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Their first blow came on the eve of the talks, when the al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ military wing, carried out an ambush on Israeli settlers in Hebron, killing four people.
Part of the West Bank has been annexed outright by Israel or seized by Israeli settlers.
Netanyahu positioned himself as a magnet for the fears and complexes of a broad array of aggrieved voters, including Russian immigrants, Orthodox Jews, most traditionalist Israelis, and religious settlers.
Second, with Likud’s Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister, Israel now has a government which is far less likely to be willing – or able – to make major concessions and evacuate hundreds of thousands of Israeli settlers from the West Bank.
Indeed, Uganda, where Idi Amin expelled Indian settlers in 1972, has been actively wooing them back under President Yoweri Museveni.
The number of illegal Jewish settlers in Palestinian areas has doubled, leaving Palestinians increasingly convinced that negotiations are a waste of time.
Both leaders exhibited utter indifference to the other’s core concerns, and catered to their constituencies, Hamas and Israeli settlers included, making it clear, urbi et orbi, that the gaps separating their positions are as unbridgeable as ever.
The Palestinians have presented to their Israeli counterparts (through the Americans) a written offer that includes giving up lands occupied by Israel in 1967 and now populated by Israeli settlers.
Beyond facing daily humiliation at checkpoints, Palestinians have seen Israeli settlers destroy their crops and olive groves, and even torch a West Bank home, burning three family members and killing a toddler.
European right-wing populists, including some who represent parties with a strong anti-Semitic past, now proudly proclaim their support for Israeli settlers on Palestinian land.
Just look at the US: where would America be if it had introduced barriers to entry to various waves of new immigrants and remained confined to Anglo Saxon settlers?
Instead, an occupation tax would target the settlers’ economy and the violation of Palestinians’ human rights.
Indeed, roughly a half-million Israeli settlers in the occupied territories (including East Jerusalem) make the creation of a contiguous Palestinian state an almost impossible mission.
Evidence does not support the stereotype that women are more pacifist than men – the peacemakers and settlers of male disputes.
But Israel, with its vastly stronger army, could and should have taken much wiser political decisions than occupying the West Bank with settlers.
The Midwestern and mountain states also carried the frontier culture of white settlers suppressing native Americans and Asian and Hispanic immigrants.
Most of the 200,000 settlers in the West Bank are extremely religious.
For, if a two-state solution really is the future, a social and political earthquake of untold dimensions awaits Israelis: a massive evacuation of settlers and a desperate need for a difficult political realignment to deal with the threat of civil strife and perhaps even military disobedience.
Yet, negotiating a complicated and painful agreement with Syria, which may involve uprooting 15,000 Israeli settlers from the Golan, under a Damocles’ sword of a referendum doesn’t make Barak’s task easier.
As a result, most US colleges were built on the frontier rather than in cities; the institutions were used to attract settlers to buy land.
It included opening crossings between Gaza and the West Bank, an airport and seaport in Gaza, opening the border with Egypt, and transferring the greenhouses abandoned by Israeli settlers into Arab hands.
The number of illegal Jewish settlements and settlers has more than doubled in the areas Israel occupied in 1967.
The Fish that ShrankA thousand years ago, the Norse settlers of my home city of York ate cod that weighed as much as eight kilograms.
At the core would be the declaration of a Palestinian state and Israeli annexation of land including the bulk of the settlers.
And US President Barack Obama did nothing when Israel refused to extend its freeze on new building construction in the West Bank, causing Israeli West Bank settlers to rejoice.
The scenes of exultant West Bank settlers only aggravate this.
Palestinians would be allowed into Israel only at a small number of checkpoints, and the settlers would soon find their own position untenable and return to Israel.
The return of the settlers would be a difficult process both in practical terms and because of Israeli public opinion.
The withdrawal of Israeli troops and the evacuation of Jewish settlers from Gaza, after 38 years of occupation, is the most recent proof of the limits of military power, even when that power is overwhelming.
There is no doubt that the evacuation of Jewish settlers in areas that Israelis consider part of their God-given territory represents a huge ideological reversal.
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