May 14, 2018—The tactless and reckless inauguration of a US embassy in Jerusalem coincides with the most brutal repression of Palestinian by the Zionist state—while the world does virtually nothing.
"Truth, Peace and Justice!" Netanyahu bloviating on May 14, celebrating the inauguration of US embassy in Jerusalem. As he spoke, his cowardly army was busy killing unarmed Palestinians.
It’s ongoing daily throughout the Occupied Territories without letup – notably against Gazans on Great March of Return Fridays since March 30. It raged Sunday at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam’s third holiest site. Around 1,000 extremist settlers, along with dozens of Netanyahu regime intelligence operatives, stormed the compound, heavily protected by Israeli security forces.
Islamic Waqf guard Muhammad al-Salhi was arrested after settlers assaulted him, other guards assaulted by Israeli police. Videos showed Israeli forces violently attacking Palestinian worshipers in the compound. A Palestinian child was brutally beaten and arrested.
On Monday, Washington breached international law and tradition, its Jerusalem embassy opening at 4:00 PM local time – in its consular facility. Beginning on Sunday, Israel instituted harsh measures to confront Monday Great March of Return and Breaking the Siege protests. They’re expected to peak later in the day, protesting against Washington’s Jerusalem embassy opening, along with commemorating Nakba Day Tuesday, beginning on Monday. Along with snipers, Israel deployed tanks, bulldozers, water pumping vehicles and heavy equipment along the Gaza border. IDF forces established a barbed wire fence dozens of meters inside the existing one. Drones dropped leaflets, warning Gazans not to demonstrate. Aerial firebombs were launched on border area encampments.
Latest videos of the Israeli repression of Palestinian protesters in Gaza and West Bank, incensed by the US/Zionist affront in Jerusalem. Note these materials are being disseminated by the Western media at this point, hence expect the usual high-handed lies and biases. Still, the images speak for themselves.
A CBS report
By the BBC
By RT.com . US opens embassy in Jerusalem, following Trump's decision to recognise the city as the capital of Israel.
Jared Kushner and wife Ivanka at the ceremony. To their right, cabinet member Mnuchin, another contemptible billionaire and Zionist in Trump's cabinet of swampy creatures.
American Christian Zionist fundamentalist pastor John Hagee traveled from San Antonio, Texas, to give his blessing to this travesty of justice. A more perfect marriage of backwardness, charlatanism, cheap jingoism and priggishness is hard to imagine, but it adds up in the Zionist brew that is the state of Israel.
Audience at the Jerusalem embassy ceremonies. Smugly applauding racism, backwardism, and imperialism. The surreal hypocrisy of the event exceeded even American-Israeli standards for such posturing.
Trump's son in law Jared Kushner blowing obligatory praise to egotist Trump, Israel, and a lot of other hot air, including imaginary US and Israel's beliefs in freedom, human rights, and yada yada. He naturally included lies about the "threat" of Iranian aggression, part of the current criminal neocon script. Kushner did not forget to praise a cast of worthies: Pompeo, Haley, Friedman and others of the same cloth. The word justice did not cross his lips. He apparently believes—like all Zionists—that peace can be built without justice. What a guy!
Toxic wastewater was pumped on Palestinian farmland bordering Israel. A bloody Monday began early, peaceful Palestinian protests ongoing in Gaza, Ramallah, Bethlehem, Hebron, Jericho, and Nablus, as well as in other West Bank cities and towns, many thousands involved.
Palestinians are protesting against the opening of Washington’s Jerusalem embassy, along with Nakba Day, and occupation harshness, blockaded Gazans harmed most of all. Joint (Arab) List MK Yousef Jabareen said his party members will protest in front of Washington’s Jerusalem embassy, saying:
“Today is a dark day for seekers of justice and peace. Transferring the embassy to Jerusalem is a spit in the face of the international community, and critically impedes the chance for peace in the entire region,” adding:
East Jerusalem has been “occupied territory since 1967,” illegally annexed in violation of international law. The alliance between “pyromaniac” Trump and Netanyahu ruthlessness threatens regional and world peace.
Israel transformed historic Palestine into an apartheid Jewish state harsher than South Africa’s apartheid rule. Ruthless barbarism defines it, making equitable conflict resolution unattainable. The so-called peace process was a colossal hoax from inception, remaining this way today. Despotic Arab regimes are increasingly friendly with Israel, dismissive of Palestinian rights.
The Nakba never ended, facilitated by PA complicity with Israel, the ruling Fatah party serving as its enforcer, betraying its own people.
US support for Israeli ruthlessness, along with international dismissiveness toward Palestinian rights, makes liberation from occupation harshness unattainable.
STEPHEN LENDMAN was born in 1934 in Boston, MA. In 1956, he received a BA from Harvard University. Two years of US Army service followed, then an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1960. After working seven years as a marketing research analyst, he joined the Lendman Group family business in 1967. He remained there until retiring at year end 1999. Writing on major world and national issues began in summer 2005. In early 2007, radio hosting followed. Lendman now hosts the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network three times weekly. Distinguished guests are featured. Listen live or archived. Major world and national issues are discussed. Lendman is a 2008 Project Censored winner and 2011 Mexican Journalists Club international journalism award recipient. His new site is at http://stephenlendman.org
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