The theft, the violence and the lies make it gross
People from the land (country bumpkins like myself) do understand what's going on in the Westbank today. Why it's indeed at times more important than what's happening anywhere else on this crazy world of ours. Even calling the little islands of land left of what once used to be called "Cisjordanie" "Judea and Samaria" is too much for me to carry on with. Sorry, but what's happening there is indeed part of a clear attempt to erase a whole history of a people.
Take the so-called "Desert of Judea". There's now a strict policy of not allowing any new public road already build by the Palestine Authority to be left standing there. No access (except to one so-called "fabric of life" road) should then be allowed from one side of the Westbank with the other side. Whole Arab villages let along small farms are systematically been destroyed with the setting of boundaries where access is taken away from the Arab inhabitants.
I hear it often on Israeli media that the strategy is now Highway 1 liking Tel Aviv to Jeruzalem and the Dead Sea. Nothing about the past of anything here, it's about a future that's been built right now. Arabs are looking across a valley to where a farm is under attack by settlers, where violence is taken place against fellow inhabitants of the land, where flocks of goats are taken away, etc. The utter powerless against these armed bandits is totally immobilizing for these people of the land.
There's no permission given anywhere to build any more housing outside of already existing urban areas for Arabs. Not even in what's called Israel proper. The actual housing need to be mutiple storage ones (appartments) which is indeed not suited to what the Arabs are. They're a family-linked people first. Moreover, busses don't go through their villages because the roads as too narrow, and the existing sewage system is too limited for any expansion of the urban areas.
What's been happening to the individuals on the ground is indeed gross. Instead of making Jeruzalem at the heart of any religion or nation, one should make the Jeruzalem imagery from the many accords and treaties put on paper after the Second World War: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenants on Civil and Political Rights and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and regional agreements like the European Convention on Human Rights
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Take the so-called "Desert of Judea". There's now a strict policy of not allowing any new public road already build by the Palestine Authority to be left standing there. No access (except to one so-called "fabric of life" road) should then be allowed from one side of the Westbank with the other side. Whole Arab villages let along small farms are systematically been destroyed with the setting of boundaries where access is taken away from the Arab inhabitants.
I hear it often on Israeli media that the strategy is now Highway 1 liking Tel Aviv to Jeruzalem and the Dead Sea. Nothing about the past of anything here, it's about a future that's been built right now. Arabs are looking across a valley to where a farm is under attack by settlers, where violence is taken place against fellow inhabitants of the land, where flocks of goats are taken away, etc. The utter powerless against these armed bandits is totally immobilizing for these people of the land.
There's no permission given anywhere to build any more housing outside of already existing urban areas for Arabs. Not even in what's called Israel proper. The actual housing need to be mutiple storage ones (appartments) which is indeed not suited to what the Arabs are. They're a family-linked people first. Moreover, busses don't go through their villages because the roads as too narrow, and the existing sewage system is too limited for any expansion of the urban areas.
What's been happening to the individuals on the ground is indeed gross. Instead of making Jeruzalem at the heart of any religion or nation, one should make the Jeruzalem imagery from the many accords and treaties put on paper after the Second World War: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenants on Civil and Political Rights and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and regional agreements like the European Convention on Human Rights
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