The Beauty of Belladdi Under the Ugly Occupation

After a 20 year absence from my ancestral home, I am here in the heart of Ramallah, Palestine a few minutes walk from the Manara, the town center. Though I lived in America for 48 years, leaving Ramallah, Palestine at the age of 6, I  feel I am at home. Belladdi!  My land! Though I physically  left, my heart and mind stayed here in Ramallah where I grew up next to the old City Hall, the Baba coffee house and the old Dukan (store) Isheeni.

I returned (should I say visited?) to Palestine in 1995 as a member of the Palestinian American Congress Executive Committee delegation. We spent our 10 days in Palestine going to several meetings per day vising political, social, religious, educational and business leaders, so I  didn't have the opportunity to visit relatives or to get the flavor of Palestine in general and Ramallah in particular.  In retrospect,  I should have stayed longer.

I am here now and as I frequently and fervently write about the political aspects from abroad, I longed to feel for myself the richness of my culture in Palestine. While sitting in the Nile Restaurant on 87th Street in Bridgeview, Illinois one gets a very small sampling of our culture but one does not really taste or feel or see or touch or hear the beauty of the language or smells the falafel cooked every 20 feet by street vendors or smiles as one street vendor shouts "Kaaik (round shaped toasted bread with seseme seeds) for one shakel (Israeli currency)" or appreciates the succulent figs and the yellish-green plums that simply fills your tastebuds with our culture. That is what I want to see, feel, hear, touch and taste and smell.

I have been here in Ramallah for two days now. The falafel sandwich made for me by Mahmoud whose restaurant is just a few doors from the Manara Square evoked my tastebuds beyond any sensation I have ever experienced. Maybe it was the mental anticipation, maybe it was the atmospheric surroundings, maybe it was being among my people, maybe it was my eyes that ate before I took my first bite or maybe it was my heart that reveled in the moment that enhanced the flavors of the falafel sandwich. Whatever it  was, that sandwich was so good, I bought another and I devoured both.

Still I have not filled my stomach. There is so much more to see and taste. Palestine is  a rich country, not by wealth from oil fiends but by the beauty of its hills and valleys; by its traditions and its  culture; and by its people young and old. The olive groves are beauty to the eyes as the mind knows that our culture deeply appreciates the oil that comes from them. Yes the culture has been influenced by the political constraints imposed by the merciless Israeli occupation and indeed our music and our theatrical plays have that political element deeply embedded in them.

Rocks are also enmbedded in the landscape.  Rock fences are a pleny and rocks, the symbol of our strenght, are everywhere along the roads.  Roads are forever winding in Ramallah and its suburbs. Around every  curve is another breathtaking sight. One's eyes are filled by the beauty of the land and the people.

I am seeing  and describing a beautiful picture. I have yet to see, however,  the refugee camps, I  have yet to be stopped by a checkpoint.  I have not been confronted by an Israeli Occupation Force soldier and I have yet to see the Apartheid wall.

In Ramallah, one can lose sense of the occupation. Businesses are flurishing, construction abounds and people are generally happy. Israeli occupational forces are no where to be seen. Life seems to be normal.

I feel engulfed by the beauty around me yet I know deep  inside that that beauty is a camouflage as the human spirit is not free. The ugliness of the brutal Israeli occupation remains.

A cousin showed me his haweeya (ID pappers that every Palestian is required to carry) and then laamented that Israel allows him to go to Jerusalem only during holidays. The people, my people are in a prison.

Yet, the people are happy as they go about their daily lives. As I was walking around the Manara on Sunday, I  noticed a vibrant happy people, though I wondered whether the many young men standing around were working or not.

As the per capita of PHds among Palestinians is the highest in the world, I wonder whether the talents of these young men were being wasted under the ugly occupation.  How much more talent can Palestine give to the world under a free and democratic State of Palestine?

I wonder as I see and taste the beauty of Watanni (an Arabic word for nationalism not easily translatable)?

Oppose The Israeli Three State Solution

I have written in previous articles that Israelis are excellent at using words to manipulate the thought patterns of world public opinion, especially in the United States. They have, through the use of the word “terrorist” against the Palestinians, been able to monopolize a negative opinion of Palestinians in the US, although the history of the creation of the State of Israel is not without horrendous terrorist acts against Palestinians.  I have countered that it is the Israeli soldier that is a terrorist because his/her primary job is to instill fear into the minds of Palestinians in order to get them to do what they would not ordinary do on their own, i.e. give up, leave their land.

Now the Israelis are trying to manipulate public opinion by redefining “checkpoints.” The Israeli soldier controls what Israel now calls “security crossings” to imbed into the minds of public opinion that the formerly called “checkpoints” is the border of the State of Israel.  United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) stated that there were 522 roadblocks and checkpoints obstructing Palestinian movement in the West Bank in July, 2010.  This figure is up from 503.  There are other checkpoints called “flying checkpoints” that are unknown as to when and where they will pop up. On average per month in 2011, 495 of these random checkpoints sprung up, in addition to the 522 permanent roadblocks and checkpoints, to not only hamper, humiliate, harass but also to instill fear, frustration and fatigue into the lives of every Palestinian.

The use of the term “security crossings” and its manipulation and blackmailing of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank is what leads me to believe that Israel does not want a Two State Solution (2SS) but rather wants a Three State Solution (3SS). Israel is in a frantic mode to impose this 3SS upon the Palestinians before the projected demographics make Israelis the minority in 2016 to prevent the inevitable solution: One State Solution (1SS). Israelis believe that if they continue its policy of fear, frustration and fatigue, the Palestinians will ultimately succumb to the 3SS that Israel sees as a counter to the inevitable 1SS. This policy will fail.

Israelis argue that the Palestinians have negotiated away Area C in the West Bank by agreeing to give up control of this area to Israel in the Oslo Accords. Nonsense! Israeli intransigence in not agreeing to the final status matters in the so called “peace talks” and it’s continued expansion of the illegal settlements have rendered the Oslo Accords null and void. Israel refuses to discuss the final status of Jerusalem, which Palestinians claim as the capital of a Palestinian State. Israel refuses to discuss the right of return of Palestinian refugees. And Israel refuses to discuss the borders between Israel and Palestine. Calling the checkpoints “security crossings” is part of the Israeli attempts to impose a 3SS.

Another blatant attempt to impose a 3SS is Israel’s blackmail of withholding taxes that Israel collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority if the Palestinian politicians of the West Bank attempt to reconcile with the Palestinian politicians in Gaza. In essence, Israel does not want Fatah and Hamas to reconcile. It wants separate States for these two political rivals in the West Bank and Gaza. The stupidity of these factions in continuing the divisions between themselves is playing right into the Israeli plans to impose a 3SS.

I argue, in other articles, that this imposition will not be successful as the Palestinian human spirit to be free, innately a part of every human being, will overcome the Israeli aggression against them. However, Palestinians cannot rely on the burning desire inside themselves alone, they must have gumption; they must be shrewd; they must think outside the box.  

Palestinians need to understand what Israel is planning and they must counter the political manipulation of their land, their lives and livelihood. 

There are a variety of practical actions that Palestinians could advocate in their struggle to break the Israeli chains of oppression.

• ·     Palestinians need to support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement . Mobilization and support for the BDS movement needs to part of the Palestinian agenda around the globe.  Supporting supporters of Palestinian Statehood is a must.
•  ·   Palestinians need to make the Israeli businessman suffer the consequences of the occupation. In my article, “Hitting Israel Where it Hurts—Economically”, I argue outside the box by advocating boycotting a single Israeli product imported into the West Bank and Gaza at a time. Read it at http://fadizanayed.blogspot.com/2011/12/hitting-israel-where-it-hurts.html
•  ·    Palestinian youth need to throw their stones. I advocate keeping the option of the stone alive in the following articles: “Romancing the Stone” and “Keeping the David vs. Goliath Option Open.”  http://fadizanayed.blogspot.com/2011/12/romancing-stone-option.html and http://fadizanayed.blogspot.com/2011/12/keeping-david-vs-goliath-option-open.html
•       Palestinians need to reconcile their divisions and present a unified front against the Israelis. I have written numerously in various articles about the need for Hamas and Fatah to reconcile. See “Palestinians Must Establish Parity with Israelis” at http://fadizanayed.blogspot.com/2011/12/palestinians-must-establish-parity-with.html. Opposing Israeli attempts to place obstacles to the reconciliation of these Palestinian political factions needs to be the goal of every Palestinian. Palestinian unity is a must!
•       Palestinians need to take their fight to the International Criminal Court and bring to justice those Israeli leaders who ordered and Israeli soldiers who committed human rights violations against Palestinians.

While the impending demographics will impose a 1SS, Palestinians cannot sit idly back and let the hope of events control their destiny. Palestinians need to be continuously active to make the inevitable human spirit within them blossom sooner than later.

ARE ISRAELI SOLDIERS TERRORISTS?

Several days ago, a Palestinian youth turned 17 years old; he died on his birthday.  While at the Occupier's Checkpoint in ElKhalil, Palestine, the Occupying Soldiers shot him dead with numerous bullets. They then spewed the propaganda that the Palestinian youth had a toy gun and pointed it at them.  How implausible is this story by the occupiers? 

First, where is this toy gun? Wouldn't the occupiers show the toy gun with the story to make their case believable? Second, how can a Palestinian youth, born and raised with fear in his heart from the occupying soldiers, be that unsophisticated to allegedly brandish a toy gun against an occupying soldier?  The toy gun was conjured up by the occupiers as they stated he got it because of his birthday.  Now, had the occupiers said he brandished a real gun,  that may be more acceptable. Years of built up frustration against the occupying soldiers could lead a Palestinian youth to try to kill his occupiers. That I can believe, but to say he had a toy gun--that's crazy. 

Now in a discussions with various Occupying soldier supporters, I raised the hypocrisy of how the recent Oregon Mall shooting was not labeled a terrorist act but would have been so if that same act occurred in a Tel Aviv mall. The definition that was offered by the Israeli supporters for terrorism was "intended to cause death or serious bodily harm to civilians or non-combatants with the purpose of intimidating a population or compelling a government or an international organization to do or abstain from doing any act."  I suspect that this was copied from some authoritative source.

Using this definition, I raised the question can you agree that the purpose of the Israeli soldier is to instill fear in the civilian Palestinians?  Then I asked, given this definition, whether the Israeli occupying soldier that killed the Palestinian youth in ElKhalil, Palestine would be considered a “terrorist?” 

It is undisputed that in the 45 years of occupation of the West Bank and Gaza (I consider Gaza still under occupation) the Israeli occupying soldiers (and the Uzi taunting illegal settlers) have caused “death or serious bodily harm to civilians or non-combatants,” i.e. the Palestinian population. I challenge anyone to argue otherwise.

What is then the purpose of the Israeli soldier?

Before I answer this question, let me say that if Israel could have morally annexed the West Bank into Israel, they would have enacted such legislation decades ago. They have not because they have no legal standing to do so.   They want to annex the West Bank into Israel and have employed the systematic illegal policy of confiscation of Palestinian land, claiming that the land is “disputed.”  But no one is buying this argument.  

Another tactic that Israel is employing, and this is where the Israeli occupying soldier comes in, is to force the Palestinians to leave the West Bank—at least as many as possible.

What tactic does the occupier employ?

Fear! 

The intent of the Israeli occupying soldier of the West Bank is to instill fear, i.e. intimidating a population or compelling…to do or abstain from doing any act." The intent is to instill fear into Palestinians to control them and to make their lives so miserable that they would do an act that they would not normally do, i.e. leave the land.

Therefore, it is logical, given the definition of terrorist given to me by Israeli supporters, that the Israeli occupying soldier is a terrorist.  He/she is there to do one thing:  to control the Palestinian population, to intimidate them, to make their lives miserable. 

How is this accomplished?

The West Bank is dotted with hindering and dehumanizing military checkpoints manned by occupying soldiers that purposefully subject Palestinians to harassment and demoralization.  It is a systematic daily policy that is carried out 24/7, 365 days a year.  At any given time, even in the middle of night, Israeli occupying soldiers can knock down the front door of any Palestinian and search and seize whatever they want and haul away any Palestinian to jail under the pretext of administrative detention.  If this is not fear, a constant fear every second of every day of a Palestinian’s life, I do not know what fear is.

Thus, if fear is the purpose of the presence of the Israeli soldier in the West Bank, he must be a terrorist.  

World Community Lesson Flies Over Netanyahu

The last month in the Israel/Palestinian conflict has taught us a valuable lesson.  The world community took two actions that were fair and balanced, signaling to the parties, including the extremists, that enough is enough; end the conflict by nudging the parties towards boundary lines based on UN Resolution 242, i.e. a Two State Solution.

At first the world community supported Israel for defending itself against rocket attacks from the Hamas controlled Gaza. Then the world community overwhelmingly supported an upgrade in Palestine’s status at the UN from an “entity” to a “state.”  What is the world community of nations trying to tell the Israelis and Palestinians? 

I hope that both the Palestinians and Israelis interpret the world community actions in the spirit that I believe they were taken.

After the cease-fire between between Gaza and Israel, Hamas leader  Khaled Meshaal quickly stated that Hamas is willing to accept a TSS with 1967 borders. This is a major accomplishment for the advancement of peace in the region.  No similar statement was heard from any of the major parties within Israel. 

In fact, after the UN voted to upgrade the status of Palestine to that of observer “State”, Israel responded by stating that they will go forward with objectionable plans to build settlements in Area E1 around Jerusalem, which effectively kills the TSS by dissecting a West Bank home for a Palestinian State. This too is a major accomplishment but not for the advancement of peace but for the prolongation of the status quo, i.e. occupation.  This is sad.

Britain, France Spain, the European Union, Denmark, Sweden, Australia and Egypt have all summoned its Ambassadors to Israel, a step short of “recalling” the Ambassador to protest the Israeli settlemtn announcement.  Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel decided to meet formally with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to sternly tell him to drop plans to build 3,000 new settler homes in a highly contentious strip of the occupied West Bank near Jerusalem.

Netanyahu responded by not fully appreciating what the World community was trying say to Israel and Palestine by telling the German press, "I appreciated the support of Chancellor Merkel and the German government during the operation in Gaza..At the same time, I would be disingenuous if I didn’t tell you that I was disappointed, as were many people in Israel, by the German vote in the UN.  

Netanyahu also stated that the UN vote also would unite the West Bank Fatah Party with the Gaza Hamas Party, as if that was taboo.  This just reinforces my argument that Israel is not looking for a TSS but a Three State Solution (TSS).  He also referred to Hamas as terrorist, overlooking the fact that in his own coalition includes the Shaas Party, whose  whose spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yousef calls for the annihilation of the Palestinians. 

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abass has signaled, after the upgrade of the UN status for Palestine and in response to the Israeli action on new illegal settlement building, that he will seek International Criminal Court action “in the case of Israeli aggression.”  Netanyahu responded by withholding $100 million of taxes that Israel collects on behalf of Palestinians and must turnover to the Palestinian Authority.

            The world community lesson of the past month has flown over Netanyahu’s head as he wants 100% consent without objection.  Not every country can be as controlled by Israel as the United States.  Netanyahu doesn’t seem to understand that 95% of the world community wants a fair and balanced resolution of the conflict with the Palestinians.  His defiance is hindering any chance for a TSS  and only drives Israel into a One State Solution (OSS).

No Talking Endlessly

A Facebook member contacted me with the following message: hello---can you say something about achieving peace both for Israel/Palestinians and over all area -- or are you just anti-Israel? I see you are educated…. so you should be working for a solution

My reply:

I am not anti-Israel.  I was one of the first Palestinians to call for the recognition of Israel.  In1980 I championed the recognition of Israel at college campuses and within the Palestinian community in Chicago. I attended the White House Rose Garden peace signing ceremony on September 13, 1993 and witnessed the famous handshake between Rabin and Arafat. 

I have always been and continue to be an advocate for peace.  Yet, I like many peace-loving Palestinians have become disillusioned by Israel's constant talking but not really talking.  They want to talk but never conclude the "talks" and all the while they want to illegally confiscate more Palestinian land and build more illegal settlements and transfer more hard core machine gun taunting settlers into these settlements.  Their justification for this is that the Palestinians have given up Area C in the Oslo Agreement.  This is hogwash. 

They cut down our olive groves and then Israeli supporters justify this by saying that "terrorists" hide in the trees.  This is hogwash. 

When I ask Israeli's to explain the discrepancy between laws that differently effect Palestinians and Israelis and how they cannot call Israel an apartheid state, they have no explanations. They have no explanation for Jewish only roads; no explanation for colored license plates for Palestinians; no explanation for a wall that divides farmers from their farm land; no explanation for surrounding towns with barred wires and checkpoints out of those towns that allow residence ingress and egress at only certain times of the day.  In one such town, an elementary school is outside the wall and the guards at the 3pm crossing when children are released from their school purposefully choose to not open the gates leaving the children alone to wait until the evening crossing before they can return to their families and homes. This is a direct policy that builds frustration and hatred and ultimately aims to continue the status quo--occupation.

No one can explain to me that why Israel always asks the Palestinians to return to the "negotiating table" when Israeli soldiers carry out a direct and humiliating policy to destroy the human will of the Palestinians.  No one asks the Israelis why their leaders continue to frustrate and subjugate Palestinians into complacency.  No one asks Israel to stop its policy to dehumanize Palestinians and establish a policy to build an atmosphere of confidence in the future.

The future is in numbers. Peace will be established when Israel realizes that the will of the Palestinians people cannot be destroyed; that they cannot continue their apartheid practices especially when in 2016 it is expected that the population in Palestine and Israel will be such that Israelis are the minority.

The problem with a lack of peace is that the Israeli political system gives too much power to its minority parties.  In all the 64 year history of Israel, there has been only one Israeli government that had a majority in its Knesset.  All the other Israeli governments have been run by coalition governments that are beholden to right wing minority parties that do not want peace because these parties wield the ongoing threat to switch their allegiance in the Knesset in a no confidence vote thus bringing down the ruling party.  (See my article Soul Searching Leads to Peace http://fadizanayed.blogspot.com/2011/12/soul-searching-leads-to-peace.html  which explains how the Israeli political system is a hindrance to peace. ) 


The only way for peace to be achieved is through a One State Solution.  It is not an impossibility.  South Africa has proven that. Despite the decades of White Rule in South Africa the Black population, through the heroic efforts of Nelson Mandela, reconciliation between the people of South Africa, thought to be unattainable, was achieved successfully. Recompilation can be achieved in the Holy Land.  

I still have hope for peace. I will always have hope for peace.  I want to live with Jews, Muslims and Christians in prosperity in the Holy Land.  I want to work for a solution but I cannot and will not talk for the sake of talk if it will lead to a never ending talks.  


A One State Solution is the only thing to "talk" about. 

Communicating With Catholics

                I just realized that by putting the word Catholic on my Facebook status, my status gets posted to the Catholic Facebook friend’s activity page where there are 411,000 members.  As a member of the Catholic Facebook page, I, a Christian, now have the ability to communicate my Palestinian message to other Christians.  I suppose that there are many other Facebook pages that I can do the same to.

                Such out of the box thinking needs to be part of the Palestinian agenda to expose the Apartheid State of Israel.  We need to find different ways to inform the world that Israel is daily inflicting a brutal campaign of fear to rid Palestine of Palestinians.  So I turn to my fellow Christians to say the following.

Apartheid Israel has imprisoned the 4.5 million Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza with an Apartheid Wall or electronic barbed wires.   Palestinian towns are imprisoned in enclaves with only one entrance and exit point controlled by apartheid Israeli soldiers. The gate is open for short periods of time during the morning, afternoon and evening.  Some days, in the apartheid Israeli soldier forgets to open the gate for the afternoon opening and children coming back from school have to wait outside the town gates until the evening opening.

                Many Catholics may not realize that a Catholic synod, a special council of church members that holds regular meetings to discuss religious issues, stated in October, 2010 that Israel is the root cause of all the Middle East woes.  The final statement of the synod listed the occupation, the apartheid wall, the numerous military checkpoints, the huge number of political prisoners, and the Israeli policy of fear which disrupts everyday Palestinian life as the main reasons behind the exodus of Palestinian Christians.  It also stated that these continuing Israeli aggravations are the cause for attacks on Israel.

                The Catholic synod even stated that Christ nullified God’s promise to the Jews.  While the purpose of this blog is political rather than religious, the implication of this statement is both political and religious.  The religious and political cover Apartheid Israel uses to retain, occupy and plunder Palestinian land can be negated if Catholics grasped the concept that Christ’s New Covenant made Christians the inheritors of God’s   promise. Instead the Christian religious right misunderstands Jesus’s teachings when it supports Israel’s domination of Palestinian land. This in turn is a direct contradiction of Jesus’s teachings when such policy strengthens Israel and contributes to the exodus of Christians from the Holy Land.

                But my purpose in writing this blog is not to get too deep into a religious dissertation but rather to call upon Catholics to understand what is happening in the Palestinian Occupied Territories. I want Catholics reading this message to understand that Israel is not the democracy it says it is. I want Catholics to understand that Israel is an Apartheid State.  I say this because Apartheid Israel has laws that allow Jewish communities to screen new applicants, a legal way to exclude Palestinians from mixing with Jews. Apartheid Israel has roads that are for the exclusive use of Jews. Does this sound like the Whites Only bathrooms and drinking fountains of the American Southern States?  Palestinians have to have a different colored license plate to distinguish them from Jews.  Is this not racism? Is this not an Apartheid system?

                The percentage of Christians is dwindling tremendously in Jerusalem and in Palestine.  Christians are losing a presence in the Holy Land for which it will take decades if not a century to build back up. Can Catholics sit idly by and close their eyes to what is happening in the Holy Land?  Can Catholics allow Israeli atrocities and policy of fear to drive Christians completely out of the Holy Land?

                Communicating to the Catholics and other groups in this way needs to be part of the Palestinian agenda.  We have a just cause that needs to be communicated.  

(© Copyright, Fadi Zanayed.  Publication or distribution of this material is allowed provided its content is not altered and the source and its author are cited.)

التواصل مع الكاثوليك

(قمت بترجمة هذه المقالة على Google. محدودة كما هو قدرتي على قراءة اللغة العربية،أنا لا يمكن أن تضمن دقة الترجمة)

أدركت ذلك تماما من خلال وضع كلمة الكاثوليكية على الفيسبوك وضعي ، ويحصل على نشر وضعي إلى صفحة الفيسبوك نشاط الكاثوليكية الأصدقاء حيث هناك 411000 عضوا. كعضو في صفحة الفيسبوك الكاثوليكية ، وأنا ، وهو مسيحي ، والآن لدينا القدرة على التواصل رسالتي الفلسطينية لمسيحيين آخرين. أفترض أن هناك العديد من صفحات الفيسبوك أستطيع أن تفعل الشيء نفسه ل.

                من مثل هذا النوع من التفكير يحتاج إلى مربع تكون جزءا من جدول الأعمال الفلسطيني لفضح دولة الفصل العنصري في إسرائيل. نحن بحاجة إلى إيجاد طرق مختلفة لتعريف العالم بأن إسرائيل هي إلحاق اليومية حملة وحشية من الخوف لتخليص فلسطين من الفلسطينيين. لذا فإنني أنتقل إلى المسيحيين زملائي أن أقول ما يلي.وقد سجنت اسرائيل الفصل العنصري الفلسطينيين 4.5 مليون نسمة في الضفة الغربية وقطاع غزة مع جدار الفصل العنصري أو الأسلاك الشائكة الإلكترونية.مسجونون المدن الفلسطينية في جيوب مع مدخل واحد فقط ونقطة الخروج التي يسيطر عليها الجنود الاسرائيليون الفصل العنصري. البوابة مفتوحة لفترات قصيرة من الوقت خلال فترة ما بعد الظهر ، صباحا ومساء. بعض الأيام ، والجندي الإسرائيلي ينسى الفصل العنصري لفتح بوابة للفتح بعد ظهر اليوم والأطفال يعودون من المدرسة إلى الانتظار خارج أبواب المدينة حتى افتتاح المساء.



                قد لا يدرك الكثير من الكاثوليك ان المجمع الكنسي الكاثوليكي ، ومجلس خاص لأعضاء الكنيسة التي تعقد اجتماعات منتظمة لمناقشة القضايا الدينية ، صرح في تشرين الاول ، 2010 ان اسرائيل هي السبب الجذري لجميع مشاكل الشرق الأوسط. البيان الختامي لسينودس سرد الاحتلال ، وجدار الفصل العنصري ، والعديد من نقاط التفتيش العسكرية ، وعدد كبير من السجناء السياسيين ، والسياسة الإسرائيلية من الخوف الذي يعطل الحياة الفلسطينية اليومية حيث أن الأسباب الرئيسية وراء هجرة المسيحيين الفلسطينيين. وذكرت أيضا أن هذه مفاقمة الاوضاع الاسرائيلية المستمرة هي السبب لشن هجمات على اسرائيل.



                المجمع الكنسي الكاثوليكي وذكر ان المسيح حتى يبطل وعد الله لليهود. في حين أن الغرض من هذا بلوق هو سياسي وليس ديني ، والآثار المترتبة على هذا البيان على حد سواء السياسية والدينية. والفصل العنصري بغطاء ديني وسياسي يستخدم للاحتفاظ اسرائيل ، احتلال ، ويمكن أن تبطل نهب الأراضي الفلسطينية اذا الكاثوليك اغتنامها المفهوم القائل بأن المسيح العهد الجديد جعل المسيحيين ورثة وعد الله. بدلا من ذلك اليمين المسيحي الدينية يسيء فهم تعاليم يسوع عندما كانت تدعم هيمنة اسرائيل للاراضي الفلسطينية.هذا بدوره يشكل تناقضا مباشرا من تعاليم يسوع عند هذه السياسة يقوي اسرائيل ويساهم في هجرة المسيحيين من الأراضي المقدسة.



                ولكن هدفي في كتابة هذا بلوق هو عدم الحصول على عميق جدا في أطروحة دينية بل ندعو الكاثوليك لفهم ما يحدث في الأراضي الفلسطينية المحتلة. أريد الكاثوليك قراءة هذه الرسالة إلى أن يفهموا أن إسرائيل ليست هي الديمقراطية تقول انها هي. أريد الكاثوليك أن نفهم أن إسرائيل هي دولة الفصل العنصري. أقول هذا لأن الفصل العنصري اسرائيل القوانين التي تسمح للجاليات اليهودية الشاشة المتقدمين الجدد ، وسيلة قانونية لاستبعاد الفلسطينيين من الاختلاط مع اليهود. الفصل العنصري الإسرائيلي والطرق التي هي للاستخدام الحصري لليهود. هل هذا الصوت مثل الحمامات البيض فقط ونوافير مياه الشرب في الولايات الجنوبية الأمريكية؟ الفلسطينيون ان يكون لديك مختلفة وحات ملونة لتمييزهم عن اليهود. أليس هذا عنصرية؟ هذا هو نظام الفصل العنصري لا؟



                نسبة المسيحيين تتضاءل بشكل كبير في القدس وفي فلسطين.المسيحيون يفقدون وجودها في الأراضي المقدسة والتي ستستغرق عدة عقود إن لم يكن من قرن من أجل بناء احتياطيا. ويمكن أن نقف موقف المتفرج الكاثوليك وإغلاق أعينهم على ما يحدث في الأرض المقدسة؟ يمكن أن تسمح الكاثوليك الفظائع الإسرائيلية وسياسة الخوف لدفع المسيحيين خارجا تماما عن الأرض المقدسة؟



                التواصل للكاثوليك والجماعات الأخرى في هذا الطريق يجب أن يكون جزءا من جدول الأعمال الفلسطيني. لدينا قضية عادلة لا بد من إبلاغها.


(Zanayed © ، فادي يسمح نشر أو توزيع هذه المواد شريطة أن لا تغيير محتواها وأشار المصدر وصاحبه).

I Will Not Be Intimidated!

                Early this morning I received an email message telling me that IDF RABBI (IDFrabbi) is now receiving my messages posted on Tweeter.    His profile states that he is “Friend of Israeli soldier and Mosad agent…..”    IDF stands for Israeli Defense Force and Mosad is Apartheid israel’s equivalent of the CIA.  Am I supposed to be intimidated? Am I supposed to stop writing about exposing the Apartheid State of Israel”

                No! I will not stop writing.  I will not be intimidated!

                I do not mind that a “friend of Israeli soldier” is following me.  I have nothing to hide. My blog tries to expose Israel for what it truly is—an Apartheid State of Israel.  If I can make a pro-Israeli think twice about the atrocities that Apartheid Israel is doing in Palestine, especially a rabbi, I will be happy.  After all, I do not want my message to be just read by Palestinians and their supporters.  I want people that do not support or do not understand the Palestinian cause to be enlightened to a point that they start advocating for the Palestinian right of return; for championing East Jerusalem as the capital of an independent democratic Palestinian State; for the removal of military checkpoints; for ending the cruel Apartheid Israeli occupation of Palestine; for the dismantling of the apartheid wall; for the lifting of the siege on Gaza; for the release of Palestinian political prisoners lingering in Apartheid Israel’s jails; for the preservation of Palestinian olive groves; and/or for understanding the true nature of Israel as an Apartheid State.

                I do not even mind that IDF Rabbi is a self-proclaimed “Mosad agent.”  If that is supposed to intimidate me, it does not.  The policy of Apartheid Israel is to instill fear into Palestinians living in Palestine to a point that they want to voluntarily leave their land of Palestine.   Read my articles: “Sadiq: It is hard to live in fear”[1] and “Apartheid Israel Policy of Fear”[2] where I write about Israel’s policy of fear.  In my case, since I do not live in Palestine, Apartheid Israel wants to intimidate me from exposing its apartheid nature by scaring me from expressing my views.

                Am I really going to stop writing now that a “Mosad agent” is now following me? I am aware that that people like me who blog against Apartheid Israel are being watched?  Of course we are being watched.  In fact, Apartheid Israel pays college students to scout for what people like me are saying about it.[3]   Apartheid Israel’s tactic of fear is being exported to try to intimidate Palestinian supporters from exposing the apartheid nature of Israel.  It will not work.

                In America, the freedom of speech is all too powerful a human value that cannot be abridged by any level of intimidation.  Apartheid Israel does not understand this human value of freedom of speech.  In fact, Apartheid Israel has passed a law to stifle any form of support for the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement which is daily growing against Israel.  It is now an offense to call for a boycott against the (Apartheid) State of Israel or its West Bank settlements. Amnesty International states this law “will have a chilling effect on freedom of expression in Israel.”[4]

                Apartheid Israel taunts itself as the only democracy in the Middle East.  With the anti-boycott, anti-free speech law that Apartheid Israel has passed can it really still claim to be democratic?  Stifling free speech is not what democracies do.

Amnesty International  recognized that it is “… clear that one of the main aims of the law is to penalize those using boycott calls to campaign against Israel's illegal settlements in the OPT or highlight the ongoing violations of Palestinian rights caused by the settlements.” 

It is also clear that Apartheid Israel wants to intimidate Palestinians and their supporters  from exposing it for what it is—as the Apartheid State of Israel.   Will we be intimidated?  NO! NO! NO!

( © Copyright, Fadi Zanayed.  Publication or distribution of this material is allowed provided its content is not altered and the source and its author are cited.)

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[1] http://fadizanayed.blogspot.com/2011/12/sadiq-it-is-hard-to-live-in-fear.html

[2] http://fadizanayed.blogspot.com/2012/01/apartheid-israel-policy-of-fear.html

[3] Israeli students to get $2,000 to spread state propaganda on Facebook, Ali Abunimah, January 4, 2012

http://electronicintifada.net/blog/ali-abunimah/israeli-students-get-2000-spread-state-propaganda-facebook

[4] “Israel anti-boycott law an attack on freedom of expression” Amnesty International, July 12, 2011, http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/israel-anti-boycott-law-attack-freedom-expression-2011-07-12

لن أكون وخوفا

(قمت بترجمة هذه المقالة على Google. كما هو محدود لغتي العربية، لا أستطيع أن يشهدوا على دقة الترجمة.) 

في وقت مبكر هذا الصباح تلقيت رسالة بالبريد الإلكتروني تقول لي أن الجيش الإسرائيلي الحاخام (IDFrabbi) يتلقى الآن رسائلي المنشورة على مكبر الصوت. الدول صورته انه "صديق لجندي اسرائيلي وعميل الموساد....." جيش الدفاع الإسرائيلي يقف لقوات الدفاع الإسرائيلية والموساد ما يعادل الفصل العنصري الاسرائيلي لوكالة الاستخبارات المركزية. أنا من المفترض أن يكون للترهيب؟ أنا من المفترض أن يتوقف عن الكتابة حول تعريض دولة الفصل العنصري في إسرائيل "

                لا! وأنا لن يتوقف عن الكتابة. ولن أكون الترهيب!

                أنا لا أمانع ان "صديقا لجندي اسرائيلي" يتبع لي. ليس لدي أي شيء لتخفيه. بلدي بلوق يحاول فضح إسرائيل على ما هو عليه حقا ، ودولة الفصل العنصري في إسرائيل. اذا كنت استطيع جعل الموالية لاسرائيل تفكر مرتين عن الفظائع التي تقوم به إسرائيل من الفصل العنصري في فلسطين ، وخصوصا حاخام ، وسوف أكون سعيدا. بعد كل شيء ، لا أريد أن تكون رسالتي للقراءة فقط من قبل الفلسطينيين ومؤيديهم. أريد من الناس التي لا تدعم أو لا يفهمون القضية الفلسطينية لتكون المستنير إلى نقطة البداية أنها تدافع عن حق الفلسطينيين في العودة ، لنصرة القدس الشرقية كعاصمة لدولة فلسطينية مستقلة ديمقراطية ، من أجل إزالة العسكرية نقاط التفتيش ؛ لانهاء الاحتلال العنصري القاسية الإسرائيلي لفلسطين ، للاطلاع على تفكيك جدار الفصل العنصري ، من أجل رفع الحصار عن غزة ، من أجل إطلاق سراح السجناء السياسيين الفلسطينيين العالقة في سجون الفصل العنصري لإسرائيل ، من أجل الحفاظ على بساتين الزيتون الفلسطينية ؛ و / أو لفهم الطبيعة الحقيقية لإسرائيل بوصفها دولة الفصل العنصري.

               أنا لا أمانع حتى أن الجيش الإسرائيلي الحاخام هي التي نصبت نفسها "عميل الموساد". إذا كان هذا هو المفترض لتخويف لي ، فإنه لا يفعل ذلك. سياسة الفصل العنصري في إسرائيل هو غرس الخوف في نفوس الفلسطينيين الذين يعيشون في فلسطين إلى درجة أنهم يرغبون في مغادرة أراضيهم طوعا من فلسطين. قراءة مقالاتي : "صادق : إنه من الصعب أن يعيش في خوف" [1] و "سياسة الفصل العنصري إسرائيل من الخوف" [2] حيث كنت أكتب عن سياسة إسرائيل من الخوف. في حالتي ، لأنني لا أعيش في فلسطين والفصل العنصري وتريد اسرائيل لتخويف لي من فضح طابعها العنصري التي تخويف لي من التعبير عن آرائي.

                أنا ذاهب حقا أن يتوقف عن الكتابة الآن أن "عميل الموساد" تتابع لي الآن؟ إنني أدرك أن يجري شاهدت أن الناس أمثالي الذين بلوق الفصل العنصري ضد إسرائيل؟ بالطبع يجري شاهدنا. في الواقع ، والفصل العنصري إسرائيل يدفع طلاب الجامعات لاستكشاف ما لشخص مثلي يقولون حول هذا الموضوع. [3] يتم تصديره تكتيك الفصل العنصري الاسرائيلي من الخوف في محاولة لتخويف الفلسطينيين من أنصار فضح الطبيعة العنصرية لإسرائيل. فهو لن يعمل.

                في أمريكا ، وحرية التعبير قوية جدا عن قيمة الإنسان لا يمكن أن تنتقص من أي مستوى من الترهيب. الفصل العنصري إسرائيل لا تفهم هذه القيمة الإنسانية من حرية التعبير. في الواقع ، لقد مرت الفصل العنصري إسرائيل قانون لخنق أي شكل من أشكال الدعم لحركة المقاطعة وسحب الاستثمارات والعقوبات التي تنمو يوميا ضد اسرائيل. هي عليه الآن جريمة في الدعوة إلى المقاطعة ضد الدولة (الفصل العنصري) من إسرائيل أو المستوطنات في الضفة الغربية. منظمة العفو الدولية الدول هذا القانون "سيكون له تأثير سلبي على حرية التعبير في اسرائيل". [4]

                الفصل العنصري الإسرائيلي يسخر نفسها الديمقراطية الوحيدة في الشرق الأوسط. يمكن مع المضادة للمقاطعة والقانون خطاب مكافحة الفصل العنصري الحرة التي مرت إسرائيل حقا لا تزال تدعي أن تكون ديمقراطية؟خنق حرية التعبير ليست ما تفعل الديمقراطيات.اعترفت منظمة العفو الدولية أنه "... من الواضح أن أحد الأهداف الرئيسية لهذا القانون هو معاقبة أولئك الذين يستخدمون دعوات المقاطعة للقيام بحملة ضد المستوطنات الإسرائيلية غير القانونية في الأراضي الفلسطينية المحتلة أو تسليط الضوء على الانتهاكات المستمرة لحقوق الفلسطينيين الناجمة عن الاستيطان".

                ومن الواضح أيضا أن إسرائيل تريد الفصل العنصري لتخويف الفلسطينيين ومؤيديهم من تعريضها لما هي عليه ، باعتبارها الدولة الفصل العنصري في إسرائيل. وسيتم ترهيب نحن؟ لا! لا! لا!(Zanayed © ، فادي يسمح نشر أو توزيع هذه المواد شريطة أن لا تغيير محتواها وأشار المصدر وصاحبه).[1] http://fadizanayed.blogspot.com/2011/12/sadiq-it-is-hard-to-live-in-fear.html[2] http://fadizanayed.blogspot.com/2012/01/apartheid-israel-policy-of-fear.html[3] طلاب الإسرائيلية للحصول على 2000 $ لنشر الدعاية الحكومية في الفيسبوك ، وعلي أبو نعمة ، 4 يناير 2012[4] "إسرائيل المضادة للمقاطعة القانون هجوم على حرية التعبير" منظمة العفو الدولية ، 12 يوليو 2011 ،

Apartheid Israeli Strife Over Outposts Growing

                The internal friction within Israeli society is immense.  This strife grows with each day. In the coming months the battle over the illegal outposts by apartheid Israeli settlers will intensify as Supreme Court deadlines to dismantle various outposts will become due.  Pitted against each other are the Chief Apartheid Benjamin Netanyahu, the apartheid settlers and various officials in the government and Knesset.  This battle is but one of many internal struggles that is destroying Israel and one in which I will express my thoughts.

                According to Wikepedia, an Israeli outpost is a Jewish community built in the West Bank (excluding Jerusalem) that was constructed between 1991 and 2004 without the authorization of the Apartheid Israeli government.  (Wikepedia did not use the term Apartheid to refer to Israel, I, however, use the term Apartheid Israel at every opportunity—because that is what Israel is—an Apartheid State.)  While Wikepedia excluded the outposts around Jerusalem, Palestinians, of course, include them as containing illegal outposts and settlements.  These outposts and settlements are built on privately owned Palestinian land.

                The difference between an outpost and a settlement is really insignificant to Palestinians.  While outposts are considered illegal by Israeli law as they are not authorized by Apartheid Israeli governments, settlements are authorized although also illegal under international law. Outposts are a prelude to settlements.  Outposts start off with a few families who live in caravans as they await infrastructure and financial support from Apartheid Israel and sympathetic individuals and communities both inside Israel and abroad, usually from the United States Jewish community.

                There are over 120 illegal outposts dotting the West Bank.  Palestinian land owners upon which these outposts have been built have, with the help of organization Peace Now, petitioned the Apartheid Israeli Supreme Court to enforce an order to dismantle the illegal outposts.  The Supreme Court has ordered the Apartheid Israeli government of Chief Apartheid Netanyahu to remove several outposts, some of whose deadlines are coming up in the next several months.

                The illegal outpost called Migron is set to be dismantled by March 31, 2012.  It is located southeast of Ramallah and northwest of Jerusalem.  Chief Apartheid Netanyahu has proposed a compromise to the apartheid Migron settlers in which he requested them to voluntarily evacuate the outpost and receive in return support to establish a community on nearby state land. Whether that “state land” is part of land Palestinians claim to be part of East Jerusalem upon which they want to establish the capital of Palestine is not clear.

                The apartheid settlers of Migron have rejected the proposal and demanded of the Chief Apartheid to authorize the outpost by legislation.  Of course, the authorization by the Apartheid Israeli Knesset would only make it legal within Israeli law but still illegal under international law.  Any evacuation of Migron, the apartheid settler’s claim, will cost the Chief Apartheid his job.

                Several Apartheid Israeli officials including the Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin, want to legislate a solution with a compensation payment to the Palestinian land owners.  The problem with this “compromise” is that the land is not and has never been for sale.  Additionally, under International law, specifically the Fourth Geneva convention, Apartheid Israel has no legal jurisdiction to appropriate occupational land.   Israel is a signatory to the Fourth Geneva Convention and therefore is bond by its mandate. Thus any action taken by the Apartheid Israeli Knesset is null and void as to any Palestinian land.  Israel argues that the Palestinian Territory is not encompassed within the said convention but this argument is so ludicrous that it makes a mockery of the convention itself.

                Other illegal outposts are scheduled to be dismantled in the coming months.  The following illegal outposts around Ramallah, Palestine are scheduled to be dismantled:

Dreinoff Quarter (direcltly northeast)     April, 2012

                Jabel Artis (northeast)                                   May, 2012 partially

Gival Assaf (just south)                                July 1, 2012

                Amona (further northeast)                         End of 2012

                While these outposts are under orders to be dismantled, there are over 100 other outposts whose fates are not determined.   In fact, there are many other illegal outposts that the Apartheid Israeli government is trying to make into settlements despite the fact that the entire world has stated that they are obstacles to peace.

                Apartheid Israeli governments purposefully delay action in pending outpost demolition cases in order to encourage more illegal construction.  That is the conclusion of a Yesh Din report which was released in November, 2011.  “The report, which looked at 16 court cases, charged that the state’s failure to raze unauthorized settler homes and its initial steps to retroactively legalize them encourages such illegal building activity.” [1]

                When it comes to demolishing of Palestinian homes and buildings, however, the Apartheid Israel Army is quick to bring in its US made Caterpillar D9 armed bulldozers to do its treacherous job. Such demolitions are used to collectively punish Palestinian families for actions that they did not personally commit and to steal Palestinian land for annexation to build the Apartheid Wall or expand illegal settlements.

                While Chief Apartheid Netanyahu is looking for a compromise with the illegal outpost residents, his current position to dismantle the outposts will have little meaning.  Nevertheless, Chief Apartheid Netanyahu will spin this gesture as a confidence building measure towards the Palestinians.  What will be lost in this gesture is the fact that at the same time the Chief Apartheid will be moving to turn other outposts into settlements.    The Chief Apartheid cannot appease the Palestinians and the settlers at the same time.

                The battle within Apartheid Israeli society on this issue will be played out throughout the coming months.  It will tear Israel apart.

(  © Copyright, Fadi Zanayed.  Publication or distribution of this material is allowed provided its content is not altered and the source and its author are cited.)

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[1] “’Stat’s failure to act encourages illegal contruction,’” Tovah Lazaroff, October 11, 2011, Jerusalem Post http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=241251

الفصل العنصري الإسرائيلي الفتنة أكثر من تنامي البؤر الاستيطانية

(قمت بترجمة هذه المقالة على Google. كما هو محدود لغتي العربية، لا أستطيع أن يشهدوا على دقة الترجمة.) الاحتكاك الداخلي في المجتمع الإسرائيلي ما زالت هائلة. هذا الصراع يزداد مع كل يوم. وخلال الأشهر المقبلة المعركة حول البؤر الاستيطانية غير القانونية من قبل المستوطنين الإسرائيليين الفصل العنصري وتكثيف والمواعيد النهائية المحكمة العليا لتفكيك البؤر الاستيطانية المختلفة تصبح مستحقة. تقف ضد بعضها البعض هي الفصل العنصري بنيامين نتنياهو رئيس والمستوطنين الفصل العنصري ومختلف المسؤولين في الحكومة والكنيست. هذه المعركة ليست سوى واحدة من العديد من الصراعات الداخلية التي تعمل على تدمير اسرائيل واحدة في التي سوف نعرب عن أفكاري.
                وفقا لWikepedia ، موقع استيطاني إسرائيلي هو الجالية اليهودية التي بنيت في الضفة الغربية (باستثناء القدس) الذي شيد بين عامي 1991 و 2004 من دون تصريح من الحكومة الاسرائيلية الفصل العنصري.(لم Wikepedia عدم استخدام الفصل العنصري المصطلح للإشارة إلى إسرائيل ، ومع ذلك ، فإنني استخدام مصطلح الفصل العنصري في إسرائيل كل فرصة ، لأن هذا هو ما إسرائيل ، دولة الفصل العنصري.) في حين استبعدت Wikepedia البؤر الاستيطانية حول القدس ، والفلسطينيين ، بطبيعة الحالوتشمل هذه البؤر الاستيطانية غير القانونية والتي تحتوي على والمستوطنات.بنيت هذه البؤر الاستيطانية والمستوطنات على الأراضي الفلسطينية المملوكة للقطاع الخاص.

                الفرق بين مخفر والتسوية غير ذات أهمية حقا للفلسطينيين. في حين تعتبر البؤر الاستيطانية غير القانونية بموجب القانون الاسرائيلي وغير مسموح من قبل الحكومات الإسرائيلية الفصل العنصري ، وعلى الرغم من أن المستوطنات غير قانونية أذن أيضا بموجب القانون الدولي. البؤر الاستيطانية والمستوطنات تمهيدا ل. البؤر تبدأ مع عدد قليل من العائلات الذين يعيشون في بيوت متنقلة لأنها تنتظر البنية التحتية والدعم المالي من إسرائيل بالفصل العنصري والأفراد والمجتمعات على حد سواء المتعاطفة داخل إسرائيل وخارجها ، وعادة من الولايات المتحدة للمجتمع اليهودي.

                هناك أكثر من 120 مواقع استيطانية غير قانونية تنتشر في الضفة الغربية. أصحاب الأراضي الفلسطينية التي تقوم عليها وقد بنيت هذه البؤر ، شريطة الحصول على مساعدة من منظمة السلام الآن ، التماسا إلى المحكمة العليا الإسرائيلية الفصل العنصري لفرض أمر لتفكيك المواقع الاستيطانية غير القانونية. وقد أمرت المحكمة العليا الحكومة الفصل العنصري الإسرائيلي نتنياهو رئيس الفصل العنصري لإزالة البؤر الاستيطانية عدة ، وبعض الذين المواعيد النهائية القادمة في الأشهر القليلة المقبلة.

                تم تعيين البؤرة الاستيطانية ميغرون غير قانونية تسمى لتفكيكها بحلول 31 مارس اذار 2012. وتقع الى الجنوب الشرقي من مدينة رام الله وشمال غرب القدس. وقد اقترح رئيس الفصل العنصري نتنياهو حلا وسطا للمستوطنين ميغرون الفصل العنصري والذي طلب منهم اخلاء البؤرة الاستيطانية طوعا وتلقي الدعم في العودة إلى إقامة مجتمع على أرض دولة مجاورة. سواء كان ذلك "أراضي الدولة" هي جزء من أرض يطالب الفلسطينيون أن تكون جزءا من القدس الشرقية التي يريدون بناء لإقامة عاصمة لفلسطين ليس واضحا.

                ورفض المستوطنون الفصل العنصري في ميغرون الاقتراح وطالبت من الفصل العنصري رئيس أن يأذن للمخفر عن طريق التشريع.بطبيعة الحال ، فإن الحصول على إذن من الكنيست الإسرائيلي جعل الفصل العنصري القانوني إلا في إطار القانون الاسرائيلي ولكن لا تزال غير قانونية بموجب القانون الدولي. فإن أي اخلاء ميغرون ، مطالبة المستوطنين الفصل العنصري والفصل العنصري يكلف رئيس وظيفته.

                مسؤولون الفصل العنصري الإسرائيلي عدة بما في ذلك روفين ريفلين رئيس الكنيست ، وتريد تشريع حل مع دفع تعويضات لأصحاب الأراضي الفلسطينية. المشكلة مع هذا "الحل الوسط" هو أن الأرض ليست ولم تكن أبدا للبيع. بالإضافة إلى ذلك ، بموجب القانون الدولي ، وتحديدا اتفاقية جنيف الرابعة والفصل العنصري اسرائيل ليس لديها الولاية القانونية للأراضي المهنية المناسبة. إسرائيل هي إحدى الدول الموقعة على اتفاقية جنيف الرابعة ولذا هي السندات في ولايتها. وبالتالي أي إجراء تتخذه الكنيست الإسرائيلي العنصري هو لاغ وباطل وعلى أي أرض فلسطينية. وتقول اسرائيل ان لا يشمل الأراضي الفلسطينية في إطار الاتفاقية المذكورة ولكن هذه الحجة سخيفة بحيث يسخر من الاتفاقية نفسها.

                ومن المقرر ان المواقع الاستيطانية غير القانونية الأخرى التي ينبغي تفكيكها في الأشهر المقبلة. ومن المقرر البؤر الاستيطانية غير القانونية التالية حول رام الله ، فلسطين لتكون فككت :
Dreinoff الربع (direcltly شمال شرق) نيسان ، 2012
                جبل أرتيس (شمال شرق) أيار ، 2012 جزئياGival عساف (جنوبي) 1 يوليو 2012
                عمونا (شمال شرق مزيد) نهاية عام 2012

                في حين أن هذه المواقع الاستيطانية بموجب أوامر لتفكيكها ، وهناك أكثر من 100 البؤر الاستيطانية الأخرى التي لم يتم تحديد المصائر. في الواقع ، هناك العديد من المواقع الاستيطانية غير القانونية الأخرى التي تتبعها حكومة الفصل العنصري الإسرائيلي في محاولة لجعل المستوطنات على الرغم من حقيقة أن العالم بأسره قد ذكرت أنها تشكل عقبات في طريق السلام.

                الحكومات الإسرائيلية تأخير الفصل العنصري في انتظار عمل هادف حالات هدم البؤرة الاستيطانية من أجل تشجيع بناء مزيد من غير قانونية.هذا هو استنتاج تقرير يش دين الذي صدر في نوفمبر تشرين الثاني 2011."إن التقرير ، الذي بدا في القضايا المعروضة على المحاكم 16 ، اتهم فشل الدولة في لهدم منازل المستوطنين غير المرخص ، والخطوات الأولية لإضفاء الشرعية بأثر رجعي لهم يشجع مثل نشاط البناء غير القانوني". [1]

                عندما يتعلق الأمر إلى هدم المنازل الفلسطينية والمباني ، إلا أن الجيش الإسرائيلي هو الفصل العنصري لتحقيق سريع في الولايات المتحدة التي قدمت جرافات كاتربيلر D9 المسلحة للقيام بعملها الغادرة. وتستخدم عمليات الهدم هذه لمعاقبة جماعية للعائلات الفلسطينية الإجراءات التي لم يرتكبوها شخصيا وسرقة الأراضي الفلسطينية لضمها لبناء جدار الفصل العنصري أو توسيع المستوطنات غير الشرعية.

                في حين أن رئيس الفصل العنصري نتنياهو يبحث عن حل وسط مع سكان البؤرة الاستيطانية غير القانونية ، ومنصبه الحالي لتفكيك البؤر الاستيطانية يكون لها معنى يذكر. ومع ذلك ، فإن نتنياهو رئيس الفصل العنصري تدور هذه البادرة بمثابة بناء الثقة تجاه الفلسطينيين. ما سوف تضيع في هذه البادرة هو حقيقة أنه في الوقت نفسه رئيس الفصل العنصري سوف تتحرك لتحويل البؤر الاستيطانية الأخرى في المستوطنات. لا يمكن للرئيس الفصل العنصري لا استرضاء الفلسطينيين والمستوطنين في نفس الوقت.

                وستقام معركة الفصل العنصري داخل المجتمع الاسرائيلي حول هذه المسألة من خلال الأشهر المقبلة. وسوف المسيل للدموع إسرائيل إربا.
(Zanayed © ، فادي يسمح نشر أو توزيع هذه المواد شريطة أن لا تغييرمحتواها وأشار المصدر وصاحبه).[1] "" ستات الفشل في التصرف يشجع كونتراكتينج اند كونستركشن غير المشروعة ، "توفاه Lazaroff ، 11 أكتوبر 2011 ، جيروسالم بوست http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx؟id=241251