Comments on: Hundreds protest plan to demolish entire Palestinian village

By: Save Susya campaign: Over 12,000 faxes annoy Defense Ministry 26Jul12 | Australians for Palestine

Wed, 25 Jul 2012 14:01:42 +0000

[...] June 12, the IDF Civil Administration issued 52 demolition orders for Susya based on the claim that Palestinians residents are building illegally without permits – a claim [...]

By: Lilith Laughed » Susya

Lilith Laughed » Susya — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 13:38:58 +0000

[...] Zonszein has written a more detailed article on the situation in Susya, and a report on the protest. Posted on June 23, 2012 by Tali. This entry was posted in Activism, Military and [...]

By: Yochanan

Yochanan — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 13:17:39 +0000

@Arib, according to the world’s ‘supreme court’, the ICJ, all of the West Bank is not Israeli territory and Israel has no jurisdiction over it. Any Israeli construction is therefore illegal without the permission of the Palestinian owners of the land, and any Israeli demolition of property in the area is similarly illegal.

By: Arib

Arib — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 10:31:07 +0000

This is a simple case of people building illegally on land that is not theirs. The Israeli Supreme Court, who you were all applauding only a couple of weeks ago when it ruled that Jews need to be dispossessed, now rules on a case where Arabs are involved and it is called racism, a land grab etc. What a joke!!

By: Jessica

Jessica — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 21:44:07 +0000

I suppose that Kolumn9 wouldn’t care if an army came to his/her home and destroyed both his/her town, his/her home, and all that s/he’s ever known for absolutely no reason at all.

S/He thinks it’s ‘funny’ because it’s happening to Palestinians. Would K9 think the same if it happened to him/her?

By: Rafael

Rafael — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 21:32:57 +0000

“@Rafael, they would have met the same treatment as this group.”
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You have no way to know this, colon9.
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Israel has in the past targeted for assassination Palestinian protest leaders. This is what ultimately led to the intifadas. Why would things today be anything different?

By: AYLA

AYLA — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 18:27:33 +0000

Hey 972, I’m happy to see someone got a shot of someone sporting the kafia baseball hat. That was the first I’d seen of those; pretty impressive .

By: Philos

Philos — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 14:52:29 +0000

Kolumn9 suffers from a spiritual malady that prevents him from empathizing with people he disagrees with. There is no point arguing with him (or her) because his heart has been hardened. He knows that a ruin ought not take precedence over the lives of present day human beings (who in all likelihood might be the descendants of the people of that ruin because until very recently 95% of humanity was buried with 5 miles where they were born), and he knows that the military rule over the Palestinians is immoral. However, unlike his detractors, Kolumn9 must constantly renew the his suspension of disbelief and the suppression of empathy. This is an exhausting and ultimately deleterious exercise for any person to engage in.

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 13:58:00 +0000

@Yocahnan seems spot on.

Another way of looking at it is to ask why Christians and Moslems can’t point to ancient archaeological sites in Israel (perhaps early churches or mosques) and demand that modern-day Jewish inhabitants living above the ruins are dispossessed.

The answers would seem to be all of:
(a) power, coming from the barrel of Israeli guns
(b) racism (Jewish history is scared and takes precedence over the human rights of all non-Jews, everyone else’s history is inferior or invalid)
(c) any excuse to grab more land from Palestinians will do.

If the defenders of this sort of nonsense can think of another explanation, which would be morally accepted by decent people with no involvement in the area, let’s hear it.

Over to you, @kolumn9 and friends

By: Yochanan

Yochanan — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 12:46:02 +0000

@Kolumn, as regards ‘shacks illegally thrown up’, how do you propose Palestinians continue to live in Area C, when by Israel’s admission 94% of non-Jewish building applications are rejected? (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/15/israelandthepalestinians) Or perhaps you’d propose that they not continue to live in Area C…

And how is this an Israeli archaeological site when its on Palestinian territory? Surely, if anything, it’s a Palestinian archaeological site with remnants of an ancient Palestinian Jewish structure?