Bil’in update: Legal Palestinian "Outpost" Removed Immediately, Hundreds of Illegal Israeli Settlements Remain posted @ drew3ooo

Bil’in, Occupied Palestine - Just after 7:15 PM on Thursday evening, 150 Israeli soldiers violently evacuated the Palestinian “outpost” established Wednesday by the village of Bil’in on the village’s land isolated west of Israel’s Annexation Wall, and detained a number of Palestinian and Israeli protesters. In marked contrast, only 100 meters away, the Israeli government has failed to take any action against large-scale, illegal Israeli settlement construction. In that location in the settlement of Matityahu East, Ha’aretz Daily has reported that Israeli settlers have built 750 new housing units illegally, with no permits whatsoever. Commenting on this situation, Israeli human rights attorney attorney Michael Sfard said: “This is called apartheid.”

Israeli soldiers used sledge hammers, chains, teargas and sound bombs to break into Bil’in’s container or “outpost”, to evacuate the Palestinian, Israeli and international activists inside and to disperse hundreds of nearby protesters. The Israeli military removed the container using a crane, and detained nonviolent organizer Mohammed Khatib from Bil’in and seven Israeli protesters. Mohammed Khatib was released after a few hours, while the seven Israelis are still being held.

The village of Bil’in established its “outpost” yesterday by placing a container on village land to the west of the Wall. The Wall is cutting off approximately half of Bil’in’s land, and Bil’in has been waging a year long nonviolent struggle against the construction of the Wall on village land.

Mohammed Khatib from Bil’in’s Popular Committee Against the Wall said that the land where the container was placed belongs to a village resident, and that Bil’in’s village council had issued a permit for the new construction. Khatib said that the village had planned toestablish a Center for the Joint Struggle for Peace at the location.

The Palestinian “outpost” in Bil’in is the first widely publicized Palestinian effort to create an outpost to counter large-scale Israeli efforts to establish settlements and outposts on Palestinian land throughout the West Bank. Israeli settlers regularly place containers on Palestinian land to create what are referred to as “outposts” that are eventually expanded into larger Israeli settlements. All Israeli outposts and settements in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, are widely recognized as illegal under international law, though the Israeli government attempts to claim that some are legal and others llegal. Israel pledged to remove tens of outposts under “the Roadmap to Peace”, but has failed to do so.

Ha’aretz Daily’s Akiva Eldar and Meron Rapoport have reported that the Israeli Civil Administration’s admits “that 750 housing units had been built illegally with no permits whatsoever” in the West Bank next to Bil’in. Ha’aretz quoted Michael Sfard, who is representing Bil’in, saying, “”Private Palestinian land is in question here, not state land. The village council approved setting up a caravan and thus this is a legal structure.”… “This will be blatant proof of the fact that there is selective law enforcement if they deal with the poor
caravan before the hundreds of housing units built illegally in Upper Modi’in” [the nearby settlement]… “Now the truth is out, and the truth is that Jews are allowed to break the law and Palestinians are not…This is called apartheid.”

Tags: Israel, occupation, Palestine

Subscribe to comments Comment | Trackback |

Browse Timeline

Related Entries

My Oly neighbors stop by Bil’in

...

Bil’in demonstrators return to outpost

...

A Nonviolent Victory

...

Military continues to try to curtail free speech in Bil’in

...

Illegal wall challenged by Israeli legal system in Bil’in

...

Add a Comment

Bil’in update: Legal Palestinian "Outpost" Removed Immediately, Hundreds of Illegal Israeli Settlements Remain

View all posts by yours truly. Subscribe to follow comments on this post. Add your thoughts or trackback from your own site.

Worth Repeating

"But who's afraid of war? That's to say, who's afraid of the bombs and the machine-guns? 'You are', you say. Yes, I am, and so's anybody who's ever seen them. But it isn't the war that matters, it's the after-war. The world we're going down into, the kind of hate-world, slogan-world. The coloured shirts, the barbed wire, the rubber truncheons. The secret cells where the electric light burns night and day, and the detectives watching you while you sleep. And the processions and the posters with enormous faces, and the crowds of a million people all cheering for the Leader till they deafen themselves into thinking that they really worship him, and all the time, underneath, they hate him so that they want to puke. It's all going to happen." -- George Orwell

Suggested Clicking

BNP Near Me?
Sort of a creepy outing list using google maps. Obviously the creators behind this aren't trying to incite any action or violence against these people. Um, obviously.
A list taken to far: Let's stop for moment and look at how small the BNP list actually is
While the BNP is a particularly loathesome organization, we must remember that is is a legal political party in the UK. If you don't like that, blame Labour, not the BNP. You're living in a Labour government which allows the BNP to exist. Saying that people should be sacked from their jobs because of party affiliation is a bit rich and smacks of Red Scare tactics from the era of McCarthyism in the US. Except communism actually was illegal there during that time. These people are racist, homophobic isolationists. Don't give them the status of 'victim.' It's a legal party and must be treated as such.
The problem with the enterprise world
i found this quote while reading some browser news: "IE 8 isn't earth-shattering by any means -- and that is actually a good thing. We don't need explosively new ideas in the enterprise world."
A perfectly rational call to not use Inernet Explorer gets attacked by IE-lovin web managers
I didn't actually know that Microsoft's IE actually had "fans." Most likley these are disgruntled web managers and IT geeks upset by change. This article is a fairly well reasoned follow-up to an article on IE's flaws from Windows person and the comment area is full of pithy attacks by andgy IE peoplw. Really, I just thought people used IE because it came installed on their computer. I didn't think they actually preferred it. Hmmm. Takes all kinds.
The Open Rights Group » Review of Activities 2008
The year digital rights went mainstream.
BNP members list
Someone who turns out to be more of a radical racist wingnut than your usual BNP crowd leaked their membership list to the public. Here is last year's list of the British fascist movement.
'I hate' forums expose networking sites to libel actions
Places like Facebook need to take some responsibility.
Devolve Me: See how you would have looked earlier on in the evolutionary process
Monkey around a little. Upload your photo and see yourself in a more primitive state.
It just takes one jerk our ot 12.5 million people make spamming profitable. I hate that asshole.
E-mail spammers need just one mug in 12.5million to make a profit, a study has revealed. That's a response rate of 0.00000008 per cent – but enough to make up to £2.2million a year if conmen fully exploit the spam network.
Suffering Souls: The search for the roots of psychopathy
Psychopaths are as old as Cain, and they are believed to exist in all cultures, although they are more prevalent in individualistic societies in the West. The Yupik Eskimos use the term kunlangeta to describe a man who repeatedly lies, cheats, steals, and takes sexual advantage of women, according to a 1976 study by Jane M. Murphy, an anthropologist then at Harvard University. She asked an Eskimo what the group would typically do with a kunlangeta, and he replied, “Somebody would have pushed him off the ice when nobody else was looking.”
The Holocause Industry finds it's 'in' in cash-strapped public schools in UK
Every secondary school is to get a Holocaust specialist to ensure that the subject students are propagandised in the correct manner.
My soon-to-be bike
Will be test riding one of these after next pay day but am already planning this to be my new commuting machine
Palin4pres2012.com
Bandwidth Limit Exceeded. Scary.
Faux Wordpress Alert
It seems there has been an attempt recently to distribute a trojaned version of WordPress via some form of phishing scam.
Obama picks pro-Israel hardliner for top post
During the United States election campaign, racists and pro-Israel hardliners tried to make an issue out of President-elect Barack Obama's middle name, Hussein. Such people might take comfort in another middle name, that of Obama's pick for White House Chief of Staff: Rahm Israel Emanuel.

The liner notes

Drew3ooo runs on (aside from keen intellect and superior logic) Wordpress. The sleek layout, sparse use of color and elegant typography that make up this site's sexy, sexy design are based on the stylish theme "Modicus Remix" by Art Culture, which is a stripped-down take on the muscular version found at Upstart Blogger. Drew3000 by Andrew Ford Lyons is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.

drew3ooo

Browse Timeline

Related Entries

Bil’in update: Legal Palestinian "Outpost" Removed Immediately, Hundreds of Illegal Israeli Settlements Remain

Worth Repeating

Survey

Look at this

Talking Points

Recently commented

spread the good word

Put something in the Drop Box

Suggested Clicking

The liner notes