Merciless population-control
Since the beginning of 2021, as at 16 February, the Israeli Occupation has destroyed, seized or forced people to demolish at least 197 Palestinian Bedouin community homes and buildings in the Jordan Valley village of Humsa al Bqai’a (also known as Khirbet Humsa, Humsa al-Fuqa and Humsa al-Buqai’a), displacing over 280 people, including some 150 children. Israeli forces have also either destroyed or seized all of the community’s animal shelters, fodder storage units and related material. This latest brutality is happening, just when the population’s vulnerability is at its most severe. With both winter and the COVID-19 pandemic adding to the misery of living under foreign military dictatorship, Bedouin are at increasing risk of forcible transfer.
Despite these crimes having triggered a joint visit to the village on 5 February by the West Bank Protection Consortium, partnered by five international NGOs, 11 European donors and EU Humanitarian Aid, the news media and many politicians have chosen to remain quiet. Most of the pastoral land, upon which the Bedouin made their living, has been seized by Israel and registered as, what the Zionist state calls, ‘state land‘. On this land, Israel has built many Jewish-only settlements, dismissing Bedouin communities as ‘unrecognised’ and their residents as ‘invaders.’
Revealing video
Responding to an international call for Israel to halt the destruction, an ITN Channel 4 News video shows the suffering of the Bedouin community, with Israeli soldiers even upending and emptying the people’s precious drinking-water tanks. In the video, Jon Snow interviews Ohad Zemet, a spokesman for the Israeli Embassy in London, whose evasiveness and inability to give straight answers amply illustrate Israel’s guilt. He claimed, for instance, that Israel acts with respect for international law, when he knows that The Fourth Geneva Convention expressly prohibits the transfer of settlers onto militarily-occupied land beyond Israel’s borders. He also dismisses the victims of Israel’s population transfer violence as “illegal squatters”, ignoring the reality that the Bedouin community have lived in the area long before Israel was even created.
Zemet excused the assault on the Bedouin community as having been justified by an Israeli Court but a ruling by the Israeli Supreme Court acknowledged that, in one case at least, a settlement outpost had been unlawfully placed on private West Bank Palestinian land. That ruling overturned another 2018 District Court ruling that had said the land belonged to Israeli settlers. The Zionist regime’s legal system ties itself in knots in attempting to appear just and reasonable but no amount of intricate legal argument and representation can alter the fact that all Israeli settlements on belligerently-occupied Palestinian land are illegal, according to international law. As a precaution, I have obtained a copy of the video, which can still be seen on YouTube and the Global Herald.
Zionist contempt for international law
The US Library of Congress, dealing with Israel’s Law for the Regulation of Settlement in Judea and Samaria, 5777-2017, published the following argument that claimed Israeli settlements in the Occupied West Bank did not violate the Fourth Geneva Convention:
“ . . . both the text of that convention, and the post-World War II circumstances under which it was drafted, clearly indicate that it was never intended to refer to situations like Israel’s settlements. According to the International Committee of the Red Cross, Article 49 relates to situations where populations are coerced into being transferred. There is nothing to link such circumstances to Israel’s settlement policy.”
The truth is, that the ICRC makes no mention of ‘coercion’ in relation to the transfer of Israeli settlers from Israel into the West Bank; it simply states,“The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.” There is coercion, however, and it is perpetrated by Israel against the native people of Palestine. Under Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention Israel’s Bedouin victims are held to be “protected persons”. It is clearly stated that: “Individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory” are prohibited.
UN calls upon Israel to respect international law
A recent UN call to the international community reminds us that this war crime began in the 1970s, with Israel declaring some 18% of the West Bank to be ‘firing zones‘ for the Israeli Army. It further reports that: “Since 2009, an estimated 7,400 Palestinian-owned structures in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, have been destroyed, leaving more than 11,000 people displaced, some more than once.”
From 4-14 February (inclusive) 14 Palestinian youngsters, aged 14–17 years were abducted, with Israeli Occupation forces making 168 raids on West Bank villages, towns and UN refugee camps. With many raids carried out at night, 39 of them involved home invasions. Over the same period, there were 30 Israeli Gaza ceasefire violations, including military incursions, in spite of the fact that there were no Palestinian ceasefire violations. Overall, Israel committed 51 acts of agricultural and economic sabotage and destroyed 16 Palestinian homes, as well as ordering the destruction of another 23. The land-grabbing tyranny is relentless, with Israeli Occupation forces issuing, on 14 February, yet another land seizure order – this time for the establishment of 66 new housing units in the Oranit Occupation settlement.
The Israeli human rights organisation B’Tselem (Israeli Information Centre for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories), expresses the outrage felt by many at the crimes against humanity committed by Zionism in the name of worldwide Jewry. B’Tselem says it “strives to end Israel’s occupation, recognising that this is the only way to achieve a future that ensures human rights, democracy, liberty and equality to all people . . .” As part of an informative article, This is Apartheid, B’Tselem summarises, in a single paragraph, clearly and accurately, the threat that pursuit of the ideology’s objectives represents to humanity, global security and international law:
“Divide, separate, rule”
“In the entire area between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, the Israeli regime implements laws, practices and state violence designed to cement the supremacy of one group – Jews – over another – Palestinians. A key method in pursuing this goal is engineering space differently for each group. Jewish citizens live as though the entire area were a single space (excluding the Gaza Strip). The Green Line means next to nothing for them: whether they live west of it, within Israel’s sovereign territory, or east of it, in settlements not formally annexed to Israel, is irrelevant to their rights or status. Where Palestinians live, on the other hand, is crucial. The Israeli regime has divided the area into several units that it defines and governs differently, according Palestinians different rights in each. This division is relevant to Palestinians only. The geographic space, which is contiguous for Jews, is a fragmented mosaic for Palestinians . . .”
‘UN calls upon Israel to respect international law’
The UN has proven itself to be a sick joke played on humanity. Powerless and corrupt, a plaything of the US and Israel.
Saudi money buys a load of drivel.
When doing a NZ media search of israel bombing Gaza and Syria during 20/20 I found sweet fuck all coverage ,,,, Israels hundreds of bombings were largely ignored and coverage was largely pro-Israel .
Israel Cuts Fuel, Fishing to Gaza, Continues Bombing https://youtu.be/ghDFLX-RZbU
Stuff apologized to Maori recently ( insincerely in my opinion ) ,,, and they will need to be making one to Muslims and Palestinians in the future if they keep printing born again zionist opinion pieces which mixes religious bullshit with slaughter house white washing.
The slaughter house white washing of Israels bombing, shelling, droning,shooting fish in a barrel military operation,,, which they called operation protective edge ,,, was described in the Stuff article as … ” The Gaza War” ,,, like the ‘Warsaw Ghetto war” I suppose ,,,
2,251 Palestinians, including 1,462 civilians, were killed.[1]
Of the Palestinian fatalities, 551 were children and 299 women.[2]
11,231 Palestinians were injured including 3,436 children and 3,540 women, 10 percent of whom suffer permanent disability.[3]
More than 1,500 Palestinian children were orphaned.[4]
142 Palestinian families had three or more members killed in the same incident, for a total of 742 fatalities.[5]
18,000 housing units were destroyed in whole or part.[6]
73 medical facilities and many ambulances were damaged.[7]
At the height of hostilities, the number of IDP’s reached 500,000, or 28 per cent of the population in Gaza.
The IDF reported that they had fired 14,500 tank shells and around 35,000 artillery shells.[10]
“The Gaza War”
Six civilians in Israel and 67 Israeli soldiers were killed.[11]
The high number and percentage of civilians and children killed against the Palestinians at around 60% civilian and over 20% children,, versus 8% and 0% death suffered by Israeli civilians and children.,,, Is because of attitudes like this https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/20/israelis-cheer-gaza-bombing
…. and thanks to gaby, andrew and dr Cummins ,,, we learnt it was Official IDF policy. despite their lies and denials to use Palestinian civilians and children as “Human Shields”, up until 2002 when their High Court thought it was a bad look and officially told them to stop ,,, but it still reveals their deadly lack of concern and care for Palestinian Civilians and children.
The Stuff writer also wrote in reference to murders and terrorist attacks against Jews ,,, ” We face it from Islamists who have targeted and murdered Jews in France. And also from the extreme left.”
All religions have fanatics, zealots, extremists and radicalized cult like sects ,,, and it is those who become terrorists and murderers ,,,, but thats all left out leaving the broad and thus misleading blanket label of Islamist’s ,,,which mixes in the good and moderate with the bad and extreme….
Blaming and smearing them all is Islamophobic ,,,, “Misrepresenting the term Islamism fuels non-Muslim angst about the Islamic tradition and stigmatises Muslims in Europe and elsewhere.”
And I couldn’t find any recentexamples of the ‘extreme left’ conducting terrorist attacks against Jews.,,,, but I suspect she means peace activists and anti racists like John Minto or Jeremy Corbin,,,
and the writer is from the NZ Jewish Council ,,, and stuff is comfortable with dirty right wing stuff ,,, they’ve been stuffed for a long time now.
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2021/02/17/the-empire-attacks-bds-for-the-same-reason-nixon-started-the-drug-war/ …”Last month the prominent Israeli civil rights organization B’Tselem published an analysis titled “A regime of Jewish supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid”, finding that “the bar for labeling the Israeli regime as apartheid has been met.”
Anyone who moves a sufficient distance to the left of the mainstream so-called “center” will necessarily find themselves in opposition to a right-wing government with institutionalized apartheid. The true left’s inherent opposition to injustice, racism and imperialism necessarily means a leftist will inevitably find their way into that position once they learn enough”
Facebook is in the anti-Palestinian white wash bizzo ..
Facebook Bans Gaza Health Ministry’s Page https://youtu.be/Fya4JOZWuZM
And uncle joes rainbow coalition death cult ,,,, are donored up zionists,, just like Donald Trump was
Kamala Harris is a Racist Who Supports Genocide https://youtu.be/Pi2NpXvBqV0
The exceptional neo-con death cart rolls on … ….
gabys ugly little post is about as honest as the Hero of Israel Harvey Weinstein claiming he’s the real victim of antisemitic liars intent on destroying him.
Everyone should ask themselves why gaby, in response to my post containing information about death and suffering of our fellow humans ,,,, and the majority of the victims being children and women ,,,, why did this make gaby go full Ben Shapiro in his language ?.
Not once when talking about Palestinian civilian women and children did gaby refer to these people in human terms ,,,,
like Shapiro women and children are described as Pals (6 times),,, aggressive armed Arabs(x2),,,, and all supporters of ‘Pals’ being treated as equal humans ,,, or those who criticize inhumane treatment of the ‘Pals’ ,,, they are all antisemitic .
Antisemitic as defined by racist zionist bullshitters
Shapiro ,,., “Israelis like to build. Arabs like to bomb crap and live in open sewage. This is not a difficult issue.”
“” Arabs “value murder” while Israelis “value life,”
The “Arab Palestinian populace… by and large constitutes the most evil population on the face of the planet.” Since they’re “rotten to the core,” there’s no such thing as a good Arab: your evil is defined by your ethnicity, by being a member of the People of Darkness and Murder rather than the People of Goodness and Light. ” etc etc
Considering Israels army had a real and proven policy of using Palastinian civilians and children as human shields ,,,, which anyone can google and look up…
It makes Zionist claims of ‘Pals’ inhumanity and lack of love for their children,,,, as cynical and dishonest as our ”Hero of Israel harvey weinstein,,, claiming ‘they all raped me.,, and the evil degenerates used BDS like cruel perverted antisemitic devils.
For the true history of Israel from someone who is honest, non-racist and wants justice and peace for all in the middle east ,,,,Miko Peled is a very good place to start. https://youtu.be/TOaxAckFCuQ
Gaby is a dishonest racist and stands behind every violent and idiotic thing Shapiro says ,,, for a video more about debunking Israels zionist propaganda lies ,,, like gaby and Shapiro peddle …
https://youtu.be/ezNqSAIJIOI THE OCCUPATION OF THE AMERICAN MIND – Full Movie –
For a sample of what a angry idiot ‘Pal’ hater shapiro is ,,, start at the 4 minute mark https://youtu.be/6VixqvOcK8E
Anyone who looks at the video supplied by Leslie and is still able to defend Israeli ethnic cleansing of Bedouin from their ancestral lands has completely left the planet of human empathy. As in the war on Yemen they cheer the destruction, starvation and murder of a whole population that they have determined in their own minds to be sub-human. Nothing can justify such atrocious abuse of power inflicting such callous and brutal harm. Ethnic cleansing is a crime against humanity and we should all be prepared to stand up and denounce these actions by Israel. The situation is not complicated – its dead simple and black and white. Ignoring events in Palestine is disgraceful and shameful.
Violence is a result of Palestinian intransigence. What is Israel meant to do? Wait like sitting ducks to be slaughtered?
If you pick a fight with a stronger power and turn down every opportunity for peace, expect your arse to be handed to you every.single.time.
Hahaha!! Yes! Very scary looking Bedouin in the video! As scary as the unarmed protesters on the right of return march and unarmed children throwing stones at the IDF! If these are the things that scare you J Brown I suggest psychiatric help. But given your post you obviously think that might is right and soldiers shooting children and bulldozing houses is just the normal sort of thing to expect.
Cheerleading for the bully, “J”?
Yes, how dare the victim fight back. If ever you suffer a home invasion, I trust you will comply with all demands from the aggeressor(s).
It’s not a ‘conflict’. It is settler-colonialism ..with an ongoing agenda dating back decades, to take the land with as few of the inhabitants as possible.
Lois the evidence clearly shows that as does international condemnation.of what Israel/USA is doing to innocent civilians. Shooting children for throwing rock is evidence of seriously deranged minds.
“mowing the lawns” the leader said.