The Racist Genocidal Wall belting Bethlehem nearly all the way around is about Israel grabbing all the vacant Palestinian land between Bethlehem and East Jerusalem. The scenic Shepherd's Hills have nearly all been seized. Bethlehem will not be able to expand. No new housing. No urban development. No commercial development as it is being purposefully strangulated. Its natural historic, commercial, social and cultural ties with East Jerusalem have been severed.
Genocide is defined in International Law as the killing, or in part, of an ethnic group.
This can be achieved by various means and not the usual stereotype of Genocide as on the Rwandan scale.
Palestinians from Bethlehem, Ramallah and the West Bank are forbidden from entering East Jerusalem. Many Palestinians have not been able to enter their ancient city for years - the commercial, religious, educational, medical, social hub of remaining Palestine.
All of it is very clear. The Israelis do not want Palestinians from entering, be it for whatever purpose. It is part and parcel of the Ethnic Cleansing Demographic War - a very old story over the course of 61 years.
It is all very deliberate. Urban, commercial, social and cultural suffocation will eventually herald the demise of Bethlehem. Pressures, in cases intolerable, will be piled on, pressurizing the Palestinians to emigrate. This is clearly Ethnic Cleansing.
It is happening elsewhere in the West Bank. The creation of suffocating, stifling mega prison ghettos, on the minimum of Palestinian land, is the objective. The Wall, barriers, fences, trenches, earth mounds, checkpoints, iron gates - totalling over 600 - the racist Permit System, mass curfew house arrest, home and property demolitions, seizing of Palestinian lands and water resources all constitute the Israeli executioner's noose around the neck of Palestinian society. Pure and simple!
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