RE: Arab homes bulldozed, but Israeli expand their colonies.
The Israeli ruling class recently made the hoax offer of stopping the construction of Jews-only buildings in the West Bank for an astonishingly generous period of ten (10) months. Except for educational and religious facilities.
And what happens after ten months? Guess.
About every week I receive a depressing report from Israeli human rights group B'Tselem. They are celebrating their twentieth anniversary. However, there is nothing to celebrate, if you happen to be born Palestinian.
Why do I bother to take an interest in what the Israeli do to the Arabs? Well, if true blue Yanks can support the designs of AIPAC and lobby like fanatics for a foreign entity called Israel, then surely I can protest the injustice of my government supporting Zionism and all that it does in violation of basic decency.
More than that, the Israel lobby has made sure that the government is mandated to reach into my paycheck and extract some of my money to support hypocritical Zionism. For example:
According to B'Tselem, in the last 20 years, Zionists destroyed about 10,000 Arab homes. Meanwhile, the Zionist population of the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) has gone from about 200,000 to 500,000. Arab homes subtracted, and Zionist homes added. All in unlawfully occupied land.
Who makes the rules and carries them out in the West Bank? Zionists who believe and claim that the West Bank is part of Israel, although the state of Israel cannot bring itself to declare officially that the West Bank is part of Israel. This is a sham of course. It makes Israel neither democratic nor Jewish, when millions of Arabs are ruled by foreign occupiers. Arabs have no say in their submission to the Zionists. This is classic imperialism.
The Zionist fantasy is further exploded when one looks at the doings of the so-called "Civil Administration", i.e., the military government over Arabs living in the West Bank. In case you didn't know, the Jewish Zionists living on unlawfully seized Arab land in the West Bank operate under Israeli civil law. Civil Administration chokes Palestinian construction is an article that outlines how Arabs living under Zionist occupation have no input into their own government. As an American I find it repulsive to be forced to support this galling tyranny.
Area C, the remaining 60 percent [of the West Bank], is wholly controlled by Israel, including planning and building matters. Area C is home to some 150,000 Palestinians, who live in 149 towns and villages, and almost all the land reserves of the Palestinian communities, including those of Areas A and B, are located there. The Civil Administration has adopted a policy not to issue building permits to Palestinians in these areas, and does not provide a planning solution for Palestinian land development.
Read the article. Such petty chicanery on the part of Zionists lording it over the Arabs. They rule millions of Arabs, yet demand to be seen as a democracy. The Zionists have millions of Arab neighbors, and insist on calling their state "Jewish". It is pure madness, but in America the politicians and the vast majority of the people have been manipulated into believing the Zionist version of reality, e.g., Israel MUST be Jewish, therefore it is. This non-reality based conceit has recently entered the peace process, wherein the Arabs are now required to bow before the meme of "Israel is a Jewish State" as a precondition for the hapless 2-state solution.
I don't know how a state can enter negotiations based on fantasies of ethnic purity. Ethnic based imperialism usually comes to a bad end. Obama has to get real and press the Israeli and Arabs to accept a one state resolution to the 60 year old crisis. Reality says the two sides are already living in one state, ruled by Zionists. Hardly democratic.