I have written a lot about the situation with Palestine in the past…..with good reason….when I was working in the Middle East I had an associate that was Palestinian, Rafiq, and when I was doing research on the West Bank I was summoned by the Israeli authorities for questioning….I ignored the summons and was told I was to be arrested….Rafiq’s family hide me until I could get away across the border to Jordan. I owe the family.
I am sure that most Americans are aware of the protest going on in the Occupied Territories simply because Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel…a lame ass move.
There have been many arrests some have been children…like this brave young lady…Ahed al-Tamimi…..
Ahed Tamimi was just 14 when she rose to international prominence through the release of a video and a series of photos capturing her desperate attempts to save her 11-year-old brother, Mohammad, from the grips of an Israeli soldier in 2015.
Many Israelis threatened me on social media after the video was released, demanding that I be detained or even killed,” 16-year-old Ahed told Al Jazeera from her family’s home in the village of Nabi Saleh, where the distinct, red-tiled roofs of illegal Israeli settlement housing dot the adjacent hilltop. “The harassment handcuffed my life. I was scared to even go outside or visit my friends.”
Hers is not a unique story….sadly it is all too familiar….
Junaidi was detained during clashes that erupted in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron on Dec. 7, the day after U.S. President Donald Trump announced the U.S. would recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
His arrest has gone viral……
Then IDF had to go a killed a wheel chair bound Palestinian protester and his death has gone viral…..
One of the men killed was Ibrahim Abu Thuraya, a wheel chair-bound 29-year-old who was a regular presence during Palestinian protests against Israel. Thuraya has spoken to the media regularly in recent years, and claimed he had lost both his legs in a 2008 Israeli missile strike in Gaza.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/israel-troops-shot-dead-wheelchair-214045011.html
The IDF had an investigation and found no one guilty for the shot….(does that sound at all familiar?)….these Palestinians are becoming the face of civil disobedience against Israel….
Without US support, Israel would have to modernise and compromise, or face being alone in the world. Another thing America has to answer for, undoubtedly.
Best wishes, Pete.
The US could force a settlement but it will not because AIPAC owns our Congress…..chuq
The “Islamization” of Israel is not my most adored scenario.
Not happening……but propagandists would us believe this
Of course it isn’t happening … The Israelis are making sure it isn’t happening.
Israelis are thugs but that is what Americans want someone like them
Israelis, like Palestinians, need a homeland and are deserving of one.
Both parties have got want peace before anything happens and so far none seem willing….chuq
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Will this be your primary blog….if so I will add it to blogroll…..chuq
WordPress will not be my primary blog
I will add this one to the ‘roll….thanx for the heads up….chuq