Israel orders Palestinians out of E1 tent city as IDF prepares to go in - Polidicks

[img]http://imgkk.com/i/agzo.jpg[/img] [url]http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/01/201311214119762152.html[/url] [quote=AJE][B]The Israeli Civil Administration has given Palestinian activists an ultimatum to quit a protest camp in part of the occupied West Bank where Israel has vowed to build new settler homes.[/B] As Palestinian politicians and others visited the site on Saturday in a show of support, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu issued a statement affirming his military's order and asking that the "High Court of Justice rescind the injunction that it had issued and which is delaying the evacuation". The statement also declared the "closure of access roads to the area in order to prevent gatherings". More than 200 activists erected the 20-tent "outpost" on Friday in the sensitive West Bank corridor east of Jerusalem where Palestinians say Israeli settlement construction would make the creation of a viable Palestinian state highly problematic. The protesters modelled their action on the wildcat outposts set up by Israeli settler activists on Palestinian land in a bid to force the government's hand into authorising settlement activity. "Members of the Israeli Civil Administration told us this morning that we have one hour to evacuate the site," one of the organisers, Abir Kopty, told the AFP news agency. "We have no intention of leaving of our own accord," she said, adding that the Israeli authorities had declared the area a "closed military zone" and demanded that the activists leave, but had made no demand for the tents to be taken down. [B]'Highly creative' action[/B] The Israeli military administration had issued previous expulsion orders against the activists but late on Friday they successfully petitioned the Israeli supreme court for the orders to be frozen. Late on Saturday morning, Israeli security forces were deployed near the camp and a police helicopter hovered overhead. "The supreme court gave them six days as of yesterday," said Al Jazeera's Jane Ferguson, reporting from the outpost. "However, people say they're going to stay until the military forcibly moves them out," our correspondent said. "That could happen in the next few hours or over the next few days." More than 50 more activists managed to reach the camp from the West Bank city of Ramallah to join the activists and others were trying to do so from the city of Hebron, organisers said on Twitter. Palestinian politicians, including member of parliament Mustafa Barghouti, also made solidarity visits to the protest camp, where activists were recovering from a freezing night under canvas amid the cold snap gripping the Middle East. PLO negotiator Saeb Erekat said soldiers prevented him from joining the protest on Saturday and told him to turn back to Ramallah, just down the hill from the camp. The protest outpost, dubbed Bab al-Shams (Gate of the Sun in Arabic), was welcomed on Friday by a senior Palestinian official who described it as a "highly creative and legitimate non-violent" way of protecting Palestinian land from Israeli settlement activity. The camp lies between annexed East Jerusalem and the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim. The international community regards all Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian land as illegal. The Israeli government makes a distinction between those which it has authorised and those it has not, and sometimes takes action against the latter.[/quote]

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[QUOTE=>VLN<;39193493]Congratulations, and welcome to the facepunch flame and hate discussion thread! I fucking hate you smurfy, and everybody else who just makes these threads just to watch people argue their ideologies at one another.[/QUOTE] Why is it Smurfy's fault? This is important news. You should be blaming the people who argue.

[QUOTE=>VLN<;39193493]Congratulations, and welcome to the facepunch flame and hate discussion thread! I fucking hate you smurfy, and everybody else who just makes these threads just to watch people argue their ideologies at one another.[/QUOTE] We're off to a flying fucking start. I mean, Smurfy might just have to resign because of this controversy. Without Smurfy this subforum would be even more of a shambles then it currently is. [QUOTE=Wiggles;39193510]You should be blaming the people who argue.[/QUOTE] Or don't blame anybody. This subforum is where we look at recent news stories then argue our opinions about them. That isn't going to change unless Starpluck starts banning for opinions or something equally stupid. When a topic as divisive as this is brought up, people are going to argue. At least we have a place to argue in. I mean, you could use Mass Debate, but that's reserved for libertarians and 9/11 conspiracy nuts these days.

[QUOTE=>VLN<;39193493]Congratulations, and welcome to the facepunch flame and hate discussion thread! I fucking hate you smurfy, and everybody else who just makes these threads just to watch people argue their ideologies at one another.[/QUOTE] Dude, what's your address? I want to camp in your house and claim it's mine.

Well...

I just hope that neither side does anything stupid that causes people to wind up dead.

[QUOTE=>VLN<;39193493]Congratulations, and welcome to the facepunch flame and hate discussion thread! I fucking hate you smurfy, and everybody else who just makes these threads just to watch people argue their ideologies at one another.[/QUOTE] Self-predicting prophecy?

[QUOTE=Reviized;39193546]I just hope that neither side does anything stupid that causes people to wind up dead.[/QUOTE] Israel will shoot them up and send tanks in to prevent anything else, it will be reported on and yadayada. Been seen all before.

Because every single time someones posts a news article on Israel, it's one big circlejerk.

[QUOTE=>VLN<;39193564]Because every single time someones posts a news article on Israel, it's one big circlejerk.[/QUOTE] Probably because Israel does a lot of awful things and people here recognize that.

[QUOTE=DaysBefore;39193524]Or don't blame anybody. This subforum is where we look at recent news stories then argue our opinions about them. That isn't going to change unless Starpluck starts banning for opinions or something equally stupid. When a topic as divisive as this is brought up, people are going to argue. At least we have a place to argue in. I mean, you could use Mass Debate, but that's reserved for libertarians and 9/11 conspiracy nuts these days.[/QUOTE] Sure, but these discussions do quite often spiral out of control rather quickly. Like right now.

[QUOTE=DaysBefore;39193574]Probably because Israel does a lot of awful things and people here recognize that.[/QUOTE] So does virtually every other county. Many, far far worse than Israel. It still amazes me why Israel is singled out for what it does "wrong", just look at the world.

[QUOTE=Wiggles;39193593]Sure, but these discussions do quite often spiral out of control rather quickly. Like right now.[/QUOTE] Eh it was going to happen anyway. It's an Israel thread. On topic, I guess, I am absolutely not surprised by this. Pretty standard behavior for Israel really. [QUOTE=>VLN<;39193604]So does virtually every other county. Many, far far worse than Israel. It still amazes me why Israel is singled out for what it does "wrong", just look at the world.[/QUOTE] But this is a thread about Israel doing something wrong. Are we supposed to discuss Scandinavian xenophobia here?

[QUOTE=Glorbo;39180845]I'm also pretty sure the Israeli government wouldn't settle for this[/QUOTE] Told you The IDF is going to settle this once and for all

[QUOTE=>VLN<;39193604]So does virtually every other county. Many, far far worse than Israel. It still amazes me why Israel is singled out for what it does "wrong", just look at the world.[/QUOTE] Because no western power actually points a finger at Israel and says they're wrong, yet they all point fingers at every other state that does something wrong in the world.

The main reason Israel gets away whit all of this bullshit that it does is because there is too much money flowing from Israel to European nations/America.

What happened here I was playing monopoly

[QUOTE=smurfy;39197032]What happened here I was playing monopoly[/QUOTE] Did you buy all the West Bank side and build hotels?

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;39197072]Did you buy all the West Bank side and build hotels?[/QUOTE] He got a 'Go to Gaza' card and was stuck there the rest of the game.

[QUOTE=DrugUnit;39193928]The main reason Israel gets away whit all of this bullshit that it does is because there is too much money flowing from Israel to European nations/America.[/QUOTE] The only reason israel exists is because of lobby groups in america keeping it funded and backing it up at every turn - if the americans weren't backing it up israel wouldn't exist and honestly I can't say I'd be sad to see them go

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;39197072]Did you buy all the West Bank side and build hotels?[/QUOTE] I passed Go and asked the banker for my £200 but he said he was withholding my funds until further notice

Israel needs punched in the face, god damn how long can this shit go on for.

Even a blind guy could've seen this coming.

Surely the IDF will handle this in a professional and peaceful manner.

[QUOTE=Generic.Monk;39197153]The only reason israel exists is because of lobby groups in america keeping it funded and backing it up at every turn - if the americans weren't backing it up israel wouldn't exist and honestly I can't say I'd be sad to see them go[/QUOTE] You do realize exactly what would happen if Israel got eliminated though right? It wouldn't make the situation much better.

Israel is acting like a bunch of babies, they're ruining their reputation

[QUOTE=TheSporeGA;39198404]Israel is acting like a bunch of babies, they're ruining their reputation[/QUOTE] What reputation?

[QUOTE=zombojoe;39198408]What reputation?[/QUOTE] They've built themselves one out of guilt. It's fucking terrible and I hate how the way it works is that if you're anti israel, you're suddenly an anti semetic person.

[QUOTE=zombojoe;39198408]What reputation?[/QUOTE] Well right now their reputation is on the whining baby level, every country in the world has a reputation