A Beit Safafa Demolition

[bedouinboy]

Shame on the residents for talking in such a manner against Israel.

(And shame on some of the anti-Israel comments here)

I personally cannot understand people who break the law then cry when they are caught. Especially when they know they will be caught... which makes me think their intention in the first place is to make Israel look bad.

[sdbno]

I live in Beit Safafa, and they didn't get the permission to build the top of the house from the municipality, that's why they demolished the top.

[zahrah888]

zionism is worse than apartheid and comparable with the beginning of nazism, tomorrows zionists may become yet worse still

[gingerXLL]

I am very happy you are making this diaries = so all your crimes againts the Jews and the state of Israel will be recorded

[Tomislavv2]

if Israel didn't gave permits how it happened that hundreds of houses were build just in such small vilage like Beit Cafafa with permits?

[perazh]

Thats why all of them are considered illegal as they are not able to get permision from Israeli government (although based on UN law it is not Israeli land) and every day you see them being demolished like this.

[Tomislavv2]

I live in Jerusalem and if you take a tour in Arab neighborhoods like Silwan Issafiyah A ram you will see hundreds and hundreds of beatyfull vilas currently built.I spoke with the people involved and most of them indeed have proper papers and premitions from Jerusalem municipality for building

[perazh]

Israel gives building permit 13 cases in all West Bank

This makes it impossible for Palestinians to build homes with permit

look at this moron cryptic Jew Below me with his Propaganda shits

[Tomislavv2]

perazh You;r not just a moron but a liar too

[Tomislavv2]

.Do you know how many houses were demolished in 2009 in Jerusalem?

112

26 in Arab parts of city and 88 in Jewish neighborhoods.Not a single house was demolished in Beit Safafa in 2009.

[eyalbond]

Walla this ppl are building with no building plans at all, they are part of the Jerusalem municipaly nad located in the midle of Jewish quarters(beit safafa),

Why dont they need to Do the building process as any other noraml ppl?!

If I would build this , they would demolish my home in a week ,not in 8 years...

Its not about Arabs/Jewish - Its about basic laws that this ppl dont keep.

This and all the other demolishes are 100% justice+this building with out building plans are dengerous!

[buddyis12]

Please read and listen...

iamthewitness . com

[buddyis12]

Our race is the Master Race. We are divine gods on this planet. We are as different from the inferior races as they are from insects. In fact, compared to our race, other races are beasts and animals, cattle at best. Other races are considered as human excrement. Our destiny is to rule over the inferior races. Our earthly kingdom will be ruled by our leader with a rod of iron. The masses will lick our feet and serve us as our slaves."

— Menachem Begin - Israeli Prime Minister 19771983

[bixby2000]

"Since the beginning of year 2009 until the end of March 2009, the Israeli Municipality of JERUSALEM has issued 349 house demolition orders for Palestinian houses in Jerusalem city. Furthermore, the municipality has executed 45 demolition orders, of which, 25 were residential houses, 13 were Bedouin barracks and tents, 2 walls, 1 garage, 1 warehouse, and 2 offices and a Gas station."

Source : Applied Research Institute Jerusalm arij.

No need to try as usual to discredit or trash anybody.

[alanmorell]

Great speech. People often think that if you are in Palestinians' side is because you are muslim, terrorist or stuff. The only thing that really matters is HUMAN RIGHTS, and it's proved that Palestinians are being demonized, punished and banished by a new population with the help and silence of outer countries, only because of these outer countries' interests and past and present mistakes.

I'd like to apologize for my english by the way. In spite of being poor I think that it can be understood.

[bixby2000]

Hi alan, I believe that you never can be wrong if you are on humanism's side and I absolutely love the definition of it given by wiki based on the Compact Oxford English Dictionary (I'm sorry for my english too, btw)

It's sad that we have to talk about violations of human rights' law, when the absolute problem is violation of simple good sense, empathy and feelings.

Life is often like a quadrichromy : if you don't put all the values on a same level you only get a trashy image.

[AndresHerutJaim]

There are usually Arabs in Jerusalem and the Galilee that buildings illegally, in the same way that there are jews who built houses illegally in Palestinian lands. The Israeli authorities, in almost all of these cases, enforces the law. In the same way as they were brutally removed the Jews who were occupying a house illegally in Hebrón or the thousands of Jews who were living in the Gaza strip, the Arabs that construct illegally in Beit Safafa are and must be punished.

[bixby2000]

I think you should read or hear (there's a video on you tube) the israeli scholar, Illan Pappe. He'll explain you what ethnic cleansing means.

It's sad how people don't seem to realize the drama "ethnic cleansing" means.

It's not only sad, but... strange. Ya. Strange, this... blindness, indifference ?

People should thank aic for existing, proving humanity exist everywhere and for this report.

[AndresHerutJaim]

Illan Pappe is a person totally discredited in Israel and in many parts of the world, both from an ideological point of view and from an academic point of view.

[bixby2000]

In fact, Andres, I think nobody should need an israeli, chinese or martian voice to see that this kind of doing is simply a shame, a spitefull way to deal with people who lived there before some immigration need their soil.

In fact, I'm very sad and sorry to play this silly game consisting of taking voices from israeli scholars instead of looking simply, at facts stated by Palestinians themselves. But as you know, THEY are discredited, even as human beings... Facts can't be discredited.

[bixby2000]

Ilan Pappe gives a dimension to an every day problem. Did you follow Hilary Clinton visit in Ramallah ? There is something like 200 Palestinian homes waiting to be demolished.

The word "ethnic cleansing" is no tabou anymore. Israeli news speaks about it too : "The Palestinian Authority accused Israel of 'ethnically cleansing' east Jerusalem of Palestinians, following the tearing down of dozens of buildings in the capital's east. "

[bixby2000]

..."This is an infuriating campaign by the municipality to 'Judaize' the city and expel the Palestinian population," he added.

(ynetnews)

See google : East Jerusalem cleansing

It's not news, sadly. It's a terrible "logic" that goes together with the apartheid wall and means a disgusting racist way to live among humans. But to dare say this, it's better to be a Jew or Israeli.

Being a Racist, or held as one is a Shame. Well, at least, to some eyes.

All the voices state the same

[bixby2000]

Do you know why Geneva Conventions IV exist ? To prevent, not only demolitions of homes, as collective punishements or else, but to prevent exactly this point : to make people leave a place (they won't receive another permit, even if they were "rich" enough to make another home, it's an administrative "game").

For them, it means, out of this place, out of it. OUT !

The second part is letting new inhabitants come and put an end to East-West with some aliya's more.

= ethnic cleansing

[AndresHerutJaim]

In 1950 there were in Israel 160.000 Arabs. Nowadays, there live in Israel 1.5 millions of Arabs (and also they live better than in any Arab country).

Now tell me... how can you call this "ethnic cleansing"? so stupid are the israelis?

[bixby2000]

Hello. Are you obtuse on purpose ? The problem is not the growth of people, the practice of Haredi Jews / Muslims about babies, or even if you took Arabs from Golan for your statistics (hum, did you ?).

The fact is that all the israel policy aims at a "arab-frei" Jerusalem. The great dream being not to encounter any arabs when travelling from west to east Jerusalem.

If any Russian prefered living in a big home with even a swimming pool upon palestinians, instead of being caught in Udssr rumble

[bixby2000]

since 90', on the other side, it's impossible to make Palestinians go away. You can offer them a castle elsewhere, they have learned that when you leave, it's the end. You won't even be able to see the place where your family was born. And so, the only way is to make their life a HELL, demolish their homes, and hope they will go to relatives, already living in refugee camps. Or in one of these "palestinian-indian reserves" of West Bank, in middle of the more than 1 million people from Udssr live

[bixby2000]

Last but not least It's forbidden, when you Occupy a region, like Israel occupies West Bank, to install your population on this soil (art 49, GC 4). THIS was specifically intended to prevent the terrible noise of death trains and else.

In 1947, Jews were 30%

And they possessed 6%

in 1947... ethnic cleansing began.

[bixby2000]

I should have talked about 1882... of course as a "spiritual" beginning of all this", I should have talked about 1850, Suez, and the interest for Europe of having people "they don't like ... but that they know quite well" : Jews (so much more civilised than these horrible muslims) in the place... oh... we could talk and talk about the world...

One Fact remains : IT WAS SPITFUL to demolish this HOME !

And more so, HATEFUL from people building, and building illegally on these people' soil.