Please Stand Against Israel, Again, Stealing Palestinian Land

FROM AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL:

ISRAELI COURT APPROVES A WAR CRIME BY RULING IN FAVOR OF DEMOLISHING THE ENTIRE VILLAGE OF KHAN AL-AHMAR

Khan al-Ahmar was established in the 1950's by Palestinians from the Negev desert

AI: "Responding to the Israeli Supreme Court’s decision, the second one in less than two months, to approve the demolition of Khan al-Ahmar, by rejecting the desperate last resort petitions from residents of the West Bank village, Saleh Higazi, Head of Office in Jerusalem for Amnesty International, said:

“With this shameful and manifestly unlawful ruling the Supreme Court has confirmed a pattern of complicity in the crime of forcible transfer of Palestinian communities for the expansion Jewish-only settlements. The court has not only completely denied the petitioners the protection provided to them by International Humanitarian Law, it has also validated the discriminatory policies of the Israeli authorities.”

“If the international community does not immediately take the necessary action to stop this crime from taking place, thousands of other Palestinians surrounding Jerusalem and in the Jordan Valley will now face an imminent risk of forced displacement...”

"Forcible transfer of people under occupation is a serious breach of the IV Geneva Convention. The deportation or transfer of all or parts of the population of the occupied territory within or outside this territory constitutes a war crime under Article 8 of the Rome Statute."

Read the rest at:
https://www.amnestyusa.org/press-releases/israeli-court-approves-a-war-crime-by-ruling-in-favor-of-demolishing-the-entire-village-of-khan-al-ahmar/

FROM BBC WORLD NEWS:

"Israel's Supreme Court has rejected appeals against the demolition of a Bedouin village in the occupied West Bank whose fate has been a subject of international concern.

Judges upheld an order to raze Khan al-Ahmar, where about 180 people live in shacks between two Jewish settlements.

Israel's government says the structures were built illegally, but Palestinians say permits are impossible to obtain.

An injunction against the demolition will expire within seven days.

The United Nations has called on Israel to allow the Bedouin to remain on the land, saying such demolitions are against international law."

Read the whole article at:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-45420915
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CAUTION NOTE:

Palestinians AND THEIR LEADERS have no moral ground either becaise they reward families of terrorists, and praise the murderers, including the Muslim jihadist who executed a 17-year-old girl in her own bedroom!

HOWEVER, that doesn't justify Israelis invading Palestine, destroying structures including a school, and stealing Palestinian water and land!

PLEASE STAND UP AND WRITE OPPOSING THESE IMMORAL, UNJUST ACTIONS.

In the LIGHT,

Daniel Wilcox

Please Write for the Release of Nonviolent Human Rights Worker Munther Amira

FROM AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL:
"An Israeli military court sentenced Palestinian human rights defender Munther Amira on 12 March 2018 to six months in prison, five years of probation and a fine. He was convicted on charges relating to his peaceful participation in protests.

"Munther Amira is currently being held in Hadarim prison in central Israel.
He was arrested by Israeli soldiers on 27 December 2017 while peacefully participating in a protest.
Munther Amira was originally charged with 13 offences relating to his participation in five separate demonstrations. He was convicted on four counts of “disturbing public order” and participating in a “march without a licence” in relation to four demonstrations that took place in November and December 2017."

Munther Amira is "...the coordinator of the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee (PSCC). PSCC describes itself as a community-based resistance movement that believes in the power of popular struggle, through various forms, such as strikes, peaceful protests and legal campaigns. The group also provides legal aid, communication and advocacy support to activists and seeks to encourage the emergence of new committees and initiatives in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT)."

A section of Israel’s separation barrier next to the Aida refugee camp, where Munther Amira lives and works. Photograph: Kevin Frayer/AP

"Munther Amira is a Palestinian refugee from the village of Deir Aban, located south of Jerusalem. He is a resident of Aida Refugee Camp, near Bethlehem, where he works as a social worker and director of the Aida Youth Community Center...provides support to Palestinian farmers affected by Israeli settlements through his campaigning and advocacy efforts and promotes locally produced Palestinian products.

Amira is committed to a platform of non-violence in his popular struggle and regularly organizes peaceful protests against Israeli actions in the city of Bethlehem."

"1) TAKE ACTION
Write a letter, send an email, call, fax or tweet:

Immediately and unconditionally release Munther Amira as he is a prisoner of conscience and is imprisoned solely for exercising his human rights to freedom of expression and to peaceful assembly;
Ensure his conviction is quashed;
Rescind Military Order 101 and fully respect the right of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly.
Contact these two officials by 30 April, 2018:

Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu
Office of the Prime Minister
3 Kaplan St, PO Box 187
Kiryat Ben-Gurion
Jerusalem 91950, Israel
Email: pm_eng@pmo.gov.il
Salutation: Dear Prime Minister

Ambassador Ron Dermer, Embassy of Israel
3514 International Drive NW, Washington DC 20008
T: 202.364.5500
Email: info@washington.mfa.gov.il
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ambdermer
Twitter: @AmbDermer
Salutation: Dear Ambassador

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Stand up for Human Rights,

Daniel Wilcox

8 Views of WHO Owns the Land

Again, humans are committing slaughter and other injustices, 'bordering' on the ethically obscene...

Yes, bitter pun intended.

Masked Israeli settlers from the illegal Havat Gilad settlement throw stones at native Palestinian villagers
near Farata, east of the West Bank ciy of Nablus

Who really owns lands and territories and plots in which we all get buried on this small 3rd planet?

Currently many human leaders are fighting over land including Vladimir Putin versus Petro Poroshenko, Bashar al-Assad versus Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Mahmoud Abbas versus Benjamin Netanyahu (and Donald Trump).

And in the process, humans get killed, and violations of theft, lying, hate, revenge, injustice, inequality occur.

This week Muslim gunmen repeatedly riddled an Israeli car in which Rabbi Raziel Shevach was riding near his illegal settlement, the outpost of Havat Gilad, near Nablus. Rabbi Raziel Shevach a 35-year-old rabbi, father of 6 young children was killed.

Some of the Israeli youth are already calling for "Revenge."

And leaders of Palestine--HAMAS and Fatah--are already praising the killers of the rabbi.

Illegal alien settlement of Havat Gilad in Palestine

QUESTION: If illegal aliens steal your land, throw stones at you, even deny you your own country, do you have the right then to kill them?


VIEWS OF WHO OWNS THE LAND:

“According to Beinin and Hajjar, the Turkish census for 1878 listed 462,465 Turkish subjects in the Jerusalem, Nablus and Acre districts: 403,795 Muslims (including Druze),
43,659 Christians
and 15,011 Jews.
In addition, there were at least 10,000 Jews with foreign citizenship
(recent immigrants to the country), and several thousand Muslim
Arab nomads (Bedouin) who were not counted as Ottoman subjects.”

“By 1946, Jews had purchased 6 to 8 percent of the total land area...” of Palestine. *

How then has a Jewish state, Israel defined by the current Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, come to “own” most of this area and control all of the area?

How have Arabs such as Sari Nusseibeh, whose family has lived in the area since the 7th century, been left with no country?
(Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life by Nusseibeh)

It’s long and complicated, convoluted, hate-filled, prejudiced, violent, genocidal, discriminatory, unjust, unmerciful, unloving, and ungodly. Most people know of the Jewish side, how many of the Arabs sided with the Nazis!, how some fanatic Arabs repeatedly rioted and killed innocent Jewish civilians…

Not as many know of the Arab side, but one can read a moving account in Eli Chacour’s short autobiography, Blood Brothers, which tells of how his father emphasized that they as Christian Arabs should help and love the Jewish people.

But then the Jewish army kidnapped this loving man and a couple of his sons, blew up their church, and destroyed their town!

This unending conflict goes back thousands of years.

How can this question “Who Owns the Land?” be resolved?

How can contrary different religions, ideologies, and peoples get along?

HOW CAN HUMANS LEARN TO SHARE?

There are no easy answers.

In the last few thousand years this area, this land, has been ‘owned’ by the Phoenicians, Canaanites, Hebrews, Babylonians, Arabs, Turks, British, French, Jews, etc.

So who gets it now and upon what basis?

HERE ARE 8 POSSIBLE VIEWS OF LAND OWNERSHIP:

#1 Historic Right

#2 Worldview/Religious Claim

#3 Present Possession

#4 Military Might (The most popular view with most humans in most of history.)

#5 Best Use

#6 Diplomacy/Compromise

#7 Legal Claim

#8 Visitor Status (No one group, nationality, religion “owns” the land. Humans are merely visiting. We OUGHT to/must share.)


WHAT DO YOU THINK?



In the LIGHT,

Daniel Wilcox