Re: The Everyday Misery of Life Under Israeli Occupation

On 5/24/2021 7:09 AM, Kurt Nicklas wrote:
> On Mon, 24 May 2021 06:53:05 -0700, Bill Flett <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 5/24/2021 5:25 AM, David Hartung wrote:
>>> On 5/23/21 11:05 PM, Bill Flett wrote:
>>>> On 5/23/2021 5:49 PM, David Hartung wrote:
>>>>> On 5/23/21 10:08 AM, Bill Flett 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yet it seems you would have no problem with the Palestinians destroying Israel.
>>>>
>>>> Israel never should have come into existence.
>>>
>>> Why?
>>>
>>
>> No valid reason to create a new state based on a toxic combination of ethnicity
>> and religion.
> 
> Look up the UN resolution that created the state of Israel and 

You've never read Resolution 181.  It doesn't address why Jews demanded a 
nation-state based on their toxic combination of ethnicity and religion.