By Nicola Nasser*
The Israeli Jewish settlers of the Palestinian territory,
which was occupied by Israel in 1967, are dictating unilaterally the
demarcation of the borders with any future Palestinian state, thus rendering
its creation impossible; holding the Israeli decision-making process hostage,
they have become the real killers of peace, who brought the twenty --year old
Palestinian -- Israeli peace process to its current stalemate.
As early as the summer of 1995, the Iraqi born Israeli --
British "new historian" Avi Shlaim wrote in the Journal of Palestine Studies:
"The settlers now are the ones who determine
Their numbers then were in the tens of thousands; now there
are three quarters of a million settlers. The
Head of the "Samaria Regional Council" of the Israeli illegal settlements in
the Israeli -- occupied Palestinian West Bank (WB) of River Jordan, Gershon
Mesika, on this August 6 boasted there will be one million settlers there "in
just three years time," telling "Arutz Sheva" online that "the settlement
enterprise in Judea and Samaria (i.e. the Palestinian WB) has passed the point
of no return."
Writing in the "National Interest" on
September 6, 2012, the President of the U.S./Middle East Project, Henry
Siegman, agreed that "
When Benjamin Netanyahu assumed his second term
as prime minister, with the settler Avigdor Lieberman as his foreign minister,
the German SÃ ¼ddeutsche
Zeitung , quoted by Spiegel on March 17, 2009,
wrote: " He and Lieberman are the
gravediggers of the
The electoral campaign of Netanyahu for
his first term in 1995 was blamed by Israeli media for creating the right
environment which led to the assassination of the "father' of the first
The incumbent government of Netanyahu's third
premiership is now described as the "settlers' government" or "a settler --friendly
government," the survival of which is secured by a Knesset led by Speaker Yuli Edelstein,
himself an illegal settler of the Neve Daniel colony in the WB, who called
recently for the annexation of two thirds of the WB area.
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