Trump's embassy move to Jerusalem 'self-destructive'

The Palestinians have rights throughout Palestine in accordance with various international treaties and resolutions,

As I write this letter, our village, Susiya, located in the South Hebron Hills of the occupied West Bank of Palestine, is under immediate threat of demolition. The only way to stop the demolition is through international pressure.

PLEASE SIGN THIS LETTER WITH YOUR NAME, INSTITUTION OR ORGANISATION

On 22 November 2017 the Israeli State Attorney’s Office announced that within 15 days they plan to demolish 20 buildings, which represent one-fifth of our village. This will violate the fundamental human rights of around 100 villagers, half of them children. The 20 buildings are our homes and also provide shelter for our animals. The timing of the demolition - in the middle of winter - could not be more devastating. It will leave us vulnerable and exposed to freezing rain and harsh winds. Our health clinic which provides health services for around 500 people from our own and surrounding communities, is among the buildings they plan to demolish. The Israeli authorities also want to demolish our village council which provides services for 350 local residents.

UPDATE: On 5 December 2017 the Israeli State Attorney’s office announced that the state plans to demolish approximately 40% of the structures in the village of Susiya. The state’s notification reveals that the number of buildings slated for demolition suddenly doubled, without prior warning and contrary to the state’s previous commitments. This means that, where previously 20% of the structures were facing imminent demolition, now 40% of structures in the village – including the only school of the village and solar panels which are the only source of electricity – are facing immediate demolition. The school and the solar panels were built with European funding.

In 2012 we commissioned a master plan for our village, which was rejected several times by the Israeli authorities. The rejection prevents us from building houses together with the necessary infrastructure such as running water, electricity and paved roads to create a sustainable life in our village. It leaves us no choice but to remain on our land living in tents, under very difficult conditions, forbidden from building or repairing anything, in order to protect our land from the threat of annexation by the surrounding settlements. In the Israeli government’s recent response it was agreed to examine the legal principle of the planning issue. Yet despite the potential to develop a master plan for the village, the government states that it will demolish the 20 buildings immediately. And as we know from past experience, if they come to demolish once, nothing will prevent them coming back and trying to demolish the rest of our village.

The plan to demolish Susiya is a part of an extensive campaign of demolitions in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Last year saw the largest number of demolitions in over a decade. This reality has nothing to do with democracy or the rule of law. Instead, the Israeli government has repeatedly violated its obligations to us as protected persons living under occupation. In accordance with international law, Israel has an obligation to provide for the needs of the local protected population, an obligation it openly shirks. Furthermore, it will be a war crime if the Israeli government forcefully displaces our village.

We therefore demand:

-No forced demolition of our village, Susiya
-The right to self-determination over the natural development of our village
-Acceptance of our master plan and thereby the planning and building of concrete houses and the necessary infrastructure

The Village Council of Susiya appeals to the international community to stand with us in all possible ways in the face of enforced expulsion by the Israeli state.

Nasser Nawajaa, Susiya Village Council spokesperson

So what is it about this move that makes you happy?

Is this something you have yearned for for many many years?

How does any of this improve your way of life.?

No, what is incorrect is your assertion.

He's one of those people incapable of seeing the World as it is, but rather as he imagines it is. He's delusional, and dangerously so,

not least the murder of thousands of innocent children every year by NRA supporters.

He thinks in absolutes, black and white, no grey, no reason no sense.

As I write this letter, our village, Susiya, located in the South Hebron Hills of the occupied West Bank of Palestine, is under immediate threat of demolition. The only way to stop the demolition is through international pressure.

The state of Israel was created at the end of November, 1947, pursuant to United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181. You can read that resolution on-line, from the Yale University Law School, by clicking here. Israel has never honored the terms of that resolution.

In the grip of Zionist governments, the state of Israel has consistently driven Palestinian Muslims from their land, denied their water rights and their legitimate land claims. In the grip of Zionist governments, the state of Israel has consistently bargained internationally in bad faith, especially with regard to the illegal settlements on land legitimately claimed by Muslim Palestinians.

They have denied the Palestinian right of return,

while advancing the absurd claim that the land is theirs because they lived there before 160 CE, at which time they were expelled by the Romans.

President Plump, with another of his trade mark idiotic moves has just set the peace process back by decades.

For years I have avoided the threads, re Israel and the Palestinians, because I feared I might be categorized as anti-Semitic.

But I see the situation pretty much the same as setanta. The only US president that tried very hard to negotiate peace, seems to me, was Jimmy Carter. His work was essentially undone, after he left office.

The Haavara (Transfer) Agreement, negotiated by Eliezer Hoofein, director of the Anglo-Palestine Bank,[16] was agreed to by the Reich Economics Ministry in 1933, and continued, with declining German government support,[17] until it was wound up in 1939.[18] Under the agreement, Jews emigrating from Germany could use their assets to purchase German-manufactured goods for export, thus salvaging their personal assets during emigration. The agreement provided a substantial export market for German factories in British-ruled Palestine. Between November, 1933, and December 31, 1937, 77,800,000 Reichmarks, or $22,500,000, (values in 1938 currency) worth of goods were exported to Jewish businesses in Palestine under the program.[17] By the time the program ended with the start of World War II, the total had risen to 105,000,000 marks (about $35,000,000, 1939 values).

Hardly absurd. The Jews are the legitimate indigenous population of the West Bank area.

I don't know if you remember CarlosleBaron. He was a Holocaust denier. I pointed out his Holocaust denial to Oralloy on numerous occasions with links, and he pointedly refused to condemn any of it. That's how worthless his accusations of anti Semitism are, any criticism of Israel is labelled as anti Semitic, but Holocaust denial is fine and dandy as long as it's another right wing extremist doing it.

So "indigenous population" is religion related here. Why?

What about those, who lived there but had a different kind of belief?

And can some loose the status to be the "legitimate indigenous population"?
For instance, when getting a different religion?

Or when being invaded? (Same example as above, but extended since the Saxons invaded the territory of other indigenous population)

Being invaded does not rob the indigenous population of their rights. Thus the Islamic invasions did not rob Israelis of their indigenous rights.