Reports like this should be blazing on the front pages of America's major newspapers. These atrocities are the result of the impunity and immunity that Israel enjoys courtesy of America's unflinching support. The assault on basic human rights should be boldly and broadly exposed so that the rest of the world can take action. The international community must hold Israel and the settlers accountable for these crimes.
The world won’t wake up. The world has had plenty of opportunity to stop this genocide and ethnic cleansing. But it will not. I am ashamed of my government and the media establishment for supporting this.
I do see glimmers here and there though, especially now with the war in Iran and trump attacking all the US "allies" for not wanting to do suicide runs through the Strait of Hormuz
Israel is a very psychopathic society! We need a Nuremberg 2 but how does a whole society recover from this other than what happen to Germany and Japan in WWII? And that's not going to happen as long as they control the US government!
I’ve run out of words to express my anger. Thank you for this report. These horrific stories should be headline news, but they’re only briefly covered, if at all, by the MSM.
maybe 30 years ago when i was still living in NYC, i read a NY Times magazine feature about the Palestinian/ settler "problem" in Israel. it focused on a secular woman who had moved to Israel from Brooklyn where she was born and raised (and should have remained) with the old "Right of Return nonsense (she'd never lived there so how could she "return?").
she had displaced a Palestinian family, who were now scratching out a precarious existence on the other side of the fortified walls keeping them from the property that used to be theirs. there were IDF soldiers protecting her from the people she had displaced and picking them off at random.
she crossed her arms over her arrogant chest and declared "it's very IMPORTANT that we live here." i'll never forget it. she could have remained in Brooklyn with her apartment and her job but instead she was making a point- we're the Chosen people. we can seize your land and oppress you and get away with any genocidal behavior and the world will give us a pass.
at that moment i realized the horror of the entire Isr**l project, it's maniacal intentions and was never fooled by their attempts to play the "victim" again.
here's what i know: i bought my house in 2002 and had paid it off by 2016. in today's market, it's probably worth 5 times what i paid for it and, although i put a lot of money and work into restoring the house and planting the garden, it still has the same square footage and number of bedrooms as it had when i bought it.
if some religious fanatic comes knocking at my door with some crackpot story about how "their" god promised my house to them 2000 years ago and told them it was ok to kill me and murder my cats, i hope they're ok with me blowing their face to kingdom come!
The Israeli government has been given free reign to commit whatever atrocities it pleases. The blame for this falls squarely on the cowardly governments of the US and Europe who refuse to stop the genocide of Palestinians.
Eighty years that land has belonged to Hamamdeh's family. Eighty years. And he's being told he has a few days to leave for Mecca or Jordan. The soldiers standing by and doing nothing isn't a failure — it's a choice. The world watching and doing nothing isn't a failure — it's a choice. "We were left alone" is the most devastating three words in this piece.
It seems to me that the "settlers" have morphed into the worst of the Nazis that terrorized and tried to "vernichten" the "settlers'" grand and great-grandparents!!" Why these atrocities are not addressed and prevented by the State of Israel is beyond my comprehension. I certainly object to the United States of America giving tacit approval to these gross injustices by our continuing support of what Israel is becoming under Netanyahu.
This will likely continue until the people of the world rise up and say enough if enough and insist their government stop the violence and oppression. There is no question but that Israel and the US are acting worse than terrorist organizations, in fact they are led by terrorist governments. We should all be condemning the Israeli and US attacks on Iran and Palestine as violations of the UN Charter and the international rule of law and insist that they be stopped immediately, along with the illegal occupation, and the illegal settlements either be turned over to the Palestinians or disbanded. The New York Declaration adopted by the UN General Assembly and calling for implementing the Two State Solution ought to be carried out as soon as at all possible and the working groups that were supposed to be created should start doing their work and carrying out their mandates and continue on until there is finally peace in the region for all peoples.
I’m in Brooklyn, New York. Our hearts are with you. The whole world is watching—and searching for what we can do. I’m with a group joining the BDS movement. We’re on the lookout for more. Meanwhile, sending you heartfelt wishes for a better day for you, your family, and your community.
Reports like this should be blazing on the front pages of America's major newspapers. These atrocities are the result of the impunity and immunity that Israel enjoys courtesy of America's unflinching support. The assault on basic human rights should be boldly and broadly exposed so that the rest of the world can take action. The international community must hold Israel and the settlers accountable for these crimes.
Sadly this was predictable, I hope the world wakes up soon :(
The world won’t wake up. The world has had plenty of opportunity to stop this genocide and ethnic cleansing. But it will not. I am ashamed of my government and the media establishment for supporting this.
I do see glimmers here and there though, especially now with the war in Iran and trump attacking all the US "allies" for not wanting to do suicide runs through the Strait of Hormuz
glimmer from Al Mayadeen: 'Pentagon approaching 'Winchester' for Tomahawk supply amid war on Iran' (shhh: out of ammo)
Israel is a very psychopathic society! We need a Nuremberg 2 but how does a whole society recover from this other than what happen to Germany and Japan in WWII? And that's not going to happen as long as they control the US government!
Well said.
US tax payers have to see that pro Israel AIPAC money goes to help Israeli genocide.
Thank you Drope Site for showing the Israeli genocide that every country in the WORLD can see but the US can't or won't.
Israel is the bad guy in the Middle East not Iran.
Thank you for your courage and determination to show the human realities suffering these outrages.
I’ve run out of words to express my anger. Thank you for this report. These horrific stories should be headline news, but they’re only briefly covered, if at all, by the MSM.
maybe 30 years ago when i was still living in NYC, i read a NY Times magazine feature about the Palestinian/ settler "problem" in Israel. it focused on a secular woman who had moved to Israel from Brooklyn where she was born and raised (and should have remained) with the old "Right of Return nonsense (she'd never lived there so how could she "return?").
she had displaced a Palestinian family, who were now scratching out a precarious existence on the other side of the fortified walls keeping them from the property that used to be theirs. there were IDF soldiers protecting her from the people she had displaced and picking them off at random.
she crossed her arms over her arrogant chest and declared "it's very IMPORTANT that we live here." i'll never forget it. she could have remained in Brooklyn with her apartment and her job but instead she was making a point- we're the Chosen people. we can seize your land and oppress you and get away with any genocidal behavior and the world will give us a pass.
at that moment i realized the horror of the entire Isr**l project, it's maniacal intentions and was never fooled by their attempts to play the "victim" again.
here's what i know: i bought my house in 2002 and had paid it off by 2016. in today's market, it's probably worth 5 times what i paid for it and, although i put a lot of money and work into restoring the house and planting the garden, it still has the same square footage and number of bedrooms as it had when i bought it.
if some religious fanatic comes knocking at my door with some crackpot story about how "their" god promised my house to them 2000 years ago and told them it was ok to kill me and murder my cats, i hope they're ok with me blowing their face to kingdom come!
I like to call it biblical bull sh..t.
Norman Finkelstein says "there's no business like Shoah business."
The Israeli government has been given free reign to commit whatever atrocities it pleases. The blame for this falls squarely on the cowardly governments of the US and Europe who refuse to stop the genocide of Palestinians.
Eighty years that land has belonged to Hamamdeh's family. Eighty years. And he's being told he has a few days to leave for Mecca or Jordan. The soldiers standing by and doing nothing isn't a failure — it's a choice. The world watching and doing nothing isn't a failure — it's a choice. "We were left alone" is the most devastating three words in this piece.
I keep believing that if everyone knew, the world would put a stop to this cruelty. There is a reason mainstream media does not carry these stories.
Israel pac money in the US should be illegal as a form of indirect bribery by a foreign country.
It seems to me that the "settlers" have morphed into the worst of the Nazis that terrorized and tried to "vernichten" the "settlers'" grand and great-grandparents!!" Why these atrocities are not addressed and prevented by the State of Israel is beyond my comprehension. I certainly object to the United States of America giving tacit approval to these gross injustices by our continuing support of what Israel is becoming under Netanyahu.
"Settler" is a euphanism for soldier. We must tell Trump to get out of this emerging war.
This will likely continue until the people of the world rise up and say enough if enough and insist their government stop the violence and oppression. There is no question but that Israel and the US are acting worse than terrorist organizations, in fact they are led by terrorist governments. We should all be condemning the Israeli and US attacks on Iran and Palestine as violations of the UN Charter and the international rule of law and insist that they be stopped immediately, along with the illegal occupation, and the illegal settlements either be turned over to the Palestinians or disbanded. The New York Declaration adopted by the UN General Assembly and calling for implementing the Two State Solution ought to be carried out as soon as at all possible and the working groups that were supposed to be created should start doing their work and carrying out their mandates and continue on until there is finally peace in the region for all peoples.
Why oh why the whole world seems so helpless.
I’m in Brooklyn, New York. Our hearts are with you. The whole world is watching—and searching for what we can do. I’m with a group joining the BDS movement. We’re on the lookout for more. Meanwhile, sending you heartfelt wishes for a better day for you, your family, and your community.