That list is made up of all the settler stuff I had bookmarked in the 'Jewish Terror, Jewish Racism, Settler Violence' bookmark folder in my browser . You should see my bookmark menu, it's crazy. Folders upon folders, and sub-folders, on everything from 9/11 to the holocaust and WWII, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Israeli nukes, USS Liberty, AIPAC and the lobby, Christian Zionism, Zionist media, etc etc.

That's why my comments and blogs are usually choc full of hyperlinks, because the information is always right there. It's a handy system.

Israelis Shoot TV Cameraman

Why the world doesn't unite in outrage against this disgusting pustule of a regime is way beyond me.

Shepherd shot dead in West Bank

A Palestinian shepherd has been shot dead near the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.

Palestinian officials accused Jewish settlers of pursuing Yahya Minya, 18, from the village of Aqraba, and shooting him a number of times.

I'm not even sure if this shit has posting relevance anymore. It's a never-ending story.

Settlers cut down at least 20 olive trees

"Today I arrived at the groves and couldn't believe my own eyes. The trees, some of them 40 and 50 years old, had been chopped down."

 "The settlers blocked our path despite the fact that we had organized our arrival with the District Coordination Office and obtained the necessary permit," said Nabil Badui from the village of Qrayut, situated between Ramallah and Nablus.

Badui claimed that despite owning two acres of land and 155 olive trees, the Israeli District Coordination Office gave him a permit to harvest only 55 of them.

The Arabs48 news website reported on Friday that a group of extremist Jewish residents of Akka (Acre) attacked on last Tuesday a pregnant Arab woman as she was on her way to an Arab school in the town where she works as a teacher.

I always bookmark new stuff as I come across it, and I'll be updating this blog and its counterpart at my own blog site with new links as I find the time.

I freaked out yesterday when my computer died and refused to turn back on. I thought it had finally shat itself and I was all ready to outlay a grand for a brand new laptop before I discovered that it was only the lead that was faulty. A new lead obviated the problem, thank fuck.

What was so devastating about it, was that I thought I'd lost all my files and bookmarks. If I couldn't turn the computer on, how could I copy my files to disc and import my massive collection of bookmarked references to the next machine?

The moral of the story is that it's worthwhile storing and collecting links in blogs like this, in the event that all goes to shit.

Settlers vandalize Muslim graves after IDF razes outpost

Gideon Levy: Settlers have earned many Israelis' hatred of them

Bitter harvest as Israeli settlers run rampage

Israeli settlers attack Palestinian news photographer Abed Hashlamoun during the olive harvest near Hebron. Photo: AFP

Jewish Occupiers Attack Palestinians

Settlers: We hope IDF soldiers die, become like Gilad Shailt

Settlers Vandalise Muslim Graves After IDF Dismantles Illegal Outpost

Defeat Settler Terror

The unrestrained rampages by the settlers, and the insults they heaped on soldiers and policemen who participated in yesterday's evacuation of the "Federman Farm" near Kiryat Arba, reveal the lawless and dangerous nature of the settlers' rejectionist front.

The violent behavior of the evacuation's opponents and the content of their curses cannot be called anything but terrorism, in the literal sense of the word: sowing fear and intimidation.

Armed Settlers Burn Farmers' Equipment in Burin

Palestine: The Architecture of Apartheid

by David Parker. October 12, 2008. Interview with Jon Elmer.

In the 2007 publication “Hollow Land“, Eyal Weizman, the Israeli-born, London-based architect, reconceptualized geopolitics in the Occupied Territories. The political space created by Israeli apartheid is a web of total domination and control over Palestinians. The architecture and urban planning inside the territories demonstrate a late-modern colonial occupation. Israel owns the subterranean aquifers beneath Gaza and the West Bank, controls the airspace above, and has weaved a web of Israeli only settlements, highways, and security perimeters throughout the West Bank, while turning Gaza into an open-air prison.

According to Weizman, the natural and built features of the landscape function as weapons and ammunition for the conflict. The Occupied Territories have become a series of layers and territories, each manipulated by the Israeli authorities. Borders are porous for Israelis but solid for Palestinians. Checkpoints are a source of humiliation.

The political power of Israel re-inscribes relationships of force in the organization of the built environment. Contemporary urban warfare in the West Bank and Gaza is a constant destruction and construction of space. At the root of the warfare lies Israeli racism and colonialism.

Lines of occupation in the West Bank and Gaza can change overnight. Borders are flexible for the daily incursions of Israeli forces who inflict torture without sullying their home soil. Palestinian homes are a potential theater of war. Palestinian houses are demolished, their farms destroyed and confiscated.

Weizman depicts the Israeli settlements inside the West Bank as built according to a military design of concentric circles, fences, searchlights and patrol roads. In his lecture at the Canadian Center for Architecture in 2007, he refers to them as “optical matrices radiating out from a proliferation of look-out points/settlements scattered across the landscape”. The psychological effects are calculated; fear is used to induce flight and displace the indigenous Palestinian population from their land; a tactic carried out since the 1948 Nakba, Arabic for ‘catastrophe’.

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New Report Details Attacks on Palestinian Children by Israeli Settlers

A newly published report by Christian Peacemaker Teams and Operation Dove about the Israeli military escort of Palestinian children to school in At-Tuwani, during the 2007-2008 school year, details a catalogue of violent settler attacks on the children and a complacent attitude by the Israeli army.

It highlights how settler threats and violence during the journey undermine the children’s rights to safety. Data in the report demonstrate the Israeli military’s violations of its Knesset-affirmed obligations to ensure the children’s safe passage and right to education.

Comparison of the data collected during the 2007-08 school year and the 2006-07 school year shows a constant, unacceptable level of settler violence against the schoolchildren. Data also show that in the 2007-2008 school year the tardiness of the army caused the children to miss 25.32 hours of classes, compared to 10.47 hours in the previous school year.

The report concludes: “Nearly four years after the Israeli military’s agreement to provide an escort, and the affirmation of this agreement by the Knesset Committee for Children’s Rights, the situation of the children … has worsened. The children continue to be harassed and attacked by Israeli settlers … The Israeli military, which was given a mandate to ensure the safety of the children, has consistently failed to do so.”

During the first ten days of the children’s summer camp in July 2008, Israeli settlers attacked the children four times. On Sunday, 27 July 2008, several settlers chased the children and threw rocks at them.

One settler attacked a member of CPT, causing head injuries requiring hospital treatment. After this incident a mother said, “The beginning was worse, but after today it seems harder than the beginning. The settlers are still beating our children.”

Demanding a Settler-Free Olive Harvest

It is no wonder Jewish settlements are at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Not only do they usurp Palestinians from land and water and cut into their territory with Jewish-only bypass roads and checkpoints, they are filled with hostile settlers. Never is the clear dichotomy between these Jewish squatters and the Palestinians so pronounced than during the season of olive picking.

American Diplomat Decries Settler Attacks on Palestinian Farmers

Al Jazeera has another article about the same thing.

IFJ Condemns Israeli Settler Attacks on Palestinian Journalists

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned recent attacks and harassment by Israeli settlers and soldiers on Palestinian journalists covering the clashes between Israeli settlers and Palestinian olive pickers near the West Bank city of Hebron.

"We are concerned that the Israeli army has declared this area a military zone that cannot be entered by journalists and has decided to force them out of the area and blame the media workers themselves when they are attacked by Israeli settlers," said IFJ General Secretary Aidan White. "This is clearly an attempt to prevent media coverage of a major news issue."

According to reports, Israeli forces detained three Palestinian journalists from Watan TV yesterday who were attempting to document Israeli settler attacks on Palestinian farmers in the northern West Bank.

On Saturday, Abdel Hafez al Hashlamoun, a photographer for the European Pressphoto Agency (EPA), and Nayef al Hashlamoun, a Reuters photographer, were beaten by Israeli settlers on Saturday while Israeli soldiers looked on, said IFJ affiliate the Palestinian Journalists' Syndicate.

PLO to Ask UN Security Council For Protection Against Settler Attacks

UK Urges Israeli Settlement Freeze

Britain has urged Israel to halt illegal settlement expansions on Palestinian land, warning that it threatens the Mideast peace process.

British Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Bill Rammell told reporters in Amman on Tuesday that continued settlement construction threatens the goal of the Palestinian-Israeli peace plan - that is the "two-state solution".

"For a Palestinian state to become a reality there has to be a complete halt to the construction and expansion of the illegal settlements Israel is building on land outside its internationally recognized borders, which are those of 1967," he said.

According to UN resolutions, Israel is obliged to unconditionally withdraw from all Palestinian lands that were occupied in 1967.

However, Israeli authorities and settlers ignore international laws and continue to seize lands beyond the 'Apartheid Wall', built by Israelis in the West Bank.

AFP Photographer Injured By Jewish Settlers In West Bank -AFP

HEBRON, West Bank (AFP) — A Palestinian photographer working for AFP suffered head injuries on Friday when settlers hurled rocks at journalists near the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, witnesses said.

Photographer Hazem Bader, 42, was taken to a Hebron hospital with his head bleeding. He was given eight stitches to the forehead and was to spend the night in the hospital.

He was among a group of journalists who had gone to the house of a Palestinian that was damaged by settlers after Israeli security forces dismantled a nearby illegal Jewish outpost.

When they spotted the Palestinian journalists, settlers started hurling rocks, Bader's colleagues said.

EU Slams Brutality Carried Out By Israeli Settlers Against Palestinian Villagers - International Middle East Media Center

The European Union slammed on Friday the ongoing violence carried out by Israeli settlers against Palestinian villagers in the occupied West Bank especially as the settlers escalated their attacks during the Olive picking season.

Settler harass Palestinian olive harvester, Tel Rumeida, Hebron , 26 Oct. 2006. Photo: Oren Yakobovich, B'Tselem.

EU Condemns Settler Acts of Brutality - Haaretz

Masked Settlers Assault Palestinian Photographers - WaPo

Settlers Attack Elderly Woman's Home In Hebron - International Solidarity Movement

At approximately 4:30pm on the 30th October, the house of Sureia Algremari a 95 year old woman who lives closed to the Kharsina settlement was attacked by 4-5 settlers. They threw many stones, breaking windows and entered the house. The neighbours called the police, but they failed to show up and inspect her house. Later on the settlers attacked several times, throwing stones at the Palestinians who live in the area of Ban Islam.

Settlers Burn Palestinian Land in Burin - International Solidarity Movement

Settlers Rebuild Illegal Structure, Attack Palestinians - YNet

Just for fun:

Holocaust denier David Irving reportedly considered for 'Celebrity Big Brother'

Palestinian Kristallnacht

In a conflict that has produced more than its share of suffering and tragedy, the name of Kafr Qassem lives on in infamy more than half a century after Israeli police gunned down 47 Palestinian civilians, including women and children, in the village.

So Easy For Israelis to Shoot to Kill

RAMALLAH, West Bank, Oct 28 (IPS) - Israeli soldiers shot and killed three young Palestinians in the Ramallah district of the central West Bank last week. The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) claimed the Palestinians were about to throw Molotov cocktails at soldiers and settlers in the Bet El settlement.

But the circumstances in which the young men were shot, whether they actually did throw or attempt to throw firebombs, and if they actually threatened the lives of any soldiers or settlers, has been questioned.

Jewish Terrorist Attacks Church of the Holy Sepulcher

In the night of Wednesday, October 29, an extremist orthodox Jew - chosen by God, invaded the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in the old city of Jerusalem. The Jewish terrorist tried to harm three monks who were worshiping God in the church. The monks saw the terrorist Jew and escaped from his attack, but then the terrorist left the Church and went on to vandalize several Palestinian shops nearby the Church. He broke many wooden crosses before the Palestinians shop owners called the Israeli Police.

The Palestinian eyewitnesses said that personnel from the Israeli border Police present near the Church saw the terrorist when he entered the Church and also when he vandalized the Palestinian shops nearby, but they did nothing to stop his criminal actions.

The Israeli police, who arrived to protect the extremist Jew, forced the Palestinian shop owners who gathered after the terrorist attack of the Jew to leave the area. The police used force against the Palestinians, because, according to them, their presence would create confrontation with the orthodox
Jews.

Israel Spy Chief Fears Jewish Extremist Plot

Lieberman: Shin Bet Could Be Behind Settler Violence

Yisrael Beiteinu chairman Avigdor Lieberman said on Saturday that recent acts of violence by settlers near Hebron could have been perpetrated by Shin Bet undercover agents.

"I only want to say that the actions there appeared strange to me. I hope this isn't a case of a 'Champagne' or of another Shin Bet agent," said the right-wing lawmaker, speaking in an interview with Channel 2.

'Champagne' was the code-name for Avishai Raviv, an agent-informer the Shin Bet security service used to participate in, and even initiate, right-wing violence against Arabs in the territories, particularly in the Hebron-Kiryat Arba area of the West Bank, while filing reports to his controllers about radical Jewish activity.

Two Border Police Hurt by Stone Throwing Settlers Near Hebron

Israel to End Support of Outposts

It's about fuckin' time.

Britain to Crack Down on Exports From Israeli Settlements - UK Independent

Britain is taking the lead in pressing the EU to curb imports from Israeli producers in the occupied West Bank as a practical step towards halting the steady increase in the construction of Jewish settlements.

An internal EU note circulated by the UK expresses concern that goods produced from the settlements may be entering Britain after being illegally exempted from tariffs in violation of an Israel-EU trade agreement.

And the note, seen by The Independent, calls for the EU separately to consider afresh much more stringent labelling rules for settlement-produced goods in British stores to prevent them being designated as being from the "West Bank" in a way that could falsely imply that they have a Palestinian origin.

The initiative is the strongest sign yet of deepening official frustration in Whitehall at Israel's persistent flouting of international exhortations to halt the construction of settlements – which are seen by Britain and most other countries as illegal. Moderate Palestinian leaders say continued settlement building is a major problem.

The Government proposes that other member states should follow its own example in conducting a "targeted" examination of goods imported from Israel to establish whether they were in fact produced inside the 1967 "green line". Results from the Customs and Excise Study, to identify "potential settlement goods incorrectly described as being of Israeli origin", have not yet been published.

The note complains that, at last year's international Middle East summit in Annapolis, Israel committed to its Road Map obligations to "freeze all settlement activity". It says that, instead, "there has been an acceleration in settlement construction activity since Annapolis". [snip]

Israeli Miltary Detains Seven Palestinians as Armed Settlers Wound Three Others - IMEMC

Israel in a Showdown With West Bank Settlers - TIME

Then one day last May, more than 100 Jewish settlers showed up on this hill of no consequence. They brought guns and paint brushes so they could scrawl "Death to Arabs" on a concrete pillbox left by the Israeli army when it pulled out several years ago. (The phantom guerrilla artist Banksy also found his way to this same fortification, stenciling onto it a wistful image of a truck towing away an Israeli tank.) And with the settlers came a phalanx of Israeli soldiers to provide protection.

Plans to build the desperately needed children's hospital — supported by Cure International, a worldwide charity helping disabled children — are now shelved. During one recent occupation of Oush Grab, a young Jewish extremist warned foreign-aid worker Jason Pollack, "We can't let you build the children's hospital here. Otherwise, we'll have to blow it up."

Over the years, successive Israel governments have tacitly encouraged, and then failed to halt, the spread of Jewish settlements in the West Bank — a practice widely viewed as contravening international law. Often the settlers' behavior toward Palestinian neighbors is marked by violence; video footage shows Jewish youths using baseball bats to club Palestinian families trying to harvest their olive trees or tending sheep. Nor do the settlers fear reprisals from the Israeli authorities: human-rights group Yesh Din says only 8% of Palestinian complaints of settler violence have led to indictments by Israeli police.

Click here for images of settlers resisting eviction from illegal outpost

Yesh Din Report: Only 8% of Palestinian Complaints Against Settlers Result in Indictment - Haaretz

Fire in Hebron: Rightists Burn Palestinian Flag - YNet

Several right-wing activists have been documented Sunday burning a Palestinian flag and trampling on it, while threatening Palestinian residents in the West Bank town of Hebron.

The incident took place upon the beginning of a Palestinian Authority campaign aimed at "removing the siege from the heart of Hebron." The campaign aims to protest the roadblocks faced by residents within the city. Palestinians are upset that many roads are blocked to Palestinian movement and can only be used by Jewish settlers.

The Palestinians held several rallies around the city and Palestinian flags were hung on roofs, businesses, and cars. However, some settlers were apparently unimpressed with the flags: A female settler removed a flag from a fence while cursing Palestinian passersby. The woman was joined by a group of settlers headed by rightist activist Baruch Marzel, who proceeded to burn and trample on the flag, while pledging that "Palestinians will have unbearable life in Hebron."

The settlers said that whoever dares wave the Palestinian flag "will be trampled on like we trample on the flag." Palestinian eyewitnesses said police officers at the scene did not attempt to intervene or prevent Marzel from burning the flag. "We know of Palestinians who have been sent to prison for three years for burning an Israeli flag," a Palestinian activist said.

Israeli Police, IDF Evict Elderly Palestinian Couple From Home of 52 Years - The Guardian

UN Reports Highlight Israeli Infringement of Palestinians' Rights - Tehran Times

Israel Must Crack Down on Violent Settlers Now - Palestine Chronicle

False Equivalence: The Israeli Military Calls For Action Against The Left - Alternative Information Center

“The IDF has requested the Israeli Security Services to provide information on activists from the Left”, noted Haaretz on 7 November. According to journalist Uri Blau, “the aim is to issue restriction orders on the liberty of movement of Israeli and foreign activists who conduct violent acts [sic]” in the various demonstrations against the Wall.”

How typical! Right-wing activists in Israel are openly advocating violence against political leaders, using death threats against peace activists, attacking Palestinians and Israeli soldiers, and organizing into armed military commando units—all features that do no exist whatsoever even in the most radical wing of the anti-occupation movement, yet the army is looking for alleged violence in this group!

Settlers Beat Up Palestinian Boy Near Hebron - AFP

Above: Palestinian Boy Attacked By Israeli Settler - YouTube

The School Run - Palestine Chronicle

The settlers live in the red-roofed Jewish settlement of Ma’on and its outpost of Havat Ma’on or Hill 833 – a collection of huts largely hidden in the trees and the chicken barns. Both stand there in defiance of international law. The latter is even illegal under Israeli law. Many of those living here moved to the West Bank from the United States, France and South Africa as well as from Israel itself. They are armed and claim the land as their own.

Unfortunately for the children of Maghaer al-Abeed and Tuba, the most direct route to school passes between Ma’on and its outpost. There are other less dangerous routes but the journey times are much longer – up to 75 minutes instead of 25.The settlers oppose Palestinian use of this dusty track even though it lies on land owned by several Palestinian families.

Violence against children started shortly after settlers occupied Hill 833 in 2001. In one of the first attacks a 6 year-old girl was hospitalised after she was hit on the head with a rock. She never returned to school. By 2004 international volunteers from the Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) and Operation Dove began to escort the children but they, too were met with violence.

Israel Rebrands Oppression - Palestine Chronicle

There has been an ad on television recently, one featuring a young couple walking or drifting into a place of enchantment, a warm and colourful fantasy world, a kind of biblical Disneyland. Every step of their brief journey is met by people smiling warmly, moving slowly, even bowing, greeting them at each turn with Shalom!

It is interesting that all the faces in the ad are the same kind of faces we might see in New York or London, except that here they are all bathed in glowing antique light. We see no harsh fundamentalist types cutting down someone else’s olive groves and cursing anyone, even other Jews, as interlopers. We certainly see no arrogant settlers, strutting around with machine guns, sneering at the camera.

The couple quick-cuts their way through pleasant scene after scene – images of ancient middle-eastern streets and buildings and finally a man watering a garden, back-lighted by sun so that each drop he sprays is seen like blessing making the desert bloom.

We see no check-points bristling with guns, no razor-wire, no concrete wall dwarfing Berlin’s fabled one. We see no Palestinians, indeed, no one resembling an Arab. We see no endless line-ups at check points with poor people waiting around for hours just to do the business of their lives or go to hospital. We hear no soldiers cursing and abusing them.

Powerless in Gaza, Residents Rely on the Tunnels - Haaretz

Since Sunday morning, Gaza City has gone back to readying for long blackouts. In the Tel el Hawa neighborhood in the southern part of the city, the electricity went out at 8 a.m. When children came home from school, the lights had still not come back on. When their parents returned from work, the electricity was still out.

The parents had to climb six stories with baskets from the market; even when the lights are working, it's best not to use the elevators, because you never know when the power will be cut. The sun set, and 8-year-old Karim told his father it would not be his fault if he couldn't study for his English test, and brought home a 98 instead of 100 (he had been promised NIS 20 for a perfect score).

Marked Increase in Settler Attacks on Children

According to a report issued on Thursday, the United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has documented 19 cases of injuries and one murder among children at the hands of Israeli settlers. The reported period of settler violence covers 2008 during which 70 percent of the attacks occurred in the southern West Bank city of Hebron. 

During the first five months of the year OCHA documented 42 cases of assault by settlers which led to the death and injury of two Palestinians, compared with 76 cases throughout the year 2007.

Testimony: Settlers threaten and drive out Palestinians and foreign activists on their way to pick olives, October 2008

The settlers came toward us. To protect ourselves, we remained inside the car. I didn't see any policemen or soldiers in the area. They surrounded the taxi and we had no choice but to get out. When we  got out, the settlers shouted and swore at us and kicked the vehicle. They made threatening motions with their hands. I felt that we will be in danger if we don’t leave.

The three foreign activists tried to convince the settlers to stop, but the settlers surrounded them, swore at them, and pushed them. The settlers forced me to get into the taxi, and the driver told me that if he didn't leave, they would torch the vehicle. I asked him not to go so as not to leave the activists in the hands of the settlers. Some settlers kicked the taxi and others tried to prevent the activists from getting in.

Land Thieves: Israeli Settlers Steal Land and Distort the Truth

Settler Violence Report: September and October 2008

This is a comprehensive report by the Alternative Information Center (AIC).

Bethlehem Man Beaten While Filing Complaint Against Settlers for Horse Theft - Palestine News Network

Salah added that after several days during which his family was busy with his daughter’s wedding, settlers stole his horse. The horse is a staple in his ability to provide a living for the seven member family. “These were well-known settlers in the Efrat Settlement who took my horse. They drove off in a Mitsubishi. The price of the horse was 6,500 shekels and is the only source of livelihood for my family. We plow the land of other citizens in exchange for money. I’m still working at though, even without my horse.”

The Al Khader resident attempted to lodge a complaint in the Israeli police headquarters in the southern Bethlehem settlements. However, they refused to accept Salah’s complaint and instead assaulted him. The Israeli police beat the man, accused him of fomenting chaos and fined him 1,000 shekels which is slated to increase exponentially if not paid in a timely fashion.

Who Will Stop the Settlers? Noise But No Action From US Over Family's Eviction - Palestine News Network

The middle-of-the-night eviction last week of an elderly Palestinian couple from their home in East Jerusalem to make way for Jewish settlers is a demonstration of Israeli intent towards a future peace deal with the Palestinians.

Mohammed and Fawziya Khurd are now on the street, living in a tent, after Israeli police enforced a court order issued in July to expel them.

But for the Israelis, even a tent was too good for the evicted family:

Tent of Expelled Jerusalem Palestinian Couple Torn Down - AFP

Israeli security forces on Wednesday tore down a tent in which a Jerusalem Palestinian family had been living since being evicted from their nearby house earlier this month.

The tent housed Fawzia al-Kurd and her ailing husband since their November 9 expulsion from their home of 52 years that had become a symbol of Palestinian resistance against the pressure of Jewish settlers seeking to gain more land in Arab east Jerusalem.

Settlers Overtake Al Daoudi Home in East Jerusalem - Palestine News Network

In the latest assault on Jerusalem property, the home of Fatima Al Daoudi was seized on Saturday night. Dozens of settlers from Ateret Kohnim descended on the Palestinian home on Saturday night while Fatima Al Daoudi was visiting relatives in Jordan. Her son Mohammed Zuhair Al Daoudi was in town.

Settlers in Hebron Write Graffiti on Mosque Walls Insulting Islam, Calling For the Killing of Arabs - IMEMC

A group of extremist Israeli settlers wrote graffiti on the walls on the Al Ras Mosque, in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, calling for killing all Arabs and insulting Islam and Prophet Mohammad. The settlers also dumped trash into the mosque and uprooted dozens of olive trees.

Livni: 'Settlements Issue Over-Exaggerated' - IMEMC

During her meeting with the British Foreign Minister, David Miliband, Israeli Foreign Minister, Tzipi Livni, claimed that the issue of settlements in the occupied territories is “an over exaggerated thing”  and demanded the UK to lift the restrictions on importing products manufactured in Israeli settlements, in addition to voiding arrest warrants against a number of Israeli military officials.

Settler Leader: Hebron Evacuation Will Be Met With Force Greater Than Amona - Haaretz

First they evict the elderly al-Kurd couple from their home, then demolish the tent they erect for shelter - no wonder Mohammed gave up the ghost. They basically forced it out of him.

Most of these have already been posted, but I want to get them down on the right thread and update the archive.

Jewish Settlers in Hebron Shoot Unarmed Palestinian Men in Cold Blood  - courtesy of Joe2

Hundreds of Extremist Jewish Settlers Attack Palestinian Homes in al-Khalil - courtesy of Grim Reaper

Settlers to Ethiopian Troops: 'Niggers Don't Expel Jews' - YNet, courtesy of Greg Bacon

Israel's Domestic Threat: The Settlers - Boston Globe

Before and after the eviction, militant settlers threatened violence. The squatters in the Hebron house injured two police officers Thursday, spraying acid in the face of one.

Worse violence followed the eviction. According to the Israeli daily Ha'aretz, settlers set fire to Palestinian fields and olive groves outside Hebron, threw stones at Palestinian cars, and fired guns at Palestinians gratuitously, wounding three on Thursday. A gang of masked settlers assaulted members of a Palestinian family in their house, trying to burn the house down. A reporter for Ha'aretz, who witnessed the attack and tried to rescue frightened women and children, called the settlers' actions "a pogrom in the worst sense of the word."

Settler Leader: 'Hebron Violence is Justified, We Won't Restrain Our Youths' - YNet

U.N. Slams Hebron Settler Violence - Al Jazeera

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U.N. Report Details Systematic Violation of Palestinian Rights and Devastation of Palestinian Society - U.N.org

U.N. Council Raps Israel Over Violation of Human Rights in Gaza - Gulf News, Bahrain, 6 hours ago

GENEVA: Israel drew fire over its human rights record yesterday at a UN forum where its neighbours accused it of committing systematic violations against Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.

Delegations from Syria, Egypt and Iran raised concerns about Israel's security wall, its detentions of young Palestinians, and what they called "illegal" Jewish settlements during the regular review by the UN Human Rights Council.

Australia, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, among others, urged Israel to lift its blockade on the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip which they said had led to a worsening humanitarian situation.

Wow, I'm pleasantly surprised to see these ZOGs admonishing Israel over the Gaza blockade, including my own country. Even if it is only lip service.