U.S. Main Obstacle to Peace in Palestine – LAP
“The U.S. government seems determined to share Israel’s self-inflicted isolation from voices calling for peace from all over the world.”
A mediator that arms one party and pretends to protect the other?
“Apartheid wall” in the occupied West Bank
“In fact, Israel is treating the Palestinians — it has for a long time, all of modern history…The annexation, which they’re holding off for the moment, basically formalizes policies that have been implemented over the last 50 years…
“So, you take what’s important, but avoid the population centers. Israel does not want to bring Palestinian populations into the Greater Israel they’re constructing. That’s what’s called the demographic problem: too many non-Jews in a Jewish state. Can’t have that. So, we want to avoid the population centers, don’t take over Nablus, other population centers. Take over the areas that are of value to us. There is a Palestinian population; try to get rid of them as much as possible by making life unlivable, or else isolate them in unviable cantons, probably almost 200 of them in the areas that Israel is taking over, where people are cut off from their fields, from their olive groves. They have to pass through checkpoints to cross the road. Just make life as impossible as possible, and try to limit the population and take over what’s valuable.
“The Jordan Valley, about a third of the West Bank, take that over. Palestinian populations have mostly been removed by one or another technique. Set up military firing zones, where nobody’s allowed in it. So you kick out the Palestinians, then you put in a Jewish settlement and tie it to the electrical and water grid. Pretty soon, it’s settled by Jews. Do the same with the Gurion Park, and so on. That’s the policy for the last 50 years. Do it slowly, sort of under the radar, so outsiders can pretend they don’t see it. But that’s what’s been happening. Annexation will essentially formalize it.”
Comment: Is Netanyahu’s primary objective is to eliminate Hamas? If that is so, why did he support Hamas over the Palestinian Authority to lead Gaza? The Israelis have treated Palestinians like crap for years. What they are doing in the West Bank is evidence of their intentions and long-term strategy to displace, demean, provoke, retaliate, punish, and take the land. Netanyahu will need a remnant of Hamas to justify further aggression against Palestinian civilians in years to come. They call it “cutting the grass.” Killing thousands of civilians wasn’t necessary unless it was part of the objective.