Op de Westelijke Jordaanoever woedt een strijd om het land tussen Joodse kolonisten en Palestijnse Arabieren, een strijd met vernielingen en pesterijen, en met beschuldigingen en propaganda over en weer.
Ik ben er van overtuigd dat beide kanten zich hieraan schuldig maken, hoewel de media doorgaans alleen de Palestijnse klachten over de kolonisten weergeven (en meestal kritiekloos overnemen).
Sommige claims lijken inderdaad erg onwaarschijnlijk, zoals over ultra-orthodoxen die op sabbath Palestijnse olijfbomen zouden gaan vernielen, en bewijzen zoals foto’s lijken vaak te ontbreken. Zo stond bij een bericht op Ma’an News over een vernieling van olijfbomen afgelopen februari, een foto uit 2011 of eerder.
Beide kanten klagen overigens over de Israelische politie en leger, die weinig doen om de daders te vinden.
Lang niet alle kolonisten proberen de Palestijnen ‘weg te pesten’; ik denk dat zelfs een ruime meerderheid het land vreedzaam wil delen met de Palestijnen, maar de afgelopen decennia en de strijd om soevereiniteit over het land moeten inmiddels duidelijk hebben gemaakt dat dat een illusie is. Om het land te VERdelen zal het overgrote deel van de Westoever naar een Palestijns-Arabische staat moeten gaan, en het lijkt niet waarschijnlijk dat veel kolonisten daarin zullen mogen of willen blijven wonen...
Wouter
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These 230 olive trees really WERE destroyed this weekend - by Arabs
As opposed to the bogus story reported earlier, this is one that really happened - along with video proof.
From 0404:
From 0404:
At least 230 olive trees were uprooted his weekend in Kfar Adumim, a comunity in the northern Judean Desert.
This morning, Boaz Ido, plantation owner, discovered the damage. This is part of a series of vandalism there that has taken place there.
Boaz told the news 0404: "Devastating damage, especially painful. Last three weeks there has been an increase in acts of vandalism here. The Bedouins living in illegal outposts in the area are doing this.
Once they cut the fence, another time they broke a solar panel. We once caught a suspect red-handed cutting the fence. I called the police and they arrested him, but then he was released. I complained to the police but do not help and they do what they want. "
Boas went on painfully: "The financial damage is huge. Last week they took down 50 meters of fencing ... the police told me to 'leave us alone - we are not a security company.' "
The plantation owner tells of ongoing damage, almost on a daily basis, "solar panels, irrigation system, stealing windows, stones thrown at me out of their vineyard and other incidents. I feel really helpless and there is no one who will help me. Their goal to eliminate me as a Jew here."
This morning, Boaz Ido, plantation owner, discovered the damage. This is part of a series of vandalism there that has taken place there.
Boaz told the news 0404: "Devastating damage, especially painful. Last three weeks there has been an increase in acts of vandalism here. The Bedouins living in illegal outposts in the area are doing this.
Once they cut the fence, another time they broke a solar panel. We once caught a suspect red-handed cutting the fence. I called the police and they arrested him, but then he was released. I complained to the police but do not help and they do what they want. "
Boas went on painfully: "The financial damage is huge. Last week they took down 50 meters of fencing ... the police told me to 'leave us alone - we are not a security company.' "
The plantation owner tells of ongoing damage, almost on a daily basis, "solar panels, irrigation system, stealing windows, stones thrown at me out of their vineyard and other incidents. I feel really helpless and there is no one who will help me. Their goal to eliminate me as a Jew here."
The truth is quite a bit different from what you can find reported in the international media, isn't it?
(h/t Bob Knot)
(h/t Bob Knot)
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