[QUOTE]IT WAS just another day for the Israeli army on the West Bank. Having parked its jeeps in the hills south of Hebron, a unit of soldiers checked the papers of the Palestinians who lived there, confiscated one or two, and then herded the people and their flocks off a hilltop which a nearby Jewish settlement, called Susiya, has been eyeing with a view to taking it over. “Military zone,” tersely explained an Israeli officer, who had just received a warrant declaring it such. “Off you go.”
Taking time out from their Saturday morning prayers, a few settlers looked on approvingly. “Don’t argue,” replied the officer, when a Palestinian shepherd asked why the soldiers were moving Arabs out of the newly acquired military zone but not Jews. “You have a minute to move or I’ll arrest you,” said the officer.
“Settlers are just off-duty soldiers,” mumbled the shepherd to his sons as they stubbornly continued to tend their sheep. A Palestinian mother picnicking with her two toddlers is hauled away by Israeli soldiers, while villagers plead for her release.
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Armed Jewish settlers assist the clearance. Soon after the army did its job, a Jewish shepherdess from Susiya brought her flock onto a Palestinian field of wheat to let it graze. Someone had scratched out all the Arabic road signs. “The only weapons we have are our cameras,” says Alia Nawaja, a mother of seven turned amateur camerawoman, who lives in a nearby hamlet. Palestinian violence, however, still occasionally erupts. On April 30th a Jewish settler was killed by a Palestinian for the first time since September 2011, at the other end of the West Bank.
A barrage of reports by the UN, the European Union and assorted charities has repeatedly warned that the Palestinians in Area C are under threat. Some 350,000 Jewish settlers now inhabit over 200 settlements and outposts in the same area, usually on the high ground, twice as many people as the Palestinians in the land below. Moshe Yaalon, Israel’s new defence minister, the ultimate authority in the West Bank, backs a report commissioned last year by the Israeli government, endorsing all such Jewish settlements. Naftali Bennett, another powerful minister in the new coalition of Binyamin Netanyahu, the prime minister, wants all of Area C to be annexed outright to Israel.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21577111-jewish-settlements-expand-palestinians-are-being-driven-away-squeeze-them[/url]
It reminds me of American settlers pushing out the Native Americans somewhat.
[I]B-b-b-but they're all terrorists![/I]
this is why i want palestine to be independent, but then they'll be lead by hamas and they aren't really a respectful organization either
its a clash between terrorist states
[QUOTE=KingArcher;40522087]this is why i want palestine to be independent, but then they'll be lead by hamas and they aren't really a respectful organization either
its a clash between terrorist states[/QUOTE]
hamas wouldn't exist if not for israeli terror. i mean hamas isn't a very good group of people, but you can blame the existence and hatred on israeli actions.
And people wonder why Hamas keeps lobbing their shitty rockets into Israel.
I honestly don't get why there isn't full scale fighting in that area, why wouldn't you shoot the assholes who are telling you to leave your home and your neighborhood so they can bulldoze it and build houses for some nice Jewish families?
And, naturally, this all just feeds into the endless cycle of hatred of America in the Middle East. They aren't stupid, they all know that Israel can only get away with this because the US squashes the Palestinian bids for independence, recognition, and protection in the UN. To them, America and the Israeli thugs forcing them out of their homes are the same thing. And I don't disagree with them.
I almost feel sorry for the Israelis settling in those areas, because eventually enough Palestinian Muslims are going to decide that enough is enough, and there won't be much leniency for the people who arrogantly moved into the land that the IDF forced the Palestinians out of. As far as I'm concerned, they knew the risks, and I have a lot more sympathy for people taking back the land that was taken from them than I do for the settlers that are enjoying Israel's "soft" ethnic cleansing of those areas.
[QUOTE=KingArcher;40522087]this is why i want palestine to be independent, but then they'll be lead by hamas and they aren't really a respectful organization either
its a clash between terrorist states[/QUOTE]
it wont help either if they're NOT independent state
hamas lives off the idea that nothing good will arise of PLO / PNA attempt of diplomacy, similar to many africans who joined black panther and few radical organizations that uses physical violence because they thought civil disobedience was absolutely useless
and lets face it, hamas has been effective because they've been right, PLO / PNA can't get shit done diplomatically because of USA's pressure and israel's lobbying, therefore the people perceived hamas as the only way to independency
i see letting palestine getting independence and becoming a state the only way to show palestine that bloodshed isn't the answer, that PLO / PNA can get shit done
Humans never learn, history is repeating itself...slowly but surely...
PS: I am an alien
One day we will look back on them and realize just how bad the atrocities they did against the palestinians were. Then all we can do is prosecute all who remain of the Isreali government, just like they had done with the Nazi's almost a century before.
In the meantime they are classified as an Ally and as such are allowed to push it under the radar.
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