Stephen Lendman: Israeli Home Demolition Terrorism!

• The real terrorists in Palestine are the Zionists. They commit genocide and ethnic cleansing against the semitic Palestinian people while pretending to be victims. Ashkenazi Jews are not the Jews of the Bible. They are not semitic and are not descendents of the 12 tribes of Israel. Zionist ‘666’ Israel is a Satanic counterfeit!
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  Israeli Home Demolition Terrorism
  By Stephen Lendman, http://sjlendman.blogspot.com
   Co-founded (with Meir Marglit) and directed by Jeff Halper, the Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions (ICAHD) “is a non-violent, direct-action organization established in 1998 to resist Israeli demolition of Palestinian houses in the Occupied Territories.” ICAHD also helps rebuild homes. In addition, it resists “land expropriation, settlement expansions, by-pass road construction, policies of ‘closure’ and ‘separation,’ ” as well as destruction of agricultural land and crops. It also works for peace, equity, and ending Israel’s illegal occupation. Access its web site through the following link:http://www.icahd.org/
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  It estimates over 24,800 West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza houses demolished since 1967 (4,247 during Cast Lead, according to the UN). It classifies demolition types as:
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  — punishment for actions associated with the structures (about 8.5%);
  — administrative for lacking building permits (about 26%);
  — land-clearing/military demolitions for any reason,including achieving IDF goals or accompanying extrajudicial assassinations (about 65.5%); and
  — other undefined reasons.
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   In fact, Israel’s demolition and displacement policies are serious international law breaches for any reason. Nonetheless, they continue as official state policy to steal Palestinian land for Israelis, an issue Western media ignore, as well as other Israeli crimes of war and against humanity.
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   On June 27, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) said the Knesset Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee passed a first draft of a law requiring Palestinians to pay house demolition costs with no judicial review. ACRI and Bimkom: Planners for Planning Rights petitioned the committee, calling the measure extreme, adding that without judicial review “there is no option for the owners to demolish the structure themselves,” a much cheaper procedure. Moreover, this legislation gives administrative authorities “unbalanced” demolition freedom, including to bulldoze homes in “structurally disadvantaged communities such as Bedouins in unrecognized communities” and Palestinians in East Jerusalem. A “softened version of the bill” lets courts decide whether costs should be imposed and how much. It’s expected to become law.
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   On July 21, a new UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) report documented alarming numbers of West Bank Area C demolitions and forced displacements, saying more occurred (342) so far in 2011 than in 2009 and 2010 combined. Based on field visits to 13 Area C communities, the report said “restrictive policies and practices of the Israeli authorities, including movement and access restrictions, settlement activity and restrictions on Palestinian construction” force most Palestinians to leave. It added that thousands more are at risk because 3,000 demolition orders have been issued, including against 18 schools.
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   On July 18, ICAHD reported “a new wave of demolition orders, stop-building orders, property confiscations, settler harassment and multiple warnings of imminent eviction(s) by the Israeli Civil Administration….”
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