Why are the Israelis still building illigal settlements in the occupied territories?

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HopelessZ00

bit by bit bit by bit...build more settlements ...create more linking roads...with more checkpoints...make life unbearable for the Palestinians....then maybe just maybe....they will immigrate to other countries....or become tired and hopeless...and give in to whatever it is that Israel wants.......Peace!

but.....one million hands pushing heads into the water...suffocating them...eventually they can't breathe...so then....they fight to come up for air!

Mr. Pitiful (was Gonzo)

who said they wanted peace

samy n

because no one from arabs presidents can fear it all search how to keep standing on thir churchs also usa alawys stand behind her in any situation we are so soory for weakness of our leaders

Maya

Because they are crazy religious fanatics who imagine that a mountain god named yahweh gave them this land,so they have the right to kill and otherwise dispose of the inhabitants. Most of the Tanahk is a celebration of genocide. What they forget is few people other than fundies take this junk history seriously and couldn't care less what they think their presumed god supposedly promised. As to genocide,that's what they were best known for in the ancient world - terrorizing their neighbors with wild stories of god-promised land,etc. - and today they do the same thing in slow motion. There will be no peace until the British are required to come back long enough to remove these so-called settlers they put in there back in the '20's. I want to see the whole area under Syrian control and I don't want these so-called chosen people to ever again have the opportunity to govern. It's only happened twice. In Palestine,a never-ending horror-story - and in post-war Hungary,under the brutish Matthias Rakosy and his savage secret police,entirely "jewish",by the way. Hungarians today are very antijewish,and can you blame them? These people are simply unfit to govern. Anywhere.
And nobody cares about their 3000-year-old con job on the god-promised bit. It was a load of crap then and it's a load of crap now.

paperback_writer

Speaking of promises...

The Palestinians promised that if Israel left Gaza, terrorism would decrease.

So Israel left Gaza - and now more rockets than ever are being launched from there onto Israeli towns like Sderot, and Israelis are dying as a result.

Both sides need to keep any promises that are made - the Palestinians need to stop the terrorism and the Israelis should, when that happens, stop building settlements.

Gamla Joe

If your referring to the expansion of neighborhoods in East Jerusalem it is because the Government of Israel has stated clearly that since East Jerusalem has been annexed it dose not consider construction there settlement building.

As far as I am aware outside Jerusalem all permits for residency construction in the West Bank have been suspended.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/932333.html

PS-- Not that it will help, but please do not bite my head off, I am not giving my opinion, but only relating what information I have read from in the news.

diana

what is the benefit of Annapolis if they're still sending rockets!!

B ШЁШєШЇШ§ШЇ

Because they can't stop... it's an addiction. The same way america is addicted to oil. They're addicted to stealing land.

Mimi, here is a non-biased source (an israeli source!):

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/932384.html

I'm telling you, Palestinians need to toughen up and do to the occupiers what we're doing in Iraq, that'll teach 'em a lesson.

Look (in revenge for abu ghraib/phosphorus bomb in fallujah/other war crimes) :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRpnH43D_3A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c9S6KOGYm8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZviiy2NcZs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm0XwAHsLyg&feature=related

edit: oh there goes the old ''they're all anti-semites'' excuse again, lol, grow up. lmao @ ''she has given up her objectivity'', if only you had any to begin with. and kudos to you for proving this ''objectivity'' (oh in case you didn't know mimi, objectivity = agreeing with everything they say/do.) So summary is you're allowed to lie, over and over and over again, and when someone dares to criticize your opinion they are ''anti-semites'', well you're a bigoted as*hole how about that ?

idiot.

mark

The Israelis wanted it both ways freedom and democracy for them and occupation and collective punishments for the native people of Palestine. The Israeli dogma.

Freedom F

Well, they don't want peace. They decided on their course of action in 1948 and that course has not changed.

MikeInRI

There are some pretty obnoxious things said - from B I am use to it, from Mimi - she has given up her objectivity, and from Maya I am guessing she isn't a history/social studies teacher because her comments are not based on factual evidence. Regardless - I have to say Gamla Joe and Michael J's answers are right on target. I can see we have a lot of trolls with an anti-Semitic bent who like to give thumbs down to people - but that is what you get when you don't hold people accountable for their actions in an effective manner.

Good Luck!!!

I would also suggest you read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolution_242#Interpretation to give you a better idea of why Israel does what it does.

Michael J

Israelis do not support Annapolis is not the same as Israelis do not support peace. How bout this: for peace we must kill all the Arabs in the world. Ha! Since you don't support what I just said, obviously you aren't for peace. Do you see the flaw in this argument? (By the way, I'm not actually supporting mass genocide against Arabs, that was just an example). As for your 50% of Jews want Israeli Arabs gone statistic, I'm going to have to see proof. The nearest political opinion to that - Israel Beiteinu's suggestion that we trade areas heavily Israeli Arab for areas with Jewish settlements in the territories - garnered only 11 seats in the last election, less than 10%. I would also like to see a statistic about settlement building. If this building you are reffering to is natural expansion of existing settlements to allow for growth, then that is both to be expected and not in violation. In fact, last I heard the government, through Barak, were not even giving permits for this. If instead you are talking about unsanctioned settlement construction, then I assume it's because those building the settlements disagree with these rules. They will be an issue that a final border agreement will rectify: if they end up on the Israeli side, then the settlement will stay, and if not they will be removed.
As for your views on Hamas, I must say you are misguided. Hamas does not call for a peaceful solution with Israel, or for Israel to keep its promises. Hamas states as its goal the destruction of Israel, to the point where Israel's actions are essentially meaningless with regards Hamas. Since you're already discussing the benefit of Annapolis, what exactly is the benefit when half the population is under a different administration and the current government isn't even legal? Or when the ones making the promises are not the ones who can carry them out, i.e. stop the rocket fire. Continued settlement construction, if that is indeed happening in any appreciable way, is not the major hurdle towards peace.

notyou311

The rockets are killing people because you are disappointed? That is ridiculous. If you want peace, you have to stop killing Israelis.

moneymaker

Why are Arabs still illegally living in the Holy Land altogether? Your place is in Arab Peninsula.

LadySuri

That's weird...it seems that the Israelis promised to pull out of Gaza...and what was that that happened in 2005?

And then what did the Palestinians proceed to do with it? Use it as a rocket launching pad.

gldjns

If you go back to the history of Israel and the Jewish people, you will no doubt discover that the so-called illegal settlements actually belong to the Israelis. Israel is the homeland of the Jewish people, from Biblical times (the Promised Land) to the present. Israeli's have been more than accommodating, allowing Palestinians to usurp the land that is rightfully that of the Israelis. (Think Gaza Strip). They have been forced to leave areas that were designated as theirs. One can't blame them for retaliating by generating "squatters rights" in territory that belongs to them in the first place. Perhaps that will answer your question as to why they are still building settlements in occupied territories. Those territories have no business being occupied. It's the same principle as someone taking over your property, house, lot and garden without your authorization. How would you react? Would you bring them tea and sandwiches, or would you build barriers around what belongs to you, and force them out by whatever means available?

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