Palestinians in the largest section of the occupied West Bank have been “continuously undermined” by Israel in ways that are “closing the window” on a two-state solution, according to an internal report from the European Union attained by The Independent.
The EU should support and promote Palestinian building projects to protect the rights of “ever more isolated” Palestinians in “Area C,” a sector comprising 62 percent of the West Bank, is under full Israeli control, and includes 124 Jewish settlements, which are illegal under international law.
The number of Jewish settlers has risen sharply to 310,000. This is double that of the shrinking Palestinian population in Area C, which holds the “most fertile and resource rich land.” The report warns that “if current trends are not stopped and reversed, the establishment of a viable Palestinian state within pre-1967 borders seem more remote than ever.”
The internal document, writes The Independent, explains how “a combination of house and farm building demolitions; a prohibitive planning regime; relentless settlement expansion; the military’s separation barrier; obstacles to free movement; and denial of access to vital natural resources, including land and water, is eroding Palestinian tenure of the large tract of the West Bank on which hopes of a contiguous Palestinian state depend.”
Peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians have failed consistently throughout the Obama administration, buying time as unyielding U.S. support facilitates Israeli encroachment into Palestinian territory and impedes any hope of a just settlement.
http://www.ochaopt.org/documents/ocha_opt_area_c_…
^un map of area c
2 things stand out…"…illegal under international law." So, why hasn't the international community done something about that? Well, see the next para…
And "…unyielding U.S. support facilitates Israeli encroachment…" And here is the problem. As long as the US continues to facilitate the illegal Israeli expansion the international community will continue to sit on their hands – and watch. The US has been bought by the Zionists and the international community are cowards.
According to official Israel figures the nation of Israel has suffered a stunning loss of jewish citizens. The number
Jerusalem — Dramatic changes may be coming in Israel: Demographers now estimate about a third of last year's Jewish babies were born into the ultra-Orthodox community, an insular and devout minority that has long been at loggerheads with the rest of the increasingly modern and prosperous country.
Israel’s Jewish Exodus
June 15, 2011
Hard-line Israelis reject the idea of reasonable compromises for peace, arguing that any significant concessions to Palestinian sovereignty would threaten Israel’s security or the Zionist cause, but Lawrence Davidson notes that demographic trends, including a growing Jewish exodus from Israel, could have far worse consequences.
By Lawrence Davidson
June 15, 2011
If the historical goal of the state of Israel is to provide the world’s Jews a secure national home, a place of refuge in a world of real or potential anti-Semitism, it seems to have failed.
It has failed not because this writer says so, but because an increasing number of its own Jewish citizens say so.
There have been studies originating both in Israel and abroad that show “as many as half of the Jews living in Israel will consider leaving … if in the next few years the current political and social trends continue.” This finding is in addition to the fact that yerida, or emigration out of Israel, has long been running at higher numbers than aliyah, or immigration into the country.
The Israel Central Bureau of Statistics states that as of 2005, 650,000 Israelis have left the country for over one year and not returned. The great majority of these were Jews. In addition, polls show that at least 60 percent and as high as 80 percent of remaining Israeli Jews “sympathize with those who leave the country.”
Among those who stay, there is the conviction that the safe thing is to have a second passport issued by the United States or a European country.
As the Haaretz reporter Gideon Levy puts it, “if our forefathers dreamt of an Israeli passport, there are those among us who are now dreaming of a foreign passport.”
At present, the United States has issued over half a million passports to Israelis and a quarter million additional applications are pending. Germany runs second with 100,000 passports given to Israeli Jews and 7,000 new ones issued yearly.
The numbers below only go to 2005. Since then the numbers all reflect that it is increasing in numbers. It would appear we are flooding Israel with more money as the jewish population who we fund do not really live in the area. The dual citizen concept just is not a good idea.
Why the scramble for foreign passports? Well, according to Levy, “the excuses are strange and diverse, but at the base of them all are unease and anxiety, both personal and national. The foreign passport has become an insurance policy against a rainy day. It turns out there are more and more Israelis who are thinking that day may eventually come.”
Ultra-Orthodox Jews — known in Hebrew as "Haredim," or "those who tremble" before God — have a birthrate far higher than that of other Israeli Jews, with 10 children in a single family not uncommon. They seem poised to become far more numerous and influential.
Only solution for the West Bank is incorporation into Israel adding 2.5 M new Israeli citizens. With secular Jews fleeing Israel and the Haredim not willing to serve in the IDF the so called "jewish state" will vanish as predicted.
The problem with that, from the Israeli perspective, is that those Palestinians have a far higher birth rate then Israeli Jews, and if Palestine can't win it's own independence it will basically 'breed'' a Jewish Israel out of existence in short order. Even assuming Israel manages to stop the exodus OUT of the country, demographics alone point to Israel as a whole becoming a de facto Palestinian state. Once Palestinians gain a foothold in the government- which Israeli Jews will not be able to prevent- the state's days are numbered.
What I would be very interested to see is the dynamic between the 'Haredim' Jews and the Muslims- with both having hard-line elements, I'm wondering if they will see each other as enemies or, given that the beliefs are so similar, will they form a sort of coalition to administer what becomes of this 'greater Israel'?
the hopeless extend their hopelessness
Most of area C will stay in Israeli hands. The number of Israeli settlers in area C is growing at 5%+ per year. The Arab population is not. The Palestinians in areas A&B are going to have to exercise their national rights in the remaining 40% of the West Bank. Also, there are not 2.5M Palestinians in the West Bank. There are about 1.5M. The numbers of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics have been repeatedly disproven.
The vanishing of the Jewish state has been predicted for 60+ years. Its creation in the first place was considered unlikely by most people. Yet here it stands and flourishes while all the states around it collapse.
As for demographics themselves.. The dramatic thing about the number of babies born in Israel is how many of them are Jewish. The percentage of Jewish babies born in Israel last year was 76% compared to 69% in 2001. Israelis that leave Israel for more than 6 months are not counted as residents of Israel in the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics numbers. Nonetheless, the relative numbers of Jews vs Arabs in Israel is pretty steady at 75% vs 20%.
Israel isn't going to be destroyed by demographics. Keep looking for other causes to substantiate your dreams.
And would Israel continue to 'flourish' without a constant influx of foreign settlers and a steady supply of US support? I hardly think so. Take away the US support and the house of cards collapses. Take away the intake of settlers and the house collapses as well.
At this point, it's only a question of time: Israel as we know it will implode, and probably sooner than later.
a war with iran will pretty much end the racist dream that is zionism.
Instead of writing this stupid report that I wouldn't even use a toilet paper, they should boycott Israel's products. But they lack the guts or they are Israel's whores too.