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<div id="divNewsDatetime">PressTV &#8211;  Tue Jan 11, 2011 6:43PM</div>
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<div id="divLead">In  an act violating international laws, Tel Aviv has played a direct role  in the demolition of a Palestinian heritage hotel in East al-Quds  (Jerusalem), a political expert says.</div>
<p>“Israelis have had many racist and apartheid laws implemented  against the Palestinians within the occupied territories since 1948,  including East al-Quds,” the journalist and founder of the London-based <em>Palestine Telegraph</em>, Sameh Habeeb, said in an exclusive interview with Press TV on Monday.</p>
<p>The demolition of the Shepherd Hotel further proves that Israel has  always a pretext to use whenever it does something and therefore never  seeks to justify what it wants, he added.</p>
<p>&#8220;They have a ready propaganda machines that really bring the reasons  and bring the justifications for whatever they carry out,&#8221; Habeeb said.</p>
<p>“Israelis are violating the international law.&#8221;</p>
<p>He stressed that according to the United Nations, East al-Quds  should be managed by a third party and that all settlement construction  inside these territories is forbidden.</p>
<p>Habeeb blamed the US and the international community for supporting  Israel and giving it the green light to push ahead with its policies  against the Palestinians, and condemned Washington&#8217;s contradictory  stance on the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.</p>
<p>He pointed out that the number of Israeli Jewish settlers in East  al-Quds has almost doubled in the past few years, noting that the trend  is aimed at making the illegally annexed city a purely Jewish one and  erasing it of any Palestinian existence &#8220;whether the population or any  historical places indicate that the Palestinians were there.&#8221;</p>
<p>He said Israel&#8217;s insistence on being recognized as a Jewish state  aims at establishing a racist country where Palestinians and the  followers of other religions have no place.</p>
<p>Habeeb further said that Israel&#8217;s call for an exchange of land with  the Palestinian Authority aspires to remove the Palestinians living in  the occupied territories since before 1948.</p>
<p>&#8220;So the settlements will stay in the West Bank and they will get rid of many of those Palestinians inside Israel.”</p>
<p>He also highlighted how Tel Aviv took advantage of the Jewish  beliefs against Palestinians during the 22-day war against the Gaza  Strip at the turn of 2009, and how Israeli rabbis and the radical  rightist groups have affected the army.</p>
<p>&#8220;They were using the Torah when they were attacking Gaza, they were  praying at the borders of Gaza when the rockets were falling killing the  innocents in the Gaza Strip,” he said.</p>
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