This, and many other tactics like it, are used to drive Palestinians off of their land...
The occupation prevents us from planting any trees or new saplings, it’s not allowed. Any building… it’s banned, banned, banned, everything is banned. Even small stone walls, if you build, they will destroy it. If you plant a sapling they will uproot it. If you put up a tent, they will destroy it and throw it away. This is the occupation and what they do. We’re in a terrible dilemma, really terrible.
Meanwhile, six illegal Israeli settlements and outposts have been built on the valley slopes, in contravention of international law.
For nearly 20 years, waste water from the settlements was released into the valley’s stream without hindrance, despite being a protected ‘nature reserve’.
The wastewater spoiled the natural springs and farmers’ water sources, causing nearly all 50 families that once lived here and enjoyed the springs recreationally, to leave to a nearby village.
They even brought wild boars to the land that destroyed everything for us. They destroy the vegetables that we plant, they destroy the figs, grapes, oranges, almonds, peaches, everything…destroyed.
Great work Lyndsay <3
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Today , Iran's president told them all the words that he must say ............ it was in UN.
Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu said about stoping Iran's Nuclear program , and Ruhani answer was this : why you want to stop Iran program while we have no nuclear bomb and we never will , why Israel has Nuclear weapons and Threatens countries of the region and nobody say anything ? and also Trump and USA government had to answer to their people about their money which is used to create terrorists and also keeping many countries in misery , everywhere that they went , He said : in old years , persian king Cyrus the Great helped Jews and free them and let them go back to Jerusalem , we are still those people , but now we want to free Palestinians , because Israel don't let them live equal and they took their human rights.
we always took side of poor people in the world , Yemen , Syria , Iraq , Afghanistan , Palestine , ... Myanmar , but these countries only can be free without hands of USA and Israel , without war , just with hands of their own people and with voting .
Their m.o is very simple. Take land illegally and just stay until everyone finally looks away. What is allowed to take place in that section of the world is catastrophic. Of course, the silence around it is much worse.
Imagine the outrage if the Germans announced the reopening of the Auschwitz. The Israelis along with every other Jewish person would scream at the top it their lungs. The MSM would have the headline and every politician in the world would be asked about it.
I am sorry but genocide is genocide. If what Hitler did to the Jews was wrong, which it was, then what the Israelis are doing to the Palestinians is just as wrong.
They cannot have it both ways....although that does appear to be the case.
Thank you for using reason and logic @taskmaster4450.
It's the same kind of neglect the west uses on its own people, not allowing homeless people to keep their tents, poisoning the water on native lands, letting children go hungry in school, banning housing like tiny houses or cob houses because they have minimum square foot laws which the big builders got into law so they can make more money selling giant houses, having the highest prison population and using them as slave labor, etc. It's that quiet death, that not-a-bomb death, that society allows because they can go about their workaday lives and never see it. And if a peep of that reality DOES get out, then the victims are blamed ("oh, those poor homeless people are all drug addicted criminals!").
When Israel starts dropping bombs, the world pays at least some attention. When they just starve them out, well...
True words Wren... :'(
It's people like you that will eventually force the west to rethink their policy on Israel and stop this genocide.
Keep it up babe, future generations will see this work in the blockchain and wonder why Israel was ever allowed to act this way. 👏
Good morning Lyndsay. I appreciate you continuing to bring light to this issue that seems to be overlooked, for some reason, by the main stream media. I mean, I consider myself to be pretty up on news and current events, and I've barely heard any news about the situation in Palestine. Posts like these, especially for your most dedicated followers, leave the brain thinking about the entire situation and wanting more info. I know after yesterday's video I was looking up more info and even ventured into some of the history of the conflict to help solidify my understanding of the conflict. Keep talking about what you are passionate about, even if others are not mentioning it. Steem on my friend!
Thank you so much for looking into this situation and wanting to know more, you are a real GEM! Yeah the MSM never says anything of worth about the truth of the genocide/ethnic cleansing happening to Palestinians for 70 years now. They make it seem like some sort of fair fight, when nothing could be further from the truth.
What we have is the 11th largest military power of the world, backed and fully funded by the #1 (USA), versus people with no army, no navy, no airforce...not even an airport! The Palestinians are trying to hold on to what little they have left of their land, their homes, their fields, and they lose more every day, meanwhile being shown by the corrupted media, as the aggressors...as the terrorists! Sickens me.
Thank you so much for Caring! That means the world to me.
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Fingers crossed you win the resteem.
Get some extra exposure to this ongoing genocide
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Hey @lyndsaybowes I was able to watch this one and I'm very glad that I did for although it's really difficult to hear it's equally imperative that as many people as possible are made aware of these atrocities! I respect both your compassion and dedication to the people of Palestine and I can see a future where your voice becomes a shout! Thank you for sharing.
Thank You @perceptualflaws for being brave enough to also speak out, our voices together will become a shout as more and more wake up and start saying ENOUGH.
you are right, for nearly 20 years, waste water from the settlements was released...
Thank you for being aware.
This is a very cruel war criminal. Thank you so much for sharing
Thank you so much for caring about the Palestinians!
You are welcome
Your title is eye catching :)
Nice video....
I like your post. Best frsnds
The Kikes are at it again... I hereby give Iran permission to blow up Israel.
"dispute with neighbor". Or actually "occupied by outside forces". Where exactly is the State of Palestine that neighbors Israel? All I see is Palestinians haven't their land colonized as they are blamed for pro-creating on their property while their property shrinks because of slow conquest...
Congrats, you win the award for the lamest excuse I've ever heard to justify genocide and ethnic cleansing.
How can the Palestinians build a salt water refinery? On what land and under what government's approval? The PA?
The majority of Palestinians in Gaza are under the age of 10. Are these people all fueled by deep religious extremism? Or could it be that they have had almost no electricity, been allowed to leave Gaza, build an airport, fish off the coast, import goods.
You play this game like there are two separate independent nations.
Also, would you like to discuss the deeply Orthodox Jewish settlers from other areas of the world that move to Israel, bulldoze people's homes, and build their communities on top; all because of their religious belief that the land was "promised to them" in an old book written by morons.
Israeli politicians target Palestinian children.
A stock photo from Google images.
I wouldn't deny the radical nature of the Palestinian society.
You simply stated that since their land has been stolen from them over time, and their area in which to live got smaller, they should stop breeding so much.
"They would import explosives". Well, if they run an independent nation-state like you seem to think is reality, wouldn't that nation-state have the right to?
Compared to the US, Mexico is poor as f**k....and those latins, man they procreate like rabbits.
Perhaps the US should go tell them to stop having babies, stop eating beans, and go to work. If Mexico would only start some industry to stop sponging off the Americans, then all would be right. Of course, since they arent going to do this, lets go in and kill them all even the ones in America. If you are Mexican or of Mexican descent, you need to. Period.
Seems outrageous when you apply that logic to North America but, to you, it is logical in the Middle East.
Here is the bottom line...the Israelis always claim to be the victims no matter what the situation. For the last two decades, they have used the exact same tactic Hitler used on them. This is a Holocaust plain and simple.
I don't know. Maybe Palestinians should stop procreating like rabbits. "Doubling the population every generation in an already overpopulated area is a lot but healthy. If you add a dispute with the neighbor to that equation, you really don't have to wonder that a vendetta emerges and people start pooping in the fresh water supply."
These are your words. This is a post about the genocide of the Palestinians by the Israelis. In the comments, you first words are that "maybe Palestinians should stop procreating like rabbits.". To me, that insinuates that you believe it is their fault.
Also, it seems you feel that if there is a territorial dispute, it is okay for one group to crap in another group's water.
Nowhere did you disavow this behavior nor did you even mention that genocide is wrong. Instead, you proclaim the Palestinians want this; that they want the crisis due to them being religious nuts.
Ergo, your silence and attack on the Palestinians shows you support it. After all, if they werent religious nuts who didnt have so many kids, in turn opting for wealth over poverty, then they wouldnt need the crisis for which they have their water pooped in and causes them to be taken from their homes in the middle of the night.
The Palestinians are far from perfect and certainly, I am the last to defend religious zealots of any discipline, but to even come close to insinuating that what the Israelis are doing is remotely justified even when considering said behavior by the Palestinians is over the top to me.
But to each their own. I know there is worldwide silence on this issue so it seems your viewpoint is more commonly embraced.