palestinian brothers. This was the first incursion into Rafah since the IOF redeployment in September 2005. On 28 June 2006, IOF moved into the eastern part of Rafah and seized control over Gaza International Airport after shelling it.
Restrictions on Movement: IOF have continued to impose a comprehensive siege on the OPT, in violation of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of Palestinian civilians.
Following an attack launched by Palestinian militants on 25 June 2006, near the Israeli-Egyptian border southeast of Rafah, which left two IOF soldiers and two of the attackers dead and a third IOF soldier missing, IOF have closed all border crossings of the Gaza Strip.
According to field information, Rafah International Crossing Point has been completely closed since Sunday, 25 June 2006, following the military attack at Kerem Shalom. Hundreds of Palestinian travelers are now stuck on the Egyptian side of the border. Among these travelers are women, children, elderly and ill persons returning after medical treatment in Egypt. They are enduring inadequate living and health conditions while waiting to enter Gaza.
Furthermore, IOF have closed the other crossings into the Gaza Strip: al-Mentar (Karni) commercial crossing; Beit Hanoun (Erez) crossing - designated for workers, humanitarian cases and international workers; Sofa Crossing - designated for construction material; and Kerem Shalom Crossing - used for food and medical humanitarian assistance.
It is noted that the closure of Gaza Strip border crossings, since the Border Crossings Agreement between the Palestinian National Authority and Israel on 15 November 2005, has created a disastrous economic and humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip. Since the signing of the agreement, al-Mentar Crossing has been completely closed for 96 days and partially closed for 162 days. As a result, the import and export of medicine and other commodities had been kept at a standstill for the majority of this time, causing further economic strangulation of the Gaza Strip and a lack of essential goods such as milk and fruits in the local market. In addition, agricultural and industrial exports from the Strip have been barred.
IOF have continued to impose a tightened siege on Palestinian communities in the West Bank. IOF positioned at various checkpoints in the West Bank have continued to impose severe restrictions on the movement of Palestinian civilians. IOF have continued to separate the north and south of the West Bank. For this purpose, they have imposed severe restrictions one movement through Za'tara checkpoint, south of Nablus, and re-established their presence at 'Attara checkpoint, north of Ramallah. They have also erected two new checkpoints near Ramallah. During the reported period, IOF positioned at various checkpoints around Nablus imposed severe restrictions on the movement of Palestinian civilians. They have also continued to impose severe restrictions on the movement on Palestinian civilians to and from Tulkarm. IOF positioned at various checkpoints in the West Bank abused a number of Palestinian civilians. During the reported period, IOF at checkpoints in the West Bank arrested 7 Palestinian civilians, including the Palestinian Minister of Labor.
Annexation Wall: IOF have continued to construct the Annexation Wall inside the West Bank. During the reported period, IOF razed areas of Palestinian land near "Ariel" settlement in the north of the West Bank, and completed land leveling near "Shavi Shomron" settlement to construct a section of the Wall in the area. IOF also uprooted at least 200 olive trees in the Kuraimzan area in Beit Jala for the purpose of the construction of a section of the Wall near Bethlehem. In addition, IOF also started to establish a fence around "Teena" settlement, south of Hebron. This fence will seize at least 100 dunums[1] of Palestinian agricultural land. On 23 June 2006, IOF used forced to disperse a peaceful demonstration organized in protest to the construction of the Wall in Bal'ein village, west of Ramallah Wall. IOF fired rubber-coated metal bullets, tear gas canisters and sound bombs at the demonstrators. They also violently beat the demonstrators and arrested one of them.
Illegal Settler Activities: Israeli settlers in breach of international humanitarian law continue to reside in the OPT and have launched a series of attacks against Palestinian civilians and property, especially in Hebron. During the reported period, 3 Palestinian civilian were injured and 5 houses were damaged in attacks by settlers.
The full report is available online at:
html format:
http://www.pchrgaza.org/files/W_report/English/2006/29-06-2006.htm
pdf format:
http://www.pchrgaza.org/files/W_report/English/2006/pdf/weekly%20report%2025.pdf
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Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
No. 25/2006
22- 28 June 2006
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Escalate Attacks on Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), and Isolate the Gaza Strip from the Outside World
· A Palestinian was extra-judicially executed by IOF.
· IOF warplanes launched a number of air strikes and mock air raids on the Gaza Strip; a number of civilian facilities were destroyed or damaged.
· IOF conducted 48 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank.
· IOF moved nearly one kilometer into the east of Rafah, arrested two Palestinians and seized control over Gaza International Airport.
· 63 Palestinian civilians, including 5 children and a woman, were arrested by IOF.
· 5 houses were transformed by IOF into military sites.
· IOF have continued to impose a total siege on the OPT; IOF have imposed a tightened siege on the Gaza Strip; IOF positioned at checkpoints in the West Bank arrested 7 Palestinian civilians; and IOF arrested the Palestinian Minister of Labor, Mohammed al-Barghouthi.
· IOF have continued to construct the Annexation Wall in the West Bank; IOF resumed land leveling near Bethlehem and uprooted at least 200 olive trees; IOF have continued to construct sections of the Wall near "Shavi Shomron" and "Ariel" settlements in the north of the West Bank; and IOF started to establish a fence near "Teena" settlement.
· Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property in the OPT; 3 Palestinian civilians were injured; and 5 houses were damaged.
Summary
IOF have started to implement threats made by the Israeli prime minister, Knesset ministers and the chief of staff to launch a wide scale offensive on the Gaza Strip. The offensive, named "Operation Summer Rain", has included incursions, air strikes and artillery shelling on civilian targets in the Gaza Strip. These attacks followed a military operation by Palestinian resistance members on 25 June 2006 in the Kerem Shalom area, southeast of Rafah, in which two IOF soldiers and two members of the Palestinian resistance were killed, and a third IOF soldier was captured by the Palestinian resistance. Hundreds of IOF vehicles have been deployed along the border of the Gaza Strip, waiting to move into Palestinian areas. The incursions are expected to cause many casualties among Palestinian civilians. IOF have also imposed a tightened siege on the Gaza Strip.
PCHR strongly condemns acts of retaliation and collective punishment against the Palestinian civilian population in the Gaza Strip, including the destruction of civilian facilities. PCHR calls upon the international community, particularly the High Contracting Parties to the 1949 Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, to force IOF to comply with the Convention, including the prohibition of reprisals against protected persons and their property (article 33). PCHR calls also upon the High Contracting Parties to apply article 1 of the Convention, which calls for respecting the Convention and ensuring respect the Convention in all circumstances.
Israeli violations of international law continued in the OPT during the reported period (22-28 June 2006):
Killing: On Thursday evening, 22 June 2006, an IOF undercover unit extra-judicially executed a member of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the military wing of the Fatah movement in Ramallah. During the reported period, 6 Palestinian civilians, including 3 children, were wounded by IOF gunfire in the West Bank.
In the Gaza Strip, IOF launched a series of air strikes using fighter jets and helicopter gunships on civilian facilities. The air strikes completely destroyed two bridges in the Gaza Valley, one on Salah El-Deen Road and the other on the coastal road. These two bridges connect the northern part of the Strip with the center and southern parts. A secondary bridge was also destroyed. Transportation to and from the north of the Strip has been completely cut off as a result, threatening people's lives and security by depriving them of access to health and educational institutions. The aerial bombardment also destroyed the main water pipe feeding Nusairat and al-Boreij refugee camps. Furthermore, panic was caused among civilians, especially children and patients by bombardment, mock air raids and sonic booms over the Strip.
In addition, IOF warplanes bombarded the Gaza Strip's only electricity generation plant, located to the north of Nusairat refugee camp. Key sections of the plant were completely destroyed and fire broke out throughout the plant. The bombardment has cut electricity off for nearly half the population of the Gaza Strip. The bombardment destroyed the six main generators that provide 45% of the electricity needs of the Strip. Restoring the plant and resuming its operations could take up to 6 months and at a cost of approximately US$15 million.
Incursions: During the reported period. IOF also conducted at least 48 military incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank. During these incursions, IOF raided houses and arrested 63 Palestinian civilians, including 5 children and a woman. Thus, the number of Palestinians arrested by IOF since the beginning of 2006 has increased to 1843. IOF also transformed 5 houses into military sites. In these incursions, IOF employed undercover units and trained dogs. On 24 June 2006, IOF moved into al-Shouka neighborhood in the southeast of Rafah, and arrested two Palestinian brothers. This was the first incursion into Rafah since the IOF redeployment in September 2005. On 28 June 2006, IOF moved into the eastern part of Rafah and seized control over Gaza International Airport after shelling it.
Restrictions on Movement: IOF have continued to impose a comprehensive siege on the OPT, in violation of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of Palestinian civilians.
Following an attack launched by Palestinian militants on 25 June 2006, near the Israeli-Egyptian border southeast of Rafah, which left two IOF soldiers and two of the attackers dead and a third IOF soldier missing, IOF have closed all border crossings of the Gaza Strip.
According to field information, Rafah International Crossing Point has been completely closed since Sunday, 25 June 2006, following the military attack at Kerem Shalom. Hundreds of Palestinian travelers are now stuck on the Egyptian side of the border. Among these travelers are women, children, elderly and ill persons returning after medical treatment in Egypt. They are enduring inadequate living and health conditions while waiting to enter Gaza.
Furthermore, IOF have closed the other crossings into the Gaza Strip: al-Mentar (Karni) commercial crossing; Beit Hanoun (Erez) crossing - designated for workers, humanitarian cases and international workers; Sofa Crossing - designated for construction material; and Kerem Shalom Crossing - used for food and medical humanitarian assistance.
It is noted that the closure of Gaza Strip border crossings, since the Border Crossings Agreement between the Palestinian National Authority and Israel on 15 November 2005, has created a disastrous economic and humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip. Since the signing of the agreement, al-Mentar Crossing has been completely closed for 96 days and partially closed for 162 days. As a result, the import and export of medicine and other commodities had been kept at a standstill for the majority of this time, causing further economic strangulation of the Gaza Strip and a lack of essential goods such as milk and fruits in the local market. In addition, agricultural and industrial exports from the Strip have been barred.
IOF have continued to impose a tightened siege on Palestinian communities in the West Bank. IOF positioned at various checkpoints in the West Bank have continued to impose severe restrictions on the movement of Palestinian civilians. IOF have continued to separate the north and south of the West Bank. For this purpose, they have imposed severe restrictions one movement through Za'tara checkpoint, south of Nablus, and re-established their presence at 'Attara checkpoint, north of Ramallah. They have also erected two new checkpoints near Ramallah. During the reported period, IOF positioned at various checkpoints around Nablus imposed severe restrictions on the movement of Palestinian civilians. They have also continued to impose severe restrictions on the movement on Palestinian civilians to and from Tulkarm. IOF positioned at various checkpoints in the West Bank abused a number of Palestinian civilians. During the reported period, IOF at checkpoints in the West Bank arrested 7 Palestinian civilians, including the Palestinian Minister of Labor.
Annexation Wall: IOF have continued to construct the Annexation Wall inside the West Bank. During the reported period, IOF razed areas of Palestinian land near "Ariel" settlement in the north of the West Bank, and completed land leveling near "Shavi Shomron" settlement to construct a section of the Wall in the area. IOF also uprooted at least 200 olive trees in the Kuraimzan area in Beit Jala for the purpose of the construction of a section of the Wall near Bethlehem. In addition, IOF also started to establish a fence around "Teena" settlement, south of Hebron. This fence will seize at least 100 dunums[1] of Palestinian agricultural land. On 23 June 2006, IOF used forced to disperse a peaceful demonstration organized in protest to the construction of the Wall in Bal'ein village, west of Ramallah Wall. IOF fired rubber-coated metal bullets, tear gas canisters and sound bombs at the demonstrators. They also violently beat the demonstrators and arrested one of them.
Illegal Settler Activities: Israeli settlers in breach of international humanitarian law continue to reside in the OPT and have launched a series of attacks against Palestinian civilians and property, especially in Hebron. During the reported period, 3 Palestinian civilian were injured and 5 houses were damaged in attacks by settlers.
The full report is available online at:
html format:
http://www.pchrgaza.org/files/W_report/English/2006/29-06-2006.htm
pdf format:
http://www.pchrgaza.org/files/W_report/English/2006/pdf/weekly%20report%2025.pdf
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For further information please visit our website (http://www.pchrgaza.org) or contact PCHR's office in Gaza City, Gaza Strip by email (pchr [at] pchrgaza.org) or telephone (+972 (0)8 2824776 - 2825893).
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All nonsense. Happy to ses Israel hitting hard at terrorist Palestinian "entity." MAybe the continual war crom eof launching rockets at Israeli population centers will cease huh?
I don't see a list anywhere of the hundreds of innocent civillians that Palestinian terrorists have murdered. Isreal is doing what it should have done many years ago.
No matter how loudly you protest, we will continue to speak truth to power. This is an alternative media. We are pro-Palestinian (note: there is no "Israel" page here) You will never change that.
As long as Israel torutres and terorizes the good people of Palestine by extra-judicial assasinations, baby murdering, bulldozing houses, confiscating land and building an apartheid wall, we will be thre to document and educate.
As long as Israel torutres and terorizes the good people of Palestine by extra-judicial assasinations, baby murdering, bulldozing houses, confiscating land and building an apartheid wall, we will be thre to document and educate.
To coin a phrase; "Never have I been subjected to such constipation of thought and diahhrea of words" To blow up busses, kill innocent poeple is fine! To wipe out TERROSITS is an act of WAR CRIMES!!! I think that those who support terrorists are worse. You see, they are basically cheap cowards. They let some one else do the dangerous work and only shout from the sidelines where it is safe. I also do not think very highly of those who print such junk.
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"One man's terrorist is another's freedom fighter."
"As long as Israel torutres and terorizes the good people of Palestine by extra-judicial assasinations, baby murdering, bulldozing houses, confiscating land and building an apartheid wall, we will be thre to document and educate."
Yeah, ok. Just be sure to include some footage of Palestinians blowing up schoolbuses and picking up teenage hitchhikers and murdering them, while you're "document[ing] and educat[ing]."
ps: a little remedial spelling instruction might not hurt you, either.
Yeah, ok. Just be sure to include some footage of Palestinians blowing up schoolbuses and picking up teenage hitchhikers and murdering them, while you're "document[ing] and educat[ing]."
ps: a little remedial spelling instruction might not hurt you, either.
Tim Solomon is another apologist for state sponsored terror, victim of the propaganda mill.
Stop watching the pro-israel, pro-war, right wing corporate controlled media and critically thinking. Israel is not always "thuh viiiiictum".
Stop watching the pro-israel, pro-war, right wing corporate controlled media and critically thinking. Israel is not always "thuh viiiiictum".
you wrote:
Tim Solomon is another apologist for state sponsored terror, victim of the propaganda mill.
Stop watching the pro-israel, pro-war, right wing corporate controlled media and critically thinking. Israel is not always "thuh viiiiictum".
Wow! Thanks! I've never been called an apologist for terror. And on my first post ever! Seriously, though, a few points: first, your response is extremely condescending. How do you know what media I watch? Did I say Israel is always "thuh viiiictum"? If I did, please show me where.
In fact, I believe Israel is far from always the victim. A lot of what they do I find totally despicable. On the other hand, I have no sympathy for people who conduct their political discourse via suicide bombs and teaching blind hatred to generation after generation. Who dance in the streets after successful acts of murder. I guess my parents tought me that two wrongs don't make a right. The myopic, goose-stepping people on this board seem to believe in the most superficial concept of "by any means necessary," and somewhere along the line forgot about morality and humanity.
The theme of this board seems to be that Palestinians are oppressed, and Israel is bad. End of story. If that's not superficial, I don't know what is. Yet you call ME a "victim of the propoganda mill"? Why? Because I disagree with you? It's the people on this board who are too blinded by propoganda to understand, or to accept, the nuances of an extremely complex situation, with good and bad people on all sides.
If you were offended that I called someone out for posting a message riddled with spellnig and grammatical errors, I apologize. But your personal attacks were unjustified. How about laying off rhetoric and personal insults for once, and trying to engage in discussion, rather than sloganeering?
Tim Solomon is another apologist for state sponsored terror, victim of the propaganda mill.
Stop watching the pro-israel, pro-war, right wing corporate controlled media and critically thinking. Israel is not always "thuh viiiiictum".
Wow! Thanks! I've never been called an apologist for terror. And on my first post ever! Seriously, though, a few points: first, your response is extremely condescending. How do you know what media I watch? Did I say Israel is always "thuh viiiictum"? If I did, please show me where.
In fact, I believe Israel is far from always the victim. A lot of what they do I find totally despicable. On the other hand, I have no sympathy for people who conduct their political discourse via suicide bombs and teaching blind hatred to generation after generation. Who dance in the streets after successful acts of murder. I guess my parents tought me that two wrongs don't make a right. The myopic, goose-stepping people on this board seem to believe in the most superficial concept of "by any means necessary," and somewhere along the line forgot about morality and humanity.
The theme of this board seems to be that Palestinians are oppressed, and Israel is bad. End of story. If that's not superficial, I don't know what is. Yet you call ME a "victim of the propoganda mill"? Why? Because I disagree with you? It's the people on this board who are too blinded by propoganda to understand, or to accept, the nuances of an extremely complex situation, with good and bad people on all sides.
If you were offended that I called someone out for posting a message riddled with spellnig and grammatical errors, I apologize. But your personal attacks were unjustified. How about laying off rhetoric and personal insults for once, and trying to engage in discussion, rather than sloganeering?
I root for the underdog.
Since the actions you list by Israel are mainly conducted in response to Palestinian terror, why don't you at least also list the murder of innocent women and children by Palestinian terrorists?
You can use any words you like. Perhaps you object to calling it "terror" when Hamas or Islamic Jihad or Fatah send murderers into civilian areas of Israel to kill Jewish women and children. However, if you read the Hamas charter, Hamas says they do this not only because of Israeli government policy but because of a hatred for Jews. I am simply quoting from Hamas' own charter.
If you are not ashamed of this kind of racial hatred, why don't you make it clear that you stand for it? Are you proud to espouse racist nazi views?
If you devote you time and energy to listing the actions of the Israel Defense Forces, why not at least include the enormous list of murdered and maimed civilians--including many Palestinian victims--of Arab violence?
Are you or are you not ashamed of the gruesome and brutal reality of Arab violence, of the culture in Gaza and the west bank that glorifies death and calls murderers "martyrs,--or do you prefer to pretend it doesn't exist?
A man who intentionally kills innocent civilians is not a martyr. He is simply a cold blooded killer.
Just curious why you exclude any mention of the vast, deep and long history of Arab violence against innocent Jewish people. If you are not embrassed by it, you could at least include it to try to create some semblance of balance. But I suppose it wouldn't make your argument look good; for example, you'd have to admit that in the last 48 hours, the Israeli action didn't kill anyone in Gaza, while Palestinian violence killed three Israelis in the same time period, and apparently an accidental Palestinian bomb also killed several more Palestinians. Reality isn't always convenient when you are preaching a gospel of bigotry, delusionl and hatred. As one human being to another, I believe you would feel better if you could take a step back and at least include the opposing facts, the ones that might not support your theory that Israel is always the bad guy, but that for better or worse, are true: the relentlessness of Palestinian violence is unjustified, self-defeating, and brutal.
You can use any words you like. Perhaps you object to calling it "terror" when Hamas or Islamic Jihad or Fatah send murderers into civilian areas of Israel to kill Jewish women and children. However, if you read the Hamas charter, Hamas says they do this not only because of Israeli government policy but because of a hatred for Jews. I am simply quoting from Hamas' own charter.
If you are not ashamed of this kind of racial hatred, why don't you make it clear that you stand for it? Are you proud to espouse racist nazi views?
If you devote you time and energy to listing the actions of the Israel Defense Forces, why not at least include the enormous list of murdered and maimed civilians--including many Palestinian victims--of Arab violence?
Are you or are you not ashamed of the gruesome and brutal reality of Arab violence, of the culture in Gaza and the west bank that glorifies death and calls murderers "martyrs,--or do you prefer to pretend it doesn't exist?
A man who intentionally kills innocent civilians is not a martyr. He is simply a cold blooded killer.
Just curious why you exclude any mention of the vast, deep and long history of Arab violence against innocent Jewish people. If you are not embrassed by it, you could at least include it to try to create some semblance of balance. But I suppose it wouldn't make your argument look good; for example, you'd have to admit that in the last 48 hours, the Israeli action didn't kill anyone in Gaza, while Palestinian violence killed three Israelis in the same time period, and apparently an accidental Palestinian bomb also killed several more Palestinians. Reality isn't always convenient when you are preaching a gospel of bigotry, delusionl and hatred. As one human being to another, I believe you would feel better if you could take a step back and at least include the opposing facts, the ones that might not support your theory that Israel is always the bad guy, but that for better or worse, are true: the relentlessness of Palestinian violence is unjustified, self-defeating, and brutal.
Your phoney attempts to sound 'resonable" are transparent. Ther eality is that we get the other side all day long on the mainstream media. We come here for an alternative
You are dismissed.
P.S. This is a pro-Palestinian website, you will never change that.
You are dismissed.
P.S. This is a pro-Palestinian website, you will never change that.
This is NOT a Pro-Palestinian web site or it wouldn't support positions that will soon be disasterous for the Palestinian people. Its simply an anti-Israel web site, and the actual Palestinians are not considered.
1. There is no "Israel" page on this site.
2. There is a Palestine page here.
3. This is an alternative to the pro-israel, pro-war, right wing media.
4. You will never "persuade" us to do it differently and this is not meant to be a discussion forum/chatroom.
5. Try Yahoo, Daily Kos, ect. et al
2. There is a Palestine page here.
3. This is an alternative to the pro-israel, pro-war, right wing media.
4. You will never "persuade" us to do it differently and this is not meant to be a discussion forum/chatroom.
5. Try Yahoo, Daily Kos, ect. et al
"this is not meant to be a discussion forum/chatroom."
In that case, what is this? Preaching to the choir and stifling alternative opinions doesn't strike me as within the spirit of "independent" media. But if that's what it is, that's what it is. It's your board, not mine. I hope you're proud of yourself. Certainly no one's going to learn anything here, or even think. Thank you for your honesty, but it's sad that you don't want to hear any opinion other than your own, and that YOU have the gall to cavalierly brand other's "nazis." The irony is painful.
Keep spewing your vitriol, and calling people whom you don't know a damn thing about names. Hope it makes you feel smart.
Good bye.
In that case, what is this? Preaching to the choir and stifling alternative opinions doesn't strike me as within the spirit of "independent" media. But if that's what it is, that's what it is. It's your board, not mine. I hope you're proud of yourself. Certainly no one's going to learn anything here, or even think. Thank you for your honesty, but it's sad that you don't want to hear any opinion other than your own, and that YOU have the gall to cavalierly brand other's "nazis." The irony is painful.
Keep spewing your vitriol, and calling people whom you don't know a damn thing about names. Hope it makes you feel smart.
Good bye.
Zionists bought lands from Syrians and Egyptians who owned lands in palestine AFTER England promissed to carve a jewish homeland out of palestine. it is not hard to understand why Syrians and Egyptians would sell thier land when Britts and ZIonists were already conspiring to carve a Jewish homeland out of palestine. If you have seen the godfather, you know the line, "I made them an offer they couldn't refuse." Sell the land or loss it in the Zionist invasion that was already under way.
And ZIonists used the tiny amount of land they bought as a beachhead in the murderous theft of over 1/2 of the Palestinians homeland. Under the laws we demand for our own priotection, Zionists wouldn't even be allowed to keep the land they bought. It would be sold to pay off restitution. We already went over that.
Zionists buying some land it Palestine doesn't mean Zionists are something other than murderous thieves of the rest? And I sure see no reason to ignore that fact.
And ZIonists used the tiny amount of land they bought as a beachhead in the murderous theft of over 1/2 of the Palestinians homeland. Under the laws we demand for our own priotection, Zionists wouldn't even be allowed to keep the land they bought. It would be sold to pay off restitution. We already went over that.
Zionists buying some land it Palestine doesn't mean Zionists are something other than murderous thieves of the rest? And I sure see no reason to ignore that fact.
This is hilarious.
If you were correct, you would have identified him as "Brad Sellers" too as you do me. You're seeing Scapegoated Jew in your conflakes and gasoline. What a nincompoop. And you keep ducking my question: why do you not rename the page to Filastin?
If you were correct, you would have identified him as "Brad Sellers" too as you do me. You're seeing Scapegoated Jew in your conflakes and gasoline. What a nincompoop. And you keep ducking my question: why do you not rename the page to Filastin?
Zionists started buying lands from Syrians and Egyptians and others
who owned lands in palestine in the 1880's (not counting the late 1870's like in Petah Tiqvah's case) during the Ottoman Turk occupation, EVEN BEFORE anyone imagined Britain would occupy the land for some 30 years after the Turks. "The Brits" didn't do much in the way of sharing with the Zionists their intention to carve out a modern Jewish homeland. But worse is the way the obove commenter is casting the Arabs as stupid mindless children irresponsible for their own decisions and actions, a condescendingly racist mindset of the white man's burden variety. Little does he know that during the Zionist immigration a parallel Arab invasion was occurring. There was no "murderous theft" of land from the "Palestinians", and Palestine wasn't the US complete with a Bill of Rights and Constitution. The most ethical legal standard in application to that region then was international law and treaties. Further, only about 600 Arabs families became displaced as of 1938 by the Zionist purchase of land. The above author would do well if he spent his laments on the dire fate of the remnants of the once proud independent American Natives now languishing in Reservations after being brought near extinction in his own country by colonialist European murderous thieves. I'd have much more respect for his musing on the Arab-Israeli conflicts if he harped primarily on the Native-American plight.
who owned lands in palestine in the 1880's (not counting the late 1870's like in Petah Tiqvah's case) during the Ottoman Turk occupation, EVEN BEFORE anyone imagined Britain would occupy the land for some 30 years after the Turks. "The Brits" didn't do much in the way of sharing with the Zionists their intention to carve out a modern Jewish homeland. But worse is the way the obove commenter is casting the Arabs as stupid mindless children irresponsible for their own decisions and actions, a condescendingly racist mindset of the white man's burden variety. Little does he know that during the Zionist immigration a parallel Arab invasion was occurring. There was no "murderous theft" of land from the "Palestinians", and Palestine wasn't the US complete with a Bill of Rights and Constitution. The most ethical legal standard in application to that region then was international law and treaties. Further, only about 600 Arabs families became displaced as of 1938 by the Zionist purchase of land. The above author would do well if he spent his laments on the dire fate of the remnants of the once proud independent American Natives now languishing in Reservations after being brought near extinction in his own country by colonialist European murderous thieves. I'd have much more respect for his musing on the Arab-Israeli conflicts if he harped primarily on the Native-American plight.
April 30-May 1, 2006: Palestinian terrorists fire a Qassam rocket at Kibbutz Yad Mordechai. No injuries or damage are reported.
May 3, 2006: Palestinian terrorists fire two Qassams at Israel from the northern Gaza Strip, briefly interrupting Independence Day celebrations in the south of the country.
May 4, 2006: The Israeli navy intercepts a Palestinian fishing boat near Ashkelon. The crew throws weapons and large bags overboard. A sample later reveals that the contents were 550 kilograms of high-quality TNT.
May 8, 2006: Palestinian terrorists fire eight Qassams into the western Negev.
May 13, 2006: Israeli Border Police sappers safely detonate a bomb in Nablus in the West Bank packing 10 kilograms of explosives. Police sources note the explosive device was intended for use in a suicide attack against an Israeli target.
May 14, 2006: Palestinian terrorists detonate a bomb against a vehicle at the Shiloh Junction in the West Bank. One person is lightly injured.
May 14, 2006: Israel Navy patrol ships intercept a Palestinian vessel in close proximity to the Gaza Strip. The boat contained about 450 kilograms of TNT as well as mine components, and large bags of explosives had been thrown overboard.
May 16, 2006: Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists fire a Katyusha at the western Negev community of Netiv Ha’asara. The rocket hits a chicken coop, killing thirty chickens. Shrapnel damages a water pipe and adjacent greenhouse. The IDF determines that the rocket was a Grad-class Katyusha, which carries 6 kilograms of explosives. This marks the third time Palestinian terrorists have fired a Katyusha at Israel.
May 18, 2006: Palestinian terrorists fire at a civilian vehicle near the Tapuah Junction in the West Bank, wounding two Israelis. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claims responsibility.
May 21, 2006: Palestinian terrorists fire two Qassams at the Israeli city of Sderot. One hits an empty classroom, while the other causes two women to go into shock. Defense Minister Amir Peretz instructs the IDF to prepare an immediate plan for the fortification of schools in the Gaza vicinity.
May 23, 2006: The Egyptian interior ministry announces that the three suicide bombers responsible for the triple explosion in the Sinai resort of Dahab on April 24, which killed more than twenty, were trained in weapons and bomb-making by Palestinian religious fundamentalists in the neighboring Gaza Strip.
May 29, 2006: Palestinian terrorists fire two mortars at an IDF base in Nahal Oz (near Sderot).
May 31, 2006: Palestinian terrorists fire four Qassams at Sderot, which cause damage and send two people into shock.
June 1, 2006: Islamic Jihad claims responsibility for a bombing attack that lightly wounds two IDF soldiers in Jenin in the West Bank.
June 2, 2006: The U.S. military determines that Palestinian terrorists have become senior operatives in the Sunni insurgency in Iraq. Officials note than an increasing number of Palestinians have joined Al Qaeda-aligned groups in Iraq. On May 30, Iraqi and U.S. troops captured three Palestinians identified as leaders of insurgency cells in Baghdad. The Palestinians were said to have recruited students from Baghdad Technical University and ordered them to plant bombs near Iraqi police and army positions (“Palestinians Rise in Sunni Insurgency,” Middle East Newsline, June 2, 2006).
June 6, 2006: The head of the General Security Service, Yuval Diskin, tells the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that the amount of weapons and explosives smuggled into Gaza from Sinai since the September disengagement is larger than the total amount smuggled since the 1967 Six Day War. The quantity includes 11 tons of TNT, three million bullets, 19,600 rifles, 1,600 pistols, 65 RPG launchers, 430 RPGs, and about ten shoulder rocket launchers.
June 6, 2006: Haaretz reports that Hamas terrorists in the West Bank have experimented with adding toxic chemicals to their bombs.
June 6, 2006: A volley of Qassams injure an Israeli woman in Sderot and wound four other Israelis.
June 7, 2006: Two Palestinian terrorists attack an Israeli couple while they are hiking in Gush Etzion in the West Bank, stabbing one and hurling rocks at the other.
June 8, 2006: Palestinian terrorists fire three Qassams at southern Israel from Gaza in two separate attacks. One woman suffers from shock.
June 10, 2006: Israeli police commissioner Moshe Karadi orders police forces to an advanced stage of alert due to ninety warnings of impending terrorist attacks. June 11, 2006: Palestinian terrorists fire a Qassam at Sderot that critically wounds an Israeli. Hamas spokemsan Abu Oviyada proclaims, “We have decided to turn Sderot into a ghost town and we will not stop the rocket fire until the residents leave.”
June 12, 2006: Palestinian terrorists fire at least eighteen Qassams at Israel. One hits a parked car and causes a fire. An Israeli woman is lightly injured by shrapnel, and two other women suffer shock.
June 12, 2006: Palestinian terrorists shoot dead an Israeli Arab motorist, mistaken for a Jew, on Route 443 in the West Bank.
June 12, 2006: Egypt accuses Hamas of training suicide bombers in the Sinai Peninsula. Egyptian interior minister Habib Adly claims evidence of Hamas involvement in the training of at least two suicide bombers who blew themselves up at tourist sites in Sinai in April 2006.
June 12, 2006: A study reported in Haaretz finds that almost half the parents and one-third of the children in Sderot suffer from posttraumatic stress. “15 percent of the children, ages two and up, are suffering from severe post-traumatic stress syndrome. . . .”
June 13, 2006: Palestinian terrorist gunmen seriously wound another Israeli motorist on Route 443.
June 14, 2006: The IDF Home Front Command determines that 24 schools in the western Negev are in need of reinforcement against Qassam rockets. Two will have to be completely rebuilt. The cost of reinforcing the roofs of the 22 remaining schools will total NIS 165 million.
June 15, 2006: Islamic Jihad terrorists fire a salvo of Qassams into Sderot, wounding three people and damaging a factory.
June 15, 2006: Palestinian terrorists kidnap an Israeli girl near the Rahelim Junction in the West Bank. The girls’ friend flees the scene and reports the abduction to the police. The girl is found 20 minutes later.
June 18-19, 2006: Palestinian terrorists fire two Qassams at southern Israel, leaving sections of Sderot without electricity for several hours.
June 19, 2006: Palestinian foreign minister Mahmoud Zahar says Iran is preparing to deliver two aircraft and three hundred combat vehicles to the PA.
June 19, 2006: Palestinian terrorists fire two Qassams at Sderot during a visit by President Moshe Katzav and Defense Minister Amir Peretz. One woman is lightly injured.
June 19, 2006: Palestinian terrorists open fire against an Israeli bus traveling north of Ofrah in the West Bank, injuring six female civilians.
June 25, 2006: Two IDF soldiers are killed and another kidnapped when Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups attack an IDF position at Kerem Shalom near the Gaza border.
June 25, 2006: Fatah announces its has developed chemical and biological weapons. “With the help of Allah, we are pleased to say that we succeeded in developing over 20 different types of biological and chemical weapons, this after a three-year effort....”
June 26, 2006: Palestinian terrorists fire a Qassam at Sderot. Four civilians are lightly wounded by shrapnel and a number of residents suffer from shock. The impact causes a blackout in the area.
May 3, 2006: Palestinian terrorists fire two Qassams at Israel from the northern Gaza Strip, briefly interrupting Independence Day celebrations in the south of the country.
May 4, 2006: The Israeli navy intercepts a Palestinian fishing boat near Ashkelon. The crew throws weapons and large bags overboard. A sample later reveals that the contents were 550 kilograms of high-quality TNT.
May 8, 2006: Palestinian terrorists fire eight Qassams into the western Negev.
May 13, 2006: Israeli Border Police sappers safely detonate a bomb in Nablus in the West Bank packing 10 kilograms of explosives. Police sources note the explosive device was intended for use in a suicide attack against an Israeli target.
May 14, 2006: Palestinian terrorists detonate a bomb against a vehicle at the Shiloh Junction in the West Bank. One person is lightly injured.
May 14, 2006: Israel Navy patrol ships intercept a Palestinian vessel in close proximity to the Gaza Strip. The boat contained about 450 kilograms of TNT as well as mine components, and large bags of explosives had been thrown overboard.
May 16, 2006: Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists fire a Katyusha at the western Negev community of Netiv Ha’asara. The rocket hits a chicken coop, killing thirty chickens. Shrapnel damages a water pipe and adjacent greenhouse. The IDF determines that the rocket was a Grad-class Katyusha, which carries 6 kilograms of explosives. This marks the third time Palestinian terrorists have fired a Katyusha at Israel.
May 18, 2006: Palestinian terrorists fire at a civilian vehicle near the Tapuah Junction in the West Bank, wounding two Israelis. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claims responsibility.
May 21, 2006: Palestinian terrorists fire two Qassams at the Israeli city of Sderot. One hits an empty classroom, while the other causes two women to go into shock. Defense Minister Amir Peretz instructs the IDF to prepare an immediate plan for the fortification of schools in the Gaza vicinity.
May 23, 2006: The Egyptian interior ministry announces that the three suicide bombers responsible for the triple explosion in the Sinai resort of Dahab on April 24, which killed more than twenty, were trained in weapons and bomb-making by Palestinian religious fundamentalists in the neighboring Gaza Strip.
May 29, 2006: Palestinian terrorists fire two mortars at an IDF base in Nahal Oz (near Sderot).
May 31, 2006: Palestinian terrorists fire four Qassams at Sderot, which cause damage and send two people into shock.
June 1, 2006: Islamic Jihad claims responsibility for a bombing attack that lightly wounds two IDF soldiers in Jenin in the West Bank.
June 2, 2006: The U.S. military determines that Palestinian terrorists have become senior operatives in the Sunni insurgency in Iraq. Officials note than an increasing number of Palestinians have joined Al Qaeda-aligned groups in Iraq. On May 30, Iraqi and U.S. troops captured three Palestinians identified as leaders of insurgency cells in Baghdad. The Palestinians were said to have recruited students from Baghdad Technical University and ordered them to plant bombs near Iraqi police and army positions (“Palestinians Rise in Sunni Insurgency,” Middle East Newsline, June 2, 2006).
June 6, 2006: The head of the General Security Service, Yuval Diskin, tells the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that the amount of weapons and explosives smuggled into Gaza from Sinai since the September disengagement is larger than the total amount smuggled since the 1967 Six Day War. The quantity includes 11 tons of TNT, three million bullets, 19,600 rifles, 1,600 pistols, 65 RPG launchers, 430 RPGs, and about ten shoulder rocket launchers.
June 6, 2006: Haaretz reports that Hamas terrorists in the West Bank have experimented with adding toxic chemicals to their bombs.
June 6, 2006: A volley of Qassams injure an Israeli woman in Sderot and wound four other Israelis.
June 7, 2006: Two Palestinian terrorists attack an Israeli couple while they are hiking in Gush Etzion in the West Bank, stabbing one and hurling rocks at the other.
June 8, 2006: Palestinian terrorists fire three Qassams at southern Israel from Gaza in two separate attacks. One woman suffers from shock.
June 10, 2006: Israeli police commissioner Moshe Karadi orders police forces to an advanced stage of alert due to ninety warnings of impending terrorist attacks. June 11, 2006: Palestinian terrorists fire a Qassam at Sderot that critically wounds an Israeli. Hamas spokemsan Abu Oviyada proclaims, “We have decided to turn Sderot into a ghost town and we will not stop the rocket fire until the residents leave.”
June 12, 2006: Palestinian terrorists fire at least eighteen Qassams at Israel. One hits a parked car and causes a fire. An Israeli woman is lightly injured by shrapnel, and two other women suffer shock.
June 12, 2006: Palestinian terrorists shoot dead an Israeli Arab motorist, mistaken for a Jew, on Route 443 in the West Bank.
June 12, 2006: Egypt accuses Hamas of training suicide bombers in the Sinai Peninsula. Egyptian interior minister Habib Adly claims evidence of Hamas involvement in the training of at least two suicide bombers who blew themselves up at tourist sites in Sinai in April 2006.
June 12, 2006: A study reported in Haaretz finds that almost half the parents and one-third of the children in Sderot suffer from posttraumatic stress. “15 percent of the children, ages two and up, are suffering from severe post-traumatic stress syndrome. . . .”
June 13, 2006: Palestinian terrorist gunmen seriously wound another Israeli motorist on Route 443.
June 14, 2006: The IDF Home Front Command determines that 24 schools in the western Negev are in need of reinforcement against Qassam rockets. Two will have to be completely rebuilt. The cost of reinforcing the roofs of the 22 remaining schools will total NIS 165 million.
June 15, 2006: Islamic Jihad terrorists fire a salvo of Qassams into Sderot, wounding three people and damaging a factory.
June 15, 2006: Palestinian terrorists kidnap an Israeli girl near the Rahelim Junction in the West Bank. The girls’ friend flees the scene and reports the abduction to the police. The girl is found 20 minutes later.
June 18-19, 2006: Palestinian terrorists fire two Qassams at southern Israel, leaving sections of Sderot without electricity for several hours.
June 19, 2006: Palestinian foreign minister Mahmoud Zahar says Iran is preparing to deliver two aircraft and three hundred combat vehicles to the PA.
June 19, 2006: Palestinian terrorists fire two Qassams at Sderot during a visit by President Moshe Katzav and Defense Minister Amir Peretz. One woman is lightly injured.
June 19, 2006: Palestinian terrorists open fire against an Israeli bus traveling north of Ofrah in the West Bank, injuring six female civilians.
June 25, 2006: Two IDF soldiers are killed and another kidnapped when Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups attack an IDF position at Kerem Shalom near the Gaza border.
June 25, 2006: Fatah announces its has developed chemical and biological weapons. “With the help of Allah, we are pleased to say that we succeeded in developing over 20 different types of biological and chemical weapons, this after a three-year effort....”
June 26, 2006: Palestinian terrorists fire a Qassam at Sderot. Four civilians are lightly wounded by shrapnel and a number of residents suffer from shock. The impact causes a blackout in the area.
The truth is that from the beginning of World War I, part of Palestine`s land was owned by absentee landlords who lived in Cairo, Damascus and Beirut. About 80 percent of the Palestinian Arabs were debt-ridden peasants, semi-nomads and Bedouins.
Jews actually went out of their way to avoid purchasing land in areas where Arabs might be displaced. They sought land that was largely uncultivated, swampy, cheap and, most important, without tenants. In 1920, Labor Zionist leader David Ben-Gurion expressed his concern about the Arab fellahin, whom he viewed as "the most important asset of the native population." Ben-Gurion said "under no circumstances must we touch land belonging to fellahs or worked by them." He advocated helping liberate them from their oppressors. "Only if a fellah leaves his place of settlement," Ben-Gurion added, "should we offer to buy his land, at an appropriate price."
It was only after the Jews had bought all of the available uncultivated land that they began to purchase cultivated land. Many Arabs were willing to sell because of the migration to coastal towns and because they needed money to invest in the citrus industry.
When John Hope Simpson arrived in Palestine in May 1930, he observed: "They [Jews] paid high prices for the land, and in addition they paid to certain of the occupants of those lands a considerable amount of money which they were not legally bound to pay."
In 1931, Lewis French conducted a survey of landlessness and eventually offered new plots to any Arabs who had been "dispossessed." British officials received more than 3,000 applications, of which 80 percent were ruled invalid by the Government`s legal adviser because the applicants were not landless Arabs. This left only about 600 landless Arabs, 100 of whom accepted the Government land offer.
In April 1936, a new outbreak of Arab attacks on Jews was instigated by a Syrian guerrilla named Fawzi al¬Qawukji, the commander of the Arab Liberation Army. By November, when the British finally sent a new commission headed by Lord Peel to investigate, 89 Jews had been killed and more than 300 wounded.
The Peel Commission`s report found that Arab complaints about Jewish land acquisition were baseless. It pointed out that "much of the land now carrying orange groves was sand dunes or swamp and uncultivated when it was purchased....there was at the time of the earlier sales little evidence that the owners possessed either the resources or training needed to develop the land." Moreover, the Commission found the shortage was "due less to the amount of land acquired by Jews than to the increase in the Arab population." The report concluded that the presence of Jews in Palestine, along with the work of the British Administration, had resulted in higher wages, an improved standard of living and ample employment opportunities.
In his memoirs, Transjordan`s King Abdullah wrote:
It is made quite clear to all, both by the map drawn up by the Simpson Commission and by another compiled by the Peel Commission, that the Arabs are as prodigal in selling their land as they are in useless wailing and weeping (emphasis in the original).
Even at the height of the Arab revolt in 1938, the British High Commissioner to Palestine believed the Arab landowners were complaining about sales to Jews to drive up prices for lands they wished to sell. Many Arab landowners had been so terrorized by Arab rebels they decided to leave Palestine and sell their property to the Jews.
The Jews were paying exorbitant prices to wealthy landowners for small tracts of arid land. "In 1944, Jews paid between $1,000 and $1,100 per acre in Palestine, mostly for arid or semiarid land; in the same year, rich black soil in Iowa was selling for about $110 per acre."
By 1947, Jewish holdings in Palestine amounted to about 463,000 acres. Approximately 45,000 of these acres were acquired from the Mandatory Government; 30,000 were bought from various churches and 387,500 were purchased from Arabs. Analyses of land purchases from 1880 to 1948 show that 73 percent of Jewish plots were purchased from large landowners, not poor fellahin. Those who sold land included the mayors of Gaza, Jerusalem and Jaffa. As`ad el¬Shuqeiri, a Muslim religious scholar and father of PLO chairman Ahmed Shuqeiri, took Jewish money for his land. Even King Abdullah leased land to the Jews. In fact, many leaders of the Arab nationalist movement, including members of the Muslim Supreme Council, sold land to Jews.
Jews actually went out of their way to avoid purchasing land in areas where Arabs might be displaced. They sought land that was largely uncultivated, swampy, cheap and, most important, without tenants. In 1920, Labor Zionist leader David Ben-Gurion expressed his concern about the Arab fellahin, whom he viewed as "the most important asset of the native population." Ben-Gurion said "under no circumstances must we touch land belonging to fellahs or worked by them." He advocated helping liberate them from their oppressors. "Only if a fellah leaves his place of settlement," Ben-Gurion added, "should we offer to buy his land, at an appropriate price."
It was only after the Jews had bought all of the available uncultivated land that they began to purchase cultivated land. Many Arabs were willing to sell because of the migration to coastal towns and because they needed money to invest in the citrus industry.
When John Hope Simpson arrived in Palestine in May 1930, he observed: "They [Jews] paid high prices for the land, and in addition they paid to certain of the occupants of those lands a considerable amount of money which they were not legally bound to pay."
In 1931, Lewis French conducted a survey of landlessness and eventually offered new plots to any Arabs who had been "dispossessed." British officials received more than 3,000 applications, of which 80 percent were ruled invalid by the Government`s legal adviser because the applicants were not landless Arabs. This left only about 600 landless Arabs, 100 of whom accepted the Government land offer.
In April 1936, a new outbreak of Arab attacks on Jews was instigated by a Syrian guerrilla named Fawzi al¬Qawukji, the commander of the Arab Liberation Army. By November, when the British finally sent a new commission headed by Lord Peel to investigate, 89 Jews had been killed and more than 300 wounded.
The Peel Commission`s report found that Arab complaints about Jewish land acquisition were baseless. It pointed out that "much of the land now carrying orange groves was sand dunes or swamp and uncultivated when it was purchased....there was at the time of the earlier sales little evidence that the owners possessed either the resources or training needed to develop the land." Moreover, the Commission found the shortage was "due less to the amount of land acquired by Jews than to the increase in the Arab population." The report concluded that the presence of Jews in Palestine, along with the work of the British Administration, had resulted in higher wages, an improved standard of living and ample employment opportunities.
In his memoirs, Transjordan`s King Abdullah wrote:
It is made quite clear to all, both by the map drawn up by the Simpson Commission and by another compiled by the Peel Commission, that the Arabs are as prodigal in selling their land as they are in useless wailing and weeping (emphasis in the original).
Even at the height of the Arab revolt in 1938, the British High Commissioner to Palestine believed the Arab landowners were complaining about sales to Jews to drive up prices for lands they wished to sell. Many Arab landowners had been so terrorized by Arab rebels they decided to leave Palestine and sell their property to the Jews.
The Jews were paying exorbitant prices to wealthy landowners for small tracts of arid land. "In 1944, Jews paid between $1,000 and $1,100 per acre in Palestine, mostly for arid or semiarid land; in the same year, rich black soil in Iowa was selling for about $110 per acre."
By 1947, Jewish holdings in Palestine amounted to about 463,000 acres. Approximately 45,000 of these acres were acquired from the Mandatory Government; 30,000 were bought from various churches and 387,500 were purchased from Arabs. Analyses of land purchases from 1880 to 1948 show that 73 percent of Jewish plots were purchased from large landowners, not poor fellahin. Those who sold land included the mayors of Gaza, Jerusalem and Jaffa. As`ad el¬Shuqeiri, a Muslim religious scholar and father of PLO chairman Ahmed Shuqeiri, took Jewish money for his land. Even King Abdullah leased land to the Jews. In fact, many leaders of the Arab nationalist movement, including members of the Muslim Supreme Council, sold land to Jews.
Hamas: A Pale Image of the Jewish Irgun And Lehi Gangs
by repost Saturday, Jun. 24, 2006 at 10:44 AM
The reality is that when faced with a superior military force, such as Britain possessed in 1947 and Israel does today against the Palestinians, terror is the underdog’s only viable weapon. Once a state has been established and legitimized, however, as in the cases of Israel and South Africa, the former “terrorists” tend to gain a veil of legitimacy as well. But legitimacy is now being denied Hamas.
By Donald Neff
AS EASY as it is to dismiss clichés as banal and misleading, the troubling problem is that they often cloak an essential truth. Scoffs and derision often greet the cliché that “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.” Yet freedom fighters is exactly how Israelis view the early Zionists who fought in 1947 for the establishment of Israel—and how Palestinians now consider their fighters resisting Israeli occupation.
The reality is that when faced with a superior military force, such as Britain possessed in 1947 and Israel does today against the Palestinians, terror is the underdog’s only viable weapon. Once a state has been established and legitimized, however, as in the cases of Israel and South Africa, the former “terrorists” tend to gain a veil of legitimacy as well. But legitimacy is now being denied Hamas. Even though Palestinians elected a Hamas-led government in free and fair elections, Israel denies it legitimacy on the grounds that Hamas is a terrorist organization.
Sixty years ago, however, at the time of the British Mandate, it was Jews in Palestine who mainly waged terrorism against the Palestinians. As Jewish leader David Ben-Gurion recorded in his personal history of Israel: “From 1946 to 1947 there were scarcely any Arab attacks on the Yishuv [the Jewish community in Palestine].”
The same could not be said for the Zionists. Jewish terrorists waged an intense and bloody campaign against the Palestinians, British, and even some Jews who opposed them leading up to the establishment of Israel.
The two major Jewish terror organizations in pre-independence Palestine were the Irgun Zvai Leumi—National Military Organization, NMO, also known by the Hebrew letters Etzel—founded in 1937, and the Lohamei Herut Israel, Fighters for the Freedom of Israel, Lehi in the Hebrew acronym, also known as the Stern Gang after its leader Avraham Stern, known as Yair, founded in 1940.
The Irgun was led by Menachem Begin, the future Israeli prime minister who was a leading proponent of Revisionist Zionism, the militant branch of Zionism pioneered by Vladimir Zeev Jabotinsky, which openly despised the Arabs and sought restoration of what it called Eretz Yisrael, the ancient land of Israel. By this was meant “both sides of the Jordan,” the Irgun slogan meaning all of Palestine and Jordan was the rightful home of the Jews.
Another belief of Begin’s was that of the “fighting Jew,” a romanticized idea expressed in Jabotinsky’s old Betar movement song of “we shall create, with sweat and blood, a race of men, strong, brave and cruel.” Israeli scholar Avishai Margalit translated the verse as “proud, generous and cruel,” adding: “Many are still waiting for the generous part to emerge.”
The Irgun was the dominant Jewish terrorist organization, both in size and the number and frequency of its attacks. Its most spectacular feat up to this time had been the July 22, 1946 blowing up of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, with the killing of 91 people—41 Arabs, 28 British and 17 Jews. Mainstream Zionists despised Begin and his Revisionists, although there was cooperation between the two on military matters. Ben-Gurion, the leader of mainstream Zionism, fought throughout his premiership with Begin.
The other major Jewish terrorist group, Lehi, was more extremist than the Irgun, claiming all the land between the Nile and the Euphrates as belonging to the Jews. When Jabotinsky declared a cease-fire in the fight against Britain and its mandate troops in Palestine during World War II, Stern broke with him and founded Lehi. Stern sought alliance with the Nazis, both because they shared an enemy in Britain and because Lehi shared Hitler’s totalitarian ideology. During the war Sternists openly celebrated Nazi victories on the battlefield.
An infamous document called the “Ankara Document” because it was found in the German Embassy in Ankara after the war, detailed Avraham Stern’s ideas “concerning the solution of the Jewish question in Europe.” It was dated Jan. 11, 1941. At the time, Stern was still a member of the Irgun, which he called by its initials, NMO. Wrote Stern: “The evacuation of the Jewish masses from Europe is a precondition for solving the Jewish question; but this can only be made possible and complete through the settlement of these masses in the home of the Jewish People, Palestine, and through the establishment of a Jewish state in its historical boundaries....The NMO...is well acquainted with the goodwill of the German Reich government and its authorities toward Zionist activity inside Germany and toward Zionist emigration plans....The NMO is closely related to the totalitarian movements in Europe in its ideology and structure.”
In the Partition period, Irgun had around 2,000 men, while Lehi had about 800. Though the memberships were comparatively small, the damage these two groups caused in inflaming animosity between Arab and Jew was considerable. When Stern was killed by British police in 1942, leadership of Lehi was shared; among the leaders were Nathan Yalin-Mor, one of the eventual killers of Count Bernadotte, and Yitzhak Shamir, another future prime minister of Israel.
Arab terrorists carried out some major operations as well, including the bombing of the Jewish Agency and the Palestine Post. But in contrast to Jewish violence, it was unorganized and episodic. As historian Michael C. Hudson noted: “Organized Jewish violence against the British and Arabs (exemplified by the Irgun’s bombing of the King David Hotel in 1946), however, was far more systematic and successful than that of the Palestinians, and the latter were unable to play a significant role in the final years of the Mandate.”
The Jewish Agency, as the official representative of the Jewish community, repeatedly denied any responsibility for the acts of the Irgun and Lehi, maintaining they were underground terrorist groups operating outside the law. However, there was close cooperation among Irgun, Lehi and the Haganah underground army under an agreement called the Hebrew Resistance Movement and aimed specifically against the British Mandatory government. It went into force in the fall of 1945, when “Irgun and Lehi accepted Haganah discipline in the conduct of all armed operations,” in the words of historian Noah Lucas.
By December 1947, British High Commissioner Alan Cunningham reported to London: “...the Haganah and the dissident groups are now working so closely together that the Agency’s claim that they cannot control the dissidents is inadmissible.”
by repost Saturday, Jun. 24, 2006 at 10:44 AM
The reality is that when faced with a superior military force, such as Britain possessed in 1947 and Israel does today against the Palestinians, terror is the underdog’s only viable weapon. Once a state has been established and legitimized, however, as in the cases of Israel and South Africa, the former “terrorists” tend to gain a veil of legitimacy as well. But legitimacy is now being denied Hamas.
By Donald Neff
AS EASY as it is to dismiss clichés as banal and misleading, the troubling problem is that they often cloak an essential truth. Scoffs and derision often greet the cliché that “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.” Yet freedom fighters is exactly how Israelis view the early Zionists who fought in 1947 for the establishment of Israel—and how Palestinians now consider their fighters resisting Israeli occupation.
The reality is that when faced with a superior military force, such as Britain possessed in 1947 and Israel does today against the Palestinians, terror is the underdog’s only viable weapon. Once a state has been established and legitimized, however, as in the cases of Israel and South Africa, the former “terrorists” tend to gain a veil of legitimacy as well. But legitimacy is now being denied Hamas. Even though Palestinians elected a Hamas-led government in free and fair elections, Israel denies it legitimacy on the grounds that Hamas is a terrorist organization.
Sixty years ago, however, at the time of the British Mandate, it was Jews in Palestine who mainly waged terrorism against the Palestinians. As Jewish leader David Ben-Gurion recorded in his personal history of Israel: “From 1946 to 1947 there were scarcely any Arab attacks on the Yishuv [the Jewish community in Palestine].”
The same could not be said for the Zionists. Jewish terrorists waged an intense and bloody campaign against the Palestinians, British, and even some Jews who opposed them leading up to the establishment of Israel.
The two major Jewish terror organizations in pre-independence Palestine were the Irgun Zvai Leumi—National Military Organization, NMO, also known by the Hebrew letters Etzel—founded in 1937, and the Lohamei Herut Israel, Fighters for the Freedom of Israel, Lehi in the Hebrew acronym, also known as the Stern Gang after its leader Avraham Stern, known as Yair, founded in 1940.
The Irgun was led by Menachem Begin, the future Israeli prime minister who was a leading proponent of Revisionist Zionism, the militant branch of Zionism pioneered by Vladimir Zeev Jabotinsky, which openly despised the Arabs and sought restoration of what it called Eretz Yisrael, the ancient land of Israel. By this was meant “both sides of the Jordan,” the Irgun slogan meaning all of Palestine and Jordan was the rightful home of the Jews.
Another belief of Begin’s was that of the “fighting Jew,” a romanticized idea expressed in Jabotinsky’s old Betar movement song of “we shall create, with sweat and blood, a race of men, strong, brave and cruel.” Israeli scholar Avishai Margalit translated the verse as “proud, generous and cruel,” adding: “Many are still waiting for the generous part to emerge.”
The Irgun was the dominant Jewish terrorist organization, both in size and the number and frequency of its attacks. Its most spectacular feat up to this time had been the July 22, 1946 blowing up of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, with the killing of 91 people—41 Arabs, 28 British and 17 Jews. Mainstream Zionists despised Begin and his Revisionists, although there was cooperation between the two on military matters. Ben-Gurion, the leader of mainstream Zionism, fought throughout his premiership with Begin.
The other major Jewish terrorist group, Lehi, was more extremist than the Irgun, claiming all the land between the Nile and the Euphrates as belonging to the Jews. When Jabotinsky declared a cease-fire in the fight against Britain and its mandate troops in Palestine during World War II, Stern broke with him and founded Lehi. Stern sought alliance with the Nazis, both because they shared an enemy in Britain and because Lehi shared Hitler’s totalitarian ideology. During the war Sternists openly celebrated Nazi victories on the battlefield.
An infamous document called the “Ankara Document” because it was found in the German Embassy in Ankara after the war, detailed Avraham Stern’s ideas “concerning the solution of the Jewish question in Europe.” It was dated Jan. 11, 1941. At the time, Stern was still a member of the Irgun, which he called by its initials, NMO. Wrote Stern: “The evacuation of the Jewish masses from Europe is a precondition for solving the Jewish question; but this can only be made possible and complete through the settlement of these masses in the home of the Jewish People, Palestine, and through the establishment of a Jewish state in its historical boundaries....The NMO...is well acquainted with the goodwill of the German Reich government and its authorities toward Zionist activity inside Germany and toward Zionist emigration plans....The NMO is closely related to the totalitarian movements in Europe in its ideology and structure.”
In the Partition period, Irgun had around 2,000 men, while Lehi had about 800. Though the memberships were comparatively small, the damage these two groups caused in inflaming animosity between Arab and Jew was considerable. When Stern was killed by British police in 1942, leadership of Lehi was shared; among the leaders were Nathan Yalin-Mor, one of the eventual killers of Count Bernadotte, and Yitzhak Shamir, another future prime minister of Israel.
Arab terrorists carried out some major operations as well, including the bombing of the Jewish Agency and the Palestine Post. But in contrast to Jewish violence, it was unorganized and episodic. As historian Michael C. Hudson noted: “Organized Jewish violence against the British and Arabs (exemplified by the Irgun’s bombing of the King David Hotel in 1946), however, was far more systematic and successful than that of the Palestinians, and the latter were unable to play a significant role in the final years of the Mandate.”
The Jewish Agency, as the official representative of the Jewish community, repeatedly denied any responsibility for the acts of the Irgun and Lehi, maintaining they were underground terrorist groups operating outside the law. However, there was close cooperation among Irgun, Lehi and the Haganah underground army under an agreement called the Hebrew Resistance Movement and aimed specifically against the British Mandatory government. It went into force in the fall of 1945, when “Irgun and Lehi accepted Haganah discipline in the conduct of all armed operations,” in the words of historian Noah Lucas.
By December 1947, British High Commissioner Alan Cunningham reported to London: “...the Haganah and the dissident groups are now working so closely together that the Agency’s claim that they cannot control the dissidents is inadmissible.”
Yo, cut and paste idiot, look to see how this crap was disected eslewhere.
http://la.indymedia.org/news/2006/06/166060_comment.php#166761
http://la.indymedia.org/news/2006/06/166060_comment.php#166761
Only anti-zionist cut-n-paste spam is hailed here.
They call names and make simplistic arguments--the way of the zionist.
forging, spamming ignorant regurgitated taking points, apologizing for daily massacre of innocents, racistly singling out one state and national movement for pristinely angelic standards and exepting their sworn enemies fro scrutiny.
Exactly, the constant assassinations, land theft, baby murdering and provocation from the terror state of Israel has no moral defense.
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