Re: The Everyday Misery of Life Under Israeli Occupation

On Sun, 23 May 2021 21:07:32 -0700, Bill Flett <[email protected]>
wrote:

>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.

LOL

Britain lost it's North American colonies.

You didn't know that, Dwarfy?

Poor you! It was in all the papers.