This is a lovely story - reminds me of WACO but then who was in charge of the store then? The day of reckoning is coming - and maybe someone is about to feel as Timothy McVeigh circled in his Gideon bible "the wrath of God"..... Isralis are bullies and the USA if they are serious about stopping the war and slaughter - just cut out the aid to Israel? Slowly we have seen the real monster emerging from the dark closets and brining their plagues with them. This time the Israelis bring the police for protection like Nazis did oh so long ago and one must wonder was Adolph Hitler really Jewish and if you look in the bible you find his Thousand Year Reich in the making? Sieg Heil virtually means according to my one ancient concordance - God Is Alive..... Yet we are told in America, God is dead ???? Yes I hear the Wurlitzers playing for they have never stopped - the neverending story until every last drop of oil, is spent - then they are prepared to take the water. Saba July 10, 2001 AutoIsraelis Destroy Homes of Palestinians in Two Areas By JOEL GREENBERG JERUSALEM, Tuesday, July 10 — Israeli wrecking crews protected by hundreds of riot police officers destroyed 14 homes at the edge of a Palestinian refugee camp in East Jerusalem on Monday in the biggest demolition campaign in the city's Arab neighborhoods in recent years. Houses were also demolished early today at a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. At the Shuafat refugee camp in East Jerusalem, bulldozers tore down 14 unfinished homes built by Palestinian families who had planned to move out of their cramped quarters in the camp. Mayor Ehud Olmert said the structures had been built without permits. Distraught families scuffled with police officers and some people threw themselves on the ground in a futile attempt to block the wrecking crews. Five Palestinians were reportedly hurt and several were arrested. The homeowners, served with demolition orders on Sunday, had no chance to appeal. Mr. Olmert, a member of the rightist Likud Party, defended the action, calling illegal Arab building a cancer and a plague. He vowed to continue the demolitions whenever necessary. (AP) The Israeli Army today entered the Palestinian territory in East Jerusalem to level dozens of houses and shops in a refugee camp. Fighting in Gaza Kills a Boy and Clashes in West Bank Wound 4 (July 8, 2001) West Bank Settler Dies, Another Blow to Faltering Cease-Fire (July 4, 2001) Little 'Quiet' in Israel: 3 Arabs Die, Palestinians Retaliate (July 3, 2001) Expanded Coverage In Depth: The Mideast Peace Process Join the Weekly Focus on the Middle East Rina Castelnuovo for The New York Times A Palestinian woman, Umm Ali, pleaded with Israeli security as her son's home was destroyed Monday. Palestinians and civil rights advocates say it is virtually impossible for East Jerusalem Arabs to obtain building permits because of Israeli zoning restrictions intended to limit the growth of their neighborhoods and restrict Arab population growth in the city. The advocates cite official figures showing that far more illegally built homes have been demolished in Arab neighborhoods than in Jewish areas of Jerusalem. According to those figures, the demolitions today exceeded the annual total of Arab homes wrecked by the city in recent years. The Shuafat camp, a garbage- strewn warren of cramped houses and narrow alleys that receives virtually no city services, lies across a valley from Pisgat Zeev, a sprawling Jewish neighborhood built on land captured by the Israelis in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. Gazing at the rows of new homes going up across the valley, Wael Muhammad Ali, a 38-year old father of seven, stood next to the ruins of the four-story home he had built with his three brothers for their families. "They can build as much as they like, and I can't," Mr. Ali said of the Israeli neighborhood. "I'm exploding." Then he added: "I'm going to join Hamas and blow myself up," referring to the militant Islamic group. "Write that down." A statement issued by Orient House, the Palestine Liberation Organization headquarters in East Jerusalem, called the Israeli action "a serious provocation that will further inflame an already unstable situation in East Jerusalem and jeopardize any remaining prospects for a cease-fire." In the Gaza Strip, Israeli Army bulldozers backed by tanks entered Palestinian ruled teritory for the first time since a cease-fire was agreed to last month, leveling 10 houses in a refugee camp in Rafah, Palestinian security officlas said today. The army said the houses were abandoned, and had been the source of daily grenade and shooting attacks at Israeli positions and patrols. The Israeli thrust set off a firefight with Palestinian gunmen in which five Palestinians and three Israeli soldiers were reportedly wounded. A victim of violence on Sunday, injured when a roadside bomb exploded near his jeep south of Hebron in the West Bank, died today of his wounds. Capt. Shai Shalom Cohen, 22, a deputy company commander, suffered serious head injuries when his jeep was hit by a remote-controlled bomb. And a Palestinian suicide bomber was killed when his explosive-packed pickup truck blew up, apparently prematurely, as it headed toward an Israeli Army post on a road leading to Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip. There were no Israeli casualties. The attempted suicide attack near the road to the Katif cluster of settlements in the Gaza Strip came after the militant Islamic group Hamas warned that it had 10 bombers ready to strike in revenge for the killing of an 11-year-old boy by Israeli gunfire on Saturday. The Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, identified the dead bomber as Nafez al-Nazer, 25, a father of two who worked at Islamic University in Gaza. Relatives said he wanted to avenge the death of a brother killed by the Israelis during the first Palestinian uprising a decade ago. Home | Back to International | Search | Help Back to Top Click Here to Receive 50% Off Home Delivery of The New York Times Newspaper. Copyright 2001 The New York Times Company | Privacy Information
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