Posted at 91177info2 on October 01, 2010
FOREIGN POLICY
ZB: Carter unfairly attacked. All other nation's foreign policy except Israel's can be scrutinized. Charges of antisemitism to ones who dare.
APARTHEID-LIKE NOT APARTHEID
ZB: Carter says not apartheid practiced but an apartheid-like result due to no peace. Contrast is evidence: settlements on hills well-off with swimming pools verse Arab favelas (slums) lacking running water. NYT article statistics of about 40% land of settlements is stolen. Carter warns of true discrimination if it continues. Peace not malign is motivation of Carter book.
ISRAEL LOBBY
ZB: Not good for America or Israel. Has considerable power limiting US action in ME. Legislation passed. Other foreign lobbies. Harmful when become extreme. Congress susceptible because campaigning.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article645037.ece
West Bank settlements were built on stolen land, says Israeli group
November 22, 2006
15,000 acres of private land 'seized'.
Nearly 40 per cent of the land occupied by Israel's West Bank Jewish settlements is owned by Palestinians, an Israeli human rights group said yesterday.
Peace Now said it had obtained information from Israel's military, which undermined claims by successive governments that the Jewish state's hilltop settlements were built on state-owned land and not areas seized from Palestinian farmers and landowners.
It said that the leaked digital documents showed that more than 130 of the West Bank's 162 settlements were built "either entirely or partially" on private Palestinian land, amounting to 15,000 acres.
1979 LAND LAW
Israeli officials cast doubt on the findings last night, saying that Peace Now's claims predated a 1979 change in the law, before which the army could legally seize land for military purposes, before turning it over to settlement use.
But Peace Now has produced a 174-page report saying that the practice continued after 1979, with 31.27 per cent of the land used for subsequent settlements privately owned by Palestinians, and 62.36 percent by the state.
"Those parts of settlements built on private land after 1979 are illegal," said Hagit Ofran, a Peace Now campaigner. Overall, 38.76 per cent of all Jewish settlement land was on privately owned Palestinian property.
INTERNATIONAL LAW
Israel's Jewish settlements are deemed illegal under international law, but Israel disputes this, pointing out that the area was under Jordanian occupation before 1967.
ARIEL AND MAALE ADUMIM
The human rights group said that 86.4 per cent of Maale Adumim, which houses about 30,000 settlers east of Jerusalem, was built on private Palestinian land, and 35.1 per cent of Ariel, which lies 22 kilometres inside the West Bank.
Shlomo Dror, spokesman for Israel's co-ordinator of government activities in the territories, said that much of the land was acquired legally, before the 1979 ruling.
"That was something we stopped doing many years ago," he said. The situation was confused even further because Palestinians often made claims without proper documents or secretly sold land to Israelis but told their neighbours it was seized by force, Mr Dror said.
PALESTINIAN QUESTIONS REPORT
Khalil Tafakgi, a Palestinian mapping expert, questioned the accuracy of some of the report's findings, but pointed out that all settlements were deemed illegal by the United Nations
@swordseller1 chosen people in what? lol so should the U.S., who finances all the weapons and crimes israel does to the palestinians, stay out of this situation when israel kills women and children and steals land. Is this God's chosen people? people who steal land and kill for land and resources are God's chosen people? are they still his chosen people when they do this? look at yourself in the mirror you liar. peace
abe0101 2 months ago 6
Edit; Satanic TALMUD.
mrtruthify 1 month ago