Egypt has done wonderful things in the past few weeks. Everyone is talking about human rights for the Iranians, the Tunisians, Algerians, Jordanians, Yemenis, and this is all very well and good. Human rights in Iraq is non existent at this point as in Afghanistan and Pakistan. But NO ONE even mentions Palestine. No politicians mention the rights of these beleaguered people. Here I present photographs that depict just a tiny bit of life in this country. It would be easy to fill a hundred books with images and stories but that is nto possible. These photographs come courtesy of various members of ISM Palestine, found in Flickr. All events took place during the year 2010.
These kids were protesting against the blockade of Shuhada street. The man in white is a settler who kept repeating "This city needs another Baruch Goldstein"., The other guy is a soldier; both are standing behind the fence. A few minutes after this picture was taken the settler started to spit on the children.
These fine young Jewish men
are preventing a Palestinian family from harvesting their own olives.
Check out the arrogance on this creature's face as he attempts to intimidate a Palestinian girl. Did no one ever teach him it is rude to point. Oh, I forgot, IDF don't have manners!
An old lady being humiliated by a child possibly 1/3 of her age
as she attempts to cross a checkpoint.
as she attempts to cross a checkpoint.
An old farmer stands dazed in the ruins of what was,
just a few hours ago, the farm he had lived on for decades.
It is all gone now, the olive groves, his home, his animal shelters.
This tent is now home to a family who had their ancestral home
razed and their land appropriated for illegal settlements.
No children go to school here any longer.
Once this woman had a home and gardens to occupy her time. Now, she has a tent from humanitarian aid and very little to do beyond survive and live on handouts.
The big building in the back was once a Palestinian school. Now it's occupied by settlers. Hebron is the only Palestinian city with Israeli settlements in the heart of the city. The army has for many years implented a separation and discrimination between Israeli settlers and the Palestinian majority. One of these examples is the Shuhada street (main street in the city) which Palestinians are restricted from using.
Keeping an eye on the natives in Hebron.
Another dead Palestinian youth.
Ancestral land he will never get to live on and farm.
The wall must go up. But where will the children play?
The arrest of an Israeli activist at the Palm Sunday
demonstration in Bethlehem at Checkpoint 300.
The demonstration was against the West Bank
demonstration in Bethlehem at Checkpoint 300.
The demonstration was against the West Bank
closure during the Christian holy week.
A fisherman shot in the head while tending to his nets.
A resident of the Old City is hassled in a new wave of oppression,
in this case a flying checkpoint, as the Israeli
Occupation Forces lay siege to the area.
Record numbers protested in Gaza after the imposition of
the buffer zone. This zone along the border makes 30%
of the best farm land off limits,
the buffer zone. This zone along the border makes 30%
of the best farm land off limits,
compounding a dire situation in the most populated place on earth.
The Fifth Anniversary of the Bil'in Peace demonstrations.
out of the home they had lived in in Sheikh Jarrah since 1957,
given to them, complete with papers.
Settlers moved into the house within hours and he was beaten.
Two Jewish settlers in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of
Sheikh Jarrah stand at the gate of the Al-Kurds
family house which has been half-occupied
Sheikh Jarrah stand at the gate of the Al-Kurds
family house which has been half-occupied
since December. The smarmy unibrow on the left beat the child above.
a red eyed bully with a child.
The police tells the local Palestinians
to move off their land in At Tuwarni
This is all that is left from a 97 tree olive grove
after the settlers were through.
Laundry day in Gaza city.
Remembering the days before Nakba.
The old Vegetable and fruit merchant
Prized stock
Where there are children there is always hope for tomorrow
This right here is probably the main reason The Arab Nations have aught with the U.S.A. The American people rarely get a chance to get a glimpse of what is happenning to the Palistinians. The MSM here in America Is all pro-Israel. I am totally amazed, The Israelis just keep building on Palistinian land and nobody does anything! WTF!!! If the people in the U.S.A. really knew what was going on over there things would be different. I could go on and on!!! Thanks for the input.
ReplyDeleteSadly the world is silent on Palestine. Yet so many work to help the situation but Israel is an uncaring creature composed of ice hearted creatures that truly only care about their own kind. We goyim are objects of ... well we are objects... the Palestinians most of all. Through their media, the Jews make sure to control as much information and shape our comprehension of things as possible. They are failing in this, the techno age. The thing is, they want for us the same as the Palestinians.... their plans for the world are Palestine on an international scale...
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