In Occupied Palestine – 28 June 2024

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In Occupied Palestine

Zionism in practice

Israel’s Daily Toll on Palestinian Life, Limb, Liberty and Land

08:00, 28 June until 08:00, 29 June 2024

[Source of statistics: Palestinian Monitoring Group]

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Gaza Strip

Air strikes: Heavy aerial bombardment on buildings, homes and many facilities.

Attacks: All over Gaza, there are air strikes, heavy gunfire, tank and artillery shelling, as well as missiles fired from Israeli forces and military occupation, especially in Khan Yunis. The Israeli Navy continues to fire missiles, targeting facilities and buildings along the shoreline of the whole of Gaza.

Victims: 40 more people killed in Gaza now brings the total number of deaths, since 7 October, to at least 37,834. With another 224wounded, that figure has risen to more than 86,858.

As Israel’s Gaza genocide death-toll passes 38,000:

recognising Palestinian State now critical

By Gim Teha (retired Australian law academic and a former member of the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal. He has an interest in misinformation and imperialism and has written about US-Australia-China relationship.)

29 June 2024 | https://johnmenadue.com/a-two-state-solution-for-palestine/

Currently, the Palestine issue has become a question of how to get Israel to vacate and stop controlling Palestinian territories. That requires Israel to accept that it cannot continue pretending Palestine does not exist. Thankfully for Palestinians, however, it looks like much of the world already recognises that Palestine is a state.

Many await the determination of the world’s highest court, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), on the extent of Israel’s illegal acts and consequences on Palestinian territories over the past six decades. There is abundant evidence of these already recorded in United Nations documents. The much-awaited decision is likely to confirm that Israel has indeed been unlawfully treating Palestinian territories as their own whilst, at the same time, treating the Palestinians like pests to be contained rather than like human beings entitled to human rights. The ICJ is arguably likely to order Israel to vacate and relinquish all control of Palestinian territories.

Until then, it is noted Zionists have also made efforts to stop other countries and other entities from recognising Palestine as a state. They know recognition of Palestine, in particular by the United Nations, is a powerful obstacle to Israel maintaining its claim to all Palestinian territories. Indeed, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had spoken about the “danger” of there being a Palestinian state. It is not by chance that the US, Israel’s main supporter, reacted strongly when Palestine attempted to gain membership to several UN agencies in February 1988 – it threatened to withhold funding for any UN organisation that admitted Palestine.

Zionists continue to ignore Palestine is today recognised as a sovereign state by 145 of the 193 UN member states. This constitutes a two-state solution to the Palestinian issue in law and in actual fact. Israel may continue burying its head under the sand and continue claiming Palestine does not exist but that should be of little consequence to Palestine’s actual existence as a state.

What’s a real problem for the world is Israel’s persistent unwillingness to accept any UN resolution or any ICJ decision unfavourable to Israel. Indeed it has also rejected the International Criminal Court’s warrant for the arrest of PM Netanyahu and Israel’s Defence Minister. And it’s been able to get away with it because the USA continues to back Israel, US Congress even passing a Bill to sanction ICC officials. It bars them from entering the US and restricts any US-based property transactions by them.

This is why the de facto two-state solution has not had much flow-on effect. There is a need for more support of the existing international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement to boycott Israel “until it meets its obligations under international law”. So far, it’s mainly the Arab world that has continued to lead Muslim countries in various boycotting of Israel businesses. In particular, it is highly noticeable that the Western world readily suspended Russian and Belarusian athletes from the Paris 2024 Olympics for the invasion of Ukraine but athletes from Israel are spared as the IOC President is against it.

This may be why critics have recently said the two-state solution has no meaningful outcome. They suggest focus should be on what Palestinians really want, viz, equality for all and the dismantling of the settler colonialism and the existing apartheid regime.

However, that is arguably too idealistic. Firstly, unless one lives in cuckoo-land, one cannot expect the Zionists to give up what they stand for just because someone tells them they’re depriving Palestinian people of their freedom and self-determination. Secondly, there is a need to take into account certain harsh realities about Zionism, such as the following:

· Unlike Judaism (Jewish faith), Zionism (opposed by many Jews) is the political philosophy justifying the idea of a Jewish state exclusively for Jewish people. It’s what keeps Israel being an apartheid state.

· Israel did not begin as a peaceful settlement of vacant land in 1948. It began with the horrific ethnic cleansing of some 750,000 Palestinians amongst many of whom are today’s refugees.

· “Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination”. That’s according to a 1975 UN resolution (3379) although, through powerful lobbying by the USA, this was repealed on 16 December 1991. Nevertheless, one effect of a 1963 UN Declaration is that Resolution 3379 officially condemned the national ideology of the state of Israel.

· There is no way the Zionists would, on their own initiative, give up their pursuit of the biblical teaching from the Book of Joshua about how they must completely eliminate the enemy. Indeed, this may be why they are committing genocide or ethnic cleansing in the Gaza.

· Zionism has caused Israel to be seen and listed as a terrorist state by Bolivia, Iran, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey and Yemen. Wikipedia has a long list of assassinations by Israel.

Very unfortunately, these negative realities about Zionism are giving the Jewish community a bad time as too many people do not distinguish between Zionism and Jews.

It is heart-warming to note various protests taking place across the world against what Zionist Israel is doing, particularly its effort to starve to death nearly a million civilians in the Gaza. These protests are a timely reminder to mankind no country should be able to perpetuate apartheid and continue to behave as though it is above the law. This is particularly when it commits war crimes, property and land theft, crimes against humanity, and genocide.

Protestors are reminding us the world cannot afford to – and will not – look away. It has a legal duty to do whatever it can to stop Israel’s ongoing criminal violations of international law.

West Bank

[Palestinian Monitoring Group]

Occupation settler attack: Nablus – armed Israeli settlers invaded the outskirts of Madama village, opening fire and wounding a womanwhile also assaulting one other villager.

Israeli Army attack – 1 wounded – 1 beaten: Hebron – Israeli Occupation forces, firing live ammunition, stormed Beit Ummar, wounding one person and beating-up another.

Home invasions: Jenin – evening, raiding Israeli Occupation forces searched homes in Araba as well as the villages of al-Taybeh and Fahma.

Home invasions: Jenin – dawn, Israeli forces searched a number of homes, while raiding Silat al-Dahr and the village of al-Fanduqumiya.

Home invasions: Nablus – dawn, the Israeli Army raided the city and searched a number of homes.

Israeli Army assault with stun grenades and teargas canisters: Qalqiliya – Israeli Occupation forces fired stun grenades and launched teargas cannisters towards people protesting against the closure of the entrance to the village of Kafr Qaddum, causing several tear gascasualties.

Israeli Army assault with stun grenades on cemetery mourners: Hebron – Israeli forces fired stun grenades, towards mourners on their way to the Old City’s Karantina Cemetery.

Occupation settler vandalism: Ramallah – Israeli Occupation settlers stoned, and otherwise damaged, a house on the outskirts of Turmusaya, including windows and surveillance-cameras being smashed.

Occupation settler arson and agricultural sabotage: Nablus – raiding Israelis, from the Itamar Occupation settlement, set fire to crops on Beit Furik farmland.

Occupation settler agricultural sabotage: Bethlehem – Israeli Occupation settlers invaded agricultural land, west of al-Khadr, and uprooted around 200 grapevine supports.

Occupation settler agricultural sabotage: Hebron – Israeli settlers grazed their sheep on al-Tuwani village farmland crops.

Raid: Nablus – Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled Sebastia.

Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Nablus – Israeli forces raided the village of Kafr Qallil, taking prisoner one person.

Raid – 2 beaten-up: Salfit – evening, Israeli troops raided al-Zawiya and beatup two people.

Raid – populationcontrol: Bethlehem – the Israeli Army raided the village of al-Jaba’a and issued orders to demolish a kindergarten andhalt construction of a park as well as a carwash business.

Raid: Hebron – Israeli Occupation forces invaded al-Samou.

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Leslie Bravery
Leslie Bravery is a Londoner with vivid World War Two memories of the Nazi blitz on his home town. In 1947/1948 His father explained to him what was happening to the Palestinians thus: “Any ideology or political movement that creates refugees in the process of realising its ambitions must be inhuman and should be opposed and condemned as unacceptable.” What followed confirmed this assessment of the Zionist entity a hundredfold. Now a retired flamenco guitarist, with a lifelong interest in the tragedy of what happened to the Palestinian people, he tries to publicise their plight. Because the daily injustices they suffer barely get a mention in the mainstream news media, Leslie edits/compiles a daily newsletter, In Occupied Palestine, for the Palestine Human Rights Campaign. These days, to preserve his sanity, he enjoys taking part in a drama group whenever possible!

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