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By<\/em> Philip Giraldi<\/strong> \u201cThe Israeli government is changing, <\/strong> Israel is undergoing a change of management, with reliably hardline Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu being replaced by extreme nationalist Naftali Bennett. Bennett has at intervals favored the disenfranchisement of non-Jewish Israeli citizens and the ethnic cleansing of all non-Jews from historic Palestine, killing them if necessary. He opposes the creation of any Palestinian state and routinely describes Palestinian protesters as terrorists while stating his belief that they should be shot on sight. <\/strong><\/p>\n He has also boasted of his shooting Palestinians during his military service, saying at one point \u201cI already killed lots of Arabs in my life, and there is absolutely no problem with that.\u201d<\/p>\n He was heavily involved in \u201cOperation Grapes of Wrath\u201d in Lebanon in the 1980s, where his commando unit killed numerous civilians, and takes pleasure in recounting his participation in Israel\u2019s war crimes.<\/p>\n All of which means that there will be no respite from the brutal Netanyahu reign of terror which has been prevailing on the West Bank, in Gaza and also in Jerusalem itself.<\/p>\n If anything, the pressure on Arabs forcing them to leave will intensify.<\/p>\n Evidence that the recently negotiated cease fire was little more than a pause in the plan to mitigate international pressure before continuing to make the former Palestine free of Palestinians, is already available. Israeli police and army units have been arresting hundreds of Arabs, many of whom are Israeli citizens, not because they have broken any of the \u201crules\u201d imposed by the Netanyahu government, but as a preventive measure to have them identified, allowing them to be safely locked away when the next round of fighting begins.<\/p>\n Eighteen hundred arrests have been reported since unrest began in April, but the figure is probably much higher than that. An estimated 25% of those who are detained are children and 85% of those children arrested report that they were physically abused. \u00a0Also, at least 26 Palestinians have been killed while resisting. It has been claimed that the police, embarrassed by being ridiculed by protesting Palestinians, are \u201csettling scores\u201d and \u201cclosing accounts,\u201d frequently using savage beatings during arrests and as collective punishment to break the Arab resistance.<\/p>\n Israeli police have also been active at and around the al-Aqsa mosque, where they have been denying Muslims access to the holy site while promoting sightseeing visits by Israeli Jews. This is a clear violation of the rules established for access to the mosque and it sends a strong signal to Palestinians that there is more to come and the intention is clearly that they will eventually be removed by whatever means necessary from Greater Israel.<\/p>\n The Director for the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel (ADALAH) Hassan Jabareen observed recently how the violence over the past month was deliberately provoked by Israel both to shore up Netanyahu\u2019s electoral prospects while \u201cthe massive arrest campaign announced by Israeli police\u2026is a militarized war against Palestinian citizens of Israel. This is a war against Palestinian demonstrators, political activists, and minors, employing massive Israeli police forces to raid the homes of Palestinian citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n The Israelis, who clearly have a sense of humor, called the first phase of the mass arrests \u201cOperation Law and Order.\u201d The raids themselves have been carried out inside Israel itself and on the West Bank. Those Palestinians who are citizens of Israel have what has frequently been described as \u201csecond class rights\u201d in the country\u2019s judicial system. Although Israel claims its Arab citizens\u2014roughly 20% of the nation\u2019s population\u2014have equality under the law, even the pro-Israel US State Department has repeatedly\u00a0accused\u00a0Israel of\u00a0practicing\u00a0\u201cinstitutional and societal discrimination\u201d toward its Arab citizens.<\/p>\n As a consequence, Palestinians who are arrested are indicted, charged and in some cases detained indefinitely under existing state of emergency and anti-terror legislation. A common charge is \u201cincitement\u201d which requires little or nothing in the way of evidence. Many of the arrested Palestinians have in fact been released after payment of exorbitant bails, averaging about $1,000. One Palestinian activist\u00a0reportedly paying $7,400\u00a0to be set free.<\/p>\n It should be noted that the armed Jewish settlers who rioted in the lead up to last month\u2019s fighting, destroying Palestinian homes and other property, have not been identified and detained by Israeli authorities. Activist Remi Kanazi notes how \u201cApartheid inside Israel is when Jewish Israeli mobs chant \u2018Death to Arabs\u2019 and brutalize Palestinians in their neighborhoods, while the cops do nothing, only for those same cops to conduct mass arrests of Palestinian citizens two weeks later.\u201d<\/p>\n Outside of Israel proper, other Palestinians, who are citizens of the Palestinian Authority or who have United Nations documentation, have no rights at all under Israeli law and are being detained at will and, in many cases, indefinitely, without any access to legal counsel or to family members. Most of them were not doing anything illegal, even by Israeli standards, when they were arrested.<\/p>\n They were guilty of being Palestinians.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n In one example of how the process works, well-known Palestinian activist Iyad Burnat, who had previously been arrested at age 17 and imprisoned for two years for having thrown stones at Israeli soldiers has been targeted. He lives in Bil\u2019in on the West Bank and has had his two sons abducted from their home in recent night invasions by Israeli security forces. Abdul Khaliq, 21 years old, was taken away on May 17th\u00a0and Mohammed, 19 years old, was abducted on May 24th. They are being held in the Almasqubia detention center in Jerusalem and have been denied any contact either with their parents or legal counsel. The Israeli authorities have provided no explanation of why they were arrested in the first place.<\/p>\n In another recent example of the brutality of the Israeli police, al-Jazeera\u00a0reports in detail how\u00a0thirteen-year-old Mohammed Saadi was kidnapped, blindfolded, beaten and threatened with a gun to his head by five policemen working undercover in his hometown of Umm al-Fahem. Saadi was among thousands who gathered for a funeral procession held for Mohammed Kiwan, a 17-year-old boy who had been shot and killed by Israeli police a week earlier.<\/p>\n Activists among the Palestinians\u00a0observe that\u00a0the Israeli repression has proven counter-productive. Most Palestinians now understand that the Israelis intend to exterminate them. One observer notes that \u201cThe fear barrier has been broken. Israeli forces are up against a people who no longer have anything to lose. The young men in Jerusalem don\u2019t see they have a future to look forward to, due to socioeconomic factors that is either the result of or exacerbated by the occupation policies towards them. These people are defending their right to exist, their homes and their homeland, and had it not been for their resistance, Jewish settlers would have taken control of many places in Jerusalem.\u201d<\/p>\n Clearly, the Joe Biden administration\u00a0will do nothing\u00a0even if the Israeli government were to arrest and torture 100,000 Arabs, but there is growing sentiment even in Congress and the Zionist controlled media that \u201cwhat is wrong is wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n Congresswoman Betty McCollum\u2019s has twice introduced a bill, which is languishing in congressional committee, that calls on the United States to block aid to Israel that can be perceived as being used to arrest, beat and imprison children.\u00a0Her legislation\u00a0the\u00a0Promoting Human Rights for Palestinian Children Living Under Israeli Military Occupation Act\u200b\u00a0H.R.\u00a02407\u00a0amends\u00a0a provision of the\u00a0Foreign Assistance Act\u00a0known as the \u201cLeahy Law\u201d to prohibit funding for the military detention of children in any country, including Israel.<\/p>\n McCollum argues that an estimated 10,000 Palestinian children have been detained by Israeli security forces and prosecuted in the Israeli military court system since 2000. These children between the ages of 11 and 15 have sometimes been tortured using chokeholds, beatings, and coercive interrogation. As of September 2020\u00a0there were\u00a0an estimated 157 children still detained in Israeli prisons, a number that has certainly gone up dramatically given the current crackdown by the police and army.<\/p>\n Even though Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi will surely block any attempt to let the McCollum bill see light of day one can at least honor the Congresswoman for what she is attempting to do and hope that some day the United States government will finally act honorably and help deliver liberty and justice for the long suffering Palestinians.<\/strong><\/p>\n Source<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n
\nInformation Clearing House<\/strong>
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