Haaretz: La Cisgiordania appartiene al popolo Palestinese


settlements - Nir Kafri - October 22 2010
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La mappa dei territori  "disponibile" per gli insediamenti, rivelata da   Akiva Eldar, mostra che, mentre i  governi israeliani  sbandieravano  il loro desiderio di creare uno stato palestinese accanto ad Israele,  in realtà non risparmiavano  nessuno sforzo economico o giuridico per contrastare questa soluzione.Per   decenni l'Amministrazione Civile ha cercato i territori  della West Bank ,facendo riferimento alla   obsoleta legge ottomana ,per inglobarli  come "terra di stato"e  costruire  insediamenti e persino avamposti illegali. 
Some parcels of land have been named after settlements to be established in the future within certain local and regional councils in the West Bank - and beyond them. In some places, boundaries of "available" land spill beyond the separation fence, which Israel calls the security fence.
La maggior parte dei territori , tra cui 569 siti che coprono 620.000 dunam o 155.000 acri (circa il 10 per cento della Cisgiordania), si trova a est del muro della separazione e dei "blocchi di insediamenti" che Israele vuole annettere in un negoziato  sullo status finale con i palestinesi. 
 
Dal momento che  Oslo, ha autorizzato  il controllo civile dell'Autorità Palestinese  nelle zone A e B, l'Amministrazione Civile ha mappato terra, " legittimato" avamposti  solo nell' Area C. 
La divisione in tre aree è stato intesa  come  accordo temporaneo.Ma i successivi governi israeliani hanno trattato l' Area C - circa il 60 per cento della Cisgiordania - come una parte inseparabile di Israele.L'Amministrazione Civile, le Forze di Difesa di Israele e la Procura di Stato stanno facendo tutto il possibile per limitare i palestinesi che vivono in questa zona e chiudono gli occhi dinanzi  alle  infrazioni di legge da parte dei coloni, come nel caso di Migron. 
In ogni caso, nessuna commissione d'inchiesta delle Nazioni Unite è necessaria per comprendere che la Cisgiordania appartiene a un altro popolo e le sue terre non sono disponibili per uno stato ebraico e democratico.

2 UN probe of settlement activity is a Palestinian warning sign to Israel

The Palestinian leadership, as most experts say about the Iranian leadership, is calculating its steps rationally.


Ramallah knew that the appeal to the United Nations Human Rights Council would elicit a response from Israel, would annoy the Americans, and wouldn’t bring them any closer to ending the occupation.
Why would a rational person think a UN probe into the settlements would lead to any other results than those the results of the Mitchell Report, which recommended that construction be completely stopped and that outposts be evicted, or of the Road Map that recommended the Mitchell Report findings be implemented?
What more can we learn from an investigation into the settlement that we haven’t yet learned from Attorney Talia Sasson's report on illegal outposts? What will the UN probe into the settlements teach us about the settlers’ attacks on the rights of Palestinians that haven’t been made public in the periodic publications of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs or the websites of Peace Now, B'Tselem, Yesh Din, Bimkom, and Breaking the Silence?
It’s enough to look through the archives of the Israeli High Court of Justice and the Israeli press to determine that the settlers - aided by the Israeli government after Israeli government -  are depriving Palestinians of their land, restricting their freedom, and generally making their lives generally more difficult. It is a shame to waste money on the stipends of the investigation staff.
So why did the Palestinians decide they need this investigation? They know no good came to them from the Goldstone Report on Operation Cast Lead. It is hard to believe that they have forgotten the onslaught they suffered in the hands of Benjamin Netanyahu’s government and the American Congress, as a result of their failed attempt to be admitted to the UN and their admission to UNSECO.
It is unlikely that sober leader like Mahmoud Abbas hadn’t first considered the repercussions that Netanyahu’s friends in Congress would dish out in retaliation for their appeal to one the most loathed intuitions in American politics. Doesn’t he know that Republicans are looking for excuses to cut funding to the Palestinian Authority?
In light of the fact that this move seems to play to the hands of Netanyahu, every rational Israeli should be worried by it. It is another testimony to the erosion in the faith the Palestinians hold in the prospect of reaching an agreement with Israel on a final settlement through negotiations, in the United States, and in the Quartet.
What we are seeing is the behavior of a neighbor that is swinging his fists erratically at windmills in despair. This is a warning signal, maybe the last, before more than 120 recognize Palestine as a sovereign nation with the 1967 lines as its borders.

It is true that a vote in the UN General Assembly isn’t equivalent to a vote in the Security Council, but it will make it a lot harder for Netanyahu to claim, as he has in the past, that the West Bank isn’t occupied rather it is “disputed territory.”
Through the years the Palestinians have stubbornly refused to appeal to the UN or the International Court in The Hague to take action against the settlements. According to international law, the transfer of civilian populations into occupied territory is forbidden. Israel claims that this is willful immigration and not government a sanctioned transferring of populations.
The Palestinians believe that measures taken against Israeli settlements outside the West Bank would be misconstrued as recognition of Israeli sovereignty beyond the Green Line. Were Israel to have a more rational government, it would see the Palestinian actions as what they are a Palestinian recognition of Israel within the 1967 borders.


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Israel Defense Ministry plan earmarks 10 percent of West Bank for settlement expansion

Newly released maps indicate Civil Administration secretly setting aside additional land for Jewish settlements, presumably with the intention of expanding them.


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