Though the “partial” settlement freeze in the occupied West Bank is still officially in effect, Israeli MP Danny Danon played host to an unofficial “end,” pouring the cornerstone in a new settlement construction project in retaliation for a shooting attack in Hebron.
That was two days ago, and since that time the settlers have announced a massive number of new settlement projects which will flout the Netanyahu government’s freeze, with more than 60 projects across the West Bank now under way.
Settler spokesman Naftail Bennet says the construction is aimed at protesting the “phony peace” talks being brokered by the US, and insists that once the construction is complete “they’ll understand Israelis are here to stay,” predicting that “they will give up.”
The settlement freeze is scheduled to expire on September 26, with a number of Israeli officials threatening to leave the coalition government if there is an attempt to extend it. Palestinian officials have made it clear this will end the peace talks, meaning that they will get at best 1-2 of the “bi-weekly” meetings in before the end of the freeze means the end of the talks.
Israeli settlers are now running the world it seems. They decide which parcels of Palestinian land they'll steal next. They decide what punishment the Palestinians should receive for daring to live in 'their' country. Netanyahu and other members of the Knesset dance to the Settler's tune.
And what are these settlers? A mob of religious extremists who foolishly believe God is urging them to vanquish the Palestinians and anyone else to gets in their road.
They live in a world of complete derangement!
Truer words were never spoken.
All 4 people were killed – we are told, and yet viewing the interior from the two open doors shows no glass, no pools of blood, no brain spatter (bullet spray supposedly at shoulder, neck and head height level) on seating and floor, only a shopping bag with some stuff – ?celery.
It is on such fabrications they justify stealing yet more land, which they would anyway if that fiction wasn't the pretext.
Of the car itself, i would say that the contrived damage to only the windshield was by arrangement amongst the settlers with one of them in the windshield replacement business agreeing to do the job free of charge.
` . . in retaliation for a shooting attack in Hebron.` ??
That was a total fabrication, as they mean the one which supposedly occurred 31/8.
The car supposedly was hit by a `spray` of bullets, but only the windshield was hit with 2 glancing shots one of which was marked by a white sticky ABOVE it, whereas the side glass panes had stickies OVER the alleged bullet holes.
Alleged because there is no need to put stickies over something as obvious obvious obvious as bullet holes in glass panes, and also the small stickies would not have covered up the cracks radiating out from the holes.
The white painted metal side of the car was not hit by a single bullet from this `spray`. Remarkable !