that apparently they believe nobody should have it but them. This is your tax dollars at work….winning hearts and minds around the world. Nice job.
Children learn in tent after Israel demolishes school
Brand new primary school in Jubbet adh-Dibh was razed just as the new school year was set to begin.
by Nigel Wilson
Jubbet adh-Dibh, occupied West Bank – Early in the morning, dozens of students assembled in columns outside the Jubbet adh-Dibh primary school. Encouraged by their teachers, they launched into a rendition of the Palestinian national anthem, Fidai.
It appeared to be a typical Palestinian scene, a morning ritual repeated outside thousands of school buildings across the occupied West Bank before students begin classes.
But when the students of Jubbet adh-Dibh finished singing the anthem, they had no classrooms to go to. There was only a single tent filled with wooden chairs and book-ended by two whiteboards.
The brand new school’s six classrooms, built in mid-August to host 80 students, had been dismantled and removed by the Israeli military the night before the first day of the school year. Two days later, all that remained were the concrete bases where the classrooms had stood, along with a row of latrines.
“We welcomed the new academic semester with a dismantled school,” Ibtissam Shaibat, an Arabic and maths teacher at the Bethlehem directorate of education, told Al Jazeera. “On the first day of school, I arrived at around 7:30. It was a horrible feeling when I saw that the school was not here.”
A handful of teachers have been coming to lead classes for children who still show up at the site [Nigel Wilson/Al Jazeera] |
Regardless, Shaibat and a handful of teachers from the Bethlehem directorate have been coming to lead classes for the children who show up at the site, until another solution is found. The newly installed tent serves as a makeshift classroom, although due to the lack of space, one class takes place outside, under the blazing sun.
“Not all of the students are here today,” Shaibat said. “The rest have gone to their previous schools to continue their education. Their parents believed that this is not the right environment now to attend school here. It’s really hot, so they prefer to deal again with a hard situation of attending a school far away than to stay here without facilities.”
The Palestinian village of Jubbet adh-Dibh lies in a dramatic setting beneath Jabal al-Fureidis, a flat-topped mountain five kilometres southeast of Bethlehem, which is home to the Herodium Palace historical site.
Around 160 people live there, and while the village has a kindergarten, the nearest primary schools are located in the surrounding towns and villages, meaning that children have to either walk long distances or take a bus to get to school.
Students line up to sing the Palestinian national anthem before beginning classes [Nigel Wilson/Al Jazeera] |
Fadiya al-Wahsh, head of the women’s foundation in Jubbet adh-Dibh, decided to enrol her son, Abdelrahman, in the third grade at the new school.
“The whole community wanted this school because it was closer to the village,” she said. “It takes around seven minutes to walk here. To get to the school my son attended last year, he had to take a bus or walk for a kilometre and a half. He has asthma and was complaining that it was too far to travel and that the school was really crowded. It was really bad for his health.
“Before this school, a huge number of students crowded into the other schools,” Wahsh added. “Here, there is much more space for students – 10-15 students per class – and this will give them a better opportunity to get an education. In the other school, there are 50 students per class.”
The village is located in Area C of the occupied West Bank, an administrative designation dating back to the Oslo Accords, which affords Israeli authorities full civil and security control.
‘We welcomed the new academic semester with a dismantled school’ [Nigel Wilson/Al Jazeera] |
While the Palestinian Authority is responsible for providing education and healthcare services to the Palestinian population in Area C, Israel has retained control over land allocation, planning, construction and infrastructure in this area, which comprises around 60 percent of the occupied West Bank. It is also home to all the Israeli settlements, which are considered illegal under international law.
Local and international rights groups have argued that Israeli military authorities have used their control over land planning in Area C to restrict Palestinian construction and development, by denying applications for building permits while allowing Jewish-only settlements to expand.
According to the Norwegian Refugee Council: “Israel denies the majority of planning permit requests in Area C, thereby leaving Palestinians with no option but to reconstruct and develop without permits.”
A spokesperson for the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories, an Israeli military unit that implements Israeli government policy throughout Area C, told Al Jazeera that the school in Jubbet adh-Dibh did not have building permits and was consequently dismantled.
“The building … was built illegally last weekend, a blunt violation of stop work orders and without the required permits. Therefore the confiscation was carried out in accordance with the Civil Administration authorities,” a spokesperson told Al Jazeera in a statement.
The Jubbet adh-Dibh school was just one of several Palestinian schools damaged or demolished by Israeli authorities this month [Nigel Wilson/Al Jazeera] |
The Jubbet adh-Dibh school was the third Palestinian educational facility in the occupied West Bank to be damaged or demolished by Israeli authorities in a two-week period. A kindergarten in Jabal al-Baba was destroyed on August 21, while the solar panels that provided the only power source to a school in Abu Nuwar were confiscated on August 9.
The plan to establish the school in Jubbet adh-Dibh was finalised in the spring, and its construction was financed by some European Union member states. Local EU missions have issued a statement to condemn Israeli authorities.
“Every child has the right to safe access to education and States have an obligation to protect, respect and fulfil this right, by ensuring that schools are inviolable safe spaces for children,” it read.
“In line with its long-standing position on this issue, the EU calls upon the Israeli authorities to halt demolitions and confiscations of Palestinian houses and property in accordance with its obligations as an occupying power under international humanitarian law, and to cease the policy of settlement construction and expansion, of designating land for exclusive Israeli use and of denying Palestinian development.”
Source: Al Jazeera
Really, what Israel needs to do is tear down their border wall, and accept endless Arab and African ‘refugees’ – as they expect America and Europe to do.
I’m certain there there would be no negative consequences for them at all.
They are racists and bigots if they don’t do it.
The other way they destroyed public education was to force schools to mix high and low IQs in the same classroom and charge the teacher to teach each child at their own level. At the college level, they were required to meet skin color quotas and loan money to them. The way out of this hole is impossible without Vouchers.
There were only Jews in the so called Occupied territories until Islam started their land grab across the Middle East! Why don’t the 53 predominately Muslim countries, where Jews and Christians have been murdered or ethnically cleansed, accept them. The reason is they want only fascist Islam in the Middle East and the world!
Fact!
Factual – it suits the Muslim agenda to keep the Palestinians in the ghettos. No way known they will offer refuge to any Palestinians.
It is Israel that only wants fascist Islam in the middle east. This is why they are defacto allies with the Saudis, treat wounded ISIS fighters and are at least partly responsible for the wars in Iraq and Syria that have displaced so many christians. It suits Israel just fine to be surrounded by destroyed countries…all the better reason for future invasions when they desire more territory…er I mean buffer zones.
Thankfully we have Hezbollah to at least keep them out of Lebanon.
Translation of Zara, The Slayer of Joos wherever they appear:
“It is Israel blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah Fuck Joos!! blah blah blah
blah KILL JOOS blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah GoddamfuckenIsrahell blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah …”
There. You just read a summary of EVERY post ever made by Zara, The Slayer of Joos wherever they appear.
In your heart, you know I’m right.
It’s stoopid to suggest Israelis only want militant Islam in the ME, when they’re the ones responsible for the mass migration into the EU, for the same reason the Zionists wanted an Israeli state, to destabilize and control.
Soros wants a one world government, with Zionists in control. The US and militant Islam, which wasn’t a problem until 9/11, are stooges.
Hmmm. The Palestinians have the obligation to fund schooling in that area. Wonder how Z the anti-semite blames this on Israel? Maybe if the Palestinians spent less on rockets and more on education they would have better schools.
Or better yet, what say they make peace with Israel, and declare it has a right to exist! Maybe things would get better for their children.
One thing about ragheads, they are more than happy to sacrifice their children, literally, on the alter of their ideology. Hell, Iran sacrificed them by the tens of thousands as cannon fodder.
How little you know. The PA long ago agreed to Israel’s “right to exist,” (which is bullshit, no nation has a right to exist). Israel just moved the bar by demanding that now they have to recognize Israel’s right to exist as a “Jewish” state, something they can never do, since among other things it would guarantee Israeli Palestianians second class status.
Either you are an idiot, blinded by your love of zionazis or woefully misinformed. Israel doesn’t want peace, it wants victory. It doesn’t want a Palestinian state, it just wants them gone.
Z the antifuckingsemite lies like a little bitch. In fact, Abbas has said they will never so acknowledge. In 1993 they acknowledge Israel does exist, but not its right to do so, or exist as a Jewish state.
“Abbas has consistently failed to state his reasons for his total rejection of Israel as a Jewish state. In January 2014, the PA president declared:
“The Palestinians won’t recognize the Jewishness of the State of Israel and won’t accept it. The Israelis say that if we don’t recognize the Jewishness of Israel there would be no solution. And we say that we won’t recognize or accept the Jewishness of Israel and we have many reasons for this rejection.”
You are no libertarian. You are an elitist, pro-neocon piece of shit who lurks here under false pretenses. I have been in libertarian circles since the Carter era. None of those I have known over the years, including Dr. Paul, would have anything to do with you.
Z the racist anti-Semite realizes his lies have been so easily uncovered, turns to smoke and mirrors in an attempt to deflect from his blatant bias.
Dr. Paul would puke if he saw the antisemitism racist genocidal bullshit you post.
lol, you are too easy… of course all neocons are, once exposed.
http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2014/july/26/what-does-the-us-support-when-it-supports-israel/
“Israel is a brutal state as the latest excesses of destruction and killing of innocent Palestinians in Gaza show. That’s what the U.S. supports.”
RP did not write that. Oops.
I didn’t write this, but I easily could have,
“The point is that giving Israel $38 billion over ten years is robbery pure and simple having nothing whatsoever to do with anyone’s security. It is stealing from the American taxpayer because certain politicians aided and abetted by the media and acting in deference to a powerful lobby would have it so. Israel is no ally, has never been an ally, and is being rewarded for doing nothing. The only Americans who benefit from the deal are defense contractors. If it were Goldman Sachs or General Motors doing the stealing there would at least be some outcry. But as it is, because it is Israel, the media and chattering class are silent.”
https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/israels-38-billion-scam/
PS, unz.com is a well known libertarian site. Dr. Paul most heartily approves. Trust me.
The money (“aid”) given to Israel is a back-handed contribution to the military industrial complex. They are required to spend the money (not sure what percentage) with American firms, mostly weapons systems suppliers.
They get “free” weapons, the big MIC companies like Lockheed, NGC, Raytheon, and others get big orders/dollars and the tax payers get the bill.
There’s always more to these deals than meets the eye. Everyone has their hands out.
Anti-semite, an invented term for an invented people. But it suits you since you are an invented creature yourself.
Prior to the terrorist Yaser Arafat, there never was an Arab Palestine. Before 1960, today’s Palestinians were known as Jordanians or Syrians. Saddam Hussein’s last words were not about Iraq or the Iraqi people. Nope, he said: “Palestine is Arab”. Through the years he gave families of Palestinian terror bombers as much as $35,000,000 to blow up innocent Israelis. So why the problems in Gaza now? Sure, it must be Israel when they only control five percent of the middle east landmass and only after fighting multiple wars against the Arabs while greatly outnumbered. It has nothing to do with Islamic radicalism and extremism. Or due to the 40-year hatred instilled in the Palestinian people via their schools and radical leaders. What do the Arab leaders in Gaza do with the money from America and other nations who want to help the Palestinian people? They build tunnels so they can blow up Jews. All because of the poor Palestinian people who are used as pawns in the political land-for-peace lie. If we believe this lie, American tax dollars will still flow to Fatah, Hamas, the PLO, and the Palestinian Authority. All who have the same agenda, to annihilate Israel, to lie to the West and to denounce America. Israel is not perfect by any means. But look at the alternative.
You could have started out your sentence with, “the engineer, Yasser Arafat” and it would be more historically accurate and less hyperbole than what you did.
PS. Arafat was probably murdered by Israel using polonium poisoning.
You say, “Israel is not perfect by any means. But look at the alternative.”
The alternative is that we have our country back. Israel is of satan and so are you, asshole. Death to you both. How many more americans must die in Israel’s wars will it take to drum into your thick skull that they are the enemy?
If you cant say “death it Israel” they you are not American. You’re just a fucking tool.
Too bad the engineer Arafat didn’t build schools, huh? You’re less than half as smart as you think you are Zarathustra. It really is comical watching you suck Arab cock night after night. Death to me? Now you even sound like one. Dummy.
I suck nobodies cock. You do, however. Arafat turned out to be dumbass because he trusted the Zionists. I do not.
It’s “nobody’s” cock, stupid. Thanks for proving my point. You’re as talented at punctuation as Arafat was at being an engineer or building anything. “May it please you to prosper Zion, to build up the walls of Jerusalem.” -Psalm 51:18
Anti-semitism is a cruel mind-parasite that is usually fatal to victims who become infected.
A quick summary of all Jewish holidays: “They tried to kill us. We won. Let’s eat”.*
Doubt it at your own peril.
* an old Jewish joke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMQ9C6vni0w
He’ll with Israel & PLO. The yoga lady has excessively large knockers?
We know why permits are no longer forthcoming, and therefore the school, which was un-permitted was removed. The so-called Palestinians (terrorists) have consistently used the building materials to build the underground tunnels they use to infiltrate Israel and commit terrorist acts. But what else could we expect given that Mr. Wilson is writing for the terrorist network Al Jazerra, so none of those points were presented. Too bad.
Those little boys are likely learning in that tent that Swedish girls are easy. Next is map reading. Then a how-to for getting some sympathy, a home, and a little spending money from the many morons out there in the great green expanses. “To hell with sand forever!”
No shits given. Fuck the palestinians. Fuck that entire part of the planet.
The point missing here is Israel discrimanates against groups of people . I happen to know a Palastinean family of Christan’s who were run out of the area their family lived in for decades by Israeli troops and their homes were bombed . Funny the Muslims and Christan’s did fine together but guess who did not fit in ???
go away, stupid bitch.
What a fucking idiot you are Zarathustra. Now you’re just throwing air punches. Do you even know what time it is? Come back later and I’ll tell you.
I was thinking about inviting you to suck my dick. I really don’t want you to do that. What I want you to do is curl up in a fetal position, perhap below some office desk and be re-born. Who knows, a miracle could happen.