The Israeli government today broke ground on their first new official settlement in the occupied West Bank in 20 years. The settlement, Amichai, will house the residents of the illegal Amona outpost, which the Israeli Supreme Court ordered demolished for being built illegally on privately owned Palestinian land.
The Amichai settlement is every bit as illegal under international law as Amona, but the fact that it is being established formally by the government makes it different under Israeli law. Moreover, the far-right government has changed the laws surrounding seizing Palestinian land for the sake of settlements to prevent another Amona.
Construction begins just a day before a delegation of Trump Administration officials are headed to Israel and the West Bank to talk with officials in an attempt to kickstart the peace process. This is going to be greatly complicated by the new settlement, of course.
Amichai is just part of the problem, of course, with Israel’s continued expansion of settlements across the West Bank leaving less and less land for the Palestinian population to ever end up with its own state in. Even then, Israel’s far-right government has members who are loudly opposed to peace talks as a general notion, and every move by the US to get the talks going will be resisted every step of the way.
Dump the two state failure. Equal citizenship for Israelis and Palestinians is the only way forward.
Why should Israel give equal citizenship to people who attacked Israel?
If I was the Palestinians I wouldn’t negotiate anything until the settlements and borders of Israel are contained and reversed as per the recent UN resolution condemning illegal Israeli occupation activity.
What will that accomplish?
What borders? What do you mean by borders are contained?
the amount and value are meaningless, its a line on the map, and when fully developed this particular settlement would cut ramalah off from the rest of the west bank.
Why can’t this settlement be part of Palestine?
because Palestine does not exist and will not exist, not until the west bank has been divided in to 6-7 smaller cantons completely isolated from the rest of the world and each other.
i was in Israel on 9-11 and spent the next decade advocating Palestinian rights back in the united states.
but the past 5 years or so drained me of any hope whatsoever, the one state is all there is and will be for the foreseeable future, and that state in its current form will never grant fullrights to the majority of arabs on the west bank.
gaza as was sharones brilliant and successful plan worked, and for a large portion of the people who follow the conflict, gaza was made in to a “Hamasstan” and its not even that important that its controlled by “terrorist” but just to frame a narrative where gaza and the west bank are no longer a unified entity rather as two sepreate states that can be dealt with completely independent of the other.
with all that said, the future of israel will at the moment be determined in syria.
if things keep escalating then Palestine has no hope at all not in our life times,
if by some chance the west allows the government to reassert control of the entire country and that is followed by some serious reconciliation, i might reevaluate the chances palestine has.
I object to the use of the Zion-sprach reference to the “first new settlement in 20 years”.
The ashcan Nazis have been building “new” settlements every days for 75 years.
Every inch of Palestinian soil absorbed by the Blight unto Nations is a new settlement.
Let us wrap an effigy of Lord Balfour in the Magen David and set it aflame on the Temple Mount.
In the last 40 years, Israel has annexed ZERO territory.
Two days ago, I put up the following post, which was removed by the pointy-headed Thomas Knapp, a “mole troll” for the Zionista:
“I object to the use of the Zion-sprach reference to the “first new settlement in 20 years”.
The ashcan Nazis have been building “new” settlements every days for 75 years.
Every inch of Palestinian soil absorbed by the Blight unto Nations is a new settlement.
Let us wrap an effigy of Lord Balfour in the Magen David and set it aflame on the Temple Mount.”
Knapp left in place, however, the following reply to my post, from some Zionist puke named Johnson11b:
“In the last 40 years, Israel has annexed ZERO territory.”
Why does Anti-War empower this conniving skank Knapp to delete anyone’s messages?