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| The EU's illegal settlements |
| 2016-03-21 |
| For those who bash Israel, it is axiomatic that Israel is building illegal settlements in Judea and Samaria, otherwise known as the West Bank, against international law. This is peddled ad nauseam by the EU and the myriad anti-Israel NGOs it funds, and is the basis of the EU’s policy of labeling goods from the "occupied territories." Yet astoundingly, the EU itself is behind the building of illegal settlements there. Last year, it announced it was providing €3.5 million to fund infrastructure projects in Area C, the section of the disputed territories under Israeli control. These settlements, which fly the EU flag and display its logo on their structures, are to be found in more than 40 locations in Area C. According to the Israeli NGO Regavim which maps this activity, between 2012 and 2014 more than 400 of them were constructed within the Adumim area near Jerusalem alone. Under the Oslo Accords, Area C is administered by Israel. The EU settlements, constructed without Israeli permission and against Israeli zoning laws, are therefore illegal squatter camps. Israel regularly demolishes these structures. Last month, the United Nations special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, Nikolay Mladenov, complained to the UN Security Council that, since the beginning of this year, Israel had demolished on average 29 Palestinian-owned structures per week, three times the weekly average for 2015. "These actions run directly counter to the idea of peace," he said. The EU maintains that it is merely providing humanitarian aid for the Palestinians. This is clearly disingenuous. The Arabs living in the disputed territories are not living in starvation or destitution, the proper focus of true humanitarian aid. No, the EU has another objective in mind altogether -- one it barely troubles to conceal. It is using settlement construction to reshape demographic reality and undermine Israel. As I see it, EU is basically in the business of spreading Tranzi ideology. In particular, (through infinite stupidity/arrogance) it allied itself with Islam against all nation states. The "transformation" of USA proceeds satisfactorily. Russia, the several EU moves having failed---mainly because transformed USA has not been much help (surprise, surprise), is too strong right now. Israel, however, being the very symbol of a nation state is always a high priority (+ nobody likes uppity Jews). |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |