PALESTINIANS FORCED TO LEAVE HOMES IN CENTRAL HEBRON: STUDY - TOP
Aron Heller, Associated Press, 5/14/07
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/4801032.html
More than 40 percent of Palestinians living in the center of the West Bank city of Hebron, under Israeli control, have been forced to leave their homes, and more than 75 percent of their shops have shut down, according to a survey released Monday by two Israeli human rights groups.
B'Tselem and The Association for Civil Rights in Israel said the exit of Palestinians from the center of Hebron resulted from Israel's policy of separation between Jews and Arabs and hardships imposed on the local Palestinian population.
Hebron is believed by Jews and Muslims to be the site where biblical patriarchs were buried and is a frequent flashpoint. Israel controls the center, where about 500 settlers live in heavily guarded enclaves among about 160,000 Palestinians. The Palestinians control the rest of the city.
The survey showed that at least 1,014 Palestinian housing units, which account for 41.9 percent of those in the area, are empty. Of these, 65 percent were vacated during the course of the second Palestinian uprising, which began in 2000.
B'Tselem spokeswoman Sarit Michaeli said the Palestinians were essentially forced to move because the army imposed strict limitations on their movement and livelihoods. She said by giving preference to the needs of the settlers and creating a separation based on ethnicity, the army has created a "ghost town" in central Hebron.
2007-05-15 10:45:42 · 8 answers · asked by Ahmad 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Ah the Palestinian question.
It's like this.
You live in a house with your tenant at the back. Everything was peaceful for a very long time.
Then all of a sudden, your tenant moves into your house and throws you to the back.
Every now and then, he destroys your shack just to keep you in your place.
Whenever, you want to move around, your new landlord controls the access to the road and you cannot move without his permission.
Like a Palestinian once said:
If the air wasn't free, they would tax us for that, too.
What most people tend to forget is that there are both Muslim and Christian Palestinians. Once you leave Jerusalem, whether you be Muslim or Christian to visit someone elsewhere, you cannot return.
Maybe not in this meaningless world, maybe not now, but Justice will prevail.
2007-05-15 11:04:52 · answer #1 · answered by Qi 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Depends on the laws in force at the time. Anyone can be forced out of thier home, even in the most open societies. In the US, for instance, your local government can use imminent domain to take your land, or can declare your dwelling unfit for human habitation, and remove you from it.
If a neighborhood becomes a flashpoint for violence, and a resultant martial-law crackdown, I'd expect a lot of people to leave rather than stay. Though it'd technically be by choice, I can see how the situation would, indeed by forcing them out.
2007-05-15 10:53:10 · answer #2 · answered by B.Kevorkian 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"forced" doesn't mean the Israeli's are forcibly dragging people out of their homes and kicking them out of town. The place has become a war zone, so conditions are forcing the Palestinians out, albeit some of those conditions are being imposed by the Israeli army.
2007-05-15 10:52:10 · answer #3 · answered by Lyndon C 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sorry, yet Israel took over areas (ie extreme floor) that became into used to launch rockets and missiles into civilian areas. If somebody became into applying a ridge or mountain stunning to kill my human beings i'd specific as heck would take it over and not supply it back. i'd doubt your determine of one hundred,000 civilian deaths is right, yet whether it became into 'SO WHAT". If the civilians enable the interlopers to hide between them, than they'd desire to settle for the implications.
2016-11-04 01:03:23 · answer #4 · answered by roca 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thats actually a form of ethnic cleansing by deffinition. Ethnic cleansing is usually used to refer to mass killings but thats actually called genocide. This is a geographical form of ethnic cleansing, hense clearing a certain piece of geography (the west bank and Gaza) of a certain ethnicity.
You tell me if ethnic cleansing is legal, becasue it sure wasnt in Kosovo.
2007-05-15 10:53:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
In these circumstances yes. That is the only way to keep the Arabs from trying to murder the Jews.
2007-05-15 10:56:27 · answer #6 · answered by yupchagee 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Depends on the laws of that country.
2007-05-15 10:50:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course. Palestinians live in shacks which really can't be considered homes which makes it okay.
2007-05-15 10:50:25 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋