'Thousands' of Palestinian homes threatened with demolition

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

http://www.maannews.com/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=760503

RAMLE (AFP) -- "Where will we go," asks eight-year-old Tiba Qeren, saying goodbye to the family home that, like those of many other Palestinian citizens of Israel, is condemned to demolition for failing to meet planning rules.

"I'm afraid," she tells AFP. "I know that they are going to destroy our home as they have others in Ramle," the mixed Palestinian and Jewish town where they live, about 18 kilometres (11 miles) from Tel Aviv.

"I'm annoyed because I tell myself: who gives them the right to destroy our house," she says, her young voice shaking with anger.

"The land is not theirs, it belongs to my family and the house is not theirs because it is my family who built it!"

[oberliner]

1. "They are destroying Arab homes and building houses for settlers," it reads.

That banner was in Ramle.

Ramle is literally in the center of Israel. Not in the West Bank.

Are they suggesting that Israeli Jews living in Ramle are settlers?

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

3. Sounds more like Palestinian Israelies are getting first hand experience in Israeli apartheid.

Destroy their homes deny their existence then build on the ruins.

Members of the international community have verbally condemned Israel's systematic destruction of Palestinian homes. The UN slammed the practice as illegal and unfair in January 2015.

[guillaumeb]

5. It is important to destroy Palestinian villages

and erase any memory of what was there prior to the Israeli settlements. This fulfills the meme that was common at the establishment of the State of Israel:
"a land without a people for a people without a land".

Remove the villages and one has a land without a people.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

6. A land with a people for a people without a conscience.

[Scootaloo]

4. How did Ramla become part of Israel?

[elleng]

2. So what has happened to 'us?'

'Lest we forget. Bergen-Belsen 70 years ago'