Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Price Tags

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Palestinian children play outside their home on the seafront promenade, at the Shatee refugee camp in Gaza City, on May 13, 2014, as Palestinians mark the 66th anniversary of the Nakba (AFP Photo/Mohammed Abed)
A Palestinian protester raises up a flag and a banner reading 'Palestine' during a rally marking the Nakba, in Gaza City, on May 13, 2014 (AFP Photo/Mohammed Abed)
Palestinian children walk past a mural ahead of the 66th anniversary of Nakba in the West Bank City of Nablus May 11, 2014. Palestinians will mark "Nakba" (Catastrophe) on May 15 to commemorate the expulsion or fleeing of some 700,000 Palestinians from their homes in the war that led to the founding of Israel in 1948. REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini  

An Arab-Israeli man holds a Palestinian flag during a march at a protest to mark the right of return for refugees who fled their homes during the 1948 war that followed the creation of Israel, which celebrated its 66th anniversary, near Tiberias in northern Israel May 6, 2014. REUTERS/Ammar Awad

Israeli Arabs and other supporters wave Palestinian flags as they march during a protest to mark the right of return for refugees who fled their homes during the 1948 war that followed the creation of Israel, which celebrated its 66th anniversary, near Tiberias in northern Israel May 6, 2014. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
Palestinians release balloons attached to Palestinian flags during a rally ahead of the 66th anniversary of Nakba, near the Jewish settlement of Yitzhar near the West Bank City of Nablus May 10, 2014. Palestinians will mark "Nakba" (Catastrophe) on May 15 to commemorate the expulsion or fleeing of some 700,000 Palestinians from their homes in the war that led to the founding of Israel in 1948. REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini
Palestinian boys release balloons attached to Palestinian flags during a rally ahead of the 66th anniversary of Nakba, near the Jewish settlement of Yitzhar near the West Bank City of Nablus May 10, 2014. Palestinians will mark "Nakba" (Catastrophe) on May 15 to commemorate the expulsion or fleeing of some 700,000 Palestinians from their homes in the war that led to the founding of Israel in 1948. REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini
Israelis, Israeli Arabs, Muslims and Christians hold signs with slogans in Hebrew, Arabic and English as they join a demonstration against the so-called 'Price Tag' phenomenon outside the Israeli Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem, Israel, 11 May 2014. The term 'Price Tag' is used in connection with vandalism against Arab, Christian or Jewish property and holy sites in Jerusalem. EFE/EPA/ABIR SULTAN
A man holding a placard joins a demonstration of Israelis, Israeli Arabs, Christians and Muslims against the so-called 'Price Tag' phenomenon outside the Israeli Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem, Israel, 11 May 2014. The term 'Price Tag' is used in connection with vandalism against Arab, Christian or Jewish property and holy sites in Jerusalem.ABIR SULTAN
Arab-Israeli children carry posters of Pope Francis during an annual march for Virgin Mary in the northern Israeli city of Haifa on May 11, 2014 AFP Photo/Ahmad Gharabli
Palestinian boy uses a sling shot to throw stones against Israeli soldiers during clashes over the Jewish settlement of Qadomem at Kofr Qadom village, near west bank city of Nablus, 02 May 2014. According to information given by medical sources, 12 Palestinians suffered injuries during the clashes. EPA/ALAA BADARNEH
Arab Israeli men stand next to graffiti reading in Hebrew "Arabs Out" on the wall of a mosque in the northern Israeli town of Umm al-Faham on April 18, 2014 (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)
In this image taken from video obtained from Youth Against Settlements, a group of Palestinian activists, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, an Israeli soldier walks toward a Palestinian filming a confrontation between the soldier and other Palestinians in the West Bank city of Hebron. The reprimand of an Israeli soldier, caught on video cursing and pointing a cocked gun toward the head of a Palestinian teen, has triggered the biggest outpouring of frustration by Israeli soldiers in years about their service in the West Bank. (AP Photo/Youth Against Settlements)
A Palestinian woman with children walks past a mural showing the city of Jerusalem and the cartoon characture known as Handala holding a key as Palestinians ready to mark the 66 anniversary of the Nakba, in Rafah, Gaza Strip, on May 13, 2014 (AFP Photo/Said Khatib)
Arab Israelis protestors hold up the Palestinian flag as they march for the right of return for refugees expelled during the 1948 war that followed the creation of the state of Israel, near Tiberias on May 6, 2014 AFP Photo/Ahmad Gharabli
An Israeli Arab Christian holds a poster depicting Pope Francis during a procession in the northern city of Haifa May 11, 2014. The top Roman Catholic cleric in the Holy Land said on Sunday a spate of attacks he described as acts of terror against the church were poisoning the atmosphere ahead of this month's visit by Pope Francis, and urged Israel to arrest more perpetrators. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
Israeli Arab Christians hold up posters depicting Pope Francis during a procession in the northern city of Haifa May 11, 2014. The top Roman Catholic cleric in the Holy Land said on Sunday a spate of attacks he described as acts of terror against the church were poisoning the atmosphere ahead of this month's visit by Pope Francis, and urged Israel to arrest more perpetrators. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
Israeli Arab Christians take part in a procession in the northern city of Haifa May 11, 2014. The top Roman Catholic cleric in the Holy Land said on Sunday a spate of attacks he described as acts of terror against the church were poisoning the atmosphere ahead of this month's visit by Pope Francis, and urged Israel to arrest more perpetrators. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
A Palestinian protester holds his national flag during a demonstration in solidarity with prisoners held in Israeli jails, near the Nahal Oz border crossing with Israel, east of Gaza City, on April 18, 2014 AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams  
An Israeli Air Force military cargo airplane C-130J Super Hercules flies over the Negev Desert during an air show celebrating Israel's Independence Day, Monday, Tuesday, May 6, 2014. Israel is celebrating its annual Independence Day, marking 66 years since the founding of the state in 1948. AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov
A municipality worker paints over graffiti daubed in Hebrew on a wall of the Romanian Orthodox Church in Jerusalem May 9, 2014. The Roman Catholic Church in Jerusalem, preparing for a visit by Pope Francis later this month, has expressed alarm over threats to Christians scrawled by suspected Jewish extremists on church property in the Holy Land. The graffiti in Hebrew reads, "Price tag", a reference by ultranationalist Jews to making the government "pay" for any curbs on Jewish settlement on Palestinian land. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
A girl walks past a banner bearing a portrait of Pope Francis displayed on a wall on April 13, 2014, outside Jerusalem's Old City AFP Photo/Ahmad Gharabli
In an unprecedented move, Pope Francis will be accompanied throughout by Rabbi Abraham Skorka and Islamic studies professor Omar Abboud -- old friends of the Argentine pope from when he was the archbishop of Buenos Aires.

'Death to Arabs' sprayed on Palestinian kindergarten in Hebron 

Israeli bulldozers demolish [Palestinian] structures in East Jerusalem neighborhoods  

Israel destroyed more than 500 Palestinian properties in the West Bank and East Jerusalem in 2013, displacing over 850 people, according to UN figures.

Israel rarely grants Palestinians permits to build in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. It has demolished at least 27,000 Palestinian homes and structures since occupying the West Bank in 1967, according to the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions.

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