COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT BY ISRAELI OCCUPATION IN DURA BEFORE ACCUSED IS FOUND GUILTY

COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT BY ISRAELI OCCUPATION IN DURA BEFORE ACCUSED IS FOUND GUILTY

Israel's occupation forces used explosives and a bulldozer to destroy the family home of political prisoner Mohamed Amayreh(38) in the town of Dura in the West Bank's Hebron district.

THE BACKGROUND

Amayreh, a member of Palestinian Authority's security forces, was kidnapped on July 4th by Israel's occupation forces and accused of participation in a drive-by shooting three days which killed an illegal Israeli settler Michael Mark and injured three of his family members in the occupied West Bank.

Israel later killed former political prisoner Mohammed al-Faqih, who it claims did the actual shooting, in the village of Surif by using anti-tank missiles and armoured bulldozer to destroy the house he was in.

BEYOND EVEN JIM CROW

For Israel a Palestinian accused by it is already guilty. Everything else is a charade.

Mohamed Amayreh won't be convicted in a show trial for months, yet Israeli occupation with an Israeli court's blessing already blew up the house his relatives were living in.

This is a case of 'pre-emptive collective punishment' where even the shroud of Jim Crow -style 'legality' has been shredded to pieces.

Israeli regime's representatives know how a show trial will end, so collective punishment for an individual's act is done before the individual is even officially found guilty.

'Western' politicians and media take Israel's lead and consider all Palestinians going through this cruel theater of occupation 'law and justice' guilty from the moment they are kidnapped (or killed) by the Israeli occupation.

Ethnicity and nationality of the kidnapped occupied and the kidnapping occupier are enough for them to consider the kidnapped occupied person guilty. Just like they know that "Israel is just defending itself" based on what claims Israel's regimes makes of the Zionist state's identity.

To be a Palestinian living under Israeli occupation and to be kidnapped by it is to be guilty in the eyes of the occupiers and the foreign supporters and facilitators of the occupation. It's Apartheid, but because Israel is doing the brutal racist occupation, 'Western' politicians and media deny the existence of Apartheid.

SOURCES:

Israeli army detonates house of Palestinian prisoner in Dura town

http://english.palinfo.com/site/pages/details.aspx?itemid=80437

Israeli forces demolish home of Palestinian prisoner accused in drive-by shooting

http://maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772907