Re: The Everyday Misery of Life Under Israeli Occupation

On 5/24/21 9:00 AM, Kurt Nicklas wrote:
> On Mon, 24 May 2021 06:52:21 -0700, Bill The Dwarf  Flett
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On 5/24/2021 5:24 AM, David Hartung wrote:
>>> On 5/23/21 9:03 PM, Mitchell Holman wrote:
>>>> David Hartung <[email protected]> wrote in
>>>> news:[email protected]:
>>>>
>>>>> 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?acti
>>>>>>>> on=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.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>       Even Israel doesn't claim that "Palestinians
>>>> are destroying Israel".
>>>>
>>>>       Where are you getting this stuff from?
>>>
>>> Hamas wishes the utter destruction if Israel
>>
>> Bullshit.  That's nothing but Jew propaganda.
> 
> https://fas.org/irp/world/para/docs/880818a.htm
> 
> That's Hamas' intentions in it's own words, Dwarf.
> 
> Or you can look at the wikipedia article:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas_Covenant
> 
> Pay attention to the part where it says:
> 
> "The charter states that "our struggle against the Jews is very great
> and very serious" and calls for the eventual creation of an Islamic
> state in Palestine, in place of Israel and the Palestinian
> Territories,[3] and the obliteration or dissolution of Israel."
> 
> As David said, Hamas wants Israel obliterated.
> 
> He's right and you're a fool.

Don't look for him to admit it, just like he will not admit that his 
comment is clear evidence of his antisemitism.