Rabbini per i diritti umani: che cosa possiamo fare quando la peste è nella nostra casa nazionale? (video violenza settler)

Rabbi Arik Ascherman: ho visitato oggi gli anziani fratelli Saleibi,. Ieri uno di loro è stato preso a sassate  e ha scoperto  alberi e viti sradicati. Il  trattore del figlio di Abu-Jabar  una settimana fa si è ribaltato  e non è autorizzato a ripararlo . Nei video B'Tselem è possibile vedere un israeliano presumibilmente un colono di Bat Ayin  che  sta dicendo in arabo  " Tu sei un vecchio. La maggior parte dei tuoi alberi e delle tue  viti  sono state  sdradicati . Presto tutto sarà finito . Perché preoccuparsi?  Questa settimana la Torah ci insegna come trattare la "lebbra" ,la peste o  altre malattie . Che cosa possiamo fare quando la peste è sul nostro corpo nazionale e all'interno della nostra casa nazionale? Che cosa fa uno se la  lebbra è  dentro la nostra anima collettiva?

Rabbis for Human Rights ha condiviso un link.

Rabbi Arik Ascherman: I visited today the elderly Saleibi brothers,. Yesterday one of them was stoned, and discovered more trees and vines uprooted. This is all before next week, by which time, in response to our appeal, the High Court has ordered the army to come back with them and explain how they are going to stop the ongoing suffering of this family. Ironically, the 60 days allocated by the army ends on Israeli Independence Day. Worst of all, the son of Abu-Jabar did a week and a half ago when his tractor overturned on the dangerous path to their lands that they are not allowed to repair. In the B'Tselem videos you can see an Israeli presumably a settler from the adjacent Bat Ayin settlement, whose effluents flow through the Saleibi lands) He is saying in Arabic, among other things.-You are an old man. Most of your trees and vines have been uprooted. Soon they all will be gone. Why do you bother?"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBBZNVq1Unc&feature=youtu.be

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nxwDw50Pvs&feature=youtu.be

There wasn't much to do today except to share in their grief, vow to continue our court case, and to take action to improve the road, and hopefully prevent further losses of life. d.

And I sit here, writing the last words I will write before Shabbat. What kind of Sabbath comfort can I add? How can I connect this to this week's weekly Torah portions? This week the Torah teaches us how to deal with "leprosy" or plague or affliction erupts on the body or on the walls of one's house. What can we do when the plague is on our national body and within our national home? What does one do about leprosy within our collective soul? How can we help the afflicted to purify themselves and reenter the camp of the human family? But that is what we need to do if want to next week read "You shall be holy" and celebrate Israeli Independence Day.

Shavoa Tov!
Arik

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Rabbis for Human Rights ha condiviso la foto di ‎Yesh Din ييش دين יש דין‎.

3 aprile

"Settlers threw a stone, and then another one, at a Palestinian’s head. Then they killed his sheep. The chances they will be indicted for attempted murder are slim."

"When the stones fly the wrong way", a new post on the blog Isolated Incident: http://bit.ly/13QOGeo

 http://on.fb.me/13QPBvp

"Settlers threw a stone, and then another one, at a Palestinian’s head. Then they killed his sheep. The chances they will be indicted for attempted murder are slim."

"When the stones fly the wrong way", a new post on the blog Isolated Incident: http://bit.ly/13QOGeo

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Rabbis for Human Rights

30 marzo

Once upon a time there was a little village where people were well-behaved. They built their homes, until they were told to stop building. They stopped building, waited a little while and asked if they could build again. They were told no, at least for now, so please wait a bit longer. They then waited some more, and asked again. Again they were told no, but this time, it was final. When they asked why, they were told they hadn’t built enough in the meantime. They should be fine as it was. A guest post by Liza Rozovsky on Palestinian rights in Area C | http://bit.ly/14wgNOW

The above story, which sounds like a parable, is actually a precise description of the village of Kardaleh in the Northern Jordan Valley, near Route 90. The village has existed at least sine the 1930’s, and today about forty families live there – more than 300 people – with a real connection to the village lands. Kardaleh has electricity and water, but no sewage system and no wastewater management mechanism. Nor does the village have even a single public building, not even a kindergarten, school or mosque.

More reading:

Planning authority of the Palestinians in area C | http://bit.ly/n2sMce

House demolitions exploit the powerless in Area C |
http://bit.ly/13SdbHd

Disconnected: A Story From Palestinian Village Without Basic Infrastructure | http://susyablog.wordpress.com/


In the 1980’s the Kardaleh residents built houses with Civil Administration approval. In the 1990’s they tried to get building permits for new buildings or additional stories upon existing ones, to no avail. When they nevertheless did construction, they eceived demolition orders. After they petitioned the High Court in 2000, the Civil Administration promised not to implement those orders. The residents, in the meantime, decided not to take any further risks, and have stopped expanding the village. Building a house that might well be demolished only means risking one’s home and family – as well as risking the life savings that went into the construction. In 2010 they again asked the Civil Administration via the Association for Civil Rights and Bimkom – Planners for Planning Rights, requesting that plans be made for expanding the village. The request was denied, but the Administration left room for some home: they promised to examine a proposal for an outline plan, if the villagers themselves would submit one.

In 2012 even that hope disappeared. After ACRI and Bimkom again approached the Administration, held a number of meetings and wrote several reminders, the Civil Administration informed them that the village did not meet the requirements for such a plan – it’s too small, or is not crowded enough, and moreover, it is very close to two larger villages in Area B, meaning there is no need to plan a separate, smaller village in Area C.

In other words, the Administration politely suggests that the villagers leave their homes, where they have lived for decades, because…they haven’t built enough.

Which raises the question what would have happened if the residents had continued to build without permits. Would they be better off? Would the Civil Administration have been more positively disposed toward the request? Would they have concluded that the villagers built because they had no choice?

More likely, Kardaleh would have joined the long list of Palestinian villages where buildings are destroyed day and night, with no hope of planning, infrastructure or life with dignity. That’s the trap of Area C – if you build it, they will come and destroy it. If you don’t build, you must not need a house. You lose either way. There are 180 Palestinian villages located entirely in Area C. Only 18 of them have an outline plan approved by the Civil Administration. The residents of the rest live under constant threat of demolition – a threat realized hundreds of times each year.

In Kardaleh, the residents have been penalized for being obedient – but more likely, they would be penalized either way. The story of Kardeleh is its own perverse metaphor.

The writer is a spokeswoman for the Occupied Territories Rights Department at the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI)

Photo: 1800 Palestinians near Susiya face expulsion due to army training zone 1800

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