It probably shouldn’t be a huge surprise for anyone whose been keeping track of the news out of Israel, but Peace Now is reporting that settlement construction soaring in the occupied West Bank in 2014.
It makes sense, since seemingly every couple weeks of peace talks early in the year was capped off with Netanyahu announcing a new expansion to try to placate his far right coalition members, and those announcements started being presented as spite after the peace talks collapsed.
Peace Now says 3,100 units began construction in 2014, and 4,485 others were tendered, a 40% increase over 2013 and the “record high for at least a decade.”
Nearly 10% of the construction, 287, were illegal even under Israeli law, though Netanyahu has generally not enforced the regulations on illegal settlement expansion.
The Israeli law isn’t particularly relevant from an international perspective, as settlements as such are flat out illegal and a violation of the Geneva Conventions.
The inclusion of that last paragraph in this succinct report is crucial in setting this site apart from subservient media.
Get the monkey off your back
All this land theft at gunpoint by Israel, all this slaughter of women, children and the elderly by Israel, surely it can be only by order of the corporate rich who rule both Empire USA and Israel.
For in 1948 Israel was created to be a terrorist state, all to maximize profit in the trading of war materials for middle-East oil. And so, what must we do to free ourselves of all this blood guilt?
Well, are you part of the voting majority of our Empire, part of the educated upper half that always votes to hoard all the wealth and to plunder the Muslim and black nations by wars of aggression and plunder? Then you need to give up all your wealth as it is stained with the blood of the innocent; you need to give up your job among the upper half and do hard labor among the laboring-class; you need to live among the slums and endure the police state degradation forced upon we who barely survive on a minimum wage.