Jewish settlers living in West Bank settlements control 42% of the territory. Much of the land they now possess were taken from their rightful owners, the Palestinians, despite the ban that the Supreme Court of Israel ruled on the matter. According to B'Tselem, an Israeli human rights organization, "the vast geographical and spatial changes Israel has made the landscape of the West Bank undermine the negotiations that Israel has done for 18 years with the Palestinians and violate their international obligations. "
However, representatives of the settlers rejected the figures and said the report was politically motivated. The government did not comment on the matter. And the Palestinians who suffer from this fact, continue to suffer humiliation , abuse, rape, repression, imprisonment and genocide.
B'Tselem
The document was based on official records, including military maps and a database compiled settlements by the armed forces until the day of the date.
Although the buildings themselves cover only 1% of the West Bank settlement jurisdiction extends more than 42% of the land, showing the illegal and unjust situation for the Palestinian population.
settlements took 21% of West Bank territory to Palestinian owners, a great deal after the Supreme Court prohibited it in 1979.
Ashton, the highest representative of the European Union warned in a statement: "The settlements are illegal from the standpoint of international law are an obstacle to peace and threaten to render impractical the two-state solution." In his view, the Jewish state's intentions go against the efforts of the international community to resume direct negotiations, and Israel must review its decision. Finally, he recalled that the EU does not recognize any change to the pre-1967 borders, including Jerusalem, except those agreed by the parties. "If there is no real peace, any final status must be negotiated, and that includes Jerusalem as capital of two states."
The Government of Mexico, like that of Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil, condemning a statement what happened. In the case of Mexico, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE), expressed deep concern over the Israeli decision to build 1600 homes in Ramat Shlomo neighborhood in East Jerusalem and the subsequent ads expansion of settlements, both the West Bank and East Jerusalem itself.
The statement warned that such acts do not contribute to creating an enabling environment and confidence that allow the parties to resume talks. The expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, is an act contrary to international law and represents a serious obstacle to the peace process in the region.
concludes by reiterating support for the resolution of the conflict in the Middle East, based on the existence of two States living side by side within secure and internationally recognized borders, in accordance with the relevant resolutions of the United Nations, Fact Sheet Map and Initiative Arab Peace.
To Philip Luther, Deputy Programme Director for the Middle East and North Africa Amnisty International, "the Israeli authorities must immediately stop the expansion of settlements in East Jerusalem and the rest of the occupied West Bank (...) the construction of these homes not only contrary to international law, but also adds to the long list of abuses of human rights of Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), including their rights to water and adequate housing ". Israel unilaterally annexed occupied 70.5 km of land in and around East Jerusalem since the 1967 war. The most serious is that "discrimination on grounds of nationality and religion is the dominant factor in the settlement policy of Israel. This policy violates both the rights of Palestinians living under civil law in East Jerusalem such as those living in the rest of the West Bank, subject to Israeli military laws. "
In the West Bank, Israel has described as about 40 percent of the land as land "state", often used for settlements. In addition, 21 percent more built-up areas of settlements on Palestinian land are privately owned.
confiscations, footage and appropriations of land for settlements, bypass roads, the fence / wall and related infrastructure, have resulted in forced evictions of Palestinians.
According to the UN, in 2009 alone more than 600 Palestinians, ¬ more than half of them under ¬, were displaced from East Jerusalem and the rest of the West Bank after their homes were demolished by order of the authorities in Israel, often to make room for future settlements.
According to Israeli military law, Palestinian families evicted from their homes are not eligible for alternative housing or compensation. Consequently, many are left without roof and destitute.
"Last year, Amnesty International reported on the hydrological discriminatory policies and practices of Israel, to deny Palestinians their right to water," said Philip Luther.
"We have repeatedly documented the relationship between settlements and the destruction of homes, crops, crop lands and livelihoods of Palestinians."
The Israeli policy of settling its civilian population in occupied territories violates the Fourth Geneva Convention and is classified as a war crime under the Statute of the International Criminal Court.
the same way that Philip Luther and the other heads of governments and international organizations, the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon criticized the announcement of the Tel Aviv construction of 1600 homes in East Jerusalem, during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyaju.
The head of the world body also considered vital to resume peace negotiations with the Palestinians and expressed hope that the government of Israel to take measures to facilitate the movement of people and goods to and from the Gaza Strip.
Ban "expressed his concern at the resumption of construction and the recent announcements on new buildings in East Jerusalem."
The peace talks resumed on September 2 under the auspices of the United States are stalled precisely because the differences that keep both sides on the issue of colonization.
The Jewish nationalist movement's founder, Theodor Herzl, in his book "The Jewish State, said:" Nobody is strong enough or rich enough to carry a people from one residence to another. This can be done just an idea. It seems that the idea of \u200b\u200bState has the virtue. " To realize this idea, or the emigration of Jewish people, Herzl needed a national ideal set in a religious justification, which was what had kept and cohesive the "Diaspora" through history, avoiding its disintegration.
This conceptual change, that of considering a religious community as a people that wants a "National Home" had been attached to the idea of \u200b\u200bdifferentiating the non-Jewish Jew.
In Herzl's diaries, we read: "The solution of the Jewish question was not fighting to end anti-Semitism and achieve full equality of Jews in the countries where they lived, but in separate Jews from which are not. "
with the guidelines set by its ideologue, the State of Israel punishes the Law of Return in 1950 and the Nationality Law in 1952. The first grants every Jew the right to settle in Israel, while the second, automatically confers citizenship to those who exercise that right. That is only recognized the right of the Jewish people, keeping Palestinians in refugee status; Israel justifies this distinction and the prohibition of Palestinian return, saying that if the Palestinian refugees to return to his forced exodus "," would cause a imbalance in the Jewish identity of Israel and therefore their existence.
In 1967 Israel occupied the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem, creating the legal form of the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), with the consequent need to colonize effectively, these territories.
settlements are the structure that maintains the domain in the occupied territories, with the advantage for the Israeli government, the small population of settlers that this requires. This advantage is possible due to the legal, political and social separated between "settlers" and "colonized," which poses to a civil court (Israeli settler) and the other military tribunals (Palestinian).
According to Article 47 of the Fourth Geneva Convention and international humanitarian law, Israeli settlements are illegal because an occupying power is not allowed to transfer part of its own population the territory it occupies, in the same way that permanent changes in the territory it occupies, if they are not for the benefit of the employed population.
Besides Israel, the settlement system was not recognized by any other country in the world and shows the end of the implementation of a strategy that has been raised and started to be developed by Ben Gurion, the first President of the State of Israel: "A partial Jewish State is not the ultimate goal, but just the beginning. I am convinced that no one can prevent the establishment in other parts of the country and the region."
In a March 12 interview with NBC television, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called the news of Israeli settlements made during Biden's trip to the region as "insulting" both as a U.S. vice president.
"We share common values \u200b\u200band how much they support Israel represents. But we believe in a two-state solution "that establishes a viable Palestinian state, contiguous, independent, in which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has also said he believes. Obama administration wants to see "measures to build confidence and measures giving rise to the resumption of negotiations and thereafter to move toward resolving issues related to final status" said.
But the November 15, 2010 American feeling changed ("due to carelessness, tiredness, new goals, pressures and betrayals?), Thanks to the Zionist lobby. Israeli ministers began yesterday to decide whether to accept the generous incentives from the United States, including war planes worth three billion dollars, in exchange for a 90-day moratorium on building settlements or refuse to accept any agreement, no concession and we go to war.
The proposal is designed to restart peace talks with the Palestinians. The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, introduced his first Cabinet outline of the offer of the White House that Washington seeks to restore partial freezing of the building in the West Bank, to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, is the minimum condition for resuming negotiations.
Despite the initial scandal, in which some right-wing ministers opposed the deal, Washington hoped that Netanyahu gets the support of his colleagues to launch a new moratorium, in place of which expired on 26 September and stopped the direct talks between the two parties in conflict. Diplomats said U.S. states that would freeze construction in the West Bank that began since that date. The organization Peace Now (Peace Now) estimated that about 1600 homes have been built since then.
The sources added that the package of incentives offered by the White House includes a commitment not to seek another moratorium after these 90 days are completed and the promise of using its veto against decisions taken by the Security Council Nations together which is contrary to the interests of Israel. The initiative is designed to thwart U.S. attempts to persuade the Council to endorse a unilateral declaration of a Palestinian state, the Plan B that Palestinians often flying, if the talks fail or do not bear fruit.
U.S. gives to Israel 20 warplanes to continue to maintain full military control in the region, as expressed in the slaughter in Gaza, attacks on southern Lebanon, the attack on the Freedom Flotilla. The
the moratorium has no feet or head. The moratorium of 10 months ending in September did not help. Israel continued to build in the occupied territories more houses than in all of 2009. The flourishing Jewish settlements everywhere, and public works are not left behind. The bulldozers will not stop building roads for settlers in the West Bank. As this occurs, the U.S. promises Israel all kinds of benefits.
Still, the Israeli cabinet, both right-wing Chancellor Avgdor Lieberman of Israel Beiteinu, as Interior Minister Elie Yishai, the ultrarreligioso Shass, oppose any moratorium, as well as the body representing the 300 000 Israeli settlers in the West Bank.
What negotiation can be established if only one party abuses, places, viola, exploits and represses the other all the time?
How can America foster peace if given three billion dollars in weapons to Israel to grant an extension that does not belong, who does not deserve, it is not fair or nothing?
What kind of negotiation is one where only one party is the one that must yield to the claims that are imposed? What
negotiations can yield results where there is only prejudice, intolerance and disrespect for the law? Why would anyone
condemns and punishes abuses and human rights violations committed by Israel and international?
The Palestinian situation is intolerable. Suffer the daily humiliations that come with the occupation. We should never turn its back on its legitimate rights to live with dignity and statehood.
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