The Palestine thread

[Ball DeBeaver]

Since the 'ceasefire' after the last Israeli attack on Gaza 2 months ago...

In Gaza, at least...

4 people have been killed
77 people have been injured (16 of them children)
5 Israeli military incursions (not to mention regular fire into Gaza from Israeli border positions)
14 attacks on fishermen at sea

In the West Bank and East Jerusalem, at least...

6 people have been killed (3 of them children)
79 people have been injured (18 of them children)
531 Israeli military incursions
29 attacks by illegal (usually armed) Israeli settlers
2105 olive trees destroyed or damaged
18 houses or agricultural structures demolished
4 tented dwelling villages attacked with confiscation or damage to residential tents
1 new settlement outpost officially recognised by the Israeli state
3000+ new settlement units announced

And in all occupied Palestine together, at least...
438 Palestinians have been arrested (66 of them children, including one baby)
8 International and Israeli human rights defenders arrested

AND..... drum roll... inside Green Line Israel...

0 prosecutions of settlers or Israeli soldiers

(figures based on PCHR reports and media coverage)

GHD, what is your take on the destruction of the Jewish temple?

What temple was destroyed?

Some of those Palestinians are almost as bad as the Israeli's!

Indeed they are. What I can't understand is how 130 "Terrorists" escaped prosecution !!!!

The Shin Bet said it arrested 2,300 terror suspects, which led to 2,170 indictments.

Surely you can't believe that everyone arrested is guilty? Everyone, even Palestinians, are innocent until proven guilty.

[give her dixie]

Israel admits Ethiopian women were given birth control shots

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/israel-admits-ethiopian-women-were-given-birth-control-shots.premium-1.496519

A government official has for the first time acknowledged the practice of injecting women of Ethiopian origin with the long-acting contraceptive Depo-Provera.

Health Ministry Director General Prof. Ron Gamzu has instructed the four health maintenance organizations to stop the practice as a matter of course.

The ministry and other state agencies had previously denied knowledge or responsibility for the practice, which was first reported five years ago.

Gamzu's letter instructs all gynecologists in the HMOs "not to renew prescriptions for Depo-Provera for women of Ethiopian origin if for any reason there is concern that they might not understand the ramifications of the treatment."

He also instructed physicians to avail themselves of translators if need be.

Gamzu's letter came in response to a letter from Sharona Eliahu-Chai of the Association of Civil Rights in Israel, representing several women's rights and Ethiopian immigrants' groups. The letter demanded the injections cease immediately and that an investigation be launched into the practice.

About six weeks ago, on an Educational Television program journalist Gal Gabbay revealed the results of interviews with 35 Ethiopian immigrants. The women's testimony could help explain the almost 50-percent decline over the past 10 years in the birth rate of Israel's Ethiopian community. According to the program, while the women were still in transit camps in Ethiopia they were sometimes intimidated or threatened into taking the injection. "They told us they are inoculations," said one of the women interviewed. "They told us people who frequently give birth suffer. We took it every three months. We said we didn't want to."

[mylestheslasher]

Israel admits Ethiopian women were given birth control shots

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/israel-admits-ethiopian-women-were-given-birth-control-shots.premium-1.496519

A government official has for the first time acknowledged the practice of injecting women of Ethiopian origin with the long-acting contraceptive Depo-Provera.

Health Ministry Director General Prof. Ron Gamzu has instructed the four health maintenance organizations to stop the practice as a matter of course.

The ministry and other state agencies had previously denied knowledge or responsibility for the practice, which was first reported five years ago.

Gamzu's letter instructs all gynecologists in the HMOs "not to renew prescriptions for Depo-Provera for women of Ethiopian origin if for any reason there is concern that they might not understand the ramifications of the treatment."

He also instructed physicians to avail themselves of translators if need be.

Gamzu's letter came in response to a letter from Sharona Eliahu-Chai of the Association of Civil Rights in Israel, representing several women's rights and Ethiopian immigrants' groups. The letter demanded the injections cease immediately and that an investigation be launched into the practice.

About six weeks ago, on an Educational Television program journalist Gal Gabbay revealed the results of interviews with 35 Ethiopian immigrants. The women's testimony could help explain the almost 50-percent decline over the past 10 years in the birth rate of Israel's Ethiopian community. According to the program, while the women were still in transit camps in Ethiopia they were sometimes intimidated or threatened into taking the injection. "They told us they are inoculations," said one of the women interviewed. "They told us people who frequently give birth suffer. We took it every three months. We said we didn't want to."

All part of the final solution to keep israel pure for the zionists and keep all the blacks and arabs out of the blood stream. Sounds familiar.

[seafoid]

the European Ashkenazi Jews who run Israel were no better with their own people - the Sephardi Jews from the Middle East who became Israel's working class



http://www.meforum.org/707/post-zionism-and-the-sephardi-question

At the center of the radical, post-Zionist Mizrahi critique is a deep feeling of victimization. The post-Zionist Mizrahi writers continue to live their parents' insults and humiliations at the hands of the European Ashkenazi Jewish establishment that absorbed them in Israel after immigration. Discriminatory policies created a continuing social and economic gap between Mizrahim and Ashkenazim. These academics promote the view held by many young Mizrahim that discrimination did not end with their parents' generation. The children—who, in large part, were born in Israel—continue to face discrimination and cope with social and economic handicaps.

The radical Mizrahim who turned to post-Zionism tap into anger beyond the well-known complaints of past ill-treatment, including the maabarot, the squalid tent cities into which Mizrahim were placed upon arrival in Israel; the humiliation of Moroccan and other Mizrahi Jews when Israeli immigration authorities shaved their heads and sprayed their bodies with the pesticide DDT[3]; the socialist elite's enforced secularization; the destruction of traditional family structure, and the reduced status of the patriarch by years of poverty and sporadic unemployment. These Mizrahi intellectuals' fury extends beyond even the state-sponsored kidnapping of Yemeni infants for adoption by Ashkenazi families who lost their children in the Holocaust.[4] The real anger Sephardim feel nowadays, and upon which these Mizrahi post-Zionists seize, comes from the extent to which, in their view, the Zionist narrative denied, erased, and excluded their historical identity.

[LeoMc]

Israel admits Ethiopian women were given birth control shots

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/israel-admits-ethiopian-women-were-given-birth-control-shots.premium-1.496519

A government official has for the first time acknowledged the practice of injecting women of Ethiopian origin with the long-acting contraceptive Depo-Provera.

Health Ministry Director General Prof. Ron Gamzu has instructed the four health maintenance organizations to stop the practice as a matter of course.

The ministry and other state agencies had previously denied knowledge or responsibility for the practice, which was first reported five years ago.

Gamzu's letter instructs all gynecologists in the HMOs "not to renew prescriptions for Depo-Provera for women of Ethiopian origin if for any reason there is concern that they might not understand the ramifications of the treatment."

He also instructed physicians to avail themselves of translators if need be.

Gamzu's letter came in response to a letter from Sharona Eliahu-Chai of the Association of Civil Rights in Israel, representing several women's rights and Ethiopian immigrants' groups. The letter demanded the injections cease immediately and that an investigation be launched into the practice.

About six weeks ago, on an Educational Television program journalist Gal Gabbay revealed the results of interviews with 35 Ethiopian immigrants. The women's testimony could help explain the almost 50-percent decline over the past 10 years in the birth rate of Israel's Ethiopian community. According to the program, while the women were still in transit camps in Ethiopia they were sometimes intimidated or threatened into taking the injection. "They told us they are inoculations," said one of the women interviewed. "They told us people who frequently give birth suffer. We took it every three months. We said we didn't want to."

Are these women part of the Beta Israel that Mossad,etc, worked so hard to bring "home"?

[seafoid]

Israel admits Ethiopian women were given birth control shots

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/israel-admits-ethiopian-women-were-given-birth-control-shots.premium-1.496519

A government official has for the first time acknowledged the practice of injecting women of Ethiopian origin with the long-acting contraceptive Depo-Provera.

Health Ministry Director General Prof. Ron Gamzu has instructed the four health maintenance organizations to stop the practice as a matter of course.

The ministry and other state agencies had previously denied knowledge or responsibility for the practice, which was first reported five years ago.

Gamzu's letter instructs all gynecologists in the HMOs "not to renew prescriptions for Depo-Provera for women of Ethiopian origin if for any reason there is concern that they might not understand the ramifications of the treatment."

He also instructed physicians to avail themselves of translators if need be.

Gamzu's letter came in response to a letter from Sharona Eliahu-Chai of the Association of Civil Rights in Israel, representing several women's rights and Ethiopian immigrants' groups. The letter demanded the injections cease immediately and that an investigation be launched into the practice.

About six weeks ago, on an Educational Television program journalist Gal Gabbay revealed the results of interviews with 35 Ethiopian immigrants. The women's testimony could help explain the almost 50-percent decline over the past 10 years in the birth rate of Israel's Ethiopian community. According to the program, while the women were still in transit camps in Ethiopia they were sometimes intimidated or threatened into taking the injection. "They told us they are inoculations," said one of the women interviewed. "They told us people who frequently give birth suffer. We took it every three months. We said we didn't want to."

Are these women part of the Beta Israel that Mossad,etc, worked so hard to bring "home"?

they want them for demographic reasons but they don't want any black children

"Most of the people [immigrants] coming here are Muslims who think the land doesn't belong to us, to the white man".
http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/22/note-to-refugees-from-south-sudan-israel-is-for-the-white-man/

[Ball DeBeaver]

Bethlehem bans contact with Israel



Tuesday, January 29, 2013 |  Israel Today Staff   

In a further demonstration of Palestinian Authority intransigence, the mayor of Bethlehem on Sunday issued an order barring direct contact with Israel.

The Jerusalem Post reported that Mayor Abdel Fattah Hamayel, angered by ongoing efforts by Israeli organizations to open dialogue and cooperation with counterparts on the Palestinian side, declared that all municipal councils, trade institutions and NGOs in the Bethlehem area strictly forbidden from talking to the Israelis.

"In wake of repeated Israeli calls to deal directly with Palestinian municipalities and institutions and hold meetings and conferences with the Israeli side, it is forbidden to have direct contact or coordination with Israel," said Hamayel.

Hamayel and other Palestinian Authority officials want all contact between Palestinians and Israelis to only go through the PA's District Coordinating Office, and has condemned any external contact as "promoting normalization."

This development would seem to further contradict assertions that Israel is to blame for the lack of coexistence in the area.

http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/23648/Default.aspx?topic=article_title

[Ball DeBeaver]

Palestinians attack Israeli bus, kindergarten; riots in Jerusalem


Monday, January 28, 2013 |  Israel Today Staff   


A series of Palestinian attacks against Israelis occurred in and around Jerusalem over the weekend, a clear reminder that the tension-wracked capital remains ready to explode despite relative calm in recent months.

On Sunday evening, a bus traveling from Jerusalem to a Jewish community just north of the city was damaged in a Palestinian stone-throwing attacks. Because the stones managed to penetrate the bulletproof glass, it was at first reported as a shooting attacks.

Also on the outskirts of Jerusalem, Israeli security forces in at least three separate incidents caught would-be Arab assailants in possession of pipe bombs.

Earlier on Sunday, an Arab man assaulted a Jew in the capital's Givat Shaul neighborhood, according to Israel National News. The attack resulted in a riot that saw dozens of Jews and Arabs face off in violent confrontation.

Near the Old City, police officers sent to demolish two illegally built Arab structures were attacked by a mob, and one officer sustained light injuries.

South of Jerusalem, in the Judean town of Hebron, Arab stone-throwers attacked a kindergarten in Hebron's main Jewish enclave.
Israeli security officials have noted a significant rise in the number of attacks in and around Jerusalem in recent months, both armed attacks and "popular" attacks, which means the assailants use Molotov cocktails and stones instead of guns and knives.

http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/23646/Default.aspx?hp=popular_posts


Maybe it was those evil jewish kids that caused it, just by being there in the first place.

[muppet]

Stones? No doubt the F16s are on already en route.

[give her dixie]

Stones? No doubt the F16s are on already en route.

Using White Phosphorus on schools and school children is more their style.....

[seafoid]

Palestinians attack Israeli bus, kindergarten; riots in Jerusalem


Monday, January 28, 2013 |  Israel Today Staff   


A series of Palestinian attacks against Israelis occurred in and around Jerusalem over the weekend, a clear reminder that the tension-wracked capital remains ready to explode despite relative calm in recent months.

On Sunday evening, a bus traveling from Jerusalem to a Jewish community just north of the city was damaged in a Palestinian stone-throwing attacks. Because the stones managed to penetrate the bulletproof glass, it was at first reported as a shooting attacks.

Also on the outskirts of Jerusalem, Israeli security forces in at least three separate incidents caught would-be Arab assailants in possession of pipe bombs.

Earlier on Sunday, an Arab man assaulted a Jew in the capital's Givat Shaul neighborhood, according to Israel National News. The attack resulted in a riot that saw dozens of Jews and Arabs face off in violent confrontation.

Near the Old City, police officers sent to demolish two illegally built Arab structures were attacked by a mob, and one officer sustained light injuries.

South of Jerusalem, in the Judean town of Hebron, Arab stone-throwers attacked a kindergarten in Hebron's main Jewish enclave.
Israeli security officials have noted a significant rise in the number of attacks in and around Jerusalem in recent months, both armed attacks and "popular" attacks, which means the assailants use Molotov cocktails and stones instead of guns and knives.

http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/23646/Default.aspx?hp=popular_posts


Maybe it was those evil jewish kids that caused it, just by being there in the first place.

Have you ever been to Hebron, BDB?
I think the Jewish settlers there are mentally ill.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUXSFsJV084

[give her dixie]

A B'Tselem investigation indicates that on Monday morning, 19 November 2012, at about 7:30 AM, students from the Tuqu' boys' high school were protesting the Pillar of Defense campaign in the Gaza Strip. The school is located near Route 356, which links Bethlehem and Hebron, and some of the students were throwing stones at the road. Consequently, an Israeli military force of 11 soldiers arrived on the scene in two vehicles.

A video filmed by a photographer for the Palestinian Ma'an News Agency shows what happened next. The video and other testimony gathered by B'Tselem reveal that several students were throwing stones at the soldiers, who responded with tear gas grenades and then began leaving the area. Two of the soldiers were standing at some distance from the others, right by Route 356. At that point, one of the two soldiers opened fire, firing two live rounds at the students, even though none of the soldiers was in any danger at the time and the two soldiers had the advantage of significantly higher ground. The video shows that, after the shots were fired, the other soldier ran over to the shooter and drew him away from the scene.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6JYw_5-j0Pk

http://www.btselem.org/firearms/20130106_muhammad_al_badan_injured_by_live_ammunition

[Ball DeBeaver]

A B'Tselem investigation indicates that on Monday morning, 19 November 2012, at about 7:30 AM, students from the Tuqu' boys' high school were protesting the Pillar of Defense campaign in the Gaza Strip. The school is located near Route 356, which links Bethlehem and Hebron, and some of the students were throwing stones at the road. Consequently, an Israeli military force of 11 soldiers arrived on the scene in two vehicles.

A video filmed by a photographer for the Palestinian Ma'an News Agency shows what happened next. The video and other testimony gathered by B'Tselem reveal that several students were throwing stones at the soldiers, who responded with tear gas grenades and then began leaving the area. Two of the soldiers were standing at some distance from the others, right by Route 356. At that point, one of the two soldiers opened fire, firing two live rounds at the students, even though none of the soldiers was in any danger at the time and the two soldiers had the advantage of significantly higher ground. The video shows that, after the shots were fired, the other soldier ran over to the shooter and drew him away from the scene.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6JYw_5-j0Pk

http://www.btselem.org/firearms/20130106_muhammad_al_badan_injured_by_live_ammunition

Yeehhhhh, that makes it OK then. So, because a pal rioter got shot, while throwing rocks at an Israeli soldier, those evil jewish kids got what's coming. Are you seriously trying to equate that to an attack on pre-school children?

Freak

[give her dixie]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21249431

Israel boycotts UN rights council in unprecedented move

The Israeli authorities refused to co-operate with a fact-finding mission investigating settlements

Israel has boycotted a regular review by the UN Human Rights Council, the first time any country has done so.

The move was expected as Israel has long been angered by what it claims is unfair criticism from the body.

A decision last year to investigate Jewish settlements in the West Bank prompted Israel to announce it would no longer co-operate with the council.

Meanwhile, the US has suggested the outcome of Israel's election may revive hopes of peace with the Palestinians.

Outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she believed the election "opens doors, not nails them shut" during a "global town hall" meeting at which she took questions from internet users and broadcasters.

Right-wing and centre-left blocs won a roughly equal share of seats in Israel's Knesset (parliament) in the vote a week ago. Talks to hammer out a ruling coalition are under way.

'New territory'
Following the no-show by Israeli representatives at Tuesday's meeting of the UN human rights council in Geneva, the meeting was suspended and a response is being decided.

"After a series of votes and statements and incidents we have decided to suspend our working relations with that body," Israeli foreign ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor told the Financial Times on Tuesday.

"I can confirm that there is no change in that policy."

Council spokesman Rolando Gomez told the Associated Press that Israel's unprecedented absence had put the council in "new territory" because attendance of the Universal Periodic Review was mandatory.

Haitian representatives failed to appear before the council in 2010, but on the basis that their country had suffered a devastating earthquake. Otherwise, so far all countries - even Syria and North Korea - have attended.

Israel's action has prompted concern that it might undermine the UN's human rights work, says the BBC's Imogen Foulkes in Geneva.

Human rights experts fear other countries facing awkward questions might follow suit.

Even Israel's biggest ally, the United States, had urged Israel to take part. The big question now is what - if anything - the UN can do about Israel's refusal to participate, our correspondent adds.

A joint statement by eight Israeli human rights groups said: "It is legitimate for Israel to express criticism of the work of the council and its recommendations, but Israel should do so through engagement with the Universal Periodic Review, as it has done in previous sessions."

In her comments on the prospects for peace between Israel and the Palestinians, Mrs Clinton - on one of her final public engagements before stepping down from US President Barack Obama's administration - struck a positive note.

She said in the elections a "significant percentage" of the Israeli electorate had indicated they believed "we need a different path than the one we have been pursuing, internally and with respect to the Middle East peace process.

"So I know that President Obama, [and] my successor, soon-to-be Secretary of State John Kerry, will pursue this, will look for every possible opening," she said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing Likud-Beitenu alliance took the largest single share of parliamentary seats in the poll, but its tally of seats was down by a quarter.

Yair Lapid's newly-formed centrist Yesh Atid party surprised observers by coming second with 19 seats.

[seafoid]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSB9ly7te6E