Hundreds of Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem are about to be made homeless as the Israeli government begins its initial excavations for a new road project, running 11 km, and aiming to connect settlements in the occupied West Bank to Jerusalem itself.
The “American road” will see 57 Palestinian homes demolished, according to lawyers fighting the land confiscation orders, and will cast about 500 people out of those homes, so that the settler-only road can be built where the houses now stand.
Those 500 Palestinians won’t be the only ones immediately effected, however, as in ensuring the road is “Israelis only,” the government intends to wipe out all other roads in the connecting area, leaving substantial parts of Palestinian neighborhoods geographically disconnected, with no roads they’d be permitted on being even hypothetically allowed.
This is adding to controversy surrounding the road scheme, which appears to have deliberately planned to bisect Palestinian neighborhoods to allow more houses to be seized, and which was expanded far beyond the width of the road itself with an eye toward hypothetical future settler-only light rail.
The number of building permits issued to Muslim and Christian Palestinians to replace stolen homes will be ZERO. This Racist Genocide is financed by fungible American tax dollars.
This is all a criminal act against humanity. How the liberal Democrats can rage against Trump and Russia and ignore this is proof of the magical nature of political campaign cash and corruption. Call me “anti-Zionist” or even “anti-Semitic”, but this is so wrong.
First I’ll call you nuts if you think Trump shouldn’t be ‘raged’ at for being in agreement with Netanyahu on this kind of crime against humanity.
And fwiw, a lot of us ‘rage’ with Russia and against Trump and his phony promises.
I will not reserve my disapproval just for Trump for playing “pattycake” with Netanyahu. The mainstream Democratic Party and Hillary removed a plank from their Platform because it criticized Israeli maltreatment of the Palestinians. Both the Republicans and the Democrats are full of Zionist corruption. If you think that I am nuts, your emotions are all screwed up.
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April 5, 2016 Apartheid South Africa And Apartheid Israel: One Was Shunned, The Other, Embraced
Congress and Reagan voted to impose sanctions against the apartheid state of South Africa, but what’s stopping our elected representatives from taking the same action against the apartheid state of Israel?
http://www.mintpressnews.com/apartheid-south-africa-and-apartheid-israel-one-was-shunned-the-other-embraced/215352/
The old Union of South Africa didn’t believe nor did they have the resources to bribe our Congress. Plus millions of Americans have this image stuck in their minds from Sunday School decades ago – of a kindly, reverent Hebrew shepherd in a multi-colored robe with a lamb laying across his shoulders. The true image that should come into American minds when “Israelite” is mentioned is that of a seedy grifter trying to get something for nothing and willing to hurt Arabs to get it.
Another obscenity in a near endless list of obscenities committed by the zionist ‘state’.
Why do the USA and Europe impose punishing sanctions on Russia for taking back the Krimea from Ukraine, when the whole world looks the other way when Israel systematically steals real estate and destroys homes of Palestinians in the West Bank? Israel is committing crimes against humanity and systematic genocide of the Palestinan people without a major outcry and protest from the rest of the world. South Africa was condemned and black listed for their “Apartheit” policies until they stopped this egregious practice. Israel is committing the same egregious crimes against the Palestinians and the world is silent. This is the epitomy of nauseating hypocricy, double standards and criminal complicity against the Palestinian people. Israel should be held to the same standards as South Africa and any other nation that commits genocide.