And the following list was curated by the Israeli Embassy in Washington D.C.:
News
And the following list was curated by the Israeli Embassy in Washington D.C.:
I’m going to quote the piece in full that Joseph Dana retweets – it’s too good not to:
TEL AVIV: Following the death of former Israel prime minister Ariel Sharon – who has been in a coma since 2006 – plans for the 85-year-old’s state funeral have now been released.
According to arrangements made by the Israeli government, Sharon’s burial plot is set to displace over 15,000 Palestinians living in the West Bank. The plot, located on the outskirts of Hebron, will take over land lived and farmed by Arabs for at least four centuries and will be surrounded by a five-metre tall concrete wall with armed sentry posts on each corner. It will also be connected to Israel by a four-lane commemorative highway.
“It’s what he would have wanted,” said a source.
Ariel Sharon’s burial plot set to displace 15,000 Palestinians
I mean, I knew the guy was physically large but this breaks all records in Israel’s longstanding policy of implanting necro-colonial settlements inside Palestine. (Anyone seen the Mount of Olives recently?)
The comments at The Atlantic enshrine Sharon as a great warrior. Idolizing warriors is the worst possible development of the 21st century.
I would hope that you all realize that the item is nonsense, a lie. Sharon will be buried at his ranch, not far from Sderot.
Just so folks know, Sharon’s internment is planned for his Northern Negev Ranch, where his spouse is buried.