Palestinian house inside cage in Jewish settlement

[Lady Macbeth]

In this photo taken Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011 a Palestinian boy sits on a rooftop near the fenced-in house of al-Ghirayim family between the Jewish settlement of Givon Hahadasha and the West Bank village of Beit Ijza. The al-Ghirayib family lives in one of the stranger manifestations of Israel's 43-year occupation of the West Bank: a Palestinian house inside a metal cage inside an Israeli settlement. The family's 10 members, four of them children, can only reach the house via a 40-yard (meter) passageway connecting them to the Arab village of Beit Ijza below. The passage passes over a road frequented by Israeli army jeeps and is lined on both sides with a 20-foot-high (6-meter) heavy-duty metal fence.(AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner) (Sebastian Scheiner - AP)

BEIT IJZA, West Bank -- The al-Ghirayib family lives in one of the stranger manifestations of Israel's 43-year occupation of the West Bank: a Palestinian house inside a metal cage inside an Israeli settlement.

The family's 10 members, four of them children, can only reach the house via a 40-yard (meter) passageway connecting them to the Arab village of Beit Ijza farther down a hill. The passageway passes over a road used by Israeli army jeeps and is lined on both sides with a 24-foot-high (8-meter) heavy-duty metal fence.

The same fence rings the simple one-story house, separating it from the surrounding settlement houses. Some of those dwellings are so close that the family can hear the insults shouted by a nearby Jewish neighbor.

While al-Ghirayibs' situation is unusual, Palestinians say it reflects the pressures put on their communities by Israel's more than 120 West Bank settlements.

Palestinian Authority has refused to hold peace talks with Israel while settlement construction continues. The latest round of talks collapsed over the settlement issue in September, only three weeks after starting.

Some 500,000 Israelis live in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, occupied territories claimed by the Palestinians for a future state.

This week, the Palestinians directed their anger toward the United States after it vetoed a resolution before the U.N. Security Council condemning the settlements as "illegal."

The U.S. said it opposes settlements, but that peace talks are the only way to resolve such issues. The council's 14 other members voted for the measure.

"The Americans have chosen to be alone in disrupting the internationally backed Palestinian efforts," Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said.

Ahead of the vote, Fayyad visited the home with the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay, who commented: "This is an inhuman life they have."

Sadat al-Ghirayib, 30, said his father built the house in 1978 on about 27 acres of family land, where he planted fruit trees. The Israel army soon confiscated part of the land, he said.

The settlement of Givon HaHadasha was founded in the early 1980s. Al-Ghirayib said the army confiscated more land as the settlement spread. Today, it is home to some 1,100 Jewish settlers, some of their homes no more than two dozen steps from the al-Ghirayib home. Just a handful of trees remain.

Palestinian house inside cage in Jewish settlement

[Lady Macbeth]

Gas chamber coming up soon.......Seems like Isrealis are following the 'Book of Adolf' a bit too closely.

[vinod2070]

Originally Posted by Lady Macbeth

Gas chamber coming up soon.......Seems like Isrealis are following the 'Book of Adolf' a bit too closely.

I am sure nothing like this is happening.

Glad that they didn't reciprocate the Arab calls of throwing them to the sea or making roads from Jewish skulls.

Doesn't take away from the necessity of resolving the conflict in a two state solution with a viable Palestinian state.

[Lady Macbeth]

Originally Posted by Lady Macbeth

Gas chamber coming up soon.......Seems like Isrealis are following the 'Book of Adolf' a bit too closely.

Originally Posted by vinod2070

I am sure nothing like this is happening..

They would if they could get away with it, I bet.

Na rahay ga bans na bajay gee bansaree (roughly translated- if there is no bamboo, there would be no flute)

[vinod2070]

Originally Posted by Lady Macbeth

They would if they could get away with it, I bet.

Na rahay ga bans na bajay gee bansaree (roughly translated- if there is no bamboo, there would be no flute)

I am glad they can't get away with it.

Unlike the Arabs and other islamic invaders who seem to have got away with much worse. Genocides. rapine, slavery (on a much bigger scale than in the USA, with the slaves universally castrated so that not a trace remains of their line), destruction of worship places in the thouands (unlike Israel which handed over Al-Aqsa to a wakf within minutes of capture of East Jerusalem), forcible conversions and so on.

And not a trace of regret for any of that. Just a burning desire to repeat it all over and give it to the kaffirs.

Much of misery of Palestinians in because of the fellow Arabs. They keep them as a trophy to show the injustice on them, rather than let them be a part of their own Arab society.

Many Arab countries just keep caged.

[vinod2070]

A small example:

When a Muslim army invaded a town, they would not allow anyone to convert to Islam for three days. During these three days they could kill as many men as they liked, pillage their properties, then rape and enslave their women and children. Only after a town had been decimated and all the young women and children that could be sold as slaves were captured would the brutal campaign of Islamization, with its brutal mandate that all must convert or die, began. However the Jews and the Christians were given protection to live provided they pay a penalty tax called Jizyah and enter into dhimmitude. Dhimmi means protected. But the dhimmis had to pay a hefty jizyah for their protection. This Jizyah was the source of livelihood of the Muslims who through it were able to live like parasites off the labor of the dhimmis. The following Hadith, reported by Bukhari, records the source for this practice based on the admonitions of Muhammad toward the dhimmi:

Narrated Juwairiya bin Qudama At-Tamimi:
We said to 'Umar bin Al-Khattab, oh Chief of the believers! Advise us." He said, "I advise you to fulfill Allah's Convention (made with the Dhimmis) as it is the convention of your Prophet and the source of the livelihood of your dependents (i.e. the taxes from the Dhimmis.) " Volume 4, Book 53, Number 388:

[Lady Macbeth]

Originally Posted by vinod2070

A small example:

When a Muslim army invaded a town, they would not allow anyone to convert to Islam for three days. During these three days they could kill as many men as they liked, pillage their properties, then rape and enslave their women and children. Only after a town had been decimated and all the young women and children that could be sold as slaves were captured would the brutal campaign of Islamization, with its brutal mandate that all must convert or die, began. However the Jews and the Christians were given protection to live provided they pay a penalty tax called Jizyah and enter into dhimmitude. Dhimmi means protected. But the dhimmis had to pay a hefty jizyah for their protection. This Jizyah was the source of livelihood of the Muslims who through it were able to live like parasites off the labor of the dhimmis. The following Hadith, reported by Bukhari, records the source for this practice based on the admonitions of Muhammad toward the dhimmi:

Wow, and your source on the enlightened history lesson? Not Will Durant I hope.

Expanding your collection of publications to beyond the realms of anti Islamic writers should do wonders for you V.

[Lady Macbeth]

Originally Posted by vinod2070

Narrated Juwairiya bin Qudama At-Tamimi:
We said to 'Umar bin Al-Khattab, oh Chief of the believers! Advise us." He said, "I advise you to fulfill Allah's Convention (made with the Dhimmis) as it is the convention of your Prophet and the source of the livelihood of your dependents (i.e. the taxes from the Dhimmis.) " Volume 4, Book 53, Number 388:

- Ah yes the reason why the Muslims traded with Dhimmis was so that they could extract 2.5 percent Jizya tax from the non believers. Better than the 5 percent Zakat that all privileged muslims are liable to cough up?

Forcing the Dhimmis to convert would have been more beneficial, no?

Isnt 2.5 less than 5 percent?
Bad at ''accounts'' I guess.....*pun intended*

Anyway back to the topic at hand........

[Lady Macbeth]

Originally Posted by vinod2070

A small example:

When a Muslim army invaded a town, they would not allow anyone to convert to Islam for three days. During these three days they could kill as many men as they liked, pillage their properties, then rape and enslave their women and children. Only after a town had been decimated and all the young women and children that could be sold as slaves were captured would the brutal campaign of Islamization, with its brutal mandate that all must convert or die, began. However the Jews and the Christians were given protection to live provided they pay a penalty tax called Jizyah and enter into dhimmitude. Dhimmi means protected. But the dhimmis had to pay a hefty jizyah for their protection. This Jizyah was the source of livelihood of the Muslims who through it were able to live like parasites off the labor of the dhimmis. The following Hadith, reported by Bukhari, records the source for this practice based on the admonitions of Muhammad toward the dhimmi:

Wow, and your source on the enlightened history lesson? Not Will Durant I hope.

Expanding your collection of publications to beyond the realms of anti Islamic writers should do wonders for you V.

[vinod2070]

^^ Seriously would you like to be treated by the kaffirs as the Muslims treated the Dhimmis?

Give me a one word answer.