Israel to build 430 new settler homes on occupied West Bank territory: NGO

The settlement bloc of Ma'ale Adumim and the E-1 development would remain, but this would not remove the viability of a future Palestinian state connected to Jerusalem . As you can see, paths still easily exist past E-1 and Ma'ale Adumim to reach Jerusalem. Olmert's plan shows that clearly .

'Paths' still exist? Well, a dirt track certainly counts as a path, but that's not the issue (and you know full well that's not the issue, thus you are being disingenuous). E-1 is the only undeveloped tract of land immediately east of Jerusalem, and was illegally annexed to Maale Adumim in the mid-90s. Israel is developing it and surrounding it with the Wall, so that the Maale Adumim bloc will completely divide the West Bank and prevent Palestinian contiguity. At the time of Olmert's proposal, there was a plan for 3,500 units on E-1 that would preclude natural expansion by Palestinians of East Jerusalem onto the last remaining open land. Likewise, the Jewish settlement of Pisgat Ze’ev in the city’s north isolates Jerusalem from Ramallah, just as Har Homa (“the mountain wall”) settlement in the south, fortified by the Wall, damages the vital Bethlehem-East Jerusalem-Ramallah economic salient. Where the Palestinian areas are concerned, de-development is the name of Israel’s game (It is no coincidence that the Wall has grabbed the best farmland and most of the water). The essence of the Olmert plan was to withdraw unilaterally from minor areas in order to keep geopolitically strategic ones, especially Jerusalem and other blocs. Your assertion that the plan was equitable and fair is disputed by numerous experts, including Jeff Halper and others.

Wow, did you just fuck up bud. Nice facts, by the way.

The Oslo years began in 1993. Since the start of the peace process, the Israeli settler population has more than doubled from roughly 232,000 in 1991 to nearly half a million by the end of the millennia. My numbers were off, but the point is still made.

Aw, how cute. You're quoting scholarship!

And you quote none. That's certainly telling.

What is truly incompetent is that Israel is told to not allow its citizens to live in an area just because someday it might become a future Palestinian failed state that will be a hotbed for terrorism against Israel,

Another self-serving justification, and irrelevant. The territories Israel has occupied post 67 (in a war that it started), it has no claim to. This is a fact under international law. I said you're welcome to whine about it, and indeed that's exactly what you've done. To no avail.

That's all from Clinton's memoir, My Life.

It was Clinton's fraud as much as it was Barak's. Quoting Clinton won't do you any favours.

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