Thursday, August 20, 2009
http://5thautobiography.blogspot.com/
This is the third and last appeal to supporters of the Palestinian cause. The ongoing torture of myself, my daughter and my son has not abated, yet the Palestinian cause supporters have not responded to my previous appeals for solidarity action.
Only one out of hundreds of Palestine supporters who received my messages has expressed solidarity and has taken positive action to help.
This is a disaster for the Palestinian cause, not just for the three of us victims of zionist terrorism.
Why would supporters of the Palestinian cause behave in such a disastrous manner that would benefit only the zionist Gestapo and the zionist apartheid regime of Israel ? I mean even by paying those supporters, namely, by giving them bribes the zionist Gestapo could not hope for a better service !
Let us check the logic of it again.
The zionist Gestapo has subjected Benjamin Merhav to ongoing nightly torture for 9 years, his daughter subjected to psychiatric torture for 31 years, and his son for 19 years, and the shrinks won't let go of them ! This is without precedent not only among Israelis but even amongst Palestinians ! The only exceptions are the Palestinians who actively resist the zionist occupation, therefore considered dangerous by the zionist Gestapo. Moreover, amongst all the Palestinians who live outside occupied Palestine there is not a single one - not even one supporter of the Palestinian cause ! - who has been punished by the zionist Gestapo as myself, my daughter and my son have been !
The logical riddle is,of course, this : do those supporters of the Palestinian
cause wish to help the zionist Gestapo terrorist actions against me, against my daughter and against my son so as to crush us to death by ignoring our plight and by ignoring zionist terrorism ? If so, how can they reconcile such an attitude with their alleged opposition to zionism and to the zionist apartheid state ?
It is not too late to respond to this, my final appeal, and I therefore call again each one of you, as a group and as individuals, to show your solidarity with us and your outrage at the injustice perpetrated against us by protesting to ICJ Australia, and to ICJ internationally, and in particular to Mr. Raji Sourani, PCHR director.
The list of email addresses to email your protests :
The email address of Michael Kirby : mail@michaelkirby.com.au ;
The email address of Raji Sourani is the PCHR email address :
pchr@pchrgaza.org
The ICJ addresses are :
president@icj-aust.org.au, | |||
evatt@unsw.edu.au, chair@icj-aust.org.au, sec-gen@icj-aust.org.au, info@icj.dk, info@icj.org |
Thanking you in advance, Benjamin Merhav
Monday, August 17, 2009
Hi,
I type this letter as a last resort, and with a heavy heart. As all of you know, I have been subjected to Zionist Gestapo torture by sleep deprivation every night for some 9 years now, ever since my return from hospital where a cancer tumour had been removed from my colon.
In addition, the Zionist Gestapo has subjected my daughter to psychiatric torture for over 31 years, and my son for over 19 years now. The purpose of turturing the three of us by the Zionist Gestapo is to kill us in the most painful manner.
Although all three of us are innocent of any illegal or any wrong doing, we are punished for my strong opposition to Zionism and to the Zionist apartheid regime of Israel . It has began some 46 years ago in Israel with an article I wrote against WMD race which the Zionist regime has began then by production of nuclear bombs at the Dimona pile ( for more details see the first part of my autobiography : http://theautobiographyofbenjaminmerhav.blogspot.com/ ).
As you would have concluded by now from reading my 76 open letters to the current Attorney-General of Australia, my complaints to him, including the violations of the rule of law by ASIO, have been rejected, while the ongoing torture of all the three of us continues to damage our well being and health and to subject us to the risks of death as a result. Copies of my open letters have been emailed to government ministers, including the PM, as well as to Labor and to Green members of the federal parliament, but they all ignored my complaints.
My 3 appeals to the International Commision of Jurists, and to many prominent jurists in Australia and elsewhere, have been ignored too so far (see my previous post on this blog ).
Amongst those prominent Australian jurists is former High Court judge, former ICJ President, and current Honorary ICJ member , Mr. Michael Kirby. Here is what the international ICJ site says about him :
"Michael D. Kirby, Australia Justice Kirby was elected an Honorary Member in 2002. He served on the Executive Committee from 1992 to 1995 and as President of the ICJ from 1995 to 1998. Justice Kirby was originally elected to the Commission in 1984." I have had no reply from him so far.
Amongst the overseas jurists I appealed to were two current members of the international ICJ Executive Committee: Prof. Robert Goldman, former ICJ President, and Mr. Raji Sourani , Director of PCHR, and ICJ Executive Committee member.
That Prof. Goldman did not reply can be explained by his sympathy with Zionism and with the Zionist apartheid regime of Israel, but why Raji Sourani ? As a Palestinian, particularly as the head of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), he sure should have demanded the urgent consideration of my appeal by the ICJ ! Instead, he choose to ignore my appeal like Prof. Goldman and the other jurists did !
I therefore ask each one of you, as a group and as individuals, to show your solidarity with us and your outrage at the injustice perpetrated against us by protesting to ICJ Australia, and to ICJ internationally, and in particular to Mr. Raji Sourani, PCHR director.
Thanking you in advance, Benjamin
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Below are copies of my appeals to ICJ Australia functionaries emailed to them 2 weeks ago and one week ago respectively. So far I have had no reply from any of them, despite the urgency of my appeals.
Copies of my appeals had been emailed to various other leading members of ICJ, including Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland,and current President of the ICJ, Prof. Robert Goldman, and Mr. Raji Sourani , Director of PCHR, both ICJ Executive Committee members. So far I have had no reply from any of them.
My open letters to the Attorney-General of Australia, the first of which was emailed to him more than 8 months ago, regarding zionist terrorism and violations of the rule of law by ASIO, have been rejected, while I have continued daily to email to him my open letters (my 76th open letter can be located on this blog http://5thautobiography.
I therefore ask for your urgent intervention in the matter of my complaints so as to defend the rule of law in Australia from zionist terrorism which is aided and abetted by ASIO here in Australia.
Looking forward to your early reply, Benjamin Merhav
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Dear sir/madam
Shortly after my first letter to ICJ Australia President the Welcome Page has vanished from ICJ Australia website. Of great importance and of particular relevance is the passage I emphasized in red when quoting that Welcome Page . It reads :
"ICJ Australia calls on all lawyers and other jurists in Australia and around the world to use their specialised knowledge and expertise to forthrightly promote the inalienable rights of all people that can only be truly protected through the rule of law."
This quotation, as well as the rest of the Welcome page, have been the essence of the ICJ formation and the very reason for its continued existence. So why did the leaders of ICJ Australia decide now to delete this Welcome Page from the ICJ website now ? Do they mean to state that they no longer object to violations of the rule of law in Australia , and that victims of such violations are no longer welcome by ICJ Australia ?
It is now more than a week since ICJ Australia President got my first letter to him, but so far I have had no reply from him. Why ? Is he hostile to me for complaing against violations of the rule of law in Australia by ASIO ? If so, why would he not have the courtesy to explain that in a reply to my letter ?
I ask the ICJ Australia leaders to make their position clear to all Australians, and without delay. In my own, my daughter's and my son's cases I wish to remind them that at stake is our very survival which continues to be threatened by zionist terrorism against us !
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THIS IS AN APPEAL TO ALL JURISTS - IN AUSTRALIA AND INTERNATIONALLY - AND TO ALL HONEST DEMOCRATS. PLEASE CONSIDER IT URGENTLY !
Dear sir/madam,
the quotation below is from the Welcome Page of ICJ Australia which led me to trust what it states there, namely, that "ICJ Australia is the country's pre-eminent legal non-governmental organisation dedicated to the protection and promotion of human rights through the rule of law." On the 30th Jul 2009 I emailed my letter to the president of the ICJ, with copies to the email address of ICJ here and internationally (a copy of the letter follows below the ICJ quotation). So far I have had no reply to my letter from any of them, not even a confirmation of its receipt.
http://www.icj-aust.org.au/
"ICJ Australia - Welcome Page
ICJ Australia is the country's pre-eminent legal non-governmental organisation dedicated to the protection and promotion of human rights through the rule of law. It is Australia's leading human rights NGO and works closely with the ICJ world body in Geneva. ICJ Australia's standing as an impartial, objective, non-political player in the field of human rights gives it unprecedented access to governments and other policy makers, the judiciary, and diplomatic officers from around the region.
"ICJ Australia calls on all lawyers and other jurists in Australia and around the world to use their specialised knowledge and expertise to forthrightly promote the inalienable rights of all people that can only be truly protected through the rule of law."
(emphasis in red added - B.M.)
"Mr. The Hon John Dowd ,AO QC
ICJ Australia president.
Dear sir,
it is now almost 8 months since my first open letter to the Attorney-General of Australia complaining against ASIO collaboration in the torture of myself and my daughter and my son by Israel's clandestine arm (the zionist Gestapo) here in Australia. The letters (all 67 of them) can be located by scrolling down from the post on my blog
( http://5thautobiography.
Copies of my letters were emailed to the Prime Minister of Australia and to some members of the federal government, as well as to the official ICJ Australia email address. No reply has been received so far from any of them, and it has been a source of deep concern for myself, as this ongoing zionist terrorism against me and against my daughter and my son is a flagrant violation of the rule of law in Australia.
On February 16th 2009 the Eminent Jurists Panel released their report 'Assessing damage, Urging Action' to enable governments "to re-examine laws and ensure that the high standards of Australia's rule of law has not been unnecessarily trampled by the political imperative to be seen to be doing something" (according to your own statement). In my complaint to the Attorney-General I have repeatedly emphasised this aspect of rule of law violations by ASIO, as well as the violation of Australia's sovereignty by a foreign government with the collaboration od ASIO. Above all for your attention is the contempt of ASIO for the rule of law, and its insolent disregard for my complaints, as if it is above the law and unaccountable.
I therefore ask you to urgently protest these violations of the rule of law by ASIO in Australia, and to make your protest known to the Attorney-General and to the Prime Minister of Australia.
Looking forward to your early reply, Benjamin Merhav"
The zionist terrorism to which myself, my daughter and my son have been subjected to can have only one purpose : to kill us ! Therefore ASIO should have stopped it, but it does the opposite instead. The federal goverment should have ordered ASIO to stop this zionist terrorism, but it refuses to do so, thus giving both the zionist Gestapo and ASIO the green light to go ahead and kill us. The only hope left for us is the protest intervention by ICJ !
ICJ should be reminded of the specific provisions of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, articles 3 and 5 :
"Article 3.
- Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person."
"Article 5.
- No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment."
Looking forward to your early relpy,
Benjamin Merhav
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
MY 76th OPEN LETTER TO THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL OF AUSTRALIA
The Hon. Robert McClelland,MPFederal Attorney-General
Canberra, ACT
Dear Minister,
Dear Minister,
Re: My complaint against the illegal nightly harassment (torture by sleep deprivation), as well as the insistence on the continued psychiatric torture of my daughter and of my son, by Israel's clandestine arm (the zionist Gestapo) here in Australia.
Thank you for your letter of reply, dated 2 July, which I received by mail on the 6th of July.
Your letter concerns only my complaint against ASIO for wiretapping my phone at the behest of the zionist Gestapo, an obviously illegal activity for which I have solid proof. However, trusting your assurance that your department is on guard against such unlawful activity, and that an "investigation into a serious offence" takes place before a warrant ( for the wiretapping) is issued, I thank you for ending that illegal wiretapping of my phone.
There remains the complaint of zionist terrorism against me and against my daughter and my son by the zionist Gestapo here in Melbourne. This remains a very serious complaint, because those terrorist activities are, in fact, attempts on our lives ( see, for example, this medical report regarding the fatal consequences of sleep deprivation : http://18thoutlawpsychiatry.
As you conclude your letter by stating that you "cannot assist (me) further with (my) complaint" it comes as a shock to me. Firstly, because those zionist terrorist activities I complain against - terrorist activities with the full knowledge and collaboration of ASIO - are both a violation and subversion of Australia's sovereignty. Secondly, because ASIO which aids and abets this zionist terrorism in Australia, rather than stop it, and does it without being accountable (and with the collusion of the Inspector-General), makes a mockery of the rule of law in Australia, as well as victimising myself , my daughter and my son !
Such a situation is unthinkable in a country where the rule of law prevails, such as this country, Australia. As Australian citizens, myself and my daughter and son are entitled to the protection of the law ! Surely, this federal government would not let a foreign government terrorize Australian citizens here, on Australian soil !
My previous letters to you can be located by scrolling down from this post on my blog
( http://5thautobiography.
Zionism, being the ideology of the zionist apartheid regime of IsraeI, the regime which is the culprit in this terror case, must be exposed and condemned. Therefore I continue to inform you and the government about the racist, fascist and terrorist history of modern zionism. This information has been hidden from the public, hence unknown to most Australians. The Australian government would do them a great service if it would publicise the historical truth that I am presenting to you.
Here is more on the zionist ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem :
http://countercurrents.org/
"The Many Layers Of Nahalat Shimon Beg
The Question: Where's The Money
Coming From?
By Eileen Fleming
10 August, 2009
Countercurrents.org
[Occupied East Jerusalem] Last Sunday morning just before sunrise, Israeli forces evicted seventy more Palestinians from their homes in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, which is being taken over by the Nahalat Shimon settlers.
"The events in Sheikh Jarrah garnered international censure from the European Union, the United Nations (UN) and from Britain, which said it was 'appalled' at the move. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday night called the Israeli evictions "deeply regrettable" and she urged "the government of Israel and municipal officials to refrain from such provocative actions." [1]
Israeli forces also demolished the Al-Kurd family protest tent for the sixth time. The Al-Kurd family was evicted from their home in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood last November, just prior to my first visit and I returned again on June 10, 2009.
Less than a five minute walk from my room at the Ambassador Hotel and less than ten from the Old City of Jerusalem is the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. Around the corner from my hotel and up the hill from the Al-Kurd Tent is a newly erected community center with a plaque "Dedicated to the Children of Shimon Hazadik Neighborhood" from a Dr. Rubin Brecher and family of Lawrence, New York.
According to Jewish tradition, Shimon Hazadik (which means 'The righteous') was the High Priest at the time of Alexander the Great. He reminded the people of what's important in the world and he used to say: "On three things the world stands: the Torah, on Service [prayer] and on acts of kindness."[2]
Mrs. Al-Kurd, known as Um Kamal [mother of Kamal] and her now deceased husband Mohammed had lived in the neighborhood from 1956 until the morning of November 9, 2008 when the Israeli police enforced a court order that evicted them.
When I returned to the tent on June 10, 2009 and asked Um Kamal where her calm strength and perpetual smile came from, she gestured to the sky and responded, "Allah: God gives me."
Maher Hannoun interjected, "Um Kamal is a strong woman because she has a strong connection to this land where we both were born! Even for millions of dollars we would never sell our land, our hopes, our dreams! We are here legally and we have a contract that was signed between the government and UNWRRA, but what gives us the real power to fight is seeing all the people who come to be with us here believing in human rights. We need every one to carry our message around the world that this is our home and we will never leave here.
"In Gaza they attacked with F16 tanks. In Jerusalem they attack with evictions and transferring property. More than 500 homes in this neighborhood have already received eviction notices. They are building 200 settler units and an American Israeli company named Nahalat Shimon Builders is behind it."
Nahalat Shimon is also the name of a settler group and a real estate company.
On August 2, 2009, "Israeli riot police wielding clubs kicked out two Palestinian families from their homes in occupied east Jerusalem on Sunday, defying international protests over Jewish settlement activity in the area. Clashes erupted after police moved in at dawn around the homes in the upmarket Arab district of Sheikh Jarrah following an Israeli court decision ordering the eviction of the 53 Palestinians, including 19 minors.
“I was born in this house and so were my children,” said Maher Hanoun, whose family was evicted along with the neighboring Ghawi household. “Now we are on the streets. We have become refugees.”
"The Supreme Court ordered the evictions following an appeal by the Nahalat Shimon International settler group which claimed Jewish settlers have title deeds for the properties, despite UN and Palestinian denials. Jerusalem authorities have also given permission for the construction of about 20 housing units in Sheikh Jarrah, in defiance of global calls for a halt to all settlement activity in occupied east Jerusalem and the West Bank." [3]
On November 9, 2008, at 3:30 AM, Reverend Richard Toll was awakened in his hotel room in the Ambassador while the Israeli Occupying Forces/IOF broke down the door of the home of the Al Khurd family. Rev. Toll informed me that he was jarred awake by a woman’s pain filled scream that was indescribable.
The Al Khurd family had lived in their home in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood since the days when east Jerusalem was under Jordanian control. The United Nations upon contract with Jordan allotted them the land after they became refugees when they were expelled from their home in west Jerusalem by Zionists during the 1948 war.
Hasib Nashashibi, of the Ensan Center for Democracy and Human Rights [an NGO coalition of Palestinian Muslim and Christians] explained to me, “When Jordan controlled this land and the UN granted privileges to the Palestinian refugees including those from west Jerusalem, such as education, health care, and relief and development; they also allowed the refugees to give up not all privileges and receive a home and land deed instead. Jordan never fulfilled their obligation to send the written documentation that these west Jerusalem refugees are land owners and not tenants. Now the Israeli’s are trying to make them refugees for the second time!”
Since East Jerusalem’s occupation by Israel in 1967, the Oriental Jews Associations and the Knesseth Yisrael Association have been waging a brutal take over of the Khurds’ home, claiming that the land originally belonged to Jews.
In 1972, they succeeded to register the land in their name with the Israeli Land registrar. In 1999, settlers burst into the home and set up an occupation in a wing of the house that belonged to the couple’s son, Raed. The Khurd family hired lawyers and have spent a fortune in court battles and in 2006, the Israeli court finally revoked the claim of ownership by the settlers. However, on February 25, 2007 the Israeli Supreme Court issued an order to evict the settlers but it was never enforced!
In Israeli law, all of Jerusalem, including the eastern half of the city, is considered to be the “indivisible” capital of the Jewish state and religiously fundamentalist settlers have been claiming land all over occupied East Jerusalem based on title deeds that pre-existed 1948.
Since Israel became a state 531 Palestinian villages have been destroyed and 750,000 Palestinians were made refugees in 1948, and Israeli continues to make more!
President George W. Bush became a willing collaborator in this on going injustice in his infamous 2004 exchange of letters with Ariel Sharon. Bush agreed that Israel would not be expected to return to the armistice lines of 1949 and declared that Israel would be able to hold on to its “population centers” in the West Bank. This is nothing more than Orwellian spin that attempts to justify the established settlement blocs for every one of them are illegal under international law.
"Michshol Hafrada" is Hebrew for "The Separation Wall" and separation translates to Apartheid in Afrikaan.
Before I built a wall I’d ask to know What I was walling in or walling out And to whom I was likely to give offence. Something there is that does not love a wall, That wants it down.-Robert Frost
The Wall has divided Palestinians from Palestinians and has stolen their aquifers, denies them access to their land, jobs, families and holy sites and for every mile it consumes over $1.25 Million USA Tax dollars.
The Wall was deemed illegal by the International Court of Justice but no president has yet demanded Israel to tear down this wall!
The so called Holy Land is a Swiss cheese of land locked enclaves; known as Bantustans in Afrikaan. Jewish only colonies have been implanted to divide the Palestinian neighborhoods throughout occupied territory. Over 100,000 Palestinians are trapped and then daily humiliated and tortured at the over 600 checkpoints that deny them access to their families, land, jobs, resources and holy sites.
Since 1967, over 22,000 dwellings -averaging eleven people per unit- have been bulldozed by Israeli forces usually because they interfere with settlement expansion.
Israel attempts to justify their immoral actions with three distinct categories:
1. Collective Punishment: Homes of suspected terrorists-in reality that is anyone who opposes the occupation- as well as the families of suicide/homicide bombers.
These punitive actions amount to 15% of the over 22,000 homes destroyed since 1967.
2. Administrative demolitions for lack of building permits: Israel refuses to issue any and this accounts for 25%. In occupied east Jerusalem one out of four Palestinian homes have a demolition order.
3. Security: The blanket reason given for all of Israel’s injustices and illegal actions.
On December 20, 2006, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who received a Nobel Peace Prize for his relentless work confronting and challenging South Africa's Apartheid regime was quoted in The Guardian: "I've been deeply distressed in my visit to the Holy Land. I have seen the humiliation at the checkpoints and roadblocks, suffering like us when young white police officers prevented us from moving about…Israel will never get true security and safety through oppressing another people. A true peace can ultimately be built only on justice…If peace could come to South Africa, surely it can come to the Holy Land."
I imagine Shimon Hazadik might remind "the children" who are taking over the neighborhood that,"From Moses to Jeremiah and Isaiah, the Prophets taught...that the Jewish claim on the land of Israel was totally contingent on the moral and spiritual life of the Jews who lived there, and that the land would, as the Torah tells us, 'vomit you out' if people did not live according to the highest moral vision of Torah. Over and over again, the Torah repeated its most frequently stated mitzvah [command]:
"When you enter your land, do not oppress the stranger; the other, the one who is an outsider of your society, the powerless one and then not only 'you shall love your neighbor as yourself' but also 'you shall love the other.'" [4]
I also imagine Shimon Hazadik might be interested- as we all should- in knowing from whom and where the money comes from that equips the Nahalat Shimon settlers.
1. http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/
2. http://www.chabadonline.com/
paper/Articlecm.asp?articleID=
3. http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/
page=2009\08\03\story_3-8-
4. Rabbi Lerner, TIKKUN Magazine, page 35, Sept./Oct. 2007"
I appeal to you again to order the immediate end to the harassment/torture of myself by the zionist Gestapo, and an immediate end to the psychiatric torture of my daughter and of my son at the insistence of the zionist Gestapo.
Sincerely, Benjamin Merhav
U3/2 Birdwood Avenue, Dandenong, Vic. 3175
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
MY 75th OPEN LETTER TO THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL OF AUSTRALIA
The Hon. Robert McClelland,MPFederal Attorney-General
Canberra, ACT
Dear Minister,
Dear Minister,
Re: My complaint against the illegal nightly harassment (torture by sleep deprivation), as well as the insistence on the continued psychiatric torture of my daughter and of my son, by Israel's clandestine arm (the zionist Gestapo) here in Australia.
Thank you for your letter of reply, dated 2 July, which I received by mail on the 6th of July.
Your letter concerns only my complaint against ASIO for wiretapping my phone at the behest of the zionist Gestapo, an obviously illegal activity for which I have solid proof. However, trusting your assurance that your department is on guard against such unlawful activity, and that an "investigation into a serious offence" takes place before a warrant ( for the wiretapping) is issued, I thank you for ending that illegal wiretapping of my phone.
There remains the complaint of zionist terrorism against me and against my daughter and my son by the zionist Gestapo here in Melbourne. This remains a very serious complaint, because those terrorist activities are, in fact, attempts on our lives ( see, for example, this medical report regarding the fatal consequences of sleep deprivation : http://18thoutlawpsychiatry.
As you conclude your letter by stating that you "cannot assist (me) further with (my) complaint" it comes as a shock to me. Firstly, because those zionist terrorist activities I complain against - terrorist activities with the full knowledge and collaboration of ASIO - are both a violation and subversion of Australia's sovereignty. Secondly, because ASIO which aids and abets this zionist terrorism in Australia, rather than stop it, and does it without being accountable (and with the collusion of the Inspector-General), makes a mockery of the rule of law in Australia, as well as victimising myself , my daughter and my son !
Such a situation is unthinkable in a country where the rule of law prevails, such as this country, Australia. As Australian citizens, myself and my daughter and son are entitled to the protection of the law ! Surely, this federal government would not let a foreign government terrorize Australian citizens here, on Australian soil !
My previous letters to you can be located by scrolling down from this post on my blog
( http://5thautobiography.
Zionism, being the ideology of the zionist apartheid regime of IsraeI, the regime which is the culprit in this terror case, must be exposed and condemned. Therefore I continue to inform you and the government about the racist, fascist and terrorist history of modern zionism. This information has been hidden from the public, hence unknown to most Australians. The Australian government would do them a great service if it would publicise the historical truth that I am presenting to you.
Following is a current report about the ongoing zionist ethnic cleansing in occupied Jerusalem.
http://www.kawther.info/wpr/
"Ethnic Cleansing in Jerusalem
Kawther Salam
August 9, 2009 (click on pictures to see them bigger) Yesterday July 8 2009 at noon, about 40 ultra-orthodox jewish squatters, the Israeli terrorists generally known as "Siknaj", attacked the tent of the Al-Ghawi family and beat and wounded four members of these families, who were forcibly expelled from their own house on last 2 August 2009. Naser Al-Gawi, one of those robbed of his house by the israeli government, said that a large detachment of Israeli police came to the place of the assault, and that rather than preventing the criminal attacks of the Siknaj, they protected them and arrested Khaled Al- Gawi, aged 40, another victim of the israeli theft. Al-Gawi denied that his family had provoked the Siknaj settlers. He said that the settlers wanted to remove their tents, which they set up near their houses, which are now occupied by the siknaj. He confirmed that he will not leave the area until he is able to return to his house.
Few hours after the Palestinian family’s expulsion, a truck of ultra orthodox jews, Siknaj, came to live in the Palestinian houses. The Siknaj and the criminal forces of Israel threw the furniture of the two families out of their homes and moved their belonging of the Siknaj to the Palestinian houses, while the Israeli police stood to guard to protect them from any attempt from the Palestinian families to recover their property. Before that, on November 2008, the Israeli military border police forcibly expelled Mahmoud Al-Kurd, an old paralyzed man on a wheelchair, his wife Fawzia, Um Kamel, and their five children and their families, from their home in Sheikh Jarrah in the East of Jerusalem. Mohammed Al-Kurd had lived in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood from 1956 until the morning of November 9, 2008 when the Israeli police enforced a court order that evicted them. Few days after this expulsion, Mahmoud Al-Kurd died of heart attack in his protest tent in the neighborhood of his house. The criminal Israeli Zionist organization police has since then destroyed the tent of the Al-Kurd family several times. The Vice President of the European Parliament, Luisa Morgantini, had sent a letter for Al-Kurd family after their expulsion from their house in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem . She wrote:
Currently, a total of around 28 Palestinian families of East Jerusalem face Israeli expulsion from their homes in Al- Shiekh Jarrah neighborhood. The Palestinian families had lived in their homes in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood since the days when east Jerusalem was under Jordanian control. The United Nations upon contract with Jordan allotted them the land after they became refugees when they were expelled from their homes in west Jerusalem by Zionists during the 1948 war. Despite the UN and the Palestinian denials, and despite the fact that the lawyer of the Sheikh Jarrah families found that there is no evidence in the Turkish archives that the Siknaj are the owners of the land and the houses, the Israeli Supreme Court ordered the expulsion of the Palestinian families following an appeal by the Zionists Nahalat Shimon settler group, which claimed that the Siknaj lived in, or bought plots in these areas before the establishment of Israel itself and by the partition resolution of 1948. Two third of the houses in the West of Jerusalem belong to Palestinian families whose owners are denied the right to retake them. Some of these owners have appealed to the Israeli Supreme Court to regain their property, but always this court has always rejected their appeals, thus in fact creating injustice and supporting crimes.
There are many houses and land belonging to Palestinians, which since 1948 – and until now, have been stolen and occupied by these European and American jews, which today are occupied by Israeli ministers. One of these thieves is the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who lives in a house stolen from a Palestinian family in the Al-Talibia Arab district in the west of Jerusalem. I appeal to you again to order the immediate end to the harassment/torture of myself by the zionist Gestapo, and an immediate end to the psychiatric torture of my daughter and of my son at the insistence of the zionist Gestapo. Sincerely, Benjamin Merhav U3/2 Birdwood Avenue, Dandenong, Vic. 3175 |
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