Settlers launch interactive Web site

[azurnoir]

A simple toolbar application on a laptop or iPhone is the settlers’ latest weapon in efforts to galvanize activist support for continued Jewish presence in Judea, Samaria and east Jerusalem.

Earlier this week, when the US State Department said Israel had promised not to build in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo, those with the application already on their toolbars were immediately alerted to call the Prime Minister’s Office and seek clarification.

The toolbar is just one component of a new Web site, www.myisrael.org.il, which the Council of Jewish Communities of Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip has launched in the last two weeks under the auspices of its director-general, Naftali Bennett.

Bennett was a founder and past CEO of hi-tech Internet company Cyota. In 2006, he built a Web site and blog for then-opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu, under whom he served as chief of staff.


The Web site gives supporters information that enables them to act in support of Israel and its future in Judea and Samaria by alerting them in real time to tangible things they can do, such as calling a politician or participating in a New York Times poll.

http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=175561

[ixion]

1. "Settlers" is a very inappropriate term for these people

squatters or thieves would be more appropriate.

[Ken Burch]

6. Or colonialists.

Much of the settler movement is imbued with a "take up the white man's burden" mindset. Of all the people Israeli political leaders could have learned "nation-building" from, they made the worse possible choice and learned from the British Empire and its successors here. They should have made alliances with the world's developing nations and had a progressive, anti-imperialist perspective, a perspective that would have involved treating Palestinians and Israeli Arabs as full equals from the start.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

2. Not surprising considering the level of technology in Isreali society

[Ken Burch]

3. You're a pro-Zionist "professor" and you spelled "Israeli" wrong?

Am I missing something?

And no, technological superiority don't vindicate the illegal settlements, Occupation or OCL. The settlers most likely had nothing to do with those achievements.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

4. Right about the spelling error, happens when I forget to use spell check

This pre-netbook netbook I use is pretty limited.

It was an observation that cell phones and other technologies get readily used there. Israel a nation of early adopters

The settlers often commute to work in Tel Aviv and other urban areas, so your assumptions about them are wrong.

[Ken Burch]

5. There's no reason to defend ANY of the settlers or any part of the settlement movement

Israel is the land behind the Green Line. Nothing beyond it is legitimately Israeli territory. And it goes without saying that

1) A Palestinian state can't succeed if the settlements stay in place(because only a state comprising the contiguous West Bank with a corridor to Gaza can possibly be viable)

2) No Israeli government that tries to sabotage the creation of a Palestinian state by continuing to build settlements has any right to even CLAIM to want peace. The settlements have never been about anything other than keeping the war going and keeping the "Everyone in the U.S. and Europe HAS to unquestioningly back Israeli security policy to prove they aren't antisemites" meme going.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

8. To match you view, some of the territory behind the green line will have to be given up

[bemildred]

7. Don't forget twitter.

And you need a facebook page. And more toolbar apps.