It took the colluding US and its European poodles 80 years to begin imposing sanctions on a few of those barbarian Bronze Age foreign Jewish settlers who kill, rape, harass, and expel indigenous Palestinians from their villages.
But the US and its European poodles know that the problem is not with a handful of Jewish terrorists who occasionally cause trouble. They know that these few settlers are only a tiny part of the Israeli State's ongoing plan for the ethnic cleansing of Palestine that began in the 1920s and 1930s. And because they know, the US and the Europeans are in collusion with the Zionizt movement to completely eliminate Palestine from existence.
Israel's history lays the trajectory of the colonization of Palestine. First the foreign Jewish settlers arrived illegally in Palestine. They embarked on a campaign of terror to force the Palestinian villagers and townspeople to flee their homes. That is why the 1947 "Israel" initially was the strip of Palestinian land along the Mediterranean plus the Naqab desert which was essentially empty and easy to take. The foreign Jewish invaders basically landed from the boats and controlled the villages and towns along the seacoast.
With time and expansion wars, the foreign Jewish settlers began encroaching further inland. Look at the map of today's Israel and you'll notice that Jerusalem is at the tip of an arrow of Jewish penetration into the Palestinian interior. Netanyahu keeps saying that Israel is tiny. That is true (although Lebanon is tinier) but Israel is so because it is an artificial construct that emerged out of a series of expansionist wars. In fact, at his latest press conference Netanyahu showed a map of "Israel" in which there was no West Bank. Of all the stolen Palestine, only Gaza was shown to make his point about the Philadelphi corridor.
Netanyahu and his criminal Jewish settlers have already deleted the West Bank and will soon delete Gaza. The ongoing war in Gaza is purely genocidal: it is NOT about revenge; it is NOT about destroying Hamas; it is NOT about recovering the hostages. The October 7 attacks were the golden opportunity, the perfect pretext to fulfill the plan as laid out as early as the Zionist Congress in Basel in 1897.
The October 7 attacks have revealed the true intentions of "Israel". The Jewish colony in Palestine does not want peace; Having peace means running out of pretexts for further expansion. Having peace means recognizing Palestinian sovereignty over some parts of Palestine and admitting that Israel has borders. But Israel has no borders; it has no constitution that spells out its boundaries. Israel is indeed not a "state" in the proper definition of the term; it is a colony that might keep expanding by stealing land, demolishing indigenous villages and replacing them by settlements. Have you ever wondered why Palestinian places are called villages and Israeli places are called settlements?
For the foreign Jewish invaders, Palestine and the indigenous Palestinians must be completely eliminated from existence so that only a purely Jewish supremacist racist state takes its place.
Below is the story of a tiny Palestinian village where the Israeli judicial authorities allowed the indigenous inhabitants of the village to return after they were chased out of it by foreign Jewish settlers. Now don't jump to the conclusion that since an Israeli court has allowed this particular case, Israel is a fair arbiter between the indigenous population and the foreign settlers. Of every 100 cases brought by Palestinians before Israeli courts on issues of home ownership, home demolition orders, home expansion, building permits, land ownership.... a mere 1% is resolved in favor of the Palestinians and this 1% is marketed with grand pomp to the media. Why is that? Precisely because the Israelis use this to say that they are treating the Palestinians fairly in a legal framework worthy of "democratic" Israel. What you never hear about are the remaining 99% of cases where the Israeli court system acts a kangoroo colonial legal system whose job is to violate every judicial and ethical norm and grant discriminatory judgments in favor of the foreign Jewish settlers.
In the case of the village below, the court allowed the indigenous inhabitants of the village to return BUT they cannot build new homes. They cannot grow and expand inside their own land. Meanwhile the Jewish terrorists who expelled the Palestinians in the first place remain in place, along the village's vicinity ready to pounce again, and fear no punishment or retribution.
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Chased away by Israeli settlers, these Palestinians returned to a village in ruins
JALAL BWAITEL and JULIA FRANKEL
Sun, September 8, 2024
KHIRBET ZANUTA, West Bank (AP) — An entire Palestinian community fled their tiny West Bank village last fall after repeated threats from Israeli settlers with a history of violence. Then, in a rare endorsement of Palestinian land rights, Israel’s highest court ruled this summer the displaced residents of Khirbet Zanuta were entitled to return under the protection of Israeli forces.
But their homecoming has been bittersweet. In the intervening months, nearly all the houses in the village, a health clinic and a school were destroyed — along with the community’s sense of security in the remote desert land where they have farmed and herded sheep for decades.
Roughly 40% of former residents have so far chosen not to return. The 150 or so that have come back are sleeping outside the ruins of their old homes. They say they are determined to rebuild – and to stay – even as settlers once again try to intimidate them into leaving and a court order prevents them from any new construction.
“There is joy, but there are some drawbacks,” said Fayez Suliman Tel, the head of the village council and one of the first to come back to see the ransacked village – roofs seemingly blown off buildings, walls defaced by graffiti.
“The situation is extremely miserable,” Tel said, “but despite that, we are steadfast and staying in our land, and God willing, this displacement will not be repeated.”
The Israeli military body in charge of civilian affairs in the West Bank said in a statement to The Associated Press it had not received any claims of Israeli vandalism of the village, and that it was taking measures to “ensure security and public order” during the villagers’ return.
“The Palestinians erected a number of structural components illegally at the place, and in that regard enforcement proceedings were undertaken in accordance with law,” the statement said.
The villagers of Khirbet Zanuta had long faced harassment and violence from settlers. But after the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas that launched the war in Gaza, they said they received explicit death threats from Israelis living in an unauthorized outpost up the hill called Meitarim Farm. The outpost is run by Yinon Levi, who has been sanctioned by the U.S., UK, EU and Canada for menacing his Palestinian neighbors.
The villagers say they reported the threats and attacks to Israeli police, but said they got little help. Fearing for their lives, at the end of October, they packed up whatever they could carry and left.
Though settler violence had been rising even before the war under the far-right government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, it has been turbocharged ever since Oct. 7. More than 1,500 Palestinians have been displaced by settler violence since then, according to the United Nations, and very few have returned home.
Khirbet Zanuta stands as a rare example. It is unclear if any other displaced community has been granted a court's permission to return since the start of the war.
Even though residents have legal protection Israel's highest court, they still have to contend with Levi and other young men from the Meitarim Farm outpost trying to intimidate them.
Shepherd Fayez Fares Al Samareh, 57, said he returned to Khirbet Zanuta two weeks ago to find that his house had been bulldozed by settlers. The men of his family have joined him in bringing their flocks back home, he said, but conditions in the village are grave.
“The children have not returned and the women as well. Where will they stay? Under the sun?” he said.
Settler surveillance continues: Al Samareh said that every Friday and Saturday, settlers arrive to the village, photographing residents.
Videos taken by human rights activists and obtained by The Associated Press show settlers roaming around Khirbet Zanuta last month, taking pictures of residents as Israeli police look on.
By displacing small villages, rights groups say West Bank settlers like Levi are able to accumulate vast swaths of land, reshaping the map of the occupied territory that Palestinians hope to include in their homeland as part of any two-state solution.
The plight of Khirbet Zanuta is also an example of the limited effectiveness of international sanctions as a means of reducing settler violence in the West Bank. The U.S. recently targeted Hashomer Yosh, a government-funded group that sends volunteers to work on West Bank farms, both legal and illegal, with sanctions. Hashomer Yosh sent volunteers to Levi’s outpost, a Nov. 13 Facebook post said.
“After all 250 Palestinian residents of Khirbet Zanuta were forced to leave, Hashomer Yosh volunteers fenced off the village to prevent the residents from returning,” a U.S. State Department spokesman, Matthew Miller, said last week.
Neither Hashomer Yosh nor Levi responded to a request for comment on intrusions into the village since residents returned. But Levi claimed in a June interview with AP that the land was his, and admitted to taking part in clearing it of Palestinians, though he denied doing so violently.
“Little by little, you feel when you drive on the roads that everyone is closing in on you,” he said at the time. “They’re building everywhere, wherever they want. So you want to do something about it.”
The legal rights guaranteed to Khirbet Zanuta's residents only go so far. Under the terms of the court ruling that allowed them to return, they are forbidden from building new structures across the roughly 1 square kilometer village. The land, the court ruled, is part of an archaeological zone, so any new structures are at risk of demolition.
Distraught but not deterred, the villagers are repairing badly damaged homes, the health clinic and the EU-funded school — by whom, they do not know for sure.
“We will renovate these buildings so that they are qualified to receive students before winter sets in,” Khaled Doudin, the governor of the Hebron region that includes Khirbet Zanuta, said as he stood in the bulldozed school.
“And after that we will continue to rehabilitate it,” he said, “so that we do not give the [Jewish] occupation the opportunity to demolish it again.”
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