Posted on 10/21/2010 10:27:49 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
Somewhere between the Jordanian border and the Green Line, we'll call it Kiryat M'uyamim, night before last, IDF/Police officers rousted out two families at 3 a.m. Their belongings were cast out and tractors and bulldozers destroyed the small hovels that they had built with their own hands. There was no advance warning of this. Neighbors took the unfortunate families in, and the next day everyone went to work. I was in Kiryat M'uyamim last night. At dark, a cement mixer descended the hill towards Kiryat M'uyamim, along with a procession of several small cars. My wife, young son and I followed them down the hill and quickly got a ride. On the smaller, adjacent hill of Kiryat M'uyamim, on a ledge further down an embankment, a small flat area had been smoothed over, marked off with rope, enclosed within a makeshift partition of boards and rocks, and the floor of the enclosed area covered with a network of rebar, some of it straight, some of it bent into odd shapes. A chute was set up under the cement mixer, and a crowd of men, boys and women gathered round, waiting for the cement to pour. Those men with long boots on waited with gardening hoes, plastic buckets, broad swaths of plywood and other makeshift tools. The concrete poured, and the men in the boots hastened to spread the mixture evenly throughout the enclosure. Slowly the enclosure filled up with the cement, and one of the men took off his boots and told the older boys to line up and each take a turn spreading. The boys whooped with excitement, and lined up, eagerly taking off their shoes. My son was in the back of the line, because he's only eight. Some boys had to be repeatedly ordered to give the next one a turn, so absorbed were they with the work. Women filmed the progress with digital cameras. Before all the boys got a turn, however, the cement truck pulled away and two men with a large plank and two long handles took over, meticulously plumbing the fresh-poured mixture, trying to give it an even consistency. The entire undertaking lasted for about an hour, during which a military-green jeep with a light on its roof hovered around on the road above us. People still watched, but nearby one of the residents, a musician, also under threat, was going to give a free concert in protest against the bulldozing, so my son and I finally climbed up the embankment and waited for the show to begin.
My son asked me if what we had witnessed was like when he stands up to bullies at school. I told him that it was the very same thing, only the bullies are bigger, and their threats are much more real.
I'll stand with those dispossessed families any day, and help lay foundations with them any night.
“Did they own the property or not?”
Go talk to their lawyer. What do you want from me?
Somewhere between the Jordanian border and the Green Line, we'll call it Kiryat M'uyamim, night before last, IDF/Police officers rousted out two families at 3 a.m. Their belongings were cast out and tractors and bulldozers destroyed the small hovels that they had built with their own hands. There was no advance warning of this. Neighbors took the unfortunate families in, and the next day everyone went to work.
I was in Kiryat M'uyamim last night. At dark, a cement mixer descended the hill towards Kiryat M'uyamim, along with a procession of several small cars. My wife, young son and I followed them down the hill and quickly got a ride.
On the smaller, adjacent hill of Kiryat M'uyamim, on a ledge further down an embankment, a small flat area had been smoothed over, marked off with rope, enclosed within a makeshift partition of boards and rocks, and the floor of the enclosed area covered with a network of rebar, some of it straight, some of it bent into odd shapes. A chute was set up under the cement mixer, and a crowd of men, boys and women gathered round, waiting for the cement to pour.
Those men with long boots on waited with gardening hoes, plastic buckets, broad swaths of plywood and other makeshift tools. The concrete poured, and the men in the boots hastened to spread the mixture evenly throughout the enclosure. Slowly the enclosure filled up with the cement, and one of the men took off his boots and told the older boys to line up and each take a turn spreading.
The boys whooped with excitement, and lined up, eagerly taking off their shoes. My son was in the back of the line, because he's only eight. Some boys had to be repeatedly ordered to give the next one a turn, so absorbed were they with the work. Women filmed the progress with digital cameras.
Before all the boys got a turn, however, the cement truck pulled away and two men with a large plank and two long handles took over, meticulously plumbing the fresh-poured mixture, trying to give it an even consistency. The entire undertaking lasted for about an hour, during which a military-green jeep with a light on its roof hovered around on the road above us.
People still watched, but nearby one of the residents, a musician, also under threat, was going to give a free concert in protest against the bulldozing, so my son and I finally climbed up the embankment and waited for the show to begin.
My son asked me if what we had witnessed was like when he stands up to bullies at school. I told him that it was the very same thing, only the bullies are bigger, and their threats are much more real.
I'll stand with those dispossessed families any day, and help lay foundations with them any night.
I think I need to print out your "report" and burn it slowly, and maybe it will overcome the Trollish smell that's suddenly in the air.
IDF = Israeli Defense Forces (for those of you in Rio Linda).
They dispossessed an Israeli family at 3 am to pursue an illusory “peace” with the people who openly proclaim and teach their children that they want all of them to die.
Who: IDF and Israeli settlers.
What: Dispossessed them of their homes.
Why: Because they want “peace” with people who want them dead.
When: Last night.
Where: You are not saying.
Write better next time. Is English not your fist language?
Well, gee.. you see, that is pertinant info that should have been included in the body of the post!
You need to read more carefully. The IDF was “resettling” Jews, presumably to appease Obambi and his cohort of Anti-Semitic Europhiles.
“me too...
I mean hope you are worthy to one day shine shoes...”
That’s very big of you, considering the many years you’ve been trying to get a job shining shoes.
“In any event, I sympathize with Bibi.”
That makes one of us.
oho! you are so witty, yes I too hope one day to be doing shining of the shoes
It has been so many years of studying to be such high acheievment
Then I can throw them at you!
HA HA I are so witty in return yes? You must be admitting this.
Hang in there. I firmly believ there will be a new and improved US government in 2013
And so, here in America, if you don’t pay your water bill, your water gets turned off... you can only live three days without water. Are water company’s evil? Same goes for all other utilities.
If you don’t pay property taxes, the state has a right to kick you out and sell your house for back taxes... Is the state evil? Most would say, “depends on who, R or D, is running the ship of state.
If you don’t pay your rent or mortgage, guess what happens then and who is the evil one? The point is, no one has a real property right anymore, except the state... we all are just paying rent. Whether its the IDF, the USA or USSR (I mean Russia), we are all just renting.
Well, now you are beginning to dispel the Trollish smell, by slowly "adding" to your report.
Suggest next time that you delay posting long enough to ensure that you have enough information in your post to enable FReepers to understand what happened, why it happened, who it was done to, who it was done by, why you would be withholding information, etc.
“Ummm, ok, thanks for the “facts” about this incident that happened “somewhere”, and occurred for “some reason”, and it’s good to know that these “facts” can be fully accepted because you “saw it happen”.”
I already gave the reasons repeatedly. Jewish “settlers” rousted out at 3 a.m. to wreck their homes to impress either: 1. Obama (hah!) 2. Palestinians (double hah!) 3. or both. I am keeping the location to myself so as to avoid this being seen by the wrong people and causing a further visitation from the bulldozers/tractors, who will then ruin last night’s work.
“I think I need to print out your “report” and burn it slowly, and maybe it will overcome the Trollish smell that’s suddenly in the air.”
Well, don’t eat so many beans, and you won’t pass gas so suddenly.
Can someone figure out whatr this thread is all about?
You probably could have written that better, thus avoiding the confusion that is clear by the ensuing comments.
Basic journalism: who, what, when, where, why, and how much?
Write to be understood. Thanks.
OK. Belatedly I included it. I have sinned. I left out pertinent information from the body of a post and supplemented it later. Shrive me, shrive me, holy man...
The boys whooped with excitement, and lined up, eagerly taking off their shoes. My son was in the back of the line, because he's only eight. Some boys had to be repeatedly ordered to give the next one a turn, so absorbed were they with the work
Cement pouring? Gee, I wonder why?
You did NOT say they were Jewish settlers which gave the impression you were speaking about Palestinians.
Hence why people questioned you.
Uhh... It’s not “cement” it’s concrete, and only an idiot would wade around in it without boots on. It will dry out and burn your skin. (At least the good concrete we have will.)
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