A bipartisan group of senators are backing a resolution suppporting Israel amid an uptick in Israeli-Palestinian violence.
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Eid, the founder and director of the Jerusalem-based Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group, spoke at both these campuses as part of a national campus tour organized by CAMERA (also known as the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America).
Under a separate budgetary hierarchy, the U.S. administration is understood to be well-disposed to ensure funding for Israel’s missile defense systems – maintaining and improving the Iron Dome and the Arrow systems, and deploying David’s Sling, to ensure Israel can counter threats from neighboring Gaza, south Lebanon and Syria, as well as from an Iran that is relentlessly developing its ballistic missile systems.
This year, Prime Minister Netanyahu reiterated Israel’s commitment to violence: “I’m asked if we will forever live by the sword – yes”. These two cab rides are on entirely different days, and yet they speak as if in response to each other.
“I just wanted to kick it (the tear gas) away”, he said.
The APAN resolution needs to be considered in the context of decades of occupation, destruction and slaughter in Gaza, indifference towards hundreds of thousands of Palestinians marooned in refugee camps and fruitless, so called peace talks. The elections were conducted under worldwide supervision and sanctioned by Israel. This is while IS considers that hostility against Hamas is an introduction to confront Israel.
This attempt to empty Jerusalem of its residents slowly is referred to by Israelis as the transfer scheme. “These youngsters are perfectly aware that most chances are that they will get killed anyway”. Indeed, not even the most despicable of crimes aimed deliberately at innocent civilians – such as the suicide bombing at the Dolphinarium disco in Tel Aviv in 2002 that killed 21 young Israelis out dancing – can even be called terrorism.
The letter was lauded by Palestinian advocacy organisations, with a few saying that it would help Israeli academics critical of their government to feel supported.
“The struggle is always born in the camps, in Jordan, in Lebanon, in Syria and Palestine”, Mahmoud Fannoun, leader of the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, said from the Dheisheh camp.
Rishon Lezion Mayor Dov Tzur praised the “fast work of citizens and security services, police and MDA”, and said that by the time police arrived, the terrorist had only gotten about 150m from the initial stabbing. It boycotts institutions – not individuals – which facilitate the illegal occupation of Palestinian lands.
“Netanyahu would nonetheless be prime minister and would continue to explain why everything is the fault of the Palestinians”. The separation barrier divided many of Jerusalem’s neighbourhoods, leaving almost 80,000 born Jerusalemites living on the “wrong” side of it.
Merav, 44, a regular at the annual event, said it was the largest turnout for years, but she also felt further than ever from the spirit of the murdered politician.
Fear engenders more fear, and any concern among Israelis manifests itself in more restrictions on Palestinians. The 1995 guidelines about the need for Jerusalemites to prove their connection to the city in order to retain their rights resulted in a mass movement of people returning to the city.
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But on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Rabin’s killing by an ultra-nationalist Jewish extremist opposed to his peace efforts, he candidly recalled the night that many see as a turning point in Israeli history. He is a former Ferris professor of Journalism at Princeton University. Such a move would certainly be the opposite of the perceived Israeli intention of finding administrative ways to reduce the Palestinian Arab population of Jerusalem.
