Purpose of the Settlements

Most of the world believes that Israeli settlements constitute the primary obstacle to peace, which is why the Road Map called for cessation of settlement activities.

AFter accepting the Road Map, Sharon authorized the expansion and addition of new settlements, yet thanks to the media, most Americans think that the Road Map died because of Arafat.

Some people here say that the settlements are only a "bargaining chip" and not permanent.

What do the settlers say? They say what Sharon doesn't need to say because everyone knows it.

Elon Moreh in the West Bank is part of the Gush Emminum block, and they say this about what they are doing:

"NEIGHBORHOOD 792:Since the settlements on the mountaintops around Shechem, of which Elon Moreh is the biggest and therefore the central one, are the only Israeli presence from Shechem to the Jordan River, these communities now present the only barrier to a Palestinian State in eastern Samaria. It is therefore of utmost importance to build up this presence on the highest mountain tops. On the hill northeast of EM a new neighborhood has been started without any government help at all. This leaves all the essentials - road, electrical lines, water, etc. - without any government budgets."

http://www.shechem.org/elon-moreh/engproj.html

"Every indigenous people," Jabotinsky wrote in The Iron Wall, "will resist alien settlers as long as they see any hope of ridding themselves of the danger of foreign settlement. This is how the Arabs will behave and go on behaving so long as they possess a gleam of hope that they can prevent 'Palestine' from becoming the Land of Israel." For Jabotinsky, the trick was to extinguish that "gleam of hope." According to his doctrine of the "iron wall," the Palestinians will agree to limited civil and national rights only after their resistance is broken. "The sole way to an agreement," wrote Jabotinsky, "is through the iron wall, that is to say, the establishment in Palestine of a force that will in no way be influenced by Arab pressure...A voluntary agreement is unattainable...We must either suspend our settlement efforts or continue them without paying attention to the mood of the natives. Settlement can thus develop under the protection of a force that is not dependent on the local population, behind an iron wall which they will be powerless to break down."

Addressing the Jewish Agency Executive after the outbreak of the Arab revolt in 1936, David Ben-Gurion, first prime minister of the state of Israel and grandfather of the modern Labor Party, said: "A comprehensive agreement is undoubtedly out of the question now. For only after total despair on the part of the Arabs, despair that will come not only from the failure of the disturbances and the attempt at rebellion, but also as a consequence of our growth in the country, may the Arabs possibly acquiesce to a Jewish Eretz Israel." Ben-Gurion not only agreed with Jabotinsky, but argued that peace was only desirable if it advanced the Zionist agenda: "It is not in order to establish peace in the country that we need an agreement...peace for us is a means. The end is the complete and full realization of Zionism. Only for that do we need an agreement."

Nothing has changed.

"PEACE" FOR ISRAEL IS A MEANS, NOT AN END, ACCORDING TO BEN GURION. The trick is to always maintain the delusion that Isreal really wants peace instead of land, and to blame the natives for every disruption of "peace", which is where the magic word "terrorism" comes into play.

Sharon's "national unity" government represents a closing of ranks around the rock-bottom refusal of Zionism and Israel to entertain the possibility of truly sharing this land with the Palestinians -- either in one state or in two. The role of the Sharon government is to generate such despair among the Palestinians that they will sue for surrender. It will strive to dash Palestinian hopes for a viable, sovereign state, to defeat the Palestinians once and for all.

http://www.palestina-balsam.it/c03.html

You're right on here. The gradual and complete genocidal destruction of an agrarian and indigenous people. Their only hope is capitulation then assimulation while waiting for the Universe to make it right by correctingly the cancer that infests the land.........my folks have already been that route and here I am posting on DU three generations later. Peace, be still, patience. Now I'm going to say "manifest destiny" to get us both vaporized and the thread locked.

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