🇵🇸 Builder for Secret U.S. Base in Israel Also Built Illegal Settlement – 03/11/2023

THE US military recent $35 million contract to do construction at its secret base in Israel went to a joint venture that includes an American firm and an Israeli one. The Israeli company, Y.D. Ashush Infrastructure, has been involved in many large-scale infrastructure and public works projects — including building an illegal settlement in occupied Palestinian territory.

In a section on its website touting its projects, Ashush mentions construction work in the settlement of Leshem. Originally planned to include nearly 700 homes, Leshem was constructed in the 2010s as a satellite of Alei Zahav, a settlement established in 1982. 

U.S. Quietly Pushes Ahead Secret Military Base in Israel, Near Gaza –27/10/2023


#Palestine #OPT #Israel #US #Base512 #Colonisation

🇵🇸 From Scratch : Greater Israel | Middle East Monitor -

Greater Israel’ refers to the notion of expanding Israel's territory and sovereignty to encompass what many Israelis describe as their historic Biblical land, including the occupied Palestinian territories.

As Israeli leaders are becoming increasingly and publicly dismissive of the notion of an independent Palestinian state and the rights of Palestinians to their lands and as illegal Jewish-only settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories continue to grow unabated, MEMO's Jehan Alfarra explores whether the pursuit of a Greater Israel is on the Zionist state’s political agenda.

#Zionist #Zionism #GreaterIsrael #Expansion #Colonisation #MiddleEast
#OPT #Palestine
19/11/2023

🇵🇸 Israel and its allies are repurposing the goals and lies of 1948 – in Gaza in 2023 – Jonathan Cook

Israel is openly carrying out ethnic cleansing inside Gaza, driving Palestinians outside their homeland as happened in 1948. And yet, just as during the first “#Nakba”, Israel's lies and deceptions dominate the West’s media and political narrative.

So Israel is taking advantage of this moment to “finish the job”. The final destination is clearly in view, as, in truth, it has been for more than seven decades. The crime is unfolding step by step, the pace quickening. And yet senior politicians and journalists in the West – like their predecessors – continue to be blind to it all.

#Palestine #OPT #Gaza #WestBank #Occupation #Colonisation #Dispossession #Apartheid #EthnicCleansing #Genocide #WarCrimes #NewNakba
22/11/2023

🇵🇸 The Olive Tree Hugger: Settler attacks on Palestinian farmers and their olive trees | Al Jazeera

“I hugged the olive tree… I’d raised the tree like my child.” Mahfodah Shtayyeh

On November 27, 2005, a Palestinian woman was photographed hugging an olive tree after it was attacked by Israeli settlers.The photograph became an iconic image symbolising the daily struggle of many Palestinian farmers in the occupied West Bank.

Over 800,000 olive trees on Palestinian farms have been uprooted by the Israeli authorities and settlers since 1967.

#Palestine #OPT #Colonisation #Dispossession #Apartheid #Agriculture #Olive #OliveCulture #Trees #Settler #SettlerViolences

🇵🇸 This is the Solution to Settler-Colonialism in Palestine | Ramzy Baroud

Palestinians know exactly what the solution is to settler-colonialism and #apartheid: #RESISTANCE. And they are resisting. So can we please learn to listen to them, instead of offering unsolicited, often underhanded ‘solutions’ designed to fit or accommodate Israel’s agendas. #Gaza #Palestine #Peace #Colonisation #Settler #middleeast #Israel
#PeaceProcess #RamzyBaroud

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22/11/2023

Israel deports human rights defender documenting Palestinian home demolitions – Mondoweiss – 27/11/2023

Alison Russell was detained by Israeli forces while documenting home demolitions in Masafer Yatta in the occupied West Bank. She was deported following a perfunctory hearing where Israeli police accused her of "supporting terrorism."

In the case of human rights defender Alison Russell, the far-fetched charges of “supporting terrorism” or “keyboard terrorism” cover up the real reason for her detention and deportation. In court, the state asserted that “she had many times disrupted the activities of the #IOF troops, whenever she came in contact with them”. Indeed, it is highly disturbing for the troops to have outside observers and witnesses present where acts of oppression take place, which often constitute blatant violations of International Law.

#Palestine #OPT #WestBank #Demolitions #Colonisation

How Israel indoctrinates its people w/Miko Peled | The Chris Hedges Report - Real News Network

To understand the genocidal campaign unfolding before our eyes, we must examine the roots of Israeli society. Israel is a settler colonial state whose existence depends on the elimination of Palestinians. Accordingly, Israel is a deeply militarized society whose citizens are raised in an environment of historical revisionism and indoctrination that whitewashes Israel's crimes while cultivating a deep-seated racism against Palestinians. Miko Peled, former IOF Special Forces and author of The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine, joins The Chris Hedges Report for a frank conversation on the distortions of history and reality at the foundations of Israeli identity.

#Israel #Palestine #Apartheid #Zionism #Endoctrination #Propaganda #Settler #Colonisation #Dispossession #Hasbara #Occupation #History #MikoPeled
12/01/2023

🇵🇸 Six days that changed the Middle East: The 1967 Arab-Israeli War | AJ Documentary - 2023

The June 1967 War was a milestone in the Arab-Israeli conflict, with consequences still felt across the region to this day.

It altered the political and military landscape, expanded Israel’s territorial claims and confirmed Israel's military dominance in the region.

This war is known to Arabs as 'The War in June' and in Israel as 'The Six Day War'. It came just two decades after the 1948 '#Nakba,' or catastrophe, when the state of Israel was established and hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were expelled from their homes and land.

‘The War in June’ looks at the roots of the 1967 War and documents the actual details of six days of battle, before considering the profound long-term consequences of this conflict which led to Black September and the expulsion of Palestinian factions from Jordan to Lebanon.

#Palestine #History #TheWarInJune #SixDayWar #Israel #ArabIsraeliWar #Colonisation #War #Documentary

Golda Meir (1970) - "we asked them to leave" Palestine

Golda Meir points out she was a Palestinian from 1921 to 1948, says "we asked them [the Arabs] to leave", and is upset that they didn't and don't like it. We were here before, "we've come back". Extract from longer interview with the then Israeli PM Golda Meir, full post from Thames TV here:

#Palestine #GoldaMeir #Zionism #Zionist #Colonisation #Occupation #Dispossession #Israel

US Congress' standing ovation for genocide. One of the most shameful moments in the history of humanity.

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🇵🇸 #Palestine #OPT #Gaza #Dispossession #Occupation #Colonisation #Apartheid #WarCrimes #Genocide #Zionism #Netanyahu #IOF #GenocideJoe #USA #US #UnResolutions #ICJ

🇵🇸 Israel Wiping Out Christianity

Israel Is Annexing Christian Palestinians In The West Bank.

Israeli Finance Minister Smotrich announced the construction of a new settlement in Jabal al-Makhrur, near Bethlehem. Settlers and the army have started expelling residents and declared the area a closed military zone. Despite attacks, many residents are holding a sit-in and refuse to leave.

This is one of the last Christian Palestinian villages.

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#Palestine #Christians #PalestinianChristians #WestBank #OPT #Colonisation #Apartheid

🇵🇸 “We are now going to enter a long period of concentrated effort in enforcement and #demolitions. We are going to return the situation to the way it was.”

Israel's far-right Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, has launched a campaign to demolish structures and expel Palestinians from ‘Area B’ of the West Bank.

Smotrich, who heads a pro-settler party and is himself a settler, accused the Palestinian Authority of investing significant resources to create territorial contiguity in the region, which he claims threatens Israeli control and causes environmental damage.

Under the 1993 #OsloAccords, it was agreed that the area Smotrich is referring to would be controlled by the Palestinian Authority (#PA).

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#Palestine #OPT #WestBank #AreaB #Colonisation #Apartheid

🇵🇸 Reminder : Who Profits - The Israeli Occupation Industry

Since its 1967 #occupation of Palestinian and Syrian land, Israel has developed an intricate system of #oppression, combining military force, technology, #infrastructure, and regulations to exert control over Palestinian and Syrian populations and further entrench its control over #land and #resources. Populations living under Israel’s military rule are denied basic civil liberties and are subject to arbitrary repressive violence by the Israeli military, police force, and private security personnel.

In the occupied #WestBank, around 3 million Palestinians live within a complex mosaic of administrative areas carved out through the 1993 #OsloAccords. Under the Accords the West Bank was divided into three administrative areas (A, B, and C). #AreaA comprises approximately 18% of the West Bank and is nominally under full Palestinian control. Area B, comprising approximately 22% of the West Bank, is under the full administrative control of the Palestinian Authority(#PA) but under the military control of Israel. #AreaC, which comprises 61% of the West Bank, is under the full control of Israel through the Civil (Military) Administration in the West Bank. 

These areas are separated and surrounded by a system of #roadblocks, #fences, #walls, #barriers, and #checkpoints, as well as Israeli #settlements and roads designated for the exclusive use of Israelis. The movement of Palestinians between the separate areas is controlled by an elaborate #permit regime. Further, Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza require special permits to enter into areas annexed to Jerusalem, and #Jerusalem itself. Permits are allocated by the Israeli authorities according to secret security and economic considerations. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are blacklisted and cannot pass through any of the checkpoints, not even to #travel inside their own enclave to the next town or the surrounding area.

In #Gaza, around two million people have been living under an Israeli-imposed land, air, and sea siege since 2007. The movement of people, goods, and services in or out of Gaza is almost completely blocked, and ongoing military attacks cause mounting casualties and infrastructure #destruction.

#Population control and arbitrary movement #restrictions separate families, severely limit access to #HealthCare, #education, and employment, and hinder economic development. Israel also utilizes its force and technologies to surveil and intimidate populations, as well as to quell any form of political activity and resistance, including the routine use of lethal crowd control weapons and live fire on civilian demonstrators.

Collective punishments in the form of military assaults, house #demolitions, curfews, closures, and mass arrests are common. Presently, there are approximately 5,000 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli incarceration centers. About 1,000 are being held under administrative detention, i.e., without having been charged, tried, or sentenced.

Who Profits has identified three sub-categories of corporate involvement in Israel’s Population Control. Private Security and #Surveillance Technology refers to corporate involvement in Israel’s growing Private Security and Surveillance #Technology Industries. The Wall and Checkpoints refers to Israel’s intricate mechanisms of control, physical segregation, and restrictions on the movement of Palestinians in the #oPt. Specialized Equipment and Services, refers to corporate involvement in the provision of services and equipment to the
Israeli military and security apparatus.

#Palestine #Syria #WhoProfits #Apartheid #Colonisation #Occupation #PopulationControl #TheWall

🇵🇸 West Bank Access Restrictions - November 2024 | #OCHA


#Palestine #WestBank #OPT #Map
#Maps #Checkpoint #Occupation #Colonisation #Apartheid

#Palestine #WestBank #OPT #Maps #Map #Checkpoint #Occupation #Colonisation #Apartheid

🇵🇸 Our film is going to the Oscars. But in Masafer Yatta, we’re still being erased | 972mag

As the world watches ‘No Other Land,’ Israeli settlers are raiding and burning our villages while soldiers arrest us, abuse us, and demolish our homes

Despite the exciting success of the #film in #festivals and among journalists and audiences around the world, however, the situation here on the ground is deteriorating rapidly and the future looks bleak.

Over the past 16 months, Israeli settlers and the military have taken advantage of the atmosphere of the war to reshape reality in #MasaferYatta in favor of #settlers and their outposts, intensifying their efforts to displace us from our land. Even as I write this, the Israeli army is conducting a major demolition operation in the community of Khalet A-Daba, razing homes, toilets, solar panels, and trees. 

Documentaries "Saving Masafer Yatta" 2022 + 2023 Documentary

#Palestine #OPT #Colonisation #Apartheid #Dispossession #WestBank #AreaC #Demolition

🇵🇸 Louis Theroux: The Settlers

"Still, Theroux’s achievement is profound. His film enables a much wider understanding that Israel’s barbaric settler-colonial project is incompatible with the much-vaunted proposition that Israel shares western values and is the “only democracy in the Middle East”. 

This ought to have political consequences. Why hasn’t #Britain sanctioned settler leaders #ItamarBenGvir, #Smotrich and many others? How on earth does Prime Minister Keir Starmer get away with claiming that Israel is not an apartheid state? Why does his government refuse to recognise a Palestinian state? "

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/louis-theroux-forces-britain-face-uncomfortable-truth-israeli-settler-barbarism

#documentary #bds #Palestine #Settlers #Zionism #Colonisation #Apartheid #oPt #WestBank

🇵🇸 Israel to take full control of land registry in West Bank's Area C, cementing annexation | MEE

Israel’s cabinet has for the first time voted to take sole responsibility for land registration in #AreaC of the occupied West Bank, a decision that has been described as effective Israeli annexation of the majority of Palestinian land.

Under the 1995 #OsloAgreement, the West Bank was divided into three areas, with the Palestinian Authority (#PA) exerting limited control of areas A and B, while Israel took full control of Area C. The latter area forms 60 percent of total land in the territory.

On Sunday, the Israeli cabinet agreed that in Area C, Israel would now make all decisions about land, and any Palestinian efforts to recognise land using its own land registry would be legally void.

#Palestine #WestBank #Colonisation #Annexation #Apartheid