Vast majority of Israelis support Palestinian displacement: Israeli poll
A new poll from highly regarded Israeli newspaper Haaretz says that no less than 82 percent of Israelis identifying as Jewish support the forced displacement of Palestinians from Gaza. Among those secular Israelis polled, 69 percent support the forced displacement.
Fifty-six percent of those Haaretz polled support the expulsion of Palestinians from the occupied West Bank, the newspaper said.
The majority is for ethnic cleansing, sick society.
Israeli forces storm home of Hebron family as it mourns loved one killed in Gaza
The Wafa news agency reports that Israeli troops have raided a home in the occupied West Bank city during mourning services for Mu’ayyad Suleiman al-Qawasmi.
Al-Qawasmi was freed from Israeli prison in 2011 and deported to the Gaza Strip as part of a previous prisoner exchange deal. He was killed yesterday in an Israeli air attack.
Wafa says soldiers raided the home, wreaking havoc and destroying its contents, while confiscating banners and chairs and expelling all mourners present.
Sick, depraved, criminal society.
Still there are some incredibly brave people to stand up to this horror inside the lions den.
‘No soldiers, no occupation’: Israel’s antiwar protests small, but growing
“One of the guards came up to me and asked if I was there to save Gaza’s children, then he punched me in the stomach,” Alon-Lee Green said, recounting his experience in an Israeli prison this week.
Green and eight others were arrested on Sunday for protesting with about 600 others along Israel’s border with Gaza, spending two nights and almost three days in prison before being placed under house arrest. Together, they represent part of a small but increasingly visible groundswell of resistance in Israel to a war that, for a variety of reasons, many Israelis are turning their backs on.
“Some people are protesting because they see it as a political war,” Green, who also serves as national co-director of the activist group Standing Together, said of the growing sense in Israel that the war on Gaza only serves to sustain Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition.
“Some are tired of fighting, some want the hostages [to be released from Gaza] , and some [are protesting against] what we’re doing to Palestinians. All are welcome,” he continued. “You want to resist the government? You’re welcome. You don’t want to enlist? You’re welcome. You supported the war until just recently? You’re welcome.”
Sadly it's too small to have any effect.
