Israëls huidige oorlog tegen de Palestijnen: o.a. de etnische zuivering van Oost-Jeruzalem

Posted on December 6, 2018June 14, 2024 by Willem Wachtmeester

Bij zijn
bezoek aan Israël vorige week, opende de Tsjechische president Miloš Zeman, net buiten de oude stadsmuren van Jeruzalem, een cultureel centrum dat tevens fungeert als handelscentrum….. Bij de opening stelde Zeman dat hij
hoopte dat dit de voorloper is van een Tsjechische ambassade in
Jeruzalem, daarmee zou Tsjechië het eerste Europese land zijn dat een
ambassade in Jeruzalem heeft……..

Intussen
is Israël niet alleen bezig met de voorbereiding van een inval in
Libanon, of met de oorlog tegen de ongewapende Palestijnse
demonstranten in de Gazastrook, waar het dodental de 220 intussen is
gepasseerd (naast rond de 20.000 gewonden….), maar is het ook met
een zuiveringsoorlog bezig in Oost-Jeruzalem……

Zo heeft
het Israëlische hooggerechtshof* 700
Palestijnen opgedragen de dichtbevolkte buurt Silwan te verlaten,
ofwel hun huis te verlaten en elders hun ‘heil’ te zoeken……. Deze
buurt in het Oosten van Jeruzalem, ligt op een heuvel naast die waar
de Al-Aqsamoskee staat.

Lees het
volgende artikel van Jonathan Cook, eerder gepubliceerd op
CounterPunch en verbaas je net als ik over het feit dat Israël
ongestraft massamoorden en etnische zuiveringen kan uitvoeren,
zonder dat de wereld ingrijpt…….. Daarover gesproken: logisch
dat veel moslimjongeren zich het grote onrecht (gepaard gaand met de ene na de andere massamoord) dat de Palestijnen wordt aangedaan wel aantrekken (zich over
onrecht kwaad maken is vooral bij jongeren nog latent aanwezig)……

Het voorgaande geldt zeker als je ziet dat de fascistische apartheidsstaat Israël alles kan flikken zonder ook
maar één keer echt met maatregelen te maken te krijgen, die het
bloedige beleid van de Israëlische regering bemoeilijken, zoals sancties en/of een boycot, laat staan
dat men ingrijpt met blauwhelmen…..

Als
Assad, of een andere niet VS vriendelijke regering, de helft had
geflikt van wat Israël flikt, waren de rapen al lang gaar geweest in
het westen……….

DECEMBER
5, 2018

Israel’s
New War of Attrition on Jerusalem’s Palestinians

by JONATHAN
COOK

Photo
Source Hudson Institute | CC
BY 2.0

Czech
president Milos Zeman offered Benjamin Netanyahu’s
ultra-nationalist government a fillip during his visit to Israel last
week. He inaugurated a cultural and trade centre, Czech House, just
outside Jerusalem’s Old City walls.

At
the opening, he expressed hope it would serve as a precursor to his
country relocating its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. If so, the
Czech Republic would become the first European state to follow US
President Donald Trump’s lead in moving the US embassy in May.

It
is this kind of endorsement that, of late, has emboldened Mr
Netanyahu’s government, the Israeli courts, Jerusalem officials and
settler organisations to step up their combined assault on
Palestinians in the Old City and its surrounding neighbourhoods.

Israel
has never hidden its ambition to seize control of East Jerusalem,
Palestinian territory it occupied in 1967 and then annexed, as a way
of preventing a viable Palestinian state from emerging.

Israel
immediately began building an arc of Jewish settlements on
Jerusalem’s eastern flank to seal off its Palestinian residents
from their political hinterland, the West Bank.

More
than a decade ago, it consolidated its domination with a mammoth
concrete wall that cut through East Jerusalem. The aim was to seal
off densely populated Palestinian neighbourhoods on the far side,
ensuring the most prized and vulnerable areas – the Old City and
its environs – could be more easily colonised, or “Judaised”,
as Israel terms it.

This
area, the heart of Jerusalem, is where magnificent holy places such
as the Al Aqsa mosque and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre are to be
found.

Under
cover of the 1967 war, Israel ethnically cleansed many hundreds of
Palestinians living near the Western Wall, a retaining wall of the
elevated Al Aqsa compound that is venerated in Judaism. Since then,
Israeli leaders have grown ever hungrier for control of the compound
itself, which they believe is built over two long-lost Jewish
temples.

Israel
has forced the compound’s Muslim authorities to allow Jews to visit
in record numbers, even though most wish to see the mosque replaced
with a third Jewish temple. Meanwhile, Israel has severely limited
the numbers of Palestinians who can reach the holy site.

Until
now, Israel had mostly moved with stealth, making changes gradually
so they rarely risked inflaming the Arab world or provoking western
reaction. But after Mr Trump’s embassy move, a new Israeli
confidence is tangible.

On
four fronts, Israel has demonstrated its assertive new mood. First,
with the help of ever-more compliant Israeli courts, it has
intensified efforts to evict Palestinians from their homes in the Old
City and just outside its historic walls.

Last
month, the supreme court handed down a ruling that sanctions the
eviction of 700 Palestinians from Silwan, a dense neighbourhood on a
hillside below Al Aqsa. Ateret Cohanim, a settler organisation backed
by government-subsidised armed guards, is now poised to take over the
centre of Silwan.

It
will mean more Israeli security and police protecting the settler
population and more city officials enforcing prejudicial planning
rules against Palestinians. The inevitable protests will justify more
arrests of Palestinians, including children. This is how bureacratic
ethnic cleansing works.

The
supreme court also rejected an appeal against a Palestinian family’s
eviction from Sheikh Jarrah, another key neighbourhood near the Old
City. The decision opens the way to expelling dozens more families.

B’Tselem,
an Israeli rights group, characterised these rulings as “sanctioning
the broadest move to dispossess Palestinians since 1967”.

At
the same time, Israel’s parliament approved a law to accelerate the
settler takeover.

Over
many years, Israel created a series of national parks around the Old
City on the pretext of preserving “green areas”. Some hem in
Palestinian neighbourhoods to stop their expansion while others were
declared on the land of existing Palestinian homes to justify
expelling the occupants.

Now
the parliament has reversed course. The new law, drafted by another
settler group, Elad, will allow house-building in national parks, but
only for Jews.

Elad’s
immediate aim is to bolster the settler presence in Silwan, where it
has overseen a national park next to Al Aqsa. Archaeology has been
co-opted to supposedly prove the area was once ruled by King David
while thousands of years of subsequent history, most especially the
current Palestinian presence, are erased.

Elad’s
activities include excavating under Palestinian homes, weakening
their foundations.

A
massive new Jewish history-themed visitor centre will dominate
Silwan’s entrance. Completing the project is a $55 million cable
car, designed to carry thousands of tourists an hour over Silwan and
other neighbourhoods, rendering the Palestinian inhabitants invisible
as visitors are delivered effortlessly to the Western Wall without
ever having to encounter them.

The
settlers have their own underhand methods. With the authorities’
connivance, they have forged documents to seize Palestinian homes
closest to Al Aqsa. In other cases, the settlers have recruited Arab
collaborators to dupe other Palestinians into selling their homes.

Once
they gain a foothold, the settlers typically turn the appropriated
home into an armed compound. Noise blares out into the early hours,
Palestinian neighbours are subjected to regular police raids and
excrement is left in their doorways.

After
the recent sale to settlers of a home strategically located in the
Old City’s Muslim quarter, the Palestinian Authority set up a
commission of inquiry to investigate. But the PA is near-powerless to
stop this looting after Israel passed a law in 1995 denying it any
role in Jerusalem.

The
same measure is now being vigorously enforced against the few
residents trying to stop the settler banditry.

Adnan
Ghaith, Jerusalem’s governor and a Silwan resident, was arrested
last week for a second time and banned from entering the West Bank
and meeting PA officials. Adnan Husseini, the Palestinian minister
for Jerusalem, is under a six-month travel ban by Israel.

Last
week dozens of Palestinians were arrested in Jerusalem, accused of
working for the PA to stop house sales to the settlers.

It
is a quiet campaign of attrition, designed to wear down Jerusalem’s
Palestinian residents. The hope is that they will eventually despair
and relocate to the city’s distant suburbs outside the wall or into
the West Bank.

What
Palestinians in Jerusalem urgently need is a reason for hope – and
a clear signal that other countries will not join the US in
abandoning them.

A
version of this article first appeared in the National, Abu Dhabi.

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Israël geeft vergunning af: 3.000 extra huizen voor illegale nederzettingen en ‘ontruimt’ 1 ‘illegale’ nederzetting

Posted on February 2, 2017June 14, 2024 by Willem Wachtmeester

In het BBC World Service (propaganda) radionieuws van 1.30 u. (CET) gisteren het bericht dat Israël toestemming heeft gegeven voor de bouw van 3.000 extra huizen bij de illegale nederzettingen op de West Bank

In hetzelfde bericht vertelde de nieuwslezer, dat Israël één ‘illegale’ illegale nederzetting heeft ontmanteld….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Dat soort nederzettingen bestaat voor het overgrote deel uit één caravan en een paar auto’s van fascistische zionisten, zeg maar het meest fanatieke geteisem dat er in Israël rondloopt…….. U snapt ‘t al, die laatste toevoeging werd niet in het BBC bericht gemeld…….

Op dezelfde dag bracht Stan van Houcke een bericht, middels een brief gericht aan zijn adres, o.a. over de toestand in Oost-Jeruzalem, waar Palestijnen de ene na de andere aanzegging van de illegale Israëlische autoriteiten krijgen, dat hun huis zal worden gesloopt, dit daar het illegaal gebouwd zou zijn…….. Zoals u al kon lezen, maar toch nog maar opgemerkt: een illegale autoriteit, daar oost-Jeruzalem onder Palestijns beheer valt*, een autoriteit die de rechtmatige bewoners van een stad vertelt, dat ze op moeten zouten. E.e.a. zou de reactie van Israël zijn op een aanslag van een Palestijn op Israëlische soldaten, deze Palestijn kwam uit Oost-Jeruzalem…….. Overigens een manier van handelen, die werd ontwikkeld door de SS……..

Een beschrijving van schokkende Israëlische terreur >> bericht van Stan van Houcke:

Brave B'Tselem

Dear Stan,

Last
month, the Jerusalem
Municipality notified some
40 families from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabal al-Mukabber
that it had begun proceedings to demolish their homes, on the grounds
that they were built without permits. Since then, dozens of families
have received similar notices. This vindictive action – in response
to an attack committed by a resident of the neighborhood who killed
four soldiers and injured 13 others – forms part of the
municipality’s broader policy toward residents of East Jerusalem, a
policy of constant harassment in place of fairness and basic
municipal services. Obtaining a permit to build a home in the
Palestinian neighborhoods of East Jerusalem is a near impossible
task.

In
the Batan al-Hawa neighborhood of Silwan, also in East Jerusalem,
Palestinian suffering is doubled. In addition to longstanding neglect
by the municipality, the area is currently the site of the
largest expropriation
campaign in
East Jerusalem. With the help of government ministries and the
municipality, the Ateret Cohanim association has filed eviction suits
against 81 Palestinian families who have lived in the neighborhood
for decades. Settlers have already seized control of 27 housing
units, most of which had been home to Palestinian families. Last
month we published regular updates on
the unbearable reality of life that residents of the neighborhood
have been subjected to due to the presence of settlers, who are
accompanied by police and Border Police forces, as well as
state-funded private guards.

These
are just two examples of what is happening now in occupied, annexed
East Jerusalem. In these and other cases, Israel is working to impose
its control and to harass and expel Palestinian residents of the
city. These efforts are relentless. All arms of the state – the
Jerusalem Municipality, the police, the State Attorney’s Office,
and the courts – are complicit in this shameful process of
expropriation. All of us share the obligation to change this reality.

Israel destroying Gaza’s fishing sector

Fishing
in Gaza has drastically declined due to Israel’s harsh restrictions
on access to sea, exporting catch, and importing raw materials. Of
only 4,000 registered fishermen, half are out of work as their boats
cannot be repaired. Those
that work risk being fired at and arrested by the Israeli navy, and
having their boats confiscated.

Deir Nizam: 2 months of collective punishment after fire in nearby settlement

In
late November, a fire broke out near the Halamish settlement,
apparently due to arson. Since then, the
military has collectively punished nearby Palestinian village Deir
Nizam, although its residents were accused of no wrongdoing.
The village was placed under a 3-day unofficial closure and movement
in and out of it is restricted with roadblocks and patrols.

Israeli security forces shoot and kill 17-year-old fleeing from them

In
December, Israeli security forces killed Ahmad Hazem ‘Ata Zidani
(a-Rimawi), 17, and injured N.R., 25, during a raid in the village of
Beit Rima near Ramallah. CCTV
footage and
B’Tselem’s investigation indicate that while the two had thrown
stones, they were not endangering the forces when shot and the
firing was unjustified.

Not only Umm al-Hiran: Israel continues to demolish homes in Jordan Valley shepherd communities

Last
year saw a massive spate of demolitions in dozens of the poorest,
most underprivileged Palestinian communities in the West Bank. Israel
appears to be continuing this policy unabated in 2017:23
jan: 13 people, incl. six minors, left homeless in ‘Ein
Karzaliyah.3
Jan.: 29 people, incl. 15 minors, left homeless in Khirbet Tana.2
Jan.: 78 people, incl. 58 minors, left homeless in Wadi Esneisel and
Bir al-Maskub, north of the Ma’ale Adumim settlement.The
aim of these actions is to expel Palestinians from areas that Israel
wishes to control, facilitating their annexation in future. Read more
on B’Tselem’s special blog, Facing
Expulsion.

Israel cannot shirk responsibility for Gaza electricity crisis

In
January, a financial dispute between the PA and Hamas heightened
Gaza’s electricity crisis, and more than 1.5 million residents had
power for just 3-4 hours a day. The issue was temporarily resolved,
but Gazans continue to suffer severe power shortages for
which Israel is directly responsible.

Military shoots non-dangerous teen, fails to inform parents of his whereabouts, shackles him in hospital

On
10 November, soldiers shot A.Z., 15, after he threw a stone at their
fortified watchtower and began removing sandbags placed there. The
military took him to hospital in Israel without informing his
parents, where
he was held under military guard for four days.

B’Tselem in the media

The
Washington Post: Israeli settlements grew on Obama’s watch.
They may be poised for a boom on Trump’s.

Ynet: B’Tselem
ensuring that we don’t lose our humanity

+972:
It didn’t have to be this way in East Jerusalem’s Silwan

* Waar opgemerkt moet worden, dat Israël in feite niets te zoeken heeft in Jeruzalem, ook het overige deel van Jeruzalem is in feite illegaal bezet door Israël……..

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Israel’s New War of Attrition on Jerusalem’s Palestinians

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Israel’s
New War of Attrition on Jerusalem’s Palestinians