I am a 5th generation Southern Californian who grew up in an orange grove and in Hollywood. I fled my home state in 2020.
Los Angeles is burning right now because of what We the People have allowed rich people to do. Here is what has happened: 1đ§”
For many years, I took barbs for refusing to call Israel's policy in East Jerusalem "ethnic cleansing". After all, there were 60,000 Palestinians in East Jerusalem in 1967, and 400,000 today. Occupation sucked, and included war crimes, but it wasn't ethnic cleansing.
That has changed now.
There are 3 Palestinian neighborhoods, all of whose residents are being or are about to be displaced: Batan al-Hawa and al-Bustan in Silwan, and Um Haroun in Sheik Jarrah. The latter two are being razed, or will be razed in the near future.
And immediately to the east, the Bedouin hamlet of Khan al-Akmar, adjacent to E-1, is about to be expelled, part of an attempt to "cleanse" Area C between East Jerusalem and the Jordan River valley of its Palestinian residents.
Regrettably, I can think of no other term to use other than "ethnic cleansing".
đŹđ§đ”đž Richard Burgon expone la hipocresĂa britĂĄnica
En el Parlamento britĂĄnico, el diputado Richard Burgon dejĂł en evidencia el doble rasero del gobierno.
âImaginemos que este fin de semana en Londres hubiera un evento ruso vendiendo tierras ucranianas.
El gobierno lo prohibirĂa de inmediato. En cambio, tenemos un evento inmobiliario israelĂ vendiendo abiertamente tierras robadas en territorios palestinos ocupados⊠y el gobierno no hace nada.â
El Reino Unido reconoce oficialmente a Palestina, pero permite que se vendan propiedades en asentamientos ilegales israelĂes.
Esto es la hipocresĂa occidental en su mĂĄxima expresiĂłn: leyes para unos, impunidad total para Israel.