Certainly Israel is not fascist in the old mold with one
dictator ruling for life. It's closer to
the apartheid model of South Africa with the privileged "race" being allowed to
vote for a multi-party parliament. Yet
to the victims the racism and violence of modern Zionism the distinctions are
hardly important
Some of the newest outrages
Five teenagers face charges of attempted murder for throwing
stones at cars and could be imprisoned for life
Israeli forces swept into the home of Muhammad al-Majid
seeking to arrest him. The youth is four
years old. In the same article on the
Electronic Intifada it was noted that Muslim Odeh had been arrested 10 times
and physically abused by Israeli occupation forces. Odeh is 12 years old.
The Israelis and the Egyptian regime have been smashing up the tunnels from Egypt that have provided the Gaza Strip with fuel. The result is the only power plant on the Strip has closed. The sewage plant closed and in some areas raw sewage water has leaked into streets and paths. Recently the lack of fuel has caused all the garbage trucks in the Strip to stop running. A Gaza school teacher said, "Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of rubbish now litter Gaza's streets,"
On November 28 Nour Afaneh ,
suffering from pneumonia, died in an ambulance on her way to a hospital in
Ramallah. The ambulance had tried to get
through the "Container" checkpoint near Bethlehem, but found it closed.. She
was 14 years old. Israel has several hundred permanent and
temporary checkpoints separating one part of Palestinian populated areas from
another part of Palestinian area.
There were race riots against black Africans in Tel Aviv in May 2012. As a result Israel has built a new wall along its Egyptian border to keep out all Africans seeking asylum. As a result the number of Africans making it into Israel in the start of 2013 has declined 99% over the number in the same part of 2012. As of July 1,000 Eritreans were being kept in a detention center in a desert and are being sent back to Eritrea.
Even though they are Israeli citizens some 40,000 to 70,000
will be thrown off their land in the Negev through the Prawer plan now pending
in the Israeli parliament. 35 "unrecognized"
Arab villages are to be destroyed to be replaced by Jewish-only settlements.
(There were wide scale protests in Israel and in other countries the last
weekend in November)
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