Re: The Everyday Misery of Life Under Israeli Occupation

On 5/24/2021 12:19 PM, David Hartung wrote:
> 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

Self evident.