The Architecture of Apartheid
By Sarah Lazare
and Clare Bayard
The word "Revenge" is scrawled in Hebrew on a Palestinian school in Hebron. The windows are covered with screens and the play yard obstructed with more screens tipped with barbed wire, to obstruct the stones regularly pelted down by Jewish settlers. The space between the school and the neighboring building is blocked off with large, wooden slabs, to ensure that Palestinian school children do not encroach into settler territory. Nearby checkpoints and cameras placed on rooftops serve as constant reminder that these kids' every movement is monitored and contained.
ZNET via the Palestinian Pundit
"<span><span>Jewish settlers claim that they have rights to the land, invoking a bloody massacre in 1929 that left 67 Jews dead. There are varying accounts of this tragedy: Mikhael Manekin from Breaking the Silence, a group of former IDF soldiers who now speak out about what they witnessed and acts they perpetrated, told us that many of the murderers had come in from surrounding villages. He claims that several Palestinian locals risked their lives to defend the Jews, and some of them were granted certificates of appreciation by Jewish organizations for doing so. Local settlers have used the 1929 massacre to justify pushing Palestinian Hebron residents out of their homes, with a sign placed in the middle of a settlement that reads, "These Arabs are living on stolen land."</span></span>
ReplyDeleteMy view is that there's no way coexistance with settlers is going to be possible.. You wouldn't want to live with a crack addict living under the same roof. The fact that's it's religious and ultranationalistic crack doesn't make it any easier on the contrary!! Colonists HAS to go!! To hell would be preferable!
<span style="">Mikhael explained that there are 2 or 3 soldiers per settler</span>
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In Apatheid the cages follow suit - the indigenous people are treated like animals, and they are in cages. When in reality, the real animals are the settlers, and the assualts are so frequent and unpredictable, that the Palestinians must be constantly on the defensive.
ReplyDeleteThese pictures make me feel a combination of rage, sorrow and nausea at human beings.
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