Settlers are Israeli citizens who live on Palestinian land and in most cases that is due to Palestinians being prevented from accessing their land and are physically attacked and property damaged by the settlers.
Many Palestinians are driven from their land by the threats, violence and murder and flee in panic, leaving everything behind but the Israeli government routinely acknowledges these colonies as part of the Israeli state despite the fact that they are illegal under international law which states that article 49 of the fourth Geneva convention prohibits the 'individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory'.
The United States has publicly condemned settlements while continuing to provide billions of dollars to Israel and when Donald Trump was President he even went as far as to say his administration didn’t consider settlements to be a violation of international law “per se” and the Biden administration had been relatively quiet on this point until tensions with Israel rose in February and the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, stated: 'New settlements are counterproductive to reaching an enduring peace'.
Currently 40% of the West Bank is under the control of settlements and the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), notes that 'cases of harassment, trespass, and intimidation are not included in these statistics when they do not result in damage or casualties' which shows that the Settler violence situation is far worse than reported.
The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, wanted for a wide range of other Genocidal War Crimes, leads a coalition government that includes several religious Zionist parties that support further annexation of the West Bank and even the Israeli human rights group, B’Tselem, has found that the Israeli military prefer to remove Palestinians from their own land rather than confront settlers, 'often with firearms and shootings'.
The thousands of Palestinians who have been forced from their homes have no recourse to justice, in four out of every five cases, Israeli police failed in the investigation of Israelis who harmed Palestinians and their property, another Israeli human rights group, Yesh Din, found that just 3% of ideologically motivated cases resulted in a conviction.
Demolition is also a key part of settlement. Israeli authorities regularly destroy and confiscate Palestinian-owned property. They also prohibit construction by Palestinians while issuing permits to Israelis. About 24,300 housing units for Israeli settlements in the West Bank were advanced last year and there are plans to build a further 3,476 settler homes.
Over the last 60 years, the Israeli plan all along has been to remove Palestinians and steal their land and after the Hamas attack, it seems to have gone up a notch and now occupy 78% of the land which was handed to the Palestinians in 1947 and after the dust settles on the latest Israeli land grab, it is almost certain to be more.
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With all the mistreatment of people around the world including places like China, Venezuela, Iran, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Cuba (my daughter's father-n-law just returned from a birding trip there and said most people ride horses and the few cars he saw were from the 50's and 60's), and half of Africa why are you so concerned about the west bank and gaza?
It seems you hate Israel and Israelis.
Many - passive language and easy to manipulate
Attacked and Damaged, in the context you used more passive language
UN Law >>> oxymoron, no just moronic...
"stats only count when people are injured or property is damaged" - duh... we don't count incidents unless they matter... yelling isn't a crime yet... in fact, in the US riots and burning buildings and cars is okay if you have a sign with BLM on it...
If its news it gets written about, do i have to explain that to you again? I hate Israel? I'm the one calling for a ceasefire so nobody else gets killed regardless of what side they are on, you are happy to allow Israel to continue the conflict and have missiles lobbed at them from all directions so who hates Israel and |Israelis? I'm not the one willing to see them continue to die, that's you cheerleading. Shame on you.
you calling for a ceasefire doesn't come across as sympathy or empathy for Israelis, and it certainly denies the reality Israel faces which is that a second state doesn't solve any problems at all in the middle east
i support Israel because they are an ally, are the only real democracy in the ME, have many families in the US, and in the US broadly support the Israeli efforts against hamas and hezbollah. reality
i support Israel because their real enemy is iran who uses hamas and hezzbolah as puppets against Israel, and if iran managed to undo Israel, would then not just dump hamas, the alleged "palestinians", and hezbollah, but begin attacking them. why? because sunni v shia is real and so is arab v persian. reality
...therefore overlooking the decades of military occupation, the 50+ UN Resolutions, the ICC and ICJ war crimes and genocide accusations, the land grab and the settler violence, the murder of protesters, the thousands imprisoned without trial, the destroying of Palestinian farms, homes and businesses, the refusal to allow aid into starving people they are occupying, the deliberate scuppering of peace talks, numerous slaughters, the building of a wall which turned Gaza into an outdoor prison, the collective punishment of a population, the refusal to even contemplate a two state solution, the forced removal of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians and branding anyone who criticises them for all of the above as antisemitic. Oh, and did i mention the ongoing Genocide you are 'supporting'? I think i did, several times actually. How you can know all that and still support this Israeli Government who have no intention of improving things and actually are bent on making it worse, then you can understand why i consider you completely unknowledgeable and ignorant on the matter.
some truth for you. an excerpt from a typical, realistic assessment of what is happening in and around Israel...
"... Tehran’s national security strategy had long been premised on neutralizing Baathist Iraq, the largest obstacle to the extension of Iranian power from Persia through Mesopotamia and to the Levant. Having fought its own disastrous war with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq throughout most of the 1980s, Iran was elated when the U.S. military stormed into Baghdad and toppled the Saddam regime. The Iranians were not going to let all this slip away without a fight.
Iran mobilized tens of thousands of Shiite foreign fighters and hundreds of millions of dollars worth of material to rescue the Assad regime. Syria was devastated and Assad was severely weakened, but Iran succeeded beyond its wildest dreams. Because of its extreme dependence on Iranian support, Syria was reduced to a vassal state. Instead of losing its bridge to the Eastern Mediterranean, Iran established a significant military presence in the country, whence it can supply Hezbollah with advanced weapons, support Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza, and potentially infiltrate the West Bank via Jordan..."
this is the crux of what Israel is dealing with, not a "two state solution". a "two state solution" is just a tactic for iran to acheive its strategic ambition... reality
read it, learn it, live it
geopolitical pressures do not end, they just lay low until the temporary conditions repressing them subside.
the conflict between turkey and iran is not temporary. nor is the conflict between arabs and persians, or shiite and sunni.
likewise, now that russia is dramatically weakened, and the US no longer needs to hold europe's hand to counter russia, old european issues will re-emerge between southern europe and northern europe, between germany and france, between spain and france, etc.
it was likely unrelated, but the uk getting out of the eu will save the uk's ass... if the uk owns its second class status and makes the necessary trade/commerce sacrifices to the US. we will protect the uk, and you need our protection, economically and militarily.
if you are really as interested as you pretend, i just gave you much to learn about... and you have much to learn about the world...
best geopolitical book ever: "The End Of The World Is Just The Beginning", Peter Zeihan
even you should be able to understand it
I never expect much from you and you never fail to disappoint so here we have lots of words but not one on what Israel has done, and continue to do, in Palestine for decades. You wang on about Iran and others but give Israel a free pass for the not exhaustive list of wrongs Israel has done in Palestine.
Is it ignorance? Is it a real lack of knowledge of what has been going on? Is it a dunderheaded refusal to believe Israel has done and continue to do anything wrong because siding with a nation that is up on charges of Genocide reflects badly on your judgment and morals?
i've provided lots of comments that explained why i support Israel including:
- corrections to your selective, partial, and misleading historic explanations of how the conditions came to the current state;
- the illogic of a two-state "solution";
- clarifications about the uselessness of the un, its definitions, and its rulings;
- challenges to your attempts to attribute "christian religious" beliefs as the motive for supporting Israel;
- fact based challenges to the data you presented that was provided by dubious sources like hamas and unrwa;
- the culpability of the people that elected and support hamas;
- and the role if iran in all of this.
you just ignore all data that doesn't agree with your point of view - true close minded, manipulative journalist.
'you (sic) just ignore all data that doesn't agree with your point of view - true close minded, manipulative journalist.'
Nope, i ignore your attempt to deflect how you overlook all the atrocities Israel has, and continue to do.
i'm not trying to deflect anything. i'm calling your assessments tripe.
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