New apartheid orders: 11,400 Palestinians need permits to live...

[Resistance]

Full headline: New apartheid orders: 11,400 Palestinians need permits to live in their homes

Report from B'Tselem

In early October 2003, the OC Central Command ordered the area between the separation barrier in the northern section of the West Bank (Stage 1) and the Green Line a closed military area for an indefinite period of time.

This area, known as the "seam area," covers a total of 96,000 dunams <4 dunams = 1 acre>, or 1.7 percent of the West Bank. The area includes twelve Palestinian villages, containing 11,400 residents, and ten settlements, in which 22,000 people live.

The prohibition on entering and being in the seam area without a permit from the Civil Administration, applies only to Palestinians. Israeli citizens, including settlers living in the seam area, Jews from around the world, and tourists visiting Israel are allowed to enter and stay in this area as they wish.

According to the new directives, all Palestinians over the age of twelve who live in the seam area will be required to obtain a "permanent resident permit" from the Civil Administration to enable them to continue to live in the their homes.

[bluesoul]

1. Gee what does this

remind me of? The big A?

[Resistance]

2. well

If "A" is for "Apartheid" then yes...

[Violet_Crumble]

4. There's this as well...

According to the new directives, all Palestinians over the age of twelve who live in the seam area will be required to obtain a "permanent resident permit" from the Civil Administration to enable them to continue to live in the their homes. Palestinian residents whose request for a permit is rejected may argue their case before a military committee. If the committee denies the appeal, they must leave their homes.

The directives do not state the criteria for obtaining the permit except for the requirement that the resident provide evidence that he/she resides in the place "to the satisfaction" of the Civil Administration. The kind of evidence necessary is unclear, and in effect the Civil Administration has almost complete discretion to grant or deny the permits. The lack of clear criteria makes it possible that decisions will be made arbitrarily and on the basis of extraneous considerations, under the veil of ostensible legality.

But why should we care?? It doesn't affect us. After all, we can be in Isreal for all of a day and enter the area with no permit at all, while the indigenous population has to suffer the humiliation of relying on a hostile military force to approve them continuing to live where they've lived for generations :puke:

Violet...

[Paschall]

5. B'Tselem: "Land Grab"

"Israel has created in the Occupied Territories a regime of separation based on discrimination, applying two different systems of law in the same area and basing the rights of individuals on their nationality," the B'Tselem (Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories) study (Land Grab, May 2002) concludes. "This regime is the only one of its kind in the world, and is reminiscent of distasteful regimes from the past, such as the Apartheid regime in South Africa."

http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/id128.htm

[lefty_mcduff]

3. The Karma Gods will not be pleased.

n/t

[Saudade]

6. Amazing

It is absolutely amazing that anyone with even the slightest sense of justice can possibly support Israel's current policies.

[Paschall]

7. It would seem the sense of justice is sadly lacking, near and far

Think of Afghanistan.

How can we justify bombing the world's fifth poorest nation to apprehend the alleged perpetrators of 9/11, vaguely "secure" the capital city, then abandon the vast majority of the country and population to anarchy? All the while allowing the "evil-doers" to elude capture?

Oh, yes, there was that pipeline deal.

It would seem that in Israel, too, resources are much in play.

As the man says, "Follow the money."

[Resistance]

8. good point, Paschall

it's not about the justice - it's about getting what you can get and getting away with what you can get away with.

[brainshrub]

9. It's not about justice

It's about racism, religion, oil, manipulation, violence, power and money.

No justice here. Try someplace else.

[Resistance]

11. And here I thought

The U.S. was about spreading Democracy, not giving Democracy a bad name.

[Gimel]

10. Not new

and this is a dupe.