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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?
Who benefit from wars? Superpower States, Banks, weapon industries, multinational energy companies…
Posted on: August 14, 2014
Who benefit from wars?
War is a racket
Who is printing the money?
Follow the money trail
Destruction of the economy in Gaza:
– The biggest and best factories in the Strip were destroyed, which used to provide 70% of local market needs
– “The occupation forces attacked the entire national infrastructure on purpose.
It bombed the largest food factories to turn Gaza into a consumerist and unproductive market.”
– The industrial and agricultural sectors in Gaza had already been facing disastrous circumstances.
Even before the [Israeli] aggression started on July 7, the occupation controlled the quantity and types of products [entering Gaza] through the siege it imposed on the Strip, closing all but one of the commercial crossings.
– According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), “the unemployment rate in Gaza has reached 41 percent.”
– “This time, the war brought the Palestinian economy back to zero. This time, the economic sector sustained a powerful blow, losing more than $3 billion.”
– “the Israeli war machine destroyed dozens of factories, in addition to the annihilation of whole industrial zones and directly targeting poultry and cattle farms and fishing ports.”
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Mantra: “Accept existence of the State of Israel if you want peace”. Of what kind of Israel are you talking?
Posted on: August 10, 2014
Mantra: “Accept existence of the State of Israel if you want peace”. Of what kind of Israel are you talking?
I keep hearing this mantra: accept the existence of the State of Israel if you want peace. What does that actually mean?
To accept the State of Israel as a Jewish State? To accept the borders, and which borders? (Israel has no Constitution and never presented to the UN its borders)
To say that we won’t throw the Jewish Israelis into the sea?
People need to speak with greater clarity.
If the reference is to the acceptance of Israel as a Jewish State, then No.
No, because any state that gives greater rights to members of one group (in this case, a religion) over another cannot be democratic.
No, because any state that deems a group of people living within its borders (Palestinian citizens of Israel) and a people living under occupation (Palestinians) as a “demographic threat” cannot be peaceful. So, No.
Just as people rejected the existence of Apartheid South Africa and rejected the “state of the South” in the US as slave-holders, No to the existence of the State of Israel as a Jewish State.
If the reference is to acceptance of the borders – and which borders are those? – then, that implies both the existence of a sovereign, contiguous Palestinian State and the return of the Palestinian Refugees to their villages, as of the UN resolution of 193. If so, then yes.
As to throwing the Jewish Israelis into the sea — is that what is meant by rejecting the State of Israel? – then, of course not, I don’t call for that.
However, it is exactly what so many members of the Israeli Knesset, Israeli press, and a growing number of the Israeli public are asking for: ethnic cleansing of Palestinians
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