31 dec 2019
A researcher in Jerusalem affairs has revealed that Jewish settler groups established a Talmudic museum in the Palestinian district of Silwan, east of Occupied Jerusalem.
On his Facebook page, researcher Fakhri Abu Diyab said that settler societies had built a three-story Jewish museum over 1,390 square meters of land in Ein al-Fawqa neighborhood in Silwan, which is located a few meters away from the Aqsa Mosque.
“This museum is intended to propagandize the Jewish history and serve the Talmudic narration at the expense of the historical Arab, Islamic and Christian heritage and the true history of this area,” Abu Diyab underlined.
On his Facebook page, researcher Fakhri Abu Diyab said that settler societies had built a three-story Jewish museum over 1,390 square meters of land in Ein al-Fawqa neighborhood in Silwan, which is located a few meters away from the Aqsa Mosque.
“This museum is intended to propagandize the Jewish history and serve the Talmudic narration at the expense of the historical Arab, Islamic and Christian heritage and the true history of this area,” Abu Diyab underlined.
29 dec 2019
Haaretz newspaper said that the Israeli occupation army’s civil administration intends to approve the construction of hundreds of housing units in the West Bank and Jerusalem.
According to the newspaper, about 2,000 housing units will be okayed in the coming days for construction in isolated settlements and outposts.
The plan will be launched in compliance with recent remarks made by premier Benjamin Netanyahu about his intent to approve the building of 3,000 housing units in the West Bank and Jerusalem.
Netanyahu had also announced that he would soon order the annexation of the northern Jordan Valley and would seek support from the US administration to annex West Bank settlements to be part of the Jewish state.
According to the newspaper, about 2,000 housing units will be okayed in the coming days for construction in isolated settlements and outposts.
The plan will be launched in compliance with recent remarks made by premier Benjamin Netanyahu about his intent to approve the building of 3,000 housing units in the West Bank and Jerusalem.
Netanyahu had also announced that he would soon order the annexation of the northern Jordan Valley and would seek support from the US administration to annex West Bank settlements to be part of the Jewish state.
26 dec 2019
The Israeli government announced that it will approve a new plan to build 3000 settlement units throughout occupied West Bank, the Quds News Network reported.
Israeli media reported, on Wednesday, that Prime Minister Benajmin Netanyahu said 3000 settlement units, to be built throughout the West Bank, will be approved within the next couple of weeks.
Netanyahu’s statement was made addressing Likud supporters ahead of the party’s inner election, on Thursday, stating that the plan will include the expansion of several settlements.
Illegal settlers in the West Bank are estimated to 670,000, nearly half of whom live in occupied Jerusalem, in violation of international law.
The US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, recently announced that the US does not consider the settlements illegal anymore, reversing the US’ longstanding policy on Israeli settlements.
International Criminal Court prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda announced, last Friday, that the ICC will launch an investigation into Israeli war crimes in the West Bank, and Gaza.
Israeli media reported, on Wednesday, that Prime Minister Benajmin Netanyahu said 3000 settlement units, to be built throughout the West Bank, will be approved within the next couple of weeks.
Netanyahu’s statement was made addressing Likud supporters ahead of the party’s inner election, on Thursday, stating that the plan will include the expansion of several settlements.
Illegal settlers in the West Bank are estimated to 670,000, nearly half of whom live in occupied Jerusalem, in violation of international law.
The US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, recently announced that the US does not consider the settlements illegal anymore, reversing the US’ longstanding policy on Israeli settlements.
International Criminal Court prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda announced, last Friday, that the ICC will launch an investigation into Israeli war crimes in the West Bank, and Gaza.
24 dec 2019
Israeli bulldozers on Tuesday embarked on leveling lands in southern Nablus to expand the illegal settlements of Shilo and Shvut Rachel.
Local official Ghassan Daghlas said that settlers started to carry out large-scale bulldozing activities on Palestinian lands in Jalud village to build more housing units as part of a plan to expand the settlements of Shilo and Shvut Rachel.
Such development has taken place despite an Israeli court decision issued last year ordering a halt to all construction and expansion activities in the area, Daghlas affirmed.
He added that the Israeli higher court of justice are still studying an objection to the plan filed by the municipal councils of Jalud and Qaryut villages, where vast tracts of lands were annexed by Israel to expand the settlements.
Local official Ghassan Daghlas said that settlers started to carry out large-scale bulldozing activities on Palestinian lands in Jalud village to build more housing units as part of a plan to expand the settlements of Shilo and Shvut Rachel.
Such development has taken place despite an Israeli court decision issued last year ordering a halt to all construction and expansion activities in the area, Daghlas affirmed.
He added that the Israeli higher court of justice are still studying an objection to the plan filed by the municipal councils of Jalud and Qaryut villages, where vast tracts of lands were annexed by Israel to expand the settlements.
19 dec 2019
The UN Mideast envoy said Wednesday that Israel advanced or approved plans for over 22,000 housing units in West Bank settlements and east Jerusalem in the three years since the Security Council adopted a resolution condemning settlements on lands the Palestinians want for their future state.
Nickolay Mladenov told the UN Security Council that in addition, Israel issued tenders for some 8,000 housing units since the December 2016 resolution, which also declared that the settlements have “no legal validity.”
He said the numbers “should be of serious concern to all those who continue to support the establishment of an independent and viable Palestinian state alongside Israel.”
Mladenov was reporting to the council on implementation of the 2016 resolution.
The resolution was approved by the council when the UN, in the final weeks of the Obama administration, abstained rather than using its veto to support longtime ally Israel as it had done many times previously.
US ambassador Kelly Craft told the council that she would have vetoed the resolution, which the Trump administration opposes.
In this regard, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a report to the Security Council circulated Wednesday that the settlements have “no legal effect.”
He declared that construction and approvals “must cease immediately and completely.”
“The existence and expansion of settlements fuel resentment and hopelessness among the Palestinian population and significantly heighten Israeli-Palestinian tensions,” the UN chief said. “In addition, they continue to undermine the prospects for ending the (Israeli) occupation and achieving the two-state solution by systematically eroding the possibility of establishing a contiguous and viable Palestinian state.”
Guterres said he regrets the Trump administration’s announcement on November 18 that it no longer views “the establishment of Israeli civilian settlements in the West Bank” as “per se, inconsistent with international law.”
Nickolay Mladenov told the UN Security Council that in addition, Israel issued tenders for some 8,000 housing units since the December 2016 resolution, which also declared that the settlements have “no legal validity.”
He said the numbers “should be of serious concern to all those who continue to support the establishment of an independent and viable Palestinian state alongside Israel.”
Mladenov was reporting to the council on implementation of the 2016 resolution.
The resolution was approved by the council when the UN, in the final weeks of the Obama administration, abstained rather than using its veto to support longtime ally Israel as it had done many times previously.
US ambassador Kelly Craft told the council that she would have vetoed the resolution, which the Trump administration opposes.
In this regard, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a report to the Security Council circulated Wednesday that the settlements have “no legal effect.”
He declared that construction and approvals “must cease immediately and completely.”
“The existence and expansion of settlements fuel resentment and hopelessness among the Palestinian population and significantly heighten Israeli-Palestinian tensions,” the UN chief said. “In addition, they continue to undermine the prospects for ending the (Israeli) occupation and achieving the two-state solution by systematically eroding the possibility of establishing a contiguous and viable Palestinian state.”
Guterres said he regrets the Trump administration’s announcement on November 18 that it no longer views “the establishment of Israeli civilian settlements in the West Bank” as “per se, inconsistent with international law.”
17 dec 2019
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Three years in the past, the United Nations Safety Council handed Decision 2334.
With fourteen members voting in favour and one abstention, the Decision was the equal of a political earthquake. Certainly, it was the primary time in a few years that the worldwide physique roundly condemned Israel for its unlawful settlement insurance policies within the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Not like earlier makes an attempt at holding Israel accountable, this time, the Individuals did nothing to guard its closest ally. What has occurred since then, nevertheless, has been a sworn statement to the failure of the UN to furnish significant mechanisms that may power |
violators of worldwide regulation, like Israel, to respect worldwide consensus. In a roundabout way, 2334, though externally supportive of Palestinian rights, turned out to be some of the expensive choices ever made by the worldwide establishment.
Instantly after the adoption of 2334 on December 23, 2016, Israel thumbed its nostril on the complete world by asserting, twice within the following January, plans to assemble hundreds of new properties in unlawful Jewish settlements within the occupied West Financial institution.
On the time, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his then-Protection Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, rationalised the provocative strikes as a “response to the housing wants” throughout the settlements. Nothing may have been farther from the reality, as the next three years demonstrated.
Now, it has turn into clear that the settlement growth was a part of a a lot bigger technique aimed toward killing any likelihood of building a contiguous and viable Palestinian State and parting methods with the so-called “land for peace system”, itself moulded by way of years of American mediation and “peace course of”.
The Israeli technique was a whole success. Due to the clean cheque issued by the Trump administration to Israel’s right-wing authorities coalition, Israeli politicians are actually overtly plotting what was as soon as almost unthinkable: the unilateral annexation of main Jewish settlement blocks within the West Financial institution together with massive swathes of the Jordan Valley.
All through the final three years, Washington has turned a blind eye to Israel’s sinister designs. Worse, it has totally embraced and validated the Israeli political discourse, whereas taking each crucial measure to offer a canopy for Israeli actions.
The declaration by US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, on November 18 that Jewish settlements “will not be inconsistent with worldwide regulation” is however certainly one of many such positions adopted by Washington to pave the street for Israel’s insolence and violation of worldwide regulation.
Retrospectively, President Obama had the possibility to do greater than merely abstaining from voting towards a UN Decision – which lacked any enforcement mechanism, anyway – through the use of the beneficiant US monetary help to Israel as a bargaining chip. That manner, he may have probably compelled Netanyahu to freeze settlement growth altogether.
Alas, Obama did the precise reverse – as he bankrolled the Israeli army and financed each Israeli warfare on Gaza. As an alternative, his belated transfer opened the stage for the Trump administration to unleash a merciless warfare on Palestinians and worldwide regulation, as effectively.
Plainly the two-year time period of US Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Hailey, was primarily devoted to rectifying the supposed “betrayal” of the Obama administration of Israel. Within the identify of defending Israel towards imaginary international “anti-Semitism”, the US severed its ties with a number of UN organisations, finally isolating Washington itself from the remainder of the world.
With the UN being designated because the widespread enemy by each Washington and Tel Aviv, worldwide regulation was rendered irrelevant. Progressively, the US authorities fortified its protecting defend round Israel, thus making 2334 and plenty of different UN resolutions meaningless.
In different phrases, the US managed to show worldwide consensus relating to the illegality of the Israeli occupation of Palestine into a chance for Tel Aviv to disown any dedication, not solely to the UN, however to the so-called two-state answer, and the “peace course of”, as effectively.
Whereas Israel accelerated its settlement initiatives unhindered, the US ensured that the Palestinian management is denied the chance to combat again, even when symbolically, by way of the varied worldwide establishments and any obtainable political and authorized platform. This was engineered by way of systematic financial warfare, which noticed the chopping of all help to the Palestinian Authority in August 2018, adopted, per week later, by stopping all funds to the UN organisation answerable for the welfare of Palestinian refugees, UNRWA.
US-Israeli warfare on Palestinians was staged on two fronts. One entrance targeted on the seizure of extra Palestinian land, the constructing of recent and the growth of current settlements, as a precursor of the upcoming steps of annexing a lot of the West Financial institution. The opposite entrance witnessed the relentless US administration’s stress on Palestinians by way of political and monetary means.
Three years after 2334, a brand new established order is upon us. Gone are the times of conventional American “peace-making” and its adjoining elaborate discourse centred on a two-state and different make-believe options. Now, Israel is single-handedly formulating its personal “imaginative and prescient” for a future that’s designed to fulfill the expectations of the nation’s unhinged and ever-growing right-wing constituency.
As for the US, its position has been relegated to the cheerleader, unfazed by such seemingly trivial issues as that of worldwide regulation, human rights, justice, peace and even regional stability.
Shortly after being appointed as Israel’s new Protection Minister on November 9, Naftali Bennett has taken the damaging and consequential resolution of constructing a brand new Jewish settlement within the occupied Palestinian metropolis of Al-Khalil (Hebron). Naturally, Jewish settlers rejoiced as they are going to lastly see the destruction of the previous Hebron market, which is older than Israel itself, and the potential for additional settlement growth and extra annexation within the metropolis.
On the identical time, Palestinians are cringing, for a transfer towards Hebron is the ultimate proof that Israel is now working in Palestine with out the slightest concern of political or authorized repercussions. Not solely did UN Decision 2334 fail to carry Israel accountable, it, indirectly, facilitated additional Israeli growth within the West Financial institution, paving the street for the annexation that can absolutely comply with.
Instantly after the adoption of 2334 on December 23, 2016, Israel thumbed its nostril on the complete world by asserting, twice within the following January, plans to assemble hundreds of new properties in unlawful Jewish settlements within the occupied West Financial institution.
On the time, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his then-Protection Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, rationalised the provocative strikes as a “response to the housing wants” throughout the settlements. Nothing may have been farther from the reality, as the next three years demonstrated.
Now, it has turn into clear that the settlement growth was a part of a a lot bigger technique aimed toward killing any likelihood of building a contiguous and viable Palestinian State and parting methods with the so-called “land for peace system”, itself moulded by way of years of American mediation and “peace course of”.
The Israeli technique was a whole success. Due to the clean cheque issued by the Trump administration to Israel’s right-wing authorities coalition, Israeli politicians are actually overtly plotting what was as soon as almost unthinkable: the unilateral annexation of main Jewish settlement blocks within the West Financial institution together with massive swathes of the Jordan Valley.
All through the final three years, Washington has turned a blind eye to Israel’s sinister designs. Worse, it has totally embraced and validated the Israeli political discourse, whereas taking each crucial measure to offer a canopy for Israeli actions.
The declaration by US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, on November 18 that Jewish settlements “will not be inconsistent with worldwide regulation” is however certainly one of many such positions adopted by Washington to pave the street for Israel’s insolence and violation of worldwide regulation.
Retrospectively, President Obama had the possibility to do greater than merely abstaining from voting towards a UN Decision – which lacked any enforcement mechanism, anyway – through the use of the beneficiant US monetary help to Israel as a bargaining chip. That manner, he may have probably compelled Netanyahu to freeze settlement growth altogether.
Alas, Obama did the precise reverse – as he bankrolled the Israeli army and financed each Israeli warfare on Gaza. As an alternative, his belated transfer opened the stage for the Trump administration to unleash a merciless warfare on Palestinians and worldwide regulation, as effectively.
Plainly the two-year time period of US Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Hailey, was primarily devoted to rectifying the supposed “betrayal” of the Obama administration of Israel. Within the identify of defending Israel towards imaginary international “anti-Semitism”, the US severed its ties with a number of UN organisations, finally isolating Washington itself from the remainder of the world.
With the UN being designated because the widespread enemy by each Washington and Tel Aviv, worldwide regulation was rendered irrelevant. Progressively, the US authorities fortified its protecting defend round Israel, thus making 2334 and plenty of different UN resolutions meaningless.
In different phrases, the US managed to show worldwide consensus relating to the illegality of the Israeli occupation of Palestine into a chance for Tel Aviv to disown any dedication, not solely to the UN, however to the so-called two-state answer, and the “peace course of”, as effectively.
Whereas Israel accelerated its settlement initiatives unhindered, the US ensured that the Palestinian management is denied the chance to combat again, even when symbolically, by way of the varied worldwide establishments and any obtainable political and authorized platform. This was engineered by way of systematic financial warfare, which noticed the chopping of all help to the Palestinian Authority in August 2018, adopted, per week later, by stopping all funds to the UN organisation answerable for the welfare of Palestinian refugees, UNRWA.
US-Israeli warfare on Palestinians was staged on two fronts. One entrance targeted on the seizure of extra Palestinian land, the constructing of recent and the growth of current settlements, as a precursor of the upcoming steps of annexing a lot of the West Financial institution. The opposite entrance witnessed the relentless US administration’s stress on Palestinians by way of political and monetary means.
Three years after 2334, a brand new established order is upon us. Gone are the times of conventional American “peace-making” and its adjoining elaborate discourse centred on a two-state and different make-believe options. Now, Israel is single-handedly formulating its personal “imaginative and prescient” for a future that’s designed to fulfill the expectations of the nation’s unhinged and ever-growing right-wing constituency.
As for the US, its position has been relegated to the cheerleader, unfazed by such seemingly trivial issues as that of worldwide regulation, human rights, justice, peace and even regional stability.
Shortly after being appointed as Israel’s new Protection Minister on November 9, Naftali Bennett has taken the damaging and consequential resolution of constructing a brand new Jewish settlement within the occupied Palestinian metropolis of Al-Khalil (Hebron). Naturally, Jewish settlers rejoiced as they are going to lastly see the destruction of the previous Hebron market, which is older than Israel itself, and the potential for additional settlement growth and extra annexation within the metropolis.
On the identical time, Palestinians are cringing, for a transfer towards Hebron is the ultimate proof that Israel is now working in Palestine with out the slightest concern of political or authorized repercussions. Not solely did UN Decision 2334 fail to carry Israel accountable, it, indirectly, facilitated additional Israeli growth within the West Financial institution, paving the street for the annexation that can absolutely comply with.
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