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Israeli Settlement in the Occupied Territories REPORT ON ISRAELI SETTLEMENT IN THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES A Bimonthly Publication of the Foundation for Middle East Peace Volume 24 Number 2 March-April 2014 THE LAND OF ISRAEL IS ONE SETTLEMENT BLOC By Geoffrey Aronson ated pace. .” “Unfortunately, prisoners Only hours before U.S. president were not released on the Sat- Housing and Construction Minister Barack Obama’s March 3, 2014 White urday they were supposed to be Uri Ariel, one of the Israeli cabinet’s House meeting with Israel prime min- released. And so day went by, day foremost opponents of a diplomatic ster Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s Cen- agreement that would result in evacu- two went by, day three went by. tral Bureau of Statistics (CBS) reported ation of settlements and creation of a And then in the afternoon, when that the number of construction starts in Palestinian state, agreed. “The [CBS West Bank settlements had more than they were about to maybe get announcement] is proof that there is no doubled in 2013 to 2,534 units, which is there, 700 settlement units were way there will be a Palestinian state west more construction than took place in announced in Jerusalem and, of the Jordan River,” he declared. Tel Aviv. Close to 6 percent of all new poof, that was sort of the mo- “We need to build more through- construction last year was located in ment. We find ourselves where out Israel,” Ariel continued, “in the West Bank settlements. In absolute we are.” Galilee, in the Negev, and in Judea and terms, the number was the highest in U.S. Secretary of State Samaria. This is part of the solution to a decade. In addition, there were more John Kerry, April 8, 2014 the housing crisis [in general] that is in housing starts in Jerusalem in 2013 than itself a difficult problem. As the prime anyplace in Israel. Most of this new minister said on the Knesset plenum, construction is located in the settlement rial titled, “How Israel has Done Its we will continue to build in Judea and areas of East Jerusalem, almost dou- Part,” Samaria. .” bling the settlements’ share of national Gilo Housing construction. “The 2,534 new housing units built In a pre-summit interview, Obama in the occupied territories in 2013 On April 1, 2014, Ariel announced acknowledged that “we have seen more are the Netanyahu government’s real the reissue of tenders for new housing aggressive settlement construction over contribution to advancing negotia- in the East Jerusalem settlement of Gilo the last couple years than we’ve seen in a tions with the Palestinians. While (see page 5). very long time.” U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Minister of Justice Tzippi Livni ac- Ha’aretz noted in its March 5 edito- was running all over the Middle East cused Ariel of “intentionally sabotaging” and making great efforts to obtain the talks by issuing the tenders. Ariel an agreement, the Israeli govern- charged that that Livni “failed miser- IN THIS ISSUE ment was building more and more ably” after receiving “unlimited credit to Map of Permits Issued in East houses in the settlements in an effort make peace and release murderers,” and Jerusalem 3 to sabotage the chances of any such was now looking to blame “anyone but Palestinians Confront Settlers— agreement being obtained. herself.” Interview 4 “There is no more reliable litmus The Gilo announcement helped to Tracking Settlement Expansion 5 test of its intentions than construc- precipitate a cascading series of what EU Alarm on Jerusalem 6 tion in the settlements. A govern- U.S. officials described as “unilateral” Building Permits/Tenders in ment that intends to evacuate terri- and “unhelpful” measures by both the Jerusalem Settlements 7 tory doesn’t continue to build in it, and certainly not at such an acceler- ISRAEL, continued on page 9 TO OUR READERS FOUNDATION FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE As U.S.-sponsored peace talks are near right to resort peacefully to international Merle Thorpe, Jr. collapse, John Kerry has blamed Israel most law and institutions? Founder harshly. But officials in the U.S. cast equal True, Article IX of the 1993 Oslo Decla- (1917–1994) blame on the Palestinian Authority’s “uni- ration forbade the PLO from international- lateral” decision to join fifteen UN human izing the conflict. But Article V of the 1995 Philip C. Wilcox, Jr. rights and other treaties as another reason Oslo Accords said “neither side shall initiate President for the breakdown. or take any step that will change the status This reflects a long-standing U.S. policy of the West Bank and Gaza.” There were Geoffrey Aronson that, in deference to Israel, rejects the Pal- 295,000 settlers in the West Bank and East Director, Research and estinians’ right to resort to international law Jerusalem then. Today there are 560,000. Publica tions, Editor, Report on and the UN, and insists that all issues must Must the Palestinians waive their rights for- Israeli Settlement in the Occupied Territories be resolved through negotiations. This is ever, while Israel continues to abuse these egregiously unfair and self-defeating. rights unilaterally? Philip Sweigart Palestinians, a subject people, most of If the U.S. is determined to protect its Editorial Assistant whom live under military occupation, are own interests and reputation, it should Erin Moore Callahan the much weaker party. Israel’s intention welcome the UN, which originated the Jesse Thomas to maintain its occupation and settlements, two-state principle, as a helpful partner, Interns which violate international law, is now obvi- while using more effectively its relationship ous. And U.S. diplomacy has failed to bring with Israel to win a two-state peace. IN MEMORIAM forth a Palestinian state exclusively through James Cromwell negotiations. Why, then, must Palestinians, Stephen Hartwell and not just as a “non-member observer state” recognized by the UN, forfeit their DIRECTORS Landrum R. Bolling —————— u —————— Calvin H. Cobb, Jr. Edison Dick Joseph Englehardt COURTESY OF THE JEWISH SETTLEMENT IN HEBRON Arthur H. Hughes Richard S.T. Marsh Richard W. Murphy Jean C. Newsom Gail Pressberg William B. Quandt Nicholas A. Veliotes Philip C. Wilcox, Jr. The Foundation for Middle East Peace has prepared a presentation of maps illustrat- ing the evolution of the conflict from the UN Partition Plan in 1947, and depicting the growth of Israel’s occupation and settlement project from the 1967 War to the present. To download the presentation visit: http://www.fmep.org/resources/ publications-1/map-progres- sion-1948-1967. Source: Ma’an News, March 8, 2014. Copyright © 2013 2 v Report on Israeli Settlement March-April 2014 Settlement Expansion East Jerusalem , 2010 - 2013 Ramallah 2669 K.Aqab Number of Building Permits GIV'AT in Settlement ZE'EV Neighborhoods 2010 - 2013 W e s t B a n k Bir Nabala Ram GEVA BINYAMIN NEVE 67 Beit YA'ACOV Hanina Biddu Hizma Road 21 PISGAT 522 RAMOT 211 Shuafat ZE'EV R.SHOLOMO 2 Anata I S R A E L FR.HILL 1 Sheperd’s Sh.Jarrah Hotel Site New Site (Yeshiva) Development Post Office IDF- Building Facility (Yeshiva) OLD Tur CITY Azarya MA'ALE Silwan ADUMIM 8 Abu Dis Sawahra EAST 491 TALPIOT B.Safafa GIV'AT Sur HAMATOS Bahir Walaja GILO HAR 1449 382 HOMA 463 Number of Building Permits Bethlehem Numan in Palestinian Neighborhoods 5 Km 2010 - 2013 Bulding Permits East Jerusalem : 2010 - 2013: Palestinian Localities Israeli Settlement Neighborhoods / Palestinian Neighborhoods Israeli Settlements 2669 Separation Barrier 65 % Trajectory Israeli Municipal Limit East Jerusalem Green Line 1449 35 % Roadlink Map: © Jan de Jong March-April 2014 Report on Israeli Settlement v 3 PALESTINIAN VILLAGERS ON THE FRONT LINES Ghassan Daghlass is an official of the Palestinian Authority he attacked us, and he answered, “I want to kick you out of in the northern West Bank, responsible for tracking settler this land and take it.” I informed the Palestinian Author- activity. This interview was conducted by Geoffrey Aronson ity [PA] coordination office, and Israel came with a military on March 12, 2014 in Ramallah. force. I told the settler that he must present this evidence and acknowledge what he had done, so he told the Israeli officer Question: What has changed in the seven years that you exactly what he told me. have been following settlement activity? Question: What is your area of responsibility? Daghlass: Every day there are developments on the ground. Daghlass: My area reaches from the north of Ramallah It is true that the settlement project is expanding all the time. to Salfit and the Jordan Valley. In every village in a conflict What is worse, however, are the “price tag” groups operating in situation, I have a team. In my phone, I have 2,500 telephone the West Bank. numbers. I am in every locality. I built this system. The PA We have a continuing expansion of settlements. And added offers no financial support for this effort other than my sal- to this are the often-violent acts that settler groups are under- ary. We are more a popular movement of volunteers than PA taking, and these are expanding as well. Our statistics show representatives. that the aggressive acts of settlers are increasing. The protests People feel safer when I am around. We call [ourselves] of settlers have gone from protesting inside their settlements the Guard Committees. Groups stay up late in the evening, to protests outside of the settlements, then into the mosques and if they see a settler attack, they call me, and they go to and to our orchards and lands. Today there are more than the mosque and announce it to everyone.
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