But one can also extend that frame of capture and containment to Europe, where Palestinians, perhaps to a lesser degree, do not count. The education committee of the Israeli Knesset last week showed a video in which a Palestinian boy said his school had taught him to “fight the Jews, kill them and defeat them”.
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Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon said on Sunday that he agreed to return the bodies of Palestinians from the occupied West Bank to the Palestinian Authority on condition that burials did not become protest rallies. The Palestinians are a mostly unarmed civilian population occupied by the fourth most powerful military (with nuclear weapons) in the world.
Young Palestinians today tend to be more educated than their parents.
Despite this, the policy has been widely implemented since the escalation of violence in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, across the whole of Palestine.
There is no disputing Israel’s political rifts with the United States and the Europeans, but relations remain strong with trade booming, military cooperation growing and a range of cooperative activities going on at the federal, state and local levels. Immediately, the officer standing closest to them yelled to the other police in Hebrew to “bring pepper spray and handcuffs”, so the activists were made to move back to a place where the check point was still within sight.
It began with clashes between Palestinian stone-throwers and Israeli police at a major Jerusalem holy site that is revered by Muslims and Jews. The Palestinian Authority appears ineffectual, incapable of restoring the negotiating process with Israel. And while you can say that it is too grisly for the paper of record, it has already gotten wide attention from people who care about Israel’s occupation because of the attitude it documents.
Palestinians accuse Israel of seeking to change the rules governing the compound, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has insisted he will not alter a status quo that forbids Jews from praying there.
‘The soldiers at the scene responded to the immediate threat and shot the attacker, resulting in his death’. The Palestinian Health Ministry says about 1,000 Palestinians were wounded by live fire in October.
Beyond the street confrontations, Israelis and Palestinians have fought for the dominant narrative.
Meanwhile, the defenceless Palestinian people are contemptuously told that Israel has a right to defend itself – although no Western leader has ever acknowledged that right for the Palestinian people. To provide a few context to the latest flare-up, a UN Security Council report said August saw the highest number of Israeli demolitions of Palestinian structures, including homes, since June 2010.
Thousands marched on Sunday in two towns near Hebron, participating in the funeral processions of two Palestinians whose bodies were handed over by Israel late Saturday. The ruling Fatah movement’s tweet on “hibat al-Quds” or the “Jerusalem awakening” blessed by Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas, was, “A symphony of love for Jerusalem”.
“It’s been a long time since we’ve seen the soldiers get on a speaker like that”, al-Azza said.
Martinez added she thinks the march allowed different communities to come together to express their support for Palestinians injured or killed in attacks.
Four days later, the website Buzzfeed said the image had been turned into a “huge meme” by users in a photo shop competition. “According to the Oslo Accords, we were supposed to have a permanent status agreement for a two-state solution in 1999”, the official said.
Violence broke out Saturday in the flashpoint West Bank city of Hebron as Palestinians buried five teenagers killed in a wave of attacks and clashes with Israeli forces.
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The “violence question” is rarely debated openly in Palestinian society.
