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Is Self-defense a valid claim from an apartheid occupier? Since 1948, Israel has gone unpunished…
Posted by: adonis49 on: January 22, 2021
Israel Self-defense excuses are paralyzing the livelihood and security of Palestinians
Maureen Clare Murphy Rights and Accountability 8 January 2021
The Israeli military cleared itself of wrongdoing in the shooting and grave injury of a Palestinian man in the southern West Bank last week, claiming soldiers acted in self-defense.
The “perfunctory investigation” that closed less than a week later exemplifies the culture of impunity long decried by human rights organizations seeking war crimes investigations at the International Criminal Court.
The military claimed that the man who was shot, Harun Abu Aram, was “hit by a stray bullet fired when a Palestinian tried to seize a commander’s weapon,” as the Tel Aviv daily Haaretz reported.
Abu Aram, 24, is paralyzed from the neck down as a result of his injury.
He was shot while he and others were trying to take back a generator that soldiers had confiscated from a family living in an area declared a military firing zone by Israel.
Palestinians residing in that area, a collection of rural hamlets known as Masafer Yatta, are forbidden from building or improving their dwellings.
The incident in Masafer Yatta was recorded on video:
Language
The Israeli military described unarmed Palestinians defending the Masafer Yatta residence raided by heavily armed soldiers as “a violent riot … where [Israeli] forces were attacked.”
The language used to justify Abu Aram’s shooting at close range echoes that used by Israel regarding the use of live fire against protesters in Gaza.
More than 200 Palestinians were killed during regular mass protests dubbed the Great March of Return beginning in March 2018 until their suspension at the end of 2019.
Thousands more were injured by Israeli sniper fire, many of them permanently. The snipers got later orders to refrain from killing and instead to target legs in order that the Palestinians refrain from joining the marches. Many children and youths were on purpose targeted.
Only one soldier has been indicted over the use of lethal force against protesters.
The military repeatedly referred to Palestinian protesters as “rioters” in its argument to the Israeli high court regarding its “rules of engagement.”
Such language is intended to obscure the fact that Palestinians had mobilized to call for specific demands.
In the case of the Great March of Return, Palestinians were demanding to exercise their right to return to the lands from which their families were expelled in 1948. (Mind you that 80% of Palestinians in Gaza are transferred Palestinians from the West Bank).
Context of oppression
The “law and order” language (the language used by Nixon and the dictators) is used to obscure decades of injustice in the West Bank as well.
The Israeli military refers to Abu Aram as a “rioter” to avoid addressing the context in which the young man was permanently injured.
Abu Aram and the other “rioters” with him belong to a community that has been subjected to forcible transfer, multiple home demolitions and continuous harassment by soldiers and settlers. (I have already posted an article on the harassment that Palestinians in Yatta are subjected to)
This broader context of oppression is not helpful to Israel’s reputation.
And so Israel says that Abu Aram and those with him “sought to obstruct [Israeli military] enforcement activity” – never mind that this “enforcement activity” is part of a coercive environment created by Israel to push Palestinians off of their land.
As the United Nations has made clear, “individual or mass forcible transfer or deportation” of the population of an occupied territory, like the West Bank, is a grave breach of the Geneva Convention “and is also considered a war crime.”
The imposition of a coercive environment, like that endured by Palestinians in Masafer Yatta, is a form of forcible transfer.
While Israel may use the language of “law and order,” characterizing its military’s behavior as “enforcement activity,” occupation forces are, in fact, carrying out violations of international law.
System of oppression
Whether it’s forcible transfer or the use of lethal force against Gaza protesters, Israel’s high court rubber-stamps these policies intended to pacify all Palestinian resistance to the occupation.
In Masafer Yatta, that resistance was about retaining an electricity generator used by a family who are not allowed the basic infrastructure provided to Israelis living in nearby settlements built in violation of international law.
It is not surprising that Israel’s system of oppression and injustice would clear itself of wrongdoing in the shooting of Abu Aram.
As human rights groups stated this week, Israelis responsible for war crimes against Palestinians “have not been subject to any independent legal investigation in Israel.”
The Israeli military’s self-investigation system “is empirically and conclusively evidenced to be unwilling or unable to genuinely carry out investigations and prosecutions,” the Palestinian groups added.
The four groups – Al-Haq, Al Mezan, Al-Dameer and the Palestinian Center for Human Rights – noted Israeli courts’ complicity in the legitimization of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
“It is beyond time for a formal investigation” by the International Criminal Court, the groups said.
In late 2019, the court’s chief prosecutor concluded a five-year preliminary examination, stating that requirements to launch a full investigation into suspected war crimes in the West Bank and Gaza had been met.
More than a year later, an investigation has yet to be opened.
The absence of accountability, the Palestinian human rights groups observe, has only allowed for the “consolidated, ongoing and internationalized assault on the right of the Palestinian people to dignity and to self-determination.”
Easy Going: Since the implanting of Israel in 1948, there is No Palestinian Babies
Posted by: adonis49 on: April 15, 2020
Easy Going: Since the implanting of Israel in 1948, there is No Palestinian Babies
Note: Re-edit of “Easy Going: There is no Palestinian baby (written in 1998 and published in 2008)”
Western media do Not cover the conditions of Palestinian babies, and yet, every Friday Palestinians are marching for their rights to Return Home. And Israeli snipers kill, amaim and handicap the young demonstrators.
Part I:
There is no Palestinian baby, no Palestinian child. There is no Palestinian youth.
They are “Arabs. Bad Arabs”.
Indonesia is mostly Muslims. They invaded Timor, East and West.
Indonesia is not on the Blacklist. It is a big nation. Huge interests, stupid.
Bosnia has suffered immensely. Peace missions finally in place.
War criminals? La Hague tribunal is ready and waiting. We don’t meddle. They are no Arabs.
Somalia is mostly Muslims. At long last, compassion landed. Starvation ended. Can’t talk bad: they are blacks.
Farrakhan is black and a Muslim. He is no Arab, yet.
Bantustans in South Africa are no more “A la mode”: Freedom, Liberty, Equality, Human rights, please.
Bantustans in Palestine are essential, and created for all the above values.
Security and Safety of the Jews in Israel are at stake.
The Chosen people, remember? Surrounded by Arabs, mind you!
The harem of the Sultan of Brunei is, technically, not one.
The girls are, mostly, professional consultants for tourism.
The bad harems are purely Arabs. The Sultan of Brunei is no Arab.
The original American Indians were bad. Wish they were “Arabs”. No clear conscience.
The Mexicans in Texas were bad too. Wish they were Arabs. Conscience a tad clearer.
The Iraqi people are bad: they call themselves Arabs, not our media.
The Iranians are not really that bad: They are too proud and Muslims all right, but no Arabs.
The Turks are a little better now: Certainly not Europeans. Not as much as the Israelite. Definitely no Arabs.
Part II:
We are a compassionate people. We adopt babies from all over the World.
From Latvia, Estonia, Romania, even from Africa and Asia.
Arab babies are off limit; off the media.
There is no Arab baby. No Arab child.
No Arab youth. Just Arabs. Bad. Arabs.
The Jewish American rapist is socially dysfunctional.
The genuine rapist is Arab.
The Jewish American Baruch, of the Hebron massacre, is a madman.
A nerve snapped.
Arabs nerves can’t snap: made of stainless steel, tightly wired, for mischief.
The Maryland Jewish murderer chopped a man’s head.
He is a juvenile delinquent and a psychotic.
Arabs are born, adult criminals.
The peace makers with Israel are Egyptians, Jordanians, or Moroccans.
Their leaders are.
Who cares if they are dictators or absolute monarchs…
Who cares for the opinions of masses?
One of their leaders, the Egyptian dictator Sadat, was awarded
A joint Nobel peace laureate with the famous assassin Begin.
Menachem Begin, this prime minister and a staunch Jewish Jihadist, the precursor of Bin Laden and ISIS.
That is beside the point.
The enemies of Israel are Arabs, not their leaders. We have high hope in the people.
The criminals of the Oklahoma City bombing should have been Arabs.
Exceptions do occur. Human nature you know.
Sirhan Sirhan assassinated Robert Kennedy. He is a Palestinian of dual citizenship.
No motives: Just bad Arabs attitude.
If push comes to shove, if a motive is needed,
Why, Sirhan is a hatemonger of the defenders of Civil Rights!
The most famous heart surgeon, Michael Debakey,
The poet of “The Prophet” and much more, Gebran Khalil Gebran,
The founder of St. Jude hospital for children with cancer, Danny Thomas,
Said they are Arabs from Lebanon. The media beg to differ:
They are all, at best, of Lebanese descendants.
The bombers of the World Trade Tower are the Arabs.
The perpetrators of the Achilles Loro are the Arabs.
Literature Nobel prize winner, Nagib Mahfouz, says he is Arab. Ask him.
The media insist that he is just Egyptian.
Those who shoot down commercial airplanes are Arabs.
Israel strikes “Arab refugee camps“.
Israel retaliates for Arab suicide bombings.
Israel lodges a cannon shell, inadvertently, on a UN compound in Qana of South Lebanon.
About three hundred Arabs died. Give or take fifty Arabs.
Apology to the UN.
Arabs were massacred in the camps of Sabra and Shatila in Beirut.
Arabs killing Arabs. Israel could care less.
How dare you blame Israel Defense Force!
They just happened to be there, completely cordoning off the Palestinian camps of civilians.
Freeing Lebanon by devastation, crimes against humanity and highway robberies.
There are no Arab babies. There are no Arab youths.
Just Arabs. Bad. Arabs.
Definitely there are no Palestinians to bad mouth the people of Palestine.
Note: Since I wrote this poem in 1998, many atrocities came alive.
The attack on the Twin Towers, the preemptive wars on Afghanistan and Iraq, the Israeli genocide in the Palestinian camp of Jenine, the barbaric preemptive war on Lebanon in 2006 that lasted 33 days, the genocide war on Gaza, the embargo on Gaza, the building of the Wall of Shame in Israel…
Tidbits and Notes. Part 271
Posted by: adonis49 on: March 22, 2019
Tidbits and Notes. Part 271
Israel has deprived millions of Palestinians of their liberty and property. It has perpetuated a system of gross racial discrimination and inequality.
Israel has systematically incarcerated and tortured thousands of Palestinians, contrary to the rules of international law. It has, in particular, waged a war against a civilian population, in particular children.
Israeli snipers shot with live bullets on 16,000 unarmed Palestinians in last year alone. And the UN is shyly and barely saying: Israel committed what verges on crimes against humanity.
I don’t know who sold out to the enemy, but I have seen who paid the price
I don’t mind being buried in the soil, in a dark small patch of soil, but they no longer respect the soil. We are cremated or stuffed in a cement cave: the land is too rare and dear to reserve it for the departed.
Is Death the most compassionate of all realities?
Currently, millions of female fetuses are aborted each year in China and India. Even after birth, Indian baby girls are left to die of famine and negligence.
Minority ethnic groups in China are experiencing State Eugenics Laws since 1995; the Chinese genetic physician has simply to state that the expected baby of the minority parents is found to be physically or mentally handicapped to sterilize the parents; reactions are lukewarm; as they say “it is economics, stupid”.
A lengthy interview with Hezbollah Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah (200 min) that covered all the world policies. He said: “Israel political and military leaders frightened the Israeli society far more than they were expected and the the Gulf “Arab/Emirate” States are far more ready to worry about Turkey Sunni expansionism than the avowed nemesis of Iran. Israel is thus cornered and totally confused at all front, particularly in Syria new status and progress
Elle avait la caresse ferme et le corps flexible
Tu veux l’argent du beurre et le sourire de la cremiere par-dessus le marche’?
“Vous etes le Pere de se diocese”? “Oui ma petite. comment puis-je vous etre untile?” Je n’es pas de peche’ mon Pere pour me confesser. Peux-tu m’aider a accummuler quelques unes?
Le peuple Nama de la Namibie: The German colonial power committed its earliest genocide in the late 19 century.
Always select an older person to marry with: He will be your best catalyst to seek a better and younger partner.
We appreciate quality when we are able to master quantity
This rage of extracting precious stones and metal (gold, diamond…) has sank deeply in the psychic of people and is so ingrained that no paper money can dislodge.
If Allah exists, all those who speak in the name of Allah to justify their behaviors and bad actions, Hell was reserved for them
EU listed Saudi Kingdom in the list of “terror States” but still export weapons, directly or indirectly
If there is Heaven, it must be a place of arranging puzzles: all the pieces are available, thrown haphazardly around for you to search for them. Repetition won’t make your performance better: You are memoriless and the puzzle cannot be saved or stored. Enjoy thinking and imagining while you are alive: leave professionalism to after death.
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