Israeli officials today announced that they are seizing privately-owned Palestinian land in occupied East Jerusalem, expelling 120 Bedouin civilians living in an encampment there, and turning the whole place into a landfill.
It’s even worse than it sounds. Not only did the planning committee decide to literally expel Palestinian civilians from occupied territory for a place to put construction waste, but they chose territory which will put this huge landfill right on the outskirts of several major Palestinian neighborhoods, including the Shoafat refugee camp.
Even more galling, the official plan is to fill up the landfill then create a park over the top of it, but it will be inaccessible to the nearby Palestinians, since a separation fence will block it from those neighborhoods.
This is the first major expropriation of Palestinian land by the state inside occupied East Jerusalem since 1991. It is already drawing complaints from human rights groups, who note that the landfill will be just a few dozen meters from Palestinian homes, and will likely violate environmental regulations.
As expected. In advance of bibi's they have got to commit some atrocities just to make his appearance here more repulsive and to show who's really boss.
Eh what, landfill, waste, Pale-who? Didn't catch that … I was watching American Idol.
Can you repea … oh wait … football's on.
L8tr dude
Just as bad as ISIS or even worse it goes on and on under the watchful eye of big brother.
Genocide by slow poisoning. Forcing children to live midst toxic materials is yet another new low in human wickedness staked out by Israel. Thank you, Obama and Congress for letting Amerika share in this depravity. It makes a neocon's heart burst with pride.
Kinda brings up images
-of the girl in Yoav Shamir's Defamation ~"I think that's our problem…we see their houses bulldozed…and we think oh, they have plenty of houses"
-(a man who keeps literally millions of roaches mentioned his realization ~'it's possible to think of them as a colony, not as individuals'… apparently unlike the way you think of cats…)
-The way their PR works, you're really supposed to take this as one for the-bleeding-hearts. Of course, you realize you said 'environment,' don't you? Heh, heh… .
-.. and that weird Israeli cartoon Gilad Atzmon commented on recently. http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/2015/2/15/the-eternal-je... one frame read: "Israel kills innocent 20 years old children." So they'll even mock over what you've got the IOF on dead to rights….
Jason. Provide your sources. I have no doubt it's true. But you need to provide your sources.
The link to the Haaretz story is in the first paragraph.
Because the Israelis have been allowed (by the USG) to avoid prosecution over the years for stealing Palestinian land and more importantly what they've done to the Palestinian people, the Israelis are guaranteed to not even have their hand slapped by the feckless USG…and if there should be a groundswell of American outrage, the accusations of anti-semitism will abound, mainly from the American Knesset and their sycophants in the media.