Never forget:Â “As a Palestinian I know why they do it. Israel doesn’t want us here. My house, most of the Palestinian houses in East Jerusalem are illegal. Not granting us construction permission, demolishing our houses. It’s a form of quiet transfer,” Mr Zahaika says. “People like to talk of human rights. Where are human rights here? If you destroy a family home in winter, it’s cold. In summer, it’s hot. At the same time Israelis can build and live in East Jerusalem without being disturbed. Is it one rule for us, one rule for the Jews, the Israelis?” Israel’s Association for Civil Rights says Jerusalem’s municipality uses planning regulations to curb Palestinian construction. Although Palestinians make up an estimated one third of the Jerusalem population, according to ACRI, only 7.25% of the city’s land is designated for their building projects. Hundreds of East Jerusalem Palestinians have lost their homes over the past few years, thanks to demolition orders. Israeli NGO’s, such as B’Tselem, warn that close to 2,000 could face the same fate over the next months. If current demolition orders are carried out, this would be the largest loss of Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem since Israel captured the territory just over 40 years ago. At the same time, Jewish Israeli citizens are moving in to the area. This is illegal under international law as East Jerusalem is occupied territory, though Israel disputes this and has annexed the area.
Nazis investigating the Holocaust:
“The investigative results make clear that the Israeli military will not objectively monitor itself,” said Joe Stork, deputy Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch. “The conclusions are an apparent attempt to mask violations of the laws of war by Israeli forces in Gaza. Only an impartial inquiry will provide a measure of redress for the civilians who were killed unlawfully. “
The lies of the Zionist military:
“The military’s finding that “no phosphorus munitions were used on built-up areas” is blatantly wrong, Human Rights Watch said. Immediately after major fighting stopped, Human Rights Watch researchers in Gaza found spent white phosphorous artillery shells, canister liners, and dozens of burnt felt wedges containing white phosphorus on city streets and apartment roofs, in residential courtyards, and at a United Nations school. Artillery shells containing white phosphorus also struck a hospital and the headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), both in central Gaza City.”
Israel’s seizure of more Palestinian lands isn’t a surprise to me. It is no more news.
The human rights violations that Israel continuously commits against the Palestinians are as follows: Israel hunts and kills Palestinians, demolishes Palestinian homes, confiscates lands from Palestinians and gives them to settlers, imprisons Palestinians, then blames them for being anti-Semetic, destroys Palestinian businesses, refuses to speak/negotiate with Palestinian leaders, even though they were democratically-elected.
Is there more news anyone can add to the above sentences?
There will be no peace in Palestine unless the Israelis respect the Palestinians as human beings and stop regarding themselves as the chosen people.
Israel must realize that occupation is wrong, and that the demands of Palestinians are legitimate.
Israel’s seizure of more Palestinian lands isn’t a surprise to me. It is no more news.
The human rights violations that Israel continuously commits against the Palestinians are as follows: Israel hunts and kills Palestinians, demolishes Palestinian homes, confiscates lands from Palestinians and gives them to settlers, imprisons Palestinians, then blames them for being anti-Semetic, destroys Palestinian businesses, refuses to speak/negotiate with Palestinian leaders, even though they were democratically-elected.
Is there more news anyone can add to the above sentences?
There will be no peace in Palestine unless the Israelis respect the Palestinians as human beings and stop regarding themselves as the chosen people.
Israel must realize that occupation is wrong, and that the demands of Palestinians are legitimate.
When Mr Ahmadjinedad got up to speak at the UN racism conference, the British Ambassador, Peter Gooderham, was among those who walked out in the worst show of diplomatic bad manners this century. Gooderham is reported to have said that “such inflammatory rhetoric has no place whatsoever in a United Nations conference addressing the whole issue of racism and how to address it.
“As soon as President Ahmadinejad, started talking about Israel, that was the cue for us to walk out. We agreed in advance that if there was any such rhetoric there would be no tolerance for it.”
Referring to the Iranian leader’s accusation of Israeli racism, he added: “That is a charge we unreservedly condemn and so we had no hesitation at that point in leaving the conference hall.”
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/articles/39/Stunt_to_silence_meaningful_debate_on_racism.html
Long Live Palestine
Iran President is one of the bright lights in this world speaking up for truth.
Hopefully the leaders of Europe will get enlightened by his speech.
Is that Arash trying to get cute? Arash, it is “The Iranian president”.
The countries endorsing Israel become accomplices in the crimes it perpetrates. There is no room to mention every country in this column, and I probably do not need to refer to the U.S. role in arming and funding Israel, as well as protecting it with the veto, which enables it to maintain occupation, murder, and destruction. As for Germany, I understand that it is trying to distance itself from its Nazi past, one of the main reasons behind the scourge of Israel. Then, there is Australia, a state established by criminals banished from Britain. I would not say its stance reflects a pact of “honor among thieves,” since Australia was also stolen from its population, but I would say that the Australian government headed by Kevin Rudd assumes regular anti-Arab and anti-Muslim stances.
In the face of six countries and some islands there is the entire world and thousands of civil society organizations in the East and the West. They all condemn Israel, along with U.N. organizations and committees.
Equally important is that thousands of Jews around the world, and in Israel itself, condemn Israel. Following the barbaric attack on the Gaza Strip I have read letters published in dailies and written by prominent Jews around the world, in addition to articles in different media, including some of the Israeli press such as Haaretz. I have also registered growing appeals to boycott Israel, also made by Jewish scholars and activists around the world.
Those Jews should be mentioned and thanked. Their anti-Israeli stances have a greater impact than the boycott of Christian Churches in the U.S. and Europe. It is because they give precedence to their humanity over Israel’s aggressiveness even though they are Israelis.
” These words certainly apply to Israel more than to any other country in the world. It alone kills women and children and then hides behind the Holocaust ”
El-Khazen
In my opinion, Israel pursues very strange policies. It espoused the Jewish Left, but after 1977 it gradually shifted toward the radical Right, without this Right constituting a majority in Israel. Indeed, every public opinion poll shows that the majority are centrists and peace seekers. Yet, we see Yitzhak Shamir, Ariel Sharon, and Benjamin Netanyahu rule.
Such leaders and the Likudniks in the U.S. cannot cover up Israel’s crimes and the world condemnation no matter how much they try. We see them focus on Mahmoud Ahmedinejad and try to scare people of him, although the Iranian president had merely spoken out. He did not kill the Jews, unlike Nazi Germany and its allies, nor did he kill Palestinian women and children, as has been doing the state of the survivors of Nazism and their descendants on a daily basis. Although I disagree with the Iranian president over the majority of issues, I believe that he was not mistaken when he said that Israel was a racist state. It is so and even more.
I leave the readers with two opinions on the Geneva conference. Pope Benedict XVI praised the conference, urging countries around the globe to join forces in order to eliminate all forms of racism, discrimination, and intolerance. Israeli President Shimon Peres felt hurt, as this conference, which coincided with the commemoration of the Holocaust, had Ahmedinejad as a keynote speaker. He believes that “in Iran people are hanged because they are suspected of God knows what – nothing. There is a center of hate, of blood, of terror.”
These words certainly apply to Israel more than to any other country in the world. It alone kills women and children and then hides behind the Holocaust.
I do not mean to compare between the Pope and Peres the deceiver so as not to insult the former, but I say that Israel is condemned in the tribunal of international opinion before it is in Durban I and Durban II. The countries that boycotted the anti-racism conference are accomplices in the crimes it perpetrates regardless of the excuses they give to justify non-participation.