It’s back to school season, unless you’re an elementary schooler in Jub a-Dib or Badu al-Baba, a pair of Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank which have suddenly found themselves the target of Israeli military action.
Israeli troops moved into the villages earlier this week, just ahead of the beginning of the school year, and destroyed the brand new elementary schools built with funds donated by the European Union. Troops threw stun grenades at civilians who protested the attack.
Israeli officials defended the demolitions, arguing that the Palestinians never had Israeli permission to build schools in the first place. Moreover, they insisted, the structures “were not in use” at the time,which allowed for immediate demolition.
They weren’t in use, because school wasn’t open until the following day, and by then, the buildings were long gone, all wreckage confiscated, the schools’ former sites termed “military zones,” and the students left to study in makeshift tents on the outskirts of the village.
Doesn’t sound like the most “humane” military in the world.
Imagine having to live under the boot of these cruel bastards with ZERO regard
More like, quite the opposite, the cruelest psychopaths on the planet. To give this rogue thermonuclear weapons state any assitance whatsoever, other than arrange psychiatric rehabilitation for their leaders responsibe for such outrages..
5000 years the same story. Push push push, then comes push back, then come the obligatory shrieks of “Anti-semitism!!” Same thing’s happening here. They’re getting very close to push back again. They never learn.
Where are my comments….???? Is there a new policy of some sort that forces all comments through the not always timely moderation que…????
You have no recent comments caught in moderation or deleted in the “news” section of Antiwar.com (I haven’t been to the other sections this morning yet, and was basically offline for the last 24 hours for various reasons).
No, there is no policy that forces all comments through the moderation queue.
As I explained the last time you brought this up (at the “blog” section, IIRC), apparently YOU have some kind of problem on YOUR end of YOUR Internet connection, because whatever is happening to your comments, it isn’t happening at Antiwar.com’s end.
The school was built without a building permit. Building permits are important. If you don’t build to code you endanger the children. It’s better to knock down the school now while no one is inside than allow children to attend & then in a few years with the school full of children it collapses or catches fire.
No, Israel won’t issue permits for Palestinians. It is not about safety for Palestinians, it is about harming the Palestinians.
Mark Thomason
Evidence?
Thank god for those benevolent Israeli’s. Those children are just lucky that their welfare is being looked after. Of course when the IDF shoots them dead later in life for throwing stones, not so much.
wars r u.s.
stones kill
Right. I forgot that Israel doesn’t believe in proportionate responses.
Are you serious? or are you just making “A Modest Proposal”?
You would use any and every excuse in the world in posting your anti-Palestinian crap. Have you ever seen the conditions in third-world countries where children have to attend in schools built of every conceivable building material? Certainly very few with building permits, etc. How in the world can you deny children an education?
Israel treats the EU badly, as if it does not matter what the EU thinks. Until now, that has been the case, just free shots at the Palestinians.
It is quite likely that it will eventually matter that Israel has so baited and taunted the EU. They will need good feelings there, when they won’t have them.
The reptiles in both houses of US congress will pass a bipartisan unanimous resolution congratulating Israel for the demolition