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CPT: "Army demolishes 11 structures in Hebron" Wednesday March 19, 2008 21:56 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC The Christian Peace Maker Teams (CPT), stationed in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, issued a report on Wednesday revealing that the Israeli military demolished 11 Palestinian structures in several villages in the Hebron area. The report indicated that nine of the demolished structures were homes and two were livestock enclosures. The demolishing acts took place in the villages of Qawawis, Imneizil, Ad Deirat and Um Lasafa. Also, residents of Al Tuwani area in Hebron are concerned that the army would demolish a mosque which was built in 2007 after the so-called Israeli Civil Administration Office issued an order to demolish the mosque in November 2007. The CPT reported that on November 26, 2007, an Israeli military jeep and a white pickup truck, belonging to the Israeli District Coordination Office (DCO), drove into the village of at-Tuwani and placed an order for the demolition of the village mosque. The army just placed the order on a stone near the mosque and drove away without talking to anyone. The mosque was originally built in 1978 and was demolished by the army in the same year although the villagers obtained a construction permit. It was rebuilt in 2006, and in 2007 the Israeli Authorities issued an order to stop the reconstruction of the mosque, such ordered are proceeded by actual demolishing of the structure. http://www.imemc.org/article/53590
New settlement construction will strangle Beit Safafa Latest News, Palestinian grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, March 15th, 2008 A spokesman from the District Committee for Planning and Housing revealed that 2,200 additional housing units for the East Jerusalem settlement Giv'at HaMatos had been approved two weeks ago. These make up the first phase of the planned 4,000 housing units that will be constructed with the aim of encircling the village of Beit Safafa with a settlement belt. Giv'at HaMatos settlement was founded in 1991 on land belonging to Beit Safafa and has since been moving further and further onto village land towards the Gilo settlement and the Hebron road. According to a report appearing on the website Arab 48, the area where the units are to be built is one of the widest uninhabited areas under the control of the Occupation authorities in Jerusalem. Around 40% of land is considered by the Occupation to be âstate landâ, 40% is privately owned by Palestinians and 20% is land previously confiscated by Zionists. In addition, the Occupation government decided last week to continue the construction of 750 housing units in the Givâat Zeâev settlement that is constructed on Palestinian land northwest of Jerusalem. At the same time, Occupation forces have destroyed more than 50 Palestinian homes in the past two and a half months following the Annapolis conference. http://stopthewall.org/latestnews/1623.shtml
Top Yesha rabbi says Jewish law forbids renting houses to Arabs By Nadav Shragai, Haaretz Correspondent The chairman of the Yesha rabbinical council and chief rabbi of Kiryat Arba, Rabbi Dov Lior, on Wednesday issued a halakhic ruling stating that it is forbidden by Jewish law to employ Arabs or rent homes to them. In an interview published by "Eretz Israel Shelanu" (Our Land of Israel), to be distributed this Saturday in various synagogues, Lior said that "since this is a matter of endangering souls, it is clear that it is completely forbidden to employ them and rent houses to them in Israel. Their employment is forbidden not only at yeshivas, but at factories, hotels and everywhere." In the interview, Rabbi Lior backed the decision made by the administration of the Mercaz Harav yeshiva in Jerusalem to prevent Prime Minister Ehud Olmert from visiting the school after an Israeli Arab terrorist killed eight students there two weeks ago. "How can you welcome a man who acts against our holy Torah and continues to lead the people of Israel toward great danger?" Lior said. Advertisement "They were right in refusing to welcome such a personality in the yeshiva's halls," he added. Rabbi Lior criticized the rabbis who didn't obey Rabbi Abraham Shapira, who instructed Jewish soldiers to refuse orders during the 2005 withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. "If the public had ignored the so-called "rabbis" who came out against these instructions, we may very well have spared the great pain [of the disengagement] from the people of Israel," he said. Recently, several rabbis led by Rabbi Lior have issued a precedent setting halakhic ruling that Israel must shoot civilian populations in areas from whence attacks on Jewish communities originate. Attorney Einat Horvitz from the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism said in response to the interview that "we view with great concern the wave of calls against Arabs since the terrible terror attack. This is an ever growing phenomenon of racist incitement that distorts Judaism and is also illegal. We call upon the attorney general to shake off his apathy and take action to enforce the laws that prohibit these calls." http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=966208&contrassID=1&subContrassID=7
WOW - 10 posts in a row! At least you appear to listen to your drivel! No one else does... That deserves 10 Zionizer Bunnies: STILL GOING!!!
Well, this is nothing. A couple of weeks ago he went berserk and made about 50 identical posts in a row in a matter of a couple of hours: Wael losing it and making 50 identical posts in a row
Actually Israel is and has always been willing to go back to the 1967 border (armistice line to be precise) or extremely close to it with some minor land swap. Of course Israel is willing to do it in exchange for peace and security guarantees, in full compliance with UN resolution 242. So far no takers. A unilateral withdrawal to the 1967 border would placate the arab/muslim world about as much as Israel's withdrawal from Gaza did.
Everyone would know that you are an idiot! If anything, I lured you into posting your garbage in the thread I wanted. Your friend here is even stupider than you are...If that is possible.
According to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)'s Weekly Report, during the week of 13 - 19 Mar. 2008, 4 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces. 12 Palestinians, including 3 children, a woman and a mentally disabled person, were wounded by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip, and 3 civilians, including 2 human rights defenders, were wounded by Israeli forces in the West Bank. Fuel crisis in Gaza PCHR Weekly Report: 4 Palestinians killed, 15 wounded by Israel Israeli attacks in the West Bank: Israeli forces conducted 44 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank. During those incursions, Israeli forces abducted 53 Palestinian civilians, including 3 children. Israeli forces raided and searched a number of cultural centers. 3 Palestinian civilians were abducted by Israeli forces at military checkpoints in the West Bank. Thus, the number of Palestinian civilians abducted by Israeli forces in the West Bank since the beginning of 2008 has mounted to 695. During the reported period, Israeli forces also raided and searched a number of cultural centers. In an example of the dozens of invasions this week, on 14 March, Israeli forces moved into the northern part of Hebron. They raided and searched a house belonging to âOmar âAbdul Qader Abu âEisha, 48, and abducted him. At approximately 00:30, Israeli forces moved into Qalqilya. They opened fire indiscriminately. They raided and searched dozens of houses looking for allegedly wanted Palestinians. No arrests were reported. Also on 14 March 2008, a Palestinian civilian was wounded by Israeli forces during an incursion into Tubas town. On the same day, 2 human rights defenders were wounded when Israeli forces used force to disperse a peaceful demonstration organized in Bilâin village, west of Ramallah, in protest of the construction of the Annexation Wall. On Tuesday, 18 March, Israeli forces moved into al-Faraâa refugee camp, south of Tubas. They stormed and searched the Disabled Rehabilitation Center, Womenâs Activities Center and Salah Khalf Center in the center of the camp, after blowing up their doors. Israeli troops confiscated a number of computer sets from the Disabled Rehabilitation Center. No arrests were reported. These are just a few examples of the 44 incursions made by the Israeli military into the West Bank this week. Israeli forces have continued to impose a tightened siege on the West Bank and imposed severe restrictions on the movement of Palestinian civilians in the West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem. On Tuesday evening, 18 March 2008, Israeli forces imposed a total closure on the Occupied Territories, which will continue until Sunday morning, 23 March 2008. Israeli Settler attacks: Israeli forces have continued settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property. During the reporting period, the Israeli daily Haâaretz reported that the Israeli government approved the construction of 2,200 housing unit in âGivat Hamatosâ settlement neighborhood in East Jerusalem. The Israeli Committee of Planning and Construction preliminarily approved the plan, whose final approval is expected to take two years. âGivat Hamatosâ settlement neighborhood was established in 1991 on the lands of the Palestinian Beit Safafa suburb. In addition, on 13 March 2008, Israeli settlers living in the center of Hebron attacked Cordoba Elementary School in al-Shuhada Street in the center of the town. They entered the garden of the school pointing their guns at the guards. They also demolished a wall and damaged a number of structures which are being built to expand the school. Israeli troops intervened later and violently beat a guard of the school who attempted to stop the settlers. Israeli Annexation Wall: Israeli forces have continued to construct the Annexation Wall inside West Bank territory. During the reporting period, Israeli forces used force against a peaceful demonstration organized by Palestinian civilians and international and Israeli human rights defenders in protest to the construction of the Wall in Bilâin village, west of Ramallah. Israeli troops fired rubber-coated metal bullets, sound bombs and tear gas canisters at the demonstrators. As a result, a Belgian human rights defender and an Israeli were wounded by rubber coated metal bullets; the former with an injury to the head and the latter to the leg. Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip: During the reporting period, Israeli forces killed 4 members of the Palestinian resistance in the Gaza Strip. They also wounded 15 Palestinians, including 4 children, a woman and a mentally disabled person. In the Gaza Strip, on 15 March 2008, Israeli forces killed 3 activists of the al-Quds Brigades (the armed wing of Islamic Jihad) in Gaza City. Israeli forces fired a surface-to-surface missile at the three activists. A woman and a child were also wounded. On the same day, Israeli forces killed a fighter of the Palestinian resistance and wounded another one seriously in Beit Lahia town in the northern Gaza Strip. An Israeli aircraft fired a missile at the two fighters. On 18 March 2008, Israeli forces attempted to extra-judicially execute 3 activists of the al-Quds Brigades in Beit Lahia town. The three activists and 6 civilian bystanders, including 2 children and a mentally disabled person, were wounded. Israeli forces have continued to close all border crossings of the Gaza Strip for more than one year and a half. The total siege imposed by Israeli forces on the Gaza Strip has left disastrous impacts on the humanitarian situation and has violated the economic and social rights of the nearly 1.5 million Palestinian civilian population, particularly the rights to appropriate living conditions, health and education. It has also paralyzed most economic sectors. Furthermore, severe restrictions have been imposed on the movement of the Palestinian civilian population. The siege imposed on the Gaza Strip has severely impacted the flow of food, medical supplies and other necessities such as fuel, construction materials and raw materials for various economic sectors. The closure of border crossings deprives the Palestinian civilian population in the Gaza Strip of their right to freedom of movement, education and health. Israeli forces have continued to impose severe restrictions on fishing in the Gaza Strip. Fishermen have been subjected to intensive monitoring by Israeli forces, which use helicopter gunships and gunboats to monitor the fishermen. The Oslo Accords allow Palestinian fishermen to go fishing up to 20 nautical miles away from the Gaza seashore. Recommendations to the International Community: Due to the number and severity of human rights violations in the occupied Palestinian territories by Israeli forces this week, the PCHR made a number of recommendations to the international community. One of the recommendations made by the PCHR is for international civil society, including human rights organizations, bar associations, unions and NGOs, to continue their role in pressuring their governments to secure Israel's respect for human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and to end its attacks on Palestinian civilians. The PCHR also called upon the international community to pressure Israel to lift the severe restrictions imposed by the Israeli government on access for international organizations to the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The PCHR reiterated in this week's report that any political settlement not based on international human rights law and humanitarian law cannot lead to a peaceful and just solution of the Palestinian question. Rather, such an arrangement can only lead to further suffering and instability in the region. Any peace agreement or process must be based on respect for international law, including international human rights and humanitarian law. Click on the link below to see the full report. http://www.imemc.org/article/53613