On Monday, the European Union issued a statement criticizing Israel’s latest major settlement plan, which will see 1,300 new units built in the occupied West Bank.
They warned chiefly that the settlements are illegal under international law, adding it is a huge obstacle to the two-state solution and to a lasting peace in the region.
This is very much one of the points of the settlements for Israel, designed to preclude the Palestinians ever getting a state, which is why the settlements are so popular among hawkish factions within Israel.
France issued its own statement separate from the EU, calling for Israel to halt unilateral steps to undermine the two-state solution.The US State Department issued a statement saying they were “concerned” by the plans.
There is no indication that Israel is taking these warnings particularly seriously, though Israeli media have reported that the White House is also pressing Israel’s current government to restrict the construction.
Lip service to hide their culpability I suspect.
If the squats are “designed to preclude the Palestinians ever getting a state,” they’ve already failed. The state of Palestine exists, is recognized by the majority of UN member states, is an observer state of the UN itself, and is a member state of Interpol and the International Criminal Court.
The UN NEEDS to force the Zios to allow UN peacekeeping troops in both Gaza and the West Bank in order to protect the Palestinian populace from both Zio settlers and their comrades, the IDF. When Palestinian farmers can’t even harvest their crops without attacks from the squatters, enormous changes are in order.
I read about an elderly woman on Mondoweiss hugging an olive tree while she wept, knowing that the tree was going to be uprooted and burned as soon as she released it.
In what kind of fucked-up world is this sort of thing being allowed to happen?!
It’s a world where the US will prevent any authorization of such a peacekeeping force through the UN Security Council, and apparently no one else cares enough to go outside that broken system.
It’s CRIMINAL that one single country can defeat the wishes of the rest of the world. Who came up with this shit? Oh wait, silly me, let me guess…
Yes, and it’s insanity that ONE nation can circumvent the will of the rest of the world. Just who came up with that shit? Oh silly me, allow me to take a guess…
Uh, huh. Fat lot that matters to the violent settlers stealing more land for Israel. The corrupt Palestinian Authority, ostensibly in charge of this so-called statehood, is completely cowed to Israeli authority, who oversee this great nation (actually Balkanized open-air prison) of Palestine.
Settlers coming from Brooklyn, NY. Like the fat one who flat out told a woman that he was there to steal her house, because if he didn’t, someone else would steal it. On video.
I am sure that the EU wrote a very stern memo in a large, bold font–Then they all went home after their valiant effort.
Oh, so valiant. Just think of the strain on their hands signing.
“Criticism” and “stern warnings” mean diddly squat to Israhell. The only way to put a brake on expanding the illegal settlements is up to Amerikkka; condition “aid” (translation: “welfare”) to the Zios on the condition that new settlements STOP.
That’s what George HW Bush did and probably why he wasn’t elected for a second term.
His Secretary of State was seen yelling at Israeli leadership as he was leaving. NO love lost.
These could be early signs of an impending geo-political paradigm shift (I hope). After 40 yrs of investment the mid-East is a mess, thanks to the delusions of Anglo-Zionism, and absolutely no net for Europe anywhere in sight -just more desperately needy refugees. Europe is eager to wash its hands of this blood.
So, what are they going to do about it? Brown nosing Israel is not doing something about this, and that is the only thing the EU has ever done.
“The US State Department issued a statement saying they were “concerned” by the plans.”
And wondered aloud whether they were going out on a limb with using such a harsh term as “concerned”. /s
I do believe that I’m going to get an olive branch tattoo to show my support for the Palestinian people.
When people ask me about it, I’ll tell them the whole story, as much as they’re willing to hear.
Pax Judaica is the only peace Israel wants.
Stop the disingenuous whining abot the latest land theft…in a week where one of your members Germany who ban BDS had its airforce do a flyover of Jerusalem with the Israeli Airforce…Just shut up Europe. You make decent people sick.
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