From Jordan Valley Solidarity: Al Farisiya to be razed again
In the morning of Sunday 15th August 2010, the Israeli Civil Administration came to Al Farisiya yet again, with two warning documents stating that people have to leave this so-called "closed area".
The two documents don’t state which family they target, which means that any family in the village can be targeted for home demolition, or confiscation of their vehicles or animals. - The Only Democracy
No wonder the US is so anxious to increase military aid to Israel. These return trips take financial resources, and what better way to invest the resources of the US than in destroying the lives of people overseas.
I wrote about this village originally here. The Israeli military seems determined. This is all a natural part of the "peace" process" as it has been conducted ever since Oslo. Palestinians are supposed to talk to Israel (Or Else, warns Obama), while Israel makes "progress" in destroying the state that it will supposedly "generously offer" the Palestinians.
The Israeli military does not relent. Beyond its willingness to come back again and again to the same village to erase it from history (as Israel did to over 500 Palestinian villages in 1948), it also is now showing a willingness to blatantly lie, even more than usual.
Two extreme examples i think point to a trend of desperation.
The first has to do with this video that brought some unwanted attention to the practice of detaining Palestinians without reason.
What was the response of the Israeli military? They said the 5 year-old boy was acting. yes, that little boy, according to the IDF, was a Palestinian version of Macaulay Culkin. How else could one explain his pleas to the Israeli military? to think of this incident as a spontaneous response to the kidnapping of his father would be to concede that Palestinians have families that love one another...
The story is here. (a follow up is here... Dad is still imprisoned, awaiting trial)
Then there is this story that came from the attack on the attacks on the ships carrying aid to the people of Gaza. The IDF admits it doctored audio release to paint the passengers as anti-Semites.
The IDF admitted today in a press release that it doctored audio footage from its exchanges with the Gaza flotilla in order to paint the flotilla passengers as anti-Semites. I am beginning to wonder if the Israeli military hired James O’Keefe to handle its press shop. - Max Blumenthal
Signs of desperation? i think so.
Because while the Israeli military seems quite determined to smear and destroy and arrest and in every way block the movement for a free Palestine, Palestinians are equally determined to win their liberation. Not only that, there continues to be a growing solidarity movement that with every Israeli atrocity grows stronger and deeper and wider.
one of many, many examples. You can sign this petition calling for an end to the destruction of Bedouin villages in Israel.
End the destruction of Bedouin villages in Israel
As American Jews and others who care deeply for Israel, we join with many Israelis, both Jewish and Arab, in raising our voices in protest at the destruction of the Bedouin village of Al-Arakib in the Negev and the forcible removal by some 1,500 Israeli police of over 300 Bedouin Israeli citizens – mostly children – leaving them homeless, expelled from their land, and bereft of their possessions.
On July 27, bulldozers from the Israel Lands Administration (ILA) demolished their homes, sheep pens, fruit orchards and olive tree groves, so that a forest can be planted on their land near Beersheva.
The residents of the village have started to rebuild their homes, but ILA bulldozers and the Israel Police have demolished the new buildings three times during the past three weeks.
Over 2,000 Israelis have already signed a Hebrew petition to Prime Minister Netanyahu calling for an end to the destruction of Bedouin villages in Israel and a just and comprehensive solution to the plight of Israel's Bedouin Palestinian Arab citizens in the Negev. We join them in solidarity. A group of over 50 prominent scholars, artists, rabbis, writers and NGO leaders have endorsed this petition.