I do not understand Israel's fear and hate toward Palestinians given the persecution the Jewish community has endured through history. Now the want to do the same to their human neighbors? The US is lame in learning history too as we continue to insist we should manage every nation's issues like the World's Police.
Does any one, or any country, or any government ever learn from history to develp EMPATHY for human crisis and pain?
Note my title is "Jews / Arabs." That is because there was a time Jews NEEDED Arabs to help the Jewish nation survive.
Modern Israeli Zionists, the radical Jews, these far right conservative who insist on their right to settlements in spite of all that protests against the settlements, seem to have forgotten history, how they were persecuted by Christian Europeans in the Middle Ages, and how at that time it was the Arabs that sheltered them as "People of the Book with whom they share a joint ancestor in Abraham and the same belief in a monotheistic God." [source: Freda Utley, 1971, "God Save Israel (and us) From Her Friends"
"For Obama and Netanyahu, a Final Clash After Years of Conflict"
By PETER BAKERDEC. 23, 2016
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/23/world/middleeast/israel-benjamin-netanyahu-barack-obama.html?_r=0
"Mr. Obama’s decision on Friday not to block a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements laid bare all the grievances the two men have nursed since shortly after they took office in 2009. For Mr. Netanyahu, it was the final betrayal by a president who was supposed to be an ally but never really was. For Mr. Obama, it was the inevitable result of Mr. Netanyahu’s own stubborn defiance of international concerns with his policies."
Settlements, and a world that objects to these settlements, are the issue, but that is not new, so why is it that Israel uses settlements as they use them?
Kerry's speech is accurate, just two years too late to do any good. The peace talks ran aground in 2014 and that was the time to chastise Israeli leaders.
Israeli reps silly response is Trump-like:
"“President Obama and Secretary Kerry are behind this shameful move against Israel at the U.N.,” the official said. “The U.S. administration secretly cooked up with the Palestinians an extreme anti-Israeli resolution behind Israel’s back which would be a tailwind for terror and boycotts and effectively make the Western Wall occupied Palestinian territory.”"
Conspiracy or not, the settlements are an obstacle to the two state solution! PERIOD! Settlements are annexation, pure and simple.
Radical Jews want apartheid in Israel, taking what was to be the Palestinian state for their settlements, and controlling the rest of the non-settlements lands by military force.
I will let you guess why, but Netanyahu is outright lying about the need for settlements. It is not security, even if he says it is. Settlements have never been about security. It is a land grab, an annexation, like Russia is doing in Crimea.
See map above explained below; there are many different maps. This is just one I use because it takes us up to 2015. It is remarkable how much Israel has grown.
"Does the map accurately show the loss of Palestinian land since 1946?
Yes. The map accurately depicts the land that has been forcibly taken from Palestinians since 1946, two years before Israel was established and the accompanying expulsion of between 750,000 and a million Palestinians to make way for a Jewish state.
During and immediately following the state's creation in 1948, Israel expropriated approximately 4,244,776 acres of Palestinian land. In the process, more than 400 Palestinian cities and towns were systematically destroyed by Israeli forces or repopulated with Jews. Most Palestinian population centers, including homes, businesses, houses of worship, and vibrant urban centers, were demolished to prevent the return of their owners, now refugees outside of Israel's pre-1967 borders or internally displaced within them. (See here for interactive map of Palestinian population centers destroyed during Israel's creation.)
Israel’s systematic dispossession of Palestinians is ongoing today, both in the occupied territories and inside Israel’s internationally recognized pre-1967 borders, where Palestinian citizens of the state and those living under occupation continue to be pushed out of their homes and off their lands – including entire towns – to make way for Jewish citizens and settlers. Today, there are approximately 650,000 Jewish settlers living illegally on occupied Palestinian land in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and Israel’s settlement enterprise covers approximately 42% of the West Bank.
Did the map specify that Palestine was an independent state prior to 1948?
No. Critics have focused on the fact that Palestine was not a sovereign and independent state prior to 1948, however the map did not claim that it was. The map purported to show “Palestinian Loss of Land 1946-present,” and it did precisely that, accurately. While it was not a recognized independent state under British rule in 1946, Palestine as a political entity existed prior to the formation of the state of Israel in 1948, going back to ancient times when it was a province of the Roman empire until more recently when it was British Mandatory Palestine, immediately preceding Israel’s creation.
Were there real factual errors in the map?
Yes. There were two factual errors in the map:It showed the Syrian Golan Heights, which have been under Israeli military occupation since the 1967 War, as part of Israel, although the international community, including the United States, does not recognize Israeli sovereignty over the area.
The map also shows “Israel” existing in 1946. While British Mandatory Palestine did exist in 1946, there was no political entity called “Israel” until 1948."
http://imeu.org/article/fact-check-msnbcs-palestinian-loss-of-land-map
"Israel is by definition am exclusivist state, racialist if not racist, the logic of its circumstances have tempted it also to become expansionist in the pursuit of an elusive security." by Robert Hoyt, once editor of the National Catholic Reporter, 1969 Nov/Dec.
Sana Hassan wrote "An Egyptian vision of peace, If Israel can only see the new realities" Feb 10, 1974 in the New York Times Magazine, hoping to reach the leadership of Israel to achieve true peace. What was the Israeli response.
"What to Do With the Settlements", ByHillel Halkin, Updated Feb. 4, 2010 12:01 a.m. ET
"There is one obvious solution for Israel's West Bank settlements that has been all but completely overlooked: Let the settlers continue living where they are, but in the state of Palestine."
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704259304575043101789714506
The two state solution is at risk with the radical Zionists of Israel dictating that settlements shall continue.
"655,000 Israeli Settlers In West Bank "
http://www.middleeastrising.com/655000-israeli-settlers-in-west-bank/
"RAMALLAH, (PIC)– In challenge to the international community, the Israeli government has doubled settlement construction in the occupied West Bank as Israeli settlers’ numbers have reached 655,000, a Palestinian rights activist said.
The official responsible for monitoring settlement activity in the northern West Bank, Ghassan Daghlas, told reporters in a press conference held Wednesday in Nablus that Israeli occupation authorities have notified recently ten Palestinian homes, housing 70 Palestinian citizens, with demolition as a prelude to handing the land to Israeli settlers."
Cruel and abusive. This is exactly how to start a war.
"Israeli settlement"
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Israeli settlements are civilian communities[i] inhabited by Israeli citizens, almost exclusively of Jewish ethnicity,[1][2] built on lands within areas of the Palestinian territories which Israel occupies since the 1967 Six-Day War.[3] Such settlements currently exist in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and in the Golan Heights."
Be aware! Beware!
