Until last month, the internationally supported community of Umm al-Kheir widely avoided destruction. Since October 7, a new precedent has emerged of the U.S. government sanctioning violent settlers. More pressure is needed.
https://progressive.org/latest/demolitions-in-a-west-bank-village-show-how-far-israeli-settler-violence-will-go-stein-20240801/ .................................... B’Tselem accuses Israeli Authorities of Systematically Torturing Thousands of Palestinian Prisoners The brave and meticulous Israeli human rights organization, B’Tselem, has issued a report <https://www.btselem.org/publications/202408_welcome_to_hell>aptly entitled “Welcome to Hell” on the functioning of the Israeli prison system, in which it concludes that Israeli authorities are now routinely using torture on Palestinian prisoners. This violence, B’Tselem showed, is part of Israel’s long standing incarceration project, which has targeted hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, unraveling their social and political fabric. Since 1967, over 800,000 Palestinians have been imprisoned, dehumanized, and labeled as “terrorists,” facilitating their systematic oppression and the violation of their rights. The prison system serves as a tool of Israel’s apartheid regime to maintain control and to ensure Jewish supremacy between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. (“Between the river and the sea” is a slogan in the charter of the ruling Likud Party, by which it means it wants to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians). Israel today holds some 10,000 Palestinians, many of them without charge or trial or any semblance of habeas corpus. https://www.juancole.com/2024/08/a <https://www.juancole.com/2024/08/authorities-systematically-palestinian.html> uthorities-systematically-palestinian.html <https://www.juancole.com/2024/08/authorities-systematically-palestinian.html> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#31542): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/31542 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/107807715/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
