Ethnic Cleansing?

Jul. 27th, 2010 12:03 pm
eumelia: (nice jewish girl)
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What Ethnic Cleansing?
While we were sleeping!?
No, no way.

Sarcasm aside.

Over the night 1000+ police men demolished the Beduin village on El-Araqib situated in the Negev, just north of Beer Sheva (the largest Southern town).
The village had 30 houses and they've all been bulldozed.

I've only seen small update reports in the News websites and a few short blog-posts like on The Only Democracy and Mondoweiss.

The reason for this demolition?
The Jewish National Fund deemed the land designated for Jewish use only and are planning on planting a forest there.
No, really.

I can't believe I heard the report about this happening from Facebook.
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Date: 2010-07-27 06:45 pm (UTC)
silveradept: A kodama with a trombone. The trombone is playing music, even though it is held in a rest position (Default)
From: [personal profile] silveradept
...let me guess. There's no such thing as eminent domain protections in Israel like there are supposed to be here in the States.

Date: 2010-07-27 06:52 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] eumelia
Is that where companies and/or government buy off people so that can use the land for their own use?

The whole thing about the Bedouin unrecognised villages, is that they're unrecognised and thus the removal of them has no legal barrier, despite the fact that the Supreme Court of Justice has said that they can stay where they are - not that anyone gives a shit about the Supreme Court's verdicts.

Date: 2010-07-27 07:47 pm (UTC)
silveradept: A kodama with a trombone. The trombone is playing music, even though it is held in a rest position (Default)
From: [personal profile] silveradept
Yep. And there are protections like "Squatters rights" that even if they're not legally supposed to be there, if they've been there long enough and have kept the place up, they can stake a claim to it because the owners have clearly abandoned it.

So it sounds like anyone who wants to could basically say, "That land is mine. Get off." even if someone's been living there for years.

Date: 2010-07-27 07:52 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] eumelia
So it sounds like anyone who wants to could basically say, "That land is mine. Get off." even if someone's been living there for years.

Oh, man, you have no idea what you just said there. Seriously, this is the way the stronghold in the West Bank has been handled.

Date: 2010-07-28 12:59 am (UTC)
silveradept: A kodama with a trombone. The trombone is playing music, even though it is held in a rest position (Default)
From: [personal profile] silveradept
Oh. Accidentally hit the truth square on, so hard that it hurts?

So, what, does Israel have penis envy or something that they're so insistent that all the land around is theirs by divine right and they won't share at all? (I've heard that they're all "If we live and let live, then THE EVIL PEOPLE WILL COME AGAIN TO KILL US ALL and we'll be POWERLESS TO STOP THEM.", which is kind of weird to me.)

Date: 2010-07-27 07:49 pm (UTC)
amadi: A blue star of David on a white background with the legend Nice Jewish Girl Against the Occupation across it (Palestinian Occupation)
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How does the Supreme Court have any power if they're ignored? Who has decided that they're above the law that way?

And where did the families go?

Date: 2010-07-27 07:56 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] eumelia
The Supreme Court is ignored when they're verdicts don't mesh with expansion policy, hence why the Separation Wall is still usurping land despite it being illegal by international law and Supreme Court decision.

I don't know where the families have gone.

Date: 2010-07-27 09:09 pm (UTC)
amadi: A bouquet of dark purple roses (Default)
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I just... I don't get it.

Date: 2010-07-27 10:27 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] amethystfirefly
How horrible.

Date: 2010-07-28 08:52 pm (UTC)
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Yes, yes it is.

Date: 2010-07-28 01:55 am (UTC)
ironed_orchid: watercolour and pen style sketch of a brown tabby cat curl up with her head looking up at the viewer and her front paw stretched out on the left (Default)
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Oh fuck.

Date: 2010-07-28 08:52 pm (UTC)
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It's finally hitting the MSM. Two days late. Jesus, what a disaster.
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