A British Minister Caged by Israel In Hebron

I felt offended when I saw British Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Bill Rammell, in company of the British consul Richard bil-ramil-_britishMakepeace, his deputy John Edwards and Political Consul Karen Mcluskie caged at the inhuman Israeli steel gates which lock all the entrances of the old city of Hebron. Minister Bill Rammell was on a tour in the heart of my homeland Hebron after his visit to Israel.

The Minister was forced to pass through the steel gates which the Israeli occupation fixed at the entrance of the city. I feel even more offended by this injustice whenever I see the Europeans and Western ministers visiting the city of Hebron, passing through these inhuman gates, and then retiring home to vote for laws which serve to continue the Israeli violations of the Human Rights in the occupied territories.

I also feel offended by the injustice when I hear the European officials 610x2listening to the Israeli war criminals complaining against the freedom of expression, which Israeli officials explain as “an increase of anti-semitism”  in Europe. It would be better if the Israeli politicians and war criminals, and especially the President of the state of Israel Shimon Peres, removed the steel gates which convert Hebron into a cage unfit for animals before they opened their mouth to talk about anti-semitism.

In the city of Hebron, Palestinians have not fired missiles at the illegal Jewish colonies built in the heart of the city, what would give the Israeli occupation excuses for its crimes against humanity in the city, in the same way as they are doing in Gaza. The Israeli occupation has converted the heart of my city into a concentration camp, under cover of the silence of the international community.

The metal gates which block all the entrances to the old city of Hebron are a Civil Administrationclear violation of International and humanitarian laws. These doors turn the life of 40.000 Palestinian into a horror of isolation. A depravity such as these Israeli metal gates fixed everywhere in Hebron, which convert the whole city, but especially the old city into a concentration camp for all its inhabitants, have never, ever been known in the history of mankind, not during the terror reign of the Nazis in Europe, not during the middle age.

Two months ago a delegation of European Ministers and diplomats passed through these inhuman metal doors during a solidarity tour organized by Luisa Morgantina, the vice President of the European Parliament to city of Hebron. They all saw the policy of genocide implemented in Hebron. But two weeks ago, the European Union passed a decision which allows Europe to raise the level of their relationship with Israeli, despite its continued, illegal occupation and its blatant violation of the most basic human rights of all Palestinians. Some of the Europeans were in Hebron. They all saw and passed through the iron gates of the Israeli concentration camp in Hebron. They also were attacked by settlers, but none of them apparently understands the depraved level of injustice which they represent.

Abu Monshar PalaceIn Hebron, after British Minister Rammell passed through the metal gates, he asked Israel to remove the illegal settlements according to international laws. He added that the British government and the international community is calling for the establishment of two neighboring states, Israel and Palestine, and that Israel should withdraw from the “illegal” settlements to achieve peace in the Middle East.

It would have been better if Minister Bill Rammell and the international community understood that all the settlements which are built in the occupied territories are illegal and must be removed. There is no distinction between “legal” and  “illegal” settlement in the occupied territories. All the Israeli settlement in West Bank are illegal. All Israeli presence in the West Bank, beyond the “green line”, is illegal and constitutes a crime against humanity, war crimes, and is in effect an act of genocide against Palestinians.

Before visiting Hebron, Minister Bill Rammell visited Israel and announced a proposal of the new Britain-Israel Research and Academic Exchange Partnership (BIRAX). He also visited Noam Shalit, the father of Israeli-French soldier Gilad Shalit, who was captured by the Palestinian resistance during a military preparation for invading Gaza. Minister Rammell declared before departing for the UK that he was looking forward to visit Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories again. He said: “I look forward to hear and see the situation on the ground. I am very much aware of the challenges we all face in our efforts to secure a just and lasting peace in the Middle East. Britain, as a friend to Israel and the Palestinians, continues doing all the best to contribute realizing the vision of a two-state solution.”

As a Palestinian expelled from the old city of Hebron, I am too waiting to see what  real results the visit of Minister Bill Rammell will bring. Will Israel remove the gates of genocide from the heart of my city???

5 comments to A British Minister Caged by Israel In Hebron

  • Beau Leclerque

    In your article “A British Minister Caged by Israel in Hebron”, you are also talking about legal and illegal settlements in Palestine.

    Well, perhaps you got used to a situation that was created more than 60 years ago, but there are absolutely no legal “Jewish” (zionist) settlements at all in the territory that once was Palestine at large.

    This situation was created by the UN, but they never had the legal authority to do that. First of all, they are not a Real Estate agency. They have no right whatsoever over national territories.

    Second, the UN is acting outside its legal limits in all regards. One of the major reasons I say this is that according to their constitution they cannot be located (like an embassy) inside the territory of any member of the Permanent Security Counsel. But they are in New York, and the US is member of this counsel.

    So any presence of Zionist immigrants anywhere in the (former) Palestine is totally illegal. They are nothing but a criminal gang looking like a nation and holding hostage a real nation. How could they do that? You know the answer: Money rules!


    Comment: There are in fact NO legal settlements anywhere beyond the “green line” (armistice line of 1967) under international law. All jews present in the West Bank and Gaza who do not have known ties to the land dating from before 1948 are illegal, and they constitute a crime against humanity. Technically, ALL the estimated 350.000 illegal Israeli squatters are criminals, accomplices of genocide and ethnic cleansing, even those who do not recur to violence. The question is not if they are criminals, for their presence is without a doubt a grave crime against humanity. The important question is how to get them to leave and pay reparations.

  • John N

    How do you feel about the illegal suicide bombers that the Palestinians send into Israel?


    Answer: I feel sorrow for all the victims of violence, but I feel much more sorry because of the continuing of the occupation and the complete inability of the Israeli side to see anything wrong in their daily crimes against ALL Palestinians.

    The suicide bombers go to Israel because each day they die a new death of humiliation under the injustice, insults, violence and terrorism brought upon them by the occupation. The acts of the suicide bombings are an irrational response to irrational violence brought against them by the State of Israel and the illegal jewish squatters, many of whom are american and european citizens, who should know better, but for some reason think that theft and murder is just fine.

    While I do in no way condone violence, what would YOU do if merely trying to present a complaint at a police station against people who do you wrong puts you in danger of being beaten up or arrested for months on trumped up charges? What would YOU do if the day of tomorrow the police came to your house and gave you and your family 10 minutes to vacate your house because some foreigner decided that he likes it?

    What would you do if you had lived in a climate of injustice all your life, if your life was cheap because you are seen as less than human in your own country?

    I hope that this helps you understand why these acts happen, when such things should not be happening anywhere.

  • Paxman

    Israel is a failed state. A failed ideology and a failed religion.

    [Possibly illegal statement redacted]. The sooner an International Tribunal is convened at the Hague to deal with the monsters the better it will be for the world.

  • Peter

    If someone was to settle in my backyard without asking me…

    I would shoot the settler… period.

    If the settler was stronger than me , i would sacrifice myself for my

    family .

  • Right…Israel is a totally fake thing. There’s nothing true about it and, as a lie that it is, it will fall and collapse. It won’t hold much longer.

    Let’s pray for the world to unite and [Redacted – Illegal statement], so we can rise again as a human society, without these [Redacted – Illegal statement] beings…

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