Further evidence of State support for Settlements

Nodin

Possible the greatest problem of the Palestinian conflict, is the way Palestinian violence is presented without proper context.

An unauthorised Jewish settlement in the West Bank, illegal even under Israeli law, appears to benefiting from state funding, the BBC has uncovered.
A road is being built from the established settlement of Eli, near the Palestinian city of Nablus, leading east to the illegal outpost at Hayovel.

The international community regards all settlements in the West Bank as illegal under international law.
Israel disputes this, but even under Israeli law, those newer, smaller settlements - known as outposts - which have not received authorisation from the government are deemed, by the Israeli government, to be illegal

(my bold)

The BBC asked the relevant government and military departments why this road was being built on what their own map indicates is privately owned Palestinian land; and how this road tallied with the government policy of no public funding going towards outposts.
No-one was able to provide the BBC with an answer. However, in a fax to the Israeli human rights group, Yesh Din, which has been investigating the issue of the road on behalf of the Palestinian villagers, an official from Israel's Civil Administration said that the matter was now in the hands of "inspectors".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7965503.stm

This is the kind of thing that is the main fuel of the violence - not esoteric matters of religon, or whose ancestor did what, but the daily unending theft of land from its owners, and their harrasment and displacement. Theres no doubt as to who it belongs to, theres no doubt that it takes place with the full blessing of the occupying Israeli state.

paulaa

Nodin wrote: »

Possible the greatest problem of the Palestinian conflict, is the way Palestinian violence is presented without proper context.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7965503.stm

This is the kind of thing that is the main fuel of the violence - not esoteric matters of religon, or whose ancestor did what, but the daily unending theft of land from its owners, and their harrasment and displacement. Theres no doubt as to who it belongs to, theres no doubt that it takes place with the full blessing of the occupying Israeli state.

From the BBC article

"The international community regards all settlements in the West Bank as illegal under international law."

Yet the International Community does nothing about it ! Israel lies through her teeth to the UN and US, in particular, that she will tackle the problem of settlements and halt the building of new ones. Then she goes right ahead with the construction of 100's of new Israeli homes on stolen land.

It's ethnic cleansing,greed and theft, pure and simple.

wes

Israel would be doing themselves a huge favor by stopping this idiocy, but sadly the dreams of a greater Israel seems to far more important than peace.