Law, which allows expulsion of lawmakers for incitement to racism and support of armed struggle against Israel, has been criticized by the left of targeting Arab lawmakers.

Jul 20, 2016

The Knesset passed into law a bill that lets it oust a sitting lawmaker – legislation that critics say targets Arab lawmakers deemed to be inciting against Israel’s interests.

According to the law, which was passed with a majority of 62 votes against 45, the Knesset can oust a lawmaker for incitement to racism and support of armed struggle against the state. The expulsion requires a majority of 90 lawmakers, while to launch expulsion proceedings, the votes of 70 of the Knesset's 120 members are required, including 10 from the opposition. The original version of the bill only required 61 MKs to launch the proceedings, and not necessarily anyone from the opposition.

Members of the Joint List of Arab parties said they intend to appeal the Supreme Court against the law.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu congratulated the new legislation, saying in a Facebook post that it "puts an end to the absurdity: Those who support terrorism against the State of Israel and its citizens – won't serve in Israel's Knesset."

"Like in any democracy in the world, Israeli democracy also has the right and the duty to defend itself," he added.

Opposition leader MK Isaac Herzog slammed the law, saying on Twitter that it is a "dark mark on Israel's face. The hate-filled government is busy widening the rift that threatens Israel more than any outside enemy."

MK Nissan Slomiansky (Habayit Hayehudi) rejected claims that the law is targeting the Arab lawmakers. "You know that in actual fact, the only time this calling card has been activated was against Jews," he said, referring at the rightwing extremist Meir Kahana, who was disqualified from running for Knesset in the 1980s.

"The Knesset will no longer be a shroud for terrorism and racism. Members of the Knesset whose paycheck is funded by the state cannot use it to undermine its foundations," Slomiansky said earlier. MK Yousef Jabarin (Joint List) said the law would turn the Arab lawmakers into "MKs on probation," adding: "This is apartheid legislation, which paves the way for a political transfer of the Arab public's elected officials."

Coalition Chairman MK David Bitan, who had been trying to shelve the bill due to concerns over the difficulty of its implementation, said after the vote that the Knesset has spoken with an absolute majority, and termed the law "a whip against those who think they can exploit Israeli democracy to undermine the State of Israel."

On the other side, MK Dov Henin (Joint List) said the law is an example of the tyranny of the majority, and "directly targets the Arab public's elected officials, chosen to voice their stances."

"This law is a black page on Israel's code of laws, which reflects anti-democratic policy and maneuvers by an anti-democratic government, which will go on to harm more and more populations," he said.

Ahead of the vote, some in the coalition also voiced dissatisfaction with the law, albeit with the limits placed on its usage. “This law is a failure. It will be impossible to implement,” a senior Likud official said. “They’ve raised the threshold of MKs so high that there’s no longer any point to it.”

http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.731962

Jul 25, 2016

Israeli forces have arrested at least seven Palestinians during new raids in the occupied West Bank.

The Israeli forces stormed the town of Qabatiyah, south of the city of Jenin, in the northern West Bank and raided several homes.

Eyewitnesses said the Israeli soldiers claimed that the Palestinians were “wanted,” but it was not clear what for.

Three young Palestinians were arrested during the raid in Qabatiyah and taken into custody at an unknown site.

Elsewhere in the West Bank, Israeli forces stormed the town of Awarta and arrested two other Palestinians.

The Israeli troops also arrested two people in the West Bank city of Bethlehem.

Meanwhile, 14 young Palestinian men were arrested on Sunday afternoon as clashes erupted in the Old City of Jerusalem al-Quds.

Clashes erupted as Israeli settlers insulted a Palestinian in the al-Qarmi neighborhood of the Old City.

Israeli forces later interfered and physically assaulted the Palestinian men with batons and rifle butts. The troops also fired tear gas at the crowd.

Israeli forces later stormed Palestinian houses and arrested 14 people over the incident.

The occupied Palestinian territories have been the scene of heightened tensions since August 2015, when Israel imposed restrictions on the entry of Palestinian worshipers into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East Jerusalem al-Quds.

Palestinians say the Tel Aviv regime seeks to change the status quo of the sacred site.

More than 220 Palestinians have lost their lives at the hands of Israeli forces in the tensions since the beginning of last October.

http://presstv.com/Detail/2016/07/25/476831/Israel-Palestinians-West-Bank-Qabati...

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Jul 26, 2016

Israeli military forces have demolished a number of Palestinian houses in the West Bank in the occupied territories.

On Monday night, six Israeli bulldozers rolled into the village of Qalandiya, located 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) north of Jerusalem al-Quds, with escort by Israeli troopers, and tore down three residential buildings as well as nine houses under construction there.

Israeli authorities had claimed the buildings had been and were being built without the required permits.

Violence broke out when villagers tried to stop the Israeli forces and hurled stones at them. Israeli forces, in return, fired rubber-coated steel bullets, tear gas canisters and stun grenades to disperse the crowd.

Palestinian sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said at least 34 Palestinians sustained moderate injuries during the mayhem.

An Israeli non-profit organization says Israeli officials have demolished 168 Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank between January and the end of June this year, leaving 740 Palestinians homeless.

B’Tselem said on Monday that the figure is unusually high, and exceeds the number of homes demolished during the corresponding period last year. It is also higher than the annual rate of demolitions since 2006, excluding the 175 Palestinian homes that were razed in 2013.

The rights group said most of the demolitions took place in the so-called Area C, which comprises over 60 percent of the occupied West Bank and is totally run by the Israeli military.

The area is about 330,000 hectares, and is reportedly home to nearly 300,000 Palestinians. Israel, however, says only about 50,000 Palestinians are residing there.

Israeli forces arrest several Palestinians

Meanwhile, Israeli military forces have arrested several Palestinians during separate overnight operations across the occupied West Bank.

Local sources, speaking anonymously, said Israeli forces raided the town of Beit Fajjar, located eight kilometers (4.9 miles) south of Bethlehem, early on Tuesday, and broke into dozens of homes before detaining an unspecified number of Palestinians.

Elsewhere, in the al-Am’ari refugee camp, located two kilometers (1.2 miles) south of the town of al-Bireh in the central West Bank, three Palestinians were injured when Israeli forces raided a number of houses and ransacked them.

Additionally, Israeli forces stormed several houses in Bil’in Village, located 12 kilometers (7.5 miles) west of Ramallah, engaging in clashes with local residents. No reports of injuries and arrests were available.

The occupied Palestinian territories have been the scene of heightened tensions since August 2015, when Israel imposed restrictions on the entry of Palestinian worshipers into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East Jerusalem al-Quds.

Palestinians say the Tel Aviv regime seeks to change the status quo of the sacred site.

More than 220 Palestinians have lost their lives at the hands of Israeli forces since the beginning of last October.

http://presstv.com/Detail/2016/07/26/476968/Israel-Palestinian-homes-Qalandiya-W...

August 02, 2016

Was it meant as an epic parody or an insult to his audience’s intelligence? It was hard to tell.

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu took to social media to apologise for last year’s notorious election-day comment, when he warned that “the Arabs are coming out to vote in droves” – a reference to the fifth of Israel’s population who are Palestinian.

In videos released last week in English and Hebrew, Mr Netanyahu urged Palestinian citizens to become more active in public life. They needed to “work in droves, study in droves, thrive in droves,” he said. “I am proud of the role Arabs play in Israel’s success”.

Pointedly, Ayman Odeh, head of the Palestinian-dominated Joint List party, noted that 100,000 Bedouin citizens could not watch the video because Israel denies their communities electricity, internet connections and all other services.

Swiftly and predictably, the reality of life for Israel’s 1.7 million Palestinians upstaged Mr Netanyahu’s fine words. In a radio interview, Moti Dotan, the head of the Lower Galilee regional council, sent a message to his Palestinian neighbours: “I don’t want them at my [swimming] pools.” Sounding like a mayor in the southern United States during the Jim Crow-era, he added: “Their culture of cleanliness isn’t the same as ours. Why is that racist?”

Dotan was no extremist, observed the liberal newspaper Haaretz. He represents the Israeli mainstream. Notably, Mr Netanyahu did not distance himself from Mr Dotan’s remarks.

At the same time, Samar Qupty, star of a new film on Palestinians in Israel called Junction 48, was questioned for two hours and then strip searched at Ben Gurion airport and denied her hand luggage before being allowed to fly to an international film festival.

Stories of state-sponsored humiliation at the airport are routine for Israel’s Palestinian academics, journalists, actors and community leaders – in fact, for any Palestinian active in the public sphere.

The list of restrictions on Palestinian citizens is long and growing. A database by the legal group Adalah shows that some 60 Israeli laws explicitly discriminate against non-Jews, with another 18 in the pipeline.

Two laws passed last month intensify the repression of dissent. An Expulsion Law is designed to empower Israeli MPs to oust Palestinian lawmakers whose views offend them, while a Transparency Law stigmatises human rights groups working to protect Palestinian rights.

Recently leaked protocols reveal that the police have secretly awarded themselves powers to use live fire against Palestinian protesters in Israel, even if they pose no danger. Yet another law threatens jail for any Palestinian citizen who tries to dissuade another from volunteering in the Israeli army.

Growing numbers of Palestinian citizens, including poets and writers, are being jailed or put under house arrest for posts on social media the Israeli authorities disapprove of.

Defence minister Avigdor Lieberman recently compared the work of the Palestinians’ national poet, Mahmoud Darwish, to Hitler’s Mein Kampf. Darwish is banned from school curriculums.

The culture minister, Miri Regev, meanwhile, has tied state funding for theatre and dance companies to their readiness to perform in Jewish settlements, illegally located in the occupied territories in the West Bank.

In his video, Mr Netanyahu said: “Jews and Arabs should reach out to each other, get to know each other’s families. Listen to each other.”

And yet his officials have just halved funding for the training of Palestinian student teachers, though not Jewish ones, to deter the former from pursuing teaching careers. Jewish schools face severe staff shortages, but Israel’s educational segregation is so complete that Palestinian citizens cannot be allowed to teach Jewish children.

Mr Netanyahu also extolled his government for a promise to increase funding for Israel’s near-bankrupt Palestinian local authorities. He forgot to mention, however, that he had conditioned the money on the same councils demolishing thousands of homes in their jurisdiction. For decades Palestinians in Israel have been routinely denied building permits.

Israel’s Palestinian citizens were not fooled by Mr Netanyahu’s video. But as their leaders noted, they were not the intended audience. The video was a cynical PR exercise aimed firmly at the Europeans, who have been discomfited by Israel’s increasingly repressive climate and the government’s regular incitement against its Palestinian minority.

Mr Netanyahu is worried about a backlash in the West, including growing support for the boycott movement, European efforts to revive peace talks, and potential moves at the United Nations and International Criminal Court.

Palestinians in Israel have known worse repression than they currently endure. For Israel’s first two decades they lived under military rule, locked into their towns and villages and largely invisible unless they agreed to do and say as they were told. Palestinian MPs could be elected to the parliament but only if they were first approved by Zionist parties like Mr Netanyahu’s.

The Israeli right sounds ever more nostalgic for that era. Slowly the ethos of the military government for Israel’s Palestinians is returning – and the perfume of Mr Netanyahu’s soothing words about ending “discord and hate” will not cover the stench.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/palestinians-

3 Aug, 2016

Israeli lawmakers have legalized the imprisonment of Palestinian minors as young as 12 in case they are accused of grave crimes such as acts of terrorism against the state of Israel. The so-called Youth Bill has already faced criticism at home and abroad.

In a ruling which saw 32 voting in favor, 16 against, and one abstention vote, the Youth Bill, which will “allow the authorities to imprison a minor convicted of serious crimes such as murder, attempted murder or manslaughter even if he or she is under the age of 14, passed its second and third readings,” the Knesset said in a statement.

Violence between Palestinian youths and the Israeli police, soldiers, as well as civilians has skyrocketed in the last 10 months. Ongoing scuffles that erupted last October, have since resulted in the deaths of at least 34 Israelis, two Americans, an Eritrean and a Sudanese.

Overall, according to the Israeli mission to the UN, Palestinians youths were responsible for 47 “acts of terrorism” committed in the same timeframe, using a knife, gun or car-ramming tactics. In response, Israel intensified its security and retaliatory methods, killing some 219 Palestinians.

In approving the new bill proposed by the Likud party, Israeli lawmakers justified imprisoning of minors as a measure of protecting Israel from attacks.

The “seriousness that we attach to terror and acts of terror that cause bodily injury and property damage, and the fact that these acts of terror are being carried out by minors, demands a more aggressive approach including toward minors who are convicted,” the Youth Bill reads.

The new law allows courts to “set discussions regarding the imprisoned juvenile” while the minor is held at a “close facility.” The courts will also be permitted to postpone the convicted minor’s transfer date from a “closed facility” to a prison. At the same time, judges will be allowed to shorten the convicted minor’s prison sentence or cancel it all together.

Father of the Youth Bill, MP Anat Berko, said that the new law was “borne of necessity,” as for those who are “murdered with a knife in the heart it does not matter if the child is 12 or 15.”

“We have been experiencing a wave of terror for quite some time,” Berko said. “A society is allowed to protect itself.”

The new legislation has already been criticized at home.

“Rather than sending them to prison, Israel would be better off sending them to school where they could grow up in dignity and freedom, not under occupation,” said Israeli human rights group, B'Tselem. “Imprisoning such young minors denies them the chance of a better future.”

Just before the bill’s approval, the Israeli treatment of Palestinian minors was criticized during a Security Council session, which urged Israel to fulfill its obligations under international humanitarian law.

Israel “denies Palestinian children their status as minors, and subjects them to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment,” said Venezuela’s Ambassador to the United Nations Rafael Ramirez, as he accused Israel of “double standards.”

“We note with shame that while some countries call for accountability for violations against children in armed conflicts, when it comes to violations committed against Palestinian children by Israel, they remain silent,” Ramirez added.

Iran’s envoy at the same time urged the international community to “bring an end to Israeli impunity” when it comes to “restricting the rights of Palestinian children.”

https://www.rt.com/news/354531-israel-imprisonment-palestinian-children/

jmjcare wrote on Aug 4^th, 2016 at 7:20pm:



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Yadda said....
Knowing that Palestinians in Hebron have a history of 'expressing' violence and hostility towards Hebron’s Jews, of MURDERING Hebron’s Jews,         .....it would not be 'unusual' that the Israeli army would put in place security measures, locally, to 'dissuade' any Palestinians from trying to enter those areas in Hebron where Jews live.

Even if that Palestinian, is a little girl.       [......a little Palestinian girl who may have been encouraged and coached by local Palestinian militants to; 'Go and test what the Jews will do, when you ride there.']



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The God of Israel damn 'Palestinians' and all moslems.


Every moslem, is a moslem.


A moslem is a follower of ISLAM.       < -------- dictionary definition.






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Psalms 28:3
Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.
4  Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert.


Psalms 120:6
My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.
7  I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.

And still not a single post condemning Palestinian actions?
Why do you only criticise Israel?