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| Subject: Semitic-impositionists: Yahweh's Self-Anointed Schmucks: Intimidation. Extortion. Eviction: This Is the Brutal Reality for Palestinians in Silwan, Jerusalem Mon Apr 12, 2021 1:23 am | |
| I'm a Palestinian community organizer in East Jerusalem's Silwan neighborhood. Let me show you what it's like to be besieged by settlers and under constant attack by the Israeli authorities
"You’re civilized," the Israeli interrogator said, in mocking Arabic. "Inta mathaqaf. You have connections. Do not think I am afraid of your connections. Go tell them what I said, and that I threatened you. Tell Al-Manar and Al-Jazeera." His name was Doron Zahavi, otherwise called "Captain George," and he was known for the brutal interrogation methods he had used against Lebanese prisoners. The purpose of this "conversation" to which I’d been summoned kept changing. First, it was that I’d hung a sign on the community center I’d founded in Wadi Hilweh, Silwan, saying that it belonged to the Palestinian Authority. Then it was that I lied by saying the archeological digs conducted by the settler organization, Elad – whose spokespeople have declared that their aim is to "Judaize Jerusalem," and who run the popular archeological tourist attraction they call the "City of David" – had caused the road to collapse in our neighborhood. Then it was that I sent others to attack Jews for me. "We know that you attacked Jews." "You saw me attacking someone?" I asked. "You know full well that I never use violence." "I know that you’re sophisticated," he said. "You don’t do it on your own."
At one point in the conversation, my interrogator said to me: "If you were in Syria, or Lebanon, or Jordan, do you think they’d let you talk like this? We’re idiots, we Jews are. If we understood anything, we would expel people like you." People like me. I am a trained social worker. I am the father of two children and a resident of a Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem, Wadi Hilweh, in Silwan. In 1967, my neighborhood was occupied and made part of the "united city of Jerusalem." We were annexed to Israel, but not given citizenship. 350,000 Palestinians in East Jerusalem are considered permanent residents of Israel; officially enjoying some social rights, but in fact, deprived of many basic ones
More: .https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-intimidation-extortion-eviction-brutal-reality-for-palestinians-in-silwan-1.9701623
_________________ Anarcho-Capitalist, AnCaps Forum, Ancapolis, OZschwitz Contraband “The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.”-- Max Stirner "Remember: Evil exists because good men don't kill the government officials committing it." -- Kurt Hofmann |
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