More Palestinians evicted to make way for Israeli settlers

Pepe Silvia

how sickening...though, it was funny when they show the Israeli saying God can do what he wants and he has given this land to the jewish people and the reporter says "that's his opinion but international law disagrees...."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr8Hsp_E0qU

house by house by house.....

Byrnzie

Pepe Silvia wrote:

...it was funny when they show the Israeli saying God can do what he wants and he has given this land to the jewish people...

With the help of the U.S government and $4Billion annually of U.S tax payers money.

NoK

If only...

http://mondoweiss.net/2009/11/my-i-have ... -post.html

My ‘I-have-a-dream’ post
by Philip Weiss on November 2, 2009

Associated Press:

President Obama was "incensed" by Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu’s decision this weekend to demolish more Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem, according to a high administration official, and plans to reverse longstanding policy and go to Congress to seek a cutoff of military aid to the Israelis.

The official, who spoke on background, said that the president was angered that he has repeatedly stated that he will support Israel’s security needs but that these assurances have been "repaid in insults to American requirements in the region." The U.S. gives $3 billion a year in foreign aid to Israel.

Netanyahu authorized the destruction of more Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem months after the Obama administration said last spring that it opposes the practice. Privately, the president is said to have referred to the ongoing removal of Palestinians to make way for Jews as "ethnic cleansing by another name."

"We’re just waiting for the World Series to end," the official said, before the president will give a major speech to the country, laying out the American interest in resolving a conflict that the Obama administration believes is damaging national security as well as fomenting unrest in a volatile region.

"The president will explain that there are no such thing as settlements," the official continued. "’Settlements’ means people are going to a place where they belong. These are colonies. They are illegal under international law and undermine our country’s longtime commitment to the creation of a Palestinian state."

Obama will name all the other countries that have been created since the United Nations promised the creation of an Arab state in Palestine in 1947 and state that the world’s failure to grant 5 million Palestinians the right of self-determination is a "gross injustice" and a "blot on American ideals of equality."

The official predicted that the speech "will be a game-changer–high noon for the Israel lobby."

Israel’s supporters in the U.S. are widely thought to play a large role in determining American policy. "The Israel lobby" is not a formal group, but as described by a recent book by that name, authored by prominent professors at Harvard and the University of Chicago, is a "loose coalition" of organizations and individuals–many of whom are Jewish and have a religious belief in the Jewish right to a homeland in the Middle East– who promote Israel’s interests in the media, political races, the Congress and even the executive branch.

NoK

Did they just realise this?

U.S. State Department: Israel is not a tolerant society

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1126286.html

Israel dismally fails the requirements of a tolerant pluralistic society, according to a new report from the U.S. State Department.

Despite boasting religious freedom and protection of all holy sites, Israel falls short in tolerance toward minorities, equal treatment of ethnic groups, openness toward various streams within society, and respect for holy and other sites.

The comprehensive report, written by the State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, says Israel discriminates against groups including Muslims, Jehova's Witnesses, Reform Jews, Christians, women and Bedouin.

The report says that the 1967 law on the protection of holy places refers to all religious groups in the country, including in Jerusalem, but "the government implements regulations only for Jewish sites. Non-Jewish holy sites do not enjoy legal protection under it because the government does not recognize them as official holy sites."

At the end of 2008, for example, all of the 137 officially recognized holy sites were Jewish. Moreover, Israel issued regulations for the identification, preservation and guarding of Jewish sites only. Many Christian and Muslim sites are said to be neglected, inaccessible or at risk of exploitation by real estate entrepreneurs and local authorities.

The report makes it clear that practices that have become routine in Israel are considered unacceptable in enlightened countries and should be corrected.

Among other examples, the report notes that more than 300,000 immigrants who are not considered Jewish under rabbinical law are not allowed to marry and divorce in Israel or be buried in Jewish cemeteries.