The following is a shocking video from Nabi Saleh, a Palestinian village of 500 residents located north of Ramallah. The village has been engaged in growing demonstrations during the past few weeks to protest the illegal seizure of valuable agricultural land by the Hallamish (Neve Tzuf) settlement. Settlers have also recently uprooted of hundreds of the village’s olive trees.You can find more on the recent protests in Nabi Saleh at Ibn Ezra.
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Can’t stand these stories. So upsetting to see blatant colonization going on amidst all the hasbara.
I wonder how the Hasbara-niks are going to attempt to justify this blatant theft.
On a related note, the Jewish society at my university is holding a talk next week about ‘Why a boycott against Israel is an absurd idea’, with Ishmael Khalidi as their guest of honour. It just happens to coincide with a week of Gaza memorial events held by the Palestine Solidarity Group – very late I know, but what can you do if you have exams?
I was wondering if anyone has any material on the difficulties faced by Palestinian academics as a result of the occupation. I remember someone posting a piece but forgot to save it. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
So I looked up Ishmael Khalidi. He’s a Bedouin. Served in the Israeli Border Police and the IDF too (I think).
Seems like a PR dream for Israel.
link to gogalil.com
Folksy! And it gets even better!
Gee whiz. I guess we had it wrong about Israel. According to this Bedouin, everything’s fine. I wonder what details he could provide about Jewish-Bedouin relations. Not individuals, but the whole history.
I wonder if he focuses on generalized statements about minority rights (in a favorable context) and then switches to personal experience (favorable context).
If one were to counter him, with reports and statistics from minority rights groups and just historical analysis – what would he say?
The rhetoric he uses is standard amongst Zionists: ‘the State of Israel’ [the Land of Israel], or the lame brotherly-love bit he does about Jewish-Arab [Zionist-Arab] cooperation.
So the Zionist group on your campus trots out this poodle so they can further indoctrinate themselves?
Isn’t he superfluous within the context of Israeli PR? At this point, who would be so idiotic and gullible to fall for this circus act?
He’s an uncle tom. The Israelis have been using him as PR for quite some time. The only issue they have with him is that he is easily debunked.
Zionuts think if they can find one or two “Arabs” who praise Israel, then all the other millions of “Arabs” must be lieng.
Thus Palestinian anger towards Israelis is merely “anti-semitism.”
I have a friend who was in the army and was stationed in the M.E. One time they had a very badly injured Bedouin in their helicopter and they were trying to get him to an Israeli hospital. The hospital kept asking over the radio communication what type of person the injured man was. When the hospital found out he was a Bedouin they said “then you can’t bring him here.” The Bedouin man died.
What happened to all that Jewish-Bedouin co-dreaming of a Jewish State?
I wonder who the Zionists are trying to indoctrinate these days. You have to be dumb as hell to believe their PR.
shafig, check out the adam’s post on this blog preceding this one
The excerpt below tells one of those stories. Terry Boullata is the principal of an elementary school in Abu Dis, a neighborhood in East Jerusalem that has been bisected by the Wall. The excerpt discusses how the Wall has impacted the school Boullata runs, and how it divides and disrupts the Palestinian families that end up in its path.
link to jewssansfrontieres.blogspot.com
and of course, link to
Stunning piece of raw video. Amazing to watch teenaged IDF thugs smacking and kicking the civilian Palestinian women amidst the tear gas. Our $3 billion is US taxpayer dollars, hard at work to perpetuate Middle East apartheid.
What, the US A supporting Jewish rascism?
There is no such thing as Jewish racism, and anyone who says there is such a thing is, ipso facto, an anti-Semite or a self-hater.
Or both.
And don’t argue. If you do, it proves that you are an anti-Semite or a self hater.
You probably are, anyway.
Despicable.
So when is Dennis Ross and the HACKS and LIARS in Washington going to tell that serial killer Netanyahu to “stop using violence”, like they often say to the Palestinians? Any time soon?
Dennis Ross will continue to lie just like he did in his book about the “peace negotiations,” and George Mitchell will continue to act like he is trying to “do something.” It is all a big joke in Washington, and they are laughing at anyone who takes their activities seriously, and anyone who dies is a fool.
Rather – “and anyone who does is a fool.”
ma’an today: they arrested another peace activist abducted
spokesman for the Palestine Solidarity Project Mohammad Awad identified those detained as Hussein Ibrahim, 17, Issa Mohammad Issa Awad, 21, and Muhanad Khaled Abu Awad, 20.
i just recieved the following in my inbox
American drones used to kill Pakistani civilians should be diverted to Nabi Saleh to protect the villagers of Nabi Saleh.
Incidentally, the Israelis themselves use UAVs, and have used them in Gaza at least. I’m not sure if they’re American-made UAVs, or merely designs which were bought and/or pilfered from us.
know they enemy:
link to israeli-weapons.com
the US uses Israeli UAVs.
Drones will be used to observe traffic violations in United Kingdom. How long before missiles will be fired for parking in a wrong spot?
Strange the Hasbara folks disappeared! Witty, Yonira and co Where the hell are you?
Cowardice is a Zionist’s best friend. If you see Witty, Yonira or anyone else on this thread it will be to do one of three things: A) deny the evidence outright, in spite of the fact that we can see it (the “Jewish Holocaust denial syndrome” as I’ve come to call it); B) divert attention with non-sequiters or personal attacks, or C) all of the above.
Hey Chaos, did you read this? link to warincontext.org
an Israeli newspaper saying “Haiti Disaster is good for the Jews”
It makes me so sad to see this violation of people’s humanity and victimizing them on their own land. These are the types of video I watch and then wonder how anyone cannot understand Palestinian suffering and can think Israel is a lovely democracy that needs the occupation for “security”.
Gosh, I was hoping Witty, Rosen and the rest would ‘splain it to us.
Oh never mind, it’s Saturday. That must be it.
Tell that to the Bedouin former IDF/Border Cop! He loves Israel!
Move along folks. Nothing to see here!
Has Mondoweiss noted the $11 million payments Israel is paying the UN for damages to the UN building in Gaza?
Fear makes Israel adhere to common decency, never mind international law, fear of a lawsuit after targeting and destroying more than three UN schools in Gaza and a warehouse full of UN humanitarian aid. But, don’t worry, Tel Aviv will find away to make the UN pay that sum back, one way or another. Heck, they don’t even have to try hard, just accuse the UN of being anti-Semitic and it’s as good as a done deal.
/Cynicism off
Avi, I haven’t had time to peruse the articles on this payment, but I believe the one I read said that this payment represents something new for Israel, and an admission of responsibility which may be critical for others seeking accountability from Israel for its actions. So even tho amount is not huge, and the payment goes to the UN, not the Gazans, this may be significant, and that’s why I brought it up.
The payment may be the beginning in a more positive trend in getting accountability from Israel.
I took a quick search on Mondoweiss to see if it was posted, didn’t see it, and thought I would mention it.
I hope it’s the start of increased accountability for the Israeli regime.
“Results 1 – 20 of about 3,490,000 for Israel pay damages Gaza. (0.26 seconds).” Mooser, that is some pretty cheap PR, you cannot buy good PR for that amount of money these days.
It’s not cheap PR, but rather quite “in line” with Phil’s focus. Watch out for little signs of change.
Yes, it is not huge, but as Mooser says it is a start. We have all been watching the immense destruction both in Lebanon and Gaza for quite some time now. … An important part of the larger tale, predominance of air force attacks to save the live of soldiers on the ground. After all they are fathers, sons, daughters, neighbors, and dead soldiers are a sensitive issue in Israel. In effect you bomb countries back a couple of decades and then point fingers at them: Look they are so unable to build up structures, institutions, a functioning economy …
Consider the larger context. Consider the not yet quite restored image of the IDF, in this context this indeed may be important.
in this context this indeed may be important.
wiggle space for saner minds in Israel.
And to close the circle.
Concerning the occupied territories. Doesn’t war always work to distract attention, keep the world’s public mind on the central “iron wall line”: Israel is surrounded by a sea of enemies. In this context war and PR go hand in hand.
LeaNder, I will believe it when we start to see this happening multiple times for the past massacres, and when it starts to show compassion for humanity. This is nothing but a PR ploy as far as I am concerned, you can think the beast is changing if you like, but I will not with the attended escalation of who is in power, and the 90 plus percent of Israelis who put them there. When they pay reparations for the two Qana’s, than we might have some real change taking place, until than it is PR, just like a Palestinian child is taken to an Israeli hospital with the cameras rolling
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In the meantime the money is paid to the UN, and this to show that Israel is supposed to be some responsible member of the international community. If not anything else it is a mere side bet and token just in case things heat up when Israel is asked for their report, which will be filled with the “bad apple” line in regard to some of its soldiers.
Originally Israel denied it did anything wrong and called the UN report biased (a la Goldstone report treatment). For some reason the full very damning 194 page report was never published, just a cleaned-up summary.
link to guardian.co.uk
That one-time 11 million seems absurdly low compensation considering the damage and death suffered.
The after the UN report came out last May, an Israeli spokesman calculated
the damages @ 11 million–so it took 8 months for Israel to pay the UN 10.5 million for damage to UN buildings during the Gaza Turkey Shoot?
link to theaustralian.com.au
Yes, Mooser’s right–this is the first time anyone is getting compensation for suffering or damage during the Gaza Turkey Shoot. Israel is not admitting
any criminal responsibility, is recognizing some collateral damage–trying to soften up the UN and any follow up there to the Goldstone Report:
link to online.wsj.com
Israel has said it has already found a few bad apple soldiers from its own investigation based on the Goldstone Report (which it dismisses as biased).
On another note; isn’t it interesting how Obama talks as if Hamas and Israel
are equally powerful, and as if we do not do all we can to kill off popylarly elected Hamas while we simultaneously send constant blank welfare checks to Israel? Were Obama and crew really as ignorant as Obama claims here during the timeline leading up to his Cairo speech? Was, is Mitchell? Rahm?
link to time.com
“LeaNder, I will believe it when we start to see this happening multiple times for the past massacres, and when it starts to show compassion for humanity”.
Although the Israelis could change any day they decide to do so, no one is depending on their compassion, that is not why the payment is significant. It’s significant because it is a judgement against Israel, and Israel has decided to pay it. It could be a precedent.
If you are waiting for Israel to change, I wish you excellent health and longevity. On the other hand, if some of the rest of the world, for a change puts real pressure on Israel (if only in the world’s self-interest) Israel will have to change, quick, they are strictly a dependency.
In any case, I wish you health and longevity. What could it hurt?
Actually, Goldstone does the same thing by not even giving an introductory general context to his report, that is, by saying absolutely nothing about the 43 year Israeli occupation. We won’t even mention the whole history of the area from 1880 to 1967. It’s like a history channel show parsing Custer’s Last Stand, Wounded Knee, or The Alamo–without any historical context. Imagine if not only the Goldstone Report, but it’s historical cotext, was dumped in the laps of America’s couch potatoes–lots of Americans have no jobs; they’d have the time to watch….
Maybe it was paid off so the UN wouldn’t mind slacking off on fully pursuing
the Goldstone Report? Who at the UN decided to not even publish the full
UN report, but simply give out a whitewashed summary?
Actually, Goldstone does the same thing by not even giving an introductory general context to his report, that is, by saying absolutely nothing about the 43 year Israeli occupation. We won’t even mention the whole history of the area from 1880 to 1967. It’s like a history channel show parsing Custer’s Last Stand, Wounded Knee, or The Alamo–without any historical context. Imagine if not only the Goldstone Report, but it’s historical cotext, was dumped in the laps of America’s couch potatoes–lots of Americans have no jobs; they’d have the time to watch….
Thanks everyone for the links, much appreciated!
It’s one thing to read about this sort of thing, but to actually watch it happen just hits you on a visceral level. It’s infuriating that my tax dollars support this.
The Israelis allowed this to be filmed by several people and just don’t care. Don’t they at least care about their image enough to keep this sort of thing under wraps?
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