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Israel’s Gulag Prison Hell for Palestinians!

  • Israel’s Gulag Prison Hell ! 
    by Stephen Lendman, http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/ 
    For decades, Palestinians have been slaughtered, displaced, intimidated, humiliated, collectively punished, and denied equal rights as Jews. They’ve also been mass imprisoned. Palestine is Israeli occupied territory. Military orders govern all aspects of daily life. Democratic rights are denied. Freedom is a non-starter, persecution a way of life.
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    Gaza is an open-air prison. The West Bank and East Jerusalem fare little better. Life in Occupied Palestine for about 4.2 million residents is hell. No one’s safe from Israel’s wrath.

    According to the Addameer Prisoner Support group, over 700,000 Palestinians were imprisoned since June 1967. Over 20% of the population was affected. For males, it’s 40%. For women, it’s about 10,000 and for children around 7,000 since 2000 alone.

    No other country comes close to these figures. None calling themselves democracies would dare. With the world’s largest prison population by far, America comes closest. Mostly affected are Blacks, Latinos, and Muslims since Washington declared war on Islam. In America and Israel, praying to the wrong God is hazardous.

    Palestinian prisoner numbers vary. Thousands are affected at all times. Virtually all are political prisoners. Arabs aren’t welcome in Israel. In Palestine they’re equated with terrorists.
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    Pre-dawn raids, arrests, false charges, harsh interrogations, torture, intimidation, rigged trials, and imprisonment terrorize them. Children young as 10 are affected. So is everyone wanting to live free on their own land in their own country. Perhaps one day, but not now.
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    Israel holds Palestinians in 17 prisons, four interrogation centers, and another four for shorter-term detentions. All but one are in Israel in violation of Fourth Geneva’s Article 76. It states:
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    “Protected persons accused of offences shall be detained in the occupied country, and if convicted they shall serve their sentences therein.”
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    Proper treatment is also covered. Israel spurns all international law obligations. Palestinian prisoners suffer most. Military orders divide criminality into five categories:
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    (1) “Hostile Terrorist Activity”
    (2) Disturbance of public order
    (3) “Classic” criminal offenses
    (4) Illegal presence in Israel
    (5) Traffic offenses

    Broadly defined ones criminalize “many aspects of Palestinian civic life.” For example, belong to the wrong political party and risk prosecution. Displaying a Palestinian flag is criminalized.
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    Peacefully demonstrating is considered disrupting public order. “Pouring coffee for a member of a declared illegal association can be seen as support for a terrorist organization.”

    So can dozens of other non-threatening aspects of daily life conducted freely in real democracies. Not in Palestine, and increasingly also risky in America.

    Prison life for Palestinians is hell. Horrific conditions include severe overcrowding, poor ventilation and sanitation, no change of clothes or adequate clothing, wooden planks with thin mattresses and filthy blankets, inadequate food in terms of quality, quantity or conformance with dietary requirements, poor medical care, and restricted or no access to family members and counsel, among other abuses.
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    … read more!

Revelation 2:9 – …. and I know the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

“ … it turns out the creation of Israel had not, after all, been a haphazard fight in which the Arabs fled their homes at the directives of their own leaders, but it had been an unprovoked, systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing by the Jewish militia involving massacres, terrorism and the wholesale looting of an entire nation.” - from 4:22 onwards

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April 28, 2012 - Posted by | GeoPolitics, Social Trends | , , , , , , , ,

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