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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIsrael appropriates West Bank land for possible settlement use
http://news.yahoo.com/israel-appropriates-west-bank-land-possible-settlement-112059363.htmlJERUSALEM (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.
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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.
annabanana
(52,791 posts)they probably shouldn't do that.
tut tut tut and all that
Deny and Shred
(1,061 posts)Bombs or settlements - go quick or go slow. That is the choice Israel gives Palestine.
Crunchy Frog
(26,587 posts)These policies will render any other option impossible, and our country is enabling it. Some friend we are.
BillZBubb
(10,650 posts)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)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)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.
Shaktimaan
(5,397 posts)Give me some examples.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)in a very repulsive pod.
on point
(2,506 posts)Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)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)When will this land grabbing, criminal state be held to account?
Aerows
(39,961 posts)This doesn't lead to peace.
malaise
(269,050 posts)land grabbers.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)I don't know, Malaise. What is this world coming to.
BillZBubb
(10,650 posts)Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)cpwm17
(3,829 posts)They think Jews have a natural right to seize Arab land and that Israel can do with the natives as it pleases.