Bulldozers knocked down three buildings in the village Dahmash, just 20 minutes from Tel Aviv, contrary to a High Court ruling
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WATCH: Israel demolishes homes in unrecognized Palestinian village
… by Rami Younis and Haggai Matar
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Flares were fired frequently to try to set the 400 year old roof afire.
[ Editor’s note: While
the world’s attention was focused on Yemen, Tel Aviv was busy
destroying more Palestinian homes, contrary to a high court ruling. The
radical Zionists have a long history of putting the hammer on the
Palestinians when world attention is focused on another crisis like the
Yemen war has provided.
I got my
first exposure to this when editing out my first documentary on the
Siege of the Church of the Nativity that lasted from April 2 to May 10,
2002 in Bethlehem.
The group
that pulled the footage together knew they could not get it aired on
commercial TV, and they had seen me do very critical material on Israel
in my Jim Dean Journal public TV shows here in Atlanta, which I had been
doing for a few years.
It ended up
being a chore, as much of the interview footage was in Arabic and
required a simultaneous over dubbing translation, which is quite a chore
the first time you do it. While the Zios saw the TV cameras fixed on
the church scene drama, I was shocked to learn from the last interview
footage of the mayor that they had the chutzpah to seize several hundred
hectares of Bethlehem land on the north side without a word of press
about it.
When
our new VT Radio expands to doing video, I will be able to show this
archive material and some of my other treasures on the shelves behind
me. The Zios perpetrate these community crimes for a variety of reasons,
like purely to show their constituents that they can and that there is
nothing that Israel critics can do about it.
They
are also doing it to trigger retribution attacks, including killings,
as that feeds their propaganda machine; the boot has to be kept on the
necks of the Pals.
These
militant Zios are some very dangerous people, and the continuing pledge
of allegiance to Israel that all American politicians have to exude in
both word and deed has been a long term cancer for America.
Unfortunately,
I don’t think will be able to pry the Rad Zios fingers from our
political body’s throat until we have major changes in that body itself.
In the meantime, we will remain, to a large degree… their hostages,
until enough people get fed up enough to really do something about it… Jim W. Dean ]
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- First published … April 15, 2015 -
A bulldozer demolishes an apartment building in the unrecognized village Dahmash, April 15, 2015. (photo: Rami Younis)
The demolition took place despite both a High Court decision that called for a mutual agreement and a demand by the Lod District Court that the State delay its demolition plans. The homes were uninhabited at the time of the demolition.
The demolition began at 4 a.m. and was accompanied by a large police force, which prevented residents from leaving their homes.
When the demolition was over, Joint List members Ayman Odeh, Bassel Ghattas and Dov Khenin, as well as head of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement Sheikh Raed Salah, came to the village in a show of solidarity with the residents.
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Over the past few years, the residents have been struggling against repeated home demolitions by coming up with their own master plan in order to gain recognition for their rights to live on their land.
Just last month, residents of Dahmash welcomed hundreds of Palestinians and Israelis for a solidarity festival featuring artists and entertainers from across the country.
Read the rest of the story here.
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Photos from the Solidarity Festival held earlier this year
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