This piece was reprinted by OpEd News with permission or license. It may not be reproduced in any form without permission or license from the source.
Thousands of Palestinians are displaced. Weekly protests are held. Israeli security forces confront them violently. Land theft continues daily. Israel wants all valued areas and Jerusalem as its exclusive capital.
Palestinian rights don't matter. Neither do international laws or ICJ rulings. Only what it wants counts. That's how police states rule - through barrel of a gun ruthlessness against opposition.
On March 30, Haaretz reported new information in an article headlined, "Israel Defense Ministry plan earmarks 10 percent of West Bank for settlement expansion," saying:
"For years Israel's Civil Administration has been covertly locating and mapping available land in the West Bank, and naming the parcels after existing Jewish settlements, presumably with an eye toward" expanding them.
Through Freedom of Information Law requests, anti-settlement activist Dror Etkes found out. In some areas, parcel boundaries coincide with Separation Wall routes. State authorities claim national security necessity.
False! It's land theft, nothing else. Moreover, Civil Administration maps and figures "suggest the barrier route was planned in accordance with the available land in the West Bank." It's near settlements to expand them.
"Available," of course, means portions Israel wants to steal, besides all previously expropriated.
In total, another 569 parcels were chosen. They include about 620,000 dunams, or about 10% of the entire West Bank. Stealing it along with Separation Wall land when completed and what Israel now controls, comprises well over 50% of the territory with more added daily. It continues en route toward leaving Palestinians isolated in separate bantustans on worthless scrubland.
Next Page 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7
(Note: You can view every article as one long page if you sign up as an Advocate Member, or higher).
