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Churches and Mosques Threatened with Judaizing Jerusalem Testimonials

By: Ambassador Suhail Hani Daher Akel (*)

Since its inception in 1948, Israel attempted to transform the physical and demographic landscape of Palestine and its capital Jerusalem chord with his Zionist vision. Much of the tactic was achieved through the violent expulsion of Palestinian citizens from 1948 to 1967, and implemented Judaizing Jerusalem since 1967 and increased during the period of 'peace talks'.



Hundreds of buildings and church property were usurped by the Zionist terrorists during the occupation of Palestine in 1948 for the creation of Israel after the Israeli invasion of 1967. These properties were transferred to the Jewish National Fund (founded in London 1901) and leased to European Jews who immigrated illegally to Palestine before 1948 and those who arrived after the occupation East Jerusalem (1967), to colonize the city.



The UN called on Israel to "rescind all measures taken and to desist forthwith from taking any action that would alter the status of Jerusalem" (Resolution 2253, 06/04/1967). Regardless, "Israel seized more than 25,870 dunums of Palestinian land in Jerusalem during the first three years of occupation" (Commission Report UN Security Council, November 1980/S-14268).



Israeli attacks on religious freedom and the Muslim and Christian religious leaders, was to silence the voices that expressed the pain of the Palestinian people. Among long history, the August 20, 1975, the Israeli occupying power illegally detained Greco-Catholic Archbishop of Jerusalem, Archbishop Capucci Hilariom and November 8, 1977 he was deported from Palestine forever, barring their return. Meanwhile. On 21 August 2002, the illegally seized Jerusalem Orthodox Archbishop, Bishop Atallah Hanna. Just as many Muslim leaders jailed and "expelled from Jerusalem Abisi Imam of the Al Aksa, prohibiting his return to the city" (Reuters, 09/07/2009).



The continued Zionist purpose. It was a detailed plan to oust the Palestinian Christians and Muslims, and at the same time, increase housing for Jews only, erasing Palestinian roots and Judaizing the ancient capital of Occupied Palestine. "The Zionist mentality based on the idea of \u200b\u200bemptying the land of their former owners. The desire of the Israeli law Judaizing Jerusalem and empty of Palestinians to achieve an Israeli majority in the city. " (Nabil Mashour, President Arab Orthodox Council of Jerusalem, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, 5/25/2008).



Meanwhile, the Greek Orthodox Church and the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, issued a statement warning that the Israeli authorities threatened to force through the demolition of church property in the Old City of Jerusalem. The occupation forces reiterated their intentions to demolish the same scale.



The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate, the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land and administrative bodies for the two major Christian denominations received on Saturday June 27, 2009, orders for demolition of 500 properties of their churches.



These are mainly houses leased to priests, nuns and Christian families in Palestine. The Israeli authority with impunity and without legal right, said that "the renovations in these buildings are made without permission." Reason enough to demolish them and keep the land. Never mind that these properties belong to the Palestinian heritage for hundreds of years.



In an evil case. They planned for this year 1900 to evacuate and demolish homes in East Jerusalem. Meanwhile. His bulldozer digging beneath the Premises are Sacred mosque Al Aqsa (710dC) and Omar (690dC), seeking the downfall of them. Tapping networks of tunnels in the direction of the mosque from the west and south, making landslides in the village of Silwan, in the Old City of Jerusalem and major cracks in historic buildings in the east and south walls of the third holiest mosque Islam. "The occupation continues to carry out excavations to achieve its large and dangerous goal of destroying the Al Aqsa Mosque. " (Dr. Hassan Khater, Secretary General of the Islamic-Christian Palestine TV, 17.08.2008). Thirsty



to destabilize Palestine, anything under Zionist expansionism. Since 1967 the Jerusalem area expanded from 40 to 110 square kilometers and reached new heights in the southern Hebron and Nablus to the north. With dynamic repression. Restrictions on freedom of movement reached levels more than 445 rugged military checkpoints Israel (May 2009).



strategy illegal extension of the municipal boundaries of Jerusalem, with restrictions bureaucratic and legal use of Palestinian land by its inhabitants, the extension of settlements in the so-called 'Greater Jerusalem', the future construction of 73,302 units in these settlements to house a million Jewish settlers, of which 15,156 have been approved and construction of the Apartheid Wall Winding nearly 780 miles in length, are the essential foundations of Palestinian ethnic cleansing. "The construction of the Wall by Israel, the Occupying Power in occupied Palestinian territory, including inside and around Jerusalem ... are contrary to international law (UN resolution A/ES-10/L.18/R1, 19/07/2004).



To Judaizing East Jerusalem, Israel, in 2009 spent $ 250 million to increase the number of synagogues around the Al-Aqsa and 5,500 units of housing finance Israelis. "The Jerusalem Foundation for Research and Documentation, denounced the" Comprehensive Strategic Plan 'from the Israeli Antiquities Authority to the Old City of Jerusalem, including the collapse of the Al Aqsa Mosque to build the Jewish temple of Solomon. " (Europa Press, 3 / 11 / 2008).


Zionist
These measures are much more dangerous than the occupation of the city during the War of 1967. As dangerous as the words of premier Netanyahu to call "natural growth of settlements" (Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahrnoth 06/09/2009). Concept that should be totally rejected under international legal right. "The policies and practices of Israel in establishing settlements in the Palestinian territories have no legal ... ..." (UN-CS, Resolution 446, 22/03/1979).



The Security Council resolutions 252 and 267, May 1968 and July 1969, considered that "all measures, legislative and administrative measures taken by Israel, which tend to change the legal status of Jerusalem are invalid and can not change the status of the city. " With violent symptoms. On July 30, 1980, Israel annexed East Jerusalem in the occupied West in 1948, becoming the city unilaterally unified in its capital.



The international rejection was unanimous. The UN called Israel his "military withdrawal from Jerusalem, make no capital, not to change its legal status and requested member countries maintain their embassies in Tel Aviv" (resolution 478, 08/20/1980). Dozens of UN resolutions have repeatedly emphasized the illegitimacy of the annexation of Jerusalem to be an integral part of the occupied Palestinian territories. Facing the Israeli attitude obscene not comply.


Duplication
American. President Obama called on Israel to freeze settlement construction. However, after meeting Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, the U.S. special envoy for the Middle East, George Mitchell in London (07/06/2009), Israel got the U.S. OK for the construction of 2,500 new homes East Jerusalem settlements (Israeli newspaper Maariv, 07/08/2009).

policy of land theft, destruction of homes and neighborhoods from Jerusalem to Gaza, was the Israeli-Zionist policy of falsifying the past by demolishing the present and stealing the future of the Palestinian people. The ineffectiveness of world Zionism encouraged to carry out their schemes in Palestine. "Jewish settlements Population brought from far away, we inherited their homes (Palestinians) now sow and harvest their fields, gather the fruits of their gardens, orchards and vineyards in the cities we have won" (Zionist-Jewish Intellectual Martin Bober, 1948).

From memory. Jerusalem, was built 3,500 years BC. by the Jebusites, a tribe Canaanite Semitic-Arab-Palestinian genealogy and printed in 1805 BC his capacity as administrative city, capital of Canaan-Palestine during the reign of the Canaanites Melquisadek. The Palestinian presence stood firm against the aggression of the invaders in Jerusalem and exceeded the findings of the Hebrew king Herod when sent to kill the Palestinian infant Jesus, killing hundreds of Palestinian children or the Hebrew Samson, who arrived in Gaza and by the suicide bombing destroyed the house of the Philistines (Palestinians) killing with killing hundreds of them (the Bible). Prior to 1948, appeared in the Atlas Jerusalem as capital of Palestine. From 1981, the Old City of Jerusalem, is part of World Heritage. In 1982 he formed the List of World Heritage in Danger because of threats to religious property and the risk of destruction as a result of the occupation.

With this latest shooting insertion ever, the interest was to highlight the natural and legitimate right that assisted the Palestinian people in their land, their heritage and their roots in Jerusalem. A right that also assists to withstand up to now all the invasions and massacres imposed on the lives of his people.

(*) - It was the first Ambassador of Palestine in Argentina

- International Analyst on the Palestinian Question

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54 Israeli soldiers confirm the atrocities in Gaza

A report by the Israeli NGO Breaking the Silence (Breaking the Silence) based on testimonies of soldiers who participated in the slaughter of Gaza, between 27 December 2008 and January 18, makes it clear that atrocities were committed as the use of civilians as human shields, the entrance to blood and fire in homes without regard for its inhabitants or the use of white phosphorus, a banned substance.

The dissemination of evidence of Israeli soldiers who participated in the slaughter in Gaza between 27 December 2008 and January 18 has come to make clear the brutal methods used by the Zionist army and racism that is showing. These statements include, for example, that were used Palestinian civilians as human shields and that the officers instructed them to shoot without worrying about the consequences.

The Israeli NGO Breaking the Silence (Breaking the Silence), which groups former soldiers who denounce the brutality with which the military acts against the Palestinians, issued a report highlighting that "the accepted practices within the Army led to a permissive environment in the chain of command, which enables soldiers to act without any moral doubts. "

According to the report Breaking the Silence, this situation has caused "have destroyed hundreds of houses and mosques were no military targets, has been used to address phosphorus in residential areas, death of innocent victims using light weapons and the destruction of private property. "

This report is based on anonymous testimony of 54 Israeli soldiers who took part in the slaughter of Gaza.

"The testimonials are proof of the immoral way in which they conducted the war meets the established systems, not individual attitudes of the soldiers," said Mikhael Manekin of Breaking the Silence.


Army denies
The Israeli army denied the accusations, saying in a statement that according to his own investigations, "it is clear that the soldiers of the Israeli military have operated in accordance with international law and the orders they received, even though they fought under difficult and complex. "

addition to this, the military added that "most of the testimonials are anonymous and lacking in detail to enable the Army to investigate, confirm or reject these allegations.

Among the testimonies, the figure of a soldier who tells how the Palestinian civilians were used as human shields in houses regarded as suspicious.

"In every house that we approached, we sent to neighbors within" he said.

In other testimony, one soldier says his officer explained that "sometimes, the forces [Israeli] go into a place with the barrel of a gun on the shoulder of a civilian, moving into a house and used as human shields."

According to the soldiers, the instructions were to shoot first and ask questions later. "We have not been instructed to shoot at everything that moved, but that overall, we were told` if you feel that you are in danger, shoot, '"said one of them.

This is the second time that the Israeli military is facing accusations from his own ranks after the massacre in Gaza. In March, revealed that soldiers defenseless Palestinian civilians died during the offensive, but the testimony was rejected by the Army, concluded that they were based on hearsay.

Despite this denial, many Israeli NGOs call for independent inquiry into what happened in Gaza.

In another report published in July, Amnesty International accused the Israeli army and Hamas of "war crimes", saying that the Zionist military "did not distinguish between civilian and military targets" and that used civilians, including children as human shields .

According to the report of medical services Palestinians, the Israeli offensive killed more than 1,400 dead and 5,000 injured Palestinians.

Barak: "We are the most ethical"

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak yesterday asked the soldiers to have any criticism, information or reservations about the conduct of the army to come directly to him instead of telling organizations independent.

"The criticism directed against the Army by one organization or another is inappropriate. The Israeli army is one of the most ethical army in the world and acts in accordance with the highest moral code, "said Barak was quoted by the daily newspaper Yediot Aharonot."

Yehuda Shaul, responsible Breaking the Silence, said that the Gaza offensive 'was the first time the Israeli army used a system of genuine civil war. " Before entering the soldiers, aircraft bombed the places to invade, then fired their artillery shells and then came the tanks. All this happened in areas populated by civilians. "This was the only way to have few casualties," said Shaul.

The Amir is the only reservist soldier who wanted to give his name. "We spent a week of maneuvers before the invasion and immediately we realized that was not a campaign like the others, but a war. We were allowed to shoot against all and this operation became Cast Lead [name of the Israeli army used to describe the slaughter] into something else. "

In any case, the soldiers who appear in the report Breaking the Silence does not argue against the need for the operation against Gaza, justified by Israel as a means of addressing the launching of homemade rockets from the Palestinian territory, but reject specific actions. Two soldiers, for example, denounced the order from a superior to kill a Palestinian who was walking along a road and that it posed no danger to anyone.

Another soldier said that one of his superiors, during a speech, he said that "the best translators of Arabic are the grenades" and that in the days leading rabbis circulated texts in which the Palestinians compared to the Philistines of Biblical times.