Israel Confiscates More Land
If anyone was thinking of believing the Israeli government when they talk about wanting to provide a state for the Palestinians, please reconsider. Every since 1967 the policy has been to move as many settlers into the West Bank as possible. Since then hundreds of thousands of Israeli have been settled in these lands which were confiscated from Palestinians. When Israel pulled out of Gaza in 2005 they increased their settlement building in the West Bank. During the Oslo Peace Accords, Israel was supposed to freeze settlement building, they didn’t. As freeze in settlement building has been a condition of every single attempt at peace between Israel and the Palestinians and Israel has NEVER stopped.
I write this becuse today Israel announced that it intended to confiscate another 450 acres of Palestinian land for an Israeli settlement. My question is “When will this end?” How long will the international community or we as Americans allow Israel to subjugate the Palestinians, take their land, push them into smaller and smaller areas, destroy their homes, and bomb their cities with our weapons? I have been holding out hope that soon we as Americans would collectively come to our senses and realize what we are support and even encouraging with our billions of dollars a year. The fact that the situation never seems to improve makes me lose hope.