Middle East MonitorNew data published by the Lands Research Centre (LRC) shows that Palestinians own only eight per cent of historic Palestine. The LRC is affiliated to the Arabic Studies Association in Jerusalem. In a press conference held in Ramallah, it announced the publication of its latest Year Book, in which it documents Israeli violations of Palestinian rights concerning lands and houses. The book is published in English and Arabic.
LRC director Jamal Al-Emla described 2012 as “the year of settlements”, a reference to the massive increase in settlement expansion by the occupation authorities. He used photographs, charts and maps to demonstrate that the amount of historic Palestine owned by Palestinians has been in decline since the British Mandate era right up to last year. They now own just 8 per cent of their own country. The decline, claimed Al-Emla, is due to Israel’s ethnic cleansing, expulsion of Palestinians and confiscation of their land followed by its colonisation by Jewish settlers.
“The occupation destroyed 189 houses during 2012,” he pointed out. “About 1,215 Palestinian residents, who used to live in those houses, were made homeless.” The Israeli occupation destroyed 415 commercial and agricultural properties, including wells. They also threatened to destroy 772 houses while 590 other facilities under construction, including houses, have been halted.
“The city which is endangered the most is Nablus,” said the LRC director, “followed by occupied Jerusalem.”
The data also showed that the Israeli occupation has destroyed 64,000 trees on Palestinian property, including 53,122 olive trees, which have been uprooted, burnt or drenched in raw sewage.
Fixed Israeli checkpoints in the occupied Palestinian territories numbered 240 by the end of 2012; the statistics exclude those in the old city of Hebron and land occupied in 1948. Forty-six of the checkpoints were installed in 2012.
According to Al-Emla, 14 settler-only roads were built last year to link illegal settlements across the occupied West Bank. Settler aggression against Palestinians included attacks on religious and holy sites. Out of 110 recorded attacks in 2012, claim the LRC, 86 were against mosques and 24 targeted churches.
At the end of his press conference, Al-Emla called for international complaints to be drawn up against Israeli aggression with a call to impose sanctions on Israel. He also suggested the launch of an information campaign to raise awareness about Israel’s illegal and immoral policies and activity.
Lets now tally up the number of innocent Israeli women and children trhat have been killed by palestinian suicide bombers and then lets talk numbers and whos so bad, you claberheaded liberal moron you probably voted for Obama and support Abortion too.
Just goes to show you cant fix stupid….
Israel won’t let the palestinians live next to them, all the palestinian did is blow up their wife and kids, any palestinian should be able to do that right, they are raised that way
You simple minded Moron you are stupid enough to run for congress
HEY LEROY! GET YOUR STUPID ZIONIST LOVING SORRY @SS OFF OF THIS SITE, YOU FREAKING POS!
Believe me, they don’t pay you enough to post your Zionist AshkeNAZI scumbag so-called ‘jew’ loving bullsh#t here, as we will not hesitate to rip you a new one for being STUPID enough to do so.
Take your sorry troll @ss down the road (or better yet, go play dodgecar on the freeway), your Palestinian trash talking is NOT welcome or appreciated here, B#TCH!!!
F U @SSHOLE!!!
Wow #1, I try to use humor, shame and common sense to deal with trolls. You? You go straight for the jugular. I admire your style man. I’ll humiliate ’em and then you shred them into quivering bits of kosher slime. I love it.
Yep LOL, 🙂
Sorry, I rarely curse like that, but there are a few subjects I will not tolerate others being on the wrong side of the fence on.
Defending Zionist trash is at the TOP of that list.
Like I said the other day #1, I’m glad your on our side!
No need to apologize #1. Like I said, I love your style. Me? they may try to joust with me…and I enjoy cutting them to pieces slowly. You? Once you carpet bomb ’em they’re in the fetal position calling for their mommies. I treat ’em with contempt and pity…you treat ’em like they’re in a free-fire zone.
That was an uppercut straight to the jaw, not my usual style. I generally prefer to hit below the belt, with cutting sarcasm, innuendo, etc.
That’s really what I’m most adept at.
Multiple ways to cut ’em up? Hmmm…I shall humbly knight you the Chipper/Shredder of FTTWR. Arise Sir Chipper/Shredder.
That leroy guy asked for it and you gave it to him……….Yep #1 zionists/NWO and Dr.s and the Monsanto/Dow co.s and supporters have got to be at the top 3 of the list for sure. Good job #1, 🙂 , yep leroy asked for it.
Hey Leroy, go back and get your GED a#@hole. Focus on English composition.
Good God Leroy are you jonesing? It’s rather apparent you are either a hasbara troll or suffered a grievious head injury as a child. If that’s the case, I’m sorry. If you’re hasbara, I guess the truth hurts huh. But then I feel sorry for you for having to defend the indefensable. Just a word of advice…next time you try to justify zionist theft and butchery, try something other than irrational name calling and playing “jews are victims” crap. It won’t fly here.Next time you go upstairs for a juicebox tell your mom I said shalom.
Those nomadic, Khazarian butchers certainly know how to eradicate the Palestinian Semites.
Israel wants more land, the peace talks are a ruse to buy time so that they can steal more and more land.
Israel loves committing crimes and then playing the victim card.
Do a youtube search for “Israel Forces Ethiopian Women To Take Mandatory Birth Control”