Israel vs Palestine?
jusjac asked:
Lmao :L Your addition to my post :L
So you support Palestine? You support the fact that Hamas and Hezbollah drop bombs on Israeli schools, homes, and school buses? That’s sick.
Regarding them stealing land from the Palestinians. Well. How uneducated can you get? - There NEVER was a Palestinian state. After the Turkish empire collapsed, the area became the British Mandate for Palestine. (Please note here that Turkish people are NOT Arab people.) - Israel was formed from the British Mandate.
So before you go dishing out abuse, actually educate yourself of the situation before coming to pathetic conclusions.Yes I support palestine because I support peace.
A simple google search could show you that Israel has killed far more people than palestine.
Okay, the “state” of palestine was mandated officially by the British Mandate. However, that area was called palestine since 450 BC. I didn’t know that rich white man had to sign pieces of paper before an area is recognized to have humans living in it.
Then rich white people came along and took part of the land that these people were living and said that jewish people and others could live there. They essentially signed away palestinian land.
Before you go around accusing others of illiteracy, you should realize Israel has killed countless more civilians than palestine, and stole palestinian lands.
but in case you are too dumb/lazy to educate yourself, I’ll cite some statistics:
At least 6,430 Palestinians and 1,084 Israelis
have been killed since September 29, 2000.
Source: B’Tselem (Click chart to enlarge.)
124 Israeli children have been killed by Palestinians and1,463 Palestinian children have been killed by Israelis since September 29, 2000. (View Sources & More Information)
9,226 Israelis and 45,041 Palestinians have been injured since September 29, 2000. (View Sources & More Information.)
During Fiscal Year 2011, the U.S. is providing Israel with at least $8.2 million per day in military aid and $0 in military aid to the Palestinians. (View Sources & More Information)
Current Number of Political Prisoners and Detainees
1 Israeli is being held prisoner by Palestinians, while5,935 Palestinians are currently imprisoned by Israel. (View Sources & More Information)
Demolitions of Israeli and Palestinian Homes
1967 - Present0 Israeli homes have been demolished by Palestinians and 24,813 Palestinian homes have been demolished by Israel since 1967. (View Sources & More Information)
Israeli and Palestinian Unemployment Rates
The Israeli unemployment rate is 6.4%, while the Palestinian unemployment in the West Bank is 16.5% and40% in Gaza. (View Sources & More Information)
Israel currently has 236 Jewish-only settlements and ‘outposts’ built on confiscated Palestinian land. Palestinians do not have any settlements on Israeli land. (View Sources & More Information)
Who is uneducated now?
This post is relevant once more.
Israeli soldiers seen standing by as settlers use live fire against Palestinians
The footage, filmed by local Palestinian women hiding in their homes on the outskirts of Asira village, shows an alarming and rapid escalation in violence, captured from the moment a group of settlers, some masked and armed with guns, descended from their hilltop settlement. The Yitzhar settlers claim Palestinians had lit fires around their outposts.
The amateur footage appears to show the settlers gathered on the outskirts of the village throwing rocks, quickly met with a shower of stones from Palestinian youths who rushed from their homes to confront the mob. A few minutes later, Israeli boarder police are seen arriving at the fray.
In the scenes (above), several of the Jewish settlers armed with M4 rifles - one wearing what appears to be a police cap - are seen to point their guns at the group of Palestinian men and open fire. The Israeli soldiers present appear to do nothing to stop them from shooting.
Israel orders 1,000 Palestinian trees uprooted
Israeli authorities in the West Bank have ordered that 1,000 olive trees planted by Palestinians must be uprooted as they were planted without coordination with officials
Palestinians can’t even plant fucking trees without Israel being full of shit.
Gah.
Palestinian Prisoners’ Day: The numbers
Israel arrests more than nine Palestinians per day on average. Currently, 320 Palestinians are held in prison by Israel without trial.
Yesterday, April 17, 2012, marked Palestinian Prisoners’ Day.
1600 Detainees To Declare Hunger-Strike on April 17
1600 Palestinian political prisoners, held by Israel, declared they will be starting an open-ended hunger strike on April 17th in protest to their illegal detention, and demanding basic rights.
Palestinian Minister of Detainees in the West Bank, Issa Qaraqe’, stated that the situation of the detainees in Israeli prisons is very difficult, and dangerous, especially amidst the ongoing Israeli violations and attacks against them.
Qaraqe’ added that the detainees are fighting a battle to defend their dignity and to improve their living conditions.
He further called for massive solidarity campaigns, and called for declaring April 17, the Palestinian Prisoners Day, as a day for solidarity and massive nonviolent protests in all parts of the occupied territories.
The Maan News Agency reported that a committee formed by the Israeli Prison Authority, headed by Yitzhak Gabai, visited a number of detention facilities, listened to the demands of the detainees, and “promised” respond to these demands this coming week.
Some of the demands presented by the detainees are;
1. Ending Administrative Detention.
2. Ending Solitary Confinement.
3. Reinstating the right to education.
4. Halting all invasions targeting detainees’ rooms and sections.
5. Allowing family visitations, especially to detainees from the Gaza Strip.
6. Improving medical care to ailing detainees.
7. Halting the humiliation, and body-search of the families of the detainees.
8. Allowing the entry of books and newspapers.
9. Halting all sorts of penalties against the detainees.
Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons are subject to harsh and illegal treatment that violates International Law and the Fourth Geneva Convention to which Israel is a signatory.
The Palestinians started marking April 17 as the Palestinian Prisoners Day, on April 17, 1974, the day Israel released Mahmoud Bakr Hijazi, in the first ever prisoner-swap deal.
202 Palestinian detainees died after being kidnapped by the Israeli forces since 1967, following Israel’s occupation to the rest of Palestine (The West Bank, the Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights).
Hundreds of detainees died after they were released suffering from serious illnesses and medical conditions resulting from extreme torture and abuse in Israeli prisons.
70 detainees died in prison due to extreme torture, 74 were executed by the soldiers after being arrested, 51 died due to the lack of medical treatment, 7 detainees died due to excessive force by the soldiers, and after being shot while in prison, former political prisoner, head of the census department at the Ministry of Detainees, Abdul-Nasser Farawna reported.(x)Four hunger striking prisoners now in hospital(x)
Sharp increase in Palestinian deaths in 2011
The past year saw a sharp rise in the number of civilians killed in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a human rights group said.
An annual report from the Jerusalem-based B’Tselem showed that in 2011 Israeli security forces killed a total of 105 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, of whom 37 were confirmed as non-combatants.
“The picture is harsh, not because of dramatic events or a sudden deterioration, but precisely because of the routine,” the report said.
“This year, we enter the 45th year since Israel occupied the West Bank and Gaza Strip. What was supposed to be a temporary situation appears firmly entrenched with no change in sight.”
Israel captured the West Bank, the Golan Heights, mainly Arab east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip during the 1967 Six-Day War, but pulled its settlers and soldiers out of Gaza in 2005. It still occupies the other areas until today.
The 63-page B’Tselem report said that the 2010 Gaza total was 68 fatalities, of whom 18 were not taking part in hostilities.
In the West Bank and Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, it said, Israelis killed 11 Palestinians in 2011, although it could not give a definitive breakdown of how many were engaged in hostilities.
“Human rights violations are inherent in a military occupation, and the protracted nature of Israel’s occupation only exacerbates human rights violations,” B’Tselem quoted its executive director, Jessica Montell, as saying.
Between January and December 2011, B’Tselem said, Palestinians killed 11 Israeli civilians, among them a couple and three of their children murdered in their West Bank settlement home.
Eight of the deaths occurred in the West Bank, two in rocket attacks on southern Israel from the Gaza Strip and one from a bomb in Jerusalem.
In 2010 five Israeli civilians, two foreign nationals and three members of the Israeli security forces were killed, the report said.
Poverty drives Palestinian children to work in Israel’s agricultural settlement industry
This video documents a dangerous and disheartening phenomenon in the Jordan Valley, that of children working in agricultural settlements. In addition to working in dangerous conditions, they receive little pay for long hours in agricultural fields. They harvest, pick, clean, and packing vegetables sold by Israeli settlers in European countries. This video talks with numerous child laborers, Palestinian village council leaders, parents, and a Palestinian Authority labor official.
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It is a vital mistake to talk about the recognition of Israel. We instead have to talk about the recognition of the Palestinians’ rights and the commitment towards the Palestinian rights to liberate their land and to establish their independent sovereign state.” Osama Hamdan (Palestine’s Head of Hamas’ International Relations Division)
Death toll climbs after Israeli raids on Gaza
Israel says air strikes on Gaza will go on for as long as necessary.
A 12-year-old boy was among those killed on Sunday. The generals would call it ‘collateral damage’. His parents called him Ayub.
In all, 18 people have died in three days of attacks.
Al Jazeera’s Paul Brennan reports from Gaza.
Beshara Doumani, Rediscovering Palestine
For those who think that Palestine was some kind of wasteland until Jewish immigrants transformed it.
(via fearandwar)
The Attacks in Gaza Continue
(Source: frompalestinewithlove)
The claim that Israel has an ‘ancient right’ to the land is bullshit.
The Philistines had it first. The Philistines were in Gaza before 1175, but the Kingdom of Israel was only founded in the 11th century.
Israel, get the fuck away. Imperialism is for America.
Israel launches deadly air strikes on Gaza
Israeli air strikes on Gaza have killed at least 10 Palestinians including a senior Palestinian militant leader.
Zohair al-Qaisi, secretary general of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), was attacked because he was planning an attack, the Israelis said.
Another militant was killed with him. The Islamist Hamas movement which runs Gaza said at least eight more died in later Israeli air strikes.
The Israeli military said dozens of rockets were fired into Israel.
They were apparently fired in retaliation for the killing of the PRC leaders.
It is one of the worst outbreaks of violence along the Gaza border for several months.
