Headline in Haaretz: "IDF order will enable mass deportations from West Bank."
A new military order aimed at preventing infiltration will come into force this week, enabling the deportation of tens of thousands of Palestinians from the West Bank, or their indictment on charges carrying prison terms of up to seven years...
The new order defines anyone who enters the West Bank illegally as an infiltrator, as well as "a person who is present in the area and does not lawfully hold a permit." The order takes the original 1969 definition of infiltrator to the extreme, as the term originally applied only to those illegally staying in Israel after having passed through countries then classified as enemy states - Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon and Syria.
The order's language is both general and ambiguous, stipulating that the term infiltrator will also be applied to Palestinian residents of Jerusalem, citizens of countries with which Israel has friendly ties (such as the United States) and Israeli citizens, whether Arab or Jewish. All this depends on the judgment of Israel Defense Forces commanders in the field.
The new guidelines are expected to clamp down on protests in the West Bank.
Enforcing this diabolical ‘new law’ before the wide eyes of the world can only accelerate the dismantlement of the jewish Jim Crow state currently occupying the holy lands.
Will I weep when this happens?
No.
Will I dance naked in the street?
No.
But I will indeed feel truly sorry for the dark and criminal legacy they will leave their children to live with and suffer for many many generations to come.
Begs my question to the misguided jewish communities out there: was zionism really worth it?
Who says Israel in crisis? These oppositions are just popping up and vanishing through in the passage of time; because what will remain true are legal historical rights… this is the main reason no country no matter their global influence can never insist anything against Israel…
All the anti-Israel interests like the British Financial Times can do is to print blatant lies…to promote Demonization & Boycotts against Israel. This is expected from people like them.
“‘Who says Israel in crisis?”‘
Sure, Nazism was just fine until WWII came along with Zamaaz?
Zamaaz, Haaretz is an Israeli paper, reporting on Israel news. It isn’t a foreign newpaper and it isn’t printing lies.
“legal historical rights”–please clarify this, zamaaz. Thanks, much appreciated.
was zionism really worth it?
Absolutely!
ruth: was the final solution worth it, if zionism was the result?
Just asking, you know….
“Absolutelely!”
You mean your children and their children’s children deserve to suffer for your crimes against humanity? You bring them into the world so they can be your sacrificial lambs?
Honestly, I don’t believe you mean what you say, I’m sure you love your children (if you have any) more than life itself. So why not cut the crap and simply state that the jews are a strong people, that they can live with or without zionism, which is a truth you and I know very well.
You now how many millions died during the rise and fall of ancient empires? Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, and Romans from about 750 BC to 70 AD including the Israelite dead themselves? In the Bible all these happened just to give Israel a prophetic lesson, and undergo national spiritual cleansing… Now where is Zionism here? How about human rights here? I appears you are not even worthy either to know about this!
Are you equating Zionism to pre-medieval barbarism?
I can’t say I’m hard pressed to disagree with that comparison.
Looks like you’ve stumbled into this chat by mistake. The hebron fund bingo club is next door – better hurry they’re about to finish re-writing history and you’ve got about five minutes to get there and put your own personal version on the books.
Above goes out the party animal zamzam.
No, Taxi, zionists will not sacrifice their Isaacs on the altar; that’s what Iran’s children are for, “the unblemished ram, caught in the thicket.”
Was it worth it to create a Zuonist apartheid state Ruth? Is this the legacy you want to leave your children?
link to haaretz.com
IDF order will enable mass deportation from West Bank
Soon, and that day is approaching fast, Zionism will have been wiped out and Israel as we know it – the tyrannical, terrorist, colonial state that it is – will have changed into a state for all its citizens, with Jewish American pissants like you looking for their next project to drag themselves out of their trailer trash existence, as Israel is like a gang a juvenile delinquent would join to have a support system, however dysfunctional and criminal.
Absolutely? Only pros, no cons? Are you reading a comic book?
“was zionism really worth it?
Absolutely!”
Someone else celebrating the beginning of Israel’sfinsl solution for the Arabs.
“The new order defines anyone who enters the West Bank illegally as an infiltrator, as well as “a person who is present in the area and does not lawfully hold a permit”
Thus must be the mutual humanism and Witty was referring to.
Papers please!
A permit always assumes that some privilege may or may not be given. A right is not the same as a privilege. What is the criteria for distinguishing between a privileged person and an “infiltrator?”
It’s the anti-zionists and anti-semites that in crisis, Israel is growing.
Watch before your very eyes as we build up Jerusalem and expand beyond your wildest dreams in Hebron.
Watch.
We toppled Nazi Germany, we sure as hell can topple second-rate ethnic cleansers like you.
Small point of order: actually, Chaos, is was General Zhukov who toppled Nazi Germany, conquered Berlin, liberated the camps, and prepared the way for the Allies. Starting with his win at Stalingrad — the bloodiest battle in world history — he eventually commanded 5 million soldiers as he buried the Axis Powers, and forced the Germans into retreat. Hollywood would have you believe otherwise, but it’s bullshit. Zhukov moved his army across a minimum of three time zones repelling the Nazis from southwestern to northern Russia westward. No American General has done on the ground what he did in the short period of time he did it, or with such ferocity, strategy, or with his soldiers fighting on vodka fumes with cardboard for socks. Our smug view of ourselves doesn’t do us any favors when we are asking the Israelis to tell the truth about the Naqba. We owe the Russians our lives in WWII; had Hitler won against Zhukov, this world would have been wildly different after 1945.
OK, you’ve sort of got a point, though it’s not as if the Soviet Union wasn’t slaughtering Jews by the proverbial busload in their own right. And they were working with Nazi Germany until Hitler decided, in monumental stupidity, to start war on his eastern flank.
Actually, I think it was Ukrainians that the Soviet Union was slaughtering by the millions. And they weren’t working with the Nazis, they just reached a “gentlemen’s agreement” not to rush into war with each other, before either of them were ready for it.
Are you sure about this? We keep being told that the world did nothing about Hitler, so it’s obvious that the Soviets didn’t really make an effort.
They just sat under a harvest moon, drinking vodka, playing the balalaika, and singing popular songs, like “Seige of Leningrad Blues”, “I left my heart in Stalingrad. (And several other bits of me as well)”, and “Get me down to Kursk on time”.
“They just sat under a harvest moon, drinking vodka, playing the balalaika, and singing popular songs, like “Seige of Leningrad Blues”, “I left my heart in Stalingrad. (And several other bits of me as well)”, and “Get me down to Kursk on time”.”
Hey, that’s my schtick! Hands off! Oh well, maybe it’s for the best, as I have less and lesstime to read and comment at Mondoweiss.
WelL…actually…Chaos, no they weren’t. Here are two good articles that are keepers. Benjamin Schwarz’s op-ed in the LA times at the time of a major anniversary of D-Day In 2000 is an important correction of history; Schwarz is so damn smart, anyway.
link to commondreams.org
And Sever Plocker’s article on Stalin’s Jews:
link to ynet.co.il
Think of imitation as flattery, Mooser.
You’re not building anything. You’re sitting thousands of miles away in your living room jacking off to the violence that you support and enjoy. You’re a sadist nutjob.
Israel is growing, so are poisonous mushrooms. Be careful in the forest when picking your next meal. Some fungii are more nutricious than others.
They keep coming up with new shit. And if UNIX if is any indication, there is no hope for the palestinians.
Who says there is no hope for the Palestinians? All the hopes in this world are simply waiting for them to see…But it is guaranteed, nobody will ever see hope through the eyes of maddening hatred!
You’re the one who hates Palestinians. You’re the one making the case that their human rights can be denied.
And much more we will never see hope when our hearts are born blind…
“All the hopes in this world are simply waiting for them to see”
Just as long as they accept that hope within the confones of a prizon the saize of a postage stamp, otherwise, the future is so bright, they all gotta wear shades.
MADDENING HATRED? ARE YOU INSANE?
When families are ripped apart by this law, when lives are turned upside, when spouses are deported… you have the GALL to insinuate that Palestinians don’t have a real reason to hate the guts of every Israeli who sits slurping coffee in a coffee house while this horrors are being implemented?
“Tommorrow belongs to me!” See the film, Cabaret.
Not in getting any sort of peace, justice or equal rights from Israelis, at any rate.
This is an attempt to drive a permanent separation between Gaza and the West Bank. It is a significant move, as it imprints a revision in Israeli policy that applied the reasoning that the West Bank and Gaza were one territory.
This is an application of the logic that they are separated and will never unify.
The only remedy to this logic of separation of the two regions is for Hamas to reconcile with Fatah, otherwise the Israeli logic will be confirmed in action.
Its getting late.
“The only remedy to this logic of separation of the two regions is for Hamas to reconcile with Fatah, otherwise the Israeli logic will be confirmed in action.”
That’s right Witty, it’s all the fault of the Palestinians.
It’s gettign late. Isn’t it time you broke open the champagne and celebrated. An isolated Gaza is what you always wanted.
It is negligence of the Palestinians, specifically of Hamas.
If you don’t build a bridge, requiring learning bridge-building skills as prerequisite, you won’t get across the divide.
Its the question of goal vs complaint.
Do you desire that Palestinians actually self-govern, or just the self-convincing words of it?
Hamas is the result of continuing zionist expansion into Palestine coupled with the acute corruption of Fatah.
Hamas, like Hizbollah, are ‘new-ish’ participants in the conflict – birthed by Israeli racism and greed for land.
You could say that they are the bastard unwanted children of Isreal that Isreal is trying to fob-off onto the world.
The US and Israel have done all they can to keep Hamas and Fatah separate. It’s just another version of Machavellian divide and separate. Let’s hope the Palestinians see this; I think they do. The notion of “recognizing Israel’s right to exist” is a red herring designed to allow for continued settlement expansion. So sayeth Crazy Horse and Cochise.
Haaretz is an important publication in the world. Dissenters, Palestinian solidarity, liberals like myself, would have no reliable source of information in Israel or Palestine if it were not for Haaretz currently.
Today there are three important articles, that I see:
The one Phil referred to,
link to haaretz.com
Study: Anti-Semitism in Europe hit new high in 2009,
Rights group: Israel and Hamas have failed in Gaza war probes
link to haaretz.com
Well yeah, Witty, anti-Muslim in Europe hit new high in 2009. And yes, Israel and
Hamas both decline the right of each other to exist.
Yet they both exist. The nature of this existence, the character of it, is the issue–the only issue. The guy who killed Jeff Dahmer acted on his assumption Jeff had no right to exist. He ignored the state, who said he did–and US taxpayers would provide his bed and board, etc. And so?
A new military order aimed at preventing infiltration will come into force this week, enabling the deportation of tens of thousands of Palestinians from the West Bank, …
Deport them where? Not that this is any surprise for regular readers, but the Geneva Conventions, to which Israel is a signatory, prohibit transfer of population out of an occupied territory. Seizing someones residency permit, by hook or crook, and declaring them not part of the occupied population is still a clear violation. It is even more of a pathetic joke when the residency permits are issued by the occupying authority, and are not based on local records. It puts Israel’s persistent destruction of Palestinian civil archives into a new light.
Operation Destroy the Data
What Israel has done