BBC, Hebron Exposed: A Weapon of Life

The Palestinians are powerless to counter the endless, continual humiliation that Israelis, be they civilians, soldiers or police, are dedicated to inflicting on them every day, year after year, while the world stands by and the United States ("liberty and justice for all") backs everything that Israel does.

The only way Palestinians can avoid complete helplessness is to make videos of their oppression. In this BBC production, a video that would never be shown on American mainstream media, you the viewer are introduced to the situation in Hebron where a small group of Israeli settlers live within an otherwise Palestinian city with Israeli soldiers stationed there to be sure the settlers are protected not only from harm, but from any consequences for what they do to the Palestinians. Please watch and imagine how anyone could bear this mostly non-lethal terrorism where arrest and harassment are meted out for any or no reason by people who hold all the power against people who have no rights.

The Dred Scott decision of the U.S. Supreme Court contained the opinion that "the Negro has no rights that the white man need observe." This video shows that concept in practice today where the Palestinian has no rights that the Israeli need observe.

I just read this in the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz:

According to reports published by the Israeli organization Yesh Din: Volunteers for Human Rights, based on 1,163 cases in the years 2005-2017, the probability – in violent crimes involving Jewish perpetrators and Palestinian victims – that a complaint submitted by a Palestinian to the Israel Police would lead to an investigation, apprehension of a suspect, a trial and conviction was 1.9 percent. Fully 91 percent of the investigations conducted in the Shai (the West Bank) District during that period concerning harm done to Palestinians or their property were terminated without indictments being handed down; 82 percent of the cases were closed for reasons that show that the police apparently failed to collect evidence or locate suspects.

a slaughter with full US support

Alison Weir (not to be confused with the British author), the American journalist whose eyes were opened two decades ago to the Palestinian plight, has for some time published the figures showing the lopsided cost of the strife in Palestine/Israel where state of the art weapons inflict a great number of casualties on the Palestinians. Her website, If Americans Knew, is well worth a visit for the graphics she presents.

Yesterday, I discovered an equally powerful presentation of the same kind of information, shown just below, by way of Prof. Juan Cole's website, Informed Comment. This graphic shows an over 200:1 ratio of fatalities and a 560:1 ratio of injuries within the 13 months of the Palestinian Great March of Return beginning in March of 2018 (referred to as GMR in the graphic below). This documents the assassination and injury of unarmed demonstrators at the Gaza border of Israel by Israel soldiers with sniper rifles. Seeing this, you can understand how Israelis can easily live with the destruction their country inflicts on the Palestinians.

Watch an outstanding investigative video of a Palestinian medic killed by the Israeli sniping from the New York Times, an uncharacteristically honest look at situation by that paper. Informed Comment has also published this: thousands of innocent Palestinians in Gaza at risk of amputation from Israeli sniping.