Riots caused tens of millions of shekels in damage and destroyed the Shoafat and Es-Sahl station [...] Residents of Jerusalem’s Shoafat neighborhood are unlikely to enjoy service on the city’s light rail network for several months as CityPass, the company that operates the system, works first to repair the rails and signaling mechanisms destroyed during last week’s rioting, and only later the stations serving the area. — Haaretz
The Shoafat and Es-Sahl light rail stations in East Jerusalem were attacked last week after news broke that an Arab young man – Mohamed Abu Khdeir – had been kidnapped, burned alive, and abandoned in a forest. Many commentators view the killing as vengeance for the recent deaths of three Israeli teenage settlers in Hebron, in the Occupied West Bank, which the Israeli government has blamed on Hamas. The situation is tragic – and rapidly escalating. At least 27 Palestinians have been killed and 130 wounded in the intense bombardment the Israeli army has unleashed on Gaza in the past few days.
The attack on the light rail stations were committed by Israeli Arabs and Palestinians who live in the areas around the stations. For many, the destruction is highly symbolic. When first constructed, the light rail was considered by some to be a symbol of the possibility of peaceful coexistence between Arabs and Jews. However, for others, it was viewed similarly to the massive border wall demarcating the West Bank: a piece of infrastructure that ensures the continued imposition of apartheid politics on Arabs by Israelis. After all, East Jerusalem is still considered by international law to be illegally-occupied territory. By connecting the territory to the rest of Jerusalem via infrastructure, the Israeli government signaled it has absolutely no intention of ever returning the land back to its original and lawful inhabitants. In return, by destroying the light rail, those involved assumedly meant to signal that they would continue to resist.
This is just one of many cases in which infrastructure has been utilized as a political tool. In 1994, the American-born Israeli extremist Baruch Goldstein opened fire on Muslims engaged in prayers at the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, West Bank. While the Israeli government condemned the attack, their reaction to the subsequent riots including the banning of Palestinians from entering the formerly-active market of Al-Shuhada Street (a ban which persists today.) For many, these policies are fundamentally similar to those of South Africa during apartheid, which had advanced infrastructure for whites but relegated black people to townships with abysmal conditions. 
Of course, similar practices have occurred, and still occur, in the United States. Before the civil rights movements, urban infrastructure served as the terrain for the forced subjugation of African-Americans. Today, one could argue the same practices persist, targeting the poor, and, in particularly disenfranchised people of color. For example, the Department of Water and Power in Detroit has been shutting off water for the city's poorest residents.
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I missed the memo when Archinect began to allow op-ed articles about the middle east.
"Intense bombardment"? Are you kidding? NOWHERE IN YOUR PIECE DO YOU MENTION THE RAINING OF 500+ ROCKETS SHOT FROM GAZA ONTO ISRAEL, THE IMPETUS FOR THE CAREFUL TARGETING OF HAMAS ROCKET LAUNCHING SITES.
Hamas is not only engaging in a physical war, but also a psychological war. How can you side with an organization that calls for its residents to act as human shields? The IDF warns citizens multiple times of impending strikes, but "Hamas is notorious for intentionally putting citizens in harms way in order to maximize body counts and portray Israel as an aggressor" (http://freebeacon.com/national-security/hamas-orders-civilians-to-die-in-israeli-airstrikes/)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4ayyXgRVWHk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eQ6S0-o3uFI
"We in Hamas call on our people to adopt this policy" - Sami Abu Zuhri, Hamas spokesperson.
Death toll numbers are skewed when Hamas encourages martyrs, and Israelis cherish and actually value life.
Mr. Korody, you've caused me to unsubscribe from Archinect's RSS feed. Shame on you, and shame on Archinect for publishing your piece.
Disgusted.
Mr. Korody. Thanks for posting this piece. Some people don't like to hear the truth about the state of Israel, it's violations of international law, and how its racist political and ideaological policies is a direct contradiction to notions of freedom and justice. The truth is that these policies, as well as the undisputed creation of an apartheid state, have very real urban consequences, as has been documented by many architects, historians, scholars, human rights activists, and innumerable other professionals in the international community. But that does not mean it should be suppressed, ignored, and never challenged. In fact, that is more of a reason to report and discuss it despite the flailing objections by the other side. In contradiction to the poster above, it has compelled me to join Archinect's RSS feed because it shows that Archinect has an interest in discussing how systems of oppression can have a direct impact on architecture, infrastructure, human rights, and mental health. Thank you for not being bullied into silence.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/10963663/Israel-kills-two-handicapped-Palestinian-women-in-air-strike-on-home-for-disabled.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/13/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-strip.html?_r=0
boycott israel by every possible means.
they need to realize that their brutality is exposed more than ever.
kassams are great rockets with minimum casualties, actually only a couple of people got killed in many years, but scaring the aggressors shitless.
israeli army kill with high tech weapons but kassam's fear eats the mind and soul. israel as a nation now suffers from mass psychosis developed over the decades.
As a senior editor of Archinect and a professor at Woodbury, one would expect your language to be of just *slightly* better character.
Israel uses high-tech weapons to systematically remove Hamas members, known internationally as a terrorist organization. Israel uses high-tech weapons to remove weapons caches in Gaza. Hamas orders Palestinian civilians to act as human shields. This exposed brutality will not grow the Hamas sympathy.
Justifying indiscriminate rocket fire no matter how damaging, is utter idiocy. They let you teach students?
i thought you resigned. go fuck yourself. how is that for a better character?
Sorry you're all out of intelligent things to say, buddy.
not me, your "buddy" resides in your rectum.
You bring Archinect and Woodbury great honor.
that's right! and you bring poor ideas on archinect to defend and rationalize the apartheid.
this -terrorist palestinians > hamas and defending > israel- rhetoric is over the international community is fast moving away from blindly and unconditionally hand holding and supplying that country.
none of the jewish and israeli people i know support this onslaught. they are smart enough to see it will ultimately erode their own well being.
israel is at the peak of its moral bankruptcy and as if this not enough.., here is one of its lawmakers.., meet the genocidal Ayelet Shaked.
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israeli-lawmakers-call-genocide-palestinians-gets-thousands-facebook-likes
Interesting how much the Israelis resemble the Nazis. About the only thing they haven't done to Palestinians is build gas chambers for them.
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Funny thing is that historically the Arabs and the Israelis are blood brothers, descending from common DNA. Not surprising since they come from the same tribes in the same region. This didn't prevent Israel from funding Arab fundamentalists in the 1950-60's in an effort to undermine the creation of a Pan-Arabic state.
Israel uses the US to advance their agenda and the US uses Israel to destabilize the entire Middle East. It's not about peace and freedom, it's about money in the form of military industry and strategic oil and gas reserves.
Orhan, you're a shining star. Op-ed pieces aren't factual. They bend truth to suit their argument. Op-ed is your response to video proof of Hamas glorifying martyrs and asking Palestinians to sacrifice their lives when they could just as easily launch rockets from sites far and away from densely populated civilian territory. The world is not oblivious to the sociopathic nature of Hamas.
“The president reiterated the United States’ strong condemnation of continuing rocket fire into Israel by Hamas and other terrorist organizations in Gaza and reaffirmed Israel’s right to defend itself against these attacks,”
Read more: http://www.jta.org/2014/07/10/news-opinion/united-states/obama-affirms-israels-right-to-defense-calls-for-end-to-gaza-violence-1#ixzz37ILE3hoO
There's a reason the US supports Israel. There's a reason they help fund the installation of Iron Dome batteries throughout Israel. Spoiler: the only sane, democratic nation in the region.
Max, this goes both ways. -> WATCH: Palestinians on Temple Mount Celebrate Gaza Rockets
Would Nazi's call off an air strike because they saw Jewish children?
IDF Pilot Calls Off Airstrike After Children Spotted Near Target
I hope your psychosis wears off soon, folks.
Israel is fueled by hatred and greed, and not necessarily in that order. They pretend to believe that disproportionate response will deter further attacks when in fact it only encourages them. But that of course is exactly the plan.
Peace in the Middle East would pinch a lot of wallets. Especially in Israel, which consistently has the world largest military spending (as a percentage of GDP) for decades running.
Keep pretending that doesn't have any influence on politics. The US "defends" Israel - especially in the UN, from condemnation for war crimes - because US politicians are bought and paid for with shekels and defense industry profits. In many ways Israel is just a tool of the US, kept busy spreading discord throughout the Middle East.
This idea that one must "take sides" is the problem. To me both sides are clearly filled with some good folks and some scumbags. When you basically trap people into an area and treat them like animals then you should expect rebellion. It's common sense. On the other hand, indiscriminately firing missiles at people makes you a coward and an animal. I would have no remorse killing someone who shot a rocket at a bunch of kids. Doesn't matter what side is doing it. Anyone who engages in such an act regardless of the backstory deserves no support or respect. This goes for any nation. My only loyalty is to decent humans and that loyalty had nothing to do with nationality.
Bottom line is that we should be denouncing the idea of firing rockets at people in general. If the assholes of the world want it fight let them do it man to man not like a bunch of pussies.
israel's colonization started with their terrorist blood thirsty armed haganna and irgun groups, with the concession of britain, on a mudering spree killing and terrorizing the true inhabitants of these lands, displacing them in order to make way for the influx of ukranian, eastern european, german...etc etc jews on the basis of a mythical religion and a mythical identity and a mythical legend and on the basis of very real eurocentric colonization in whose name massacres were committed against the palestinian people and the lebanese people.
the israeli army is an extension of these terrorist groups, whose likes we see in their mytho-islamic guise under the ISIS banner and the like. in Israel, there is no difference between military and civilian. the army calls upon civilians in order to kill palestinians, lebanese and others. we have so many massacres committed by this colonizing entity Israel throughout its history of existence, a lake can be filled with the blood of children - let alone adults- from Deir Yassine, Sabra and Shatola, Qana 1 and Qana 2, etc etc.
Which is to say, there is no difference between Israel military and Israel civilian. And for Israel, there has never been any need to differentiate between militant and child...it shoots missiles where it pleases when it pleases as it pleases....it will lie and and claim that there are missiles being shot from a certain location (hospital, refugee camp, residential buildings galore...).
The only language Israel can ever understand is that of its own, force. It knows no peace and wishes no peace for anyone. Everyday, palestinians are kicked out of their house or are threatened to be kicked out of their homes and properties so that the homes and properties are handed over to settlers. The whole Israel proper vs- Israel settlement dispute is dust thrown in to confuse people...ISrael proper IS Israel settlement...ISrael proper is built on stolen lands, properties, they appropriate history , they appropriate geography, they even appropriate food (falafel and hoummous now being soled by israeli companies as their own).
In the long run, like the South African apertheid regime, Israel will not be able to exist...not without US and allies support....not without their unconditional support for it, not without the lies of their media, their fabriation about calling Hamas and Hezbollah terrorist groups, these are people whose lands have been stolen and whose families have been killed. They turn to defend their lands only to find that a large part of the western world, brainwashed by their zionist-bought-off politicians and media, call THEM terrorists...and not this cancerous turmour that implanted itself in the middle east.
Israel will be a dark chapter in the history of the western world one day, just as the apartheid is. But they know no shame, they will still attend Mandela's funeral even after for so long they called him a terrorist.
the support for Israel is not only the support of death, murder and displacement of a whole people, a people who have all the right to take arms and defend themselves, against their occupant who serves in his "county";s army (the actual country is not Israel, it is occupied Palestine...all of it. There is no Israel, Israel is the colonial entity and not the country)...support for Israel is the ultimate peak of the outright hypocrisy of the western world that claims to speak for democracy and human rights.
Hatred and greed, are you freaking kidding me? What greed are you talking about? Here is real hatred -> Palestinian children are raised to hate Israel and Jews. They're being raised to kill. What hatred do the Israeli's harbor, or are you pulling this out of your ass? Israel hates that Hamas is firing rockets out of civilian territories. They engage in "roof knocking" (watch this video of the knock) and drop leaflets warning household members of impending air strikes to which Hamas instructs inhabitants not to leave because if they act as martyrs, death toll numbers are skewed in their favor. Hamas ACTIVELY calls for Palestinian martyrs - because they don't care about their own people's lives. On the other hand, IDF Pilot Calls Off Airstrike After Children Spotted Near Target.
Show me an instance of Hamas terrorists warning of impending rocket fire. You won't find any because they fire rockets indiscriminately because it is in their own charter to wipe out Israel (third paragraph).
Death toll isn't even because Israel actively tries to save lives, with the Iron Dome. Without it, Israeli death toll would be far higher.
Since 2001, more than 12,800 rockets and mortars, an average of 3 attacks every single day, have landed in Israel.
In the past 5 days alone, during Operation Protective Edge, Gaza has fired 525 rockets onto Israel -> "As of July 12th, 525 rockets have been fired from Gaza into Israeli cities, and 118 of them have been intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome".
These rockets are provided by Iran. Why doesn't the Muslim brotherhood provide them with flotillas of food, water, construction materials?
Are you going to read and watch the facts or continue to play this financial bullshit argument?
Tammuz - "their fabriation about calling Hamas and Hezbollah terrorist groups".
Israel, the United States, Canada, the European Union, Jordan, Egypt and Japan classify Hamas as a terrorist organization (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas). If you live in any one of those countries, you are a hypocrite. The rest of your bullshit is undeserving of a response.
Hatred and greed, are you freaking kidding me?
Sorry, I left out stupidity. Like the troll who comes to an architectural forum and starts spouting - with his very first post - divisive politicals and what could easily be defined as racial hatred if Jews and Arabs were actually speerate races.
Nothing in my first comment is racist. I had bones to pick with the language of the article, and I backed it up with facts and links.
But you and a senior editor of Archinect and Woodbury Professor result to personal attacks because you can't argue facts or in any rational manner. I challenged your assertion of Israel being full of hatred and greed and you call me stupid. I'm sorry you can't handle an adult conversation without calling someone stupid or a troll.
Bet that makes you feel real smart. And warm and tingly on the inside.
An architectural forum shouldn't be writing any op-ed pieces about politics. That's my issue.
I didn't call you stupid, but since you associate yourself with that, so be it. But now that you mention it ... articles are facts only in their existence. The content is spin, whatever the article. Like your point of view.
Sorry, I left out stupidity. Like the troll who comes to an architectural forum and starts spouting
You didn't call me stupid? Basic English right there, insinuating that I am the troll, who imbues stupidity.
The content is spin, whatever the article. Like your point of view.
You just proved that your own point of view has no merits by any facts, and is also spin.
I provided factual evidence.
1) A video of a Hamas spokesman calling for Palestinian citizens to stay in their homes and become martyrs.
2) A video of Palestinian children brought up to hate Israel and kill Jews.
3) A video of the IDF engaging in roof knocking before a real air strike
4) Leaflets dropped by IAF in Gaza, and Hamas' response leaflets to its own citizens.
But I bet you didn't click on any of those links because its easier to hide behind a computer screen and spew bullshit opinion. Like the terrorists that hide behind civilians. (ooooh see what I did there?)
Really, Max, I don't know what you're doing here. It's pretty embarrassing.
Really, Max, I don't know what you're doing here. It's pretty embarrassing.
You joined today to exercise your xenophobic politics on an architecture forum. Now THAT'S embarrassing. And it makes you a troll.
Knock on roof (boom).
30 seconds later (KABOOM): house is gone. Who knows who was inside? Women, children, grandparents? People repressed by Israel for generations? Who cares - they are all "terrorists". Maybe you should broaden your definition of that word to include indiscriminate killing of children by your countrymen.
There are two possible solutions to the Israel / Palestine situation. The first is a single state where they agree to live together. The second is where the entire region is a glass-paved parking lot.
Another thing I don't understand...from a people who experienced being put in a ghetto I would expect them to not do the same to others. hypocracy
How do they justify this treatment internally while they walk around their memorials and learn about the horrors their ancestors experienced.
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From 1946 to 2011, list of Israel massacres
List of Israeli Massacres
A list of massacres caused by the Zionist forces leading up to and during the establishment of the state of Israel:
The King David Massacre 1946
Explosion at the King David Hotel by the Jewish Agency & Irgun resulted in the deaths of 92 civilians including Britons, Arabs and Jews; wounding 58.
Baldat al-Shaikh Massacre 1947
First Battalion of Palmakh and the Carmelie brigade launched a raid against 2 towns, taking the outlying homes by surprise as inhabitants slept. they pelted them with hand grenades and fired machine guns. 60 civilians including women, children and elderly were killed.
Yehida Massacre 1947
Zionists with machine guns sprayed bullets into a crowd gathered in a coffee house, while grenades were thrown into Arab homes. 13 civilians were killed in total throughout the day, and 23 wounded.
Khisas Massacre 1947
Two carloads of Haganah terrorists drove through the village firing machine guns and throwing grenades. 10 civilians were killed.
Qazaza Massacre 1947
Jewish terrorists blew up the house of the village Mukhtar. 5 children were murdered.
The Semiramis Hotel Massacre 1948
Jewish Agency escalated their terror campaign to drive out Palestinian Arabs by bombing the hotel. 18 civilians killed; 16 wounded.
Dair Yasin Massacre 1948
Zionist gangs Tsel, Irgun and Hagana aimed at uprooting Palestinians by destroying homes and burning them down while their inhabitants were asleep inside. 250 civilians were murdered, mostly women, children and elderly.
Naser Al-Din Massacre 1948
Zionist gangs entered the village dressed as Arab fighters and met villagers with fire. All the houses of the village were raised to the ground, killing the entire population except 40 who survived. 632 civilians in total were killed.
Tantura Massacre 1948
Israeli troops entered village to remove inhabitants to make way for a parking lot for a nearby beach. Groups of Palestinians were rounded up, killed, and their bodies thrown, rounding up more groups. 200 civilians were killed.
Beit Daras Massacre 1948
Zionists mobilized a large contingent and surrounded the village, killing the women, children and elderly that were fleeing the conflict. 265 civilians in total were killed.
Dahmash Mosque Massacre 1948
Israelis told Arabs through loudspeakers that if they went into the mosque they would be safe, 80-100 Palestinians were massacred in the mosque and their bodies lay decomposing for 10 days.
Dawayma Massacre 1948
Israeli army entered the village on the western side of the Hebron mountains and brutally killed about 100 women and children.
Houla Massacre 1948
Jewish militants dressed in traditional Arab attire entered the border village. militants rounded up 85 people and detained them in a number of houses, firing live ammunition at the civilians and killing all but 3.
Salha Massacre 1948
105 civilians killed by occupiers when ordered to face the wall of a mosque, then shot from behind.
Sharafat Massacre 1951
Israeli soldiers crossed armistice line and blew up houses - 10 civilians killed (2 elderly men, 3 women and 5 children), 8 wounded.
Qibya Massacre 1953
600 Israeli soldiers moved in towards village destroying 56 houses, a mosque, a school and water tank. 67 men and women killed.
Kafr Qasem Massacre 1956
Israeli soldiers stepped out of military trucks, positioned themselves at village entrances, and killed 43 farmers.
Khan Yunis Massacre 1956
Israelis occupied the town and an adjacent refugee camp. UNRWA investigation found 275 unarmed civilians murdered by Israelis.
Gaza City Massacre 1956
Zionist Army gangs brought death toll to 60 civilians including (including 27 women, 29 men and 4 children) and 103 injured.
Al-Sammou' Massacre 1966
Israeli forces raided the village destroying 140 houses, a village clinic and school. 18 civilians were killed and 54 wounded.
Aitharoun Massacre 1975
Caused by a booby-trapped bomb. 9 civilians were killed, 23 were wounded.
Kawnin Massacre 1975
An Israeli tank ran over a vehicle carrying 16 civilians. None of them escaped death.
Hanin Massacre 1976
After a 2-month siege and hours of shelling, occupation forces stormed the village and turned it into a bloodbath. 20 civilians killed.
Bint Jbeil Massacre 1976
A crowded market was the target of a sudden barrage of Israeli bombs, slaughtering 23 civilians and 30 wounded.
Abbasieh Massacre 1978
Israeli warplanes destroyed a mosque while civilians used it as shelter from heavy shelling. 80 civilians killed.
Adloun Massacre 1978
2 cars carrying 8 passengers came under Israeli fire while they were on their way to Beirut. Only 1 passenger escaped death.
Saida Massacre 1981
Residential areas targeted by Israeli artillery resulting in damage to many buildings. 20 civilians killed, 30 were wounded.
Fakhani Massacre 1981
Israeli warplanes raided crowded residential areas using highly sophisticated weaponry. 150 civilians killed, 600 were wounded.
Sabra and Shatila 1982
Israeli Army surrounded the camps, providing aid and facilities, in collaboration with right-wing Lebanese Phalangist, were responsible for almost 3500 civilians dead, most of them women, children and elderly.
Jibsheet Massacre 1984
Occupation forces’ tanks and helicopters fired at a crowd of people. 7 civilians were killed, 10 were wounded.
Sohmor Massacre 1984
Occupation forces stormed with tanks and military vehicles, then ordered the inhabitants to congregate at the town's mosque and fired at them. 13 civilians killed, 12 wounded.
Seer Al Garbiah Massacre 1985
At Al-Husseinieh people took shelter from shelling of Israeli soldiers who stormed the town with military vehicles. 7 civilians killed.
Maaraka Massacres 1985
Occupation forces detonated an explosive device during distribution of aid to citizens during seige. 15 civilians were killed.
Zrariah Massacre 1985
Occupation forces stormed the town after heavy shelling with 100 vehicles, killing children, women and elderly. 22 civilians slaughtered.
Horneen Al-Tahta Massacre 1985
Occupation forces ordered the inhabitants to gather at a school of the village. They then destroyed it over their heads.
Jibaa Massacre 1985
Huge Army forces attacked the town and put it under siege. Soldiers fired at people escaping the siege. 5 civilians killed, 5 were wounded.
Yohrnor Massacre 1985
An Israeli armed force entered the town using civilian cars and opened fire at the houses. 10 civilians killed, among them a family of 6.
Tin Massacre 1986
Occupation forces cutting the hands and ears from civilians in the town. 4 persons were killed; 79 were crippled and wounded.
Al-Naher Al-Bared Massacre 1986
Israeli warplanes raided the Palestinian refugee camp killing many of the refugees. 20 person were killed and 22 were wounded.
Ain Al-Hillwee Massacre 1987
Jet fighters launched 2 raids. 31 civilians killed and 41 wounded. Refugees were hit by a raid while evacuating casualties, 34 more were killed, making a total of 65 civilian casualties.
Oyon Qara Massacre 1990
Israeli soldier lined up Palestinian labors and murdered 7 of them with a sub-machine gun. 13 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces in subsequent demonstrations.
Siddiqine Massacre 1990
Israeli warplanes bombed a house, among the 3 killed a four years old child.
Al-Aqsa Mosque Massacre 1990
Israeli forces placed military barriers around roads and surrounded it with military helicopters. Jewish settlers fired live ammunition with automatic weapons and gas bombs. 23 Palestinians were killed, 850 wounded.
Ibrahimi Mosque "Cave of the Patriarchs" Massacre 1994
Almost 500 worshipers attended Friday dawn prayer when Zionist settlers and soldiers stormed the mosque and fired on the people praying. 24 civilians died and 100's injured.
Jabalia Massacre 1994
Jewish undercover police opened fire on Palestinian activists brutally killing 6 and injuring 49. Some of the wounded activists were taken out of their cars and shot in the heads.
Eretz Checkpoint Massacre 1994
Occupation forces fired on Palestinian workers at Eretz checkpoint while 4 Israeli tanks and helicopters were brought in. 11 civilians were shot dead and 200 injured.
Deir Al-Zahrani Massacre 1994
Israeli warplanes fired a "vacuum" missile at a 2-story building which was destroyed. 8 people were killed, 17 wee injured.
Nabatyaih School Bus Massacre 1994
Israeli warplanes targeted a school bus full of students. 4 children were killed and 10 injured.
Sohmor Second Massacre 1996
Israeli artillery targeted a civilian vehicle carrying 8 passengers, killing all of them.
Mansuriah Massacre 1996
Israeli helicopter fired rockets at a vehicle carrying 13 civilians fleeing the village of al-Mansuri, killing 2 women and 4 young girls.
Nabatyaih Massacre 1996
Israeli Air attack with helicopters fired rockets at 3 buildings in the village on a house in Nabatiyya al-Faqwah causing 11 civilians casualties (including a mother and her 7 children) and 10 injured.
Qana Massacre 1996
Zionist forces bombed a shelter providing refuge to 500 Lebanese, mostly women, children and elderly forced out of their villages by Israeli raids. 109 civilians killed and 116 injured in a UN compound.
Janta Massacre 1998
Israeli warplanes attacked a mother and her 6 children when they had returned from the field. All had been killed.
The 29 June Massacre 1999
Israeli force targeted a building in Beirut. 8 civilians killed and 84 injured.
Western Bekaa villages Massacre 1999
Israeli warplanes fired on children who were celebrating the Eid festival. 8 children were killed and 11 others wounded.
Al-Aqsa Mosque Massacre 2000
Ariel Sharon entered Al-Aqsa Mosque with 3000 Israeli soldiers. Soldiers opened fire on Muslims worshipers before completing their prayers. 80 Palestinian civilians were killed and 1000's injured.
Gaza "Cast Lead" Massacre 2009
Israeli government lay siege to the city with the use of white-phosphorous chemical weapons in densely populated areas such as schools and hospitals. 800 women, children & elderly were killed and 1000's injured.
Based on the above figures, a total of 7,500 innocent men, women, children and elderly were massacred.
This figure does not include ongoing civilian casualties from other isolated incidents.
Gaza Siege 2012
162 men, women and children killed by air strikes, and 1269 injured during the 8 day assault on the Gaza Strip just before elections in Israel.
The displacement of the Palestinians at the hands of the Zionist movement
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I'm with jla-x. Both sides have good people and idiots. Same DNA, same God, and same land. The only way to solve this problem is to become one large secular country and inter-marry. Then they can bitch about wether to decorate buildings with historicist decoration or plates of glass. Then again, in a desert, I'll assume they'll stick with minimal glass and mininal decoration. Who said compromising was hard?
Its hard for me to see both sides of this conflict as equivalent when the numbers of dead palestinians are so much higher.
These rockets are provided by Iran. Why doesn't the Muslim brotherhood provide them with flotillas of food, water, construction materials?
They have tried until 9 of them aboard the humanitarian aid ship were murdered by israeli commando raid.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/05/31/gaza.protest/
^ Slam dunk. Game over.
Slam dunk? Lol. Iranian Rockets Bound for Gaza Terrorists Seized,...Interesting seeing as all the rockets fired from Gaza are the same M302 rockets.
Seems like Israel is the only one that cares about the Palestinian civilians. Despite Ongoing Rocket Fire, Israel Transfers Aid to Gaza
Slam dunk, Mr. Jaffe..slam dunk.
David, Israel has Iron Dome which has intercepted hundreds of rockets since July 8. Without that, Israeli death toll would be in the hundreds. Another prime example of Israel valuing life over harboring hatred.
Max, I have long been an RSS subscriber. But when a horseshit article is published for the masses, I exercise the 1st amendment of free speech. Calling me stupid, a troll, and to shut up makes you look childish.
From the article above:
However, for others, it was viewed similarly to the massive border wall demarcating the West Bank: a piece of infrastructure that ensures the continued imposition of apartheid politics on Arabs by Israelis.
Wall is on Israeli soil. Also significantly reduced indiscriminate suicide bombings. Another prime example of Israel valuing life over harboring hatred. Sad to see it have to come down to an actual wall, but hey, the wall doesn't kill Palestinians. It saves Israelis from Palestinian Suicide Bombers.
Knock on roof (boom).
After a series of phone calls and leaflets warning of impending air strike on weapons stockpile. Sane leadership would not ask their own people to stay in homes despite warnings, unless they were vying for public sympathy. Hamas tells Gaza residents to ignore IDF warnings
30 seconds later (KABOOM): house is gone. Who knows who was inside? Women, children, grandparents? People repressed by Israel for generations?
Read above.
Who cares - they are all "terrorists".
Your words, not mine. Childish behavior, Max.
Maybe you should broaden your definition of that word to include indiscriminate killing of children by your countrymen.
Lololol. Indiscriminate killing of children. IAF Pilot calls off strike on Gaza target after spotting children nearby. But you know best, Max.
There are two possible solutions to the Israel / Palestine situation. The first is a single state where they agree to live together. The second is where the entire region is a glass-paved parking lot.
If you've followed the conflict, and read Hamas' charter ("obliteration or dissolution of Israel"), you would be smarter to know that a single-state solution will never work. Glass-paved parking lot sounds interesting though. I'm sure that took a lot of thought.
I don't expect to change your mind, just as you shouldn't expect to change mine. But at least do your research and have the courtesy to read everything I link to before spewing nonsense that makes you look silly.
Reiterating for you to look at
1) Hamas' Charter
2) IDF Airforce pilot calling off an attack because there are children nearby
3) Hamas encouraging people to stay in their homes despite hundreds of warnings
4) Ships from Iran do in fact transport M302 rockets to Gaza
5) Israel's border at Kerem Shalom allows for hundreds of trucks to carry humanitarian aid to the residents of Gaza
This is jerry springer level journalism, I am disappointed mr. Korody, you had promise but this is just standard internet over the top bullshit...are you an isreali or a palestenian, do you live there? You are equating information irresponsibly...you cant just equate south africa apartheid to isreal-palenstine like a math formula.
What does it mean to be an "Israel Supporter" exactly?
We in the United States use very harsh language everyday to criticize are own country. Rarely does that criticism ever reach a level to where it calls into question someones support for the United States.
I would say that John Kerry is a supporter of Israel but when he used this no-no word "apartheid" in April, his status as an "Israel Supporter" was called into question by many.
Michael Oren, former Israeli ambassador to the US, wrote an interesting op-ed explaining the historical context around the word apartheid titled "Israel isn't, and will never be, an apartheid state"
i like what tammuz and orhan have stated thus far. its interesting no response to the graphic or the massacres that tammuz has posted, why is that?
israel doesn't need to be called apartheid state, it is beyond that. currently it is hell for palestinians and denying that is like saying holocaust never happened.
here i offer another way of looking at the root cause;
occupying more and more palestinian land is a bandaid for faltering israeli economy. like most genocides, the underlying motivation is capturing property without prior investment or payment. it can be called state sponsored looting and it is. war as an enabler for capturing free property and capital, no questions asked and there is no mortgages to be paid. you kill, intimidate, force out and what they leave behind is yours. it is that simple and evil. europeans did it for centuries, so did americans.., turks and germans did it and now the state of israel doing it.
IAF Pilot calls off strike on Gaza target after spotting children nearby.
Too bad they didn't call off these strikes:
Half of Gaza's dead 'are women and children'
Gaza Death Toll Rises Sharply as Israel Escalates Attacks
a single-state solution will never work
Not while you are busy killing women and children. You reap what you sow. In this case hatred and violence.
When you rule something out, it is not a possibility. You can never control another's behavior, you can only control your own. You can however set an example for others to follow. Maybe one day you will realize that you already have. Enjoy your karma.
israel doesn't need to be called apartheid state, it is beyond that. currently it is hell for palestinians and denying that is like saying holocaust never happened.
Right. Because that analogy makes sense. If Israel wanted to systematically wipe out the Palestinians as Hitler wished to do to the Jews, believe me, it would have happened already. If they were indiscriminately targeting women and children, Israel would be dropping much more powerful bombs nonstop all over Gaza, not warning rocket-launching sites with phone calls, leaflets, and mortar shells before targeting single complexes at a time. They target sites that launch rockets. Not random homes. But you're right. Sending hundreds of trucks of food and aid from their own country, is totally like the gas chambers and concentration camps the Nazi's shoved Jews into by way of trains. Can't believe I hadn't thought about it your way, thanks for clearing this up!
europeans did it for centuries, so did americans.
How dare you live in the US and teach at Woodbury and get paid to do so in a land stolen from the native americans! Oh the hypocrisy!
Too bad they didn't call off these strikes:
Half of Gaza's dead 'are women and children'
Gaza Death Toll Rises Sharply as Israel Escalates Attacks
Your first link didn't work. Your second link isn't a specific strike. Like I said and you refuse to click on the links I include, when Hamas orders Palestinians to stay in homes from which terrorists indiscriminately shoot rockets and hide like cowards, sure, there will be civilian casualties. On Hamas' head. No sane country would tolerate these rockets. Neither does Israel. How many times do you have to ask someone to stop before you resort to violence, the only language terrorists speak?
Not while you are busy killing women and children. You reap what you sow. In this case hatred and violence.
When you rule something out, it is not a possibility. You can never control another's behavior, you can only control your own. You can however set an example for others to follow. Maybe one day you will realize that you already have. Enjoy your karma.
I'm going to pretend you were born yesterday and never heard of the suicide bombings before the erection of the Wall. Here's a glimpse of what life was like when Israelis and Palestinians lived side by side:
List of Palestinian Suicide Attacks
If you didm't bother clicking on that link, the death toll since 1989 is 804.
"Hamas claimed responsibility. Hamas claimed responsibility. Hamas claimed responsibility. Hamas claimed responsibility.....".
What you're all failing to remember, was that Israel has repeatedly accepted the two state solution. Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has even ACKNOWLEDGED the refusal of this plan as a mistake.
Very hard to concentrate on a one-state solution when suicide bombers are blowing up teenagers and public buses left and right. Many people are in favor of a two-state solution. But I want to hear more about your glass-paved parking lot. You seem to be very knowledgable about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the desires of both parties.
IDF Strikes Launching Site After Rocket Fire from Gaza Towards Israel
Indiscriminate?
How about those secondary explosions? You mean Hamas stores weapons INSIDE civilian homes? Is that the democratically elected governing body of the Palestinians looking out for the well-being and safety of their people? Or putting them in harms way?
From where does Hamas fire rockets in Gaza?
WATCH -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUJpFSE4oH4&feature=youtu.be&list=UUawNWlihdgaycQpO3zi-jYg
personally, I am not so interested in engaging with the likes of "Israel Supporter"; Zionists have always lied, fabricated falsehoods, used divergent ploys to direct attention away from the basic truth that they are colonizers who flocked in from the four corners of the world at the behest of the colonian powers. stole others lands, expelled a large part of its actual residents, using massacres to spread fear amongst Palestinians in order to drive them away, incarcerating and internally displacing the rest, sending their thugs - as they still do- to evict families, bulldozing their houses, cutting their olive trees, cutting of their supply of water.
It is not my intention to engage with Zionist thugs and their apologists because they are now more naked to the world, more naked than they have ever been. the popularity of the BDS, the sanction movement against the Zionist colony that calls itself Israel, is growing daily. People, globally, now realize what is happening - a large reason for this is Israel itself and the atrocious barbarity it exhibited and exhibits in its dealing with the palestinians principally and with their lebanese neighbours. Its history of massacres cannot be hidden and disguised...because it is a recurrent history, it is in the very nature of this entity - as it was in the nature of the apertheid system, as it was in the nature of all racist colonial outposts- to kill, plunder, violate in order to steal and appropriate.
My quibble is not over what "Israel Supporter" has to say. In fact, I don't even bother to read her or his posts. I won't quibble with her or him over the Hamas chart or how many bombs they're sending. These are all calculated to misdirect attention from who is the real victim here and who is the real author of a consistent, calculated, ongoing racist policy extending back from the establishment of Israel of expelling a resident population, killing a part, expelling a part, incarcerating a part, in order to replace them with settlers from Ukraine, Poland, Ethiopia...on the basis of a racist myth and on the basis of religious fundamentalism. My intention is not to quibble over how many rockets fly into ISrael....in the name of self-defense, one has the right to wield arms and use it, it is as simple as that.
To criticize this right to self-defend - when the powers of the US, Canada, a large part of the western world supports Israel nearly unconditionally- under the repulsive guise of inane pacifist "political correctness" is part of the attack against Palestinians, part of the war being waged on them in order to even ethically deprive them of the right of self defense. By that I mean criticizing Palestinians' right to wage war against their occupiers, their torturers and the usurpers of their land claiming that this will lead to the unfortunate death on the other side. What sort of perverse logic is this?
My quibble is not with "Israel Supperter". There is no point to argue against a discourse based on lies, fraud and misdirections because its really pointless.
My quibble is with those whose position, ignorant, pompous (because they think themselves qualified to pass judgements in their absence of knowledge), brainwashed by what their country's media peddles on TV....when these people say something the likes of :
jla-x "To me both sides are clearly filled with some good folks and some scumbags. When you basically trap people into an area and treat them like animals then you should expect rebellion. It's common sense. On the other hand, indiscriminately firing missiles at people makes you a coward and an animal. "
No, there is equivalence there in order to demonize the victim. How could you even come up with that nonsense? Let me be clear...Palestinians have the right to fire at Israel every day and every night until Israel ceases to exist. Whether they do so, when they do so...all that is up to them...but that right is there, intact and should not be obfuscated.
Their reactions are not a spurious run of events....and neither is Israel's. Before making such an ignorant, injudicious and pompous ask yourself this:
Who came from abroad in order to displace whom? Who stole whose lands and continues to do so? Who evicts whose families out of their ancestral houses? Who incarcerates whose people - including children- for no reason?
Who has committed a huge list of massacres against whom? Who has drawn up plans for the displacement of whom? Who wants to create a country dedicated to one race in order to the preclude the other? Who builds segregation walls that cut off family members from each, that rupture the daily life of the inhabitants, incarcerating them?
Who practices a policy calculated to impoverish and near-starve whom? Who trains their guard dogs to attack a person of another religion when they hear a certain religious proclamation? Who sends their spies and agents to assassinate within and in neighbouring countries?
Who destroy's whose heritage, religious edifices in order to appropriate them for their own? Who fabricated a false history in order to justify their colonization?
Who deliberately bombs civilians in Palestine and lebanon, hospitals, schools, camps where tens of children are turned into charred corpses? Who created lies about there being military forces within these areas? Who is horrid enough to even give this as a reason for the bombardment of civilian locations with perfect knowlrdge that they are civilian?
How dare you call people who have undergone so much and react in self-defense :cowards and animals?
The Palestinians have been fighting a war being wages on them by this colonizing entity for a long time. The US has vetoed each and ever UN resolution against Israel. In the meantime, PAlestinians are displaced, expelled, killed, thrown in jail....and you call them animals for shooting back at Israel?
This shows how ignorant and feeble your thinking is. On the mere level of rhetoric, I have more respect for that lying "Israel Supporter" than I have for you (and I have none for her or him). At least, s/he is motivated by a reason to exist (as an Israeli or an Israeli supporter, whatever). Whereas you, jla-x are being nothing but an ignorant brainwashed pompous moralizer with no understanding of the picture. What is more important for you is to pass judgement. If you want to be neutral, at least shut up and don't feign knowledge. I can understand that more....although I believe it is no excuse anymore, for anyone connected to a wide range of new sources and material, who reads and follows the run of world events, to be neutral when it comes to Israel.
At one point, there were people galore in the West defending the South African apartheid state. Your populations more or less accepted it...but with growing awareness, with the fight against that system from within, with the rise of black movements in the US and a changing perception there, the complacent world opinion changed. People who were nonchalant about the South African apartheid state today wear Mandela badges. Countries that not so long ago called Mandela a terrorist sent their leaders in order to cry alligator tears in his funeral.
And many in the western world realize how they're being duped when it comes to Israel. Not just the west but all over. But the populations of the so called western powers have been the victim propagandas of deception, misdirections and lies. But the growing BDS, boycotting Israel, movement shows that this is changing and is likely to change more.
As for what is actually on ground, militarily and indeed ideologically and strategically, what is happening now points to a very worrying fact for Israel, namely the consolidation of trans-regional Resistance. What you see today is the result of coordiation between Hezbollah, Syria, Palestinian resistance factions (Hamas, Islamic Jihad, three of four other groups) and Iran to the extent that many, in the region, no longer talk about different resistances but a Resistance with different fronts. Israel has a lot to fear in the future, it will kill many in this war, driven by its omnipresent bloodthirsty policy of slow genocide and by gungho theatrics of Netanyahu who uses this for the benefit of internal politicking within Israel , but it will not win...and that itself - in replication of the Lebanese 2006 war that it obviously didnt learn much from- will be yet another loss for Israel...whose descent is described by an unavoidable succession of losses.
You're not wanted here any more than you are in Gaza. You have ZERO support here. What will it take for you to go away? Or are you just going to keep indiscriminately shelling this forum the way Israel continues to expand settlements and bomb civilians?
I S, why don't you come in the open and tell us your real name so i can also affiliate you with your workplace you sneaky worm. are you scared of being outed? c'mon where is your credibility you juvenile troll? i can find out who you are but why bother. after reading couple of your posts you are just a pea brain peripheral persona to me and your posts are only vomit worthy. don't address me from now on and mention where i work repeatedly. you are deliberately trying to defame me and you are getting into "ban" territory. it is not a rocket science to IP trace you to your door. not that woodbury would give a fuck about a anonymous internet post from a troll but you sound like nazi children who would snitch on their jewish classmates. that's how low you are.
Max I thought you like rooting for the underdog. Why are you being such a bully, dude? 1st amendment bro. Just be quiet and let tammuz speak. He seems to be ever so slightly more knowledgable than you. But that's not saying much.
tammuz, in the spirit of BDS, I suggest you cease operation of your cell-phone and computer, as flash technology and the original IBM 8088 processor was developed by Jewish Israelis (as are all of Intel's current line of processors.
Some other Jewish inventions we should boycott:
Google's founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page are Jewish. Don't use Google.
Levi Strauss was Jewish. Don't wear jeans.
Traffic lights. Don't drive.
Color television. Don't watch TV.
Vaccinating Needle. Contract diseases.
and more. and more. and more.
I'm in favor of this growing BDS movement guys! Sounds like we're headed to a new age of modernism.
Actions speak louder than words on an architectural forum. I encourage you to visit Gaza. Maybe launching rockets will give you a new-found sense of purpose.
With regards to that fabricating IDF infographic presented by the zionist Israeli Supporter :
" The United Nations stated in a July 9 report that “the targeting and destruction of residential properties in Gaza is the main cause of civilian casualties”.
Six children were among eight killed on Tuesday when a missile struck the home of an alleged Hamas activist in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis. Five families reside in the building bombed by the Israeli military, which claims that the home was the residence of Hamas commander Odeh Kaware.
As the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights stated on July 10, a home cannot be classified as a military target because it is owned by a fighter.
The lack of secondary explosions in homes targeted by Israel gives the lie to Israel’s claim that the houses were used for weapons storage. "
Full article
The argument concerning BDS and Intel and others (whatever Israel's part in it), the point of the BDS is to lead to the maximum possible isolation and economic punishment of the entity that calls itself Israel. The point is not an idealism as much as it is an effective means to an end. We recognize that we don't live under ideal conditions (having ISrael around is in itself testimony of that). We also use what is essential, even if provided by Israel, to turn it against Israel. None of these snide criticisms provided by the zionist Israeli Supporter alleviate Israel's culpability, none of them actually criticize the true valour of the BDS...they are all meant, again, to misdirect, to conflate and to bring up secondary aspects.
Secondly, no where do I make the confusion between Jewish and Zionism...as does Israeli Supporter. There are many Jews against Israels and for me there is no difference between Jews, Moslems, Christians and so on.
On the other hand, there is no difference between Zionist Christians, Zionist Jews and indeed Zionist Arabs (yes, there are now, look for them in the Gulf Arab principally).
to edit my last sentence(because I don't want to be injudicious to the Gulf Arabs at large):
and indeed Zionist Arabs yes, there are now, look for them amongst the royalties of the Gulf Arab principally).
Tammuz, I'm not demonizing anyone. You cherry picked my statement. You are pointing out many facts in your post and I agree with you sentiment regarding the thuggery of Israel however the root of your argument is very simplistic. I can not support Israel and also not support Hamas. Hamas are not freedom fighters they are not engaging in self defense and they are not very smart if their goal is genuinely to free their people. Instead these assholes are power hungry thugs that would devolve into a shirty oppressive state if given the chance. I agree with the concept but disagree with the tactics. You also missed my point completely. What I said is I do not support anyone who fires missiles into civilian areas. This includes the US, Israel, and anyone else. I understand the logistics of the situation, and that its impossible to defend theirselves with combat. I'm no stranger to the idea of self defense either. I was once robbed at knife point and beat the guy to a pulp. Had the guy run into a crowd of innocents however, I would not have thrown a bomb at him to get him at the expense of the others around him. Also, its tactically retarded to think that they are defending themselves. if Israel wanted to they could vaporize Palestine. There is no fighting chance. If they were smart they would not give Israel any excuse for violence. They wouldn't feed the propaganda. The Israel's want them to act like "terrorists" because it justifies their "counter terrorism". The Americans also want this. Their behavior justifies retaliation and perpetual policing. If the Palestinians strip the Israelis of their ability to justify violence (and I understand that it is not justified) then the Israelis will lose all support and be exposed as the thugs they are.
Also, if you fire one rocket and then they fire two back how is that self defense. Retaliation maybe but not self defense.
Meant to say the Palestinians. I agree. Re read my post before jumping to conclusions. I support the wall being torn down but not throwing rocks over it. The rocks give the opposition a reason to justify the wall regardless of the fact that the walls existence is unjustifiable.
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