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Gaza Television Ad (Long Version)
We thought, “What better way to bring this important information to the attention of people in the United States than to advertise nationally on DIRECTV?” the largest satellite television subscription service in the country.
After detailed discussions with DIRECTV, including agreement on rates, times, and network placements of the ad, when we gave them the final product, they abruptly decided not to do business with us.
This blatant act of censorship is preventing millions of U.S. households from learning the truth about our government’s crucial role in enabling Israel’s war on and siege of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
After detailed discussions with DIRECTV, including agreement on rates, times, and network placements of the ad, when we gave them the final product, they abruptly decided not to do business with us.
This blatant act of censorship is preventing millions of U.S. households from learning the truth about our government’s crucial role in enabling Israel’s war on and siege of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli Supreme Court approved the demolition of a Palestinian village
Israeli Supreme Court approved the demolition of a Palestinian village in the West Bank and the displacement of its population while continuing expansion of settlements adjacent unimpeded.
The two organizations, "the Association for Civil Rights" and the "Rabbis for Human Rights" in a joint statement today that the Court rejected a petition introduced to prevent the demolition of the village, "Khirbet Tana," and the displacement of the population on grounds of licensed homes.
The two organizations that around 25 Palestinian families, forced to leave their homes and lands in the village of Khirbet Tana, after the Supreme Court rejected their petition, which called for demolition of the homes to prevent residents of the village and prepare the structural map of the village.
In their petition, confirmed that residents of the village planning policy in the occupied Palestinian territories do not allow them to getting building permits, and force them to choose between the unauthorized construction or to remain without housing.
Double standards
During the debate in the Court of the State of Israel recognized that even if the Residents of the village for a license under the law, the probability of obtaining a license is very small.
In court, the lawyer introduced Nasrat Dkor, from the Association for Civil Rights and a letter addressed to the attorney for the government to former Defense Minister Amir Peretz, said that despite the fact that the unauthorized construction in the weakness of the Palestinian villages of unauthorized construction in the settlements, the implementation of the demolition of the Palestinians more than tenfold in the settlements.
He also stressed that the lawyer Dkor Israeli planning policy in the "C" depends on the systematic distinction between the Palestinians and the settlers, and pointed out that most of the villages in this region, which was held prior to the occupation in 1967, is the absence of structural maps enable the construction and development, while enjoying the settlements adjacent maps detailed, modern, and by the civil administration of the occupation.
He pointed out that the buildings Dkor village is not recognized by only a single house, and that the occupation authorities are eager to demolish Palestinian homes, although ownership of the land while allowing the illegal Jewish settlement construction and widening, a settlement, "Givat Aolm" built along the village without any inconvenience.
The name of the law
The Dkor of the island revealed that the Israeli judiciary system of laws designed to implement the planning and construction when it accused the Palestinians, under the banner of the policy planning process.
He stressed that the decision to erase the court denied a Palestinian village and its inhabitants from their lands devoted to the Authority's policy of discrimination between the Israelis and the Palestinians in the region "C", which constitute 60% of the territory of the West Bank, adding that the policies of occupation, aims to reduce the Palestinian presence in order to ensure the prosperity of the Jewish settlement.
For his part, after Rabbi Eric Acrmen, director of "Rabbis for Human Rights" of the sentence by saying, "It is deeply disappointing unwillingness of judges to recognize the pattern of the private life of the inhabitants of the village of Khirbet Tana plagued their lands, despite the continued abuse by the army of occupation, noting that the Jewish tradition, it is necessary to that examines the self-check before making the rulings. "
The two organizations, "the Association for Civil Rights" and the "Rabbis for Human Rights" in a joint statement today that the Court rejected a petition introduced to prevent the demolition of the village, "Khirbet Tana," and the displacement of the population on grounds of licensed homes.
The two organizations that around 25 Palestinian families, forced to leave their homes and lands in the village of Khirbet Tana, after the Supreme Court rejected their petition, which called for demolition of the homes to prevent residents of the village and prepare the structural map of the village.
In their petition, confirmed that residents of the village planning policy in the occupied Palestinian territories do not allow them to getting building permits, and force them to choose between the unauthorized construction or to remain without housing.
Double standards
During the debate in the Court of the State of Israel recognized that even if the Residents of the village for a license under the law, the probability of obtaining a license is very small.
In court, the lawyer introduced Nasrat Dkor, from the Association for Civil Rights and a letter addressed to the attorney for the government to former Defense Minister Amir Peretz, said that despite the fact that the unauthorized construction in the weakness of the Palestinian villages of unauthorized construction in the settlements, the implementation of the demolition of the Palestinians more than tenfold in the settlements.
He also stressed that the lawyer Dkor Israeli planning policy in the "C" depends on the systematic distinction between the Palestinians and the settlers, and pointed out that most of the villages in this region, which was held prior to the occupation in 1967, is the absence of structural maps enable the construction and development, while enjoying the settlements adjacent maps detailed, modern, and by the civil administration of the occupation.
He pointed out that the buildings Dkor village is not recognized by only a single house, and that the occupation authorities are eager to demolish Palestinian homes, although ownership of the land while allowing the illegal Jewish settlement construction and widening, a settlement, "Givat Aolm" built along the village without any inconvenience.
The name of the law
The Dkor of the island revealed that the Israeli judiciary system of laws designed to implement the planning and construction when it accused the Palestinians, under the banner of the policy planning process.
He stressed that the decision to erase the court denied a Palestinian village and its inhabitants from their lands devoted to the Authority's policy of discrimination between the Israelis and the Palestinians in the region "C", which constitute 60% of the territory of the West Bank, adding that the policies of occupation, aims to reduce the Palestinian presence in order to ensure the prosperity of the Jewish settlement.
For his part, after Rabbi Eric Acrmen, director of "Rabbis for Human Rights" of the sentence by saying, "It is deeply disappointing unwillingness of judges to recognize the pattern of the private life of the inhabitants of the village of Khirbet Tana plagued their lands, despite the continued abuse by the army of occupation, noting that the Jewish tradition, it is necessary to that examines the self-check before making the rulings. "
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