I found this article on BBC news, thought it was pretty interesting…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7919050.stm
It has been announced that Israel has plans to build more settlements in the West Bank region, which includes 73,000 homes. This not only is a significant amount of homes to build for the country that is essentially the size of Rhode Island, but it throws a major fork in the road for Palestine’s efforts so to speak. The Palestinian response to this has been with angry and a stern warning to the Israeli government; if they continue to build on the land that Palestinians think it rightfully theirs, there is no hope for peace anytime soon. This really is a terrifying thought not only for Israel but the rest of the region, and world for that matter. The Palestinian-Israeli conflict is dragging the rest of the world down along with them, specifically America. Billions of dollars a year are being given to the Israeli government by America in an attempt to sustain the country’s effort.
When comparing this article to the video shown in class, it really shows how unrealistically biased the video was. It stated that all media outlets were against Palestine in a sense, and that this bias was shown through political rhetoric that was meant to distort the public’s image of the situation. One major example used in that video was that the media referred to settlements as “communities”, so when mention was made that the Palestinians were attacking the settlements; it became a more vicious act because of what a community if portrayed as. Read this article, and you will find that there is no mention of 73,000 “communities” being built, but it is clearly stated that these were Israel settlements.
Peace Now head Yariv Oppenheimer said in a radio interview. "The completion of these projects will make the plan of creating a Palestinian state next to Israel totally unrealistic." According to a housing ministry spokesperson, the plans for these settlements are not set in stone, nothing will definitely happen and there is no guaranty most of these settlements will ever be built.
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I agree here that these projects would deepen the conflict even further. It's almost comical that someone would even think to build more Israeli buildings on land that is supposedly Palestinian. The conflict is bad enough right now, adding 73,000 more Israeli homes in the West Bank only worsens the conflict.
ReplyDeleteI agree with DN, this will diffinately make the situation much worse..
ReplyDeleteadd to that, if the project was to set foot, this means destroying palestinian houses in order to build the settelments in their place, which would probably lead to alot of violent reactions.
In response to what you have already mentioned sort of reminds me of how any state here in the U.S. can take over and claim anyone’s property if they have a legitimate reason to do so. The Israeli government is repossessing Palestinian homeowner’s property to then reconstruct homes for Israeli families. What kind of reason is that?
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