Re: The Everyday Misery of Life Under Israeli Occupation

On 5/23/2021 8:40 PM, Kurt Nicklas wrote:
> On Sun, 23 May 2021 08:08:12 -0700, Bill Flett <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 5/22/2021 2:16 PM, David Hartung wrote:
>>> On 5/22/21 2:22 PM, Rudy Canoza wrote:
>>>> An eviction in East Jerusalem lies at the center of a conflict that led to war
>>>> between Israel and Hamas. But for millions of Palestinians, the routine
>>>> indignities of occupation are part of daily life.
>>>>
>>>> By David M. Halbfinger and Adam Rasgon
>>>> May 22, 2021
>>>>
>>>> JERUSALEM — Muhammad Sandouka built his home in the shadow of the Temple Mount
>>>> before his second son, now 15, was born.
>>>>
>>>> They demolished it together, after Israeli authorities decided that razing it
>>>> would improve views of the Old City for tourists.
>>>>
>>>> Mr. Sandouka, 42, a countertop installer, had been at work when an inspector
>>>> confronted his wife with two options: Tear the house down, or the government
>>>> would not only level it but also bill the Sandoukas $10,000 for its expenses.
>>>>
>>>> Such is life for Palestinians living under Israel’s occupation: always
>>>> dreading the knock at the front door.
>>>>
>>>> The looming removal of six Palestinian families from their homes in East
>>>> Jerusalem set off a round of protests that helped ignite the latest war
>>>> between Israel and Gaza. But to the roughly three million Palestinians living
>>>> in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, which Israel captured in the 1967 war and
>>>> has controlled through decades of failed peace talks, the story was
>>>> exceptional only because it attracted an international spotlight.
>>>>
>>>> For the most part, they endure the frights and indignities of the Israeli
>>>> occupation in obscurity.
>>>>
>>>> Even in supposedly quiet periods, when the world is not paying attention,
>>>> Palestinians from all walks of life routinely experience exasperating
>>>> impossibilities and petty humiliations, bureaucratic controls that force
>>>> agonizing choices, and the fragility and cruelty of life under military rule,
>>>> now in its second half-century.
>>>>
>>>> https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/22/us/israel-gaza-conflict.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Israel stole the West Bank.  Its occupation of it is illegal.
>>>
>>> Israel took the West Bank in a defensive war
>>
>> No.
>>
>> It doesn't matter what the nature of the war was.  Taking territory in war is
>> illegal.
> 
> Taking territory is illegal? Then I guess the Revolutionary War was
> illegal, right? 

No territory was taken in the Revolutionary War.