Above the development plan of the Jewish Settlement of Chalamish in the Judean Hills. The industrial area to the north was permitted, not so the new houses (the red circled area). The drawing is from Peace Now's website: this is Jewish activist organization dedicated to dismantle Israel and if not possible, then at least to obstaculize its development. They are fighting against the building of every new home for Jews, kindergarden, school, synagogue, park, tree, flower. If not for this destructive self-hating Jews, a couple of young Jewish families would be living now in real houses and not in temporary sheds. Jews were always the worst enemies of Jews, from Torquemada of the Inquisition to Peace Now.
Saturday, May 16, 2009
The Battle of Halamish
Above the development plan of the Jewish Settlement of Chalamish in the Judean Hills. The industrial area to the north was permitted, not so the new houses (the red circled area). The drawing is from Peace Now's website: this is Jewish activist organization dedicated to dismantle Israel and if not possible, then at least to obstaculize its development. They are fighting against the building of every new home for Jews, kindergarden, school, synagogue, park, tree, flower. If not for this destructive self-hating Jews, a couple of young Jewish families would be living now in real houses and not in temporary sheds. Jews were always the worst enemies of Jews, from Torquemada of the Inquisition to Peace Now.
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The settlers are frequently just as bad.
"Among the Settlers" by Jeffrey Goldberg: http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/05/31/040531fa_fact2_a?currentPage=all
ah i take it back. not a fine argument at all. but there's no doubt there are some very nasty elements among the settlers, which should not be tolerated. however, Peace Now doesn't exactly resolve this problem either.
Rashkov,
The article you quote is from 2004 which is almost pre-history in this lands. All the settlements in Gaza have been evacuated without a shot. These are smart, hardworking, practical people, the article does not make them justice. My heart cries each time I see what the Arabs have made of this land: a desert, bare stones, a landfill, a contamination. When a Jewish archeological find is unearthed they hurry to destroy it, to erase any memory or evidence that this land was once peopled by Jews. And I agree, we should not keep living for living alone, a Jew has to live for something larger than himself.
I'll mostly paraphrase Michael Oren's recent article for Commentary Magazine, called "Seven Existential Threats".
When the Jewish demographic majority weakens, Israel will be forced to choose between democracy or remain a Jewish state. If it remains officially Jewish, it will become a de jure apartheid state, and will face sanctions and international isolation that could prove fatal.
The withdrawal from Gaza was very difficult and traumatic. 55,000 troops to remove 8,100 Israelis. The largest military operation since the 1973 Yom Kippur War. All this for a land not traditionally considered part of historical Israel. A withdrawal from Judea and Samaria would be massively worse. Without withdrawal, prospects for a two-state solution diminish, and pressure will grow for a disasterous "one-state solution" at pain of sanctions, which again might prove fatal.
To avoid the demographic threat, Israel will have to unilaterally re-draw an eastern border, and finally assert sovereignty over land and people. This would mean the end of the settler project. So maybe go ahead and continue settling until that border is drawn. This is likely to galvanize another intifada, but then Israel has survived several of those.
It is impossible to predict what will happen in the Middle East the way these scenarios try to, so I suppose Israel is just doing what it always has by wandering through the desert. Perhaps the settlement strategy is the best of the worst, but as usual, tread carefully.
what's your opinion..?
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