{"id":1708,"date":"2010-07-16T18:00:52","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T08:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/?p=1708"},"modified":"2010-07-16T18:00:52","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T08:00:52","slug":"palestinian-home-demolition-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/?p=1708","title":{"rendered":"Palestinian Home Demolition Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t
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THE ISRAELI COMMITTEE AGAINST HOUSE DEMOLITION\u00a0DENOUNCES ISRAELI DEMOLITIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n

(and American enabling)<\/strong><\/p>\n

July 14, 2010<\/p>\n

After an unofficial nine-month \u201cmoratorium,\u201d the Israeli government has returned with a vengeance to its policy of demolishing Palestinian homes. Yesterday, July 13, six homes were demolished in East Jerusalem.<\/p>\n


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In Jabal Mukaber, the homes of the Tawil family (15 people) and the Masrawi family (six people) were demolished. In Beit Hanina, the municipality demolished the home of the Rajabi family (6 people). And in Issawaiyeh, three homes in advanced stages of construction were demolished: one of the Dari family, another belonging to the Nasser family and a third of the Abu Rameileh family.<\/p>\n


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Today, in the West Bank, a reservoir belonging to the Jabar family was demolished by the Civil Administration, and other buildings are threatened. (This, despite the fact that the Ma\u2019aleh Adumim settlement, which already has four large municipal swimming pools, is constructing a water park complete with an artificial lake.)<\/p>\n

All this, plus municipal approval for the demolition of 22 homes in the Silwan neighborhood, continued pressure to remove Palestinian families from Sheikh Jarrah \u2013 and the approval by the municipality this week of 54 new housing units for the Pisgat Ze\u2019ev settlement.<\/p>\n

Despite claims that Palestinian houses, reservoirs and other buildings are \u201cillegal,\u201d demolition is merely another face of ethnic cleansing, since the Jerusalem municipality, the Ministry of Interior and the Civil Administration of the West Bank all deny Palestinians the right to build homes on their own property.\u00a0 Although the pressure to demolish is constant \u2013 the Israeli authorities have demolished 24,000 Palestinian homes since 1967 and new orders are issued daily \u2013 the current wave of demolitions can only be explained only on the background of Prime minister Netanyahu\u2019s visit to Washington a few weeks ago. For the past decade or so demolition orders can be executed only with the approval of the Prime Minister\u2019s Office; these are not municipal-level decisions, even if the municipality presses for demolitions.<\/p>\n

Only one of two explanations for the wave of demolitions is therefore possible. Either Israel has received a green (OK, blinking orange) light that the US will not object vociferously to demolitions \u2013 and, in fact, the State Department issued a mild statement describing the demolitions as \u201cunhelpful,\u201d the same term Hillary Clinton used when homes were demolished during her visit to Ramallah. Or Netanyahu, flush from his victory over Obama in the Biden affair, when Congress overwhelmingly supported the Israeli position of building settlements over that of their own Administration, felt free to return to his aggressive policies of \u201cjudaization.\u201d Basking in the warm embrace he just received at the White House, Netanyahu knows he has nothing to fear from an increasingly weakened Obama Administration.<\/p>\n

It is becoming obvious \u2013 if it wasn\u2019t already \u2013 that the United States will not, or cannot \u201cdeliver\u201d a just peace in Israel-Palestine. Even if an Administration tries to pursue a more critical line towards Israel, its hands will inevitably be tied by Congress. The time has come to pursue a \u201cworking around America\u201d strategy, mobilizing the civil societies of Europe, Latin America, Africa and perhaps Asia as well to create a global consensus that either presses for a just solution to the conflict on its own, or prods the US to become constructively involved by virtue of its international isolation. The present wave of demolitions demonstrates the bankruptcy and ineffectiveness of the American \u201capproach.\u201d 24,000 demolitions later (and counting), it is time to look elsewhere.<\/p>\n

The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions is based in Jerusalem and has chapters in the United Kingdom and the United States.<\/p>\n

Please visit our websites:
\n www.icahd.org<\/a>
\n www.icahduk.org<\/a>
\n www.icahdusa.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t

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THE ISRAELI COMMITTEE AGAINST HOUSE DEMOLITION DENOUNCES ISRAELI DEMOLITIONS<\/p>\n

(and American enabling)<\/p>\n

July 14, 2010<\/p>\n

After an unofficial nine-month \u201cmoratorium,\u201d the Israeli government has returned with a vengeance to its policy of demolishing Palestinian homes. Yesterday, July 13, six homes were demolished in East Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

In Jabal Mukaber, the homes of the Tawil […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-messages","odd"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1708"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1716,"href":"https:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions\/1716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}