Israeli government is planning the largest ethnic cleansing since 1948

[Baluarte]

http://www.globalresearch.ca/sraeli-government-is-planning-the-largest-single-attempt-at-the-ethnic-cleansing-of-palestinians-since-the-1948-nakba/5344704


Israeli government is planning the largest single attempt at the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians since the 1948 Nakba

The Israeli government is planning the largest single attempt at the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians since the 1948 Nakba.

The Begin-Prawer Plan, which is the name of the law calling for the mass relocation of the Bedouin, passed its first reading in the Israeli Knesset on Wednesday, June 23. If the law is fully passed and implemented, it will mean the destruction of up to 40 Bedouin villages. Over the ruins of these villages, the Jewish National Fund—an Israeli para-statal organization with a charitable branch in Canada—will plant forests and help to establish Jewish-only settlements as part of its four billion dollar campaign: Blueprint Negev

The Prawer Plan aims to:

· * confiscate around 210,000 acres of land in the Naqab (Negev) desert
· * expel over 30,000 Palestinian Bedouins
· * demolish about 40 unrecognized villages
· * confine the Arab Palestinian Bedouins who are 30% of the Naqab in to 1% of the land

Repeatedly, the Israeli government has refused to listen to the strongest possible opposition from the Bedouin community and their attempt to propose alternative plans. Instead, the government has chosen forced transfer.

These Bedouin Israelis are already the poorest sector of the population, many of whom live in villages “unrecognised” by the Israeli government and who are denied basic services such as electricity, schools and healthcare.

At the same time, Israel is planning to evict about 1,000 Palestinians from their homes and villages in the South Hebron Hills in the West Bank to make way for a military shooting range — yet another gross violation of international law. Palestinians have lived in these villages for centuries.

Scott Weinstein of Independent Jewish Voices-Canada denounced the Prawer Plan in the strongest terms: ‘This proposed forced transfer of thousands of Palestinian Bedouin from their ancestral homes constitutes ethnic cleansing on a massive scale. It is a grievous crime enacted against an indigenous population for the purpose of judaizing the Negev. IJV-Canada calls on the government of Canada to denounce this criminal act in the strongest possible terms. To pressure Israel to obey international law, we urge people throughout the world to intensify the boycott of Israel, both economic and cultural. ’

Bruce Katz of Palestinian and Jewish Unity commented:

‘ To transfer the Bedouin by force off their ancestral lands for the purpose announced by Netanyahu more than a year ago of creating a Jewish majority in the Negev reeks of the kind of vicious racism to which Jews themselves were subjected in Europe not so long ago. It is ‘Lebensraum’ Israeli-Style. Will the Harper government which crows about supporting democracy in the world, denounce it?’

It is to be noted that ninety-one Canadian authors, including Margaret Atwood, John Ralston-Saul and Michael Ondaatje, sent a letter to Canadian and Israeli governments calling on them “to halt immediately and permanently the eviction of about 1000 Palestinians from their homes … in order to clear land for an Israeli army firing zone…. Evicting them would violate international law and cause extreme hardship.’’

For information:

Scott Weinstein (514) 803-4264 (English)

Bruce Katz (514) 582-1642 (français)

www.ijvcanada.org

www.pajumontreal.org

[Baluarte]

BBC note from today:

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23569537
Israel widens Jewish settlement subsidies

Israel has agreed to subsidise several Jewish settlements that were regarded as illegal until recently.

Three out of 91 settlements designated as priority areas for development were legalised within the past year, the Peace Now settlement watchdog said.

Israel said the subsidies were needed for security reasons.

Palestinian official Hanan Ashrawi said the move would have a "destructive impact" on peace talks, which resumed last week after a three-year hiatus.

"This is exactly what Israel wants, have a process for its own sake, and at the same time have a free hand to destroy the objective of the process," she said in quotes carried by the Associated Press.

"It seems to me it's up to the sponsors, the United States and the international community, to make Israel desist immediately."

'Illegal outposts'

In order to get the Palestinians to agree to the talks, Israel approved the release of more than 100 Palestinian prisoners.

The first group is due to be freed on 13 August.

The issue of settlement-building halted the last direct talks between the Israelis and Palestinians in September 2010.

About 500,000 Jews live in more than 100 settlements built since Israel's 1967 occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Settlements are considered illegal under international law, although Israel disputes this.

On Sunday, the cabinet published a list of more than 600 towns and settlements to be regarded as priority areas for development.

The areas are considered to be in need of state benefits and subsidies.

Israel publishes the list relatively frequently, and changes the areas it regards as needy.

The latest list included a total of 91 settlements, up from 85 in last December's list.

Peace Now said in a statement that the list included the settlements of Bruchin, Sansana and Rehalim.

The watchdog said these were all "illegal outposts" until recently, when they were designated neighbourhoods.

Their inclusion on the list apparently sparked disagreements in the Israeli cabinet.

Four ministers abstained from the cabinet vote, including Environment minister Amir Peretz who said it was a political move that "goes against efforts to promote peace".

Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, the lead negotiator peace talks with the Palestinians, also abstained.


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Peace talks: Core issues

Jerusalem: Palestinians want East Jerusalem as capital of future state; Israel unwilling to divide it

Borders and settlements: Israel wants to keep major Jewish settlements; Palestinians want borders along 1967 lines but accept some settlements will have to stay in return for land swaps

Palestinian refugees: Israel rejects idea of a Palestinian "right of return"

Security: Israel wants final arrangement which will meet its security needs; Palestinians want state to have security from Israeli military action and not have sovereignty compromised.

[Ali Pasha]

Shame on America for supporting these monsters.

[Melina]

Those people (Israelis and Palestinians)will kill one another until there is no one left in their land.

[Philo]

Meanwhile your muzzie friends are killing christians all over the middle-east. Fuck off balufarte.

[Óttar]

I am shocked. You would think since many Bedouin serve in the Israeli armed forces and are Israeli citizens they would not have their homes bulldozed. Shameful. :tsk:


Meanwhile your muzzie friends are killing christians all over the middle-east. Fuck off balufarte.

Alas, you have violated one of the logical fallacies on Anglojew's list.

[SilverKnight]

Meanwhile your Sunni - muzzie friends are killing christians all over the middle-east. Fuck off balufarte.


Correction.

[Melina]

I am shocked. You would think since many Bedouin serve in the Israeli armed forces and are Israeli citizens they would not have their homes bulldozed. Shameful. :tsk:



Israelis do whatever they want. They don't care, they just do. And those were Palestinian "illegals". If Europe were more like the like Israel they wouldn't have a problem.

[Mason8]

It’s not ethnic cleansing to evict illegal usurpers, occupiers of Lands stolen from Jewish. Jews still hold the deeds to the Land of Israel and we never sold or relinquished them. Ethnic cleansing and Judenrein apply to Arab societies especially when it comes to Jews. The Jews were and are ethnically cleansed in every Arab and most Muslim countries including the Palestinian autonomous territories.

[Anglojew]

The Negev is in Israel. Not sure what you're talking about.

[StonyArabia]

It’s not ethnic cleansing to evict illegal usurpers, occupiers of Lands stolen from Jewish. Jews still hold the deeds to the Land of Israel and we never sold or relinquished them. Ethnic cleansing and Judenrein apply to Arab societies especially when it comes to Jews. The Jews were and are ethnically cleansed in every Arab and most Muslim countries including the Palestinian autonomous territories.

That's myth and you know it, plus many of them choose to migrate freely to Israel after it was created. It's true that there was some prosecution especially in Iraq, but for the most part most chose to freely migrate.

[CrystalMaiden]

Now you understand why they were evicted from every single country they inhabited :)

If Holocaust was real you deserve it you wicked, mentally and morally degenerated race.

[ariel]

That's myth and you know it, plus many of them choose to migrate freely to Israel after it was created. It's true that there was some prosecution especially in Iraq, but for the most part most chose to freely migrate.

you are lier, you forced jews leave their houses and all their money for the arab government.

With the November 1947 declaration of United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine, severe anti-Jewish pogroms with massive casualties erupted across the Arab World. Arab pogroms against Jews in Aden and Syria were particularly violent.[citation needed] The violence prompted a severe increase in Jewish exodus, with the Aleppo Jewish community deteriorating into decline and soon after the pogrom half the city's Jewish population had left.[20] In 1948, the violence had spread to Egypt, Morocco and Iraq as well, practically covering all Arab countries.[citation needed] At the same time, independent Arab countries began to encourage Jewish emigration to Israel.[21][22][23]

In Libya, Jews were deprived of citizenship, and in Iraq, their property was seized. Those Jews who were forced to emigrate were not allowed to take their property. From 1948 to 1949, the Israeli government secretly airlifted 50,000 Jews from Yemen and from 1950 to 1952, 130,000 Jews were airlifted from Iraq. From 1949 to 1951, 30,000 Jews fled Libya to Israel. In these cases over 90% of the Jewish population opted to leave, despite the necessity of leaving their property behind.[24]

In total it is estimated that 800,000 to 1,000,000 Jews were forced out or fled from their homes in Arab countries from 1948 until the early 1970s. Some place the emigration peak to a slightly earlier time window of 1944 to 1964, when some 700,000 Jews moved to Israel from Arab countries and were dispossessed of nearly their entire property.[25]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_exodus_from_Arab_and_Muslim_countries

[Philo]

Correction.

http://www.myfacewhen.net/uploads/1648-noface.jpg


Alas, you have violated one of the logical fallacies on Anglojew's list.
How can I live with myself now? :D

The Negev is in Israel. Not sure what you're talking about.
Wait, so you actually bothered to read the crap posted by the colombian self-hating mestizo?

Now you understand why they were evicted from every single country they inhabited :)

If Holocaust was real you deserve it you wicked, mentally and morally degenerated race.

And you deserved Srbernica:). Unlike you, I'm not going to deny history, just be proudly happy about it:tongue

[Incal]

Those people (Israelis and Palestinians)will kill one another until there is no one left in their land.

It's taking them too much time. They should haste.

[Mason8]

That's myth and you know it, plus many of them choose to migrate freely to Israel after it was created. It's true that there was some prosecution especially in Iraq, but for the most part most chose to freely migrate.

But it was no myth.

The fact is 1,256 Jews were killed in five months. Even before the first Arab villages were captured in April, 924 Jews had already been killed.

39 Jews were killed by Arab rioters at Haifa’s oil refinery on December 30, 1947. On January 16, 1948, 35 Jews were killed trying to reach Gush Etzion. On February 22, 44 Jews were murdered in a bombing on Jerusalem’s Rehov Ben-Yehuda. And on February 29, 23 Jews were killed all across Palestine, eight of them at the Hayotzek iron foundry.

35 Jews were murdered during the Mount Scopus convoy massacre on April 13. And 127 Jews were massacred at Kfar Etzion on May 15, 1948, after 30 others had died defending the Etzion Bloc.

[Baluarte]

Israel to begin construction on new Jewish neighborhood in East Jerusalem
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/.premium-1.540080

Developer to build 63 housing units near Arab neighborhood of Jabal Mukkaber; announcement comes day after Bennett says construction in Jerusalem will resume in near future.

Housing Minister Uri Ariel and Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat plan to attend a ceremony next week to lay the cornerstone for a new Jewish neighborhood near Jabal Mukkaber, a predominantly Arab neighborhood in southeast Jerusalem.

The news of their attendance comes just a day after Economy Minister Naftali Bennett said construction in Jerusalem would resume in the near future.

The new Jewish housing blocs are being built by the Bemuna construction company which, according to its website, has built neighborhoods across Israel for the national religious community since 1995. The company recently received a construction permit after a delay of about three years, which Bemuna officials say stemmed from political reasons.

The neighborhood, designed to include 63 housing units, is planned for the area that connects Jabal Mukkaber and the southern Jerusalem neighborhood of Armon Hanatziv (which Bemuna also helped build). The housing units were sold five years ago to a group of buyers, and the company had received a construction permit for an underground parking garage, which has since been built. The construction permit for the rest of the neighborhood was delayed due to political pressure, and the Jerusalem District Planning and Building Committee put the construction on hold despite the plan having been approved.

About six months ago, Bemuna received written proof that delays in issuing the construction permit resulted from political concerns. The developers received a letter from then-Interior Minister Eli Yishai’s bureau chief, Yaniv Benita, who told them that Yishai has received the request regarding the new neighborhood’s construction. “Unfortunately, for political reasons, the plan cannot be discussed,” Benita wrote. “When the relevant permits are received for these plans, they will be discussed by the District Planning and Building Committee.”

Meanwhile, the head of Bemuna, Israel Zeira, said that politics must not play a role in Israeli construction and planning. “There must be an end to political interference in construction in Israel, and particularly in Jerusalem, which invites additional pressures from the international community,” Zeira said. He claimed that such delays only applied to Jewish construction and said that Bemuna may sue the Interior Ministry for damages over the delay.

“It’s impossible to describe the anguish and harm that the buyers of these apartments have endured,” Zeira said. “Anyone who wants to solve the housing problem cannot be driven by political reasons or surrender to American pressure again and again. At the end of the day, the apartment owners are the ones who pay the price.”

These planned housing units will not be the first Jewish community adjacent to Jabal Mukkaber. Nof Zion, a large, gated apartment complex, where Jews live in the midst of a Palestinian village, is nearby as well. Like Nof Zion, the new neighborhood is not an ideologically motivated settlement built by a right-wing non-profit group, but a neighborhood constructed by a private developer who caters to national religious Jews.

The cornerstone-laying ceremony also comes against the backdrop of municipal elections, a time when the incumbent mayor is seeking to curry favor with the national religious community, which could sway the election. Bemuna officials said that Barkat and Ariel both support the new plan.

In recent months, Jerusalem-area developers have complained of many delays in construction plans for Jewish neighborhoods beyond the Green Line - evidently the Housing Ministry has delayed several construction tenders due to pressure from the Prime Minister’s Office.

Last week, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry set the wheels in motion for the first direct peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians in almost three years. Israeli and Palestinian delegations arrived in Washington for discussions on the agenda for the nine-month-long negotiations.

[Formozgan]

Meanwhile your muzzie friends are killing christians all over the middle-east. Fuck off balufarte.

Yehoods in reality are not any better than Takfiris, Nazis:

http://rt.com/news/christian-monastery-vandalized-jerusalem-510/

Radical Jewish settlers vandalized a Christian church outside of Jerusalem, spray-painting “Jesus is a bastard” and “price tag” on its outer door. Such attacks have been on the rise despite police promises to curb hate crimes in the Holy Land.

The blue graffiti denigrating the central figure to the Christian religion was scrawled on the door of the Franciscan Convent near the Dormition Abbey Church early on Tuesday. It was removed soon after.

The Dormition Abbey Church, located on Mount Zion just outside the walls of the Old City, is believed by many Christians to be the site where the Virgin Mary died.

“What took place is that a church on Mount Zion was targeted. On it was written graffiti against Christianity, and 'price tag,' and now we're investigating the incident,” police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld told AFP.

The term "price tag" is used to denote crimes carried out against local Palestinians or Israeli security forces in retaliation for any actions taken to curb settlement expansion.

"Price tag actions are contrary to the Jewish religion and causes great harm to Israel," Israeli President Shimon Peres said in a statement in response to the Mount Zion attack, Reuters reports. "Holy sites must not be harmed."
A picture released by the Franciscan monastery on October 2, 2012, shows anti-Christian graffiti denigrating Jesus with the words "price tag."(AFP Photo)

A picture released by the Franciscan monastery on October 2, 2012, shows anti-Christian graffiti denigrating Jesus with the words "price tag."(AFP Photo)

A picture released by the Franciscan monastery on October 2, 2012, shows anti-Christian graffiti denigrating Jesus with the words "price tag."(AFP Photo)

“Price tag” attacks have been on the rise in recent months, with Palestinian and Israeli-Arab cars, mosques and olive trees often targeted for arson. The perpetrators have broadened the scope of their victims in recent months, increasingly setting their sights on churches, citizens opposed to settlement expansion and Israeli soldiers.

Tuesday’s attack was the second targeting a Christian site in less than a month.

In September, pro-settlement vandals defaced the Latrun monastery in the West Bank, writing “Jesus is a monkey” in large orange letters on its outer wall. The also torched the wooden door at the monastery entrance following the evacuation of the Migron output.

In February two cars and a stone fence at the Valley of the Cross Monastery in Jerusalem were also vandalized with phrases like “Jesus drop dead” and “Death to Christians.” The cars’ tires were also slashed.

Christian leaders denounced the attack, saying the “forces of hatred” were targeting them with these violent acts as a form of scapegoating.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said those responsible for last month’s “criminal act” must be “severely punished.”

Rosenfeld said a special investigative unit had been created to look into the anti-Christian hate crimes.

Palestinians and Israeli anti-settlement activists have questioned the effectiveness of the task force, saying little has been done to arrest those responsible for carrying out such attacks.
A Trappist monk walks between graffiti reading in Hebrew, "Jesus monkey"(L) from the September 4, 2012 attack. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana)