Israel's far right government has cooperated with settlers destroying thousands of olive trees on the West Bank. This is olive picking season, and the pickers have been under attack by the settlers. Olive trees take years to start producing their fruit.
Recognition of Palestine by many EU countries has only emboldened the settlers, who had become more aggressive since the Hamas attack in 2023. The settler block and their agenda hold important posts in Netanyahu's coalition government. To the fundamentalist settlers, the West Bank is biblical Judea and Samaria, and should belong to Israel.
While 3th country(s) mediators may be coming to Gaza, to be between the IDF and Hamas, the West Bank Palestinians, in both land and person, are on their own.
I'm not here to be polite or popular
The EU offers nothing, Let this fantasy go. You are sounding unhinged.
ReplyDeleteIt's not the "west bank," it's Judea and Samaria. End of story. Part of the land God gave to Abraham and his descendants.
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ReplyDeleteYou just keep on looking to the “Europeans” for some constructive, cohesive, influence on the situation in the region.
Good luck.
You write you don't like redundant comments but then post redundant commentary.
ReplyDeleteThe greater Israel project is real and advocated by the Israeli government. It will include the west bank, Jordan, parts of Sinai and likely buffer zones for miles in all directions. Of course all this relies on the U.S. support.
ReplyDeleteIsrael is now wholly dependent on the U.S. for its existence. Now going to become a hollow reed similar to the comparison to Israel's reliance on Egypt in biblical times.
Does modern Israel, while quoting about the promised land, really rely on God for their protection and live by biblical teachings other than destroying their enemies.
Most Christian Zionists have never even read the bible, and devout Jews often disagree with the present behavior of secular Israeli rule.
It was conditional covenant, and for not keeping it, they were exiled for 2500 years. Are they in good keeping with the covenant today?
Without a change of direction of Israel's policies it is not going to end well.
Ray@10:09: I've done a 180 on Netanyahu, and Israel under him in the last 6 months. I credit Trump for the ceasefire, and hope that he continues to keep Netanyahu on a short lease.
ReplyDeleteJust as Netanyahu's excesses have alienated me, I think likewise he lost support in Congress. The current Republican sycophants of course follow Trump's lead. But Israel's historic support rested with the Democrats....Their current alienation will have long term effect on the USA/Israel relationship.
What is 'excess' when waging war....especially after one's nations was attacked first?
DeleteThe contemporary Democratic Party are not your grandparents Democratic Party.
ReplyDelete(We are those grandparents.)
Any American Jew who voted Harris/Wafford is utterly self destructed.
ReplyDeleteThere are some people who history apparently has passed by and who never can achieve autonomy….Kurds, Basques, American Indians, etc. etc. The Palestinians will be the native Americans of our time. Poorly led they are not going to acquire statehood in the Middle East. A better future lies in Dearborn, Michigan.
ReplyDeleteanon@1:54: History is complicated. Every year, every Seminole in Florida, man, woman and child, gets about $300k from the sale of the Hard Rock Cafe Casino. The Palestinians rejected statehood several times, betting instead of Israel's demise. I believe they're now ready. With Netanyahu's excesses, and new European recognition, statehood is more in sight than it has been in decades.
ReplyDeleteNo one, anywhere, gives a tinkers damn about vacuous European virtue signaling. Not a single Arab state gives a hoot about some European grandstanding at the U.N. designed to give them a patina of political cover to molify their Muslim populations.
DeleteIt’s transparent nonsense.
The only “government” in Gaza is HAMAS. They were elected, one man, one vote, one time.
DeleteAfter the election HAMAS gunmen set off on targeted assassinations of the P.A. political people.
No one in the world, especially the Arab world, wants to see a state managed by HAMAS, the Islamic Jehad of Gaza or the rump Muslim Brotherhood.
No one.
If the Palestinians were given a state tomorrow there would be no political entity to administer it.
Independent Statehood is light years away for Gaza.
Perhaps the Jordanians will assist in the administration of Gaza.
ReplyDeleteGoogle September 1970.
How can Israel have a 'far right' government and a 'coalition' government at the same time?
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