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Registration of the people and their dwellings,
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Warrantless searches of the dwellings, and
*
Fake inspection of the dwellings and determination of "compliance"
or "lack of compliance" with some made-up standards.
Some
nuggets:
* The structure
has to be easily collapsible (safety is no concern)
*
Doors are prohibited, door frames are permitted.
*
Some unknown factors: e.g., A surrealistic, minimalist outdoor cafe'
(awful), which consists of a small campfire, a fallen tree trunk, and
a single beam, standing for a structure - FAILED. With beam removed -
PASSED!
The
people in the park are generally uneducated, and a good portion has
only basic knowledge of the Hebrew language. Therefore, the actions
today made a great impact, particularly, since they came
following a major rain fall, and in the middle of the rainy
season.
Prior to today's events, for several months, the municipality of Tel Aviv engaged in conduct that could only be interpreted as an effort to make the park into a health hazard:
* The municipality
refused to collect garbage from the camp, and discontinued regular
cleaning of the park by contractors.
* The municipality closed a
functional, standard public bathroom utility, and replaced it, again
through a contractor, by a facility of shower and chemical toilets,
which the subcontractor, who is paid for cleaning, refuses to clean,
since they are outside any reasonable standard.
* The
municipality worked closely with a group of law-enforcement implants,
including violent former policemen, who had been convicted of violent
crimes, most of whom left after a year and a half, just days before
the "eviction notices", after being exposed as law-enforcement implants.
Regardless of the fact that the
flyers, which have been distributed today, are not valid and
effectual legal papers, the authorities can employ them as a pretext
for acting with police force against the people in the camp.
The
conduct as a whole should be deemed as deprivation of shelter of
homeless people in the middle of the winter, through an arbitrary and
capricious process, with no legal foundation. Actions of rogue
municipality.
Conditions and conduct of government in
Israel today stands in stark contrast with its history: In the later
1940s and early 1950s, Israel successfully absorbed hundreds of
thousands of penniless refugees from Europe and from Arab lands.
Within a few years they were all provided with shelter through
large public housing projects.
In contrast, the years
since the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhaq Rabin have been
marked by:
* Steady increase in poverty and homelessness,
*
Widening extremes in income and assent distributions,
*
Steady increase in productivity, but hardly any increase in workers' pay,
* High cost of living in an economy, which became
dominated by tycoons and monopolies,
* A real-estate
bubble, which was greatly inflated under Stanley Fischer as Governor
of Bank of Israel, with housing unaffordable for working people.
*
Elimination of public housing.
With it, the treatment of the
growing presence of the homeless in the public space is an unresolved
issue.
Therefore, today's actions by the Tel Aviv Municipality
should also be seen as an attempt to establish a legal
precedent through blatantly unlawful threat of force.
The
nature of the conduct today is likely to be deemed by observers as
abuse of rights under the false pretense of the Rule of Law. Such
conduct is also in the State of Israel today, where the justice
system has been thoroughly corrupted over the past decade,
highlighted by the routine falsification of legal and judicial
records, and false reporting by media on the nature of such
legal/judicial process.
Although the "Eviction
Decrees"/"Demolition Decrees", which were distributed
today, have no legal validity, the municipality can still falsely
employ them in asking Israel Police to assist in the enforcement of
such extortion.
The author, who apparently is the
single holder of the municipality permit of the camp, was not
"served" or "registered" in such process for
unknown reasons. The permit is provided monthly, pursuant to an
original "Agreement" with others, which the municipality
refuses to disclose to the current permit holder. Request for
the copy of such agreement was also filed, pursuant to the Israeli
Freedom of Information Act. However, the municipality so far
refuses to process it as a FOIA request.
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