Israel has destroyed a Palestinian village for the nth time

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21 Jun 2012, 10:45 pm

And they want Guinness to recognize the number.

Good Guinness, deliver us! Israel demolishes Arab village 38 times

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Palestinian villagers have addressed the Guinness Book of World Records to register a ruinous “record”. A Bedouin village in Israel has been demolished 38 times by Israeli authorities, who say people in the village do not have building permits.

Al-Araqeeb village with population of 500 residents in the Negev claim their some 40 homes have been destroyed over three dozen times by Israel Land Administration. Residents of the Al-Turi Arab Bedouin tribe insist they are being pushed off their own land.

“We have ownership documents that go back to the Ottoman era,” the head of the Committee for the Defense of al-Araqeeb, Awad Abu Farih, stated to Anatolian news agency.

Well, that certainly is a lot of times to have your home pancaked. They even have a documentary in the works.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjDWj3Ge6-4[/youtube]

These are policies of Israel, bulldozing people's homes. It's not just in this town. It's many Palestinian homes.

House demolition in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict

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24 Jun 2012, 2:20 pm

A very interesting (but sad) record. Pretty sure it won´t make it into the Guiness though, it´s a too sensitive topic for that. Like we´ll probably never get to know who has set the record for most failed suicide attempts either or who has raped the most either (at least not in Guiness).

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24 Jun 2012, 3:17 pm

Israel also sprays Bedouin crops in the Negev with herbicides. Clearly they don't want to see the desert bloom.

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24 Jun 2012, 11:09 pm

Destroying people's homes is no way to ensure peace.

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25 Jun 2012, 9:06 am

an attempt at getting into the guiness world record book? thats a curious way of getting attention focused on your plight. hopefully the stunt will get some attention focused on how criminal this is. the bedouins are constantly evicted from their camps. if it gets rejected then it will only be demonstrative of the lack of willingness in people to challenge israels crimes.

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25 Jun 2012, 9:33 am

I'd feel bad for them if they weren't everything I hated in cultural terms. Had they sold their land to Jews, they would have been eligible for execution by their peers.

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25 Jun 2012, 6:13 pm

Just for balance, here is a list of every rocket attack on Israel from Gaza alone in 2011.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Pa ... rael,_2011

This 'being unpleasant' stuff isn't exactly one-sided is it?

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25 Jun 2012, 6:20 pm

snapcap wrote:

These are policies of Israel, bulldozing people's homes. It's not just in this town. It's many Palestinian homes.

It is also a little dishonest to make out that the Israeli government only does this to palestinians, it also does it to jewish settlers:

http://forward.com/articles/149499/isra ... -outposts/

If you build in Britain without planning permission, you should be 100% sure that the council will knock your house down and bill you for it.

If you build a house with planning permission in Britain but you don't stick exactly to the plans, there is a very good chance the council will knock it down and bill you for it. The vast majority of retroactive planning applications are refused.

Where is the international outcry about the poor Brits oppressed by their evil overlords?

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25 Jun 2012, 9:08 pm

The things mentioned here by DC make a lot of sense. Israel's motivation for taking down these structures was relatively simple - they were illegal slums. I can't even build a new stone building in my own garden without a permit from local government after they've approved the aesthetic design, let alone march into a forest that once belonged to my ancestors and start building a shanty town for my friends to live in.

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26 Jun 2012, 10:01 pm

Palestinians have done similar things to Israel.

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29 Jun 2012, 11:08 am

The Bedouin - Israeli conflict is EXACTLY like in the westerners. The indians (=Bedoiun) come and steal the white's (=Israel) water and supply and then as payback they come and demiolish their homes. haha.

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01 Jul 2012, 3:53 pm

Palestinians have destroyed Israeli bus-stations for the m-th time

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01 Jul 2012, 9:00 pm

snapcap wrote:

And they want Guinness to recognize the number.

Good Guinness, deliver us! Israel demolishes Arab village 38 times

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Nothing like ONE SIDED reporting. Seems to consistently be the case with the Israeli vs. Palestinian issue.....
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01 Jul 2012, 9:37 pm

Chummy wrote:

In that case the Israelis had better be careful. Look at what happened to Custer the Little Big Horn.

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01 Jul 2012, 9:40 pm

ruveyn wrote:

Chummy wrote:

In that case the Israelis had better be careful. Look at what happened to Custer the Little Big Horn.

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Custer was a bonehead out seeking personal publicity in order to run against Grant in the next election. If he hadn't been so blinded by personal aggrandizement, he might have taken more care in entering the Little Big Horn region.
I like to think the Israeli army teaches better discipline.

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01 Jul 2012, 9:43 pm

Kraichgauer wrote:

ruveyn wrote:

Chummy wrote:

In that case the Israelis had better be careful. Look at what happened to Custer the Little Big Horn.

ruveyn

If Goldilocks had taken the Gatling Guns history would have been very different.

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