Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: Left-wing Israeli says he helps kill Palestinians who sell land to Jews [View all]azurnoir
(45,850 posts)Israeli military guardianship and your claims about B'Tselem are false but I do understand your need to make them
here once again is B'Tselem's statement
Yesterday, Israeli investigative TV magazine, Uvda, aired a report that was entirely based on footage shot by individuals who posed as activists of Taayush, a grassroots group that has been active in the South Hebron Hills for about fifteen years. Uvdas desk did not do its own field research. It received the footage from an organization called Ad Kan Youths for Israel, which claim studying phenomena that damages Israels strength and image as one of their objectives. How exactly do Taayush activists damage Israels strength and image? They accompany Palestinian farmers and shepherds while they work and help them face the combined forces of the military, the settlers and other state authorities who work together to dispossess them of their land.
Nasser Nawaj'ah, who is mentioned in the report, is BTselems field researcher in the South Hebron Hills, but he is also a Palestinian resident of Khirbet Susiya, who has been fighting all his life against extremely powerful forces that have been trying for decades to expel him and his family from their land in favor of settlers. When he found out that a Palestinian citizen of Israel purporting to be a land dealer was offering land that is partly owned by his family for sale, he reported this alleged dealer to the Palestinian Authority (PA). This is the only legitimate course of action for Palestinians, given that Israeli authorities do not protect Palestinian landowners in the area from attempts by settlers to take over their land, and, in fact, actively aid such takeover efforts.
The report failed to provide even a shred of evidence that Nasser intended to cause the "torture and execution" of this land dealer, as falsely claimed, and the land dealer is alive and well. In fact, the show ignored the fact that the PA cannot prosecute Israeli citizens, and that no execution was held for ten years by the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. BTselem obviously vehemently condemns torture and executions whether they are extra judicial or court ordered, whatever the circumstances and whether carried out by the ISA (Israel's General Security Service) or the Palestinian Authority.
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