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with Abby Martin
teleSUR English on Oct 31, 2016
The demolition of Palestinian homes for Israeli settlements reached a ten-year high in 2016. While this activity led by the fanatical settler movement is illegal under international law, it is completely aided and abetted by the Israeli government.
With hundreds on notice to be evicted and their homes destroyed, Abby Martin goes on-the-ground throughout the West Bank investigating this dire human rights situation. She speaks to residents living under regular settler attacks from encroaching settlements and outposts illegal even under Israeli law, and sees first-hand how this crisis is worsening.
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Israel must annex West Bank settlements if UNSC adopts Palestinian resolution – education minister
RT on Oct 31, 2016
Israel should declare sovereignty over the occupied territories in the West Bank, which is home to Israeli settlers, if the UN adopts any Security Council resolution further condemning illegal settlement activity, Israel’s education minister said.
from the archives:
The Suffering of Palestinian Refugees in Jordan by Clive Hambidge
Abby Martin: Inside Palestine’s Refugee Camps Part 2
Abby Martin: How Palestine Became Colonized, Part 1
Chris Hedges and Amira Hass: Inside the Occupied Territories
Chris Hedges and Miko Peled: Apartheid Israel
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Lo, not sure if you can access the BBC Radio 4 Reith Lectures in the USA, but this year’s speaker Kwame Anthony Appiah is extremely insightful and perspicuous.
Transcripts are available (on the website) & the final fourth episode Culture will be broadcast from NY next week on Nov. 8th (!)
His third lecture Colour about ‘race’ is particularly relevant.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b080twcz
Thanks, David.
What can one say?
“Israel” is a tragically peculiar ‘state of mind.’ We know that many Israelis are decent, highly educated, honest and morally sophisticated human beings, and yet ~ this endemic psychosis persists. The reactionary status quo of “zionism” is a recruiting agency for perpetual hatred.
Every olive tree that is viciously hacked away….every action of feverish desperation by brainwashed, addled, torture-cultists professing religious superiority….every totalitarian rip and tear viciously directed toward an indigenous minority that has endured unspeakable barbarity by this villainous occupying agency….every abuse and atrocity committed in the name of sanctified exceptionalism….each and all of these documented evils is accruing to the eventual demise of “Israel” as it is, or rather, as it perceives itself to be.
‘Civilization’ is appalled at this regression into unspeakable baseness. In any universal court of justice, the perpetrators would be found severely wanting, and indeed profoundly guilty of the most egregious war crimes, of genocide and of perpetuating a never-ending holocaust….
….only this is also true ~ the perpetrators are all of ‘us.’ We, who as fellow human beings, do not acknowledge or condemn the gross depravity of this state of mind with unrelenting determination.
This situation is a disgrace to humanity. We dare not call ourselves truly human so long as it persists. It casts a terrible shadow across our world, and the length of this shadow reveals the extent of our impotence, our indifference, our complicity.
Thanks for your commentary, David.
The cutting down of fruit trees is prohibited under Jewish Law. See: http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/674395/jewish/Is-It-True-That-Its-Forbidden-to-Cut-Down-a-Fruit-Tree.htm
Zionists are not necessarily Jewish in the religious sense. I would say that most are secular Jewish only. Otherwise, how can they perpetrate such crimes against humanity?
Interesting Lo, thank you for that. I would agree with your last para. in principle; only it seems clear that some of these settler groups profess ostentatious fundamentalist “orthodoxies.”
Such fanatic deviance is a gross perversion of scriptural precedent; a sad and sick affliction of mind ~ indeed, it is a terrible psychosomatic disease that (pre-)occupies the soul and corrupts the sensibilities.