Israeli officials’ vow for a ‘heavy handed’ response to yesterday’s synagogue attack has begin, and as expected it was the average Palestinian civilian who was being targeted.
Israeli police set up checkpoints around Arab neighborhoods across occupied East Jerusalem, and Israel’s Navy announced a deal wherein they’ll be sending commandos to the city to “coordinate with police.”
The Israeli government also announced a plan to expand two settlements on the outskirts of Jerusalem with another 78 housing units. Israeli officials have been keen to expand settlements when trying to placate the nation’s far-right coalition members.
This may just be the start of a new round of crackdowns against the Palestinians, with Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon announcing that he is rolling back recent reforms aimed at lessening the burden of Palestinian civilians living under military rule.
The reforms centered on allowing Palestinians access to some previously Jewish-only roads. Ya’alon is also under pressure from Israel’s parliament to ban Palestinian drivers from even more roads, particularly in East Jerusalem.
Objections to genocide are met with more genocide. The murders in Jerusalem were criminal. The murders of two Palestinian children in the preceding days were criminal. The latter were 50% as bad as the former. The mass murders in Gaza this summer were criminal. The murders in Jerusalem were much less than 1% as evil as those in Jerusalem. The world should respond appropriately.
Why this cold metric? Because all humans have the same inalienable rights endowed by their Creator. That is the core of American values. The enemy of this ideal is Racism. The Israeli government is responding with Racism. America must stop supporting Zionist Racism, even in the hardest of cases.
A Jewish life in not more valuable than an Arab life, a Christian life or a Muslim life. This is the only possible foundation for a tranquil land between the Mediterranean and the Jordan. Racism, the policy of Israel, is a recipe for eternal war.
And "religion-driven" racism is a recipe for genocide – which is the only way to end a religious war.
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“Because all humans have the same inalienable rights endowed by their Creator”
Not so, for to reach the ultimate conclusion of society enriching itself upon the misery of those less educated, nature’s God has given up all his rights and not in the slightest does he intervene in the affairs of men.
For are we greater then our creator? And if a pacifist created for us such a harmless life, should we not in like manner show the world what being harmless is all about?
Zionists never have any intentions of being "nice" to the people they love to kill, degrade, and maim.
Some have asked how Israel manages to flout all international law and arrogantly distain all accepted norms of behavior and civilized behavior. The answer, of course, is that the last Super Power, the U.S., permits it, allows it, and has besmirched its honor forever by its cowardice and corruption.
Root cause of wars, poverty and human slavery
For an invader to punish the harmless prisoners who offer no resistance, in order to terrorize the few who rebel against the corruption of it, and for the international community to then sit silent without the slightest protest, and for no other reason then the invaders are looked upon with favor because their well to do, while their Palestine captives are regarded with contempt because they have been driven into poverty, surely this would expose the depths of degradation that the world must repent of before there can be an end to such human bondage.
To — William
Yes that does enlighten us as to how Israelis are enabled to terrorize the oil rich nations into trading Western war materials for oil, but you have yet to explain why millions upon millions in Israel are so willing and eager to risk life and limb fighting imperial wars of aggression for our corporate rich?
How about the fact that land plundered in time of war is twice as sweet as land earned in times of peace?