Amira Hass om settlervold på Vestbredden med amerikanske våpen

Melding til president Biden fra Amira Hass i Haaretz,  HELE artikkelen nederst under Kilde:

"Dear President Biden, Are You Okay With Israeli Settlers Using American Weapons?"

"These arms are being used by a regime of intimidation, terror and dispossession parallel to that of the army, a regime established in the West Bank by citizens of the state and its agents."

En sterk artikkel om hvordan settlere på Vestbredden nå  driver palestinere bort med vold og drap.
Og der Amira Hass beskriver hva som skjer.
Hun gjengir det IDF svarer, og svarene viser hvor galt det står til i IDF.
Hass utfordrer Biden om amerikanske våpen ...

Skudeneshavn   8. april 2024

Jan Marton Jensen

 

Kilde:
8. april 2024
https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024-04-08/ty-article-opinion/.premium/fyi-joe-biden-israels-settlers-use-american-weapons/0000018e-b82b-d906-a5cf-babfb7800000?lts=1712596180300

HELE artikkelen til Amira Hass:

Amira Hass

Apr 8, 2024 12:30 pm IDT

Opinion |

Dear President Biden, Are You Okay With Israeli Settlers Using American Weapons?

These arms are being used by a regime of intimidation, terror and dispossession parallel to that of the army, a regime established in the West Bank by citizens of the state and its agents

A screenshot from a video showing armed Israeli settlers in the West Bank.

In March, 147 attacks by Israeli Jews against Palestinians in the West Bank were recorded, an average of five per day. On only two of the month's 31 days were no attacks recorded; one of the two days was Saturday, March 23. This means that attacks were registered on the four other Shabbat days.

I reported Friday on an invasion and attack on Saturday, March 30, against residents of Mukhmas, a village southeast of Ramallah. Another recorded invasion still awaits our detailed reporting: an assault in the village of Aqraba on March 19, at the end of which Fakher Jaber, 43, was shot dead.

Let's return to the attack on Mukhmas. A Jewish man hit Samhan Abu Ali, 55, in the head with an iron rod. While he lay on the ground unconscious, two other invaders, or three, beat him with a rock and a club. Around him, a few of the raiders fired into the air. The assailants' "yield" was one broken arm, one dislocated shoulder and a deep wound to Abu Ali's head. Another assailant beat Abu Ali's son Muqtada, breaking his arm too.

Earlier, while the invaders were advancing toward the villagers, brandishing their rifles and firing into the air, a 22-year-old man was shot in the leg and wounded. Samhan Abu Ali rushed to his rescue, fearing that the assailants would beat the man as he lay on the ground bleeding. They attacked the brave, older man who thought his age would protect him. Two other residents were wounded by rocks but didn't need hospital care.

According to the IDF Spokesperson's Unit, a "report was received of an assault on an Israeli shepherd, after which friction and rock-throwing ensued between Jewish civilians and Palestinians." Have you ever seen a Palestinian who assaulted a Jewish shepherd (often armed or escorted by armed guards) and wasn't arrested immediately, or that night? I don't need to add that no resident of Mukhmas was arrested last week for allegedly attacking an Israeli.

And now the apt cliché: If a 55-year-old Jew had been assaulted this way near his home by three Palestinians, the headlines would have screamed terror attack, cruelty, they beat him simply for being a Jew. But since these are Palestinians, in their home, and Israeli Jews were the attackers, the event isn't deemed worthy of attention.

There are videos and photos showing the menacing gunmen, their faces covered, marching toward the Palestinians on the Palestinians' own land. There are no photos of the more violent moments.

https://youtu.be/hBbOr5Uowbk

But the pattern is familiar from many similar incidents in which Israelis with the outward characteristics of observant Jews (kippot, sidelocks, tzitzit dangling from their undershirts) attack Palestinian farmers, old and young. They have also assaulted Israeli activists against the occupation, including women – including older women, and rabbis.

Let's say it for the millionth time: The pattern, established for decades, shows that the authorities – who do not prevent, arrest, detain, prosecute or punish anyone – want the attacks to continue.

Based on photos, a security source said that one of the invaders, who was armed and in uniform, is the security coordinator of the Ma'aleh Mikhmash settlement northeast of the village. Three additional gunmen in the photos, in civilian dress, are soldiers on leave, the source added.

Palestinians herding sheep in the West Bank. In the past 12 months, 1,926 attacks by Israelis against Palestinians were recorded.Credit: Nidal Eshtayeh

 

FYI President Joe Biden: Their guns are U.S.-made, and the goal is for these weapons to terrorize people. Many residents of Mukhmas are American citizens. They own land and vineyards but can't reach them due to the threatening presence of armed Jews who have taken over their land. This is done, for example, by the nearby offshoots of Ma'aleh Mikhmash: the Neveh Erez and Nahalat Tzvi outposts.

A self-promoting statement issued by Nahalat Tzvi states that the outpost plans to "create new facts on the ground in the face of the Arab 'takeover' in the area." The settlers are emissaries of the State of Israel and passionate Zionists. FYI the most Zionist American president ever: Every invasion and attack they carry out – and while brandishing U.S.-made rifles – creates a fact.

In March there were 147 recorded attacks. In February, 145. In January, 108. Last October saw a record number, as expected, 408. In June, 184. In total, in the past 12 months, 1,926 attacks by Jews against Palestinians were recorded.

Let this number sink in: 1,926. All kinds of attacks were committed: armed men invading villages – tents, vineyards, fields and springs; mere threats with guns; damage to trees and property; thefts of livestock; rocks thrown at homes and cars; people beaten bloody, their bones broken; and killings – with or without an escort of armed soldiers for protection of the invading settlers.

The incidents are documented by the PLO's Negotiations Affairs Department, which no longer has anything to negotiate about, or anyone to negotiate with. The list is based on reports that reach journalists and the Palestinian security forces in real time. Some incidents aren't reported to the department. Sometimes the published information is preliminary, abbreviated and not up-to-date. It's not 100-percent accurate.

But it certainly gives an idea of what cumulative terrorism is. It draws a broad outline of a regime of intimidation, terror and dispossession parallel to that of the army, a regime established in the West Bank by citizens of the state, its agents and representatives, who are cherished and subsidized by the state.