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[The Bedlington Terrier]

BT : Yet again this paper is ''Gazan Youth voice'',so they write about what happens in the West Bank,yet are posting from the Gaza Strip.
Kidnapped?
More like they were hurling rocks ,not small stones. If you look you can count the rocks on the ground. Then yes, don't forget the press!!!If the kids are taught to hate then this is the result!!

The kids throw rocks, then the Israelis bomb the phuck out of them. Behave yourself.

[Balanbam00]

B T : Your post # 26 shows a heavy bombardment of Gaza city, after close to 300 rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip towards southern Israeli communities on Saturday, striking several homes and leaving one elderly woman severely wounded by shrapnel. (take note I advise you not to take notes from ''THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA'')

Israel bombed and destroyed a building housing a cultural center in Gaza City. The attacks occurred in advance of Israel’s Independence Day and 10 days before the Eurovision Song Contest. While the majority of rockets launched by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad fell in open areas, several hit homes in communities in southern Israel, including in Beersheba, Sderot and Ashkelon.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1124726273757077504

https://twitter.com/i/status/1124740695028322305

https://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-C...unities-588669

[Balanbam00]

BT : When we talk about the Iranians .....Your focus is on the Palestinians ,but another proxy regime is in the Yemen. Lets question how one of the poorest countries in the world, in the midst of brutal armed conflict, built all these drones, when many countries that are far wealthier cannot make their own drones.
According to Press TV in Iran, the Houthi Arabic news station Ansarullah reported that the Houthi forces have 11 missile systems, some of them “completely indigenous.” One of them is the Quds-1 winged missile, which can travel 1,700 km., the sources claim.
The article also claims the Houthis have “eight combat and surveillance drones the Yemeni army has produced during the war.” The article admits that some of these weapons are based on developing weapons based on older Russian weapons that were available locally.
The Houthis, despite being isolated, certainly seem to have access to all sorts of goodies. The Quds 1 has a Czech TJ100 engine, according to reports. These engines are apparently ideal for drones or UAVs. They’ve been spotted on Iranian-made drones, the website Ars Technica says. Yet the UN estimates that Yemen is heading toward becoming one of the poorest countries in the world. It also has a diverse and interesting fleet of military drones being used to confront one of the wealthiest countries in the world. The Press TV article provides a list.

The drones include the “Hod Hod,” a surveillance drone that ca fly for an hour and a half and go 30 km. Another, called the Raqib, uses “laser technology” and can fly 15 km. The Rased can fly for 500 km. to conduct mapping and photography
There are also a fleet of attack drones or loitering munitions. The famous Qasef-1 can carry a 30-kg. warhead to strike targets. The Qasef K2, unveiled in January, also can bring explosives to strike a target. The Houthis engineered it to detonate close to targets and spread shrapnel as well. A third drone called the Sammad-2 can supposedly fly 1,300 km. And don’t forget the Sammad-3, a “stealth combat drone” that can fly 1,700 km.

One almost gets the sense that the recent use of drones and cruise missiles, whether by the Houthis or Iran, has stoked the feeling that Iran and its allies are winning.
Since air-defence systems have costs that run into the billions, with a recent price tag in Poland costing $10.5 billion for four Patriot systems, the fact that one of the poorest areas in one of the poorest countries has used drones and cruise missiles to outmaneuver such a system would seem to send a big message.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

The real Israel...

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[Balanbam00]

B T : There are about 9 million Israeli's today,surely we can find more than 5 nutcases? Five right wingers?

In the period of Israels labour party led by Yitzhak Rabin about 1993-5. He called for a dialogue ,peace with the Arabs.
In February 1992 in the Labour Party, Rabin was selected Chairman , after the election victory in June 1992, began his second tenure as Prime Minister and Minister of Defence.

Rabin's 2nd term as Prime Minister had two historic events - the Oslo Agreements with the Palestinians and the Treaty of Peace with Jordan . Working closely with Shimon Peres, the Foreign Minister and his longtime rival, he masterminded negotiations on the Declaration of Principles signed with the PLO at the White House in September 1993. It opened negotiations with the Palestinians on autonomy in Gaza and some areas of Judea and Samaria and on the establishment of a Palestinian Authority. Then, in October 1994, a Treaty of Peace was signed with the Kingdom of Jordan. This encouraged the development of ties with additional Arab countries in North Africa and the Persian Gulf.

On November 4, 1995, on leaving a mass rally for peace held under the slogan "Yes to Peace, No to Violence," Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by a Jewish right-wing extremist.
We offered peace to the Arabs but in return we got thousands of rockets. Even people of the left wing saw the folly of dialogue! (and peace!) That's why a right wing government followed !

[The Bedlington Terrier]

It's like the Wild West on the West Bank Balan...

Run 'em off their land.

https://english.palinfo.com/news/201...aafOMsfrlSJZHE

[Balanbam00]

In many instances, Arab residents from Areas A and B are encouraged by incentives to relocate or start a second home in the new settlements. Some structures are makeshift, festooned with the logo of the European Union. Some are multi-floor office centers.

In several cases, the illegal constructions are deliberately established on Israeli military reserves. Since the 1970's, Israel Defence Forces have maintained military training and firing ranges, such as Firing Zone 918. That zone now has illegal settlements.s

While the sudden development rush has been percolating in the Jewish and Israeli media. Many are incredulous that the Israeli government has not acted to block the illegal projects. But a security spokesman close to the Area C files located in Bet El blames the inaction on Israel’s complex legal system.

“When we discover something,” stated a security spokesman, “we give them a stop order, and if they don’t stop, they are summoned to an [adjudication] panel. But they don’t come. They go to court to enjoin us.”

These court cases are frequently financed and represented by well-funded nongovernmental organisations, such as the Association for Civil Rights in Israel. The Gordian knot of legal principles to parse includes Ottoman land law from a long-dismantled empire, Jordanian law from the withdrawn 1948 illegal occupation, post-Six Day War military administrative law, and a library of international legal codes – all stoked and poked with competing maps, surveys, expert opinions, decrees, chronologies and historical accounts.(cont)

[Balanbam00]

“It can take years to decide, and without a court ruling, we cannot get close,” lamented the spokesman. “Meanwhile, they are still building. We can’t do anything about it.” The spokesman said that going to court “can take half a year – or four years. There is no specific time. Each case is different. We have some cases that were opened 15 years ago.”

Once the court rules, if Israel takes enforcement action with bulldozers, the international headlines, EU accusations of war crimes, threats of sanctions, close-up photos of weeping people and the overall global uproar make being legally right a very unappealing political idea. The EU NGOs and illegal settlers know this.

What makes the Palestinian settlements “illegal” is the thin wisp of Oslo that remains. The accords have now been fractured so many times that what remains is only the preserved corpse of a long-deceased vision.

At the end of July 2019, when the Israeli cabinet voted to authorise an extra 715 permits, the Palestinian response was immediate. Shtayyeh declared: “We don’t need permission from the occupying power to build our homes on our lands,” adding that the Oslo classification of land into A, B, and C “no longer exists.”

Before year’s end, the PA is expected to issue thousands of new permits further circumventing Oslo. As Palestinian expansion roils across Area C, the prospect looms of Gaza fence-style encounters coming soon to a hill in Judea and Samaria.

As Area C dynamics become clearer, still murky is the source and route of the diverse European funding that enables this confrontation. What’s more, there is widespread fear that millions in funds are continuously funnelled through entities openly accused of being affiliated with established terrorist organisations.

[Balanbam00]

After years of diplomatic wrangling, Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation signed the Oslo Accords. Under the Oslo Accords, the “West Bank” is divided into three administrative zones: Areas A, B, and C.

Area A is reserved for Palestinian civil etc. Area B is governed by Palestinian civil control under a joint Israeli-Palestinian security apparatus.

The majority of Area C residents are Israelis. Under the Oslo Accords, only the Israeli Civil Administration can authorise new construction in the zone for Israeli Jews and for Arabs alike.

To create a de facto Palestinian state without further negotiation or even diplomatic consultation with the Israelis. European countries individually and through the E U. have pumped hundreds of millions of euros annually into scores of illegal state-building and related projects. Just one cluster of the European Union Area C Development Programme boasts a €300 million annual commitment, and within three years, is budgeted to reach about 1.5 billion euros. A single 1,650-meter road near Jenin in Area C was funded with a €500,000 allocation.

The Area C Palestinian boom advances without any coordination with Israelis about land use, security, environmental impacts or close proximity to Jewish villages.
Thus, European governments and the PA have completed the shredding of the already weakened Oslo agreements.

Therefore if the land has been acquired illegally this quarrel,cutting down trees ,uprooting trees, stealing fruit etc, will go on and on and on both sides! (cont)

[The Bedlington Terrier]

IDF snipers doing their dirty work again...

http://www.palestinechronicle.com/is...YBI5WWigVOf0_U