Re: The Everyday Misery of Life Under Israeli Occupation

On Tue, 25 May 2021 07:32:34 -0700, Bill Flett <[email protected]>
wrote:

>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.

Yes, of course you do.