{"id":112611,"date":"2014-04-14T07:32:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T07:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?guid=bc823bdf0c46cc7a9a5f9c81ce462e09"},"modified":"2014-04-14T07:32:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T07:32:00","slug":"israeli-state-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/israeli-state-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli State Terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"
Israeli State Terrorism<\/b><\/div>\n
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by Stephen Lendman<\/div>\n
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It has many forms. Palestinians are longstanding victims. They’re isolated on their own. World leaders able to make a difference at best pay them lip service. <\/div>\n
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They do nothing to alleviate their suffering. They don’t stop Israeli lawlessness. They turn a blind eye to its worst crimes. They let Israel get away with murder and much more.<\/div>\n
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Sham peace talks continue. They mock legitimate ones. Israel threatens world peace and security. War on Palestine continues.<\/div>\n
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It’s ongoing. It’s unabated. It rages daily. Collaborationist PA negotiators turn a blind eye. Israeli crimes are ignored.<\/div>\n
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On Sunday, its security forces stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. It’s Islam’s third holiest site. <\/div>\n
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Worshipers were attacked with stun grenades, rubber-coated steel bullet and pepper spray. Israeli thugs operate this way.<\/div>\n
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Al-Aqsa Mosque director Sheikh Omar al-Kiswani said over 50 Israeli special forces stormed through the Moroccan and Chain Gates.<\/div>\n
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They attacked worshipers. They “besieged” them. Half a dozen or more injuries were reported. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld lied.<\/div>\n
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He claimed Israeli security forces reacted to Palestinian provocations. None whatever occurred. Israel bears full responsibility.<\/div>\n
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Overnight Saturday, worshipers braced for possible right-wing settler attacks. They stayed inside the compound. They did so expecting trouble.<\/div>\n
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They expect it ahead of Passover. At sunset on April 14, it begins. It runs through April 21. <\/div>\n
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Hardline Israeli organizations urged Jews to swarm the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound during the holiday period. Doing so constitutes a gross provocation. <\/div>\n
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It happened many times before. Worshipers braced for this year. The worst perhaps lies ahead. <\/div>\n
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Israeli forces regularly escort settlers to the site. Throughout occupied Palestine, they ignore their vandalism and violence. It repeats with disturbing regularity.<\/div>\n
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On Sunday, Israeli police arrested dozens of nonviolent Palestinians. They claimed they lacked permit permission to enter Israel.<\/div>\n
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Around 100,000 Palestinians have Israeli jobs. They enter daily to reach work sites. Many do with no documentation. They have no choice<\/div>\n
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Permits are hard to get. Palestine’s Central Bureau of Statistics said over 34,000 Palestinians working in Israel lack them.<\/div>\n
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In January, over 1,400 Palestinians were imprisoned for working without permission. Rogue states operate this way. Employers remain unaccountable.<\/div>\n
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On April 9, Israel demolished several EU-funded humanitarian housing shelters. They did so on land near Jerusalem. It’s located in Jabal al-Baba.<\/div>\n
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In February, Israel ordered 18 structures destroyed. EU delegates challenged doing so. They demanded financial compensation for housing they funded.<\/div>\n
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An unnamed source said “(w)e should ask for compensation from Israel whenever EU-funded humanitarian aid projects are destroyed.”<\/div>\n
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They’re in the so-called E1 area. It’s located between Ma’aleh Adumim and Jerusalem.<\/div>\n
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Israel plans developing Mevasseret Adumim neighborhood. At issue is establishing territorial contiguity. <\/div>\n
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It’s creating a greater Jerusalem. It’s doing it by Judaizing Palestinian neighborhoods.<\/div>\n
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Angela Godfrey-Goldstein is a Jahalin Association advocacy officer. She represents affected Bedouins. She condemned what happened.<\/div>\n
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She called E1 “Obama’s red line” for Israeli settlement construction. Demolitions were revenge, she believes. They followed Abbas applying to join 15 UN bodies and treaties.<\/div>\n
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Israeli maliciousness is longstanding. It’s common practice. It repeats across Palestine. It’s part of persecuting Palestinians for praying to the wrong God.<\/div>\n
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It’s part of Israel’s ethnic cleansing agenda. Displacing Palestinians provides land for Jews.<\/div>\n
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Since June 1967, the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) estimates at least 27,000 Palestinian homes and structures lawlessly destroyed.<\/div>\n
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On April 13, Haaretz<\/span><\/a> headlined “Israel freezes transfer of tax monies to PA in response to UN move.”<\/div>\n
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Netanyahu announced it. Israel collects Palestinian tax revenues and customs duties. It’s obligated to return them to PA officials. They provide operating revenues. <\/div>\n
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They amount to about $100 million monthly. They’re on goods imported into Palestine. Israel froze them earlier. It was during times of heightened security and diplomatic tensions.<\/div>\n
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Freezing them begins in May. Perhaps policy will change. If implemented, April revenues are affected.<\/div>\n
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Israeli officials said Netanyahu’s action has declarative value only. It’s politically motivated. It’s for coalition partner hardliners.<\/div>\n
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They deplore peace. They want no Palestinian prisoners released. They want the worst of occupation harshness continued.<\/div>\n
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If peace talks continue past an agreed on April 29 cutoff date, PA tax money will be transferred, said Haaretz. <\/div>\n
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If not, “Israel could be expected to impose far more severe sanctions than holding back” revenues due Palestine, it added.<\/div>\n
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Israel froze transfers dozens of times before. Releasing them followed. Senior Israeli officials said freezes are self-defeating.<\/div>\n
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Revenues pay tens of thousands of PA employees. Security personnel Israeli enforcers included.<\/div>\n
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State Department spokeswoman responded dismissively to Netanyahu’s decision.<\/div>\n
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“We’ve seen these press reports, but we have not seen an official public announcement,” she said.<\/div>\n
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“That said, we would regard such a development as unfortunate,” she added. <\/div>\n
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“We believe that the regular transfer of the Palestinian Authority’s tax revenues and economic cooperation between Israel and the Palestinian Authority has been beneficial and is important to the well-being of the Palestinian economy.”<\/div>\n
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On Sunday, Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon approved stealing more Palestinian land.<\/div>\n
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He retroactively legalized Gush Etzion’s Netiv Ha’avot outpost. He declared 984 dunums of privately owned Palestinian land state property. He did so unilaterally. He acted extrajudicially.<\/div>\n
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In 2001, Netiv Ha’avot was built without authorization. It’s home to 50 Jewish families. Palestinian court challenges failed to dislodge them.<\/div>\n
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Authorizing 984 more dunums around Netiv Ha’avot assures new homes for thousands of settlers. <\/div>\n
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It means outpost ones will submit their own expansion plans. It means more Palestinian land likely stolen. It assures continued lawless ethnic cleansing.<\/div>\n
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Dror Etkes monitors settlement policy. He issued a statement saying:<\/div>\n
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“Declarations of state land became rare after the army declared close to a million dunums state land in the 1980s and 1990s, enough to expand the settlements for the coming century.” <\/div>\n
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“The present declaration is a faithful reflection of the Netanyahu government’s policy and meant to extinguish the last embers of the negotiations with the Palestinians.”<\/div>\n
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On Sunday, sham peace talks continued. Abbas agreed to extend past late April. Perhaps into next year.<\/div>\n
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Why he’ll have to explain. Since last July, they accomplished nothing. Israel demands everything its way. It offers Palestinians virtually nothing.<\/div>\n
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Chances for peaceful conflict resolution are ZERO. Not according to Haaretz editors. <\/div>\n
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On April 13, their disappointing editorial headlined<\/span><\/a> “Netanyahu must curb Bennett and keep the peace talks alive.”<\/div>\n
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They pretend peace talks are legitimate. They never were before. They’re not now.<\/div>\n
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Bennett represents the worst of right-wing extremism. He threatened to leave Netanyahu’s coalition government if peace talk dealmaking OK’s further Palestinian prisoner releases.<\/div>\n
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He calls Palestinian political prisoners “murderers.” He wrote Netanyahu. He wants settlement blocs annexed. He wants them made part of greater Israel.<\/div>\n
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Combined with military areas, no-go zones, tourist sites, Jews-only roads, checkpoints and barricades, as well as Israeli commercial development, they comprise over 60% of West Bank land.<\/div>\n
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Bennett wants it all made part of Israel. So do likeminded hardliners. Most West Bank land and East Jerusalem already is de facto Israeli territory.<\/div>\n
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Bennett cited “floundering” peace talks. He prioritizes sabotaging them, said Haaretz editors. He wants settlements “bolster(ed) and enlarge(d).”<\/div>\n
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It’s longstanding Israeli policy. Netanyahu prioritizes it. He said so publicly. Haaretz editors didn’t explain.<\/div>\n
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Bennett is one of many ideological extremists infesting Israel’s government. Netanyahu is a world class thug.<\/div>\n
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Defrocked\/reinstated Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is an ultranationalist extremist. He delegitimizes the office he holds. He uses it ruthlessly.<\/div>\n
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Haaretz editors support peace process hypocrisy. Why they’ll have to explain. They nonsensically said talks “reached a decisive point.”<\/div>\n
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Previous ones denied Palestinians rights mattering most. Haaretz editors call current talks “the last chance in the forseeable future to conduct negotiations with the Palestinians.”<\/div>\n
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No chance existed before. None does now. Talks mock legitimacy. Peaceful conflict resolution with Israel is a convenient illusion. <\/div>\n
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Haaretz editors didn’t explain. They blame Bennett for longstanding Israeli policy. <\/div>\n
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He’s one of many in a long line of extremists. More than ever infest Israel’s worst government in history. <\/div>\n
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Last July, talks began. They were dead on arrival. Haaretz editors failed readers. They didn’t explain. <\/div>\n
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They pretend talks are legitimate. They never were before. They’re not now. It bears repeating. Chances for peaceful conflict resolution are ZERO. Pretending otherwise is fantasy.<\/div>\n
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Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. <\/div>\n
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His new book is titled “Banker Occupation: Waging Financial War on Humanity.”<\/div>\n
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http:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/LendmanII.html<\/div>\n
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Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com. <\/div>\n
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Listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network.<\/div>\n
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It airs three times weekly: live on Sundays at 1PM Central time plus two prerecorded archived programs. <\/div>\n
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