Thursday, November 16, 2017
Elder of Ziyon
Acting exactly like any anti-Israel organization, J-Street U is "partnering" with six Arab communities in the West Bank to protect them from Israel demolishing illegal structures.
So for example, one of the communities being partnered with is Jabal al-Baba, a village I cannot find listed in the comprehensive Survey of Western Palestine indicating that it is not an ancient village at all. In August, Israel was accused of destroying a kindergarten there - but in reality it was an illegally erected shed that had never been in use.
Another community that J-Street is partnering with is Susya, which is simply an illegal village created after "occupation." It didn't exist in 1999.
The slick video that J-Street produced for this effort claims, falsely, that Israel demolishes Arab communities and then builds Jewish settlements on the same areas.
J-Street falsely says in the video, "The Israeli government is engaged in a process of 'creeping annexation' in the West Bank. Central to this trend is the systematic demolition of Palestinian communities in the West Bank to make way for more Israeli settlements."
If there have been no new settlements built in decades, then what Arab communities have been destroyed and replaced by Israel?
If you consider Area C to be occupied, then Israel has the obligation under international law to uphold zoning laws on the land, although security concerns trump other considerations - again, under international law. When Israel demolishes a structure that was illegally built, it is following international law, not spurning it. The Palestinian Authority would do the exact same thing.
And Israel isn't destroying any communities unless they were set up illegally - in recent years - to begin with.
J-Street is once again shown to be completely anti-Israel, anti-international law and anti-truth.
