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1| In #TheOnlyDemocracyInTheMiddleEast™ the #indigenous population constitutes 21% of the country’s recognised citizens, but less than 3% of #land falls under the jurisdiction of their municipalities 
https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/05/12/israel-discriminatory-land-policies-hem-palestinians #Israel
https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/05/12/israel-discriminatory-land-policies-hem-palestinians #Israel
2| Because the land formerly known as #Palestine is carved up into #Israel, the #WestBank, and #Gaza, the numbers are a little hard to follow, but basically 85% of Palestine is under Israel's control.
3| While the majority of 85% is Israel itself, in the West Bank, Israel's colonies and military infrastructure add up to over 76% of the West Bank.
http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/post.aspx?lang=en&ItemID=3700#
http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/post.aspx?lang=en&ItemID=3700#
4| But let's keep in mind that Israel still hasn't finished expanding itself over indigenous Palestinian territories. https://twitter.com/TaliShapiro/status/1259490495514005506
5| Whether Israel acquires more land outside itself (taking into account that all of it is on top of Palestine), or inside, it restricts where #Palestinians can grow.
6| What happens if you take a plastic bottle and fill it up with air beyond its spatial capacity? (answer: ) Fortunately humans don't typically combust from the inside, but when humans are crammed into tight spaces, conditions become #unliveable.
7| As this Human Rights Watch Report states about one of the Palestinian towns it surveyed: "life expectancy of its residents is twenty years below the national average."
8| This means that the people of Jisr Al-Zarqa are dying off in their sixties, in a state that typically sees their elderly reach over 80 years of age.
9| Jisr Al-Zarqa's situation reflects the norm for Palestinian localities in Israel, rather than the exception ( https://twitter.com/TaliShapiro/status/1193877002970976257). And while the old die young, the young die at high rates;
10| More astounding than the fact that Palestinians in Israel have the life expectancy of a "third world country", while their Jewish counterparts get superior #healthcare, is the fact that their #babies die between 3-4 times more often. https://twitter.com/TaliShapiro/status/1082633072414285825
11| All this of course doesn't include the people killed or injured by direct applied force. https://twitter.com/TaliShapiro/status/1238094169144545281
12| It can't be understated that under the Convention on the Crime of Genocide, "Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part" is in fact an act of #genocide.
https://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/crimeofgenocide.asp
https://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/crimeofgenocide.asp
13| The issue of space allocation is just one of many variables lacking for Palestinian citizens of Israel.
14| Jisr al-Zarqa, for example, "has no industrial zone, emergency health services, post office, bank, or bank-operated ATM machine, and few public or recreational sites or facilities."
15| Compound enough negatives in the living conditions of human beings, and you end up with ghettos and concentration camps.
16| Celebrities, Israel's #discrimination policies are deadly & enshrined into its constitutional law ( https://www.adalah.org/en/content/view/9569).It is #apartheid in every sense of the word. And just like the apartheid regime of South Africa was boycotted, so should Israel.
@celinedion @dinosaurjr
@celinedion @dinosaurjr
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