Commenting Donald Trump in ‘beginning stages’ of discussing plan to relocate US Israeli embassy to Jerusalem, White House confirms

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The site of the US embassy is partly on the side of occupied East Jerusalem and US is not planning to recognize Palestine and East Jerusalem as its capital, nor West Jerusalem as Israel's capital, but whole of Jerusalem solely as Israel's capital with the embassy sealing that recognition.

At the same time Israel is literally daily destroying Palestinian homes and businesses in the occupied East Jerusalem, where 82 % of over 300 000 Palestinians live in poverty and 35 % have no running water, while Israel gives local schools (which it claims to be just any schools in Israel itself) less than 20 % of the funding that West Jerusalem schools of equal size get.

There's a lack of 1000 school rooms - to which Israel responds by trying to close down privately operating schools. About 40 % of Palestinian children in occupied East Jerusalem never finish schooling.

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East Jerusalem has Islam's third holiest site, the Al-Aqsa mosque compound. Each US president starting from Bill Clinton has tried to hand it to Israel, because pleasing Israel and Israel Lobby is more important to US than putting the Islamic world aflame.

Israel has been destroying historic buildings going back to the Mamluk period (1250-1516) from the area around al-Aqsa mosque compound, has closed a Muslim graveyard just outside it from burials and is planning to turn it into a park - not the first Muslim graveyard to suffer this fate in Jerusalem under Israel's rule.

There are several ongoing synagogue projects Israel is pushing in occupied East Jerusalem, one of which would be a six-story mega-synagogue crowned with a high dome at the heart of East Jerusalem's Old City.

Symbolic signs of Israel's rule and intended to make the area around al-Aqsa mosque compound Jewish. The ban on Muslim call to prayer is part of the eradication of the existing nature of East Jerusalem's Old City.

Knesset plans to 'divide' the al-Aqsa mosque itself between Jews and Muslims before a full Israeli takeover of the compound area, which would see a new Jewish Temple to be built beside existing buildings or replacing them.

Like in Hebron's Ibrahimi mosque, increasing numbers of Jews visit the al-Aqsa mosque compound under Israeli occupation guard; some 12 000 last year. At the same time Israel tries to limit Muslim access, on some days allowing only those over 50, on some those over 60.

Occupied Hebron's Ibrahimi mosque - site of the 1994 massacre of 29 people by American Baruch Goldstein - Israel now often keeps closed for Muslims on several days of the week while allowing access to its illegal settlers; Palestinians are regularly killed around it - creating a zone of fear, possibly deliberately.

Ibrahimi mosque can be seen as Israel's 'dry run' for al-Aqsa mosque compound, while US politicians and pundits tell each other that nobody will care or notice if Israel takes al-Aqsa mosque compound over and closes to it to Muslims while making it a site for Jewish worship.

I'm sure those who aren't hasbara trolls understand how far away that expectation is from the reality of what would ensue.

Commenting: Israeli officials back shoot-to-kill policy of Palestinian suspects, says Human Rights Watch

Commenting: Israeli officials back shoot-to-kill policy of Palestinian suspects, says Human Rights Watch

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Let's turn the situation upside down. It often makes it easier to see a situation:

Let's say Palestinians do and say what Israel and Israelis have done and said.

Israelis shot, left to bleed without aid, some immobile wounded Israelis finished with 'confirming the kill' (as Israelis say when they kill wounded Palestinians) shots when they offer no threat?

And a same excuse of them being 'attackers' paraded again and again by Palestinian officials, who would publicly support killing of wounded Israelis and condemn those who criticize it?

What would be the reaction of Israel's government, media, Jewish citizens and 'Western' politicians and media?

I think we all know it.

A huge avalanche of condemnation.

But when Israel does this to Palestinians, what is the reaction? Almost total silence - and attempt by Israel's online troll army to silence those few places like The Independent which report this and those online commentators who condemn what Israel is doing and what its representatives are saying.

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Israel's political leaders can say and do the most offensive and awful things without it carrying no price from the 'West'.

No wonder that single UN Resolution then makes them go mad when they have been taught by the 'West' that they can get away with all.

Theirs is the anger of the pampered child who has always gotten his way no matter what - leaving a trail of blood behind him...

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Israel has killed about 70 Palestinian children in the last 15 months.

At the same time Palestinians have killed 1 Israeli child.

In 2014 Israel killed over 560 Palestinian children, while Palestinians killed 4 Israeli children.

But according to the 'West' it's Israel which is 'defending itself'. It's Israel which needs 'security' - not the Palestinians.

The over 2200 Palestinian children killed by Israel in this century, the several hundred Lebanese children also killed by Israel - they don't matter.

In the eyes of the 'West' they, their lives and their deaths - don't usually exist.

If they are mentioned, then some Israeli apologists tell us that its the fault of Palestinians that Israel kills their children and if Palestinians would just give up, stop resisting and give their entire land over to Zionists, then everything would be right and Israel wouldn't have to kill more children to 'defend itself'.

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Israel denies medical aid to many of the Palestinians it wounds. It delays aid to all of them. No matter age or gender.

But what it does is to strip many of them to their underwear and often fully naked while letting them bleed without medical aid. Some are hand-cuffed.

Israel can do this - strip them naked and handcuff - but it for some reason can't give them first aid or move them to hospital.

'Security reasons' its spoke-persons say, 'had to check up first' - meaning clothes stripped soon after shooting, sometimes immediately, and then left to bleed for an hour or hour and a half, as long as it takes for the wounded to die.

And Israel allows its illegal settlers with their assault rifles to loiter around wounded, bleeding, naked and dying people - often children - taking photographs of the victims as trophies.

For some reason the 'Western' media both refuses to mention this and refuses to publish the images. 

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If Palestinians would do to Israeli Jews what Zionists do to Palestinians, the world would never allow it.

Not for one month, but it has allowed this to go on for 69 years.