Israel: Stop Threatened Eviction of Palestinians

[Purveyor]

(Jerusalem) – Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon should overturn the imminent forced displacement of 23 Palestinians from 3 families from their homes near a West Bank settlement. No Israeli authority, including the High Court of Justice, has justified this displacement as being a temporary measure for the protection of the residents themselves or for imperative military reasons. Under these circumstances, displacing the families would not only be discriminatory, but also a grave breach of Israel’s obligations as the occupying power, and a war crime.

Israel’s High Court of Justice on December 3, 2013, rejected a petition against the evictions on the basis that the Palestinians were not “permanent residents” when the military declared the area a military zone in 1999, and held that the military could evict the families on or after January 3, 2014. It did not refer to any of Israel’s duties under international human rights law or the law of occupation. Residents say they have lived in the area since before 1972 and had offered to leave their homes temporarily during military training exercises, but the military rejected their offer.

“Israel’s military is ushering in 2014 by forcing more Palestinian families out of their homes,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch. “Defense Minister Ya’alon should suspend this unlawful eviction and end illegal demolitions of Palestinian property.”

In 2013, Israeli authorities forcibly displaced more than 1,100 Palestinians from the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, by demolishing their homes. In virtually all cases the purported justification for these demolitions was the discriminatory planning regime that allocates land to settlements but makes it virtually impossible for Palestinians to obtain building permits.

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http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/01/02/israel-stop-threatened-eviction-palestinians

[dipsydoodle]

1. And tear down the wall

[Scootaloo]

2. That's not a wall, it's a fence!

Why, it's no different from this!

Doesn't that make you think of a nice cottage and fresh-baked apple pie?

[King_David]

3. Is that comedy ?

Ha ha ha

You have a great send if humor , I'm sure.

And real American centric too.Lol

[Scootaloo]

4. Mockery, actually

Pissed that I beat you to the punch Dave?

[King_David]

6. No it's just funny

That you really don't get that you really don't get it in your lill American cocoon .

And you think your like a "leader "
of "them " ?

LOL

[Scootaloo]

8. Your discourse is starting to get bizarre, Dave

My "lil American cocoon"? That's a strange complaint coming from another American, much less one who has repeatedly demonstrated an extremely poor grasp of the situation and people involved here. Even in the face of having it repeatedly explained - hasbara'd, if you will.

I think I'm like a leader? Not sure where you pull that one from. But again it's a strange complaint from you, seeing as how you've claimed that being a part of an "organization" grants you authority to deny the Jewishness of Jews you disagree with.

You're supposed to spit the mouthwash, not swallow it.

[King_David]

10. .

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1134&pid=55733

[oberliner]

7. Or maybe more like this?

[Scootaloo]

9. Little closer, sure

More in common with this, though:


Though nine feet of chain link and steel pylon along an acknowledged border is still not quite on the level of eighteen feet of foot-thick concrete that snakes through someone else's country.

~original

Now quick, ask me what my opinion of the US / Mexican fencewall is

[Jefferson23]

5. A war crime? tsk tsk. n/t