Palestinian Activists: Two Can Play the Settlement Game

A group of about 200 Palestinians have set up a small tent village – basically camping out – in the territory in East Jerusalem described by Israel as E1. They say they plan to start building a new Palestinian village there under the name Bab As-Shams.

These Palestinians and activists are basically saying: two can play at this settlement game.

Following the overwhelming UN vote for implicit recognition of Palestinian statehood in November, Israel authorized the construction of 3,000 more housing units in East Jerusalem and the West Bank and is also speeding up the processing of 1,000 additional planning permissions.

According to the New York Times, the bulk of the new housing units Israel has plans for are set to be built “in a controversial area of East Jerusalem known as E1, where Jewish settlements have long been seen as the death knell for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”

The settlement would connect Jerusalem and the illegal Jewish settlement of Maale Adumim, and “therefore make it impossible to connect the Palestinian cities of Ramallah and Bethlehem to Palestinian neighborhoods of East Jerusalem.”

Israel has issued an eviction notice to the Palestinian settlers, ordering them to evacuate their own land. Apparently, the Israelis don’t like it when Palestinians settle on land Israel thinks is its own.

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    1. By the time I finish posting this, the IDF will probably have mowed them down in machine gun fire and burned their tents to ashes.

          1. Or shot in the head 9 people who's 'crime' was to try to bring building supplies to Gaza? Or, well, the list could go on and on and on. I repeatedly hear how the Palestinians should be non-violent like Ghandi. But when they are, the Israelis gun them down. I remember that peaceful protest at the start of the latest round of Gaza war crimes was met by IDF who killed two of the peaceful protesters.

            Given Israel and its policies, its entirely appropriate to think that their response to this will be bloody and violent. And that your US tax dollars will pay for that.

        1. It wouldn't be any fun to make it easy for you by answering that question directly. Go combing through my hundreds of posts on this site over the last few years and then reach your own conclusion based on the contents of said posts.

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  2. How Audacious, how dare they!

    Congratulations on such a brilliant strategy, and while it will probably short lived, attention is drawn and in a non violent manner, at least by the settlers!

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  4. america did the same with the native americans murdered,tortured,starved,cut the tongues of the buffalo so the indians will starve any atrocity the mind can conjure they did to wipe them fron the face of the earth.The zionist are doing to the Palestinians what america did to the Indians.

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