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Feb. 9, 2021
An Israeli Arab family is having a picnic in the forest. Mother, father, grandmother, grandfather and babies. Suddenly an armed Jewish Israeli shows up with friends and demands that they leave the area. Why? Because it’s all his. Where is it written? “In the Bible!”
When they refuse, the armed man starts to grab the baby things, to pour their drinks on the bonfire and insist they get out. The mother and grandfather get hysterical, the father holding the baby tries to separate the armed man from his family and urges his wife to calm down, for the children’s sake. This situation, which was filmed and posted two days ago by the mother, Lubna Abed El Hadi, on her Facebook page, is infuriating and confusing.
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State Department Spokesperson Ned Price tweeted that The United States objects to today’s [ICC] decision regarding the Palestinian situation. Israel is not a State Party to the Rome Statute, adding that We will continue to uphold President Biden’s strong commitment to Israel and its security, including opposing actions that seek to target Israel unfairly.
A State Department press release said that the court “issued a decision claiming jurisdiction in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza, while expressly recognizing the serious legal and factual questions that surround its ability to do so.”
Jan. 29, 2021
Standing at the Qalandiyah checkpoint this week, a few steps from where his brother was shot five months ago, Anwar Halawa asked himself which of the security guards did the shooting. And if you did recognize him, we asked. “He has a government to deal with him, not me,” he said. “If the government doesn’t deal with him, maybe he’ll shoot another disabled person? Maybe he’ll kill a Jew? So who loses if he stays on?”
Abdel Nasser Halawa was shot on August 17 and died on December 11 at home in the West Bank city of Nablus, after Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem – where he had been hospitalized for about 100 days – refused to keep him on any longer. He died about two weeks after being discharged. He was deaf and couldn’t hear the guards’ orders. They shot him. What was he doing at the checkpoint? We will never know. His brother thinks that a trip they had taken to the Dead Sea a week earlier fired his imagination – maybe he wanted to go ba
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Jan. 24, 2021
It was my home, for four years: The shabby building on Yehuda Hayamit Street in Jaffa. IDF Radio, all the time; my finest years, my sweet memories, between the omelette at Davidovich’s and the legendary sergeant major Badosa. Even back then they were threatening to close the station, which had just then started broadcasting 24 hours a day.
It is doubtful whether they will ever do it. But the threat this is time is especially hypocritical and self-righteous. This is how Defense Minister Benny Gantz, who says he wants to take the station out of the IDF’s hands, at the request of Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi, phrased it:
Jan. 22, 2021
Fourteen stitches in the head of Izz a-Din Zinadin, six stitches in the head of his father, Mohammed. Father and son, two farmers on the way to plow their land. Mohammed is 70 years old, the father of 11 children; his son, Izz a-Din, is 43 and has seven children. The father was beaten by settlers in front of his son. He heard his shouts and saw a settler continuing to pound his father with a club even when he had fallen to the ground, but couldn’t come to his aid because he, too, was being beaten.
The hilltop hoodlums, with curly earlocks and the backing of the Israel Defense Forces, did not hesitate to batter an elderly man on the head, knock him down and go on hitting him with clubs as he bled. His son was beaten in every part of his body and also collapsed to the ground, bleeding. The images were broadcast on local Palestinian television in Nablus.