Ethnic Cleansing In Hebron
Courtesy of Ha’aretz:
‘A report by two major Israeli civil rights organizations that was issued Sunday indicates that Palestinians abandoned more than 1,000 homes and at least 1,829 businesses in the center of Hebron due to pressure by the Israel Defense Forces, the police and Jewish settlers. Many of those referred to fled during the second intifada, beginning in September 2000.
The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) and B’Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Civil Rights in the Occupied Territories, claim that a “policy of separation on a national basis” is being imposed in Hebron.
In areas of the city close to the settlers’ neighborhoods, at least 1,014 residential units (41.9 percent of the total number of homes in the area) were abandoned by their residents. Of these, 659 (65 percent) were abandoned during the second intifada. In addition, 76.6 percent of the businesses were abandoned, 1,141 (62.4 percent) of them during the same period; at least 440 were closed by IDF order.
The report, which will be distributed to all MKs, claims that “the center of Hebron has become a ghost town because of an active Israeli policy” that includes preferential treatment of the settlers.’
Soon we’ll be hearing about those pesky “Arab broadcasts” again!
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Jeez, weasel words there or what?
So now it’s a “policy of separation on a national basis” not Ethnic Cleansing. A bit like calling the civil war in Iraq a “faith based melee”
Right – as I say, I’m just waiting to hear what the excuses will be this time. B’Tselem has called on the Israeli government to permit the Palestinians’ return – I’m not holding my breath.
Sadly, that damn Hamas Mouse non-story seems to be doing a good job of distracting everybody.
There was an article about him the other day in the Independent below which they had a single paragraph underneath with no headline about the new settlements on Jerusalem.
Yep – they’ve certainly got their priorities straight.