Sigh..........
What does Israel expect to accomplish by moving new settlements into the West Bank, exactly? As I asked before, so I'll ask again: what justification does Israel have for settling the territory allotted to Palestine in 1948? No amount of excuses about what the Arabs did then explains why Israel's 'security interests' are served by settling and further partitioning territory Israel has agreed on paper will be part of Palestine, if it ever comes into existence.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20585706
I fail to see how anyone's interests are served by this in the long term, and find this another confirmation of what Israel's really doing here: extorting land from a leadership it tries to control and objects to it using legal channels to assert its interests, as opposed to filling up occupied territory with more settlers. Which is in fact illegal from the point of view of international law, regardless of any practical concerns with enforcing this provision. I'm also curious as to how people think Israel can settle a territory of people who are a genuine threat to it. If they are a threat, how can it provide more settlements? If they are not a threat, isn't supporting this kind of thing an open admission that the only thing that counts in the end is naked, merciless force even when it's a 'democracy' doing it?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20585706
I fail to see how anyone's interests are served by this in the long term, and find this another confirmation of what Israel's really doing here: extorting land from a leadership it tries to control and objects to it using legal channels to assert its interests, as opposed to filling up occupied territory with more settlers. Which is in fact illegal from the point of view of international law, regardless of any practical concerns with enforcing this provision. I'm also curious as to how people think Israel can settle a territory of people who are a genuine threat to it. If they are a threat, how can it provide more settlements? If they are not a threat, isn't supporting this kind of thing an open admission that the only thing that counts in the end is naked, merciless force even when it's a 'democracy' doing it?