Now this is peace process the traditional way, as each Israeli regime has practiced it for now going on a few decades. Without interruption. While nearly every President, including Bush the W and Obama, has said that "settlements are not nice"... they have stood on the sidelines while Israel builds up its settlements and destroys the possibility of peace.
Eyewitnesses reported that Israeli army bulldozers uprooted farmlands close to Tiqoua’ settlement, built on lands initially taken away from residents of the Tiqoua’ Palestinian village, south east of Bethlehem.
The bulldozers were uprooting the lands in order to build new homes for Jewish settlers in the area. Source Two
construction (actually, destruction) workers are not likely to know unemployment in Israel...thanks to a congress in the pockets of special interests for war and occupation... this is on your dime. Billions of dollars a year sent to the Israeli military... while Detroit and Oakland get decay and desperation. Palestinians get their land stolen from them, Israel increases its militarization, and the US is seen as the co-sponsor of this attack on the people on the Middle East. It's a lose-lose-lose situation all around, but the status quo must be served.
A "peace process" that seeks firstly, and secondly, and thirdly to get Palestinians to give up their rights "peacefully" while Israel gets what it wants, minus a few Palestinian population centers that will be "generously" granted the Palestinians... is not the basis of peace worthy of the name.
True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
As long as the US refuses to put real pressure on Israel to end its attack on Palestinians, to demand that Israel abide by international law and end the settlement process once and for all, there will be no peace or real peace process. Israel will continue with its US-subsidized bulldozers to demolish peace. and the US congress will sing its praises to the Israeli system as the vast majority of the world shakes its head in bewilderment.
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