Israel has indicated that it means to keep all the land it has confiscated with the "security" fence in the West Bank. What does that mean in an agricultural area? Andrea Whitmore, a Missouri activist, supplied me photos and a description brought back by her husband Doug, a volunteer for three months in '07-'08 with a peace organization that opposes the occupation.
Says Whitmore:
Falamya is a village near Jayyous (in the northern West Bank). My husband and his fellow volunteers had to monitor the Falamya agricultural gate among other duties.
The Israelis have cut an army road through Falamya fields–the farmers, who live in the village, are cut off from their own land–now on the other side of the road. You can see in the top left picture (the smiling woman is an international volunteer) the double roll of razor wire, maybe 5 feet high. Then there's a ditch you can't see in the picture, about ten feet wide, then a gravel patch to show footprints, then the barbed wire electrified fence– not to kill but to send a signal to an army command post somewhere that the fence is disturbed. Hence the soldiers' annoyance when boys throw stones at the fence, which means they have to get in their jeeps and investigate.
Then more gravel, then the road, then more gravel on the other side and some of the fencing repeated. You can only imagine how much cherished farm land was seized and destroyed and what an awful deprivation it is for the people who are living in their own land and being treated like criminals. [all emphases Weiss's]
The farmers must get a permit (not so easy, often denied or not renewed) to farm their own fields, or to graze their herds. Every day they have to go to the gate and wait for the soldiers inside the building to open. You can see in the bottom picture that a man is standing at a door looking up. He's waiting for a light to indicate that he can come through. There's another man on the right waiting to go through a turnstile to go up to that door, which houses a metal detector and where the farmers must show their IDs, their permits, and go through the metal detector. All to go to their own land.
If they want to take their tractor across, they have to go through and be checked, then go back through, then get on their tractor and drive through, stop and have their tractor inspected. It's outrageous, and in contravention of international law in every possible way.
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Except there wouldn't have been a fence if the Palestinians hadn't decided they were going to wipe out a bunch of holocaust survivors in Netanya in 2002 at a passover sedar. Among other bombings.
"Except there wouldn't have been a fence if the Palestinians hadn't decided they were going to wipe out a bunch of holocaust survivors in Netanya in 2002 at a passover sedar. Among other bombings."
Why does that justify building the fence on the Palestinian side? Why do the Palestinians have to get permits to tend their farms and their herds on their own land? If the Israelis want a fence FINE – build it on Israeli land. This does not mean land confiscated in the Six Day War, this does not mean land taken by illegal settlers.
SOG – I saw a bumper sticker the other day that reminded me of you:
"The beatings will stop as soon as morality improves."
I am baffled that a bunch of racist Eastern Europeans believed that they had some sort of right to safety and security to celebrate a religious ceremony in a stolen country in a probably illegal structure erected on almost certainly stolen property, whose rightful owners were almost certainly expelled in a Zionist orgy of mass murder, ethnic cleansing and genocide.
[For their deaths to express genuine poetic justice, they would have to been crushed by a Caterpillar bulldozer like Rachel Corrie.]
If Jewish racists want legitimate hatred and completely understandable reaction to Zionist criminality to cease, they should return what they stole and make full amends for the crimes Zionists have committed in the name of the false concept of the Jewish people.
There's no reason or compassion in the Zionists. They are liars and racists. As far as I'm concerned, the Jihads are fighting for me.
Martillo, is your wife a take it up the ass broad or is she the blow job type. Or both.
What a cute girl!
Newsflash – I am single! (pssst! Just don't tell my girlfriend :-)
Good story too – I always get a nice gooey feeling when I read about people who actually accomplish stuff – I took a coward's way out – I blog.
What a cute girl!
Newsflash – I am single! (pssst! Just don't tell my girlfriend :-)
Good story too – I always get a nice gooey feeling when I read about people who actually accomplish stuff – I took a coward's way out – I blog.
Ban SOG!
Enough of his vulgarity and racism.
It is a stain on this blog.
Ban SOG!
Enough of his vulgarity and racism.
It is a stain on this blog.
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