November 3, 2009 at 11:28 am (DesertPeace Editorial, Ethnic Cleansing, Home Demolitions, Illegal Evictions, Illegal Settlements, Israel, Occupation, Palestine, Settler Violence, zionist harassment)
Image by Ismael Shammout
Meanwhile, in the in As-Salam neighborhood in East Jerusalem, bulldozers demolished a 60 square meter house owned by Khamis At-Tahhan, which housed nine members of his family.
Residents say Israel has demolished the same house twice before, also citing a lack of building permits, but the owner continues to re-build in defiance of the discriminatory laws.
Evicted Sheikh Jarrah families demonstrate outside of US consulate
On Monday 2 November 2009 between 11 and 12am, a quiet demonstration was held outside the USA consulate in East Jerusalem, close to the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood. Coinciding with USA foreign secretary Hillary Clinton’s visit to Israel, the demonstration asked for the USA to apply more pressure on Israel and stop the home confiscations and evictions of Palestinian families in Sheikh Jarrah.
The demonstration gathered about 30-40 demonstrators and was covered by a number of press reporters. In addition to Sheikh Jarrah families, participant organizations included Ta’ayush, Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, International Solidarity Movement, Michigan Peace Team, and Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel. A police vehicle with heavily armed police officers arrived after five minutes and maintained a peripheral position for the remainder of the demonstration.
And where was Hillary? She was too busy pulling the plug on the ‘peace process’ to concern herself with the realities of the region. She will report back to her administration that Israel is right and Palestine is wrong. She will have overlooked the fact that the very settlers that have been replacing the evicted Palestinians are in one way or another connected to the murderer that was arrested earlier in the week. She will overlook the fact that these settlers are associated with the outlawed kach movement, an organisation listed as a terrorist organisation in the United States. The logic seems to be that it is better to have a Jewish terrorist (or potential one) occupy the Occupied Territories than make way for the establishment of a Palestinian State. How sick is that? BUT…. that is what is happening.
Americans will continue reading about ‘Islamic terror’ in their press…. they will not see the truth about the zioterror that is taking over Israel, slowly but surely. The blinders they wear will shield them from the truth, but the truth will get out there and THE TRUTH SHALL SET US FREE!
Related post….. read HERE about the latest incidents.
Tens of Jewish settlers break into, occupy home of 83-year-old Palestinian woman
[ 03/11/2009 - 02:21 PM ]
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Tens of armed Jewish settlers on Tuesday stormed and occupied the home of 83-year-old Rifka Al-Kurd in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in the heart of occupied Jerusalem.
The PIC reporter said that about 60 settlers broke into the house under the threat of guns and with Israeli police protection and settled in it despite an Israeli court order banning them access into this part of the house.
Kurd's family is one of 28 Palestinian families in Sheikh Jarrah suburb threatened with displacement after Jewish fanatic groups claimed that their homes were built on lands owned by these groups.
The report said that Kurd's home was repeatedly stormed by those groups but this time they came to stay.
The Israeli occupation authority controlled municipality of Jerusalem ordered closure of this particular section of the house at the pretext that it was built without permit.
Tension is running high in the neighborhood after the settlers refused to evacuate the house while Israeli police were barring its owners from reaching it.
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