West Bank: Israel turns off the tap

The year 2012  is ending with a sombre record – just in its first 10 months, Israeli armed forces destroyed 36 rainwater cisterns used by the Palestinian communities in the Area C of the West Bank, affecting over 1600 people, an increase from 34 cisterns destroyed in 2011. The communities whose cisterns were destroyed live unconnected to the water network and are forced to rely on rain harvesting and/or water purchases from vendors. Most of the communities that have been subject to demolition of cisterns live  near to Israeli 'settlements' and unauthorized outposts that enjoy a regular water supply.
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More colonial homes in Palestine

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JERUSALEM (Reuters) 18 Dec -- Israeli officials said they would press on with plans this week to build 6,000 homes for 'settlers' on Palestinian land, defying criticism from Western powers who fear the move will hit already faint hopes for a peace accord. Stung by the de facto recognition of Palestinian sovereignty in a UN General Assembly vote last month, Israel announced it would expand the so-called settlements in the occupied West Bank including East Jerusalem.

Homes flattened for theme park

Israeli occupation municipality officials broke into Bustan in Silwan town, Jerusalem on the 3rd December and handed a number of residents demolition orders.

Fakhri Abu Diab, a member of the Committee for the Defence of the Bustan neighbourhood, said in a press statement that the officials handed over to the citizens new administrative demolition orders for their houses after raiding them.

In an echo of Donald Trump's recent attempt to convert a chunk of Scotland's coastal greenery into a tourist-friendly golf course,the Israeli Occupation had issued earlier decisions to demolish 88 houses in the suburb in order to build a biblical theme park.

Zionists rename West Bank

In a legal sleight-of hand way, Israel is pushing its annexation of the West Bank by stamping visas of visitors there, 'Judea and Sumaria only' .This is in addition to the long-established policy of denying many people born in Palestine the right to enter their country except as 'visitors', while Jewish visitors from any part of Planet Earth are still automatically afforded citizenship.

Even though many foreign nationals live and work in the West Bank, there is no such thing as a work permit that allows them to work for Palestinian institutions or companies based in the occupied West Bank, or simply to live there securely. The only option for such people would be Israeli “tourist” visas which they have to constantly renew and which are often arbitrarily denied.
It is not just ordinary people who are denied entry by the occupying regime, but even foreign government officials trying to meet with the Palestinian Authority.
This is where Zionism will have  the 'roadmap to peace' leading.  A single state ghetto.

What cease-fire?

During the present 'cease-fire' between the occupying forces and the Gazan authority Hamas, it's business as usual for Zionism. Attacks on Gaza itself continue. In Jerusalem, more illegal colonies have been built since Palestine's winning of observer status at the UN, while one non-Jewish family was forced to demolish its own home. Daily attacks on fishermen. Mosques destroyed. violence and delays, often fatal, at checkpoints.