If Israel is dishing back what it gets, then what acts of violence did Palestinians commit in the last week?
Besides IDF's outrageous bulldozer rampage through Ramallah's downtown shopping district which randomly killed four holiday shoppers and wounded 20 others (described above), here are some other events which happened last week:
How many Israeli citizens were abducted and murdered by Palestinians last week?
How about illegal Palestinian only colonies in Israel. Have Palestinians built or expanded any of those recently?
The United States "rejected the move". Americans have a hard time saying "blatantly violated past agreements" when it comes to Israel. Israel's blatant violation of the US's roadmap to peace never made headlines. Try finding an American news source which reported this story. This story is important, because Israel's ongoing ethnic cleansing is the root cause of Palestinian violence.
How about the week before that. How many Israelis did Palestinians abduct, murder or extra-judicially execute?
I could go back, week by week for 60 years and give daily examples of injustice, oppression, murder, illegal abductions, extra-judicial executions by Israeli death squads, illegal annexations and colonizations....
Israelis have suffered periodically from Palestinian violence, but conditions on the Israeli side of the wall are not desperate like they are on the Palestinian side. Israeli infrastructure (water, sewage, electricity) hasn't been destroyed. Israelis aren't dying from chronic shortages of clean water, food and medicine. Israeli citizens aren't dying while Palestinian militants hold up Israeli ambulances at Palestinian checkpoints.
We all know desperate people do desperate things. Palestinians are desperate and that makes some of them dangerous.
Before 1948, Israel didn't exist. The area known as Palestine was relatively peaceful. The Palestinians which includes Muslims, Christians and Jews lived together in relative harmony. Non-Jewish Palestinians are the victims here. They had no say about the flood of Jewish refugees which invaded their land during the Nazi holocaust. (While Canada and the US turned away boatloads of Jewish refugees). Palestinians had no say when heavily armed Jewish terrorists began ethnically cleansing them off their land (starting in 1947). Palestinian had no say when Canada and other nations voted at the UN to create Israel (1948 ). Palestinians had no say when neighboring countries turned their land into a war zone (1948 ). Palestinians had no say when the rest of Palestine was occuppied by Israel (1967). They have no say when Israel uses military force to relocate non-Jews to concentration camps and hands their property over to Jewish immigrants (1948 - present). Today, some Palestinians have resorted to violence in order to fight for freedom and justice. Well... no $hit Sherlock...
Over time, this problem will get worse. Israel has no intention of finding a fair or just peace with Palestinians. Sure Israeli leaders make flowery statements, but their actions indicate they have no intention of returning what they have taken illegally. Israeli leaders show no sign that they have stopped razing Palestinian homes or building new Jewish only colonies on Palestinian land. Israeli leaders have shown by their actions that their intention is to kill as many Palestinians as required to accomplish their plan to turn Palestine into a state where Jews have rights and freedoms while non-Jews have fewer rights and most of them live in conditions which meet the definition of concentration camps.
Most Palestinians have never committed any acts of violence. But each day, Israel's actions and the world's inactions convince more of them that freedom and justice can only be won through violence.
Besides IDF's outrageous bulldozer rampage through Ramallah's downtown shopping district which randomly killed four holiday shoppers and wounded 20 others (described above), here are some other events which happened last week:
...another Israeli force invaded Bethlehem with at least 15 vehicles, wounding a Palestinian man before abducting him.
Local sources told IMEMC that the invasion targeted a neighborhood on the southern side of the city. Soldiers surrounded a number of houses and ransacked them. Rami Abu Khidor, a resident of the neighborhood, told IMEMC from inside his surrounded house that soldiers had invaded the area and opened fire at residents...
...The Palestinian Prisoners Society said that, during the past week, at least 32 Palestinian residents, including six children, were abducted by Israeli soldiers stationed at several checkpoints throughout the West Bank...
http://www.imemc.org/article/23549
How many Israeli citizens were abducted and murdered by Palestinians last week?
How about illegal Palestinian only colonies in Israel. Have Palestinians built or expanded any of those recently?
December 22 through December 29, 2006
...Israeli military authorities approved on Wednesday the construction of a new illegal settlement in the Jordan Valley north of the West Bank to house settlers who were removed from the Gaza Strip during the unilateral Israeli disengagement from the Gaza Strip in September of 2005. The construction of this settlement, originally intended to be a military base, began earlier this year but was only approved as a settlement to house civilians this week.
The United States administration rejected this move and said that it violated the US-backed Road Map peace plan which calls for the Israeli government to halt all construction and expansion of illegal settlements in the West Bank. Prior to the disengagement from Gaza, Israel had promised it would not move former Gaza settlers to the West Bank...
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/12/351339.shtml
The United States "rejected the move". Americans have a hard time saying "blatantly violated past agreements" when it comes to Israel. Israel's blatant violation of the US's roadmap to peace never made headlines. Try finding an American news source which reported this story. This story is important, because Israel's ongoing ethnic cleansing is the root cause of Palestinian violence.
How about the week before that. How many Israelis did Palestinians abduct, murder or extra-judicially execute?
December 15 through December 22, 2006
...In this week's report from the Palestinian Center for Human Rights in Gaza, the Center documented the killing of 9 Palestinians, including a child, by Israeli forces in invasions of the Palestinian territories. Four of those killed were extra-judicially executed.
12 Palestinians, including 7 children and a woman, were wounded in 30 separate invasions of Palestinian areas, including two children wounded in Bil'in village, and a worker who was wounded by the Israeli gunfire while attempting to reach his work place inside Israel.
One of those killed this week was a thirteen-year-old girl named Do'a Abd Al-Qader from a village near the West Bank city of Tulkarem. The girl was shot by an Israeli sniper for walking too close to the Israeli annexation Wall. Israeli soldiers also injured twelve civilians while invading several refugee camps and cities in the West Bank, and abducted thirty-two, including three children. The injured included seven children and a woman.
Three Palestinians were assassinated by an Israeli undercover unit that infiltrated the West Bank city of Nablus on Tuesday, one of whom was assassinated next to a hospital in the city. The killing of these three men is considered extrajudicial assassination. Extrajudicial assassination, while illegal in international law, was ruled to be legal by the Israeli High Court of Justice last week....
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/12/351093.shtml
I could go back, week by week for 60 years and give daily examples of injustice, oppression, murder, illegal abductions, extra-judicial executions by Israeli death squads, illegal annexations and colonizations....
Israelis have suffered periodically from Palestinian violence, but conditions on the Israeli side of the wall are not desperate like they are on the Palestinian side. Israeli infrastructure (water, sewage, electricity) hasn't been destroyed. Israelis aren't dying from chronic shortages of clean water, food and medicine. Israeli citizens aren't dying while Palestinian militants hold up Israeli ambulances at Palestinian checkpoints.
We all know desperate people do desperate things. Palestinians are desperate and that makes some of them dangerous.
Before 1948, Israel didn't exist. The area known as Palestine was relatively peaceful. The Palestinians which includes Muslims, Christians and Jews lived together in relative harmony. Non-Jewish Palestinians are the victims here. They had no say about the flood of Jewish refugees which invaded their land during the Nazi holocaust. (While Canada and the US turned away boatloads of Jewish refugees). Palestinians had no say when heavily armed Jewish terrorists began ethnically cleansing them off their land (starting in 1947). Palestinian had no say when Canada and other nations voted at the UN to create Israel (1948 ). Palestinians had no say when neighboring countries turned their land into a war zone (1948 ). Palestinians had no say when the rest of Palestine was occuppied by Israel (1967). They have no say when Israel uses military force to relocate non-Jews to concentration camps and hands their property over to Jewish immigrants (1948 - present). Today, some Palestinians have resorted to violence in order to fight for freedom and justice. Well... no $hit Sherlock...
Over time, this problem will get worse. Israel has no intention of finding a fair or just peace with Palestinians. Sure Israeli leaders make flowery statements, but their actions indicate they have no intention of returning what they have taken illegally. Israeli leaders show no sign that they have stopped razing Palestinian homes or building new Jewish only colonies on Palestinian land. Israeli leaders have shown by their actions that their intention is to kill as many Palestinians as required to accomplish their plan to turn Palestine into a state where Jews have rights and freedoms while non-Jews have fewer rights and most of them live in conditions which meet the definition of concentration camps.
Most Palestinians have never committed any acts of violence. But each day, Israel's actions and the world's inactions convince more of them that freedom and justice can only be won through violence.
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