Friday, July 26, 2019

Zur Baher

Amira Hess is my favorite journalist to vomit on. She sees the world in black and white - black being the Jews and white the colonized Palestinians and occasionally the victimized Ethiopian and Sudanese intruders. Today she writes about the village of Zur Baher, near Jerusalem. Under the Turkish Sultanate, the village (meaning Big Rock or Big Secret) had 24 families living in natural caves; these people has multiplied to 40,000 today. Part of the village has been annexed to the Municipality of Jerusalem and its inhabitants enjoy Israeli citizenship, the rest are Palestinian Authority subjects. A house on the Israeli side sells for 300 - 400 thousand dollars, while the same a few meters further sells for 100,000 US$. Almost like Detroit and its White suburbs. The Israeli side is under tremendous demographic pressure: Palestinians try to marry Israeli citizens and bring in their extended families, lots of undocumented transients, and much building without plans nor permits. The place is unmanageable, the police avoids entering the neighborhood and the government tries to establish order and legitimacy. For Amira this is intentional, malignant, colonialist, planned destruction and transfer, although I agree that from her despicable self-hating point of view it well may be so.

American right wing blogs - always ahead of the general press - have adopted a cold, scientific tone, they are full of statistics and data. For example, one note about Ilhan Omar, a Minnesotta senator, whose very name and family origins are obscure (has been married to her blood brother for nine years), mentions that DNA controls show that in 98% of the Somali family reunion requests there is no genetic relationship and that they are ALL lying. It is more or less like our family reunion requests of our Ethiopian "Jewish" immigrants. In our case, the so called "Jewish" Agency never rejects them because it is known that Ethiopian "Jewish" families are fluid, marry and separate without thinking it twice, are polygamous and polyandrous, and they themselves are not sure who their parents and sisters may be. In Hebrew: Ethiopian Jews are not lying, they don't know. The Jewish religion is most rigorous regarding family purity, but for the State of Israel they are all kosher Jews and please be in the airport three hours before the time. 

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