The New York Times today has an article on a new road in the West Bank for Israeli only use connecting the settlements to Jerusalem, while weaving around and above Palestinian communities who have no access, and furthermore live at the whim of a gate opened for them in the morning by the Israeli army.
The NYT mentioned the words "the beginning of legal Apartheid."
This is what the beginning looks like eh?
So then what is the term for the Birzeit University students who slept in the hills except to come to class for fear the soldiers would discover their Gaza ids and deport them to another part of their homeland?
What is the term for the 18,000 people in Dheishe refugee camp who lived throughout the 80s surrounded by a wall, with one revolving door going in and one going out, while the settlers near them lived with free access to Israel?
What is the term for the military rule placed only on the indigenous communities inside of Israel for decades? What is the term for the forbidding of travel for Palestinians with Israeli citizenship (or Israeli Arabs) to Jordan or Egypt, until the 90s?
What is the term for the requirement that students at some Israeli universities must have previous military service in order to live in the dormitories?
What is the term for people who live under occupation for over 40 years, and pay taxes to the occupying authority, and yet do not have any rights under that same authority?
What is the term for the home demolitions in East Jerusalem, when a family loses their home because they added a level for their children, and failed to obtain a permit that would cost more than the value of the house? What is the term for the Israeli settlers who build and confiscate around them with impunity?
What is the term for people being issued different color ids and license plates so as to determine whether they can enter another part of their own homeland?
What is the term for one customs building for Palestinians at Allenby Border Crossing, and a separate one for Israelis and all other foreigners?
What is the term for the denial of permits required from the Israeli authorities for a Palestinian to travel to Jordan, while an Israeli can simply go to the border and get a visa?
What is the term for women who give birth at checkpoints while occupying soldiers watch? What is the term for the Palestinian citizens of Israel who marry a Palestinian from the West Bank, and give birth at a checkpoint while waiting to enter Israel? What is the term for that child, who now must take a Palestinian id because their Israeli parent failed to give birth in Israel? What is the term for the Israeli settlers who live throughout historic Palestine and have full rights as Israeli citizens?
What is the term for these movement restrictions?
We would have to invent a new word.
Friday, March 28, 2008
The Beginning of Legal Apartheid?
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Emily's wannabe posts are getting annoying. Anyone with me?
No. I'm not. I actually think this was her best post yet.
And Emily. There's already a word for it. A word Israel uses all the time. A word and concept that Israel has perverted and exploited in order maintain it's "legal apartheid." That word is SECURITY.
Bullshit. I know.
Maybe the Palestinians should end the war.
the one that was forced on them by those who stole their land and kicked them out of their homes to build a state based on ethnic supremacy?
Why does it annoy you Anon 6:14? Does the dramatic nature of the truth bother you?
I thought was a really wonderful post.
I agree with Roy. I call on the Palestinians to promptly end the war by pulling their armed national army forces out of Israel and into Palestine, behind their internationally recognized borders. I further call on Palestine and the Palestinians to keep their army behind their borders and to no longer breach the border of Israel, then the war will be over. Once the Palestinians pull their troops out of Israel, the Palestinians will have no more contact with Israelis and both can live in peace.
Are the Palestinians as ignorant as you, Yasser, about how wars are ended? If so, we may have just had a breakthrough for peace: inform the morons that they have to negotiate terms of surrender.
They can settle where the borders will be henceforth, and agree to stop with the rockets and suicide bombers and the driving-the-Jews-into-the-sea nonsense.
And yeah, then Israel will not be able to use "security" as an excuse to make the peaceful Palestinian rocketeers and jihadists (of peace) miserable.
OK, I will revise my statement to be in line with your revised demand. I no longer call on the Palestinians to end the war by pulling their troops out of Israel, but now call on the Palestinians to...um, negotiate their surrender*. I also call on Palestinians to stop all driving of anyone into "The Sea", whether by car or truck or other method the Palestinians have been using to drive such people into "The Sea".
Then Israel will no longer steal your land, occupy your land, control your lives and deny you equal rights under its law (the same law you are subject to).
*Sorry Palestinians, I do not have additional information or guidlines/advice on how to achieve this negotiated surrender. I will wait until Roy provides us with such information.
What DOES "The Beginning of Legal Apartheid" mean?
The:
a) beginning of aparthied
b) end of illegal apartheid
c) beginning of NYT's acknowledgement of apartheid
Maybe the Palestinians should end the war
Maybe the occupying forces should go back to europe
anon 7:05, you're very enlightened. Perhaps you also agree that the Arabs should go back to Arabia? You should open a history book. It might help you become intelligent, friend.
"It might help you become intelligent, friend...."
Like those wonderful Zionist histories "From Time Immemorial" and the 1860s observations Mark Twain...?
Possibly the "history" you've been reading is f***ing racist nonsense....
Only Israel benefits from these endless Middle East wars. Iraq is the beginning. As we commit war-crimes in Baghdad, the US gov't commits treason at home by opening mail, eliminating habeas corpus, using the judiciary to steal private lands, banning books like America Deceived (book) from Amazon and Wikipedia, conducting warrantless wiretaps and engaging in illegal wars on behalf of AIPAC's 'money-men'. Soon, another US false-flag operation will occur (sinking of an Aircraft Carrier by Mossad) and the US will invade Iran.. Then we'll invade Syria, then Saudi Arabia, then Lebanon (again) then ....
All I want to say is the Palestinians will have justice. It will not be easy, but you will soon have the jews kneeling before you and asking for forgiveness. They will be forced by the hand of God and his Son, Jesus Christ, Lord of Lords and King of all Kings, who will soon return (after the false jewish anti-christ has it's short reign). Jesus will set his kingdom upon the land of Israel and show the jews the error of their ways.
They will spend many years correcting the mistakes they made or burn in hell. Know this my Palestinian friends, not all Christians are blinded by the sons of satan posing as jews. These gypsies are not true jews, but are the golden imps of the perverse lower life forms and jews by name only. They have fooled many Christians, but not all. The greatest threat to Christians right now are not Mulsims, but in fact are the zionist jews.
Maybe the occupying forces should go back to europe
They're not the ones whining about "apartheid". And how the mean old Zionists treat them.
Clue: when you're at war with somebody, they don't treat you nicely. You don't like it? End the war.
This is a tired old pattern:
Palestinians conduct acts of war against Israel.
Israel responds in warlike fashion.
Palestinians whine about how they're treated.
I say maybe they should end the war.
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