Bibi's Sister-In-Law Arrested

Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin "Bibi" Netanyahu has had a difficult past few days. First, his ambassador to the United States is once again summoned to the State Department to hear criticism after Israel illegally evicted two Palestinian families from their homes in Arab East Jerusalem. Then an rising star in the Israeli diplomatic corps was recalled from the United States after writing a critique of Netanyahu's administration and how their conflict with Obama was harming Israel's strategic standing in the world. And, now, Bibi's sister-in-law has been arrested.

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Ofra Ben-Artzi is one of those increasingly few Israelis of conscience. An editor for the anti-occupation publication HaKibush, a mother of an IDF solider who refused to serve in the occupied territories and as such was jailed, and a pro-Palestinian activist she recently tired to aid those aforementioned evicted Palestinians. For her trouble, she was arrested and then released after several hours in custody with no charges failed.

Artzi spoke about what she saw in Jerusalem:

I have spent an hour sitting there. We went deeper in the neighborhood, into the area where the families had been expelled from their homes. I could see the ultra-Orthodox men and women, in their distinctive clothing, walking quietly along the road, towards the grave of Shimon the Tzadik. No police blocked their way. I reflected that I was seeing the beginning of an innovation. No longer simply a "Jews Only" road. From now on, roads would be reserved to a specific kind of Jews, to those who "look Jewish", those who – as PM Netanyahu once said "have not forgotten what it means to be a Jew." Nor did the bars prevent me from seeing that Umm Kamel’s tent, where she had been living since her own expulsion, was also gone. The ground where it had stood was completely bare, the whole area infested with police – hundreds at least, possibly thousands. From the floor of the police car I saw what looked like a complete Judaization of the neighborhood. I would not be surprised if they also take off the very name of Sheikh Jarrah from the signs and the map.

The Palestinians built Jerusalem, and the Israeli stole it in 1948 and now they are working to evict more and more Arabs out. Go to West Jerusalem and see the Arabesque mansions Palestinians built and that are now occupied by thieving Israelis:

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A Palestinian home occupied by an Israeli in occupied Jerusalem.

Artzi added:

Their are no words to describe the injustice and folly of this, we are walking with our open eyes into the abyss. If we will not be smart enough to live together, Arabs and Jews, as in the days of the [British] Mandate when there were two mayors in Jerusalem, then we will be dragged into transfer, and if this is not enough, what will we do then? Erect concentration camps?

She is one of the remaining voices of morality in that sinking country. And she can see where Israel is headed: "into the abyss."