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Related: About this forumThey came, they razed, they left: A visit to a destroyed Palestinian village
The tiny village of Homsa was the latest victims of Israel's systematic policy of destruction of Palestinian homes in the Jordan Rift.
By Gideon Levy and Alex Levac
http://www.haaretz.com/polopoly_fs/1.585137.1397280038!/image/3753364474.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_640/3753364474.jpg
Israel is continuing to destroy systematically the villages of shepherds who live in the Jordan Rift. Last week, the Civil Administration demolished Homsa, another tiny Palestinian village. In January, 160 residents of the valley were made homeless; last year, twice as many were left homeless as in the year before.
Again the same unconscionable sights: heaps of debris, bare metal pegs lunging out of the earth, crushed fences, destroyed animal pens and squashed tin huts; remnants of personal property strewn all over; sheep wandering about looking in vain for shade; chickens pecking about; despondent shepherds; wretched sheep dogs; runny-nosed children curled up in Grandmothers lap and merciless sun beating down.
Another Palestinian shepherd community trampled into the ground. Not the first, nor the last to meet such a fate in this hard, battered valley, whose Palestinian inhabitants Israel has set itself the goal of cleansing itself of, far from the publics eye. Step by step, devastating act after devastating act, community after community there are hundreds whose lives and property have been laid waste recently by the Civil Administration.
Its the law thats to blame, of course, the occupiers law. Its the law, under whose apparent aegis illegal outposts are established and legalized in the twinkling of an eye. And its the occupier, thanks to whose auspices these thousands of people, native sons, have neither running water nor electric power nor rights to inhabit the slopes of the verdant, flourishing Jordan Valley.
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They came, they razed, they left: A visit to a destroyed Palestinian village (Original Post)
n2doc
Apr 2014
OP
Well, it's Dave's favorite term these days; you might be better off asking him
Scootaloo
Apr 2014
#8
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Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)2. And what might that be?
Just out of curiosity
King_David
(14,851 posts)3. I am curious too,
Maybe it was a religious comment?
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)4. Maybe it was a false flag n/t
Fozzledick
(3,860 posts)5. You mean like a secret spy account?
What sort of person would do such a thing?
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)6. No, I mean like a false flag
Thus my use of the term.
Sadly, we'll never know what he meant, looks like.
Fozzledick
(3,860 posts)7. False flag - is that something a Secret Spy would do?
You don't really think you're going to live that down anytime soon, do you?
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)8. Well, it's Dave's favorite term these days; you might be better off asking him
And live what down? Do you not get that plenty of forums restrict features like, say, the search function to registered member accounts?it ain't rocket surgery, Fozzie.
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)9. Thank you for posting this.
I guess that I will be the first since team-hijack is to busy ignoring it.