Palestinian Activists: Two Can Play the Settlement Game
A group of about 200 Palestinians have set up a small tent village – basically camping out – in the territory in East Jerusalem described by Israel as E1. They say they plan to start building a new Palestinian village there under the name Bab As-Shams.
These Palestinians and activists are basically saying: two can play at this settlement game.
First friday prayer in the newly created village of #BabAlShams #Palestine the village was created today near Za’I'm twitter.com/Tweet_Palestin…
— Tweet_Palestine (@Tweet_Palestine) January 11, 2013
Following the overwhelming UN vote for implicit recognition of Palestinian statehood in November, Israel authorized the construction of 3,000 more housing units in East Jerusalem and the West Bank and is also speeding up the processing of 1,000 additional planning permissions.
According to the New York Times, the bulk of the new housing units Israel has plans for are set to be built “in a controversial area of East Jerusalem known as E1, where Jewish settlements have long been seen as the death knell for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”
The settlement would connect Jerusalem and the illegal Jewish settlement of Maale Adumim, and “therefore make it impossible to connect the Palestinian cities of Ramallah and Bethlehem to Palestinian neighborhoods of East Jerusalem.”
Israel has issued an eviction notice to the Palestinian settlers, ordering them to evacuate their own land. Apparently, the Israelis don’t like it when Palestinians settle on land Israel thinks is its own.
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January 11th, 2013 at 10:52 am
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chill1184
January 11th, 2013 at 10:53 am
Give it a week before these people are accused of being terrorists and are brutalized.
Salim
January 11th, 2013 at 12:05 pm
I give them two days.
ubikwitus
January 11th, 2013 at 2:04 pm
Given a close haircut, dressed in black, with some jackboots, Brennan bears a striking resemblance to Heinrich Muller, head of the Gestapo.
Muller was never found after the war … maybe Brennan is his little boy.
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liberranter
January 12th, 2013 at 12:47 am
By the time I finish posting this, the IDF will probably have mowed them down in machine gun fire and burned their tents to ashes.
Augustbrhm
January 12th, 2013 at 3:07 am
The gestapo is a kindergarden compared to the CIA
travis
January 12th, 2013 at 3:24 am
Are you a Kikeroach or moshit?
the lion
January 12th, 2013 at 6:07 am
How Audacious, how dare they!
Congratulations on such a brilliant strategy, and while it will probably short lived, attention is drawn and in a non violent manner, at least by the settlers!
Jaime
January 12th, 2013 at 6:41 am
Why? Hasn't the IDF bulldozed Rachel Cory to death?
Jaime
January 12th, 2013 at 6:42 am
It's because the CIA is the Gestapo's favorite child?
michaelgaia
January 12th, 2013 at 7:31 am
a human society that is global,equatable without boundaries or borders is our only salvation as a single species that truly understands that we do not own this planet, we cannot parcel off sections to selflessly consume,we only own the breath you just took and it is the earth that owns you, not the other way around. One global, stateless, border-less,boundless human society is the goal we should all be working for…..WE are one race, We are one species,we are one planet…To divide it up and parcel it out as we do will only consume it all….Very stupid…Are we locust or human?
Simon
January 12th, 2013 at 11:27 am
Or shot in the head 9 people who's 'crime' was to try to bring building supplies to Gaza? Or, well, the list could go on and on and on. I repeatedly hear how the Palestinians should be non-violent like Ghandi. But when they are, the Israelis gun them down. I remember that peaceful protest at the start of the latest round of Gaza war crimes was met by IDF who killed two of the peaceful protesters.
Given Israel and its policies, its entirely appropriate to think that their response to this will be bloody and violent. And that your US tax dollars will pay for that.
Occupy
January 12th, 2013 at 11:30 am
Hmmm, anybody for a solidarity camp-out near an Israeli embassy/consulate?
Augustbrhm
January 12th, 2013 at 4:09 pm
america did the same with the native americans murdered,tortured,starved,cut the tongues of the buffalo so the indians will starve any atrocity the mind can conjure they did to wipe them fron the face of the earth.The zionist are doing to the Palestinians what america did to the Indians.
Rob
January 12th, 2013 at 4:53 pm
Down for one in LA
liberranter
January 12th, 2013 at 11:18 pm
It wouldn't be any fun to make it easy for you by answering that question directly. Go combing through my hundreds of posts on this site over the last few years and then reach your own conclusion based on the contents of said posts.
michaelhamrin
January 13th, 2013 at 4:04 am
I keep going back to what St. Augustine said in the 5th century "City of God": there are two forces in the world. One is to seek the best for another — that sentiment is from God. The other is to seek to dominate and defraud another — that is from Satan. This is a paraphrase, but this is still true today. The American Indian whackers and the Zionist rejectionist represent a principle and stance which must be entirely repudiated to gain the high ground. Let be about it, gang!