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Related: About this forumChomsky: The Crass and Brutal Approach Used to Keep Gaza Mired in Misery
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/26223-the-crass-and-brutal-approach-used-to-keep-gaza-mired-in-miseryFor more than 20 years, Israel has been committed to separating Gaza from the West Bank in violation of the Oslo Accords it signed in 1993, which declare Gaza and the West Bank to be an inseparable territorial unity.
A look at a map explains the rationale. Separated from Gaza, any West Bank enclaves left to Palestinians have no access to the outside world. They are contained by two hostile powers, Israel and Jordan, both close U.S. allies - and contrary to illusions, the U.S. is very far from a neutral "honest broker."
Furthermore, Israel has been systematically taking over the Jordan Valley, driving out Palestinians, establishing settlements, sinking wells and otherwise ensuring that the region - about one-third of the West Bank, with much of its arable land - will ultimately be integrated into Israel along with the other regions being taken over.
The remaining Palestinian cantons will be completely imprisoned. Unification with Gaza would interfere with these plans, which trace back to the early days of the occupation and have had steady support from the major Israeli political blocs.
Israel might feel that its takeover of Palestinian territory in the West Bank has proceeded so far that there is little to fear from some limited form of autonomy for the enclaves that remain to Palestinians.
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Chomsky: The Crass and Brutal Approach Used to Keep Gaza Mired in Misery (Original Post)
eridani
Oct 2014
OP
Territorial encroachment is now official Israel policy, annexation is next.
Fred Sanders
Oct 2014
#1
Only opposition to colonization of brown people is bullshit for some folks.
Fred Sanders
Oct 2014
#8
Some of my best friends are Jews also, I have pix. Now, what are the colors of the IDF body count?
Fred Sanders
Oct 2014
#11
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)1. Territorial encroachment is now official Israel policy, annexation is next.
King_David
(14,851 posts)5. Annexation of Gaza ?
LOL
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)7. Annexation of Palestine, Gaza is pegged for extermination, silly.
King_David
(14,851 posts)9. Ahh so you were being OTT ?
King_David
(14,851 posts)2. What a bunch of bullshit nonsense ,
The regular pattern is for Israel to disregard whatever agreement is in place, while Hamas observes it
WTF , he's joking , right ?
Maybe Chomsky should stick to linguistics.
eridani
(51,907 posts)3. Hamas quits observing it after Israel quits
Chomsky has plenty of contacts in Israel and is very fluent in Hebrew.
King_David
(14,851 posts)4. So what ?
His essay was still bullshit.
eridani
(51,907 posts)6. Only if opposition to colonial imperialsm is bullshit. n/t
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)8. Only opposition to colonization of brown people is bullshit for some folks.
King_David
(14,851 posts)10. Brown people?
IDF soldiers :
Kids :
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)11. Some of my best friends are Jews also, I have pix. Now, what are the colors of the IDF body count?
All 2,000, 500 little brown children amongst them.
PS who was talking to you?
King_David
(14,851 posts)12. PS: I must of been able to see your PM's?
Because the message I placed was on a public forum not restricted to any one person replying to it, my bad.
As far as you saying " some of my best friends are Jews "
That's something a lot of people say that's become pretty stereotyped and meaningless. It usually evokes the opposite result or emotion intended.
King_David
(14,851 posts)15. Men of Israel
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)13. Recommend.
The realistic alternative to a two-state settlement is that Israel will continue to carry forward the plans it has been implementing for years: taking over whatever is of value to it in the West Bank, while avoiding Palestinian population concentrations and removing Palestinians from the areas that it is absorbing. That should avoid the dreaded "demographic problem."
The areas being taken over include a vastly expanded Greater Jerusalem, the area within the illegal separation wall, corridors cutting through the regions to the east and probably the Jordan Valley.
Gaza will likely remain under its usual harsh siege, separated from the West Bank. And the Syrian Golan Heights - like Jerusalem, annexed in violation of Security Council orders - will quietly become part of Greater Israel. In the meantime, West Bank Palestinians will be contained in unviable cantons, with special accommodation for elites in standard neocolonial style.
For a century, the Zionist colonization of Palestine has proceeded primarily on the pragmatic principle of the quiet establishment of facts on the ground, which the world was to ultimately come to accept. It has been a highly successful policy. There is every reason to expect it to persist as long as the United States provides the necessary military, economic, diplomatic and ideological support.
For those concerned with the rights of the brutalized Palestinians, there can be no higher priority than working to change U.S. policies, not an idle dream by any means.
The areas being taken over include a vastly expanded Greater Jerusalem, the area within the illegal separation wall, corridors cutting through the regions to the east and probably the Jordan Valley.
Gaza will likely remain under its usual harsh siege, separated from the West Bank. And the Syrian Golan Heights - like Jerusalem, annexed in violation of Security Council orders - will quietly become part of Greater Israel. In the meantime, West Bank Palestinians will be contained in unviable cantons, with special accommodation for elites in standard neocolonial style.
For a century, the Zionist colonization of Palestine has proceeded primarily on the pragmatic principle of the quiet establishment of facts on the ground, which the world was to ultimately come to accept. It has been a highly successful policy. There is every reason to expect it to persist as long as the United States provides the necessary military, economic, diplomatic and ideological support.
For those concerned with the rights of the brutalized Palestinians, there can be no higher priority than working to change U.S. policies, not an idle dream by any means.
hack89
(39,171 posts)14. What plans are there to connect the two areas?
how big a corridor? It is one of those details I have never been able to figure out.