Israel Continues Siege On Palestinians In Hebron

[Purveyor]

Israeli forces have shot and injured two Palestinians in the village of Dura amid a continued army blockade on the Hebron area of the southern occupied West Bank.

"All of the villages south of Hebron have been closed off," Issa Amro, director of the Hebron-based Youth Against Settlements activist group, told Al Jazeera by telephone on Saturday night.

"We've been under siege for two days now."

Amro said all entrances to Hebron - the most populous Palestinian city in the West Bank - had been closed except for one, which leads to Road 60, a major north-south highway.

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http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/israel-continues-siege-on-palestinians-in-hebron/

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1. Issa Amro provides the quote in the second paragraph of this article

Here's a quote from Issa Amro about the 13 year old Israeli girl who was killed in her bed by a Palestinian (which, incidentally, is the reason for the closure):

"This kid wanted to attack the settlement, but the occupation is responsible for killing him and for the death of this young girl."

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2. the director of Hebron youth against settlements

maybe they are a little too strongly against settlements. a little tolerance would be good for them so they won't go stabbing girls to death in bed.

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3. They no longer see people living in settlements as human beings

Even the children.

[MousePlayingDaffodil]

4. There is a long history of certain people . . .

. . . not seeing Jews as human beings, and long before there were any "settlements" in Samaria and Judea.

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5. some of that history actually goes through Hebron

e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929_Hebron_massacre

Interesting fact: When King David ruled Judea, he was in Hebron.
(not our King David)

[Little Tich]

6. According to a former Mossad deputy chief, terror is the price of Israel’s settlement policy in the

West Bank

How Can Israeli Leaders Still Argue That Settlements Boost Security?
Source: Haaretz

The killings over the weekend prove that collective punishment against the Palestinians leads to a situation where the army can’t protect Israelis

Two deadly terror attacks in two days in the Hebron area have turned the West Bank’s security picture upside down. Although the number of Palestinian attacks has declined sharply over the past nine months, the figures have no meaning in view of the two murders last week – that of a girl in her bed and a father of 10 in his car.

Once again it has become clear that the army is incapable of protecting Israelis who insist on settling in the West Bank everywhere at all times.

The failure over the weekend is first and foremost that of Benjamin Netanyahu and Avidgor Lieberman. The first is the prime minister who grandstands against giving in to terror and promises a hard line against it. The second is the defense minister who got where he is by ranting against Netanyahu’s incompetence. The assessment that risks were increasing toward the end of Ramadan, especially in the Hebron area, didn’t come out of nowhere, and the army and Shin Bet security service knew about the difficulties in obtaining intelligence.

The alarmed responses by Netanyahu, Lieberman, Education Minister Naftali Bennett and their colleagues over the weekend show that the Israeli right has lost its way. One of the right’s basic arguments is that the settlements increase security. This argument is clearly unfounded; it totally defies reality. A former deputy Mossad chief, Ram Ben Barak, was right when he said Friday on Channel 10 that terror is the price of Israel’s settlement policy in the West Bank.

“We must say frankly that this is the price we pay for living in the midst of a hostile Arab population,” he said. “We must have leaders with the courage to do things differently from what we’ve done so far.

Read more: http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/1.728532

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7. For goodness sake Little Tich.....

....dont give them logic and reason ....

" A former deputy Mossad chief, Ram Ben Barak, was right when he said Friday on Channel 10 that terror is the price of Israel’s settlement policy in the West Bank. "

Might seem perfectly logical and reasonable to you and I and to Ram Ben Barak.....but ,
when it comes down to religious believes ....logic and reason fly right out the window .

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8. If terror is the price of settlement activity, then it should've stopped after the Gaza pullout...

...when every last settlement and ever last Jew was extracted from Gaza.

And yet the terror increased.

Explanation?

[Little Tich]

9. Ariel Sharon. n/t

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10. Huh? The Gaza pullout proves you're wrong about ending violence. n/t