Are those Israelis 'citizens' or plain terrorists and criminals? ~ Window Into Palestine

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Cherifa Sirry, Axis of Logic

Israeli settlers are not content that they are living on illegally occupied territory and in illegally-built settlements. They are not content that they are allowed to roam the streets of Israel armed to the teeth… killing, mutilating and torturing Palestinian citizens and children without accountability while the IDF, mainstream media and the 'civilized’ world pretend not to notice. Israeli settlers now are building their own home-made rockets and are firing them at Palestinian refugees because they do not agree that Israel should withdraw from any of the occupied territories or make any concessions to the Palestinians in order to achieve a state of peace. As far as they are concerned, anyone living between the Nile and the Euphrates should vacate so that the 'holy’ settlers can loot their lands, homes and properties as they’ve always done throughout history and suck every drop of blood from their victims until they explode...

Home-made Israeli settler rockets

Israeli settlers are not content that they are living on illegally occupied territory and in illegally-built settlements. They are not content that they are allowed to roam the streets of Israel armed to the teeth… killing, mutilating and torturing Palestinian citizens and children without accountability while the IDF, mainstream media and the ‘civilized’ world pretend not to notice. Israeli settlers now are building their own home-made rockets and are firing them at Palestinian refugees because they do not agree that Israel should withdraw from any of the occupied territories or make any concessions to the Palestinians in order to achieve a state of peace. As far as they are concerned, anyone living between the Nile and the Euphrates should vacate so that the ‘holy’ settlers can loot their lands, homes and properties as they’ve always done throughout history and suck every drop of blood from their victims until they explode.

Yesterday Israeli settlers fired 2 home-made rockets near a school in the village of Burin which is located between 2 illegal settlements. The rockets were named ‘Sharon 1’ and ‘Sharon 2’. How appropriate indeed. The entire IDF is not enough for the settlers. The land which was allocated to Israel by the UN as well as the land which Israel annexed illegally in the various wars it launched against its neighbors is also not enough for those settlers. These vicious, extremist, nasty and greedy blood-suckers are now developing their own rockets in order to keep and expand their illegal settlements against International Law and against every international agreement, resolution or convention that govern or apply to the Arab/Israeli conflict. Will the UN condemn the Israeli settlers’ actions? I hardly think so. It never condemned them for any of their previous horrific crimes so why would it condemn them for starting to make their own rockets. The UN might even justify the settlers’ actions as “self defense” just as it justified practically all of Israel’s actions as “self defense” for the past 60 years. It seems that Israel and its settlers need to blow up the entire Middle East and beyond in their quest for ‘peace’ and pursuit of “self defense”.

Along the past years, Israeli settlers have consistently and regularly attacked Palestinian civilians, kidnapped them, tortured them, killed and mutilated them, burned their olive fields or sawed their trees off.

Settlers simply kicked Palestinians out of their lands and homes by using extremely violent means, stoned them, stabbed them and stole whatever was left of their money and gold jewelry. This is criminal behavior galore. This is TERRORISM. Those settlers however are never held accountable. Their actions are never even mentioned in the news.

Palestinian boy tortured to death by settlers

Last month settlers booed Ehud Olmert off a stage while he was giving a speech in which he suggested that Israel should return to Syria the occupied Golan in exchange for peace. Olmert who is no less than the Israeli Prime Minister, wasn’t even allowed to finish his speech. Settlers shouted at him and came out with signs saying that the Golan was “sovereign Israeli land (imagine that!) and the Israeli Prime Minister couldn’t stand up to them and had to shut up and change the subject.

The Israeli government made a huge mistake by allowing those settlers to get so out of control because the IDF now simply has the additional duty of protecting Israel from its own people… the Israeli settlers.

The more fronts the IDF has to face, the better news for the Arab world… and let’s also not forget that Israel ‘s refuseniks’ movement is growing steadily with Ehud Olmert’s son as one of its prime members!

More fronts to fight..

More refuseniks..

More emigration and less immigration...

More Palestinians...

Stronger neighbors...

And…

Bye bye Israel

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2 Rockets fired at village of Burin from Bracha settlement

July 1st, 2008

Two more home-made rockets were launched from the illegal Israeli settlement of Bracha at the Palestinian village of Burin, near Nablus, on Tuesday 1st July.

At 1pm, Jamal Najar, a resident of Burin, was sitting on his veranda when he saw a projectile launched from near the illegal settlement’s mobile phone tower. “It looked like a rocket,” he said. The projectile landed on his land, amongst his olive trees, just 150m from his house, 75m from his neighbour’s house. After two minutes a second one followed, coming from the same direction. “The rockets made a loud sound, and a small fire. They made a lot of smoke,” he described.

Mr Najah went to investigate, and found the two projectiles, which indeed were home-made rockets made from aluminium pipes - one approximately 20cm long, the other approximately 30cm - without any writing. “Not made in USA,” he joked. “Made in Bracha.” He described them as being pipes without heads, but closed in on both ends, with a small hole on either end. He took photos of the rockets with his bluetooth phone, shortly before Israeli soldiers arrived and took the pipe rockets away.

Later, Israeli soldiers and explosives experts returned to the village, scouring the land for evidence, and, more importantly, proof that the rockets really came from Bracha. While Israeli military officials called Mr Najah and advised him that they would catch and punish those responsible, many villagers were not so convinced of their motives. As one member of the local council speculated “These soldiers were sent by the Israeli government to know if it is true or not true - that there really was a rocket. They need to be able to report to the news [stations] that they know what happened.”

This is the third rocket in as many weeks to have been launched from Bracha at the village, according to Mr Najah. While Israeli newspapers claimed the first homemade rocket was launched from Yitzhar, the illegal Israeli settlement that is situated on the opposite ridge-line to Bracha, Mr Najah is adamant that it was in fact from Bracha. He claims that the first rocket was launched from near the houses of the settlement, but that it landed in roughly the same area as the two launched today.

“We were not afraid from these rockets [today],” he said. “The first made a fire, these rockets [today] were behind our home without fire.” His seeming nonchalance continued as he joked “Next time they will make a big rocket and we are dead.” His demeanour changed, however, when asked if his family was actually worried about this. “We are worried that this will happen. The children are worried”.

While the village of Burin is constantly under threat from settler attacks, sandwiched as it is between the illegal settlements of Yitzhar and Bracha, Mr Najah reports that in the past months these attacks have become steadily worse. As well as the rocket attacks, Israeli settlers from Yitzhar have set fire to the lands of Burin twice in the past month, once on 30th May and again on 19th June. Attacks have also been made by the settlements of Yitzhar and Bracha on nearby villages of Iraq Burin and Asira al Qibliyia. Residents report that they are unable to go to their lands which are near the settlements for fear of being shot at by the settlers. Settlers also regularly steal the villagers’ livestock; kill their animals at night; and cut down their olive trees. Three years ago settlers shot at a car carrying seven Palestinians, causing injuries.

Mr Najah was insistent that while the people of Burin, and the Palestinian people in general, are happy to live in peace with Israelis, the settlements make this impossible. “If the Israeli government wants to make peace, they will put their hand on this land, and they will force the settlers to leave. They have stolen these lands. This is my land from my father, from my grandfather. They have been here since 1984 [referring to when the Bracha settlement was first built], we have been here forever.”

http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2008/07/01/2-rockets-fired-a-burin-from-bracha-settlement/

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