Er is nog een lange weg te gaan naar vrede in het Midden-Oosten, maar niet op Jom Kippoer...
De neiging is groot om cynisch op te merken dat kolonisten nou ook eens meemaken wat de Palestijnen zo vaak gebeurt. Die neiging is eigenlijk onweerstaanbaar.
Het is opvallend dat nota bene een Knessetlid van Meretz het voor de kolonisten opneemt. Om de spreken van discriminatie t.o.v. de inwoners van Tel Aviv is nogal potsierlijk. Deze kolonisten kozen er bewust voor om buiten het grondgebied van hun staat te gaan wonen, met alle lasten en problemen van dien.
Wouter
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Settlements in South Hebron Hills to be blocked during Yom Kippur
Settlements in South Hebron Hills to be blocked during Yom Kippur
By Akiva Eldar - Haaretz
The authorities are implementing a closure on settlements in the South Hebron Hills east of the separation fence for Yom Kippur, citing a lack of manpower to keep the road open. At the beginning of the week, the residents of the settlements of Teneh Omarim and Shama'a found out that road 60, the main artery connecting Hebron-area settlements with central Israel, will be completely blocked except for emergency vehicles.
So far, limitations on traffic have been in effect during Jewish holidays only for the Palestinian population.
The Meitar crossing in the South Hebron Hills will be minimally staffed and will therefore be closed except for emergencies, meaning that the settlers there will be cut off from the rest of the West Bank and Israel during the holiday.
According to Shlomo Dror, a spokesman for the Defense Ministry and the crossings administration: "The crossings administration views Yom Kippur as a special date in the State of Israel. Due to the security problems in the South Hebron Hills, this decision is very important. The significance of the request is that dozens of people will have to violate Yom Kippur and work on the holiday. The crossing will be open for humanitarian and security needs of the residents, and any exceptional case will be dealt with as required."
Dror added that in previous years, when the crossings were run by the Israel Defense Forces, they were also closed on Yom Kippur to "respect the people's rest."
A group of settlers asked MK Avshalom Vilan (Meretz) to intervene in the matter, and Vilan asked Defense Minister Ehud Barak to explain why the freedom of movement of the Israelis affected was different from that of other Israelis.
Vilan, a founder of "One Home," an organization promoting voluntary evacuation of settlers living east of the separation fence, said he sees the order to lock the settlers in their settlements as a serious infraction of their basic civil rights and outright discrimination between them and residents of Tel Aviv, for example.
Itai Noah, a non-Orthodox settler who has lived in Teneh Omarim for 18 years, said that if the Israeli government is unable to assure equal rights to its citizens living over the Green Line, it should immediately offer them appropriate compensation to allow them to move to within that line.
He added that this was the first year a closure was imposed on his settlement and that it was linked to the changeover of responsibility for the roadblocks from the IDF to the border crossings administration, which is run by private companies.
So far, limitations on traffic have been in effect during Jewish holidays only for the Palestinian population.
The Meitar crossing in the South Hebron Hills will be minimally staffed and will therefore be closed except for emergencies, meaning that the settlers there will be cut off from the rest of the West Bank and Israel during the holiday.
According to Shlomo Dror, a spokesman for the Defense Ministry and the crossings administration: "The crossings administration views Yom Kippur as a special date in the State of Israel. Due to the security problems in the South Hebron Hills, this decision is very important. The significance of the request is that dozens of people will have to violate Yom Kippur and work on the holiday. The crossing will be open for humanitarian and security needs of the residents, and any exceptional case will be dealt with as required."
Dror added that in previous years, when the crossings were run by the Israel Defense Forces, they were also closed on Yom Kippur to "respect the people's rest."
A group of settlers asked MK Avshalom Vilan (Meretz) to intervene in the matter, and Vilan asked Defense Minister Ehud Barak to explain why the freedom of movement of the Israelis affected was different from that of other Israelis.
Vilan, a founder of "One Home," an organization promoting voluntary evacuation of settlers living east of the separation fence, said he sees the order to lock the settlers in their settlements as a serious infraction of their basic civil rights and outright discrimination between them and residents of Tel Aviv, for example.
Itai Noah, a non-Orthodox settler who has lived in Teneh Omarim for 18 years, said that if the Israeli government is unable to assure equal rights to its citizens living over the Green Line, it should immediately offer them appropriate compensation to allow them to move to within that line.
He added that this was the first year a closure was imposed on his settlement and that it was linked to the changeover of responsibility for the roadblocks from the IDF to the border crossings administration, which is run by private companies.
Ik weet niet waar jij was in 67 maar er was toen een oorlog ook wel zesdaagse oorlog genoemd en toen heeft Israel hebron veroverd. Dat wil zeggen dat het al meer dan 40 jaar van Israel is en dus niet van de palestijnen en dat jij dus meer dan 40 jaar achter loopt. Misschien moet je je volgende keer wat beter inlezen voordat je wat zegt.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenEn over het 'nou ook wel eens meemaken wat de palestijnen zo vaak gebeurt'. Je leest vast alleen nederlands nieuws, ik weet dat dat allemaal verdraaid wordt maar over het algemeen klopt daar niet zoveel van. Je hebt geen idee hoevaak het gebeurt dat arabieren joden aanvallen, de joden dan terugvechten en dan vervolgens in het nieuws beschreven wordt hoe zielig de arabieren zijn. Het is natuurlijk ook heel raar dat joden terug vechten, k bedoel, als jij in elkaar geslagen zou worden zou je natuurlijk ook gwn blijven staan en wachten tot het over is toch?
"Om de spreken van" moet natuurlijk "Om te spreken van" zijn.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenIn 1967 zat ik nog niet op de kleuterschool.
Lezen is ook een kunst: ik had het hier niet over aanvallen, maar over wegafsluitingen, daar ging het artikel namelijk over.
Hebron is door Israel veroverd in 1967, maar nooit geannexeerd. En dan nog: de Palestijnen hebben voortdurend met wegversperringen te maken, een beetje invoelen kan op zich geen kwaad. "Wat Gij niet wilt...", "Wie zonder zonde is..." en "Als iemand je op de rechterwang slaat..." zijn wat mooie oude spreuken die geloof ik ooit door een Joodse rabbi werden gebezigd. Die laatste gaat mij overigens ook niet zo goed af, daar niet van.
Shalom!