Land theft is state business in Israel
JVL Introduction
B’Tselem is Israel’s premier human-rights organisation.
The text below is reproduced from its latest newsletter (30th November) as an introduction to B’Tselem’s new research report about realities on the ground in the occupied West Bank.
As the report concludes: “When the violence occurs with permission and assistance from the Israeli authorities and under its auspices, it is state violence. The settlers are not defying the state; they are doing its bidding.”
What is taking place is state-sanctioned terrorism. There is no other way of describing it.
This article was originally published by B'tselem on Tue 30 Nov 2021. Read the original here.
State Business: Israel’s misappropriation of land in the West Bank through settler violence
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Sir Starmer and the other quasi-Conservative Labour MPs are supporting this.
We should have moved on from the sixteenth century when it was considered AOK to rape and pillage people of another land, we have experienced what it is like to be put under the jackboot, what is wrong with the world that this sort of thing is tolerated, are we afraid to work for a living?
What angers me is, if this was China, Iran or Russia, the West Media would be wall to wall headlines of condemnation, the US and UK would be calling for sanctions or in Iran’s case threatening war but they watch in and carry on supporting Israel, with arms and trade. If the UN calls for sanctions the US veto them. On top of this support, here in the UK, the power of the Israeli Lobby is has caused the Rightwing Press, even the BBC to work to stop Jeremy Cornyn from ever becoming PM, because he would have made it a priority to get the world talking about it and condemning Israel’s behaviour towards the Palestinians, like he did with the Apartheid State of South Africa, which he helped to defeat. Now we have Starmer as the leader of the the Labour Party and he fully supports Israel.
Yes and all this is ignored by the UK Labour Party leadership while a former Israeli military intelligence officer — Assaf Kaplan — is employed in Starmer’s office to spy on Labour Party members
Reverse pogroms?
This is a very interesting documentary that Al Jazeera have been showing the past two or three days, and is now available to watch on their website:
A Palestinian Israeli Crime Wave
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/al-jazeera-world/2021/11/24/a-palestinian-israeli-crime-wave
What a nightmare it all must be. And just getting worse and worse as time goes on.
It is painful for me as a Jew to contemplate that there are Jews capable of such behaviours as described in this document; and it angers me that a nation-state should be encouraging these actions in my name when I am in fact the born-and-bred citizen of another nation, and content to be so.
After everything that Jews have themselves suffered over so many generations, these are not the kind of thing Jews should ever want to do: the kind of nationalism and xenophobia which has resulted in Israel being the nation that it is should be hateful to all Jews, since it is exactly that kind of nationalism and xenophobia which historically has resulted in so much Jewish suffering. I want no part of it; and it is good to know that there are so many Jews, including Israeli Jews, who want no part of it either. Israel must learn the lesson eventually.