Notice at Kalandia Checkpoint: Al Ram is Now Israel

[idontwantaname]

one thing to remember is the Qalandia checkpoint is a very new installation so the fact that not long ago a person could travel from A to B freely. now if you live in A, you can no longer travel to B unless you have a permit (which will never be issued).

additionally whenever a palestinian gets arrested or detained (most often with an erroneous charge) they have to travel to jerusalem to appear before the judge... however as you can now see going to jerusalem is very very difficult and will soon be off limits. the soldiers who man these checkpoints do not care about anything. they are soldiers and the obey orders so if someone says "i need to appear before a judge or they will demolish my home" the soldiers at the checkpoint dont care and wont let anyone through.



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On Saturday March 25 Israeli military placed a notice at the Kalandia checkpoint announcing that from March 27, 2006 only holders of a permit to enter Israel will be allowed to cross the checkpoint to the West Bank village of Al Ramm.

By restricting Palestinian access in this way, the Israelis have effectively annexed the village minus its West Bank residents to Israel. cutting it off from the rest of the West Bank. The restriction will also cement the illegal annexation of occupied East Jerusalem.

The Kalandia checkpoint is flanked on both sides by the annexation Wall. Olmert’s Kadima party has admitted that the Wall is not a temporary security measure as Israel originally claimed but will be Israel’s “permanent border”.


http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2006/03/26/notice-at-kalandia-checkpoint-al-ram-is-now-israel/

[Tom Joad]

1. Taking the land, getting rid of its people.... old Israeli tradition....

creating facts on the ground.

[Poll_Blind]

2. Just as Bush squandered and subverted the international good-will...

...from 9/11, so has Israel's current conservative government systematically pissed on the human rights of the Palestinian people in a huge land grab, evaporating the international good will which caused the creation of the nation in the first place. Palestinian and Israeli terrorists both belong in a special place in hell where they can tear at each other's flesh, but feel the pain inflicted on the other as their own. The moderates and liberals from both countries are marginalized and threatened as the fundamentalist psychotics on both sides play their messianic games.

As always, few of the guilty will be punished. It is primarily the blood of innocents that will be spilled and turned into fuel for the duelling hate machines. I have little doubt that the technology available to Israel will eventually be able to destroy the Palestinian people, drive them off their own land.

And then, "victorious", Israel will be able to survey with pride her stolen lands. However, they are in the process of and will eventually have destroyed nearly all good will toward the the economically-flagging Jewish nation. If the bounty of U.S. aid to Israel ever dries up and economic sanctions against the country become popular, they will turn into another religiously-fundamentalist nation with nukes and no cash.

And the only leverage available will be those nukes...

PB

[idontwantaname]

3. it now takes 1 hour to travel 9 miles!

go checkpoints!

[Tom Joad]

4. Yeah, having gone through Kalendia checkpoint, i know this well.

I went when it was low-tech, but i don't think it is any different now. Usually what happened is that eventually you get through the Checkpoint, enter a cab on the other side, and in a quarter mile pulled over again by another Israeli "flying" checkpoint. One can just imagine how this is for people who need to do this as a matter of routine.

[Lithos]

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