With Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promising to seize the E-1 region of the occupied West Bank for new settlements, outgoing Defense Minister Ehud Barak has announced that they are rerouting the West Bank “separation fence” to totally encircle the Palestinian village of al-Zaim, which previously was only had an exit through E-1.
Historically the tiny village would have done most of its trading with East Jerusalem, but Israel has already erected a wall on the Jerusalem-side of the village, with a military checkpoint to keep Palestinians from entering the city. This forces the village to use the eastern exit, into E-1, an exit which will soon also be closed.
Assuming the plan goes through and is not shot down by the Israeli High Court (entirely possible as they have rejected other arbitrary attempts to seize Palestinian land in the past), the villagers will only be able to leave through the military checkpoint, with Israeli occupation forces’ approval, and will only be allowed to access a single “Arab-only” road that will give them a roundabout path to northern cities.
That road will be Israel’s ace-in-the-hole diplomatically for the de facto annexation of E-1, as it provides the southern village access to the northern West Bank and therefore the seizure of E-1 doesn’t entirely cut the south off from the north in theory, just in practice.
Just because the supreme court rules, it does not mean it will happen, the military knows good and well when they need to act on ruling an when they can be ignored.
what are they going to do with that wall when they finally take over the whole west bank..
burn it
They will never have all the West Bank unless the Kingdom of Jordan is overthrown by Palestinians. Only in that case will there be somewhere to expel the Palestinians to. Assuming The Kingdom of Jordan survives, the wall will just be routed to completely encircle the Palestinian reservations and cut them off from Israel.
Paul Bass, Israeli Supreme Court Judges rule so they are not War Criminals, whether the Military or the Politicians ignore their ruling is immaterial, in the Future they will not be subject to War Crimes, one only has to look at HOW LONG Nazis were brought to Justice after WWII, One only has to look at the facts that Property stolen from Jews by those self same Nazis is returned to their rightful owners as it should be, even taken from World renowned Museums.
Remember that Prosecution of War Criminals can continue until the day they die, a thirty or forty year old might live for 50 more years and as we know a lot can happen in 50 years. Who would have thought that the Generals of Argentina would have been prosecuted for their war crimes or Pinochet, it may take a while but it will happen. Even now there are Military Officers and Israeli Politicians who refuse to go to many European Countries.
Just a few years back it would have been unthinkable that America would effectively lose a vote in the UN in relation to Palestine and to lose it with EVERY Security council country but themselves either voting for Palestine or Abstaining is something that has never happened.
One must never forget there is a UN security council resolution that says that israel MUST return to its own borders AND ALLOW all Palestinian and it refers directly to Palestinians, to return to thier land! Failure to do so makes it a war crime, to allow non Palestinians to settle there!
The zionist are following america to the letter as to what they did to the native americans"monkey see monkey do"
This whole saga should have been sorted out fifty sixty years ago.
All Israeli's must be prepared for giant compensation running into many billions of dollars to the Palestinians internal and external. Worldwide santions and restrictions on Israel is the only way forward.