Posts Tagged ‘Mosque Al Aqsa’
Symbolic Capital of what? Hatred, successive occupations, genocides, indignities, apartheid…
Posted on: November 20, 2014
Symbolic Capital of what? Hatred, successive occupations, genocides, indignities, apartheid…
Synagogue, Mosque Al Aqsa, Jerusalem, attacks, killing, settlements…
Want to understand the attack on the synagogue in Jerusalem today?
First, understand that Jerusalem is occupied. The land is not “disputed” or “contested.” It is occupied.
Second, recognize that human rights violations continue on a daily basis against Palestinians, both in occupied Jerusalem and in the larger occupied West Bank (as well as within “Israel” and, of course, in Gaza). …
Homes are demolished very frequently for one reason or another, for expansion of settlements, punishing the families of kids who killed a heinous settler who cut down the olive trees (11,000 olive and fruit trees were cut down by settlers this year alone)
From 1999 to May 2014, almost 1,000 homes in occupied Jerusalem were demolished, leaving more than 2,028 Palestinians house-less.
Third, Children are detained by Israeli military. And administrative detention for long periods is the norm. Over 60% of Palestinian youth went through the revolving doors of prison with no charges
Fourth, People are lynched, shot, tortured, injured – on a regular basis.
Fifth, Land is continually stolen. Israel plans to build 500 new colonies – leading to the expulsion of 1,000 Palestinians from their homes and their lands!
Sixth, Palestinian Lives are regularly dehumanized. Decent living standards deliberately denied.
Seventh, 75% of the Palestinian Jerusalemites live below the poverty line.
Since early June, Palestinian neighborhoods have been flooded with tear gas, skunk water, and drones.
Eight, Residency rights for Palestinian Jerusalemites denied (while any Jew can live there). Since 1967, on average 200 Palestinians have been denied their residency rights in Jerusalem. More than 14,309 Palestinians have been denied their residency rights since 1967. This is ethnic cleansing, since the Jews consider themselves a Race.
Apartheid strengthened. Example: Two days ago, Israeli military officials defended the attack of a 10-year-old Palestinian boy at the Kissufim checkpoint, after troops shot him in the neck for “loitering.”
Israeli military confirm that shooting the child in the neck for “loitering” was consistent with the military protocol.
Nine, recognize that these human rights violations are supported by the institutions within Israel – from military, to settlers, to media, to universities.
Example: Israeli settlers lynch a Palestinian driver, Hassan Yousef Rammouni, 32, and father of two children, in occupied Jerusalem.
Israeli authorities respond by prohibiting Hassan’s family from taking his body until they sign a paper declaring that Hassan committed suicide.
Example: Israeli forces fail to probe 83% of settler violence cases — rights group.
Example: Israeli settlers regularly “hit-and-run” Palestinians and no charged are imposed on them; all are regarded as mere “accidents.”
Tenth, refuse to decontextualize this act from the ongoing occupation. It CANNOT be separated.
Eleventh, it honestly doesn’t matter if you personally support or condemn the attack, if you stand with liberation and justice, then stand with the occupied people’s right to resist, stand with the struggle, stand against occupation and apartheid.
Twelfth, still having difficulty? Well – did you support the French resistance against the Nazi occupation?
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