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yellowwoodII

(616 posts)
Sun Aug 31, 2014, 07:55 AM Aug 2014

Israel appropriates West Bank land for possible settlement use

http://news.yahoo.com/israel-appropriates-west-bank-land-possible-settlement-112059363.html

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel announced on Sunday a land appropriation in the occupied West Bank that an anti-settlement group termed the biggest in 30 years and a Palestinian official said would cause only more friction after the Gaza war.
Palestinian president prepares new UN appeal Associated Press
Hamas says Israel must accept Palestinian demands or face long war Reuters
AP ANALYSIS: A grim stalemate at war's end in Gaza Associated Press
Palestinian leader says Hamas caused prolonged war Associated Press
Netanyahu says undeterred by Hamas warnings in talks on ending Gaza war Reuters

Some 400 hectares (988 acres) in the Etzion settlement bloc near Bethlehem were declared "state land, on the instructions of the political echelon" by the military-run Civil Administration.

Israel Radio said the step was taken in response to the kidnapping and killing of three Jewish teens by Hamas militants in the area in June. The notice published by the military gave no reason for the decision.
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Israel appropriates West Bank land for possible settlement use (Original Post) yellowwoodII Aug 2014 OP
We keep telling them annabanana Aug 2014 #1
That didn't take long. Deny and Shred Aug 2014 #2
Israel is choosing to eventually become a single, majority Arab state. Crunchy Frog Aug 2014 #3
You are wrong. BillZBubb Aug 2014 #7
Is it? Shaktimaan Aug 2014 #14
Oh, please. Do you have your head in the sand? BillZBubb Aug 2014 #15
Really? Shaktimaan Aug 2014 #17
Bibi and Putin, two land-grabbing peas geek tragedy Aug 2014 #4
Israel breaks truce by firing appropriation at Palestinians again on point Aug 2014 #5
So all of the Israeli boosters have been pointing to the West Bank Erich Bloodaxe BSN Aug 2014 #6
The Israeli ethnic cleansing continues... BillZBubb Aug 2014 #8
K&R Aerows Aug 2014 #9
It will lead to a piece more land for the malaise Aug 2014 #10
Sadly, I believe you are correct Aerows Aug 2014 #11
Peace isn't the Israeli goal, contrary to their propaganda. BillZBubb Aug 2014 #16
And your tax dollars helped. When will we stop funding Israel? Comrade Grumpy Aug 2014 #12
It's just like all of the fundie Israel supporters on DU and elsewhere like it. cpwm17 Aug 2014 #13

Deny and Shred

(1,061 posts)
2. That didn't take long.
Sun Aug 31, 2014, 08:13 AM
Aug 2014

Bombs or settlements - go quick or go slow. That is the choice Israel gives Palestine.

Crunchy Frog

(26,587 posts)
3. Israel is choosing to eventually become a single, majority Arab state.
Sun Aug 31, 2014, 08:39 AM
Aug 2014

These policies will render any other option impossible, and our country is enabling it. Some friend we are.

BillZBubb

(10,650 posts)
7. You are wrong.
Sun Aug 31, 2014, 10:49 AM
Aug 2014

The Israeli policy is ethnic cleansing. They will "persuade" the Arabs to leave the West Bank. There won't be an Arab majority. And we do enable this criminal policy.

Shaktimaan

(5,397 posts)
14. Is it?
Sun Aug 31, 2014, 10:41 PM
Aug 2014

You seem very sure about that. What instances of ethnic cleansing has Israel been committing?

Are the actual crimes that Israel is committing really not compelling enough to rely on without crazed embellishing?

BillZBubb

(10,650 posts)
15. Oh, please. Do you have your head in the sand?
Sun Aug 31, 2014, 11:20 PM
Aug 2014

Israel has on a regular basis "condemned" or simply forcibly taken Palestinian, pushing the Palestinians off, then building settlements on that land. You know that. That is ethnic cleansing. When the Palestinians try to fight back, they are killed or imprisoned.

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)
6. So all of the Israeli boosters have been pointing to the West Bank
Sun Aug 31, 2014, 10:03 AM
Aug 2014

and saying 'See, it works for them! They don't shoot missiles at us, and they're prosperous and not being blown up!'

Yeah, it's really 'working for them', as yet more land is stolen from the 'peaceful' Palestinians.

It just doesn't matter. Violence or peace, land is still being stolen.

BillZBubb

(10,650 posts)
8. The Israeli ethnic cleansing continues...
Sun Aug 31, 2014, 10:51 AM
Aug 2014

When will this land grabbing, criminal state be held to account?

 

cpwm17

(3,829 posts)
13. It's just like all of the fundie Israel supporters on DU and elsewhere like it.
Sun Aug 31, 2014, 06:04 PM
Aug 2014

They think Jews have a natural right to seize Arab land and that Israel can do with the natives as it pleases.

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