Demolitions for the Apartheid Wall in Al Aqaba

[Resistance]

Demolitions for the Apartheid Wall in Al Aqaba December 23rd, 2003

Today, the Occupation military arrived in Al Aqaba just before noon with military bulldozers, tanks, and soldiers and invaded the village, which lies just northeast of Tubas. They began demolishing two homes which had been given demolition military orders in October 2003; one house was home to 12 people while the second was home to eight family members. Another ten buildings in Al Aqaba are threatened for demolition with military orders including the kindergarten, the generator, and the village mosque. The Occupation military stated that they would return in 5 days to “finish” the demolitions.

Since the demolition orders were issued, the people in the village have tried to obtain licenses for their buildings from the Occupation Civil Administration—the pretense for the demolition orders was for a lack of building permits. The licenses were rejected for the buildings and homes while the applications for the mosque and kindergarten have yet to be answered.

[Muddleoftheroad]

1. Building a highway

Funny, I see Nimby stories like this in the Washington Post every time somebody builds a road or a highway too.

[Aidoneus]

2. move along people, nothing to see here!

the village kindergarten, mosque, and a dozen homes--no biggie, it's all in the name of Peace. God bless the glorious "Peace Fence", cleared by "Peace Bulldozers", built by "Peace Slaves", with the path opened up by "Peace Bullets" and "Peace Tanks" if the "Terrorists" resist the destruction of their schools and homes.

[Muddleoftheroad]

3. People resist all major projects

It is human nature to resist change. So what else is new?

Inevitably, when a major project is built, some large number benefit and some negatively impacted by the construction complain.

[Scurrilous]

7. Pretty callous attitude...

..toward a real human tragedy.

[Muddleoftheroad]

8. Not callous

I'm not claiming the fence does not impact them, I am merely putting it in perspective. Like it or not, the Peace Fence is a major public project. Even if millions benefit, some will definitely bear the burden.

[Resistance]

11. no one benefits from Apartheid

[Muddleoftheroad]

12. Since it's not apartheid

Then your argument is meaningless.

The Peace Fence separates two factions that don't get along. It makes a good policy.

[Resistance]

13. of course it is

everyone acknowledges this fact except for ultra-nationalists who think everything Israel does is self-defense

[Muddleoftheroad]

15. Not everyone

Your sense of hyperbole is quite entertaining though.

[bluesoul]

4. You compare that to building a highway ?!?

Oh my... And I guess thousands of people lose their homes and are driven away when they build them, right? :crazy:

[Muddleoftheroad]

6. Actually, yes

Look at the mess caused by the Big Dig in Boston.

In Northern Virginia, whole neighborhoods will be impacted if the state merely decides to expand Rt. 66 one additional lane each way. As such, they are fighting it pretty heavily.

[Come Together]

5. guess it's part of the negative

side of human nature...people have always needed scapegoats...NIMBY stories are everywhere but seem to morph into some sort of horror movie in I/P

:wtf:

[Darranar]

9. Uh...

When a highway is built that unnecesarily cuts through neighborhoods, that comparison may be more accurate.

[newyorican]

10. Another mosque, eh?

Practice runs for al-Aqsa?

[Aidoneus]

14. took me a while to find this on a map

then I realized Tubas is somewhat between Jenin & Nablus.. are they building the eastern prison wall already?!

(of course, after looking on a few maps to find the place named in Resistance's segments, the full link itself had a small map showing where it was.. UT Library Online's collection is a useful set, at any rate)

In the process, found that the threat of this demolition order dates back to late October/early November. A note of this + a short history of the al-Aqaba village:--
http://www.poica.org/casestudies/Al-Aqaba-10-11-03/