Re: The Everyday Misery of Life Under Israeli Occupation

On 5/24/21 9:29 AM, Bill Flett wrote:
> 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.

Question, why is the Jewish "combination of ethnicity and religion" 
toxic, and that of the Palestinians is not?