The reasons vary as much as the people who have built the various settlements. Trying to put some monolithic, lockstep ‘reasons’ on what’s happened there is missing the entire point.
-XT
Ah-hah! So you admit that the Israelis really are Nazis!
I think there is a squatters right concept in it. When it comes to setting the borders in the future ,the Israelis can show the families living there with clothes on their lines and kids playing in the streets . How can you uproot such normal families ?
Okay, thanks. You get bonus points for actually answering my question. So, OP – there you have it: “might makes right.”
Yes, thanks for answering the question Alessan. It’s interesting that the establishment of settlements didn’t seem to be part of a grand plan (although Sal Ammoniac’s explanation about setting the stage for land swaps seems interesting) but rather the result of a series of decisions by multiple Israeli governments and non-governmental organizations with different and sometimes competing goals which led to the situation we have today. This may explain why it seems to me to have been short-sighted. And I don’t know what the solution to the issue might be today.
You missed the disengagement in Gaza?
Alessan’s a real gem. LOL: I’d encourage you to pull that wool up from over your eyes.
Much reporting in the USA of the tens of thousands of Israelis marching in Tel Aviv on Saturday? Nah, thought not.
More like “possession is 9/10 of the law.”
Somehow I don’t think this was intended to be a compliment. Knock it off or take it to The BBQ Pit.
Of course, the protest had nothing to do with the Palestinians - it’s about the real estate bubble Israel is currently undergoing and the resulting housing shortage.
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Of course, the protest had nothing to do with the Palestinians - it’s about the real estate bubble Israel is currently undergoing and the resulting housing shortage.
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Good grief…why bring facts into a perfectly good and obscure rant?? The point was that there were protests in Israel (regardless of what they were protesting), that the American Media™ didn’t cover them (probably because few would really be that interested) and that Israel is EVIL!!
-XT
Of course, you had to get to that possession by dispossessing the Palestinians first. Hence my “might makes right.”
How exactly did the Palestinians on the West Bank get “dispossessed” by the Israelis?
Also when did the Palestinians ever “possess” the land?
Bulldozers.
When they were on it?
You still beating your Wife, Sal?
Sorry, you’ve lost me on that one.
It was reported by Bloomberg, the New York Times, and the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, to name a few. And, as was said, what’s the relevance to this thread?
Again, most of the land on which the settlements were built was not owned or inhabited by any individual Palestinain. It was state lands, and before the Israelis took possession, they were owned from the Jordanians, who took them from the British, who took them from the Turks, who took them from the Mameluks, who took them from the…
…all of who beat their wives. And don’t get me started on what they did to the goats…
-XT
Oh, so then you’re not talking about all or even most of the Palestinians on the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, just those who had houses demolished because they were being used by people convicted of being involved in violent attacks on Israelis.
My mistake, I thought you were suggesting that somehow the Palestinians in the West Bank have been dispossessed of their land which makes no sense because they never “possessed” it in the first place.