“It was the hottest
week of the year. All Fadel Jaber wanted was some water for his family.
But Fadel lives in the occupied West Bank,….”
Where
does he live? In areas A and B where 96% of all Palestinians live the
responsibility for water is in the hands of the PA. They have done nothing to
provide the appropriate infrastructure for their citizens. Water is available in accordance with the Oslo agreements - in fact more than was agreed is available. If he was living in
area C, it is likely he is living in an unauthorized place, simply “land
grabbing”. Israel has no responsibility to supply infrastructure in this
situation. So that leaves us with the 4% of the Palestinians who live in area
C. These Palestinians live in recognized areas and have full services provided
by Israel
“Where the Israeli
government has redirected water pipes to provide swimming pools for Jewish
settlers and empty faucets for Palestinians like Fadel.”
No water
pipes have been “redirected”. Palestinians have more than enough water supplied
annually by Israel over and above the agreed quantities in the last water
agreement. The PA problem is that they:-
a) don’t
conserve water,
b) the
don’t recycle water, (Israel recycles over 75% and is aiming for 90%.
c) have
allowed over 300 illegal wells to be dug so there is no obligation to pay water
rates and which is destroying their own aquifers and water table and
d) send
all their waste into the rivers ending up in Israel where POLIO has now reared
its head again.
“When the Israeli forces dragged Fadel off for taking water, his heartbroken five-year-old son Khaled could be heard screaming “baba, baba!” as his dad was torn away. This is daily life for Palestinians living under the brutal fist of martial law where their land and water has been stolen by settlers”
“When the Israeli forces dragged Fadel off for taking water, his heartbroken five-year-old son Khaled could be heard screaming “baba, baba!” as his dad was torn away. This is daily life for Palestinians living under the brutal fist of martial law where their land and water has been stolen by settlers”
“…and they have no basic human rights. But after years of violence and hopelessness, a movement is growing in Palestine -- a nonviolent resistance seeking the same thing that all Israelis already have: freedom, dignity and a state of their own.”
NO, land
is being grabbed by the Palestinians without any proof of ownership. Those
grabbing land have to be removed. The High Court of Justice deals with all
claims concerning land, however Israel cannot accept the illegal grabbing of
land
Such typical land grab attempts by
Palestinians are commonplace, they “claim” ownership, yet have no legal papers
to show proof of ownership. The most recent case of Susito is a case in
point. Palestinians claimed they had been on that land “from time immemorial.
Yet photographic evidence presented by Regavim, www.regavim.org
showed that there had not been a presence there as recently as the year 2000.
The PA is using every trick in the book to fool gullible human rights
activists. See video on constant illegal Palestinian building on State lands http://tinyurl.com/n53zn8o
“For years, the media has focused on Palestinian militants, and to this day, extremists on both sides are pushing peace further out of reach. But what’s lost in all that vitriol are the loving families like Fadel’s that just want a normal life. Now, those families are stepping forward, leading peaceful marches, organizing sit-ins, and working with Israeli activists to seek justice and freedom. In response, the Israeli military has thrown them in jail, beaten up organisers, and ripped children from their beds.”
Civil
disobedience cannot be ignored. Peace can only come about when the Palestinian
leadership come to terms with the existence of Israel. However, this seems to
be forlorn hope when one hears a number of Palestinian leaders making
statements such as
“The Palestinian people
will never accept the right of the Jewish people to their own state. Not
for 1000 years”.
Abu Mazen, , 12/7/2009
“It is impossible to realize the
inspiring idea or the great goal in one stroke....Israel will come to an
end....If I say that I want to remove it from existence, this will be great,
great,[but] it is hard. This is not a [stated] policy. You can’t say it
to the world. You can say it to yourself” Abbas
Zaki, Fatah Central Committee member, Al-Jazeera TV, 23/9/2011
“I will never allow a
single Israeli to live among us on Palestinian land”. Mahmoud Abbas,
Fatah , 28/7/2010, to Egyptian media (ynetnews)
“It Is Okay to Say One
Thing in Arabic and Another in English for Western Audiences” Editor-in-Chief Al-Quds Al-Arabi Newspaper Abd Al-Bari
Atwan:December 2010
When PA leaders signed agreements with Israel, they knew how
to walk "the right path, which leads to achievement, exactly
like the Prophet [Muhammad] did in the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah."
Al-Habbash's sermon was delivered in the presence of PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas
and was broadcast on official Palestinian Authority TV. (The Hudaybiyyah
peace treaty was a 10-year truce that Muhammad, Islam's Prophet, made with the
Quraish Tribe of Mecca. However, two years into the truce, Muhammad attacked
and conquered Mecca). PA Minister
of Religious Affairs Mahmoud Al-Habbash July 2013
This occupation has gone on for too long and for too long the resolution of this conflict has been controlled by extremists on both sides. Where are the Palestinian peace movements? Why does every attempt be Palestinians to build bridges shot down by their leadership. Hate indoctrination is endemic throughout the whole of Palestinian society - just look at what is shown on their TV, taught in their schools, spoken about IN ARABIC to the community at large But today, there are a few things most people agree on: first, both the Israelis and the Palestinians should each be entitled to a state; and second, the treatment of the Palestinians in the occupied territories violates every sense of justice we have, from international law to basic common sense. Even hard-line retired Israeli military leaders say this.
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