Palestinians erect third West Bank outpost, are attacked by IDF, settlers
http://972mag.com/palestinians-erect-third-west-bank-outpost-are-attacked-by-idf-settlers/65308/
In third such project in as many weeks, hundreds of Palestinians erect new neighborhood of Burin, calling it Manatir, or Bab Al-Huriya (Gate of Freedom). The activists and village residents were quickly attacked by IDF soldiers and local settlers.
Some 300 Palestinians from the village of Burin and the popular committees against the wall and settlements set up a new neighborhood on village lands, according to reports, calling it Manatir or Bab Al-Huriya (Gate of Freedom). Israeli forces were quick to respond, sealing off the area to prevent supporters from coming in, and attacked the activists with tear gas, rubber-coated bullets and live bullets. Settlers were also attacking Palestinians in the area.
Two things are very clear to me in this story.
1) Israel and its citizens can enter the West Bank and do whatever they want: set up illegal outposts/colonies, destroy Palestinian olive groves and home, treat the Palestinians like garbage.
If the Palestinians try to do anything remotely like set up a new outpost, on their private land no less, they are set upon by both IDF and rabid Israeli settlers. So it is a no-win to be a Palestinian on Palestinian land. Apartheid.
2) The Israelis are about as dumb as a stick by doing this. The Palestinians must be setting up the groundwork to proceed to the international criminal court and show all the past examples of Israeli aggression and theft of their lands (West Bank) as well as the treatment that they receive (beatings, rubber bullets, expulsion) from their own privately held lands.
Stay classy Israel. Perhaps you can try to play the victims at the ICC, but I believe that your time is nearly run out. Nobody buys your shtick any longer.
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