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| Israelis to demolish entire Palestinian village |
| 2003-01-15 |
| Washington Report on Middle East Affairs Israeli bulldozers are set to destroy the entire village of Al-Daba' in the the Qalqilya district of the West Bank as they make way to build a wall to cut off the area from Israel. Sounds like a good move to me. Either WaPo (the original source) or Islam On Line takes the opportunity to tie the whole thing to the hated Merkins, though. To whit: The village consists of 250 Palestinians living in 42 houses. Sixty ton American made armored Caterpillar D-9 bulldozers will make short work of 42 houses, 600-700 dunums (one dunum is equal to 1000 square metre) of agricultural land, a mosque, and an elementary school for 132 children. Have your heart strings been tugged yet? Keep going... The military order was issued 30 days ago and requires the clearing of 50 metres of land next to the billion dollar wall (financed by the United States) being built to separate Palestinian land from Israel in the northern part of the West Bank. The clearing operation has exceeded its orders and now the destruction will extend 500 meters into the West Bank and engulf the village of Al-Daba'. Poor little al-Daba', home to peaceful, friendly folk, who never bother anyone... Construction of the 8-metre high, 360-kilometer long wall has been proceeding inside the 1967 armistice line. When completed, an additional seven percent of Palestinian land will be confiscated and if the wall is extended to Hebron, ten percent of land will move to the Israeli side of the border. When completed, the wall will be fitted with motion sensors, observation towers every 300 metres, barbed wire, and a two-metre deep ditch to prevent Things like that happen when you absolutely, positively refuse to control the homicidal maniacs in your midst... Many observers believe that the wall is being built because Israel has failed to halt Palestinians by other means from crossing into Israel to find work to support their families. "Hi! I'm from Paleostine. I'm here to find work to support my family." "Hokay. What do you do?" "I kill people. Got any openings?" The Israeli wall has been compared to the Cold War's Berlin Wall, separating East and West Berlin, constructed by the East Germans. The Israeli wall creates a concentration camp of the West Bank. Not a very accurate comparison. East Germany built the wall to keep their people in, not to keep psychopaths out. Since it doesn't wall in the West Bank, but walls it out of Israel, it could hardly be compared to a concentration camp. At Jericho, a few years ago, Kathleen Kenyon found the remains of a wall that surrounded the city some 8000 years ago. The inhabitants were trying to keep the Paleos of that period from coming in and killing them and stealing their Neolithic belongings. That's probably a better comparison. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 Many observers believe that the wall is being built because Israel has failed to halt Palestinians by other means from crossing into Israel to find work to support their families. Isn't that just the pinnacle of irony? Few Palestinians can be found that wouldn't readily cheer the death of Jews, yet they somehow have no qualms about looking for/going to work in Israel. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2003-01-15 14:47:01 |