Re: The Everyday Misery of Life Under Israeli Occupation

On 5/25/2021 7:09 AM, Kurt Nicklas wrote:
> On Mon, 24 May 2021 12:19:46 -0700, Bill Flett <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 5/24/2021 12:17 PM, David Hartung wrote:
>>> On 5/24/21 8:53 AM, Bill Flett 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.
>>>
>>> So you hate Jews.
>>
>> False conclusion.
>>
>> *You* hate Jews.  Martin Luther told you to hate them, and you do.
> 
> You hate Jews because you want Hamas to kill them.
> 

No.