Showing posts with label West Bank. Show all posts
Showing posts with label West Bank. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 17, 2023

ABBY MARTIN ON PALESTINE: There's a 99.9% conviction rate. Kids are tortured. Kids are in prison.

Everyone mistakenly thinks that Hamas controls Palestine.  That's not true at all.  There are 3 different areas that were drawn up with the original partition.  It's the West Bank, which is totally under military rule by Israel.  And then there's the Gaza Strip which is like an open-air prison which they bomb the sh** out of every couple of years and Hamas controls that area.  And then there's Jerusalem, which is an international city center that both Arabs and Jews live in.  But the West Bank has been occupied militarily since 1967 and it's complete martial law.  There are checkpoints.  All political parties are illegal.  You can't . . . having a gun is like the least of it.  You can't hold a flag.  You can't belong to a political party.  You literally can't do sh** if you're a Palestinian.  You just have to sit there and submit.  Even if you share a photo of someone who was killed by an Israeli soldier, you go to jail, and you go to jail for the [number] of months that . . . yeah, based on the shares and the likes of the photo, they'll penalize you more and put you in prison for longer and longer.  Of someone who died, and they'll claim that you're sharing a martyr and inciting people to commit suicide.  And on behalf of Palestinians, you go to jail.  And they put them in jail.  There's a 99.9% conviction rate.  Kids are tortured.  Kids are in prison.  It is absolutely insane.  The first day that we were there, we went to the funeral of some guy, some farmer, shot by Israeli forces, and we went to the funeral.  It was horrible.  All the women are wailing and crying.  As we were leaving, the Israeli Forces had set up a checkpoint right outside of this dude's house and started tear-gassing and shooting rubber bullets at people who were simply attending the funeral.  Just to punish people for attending the funeral.  

We went to another girl's house, whose name is Aya, who got shot in the vagina for peacefully protesting at some protest.  They shot 200 people that day.  One guy next to her died.  Another guy was paralyzed.  They have a policy that's called "Shoot to Cripple" where they shoot guys in the dicks.  Yeah, it's f***ing nuts.

Different license plates for Arabs and Jews.