Category: Settlements

The malice of Gaza disengagement

The wrecking of Gush Katif wasn’t really about peace with the Palestinians, but about the crushing of Religious Zionism. The expulsion was a trenchant exhibition of bleak and vengeful impulses that course through Israeli politics.
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Blame those damn settlements!

Let's keep the settlement issue in proportion. Israeli settlements in Judea and Samaria neither explain Palestinian unwillingness to make peace with Israel nor excuse radical Islam's Jihad against Israel. Nor did they cause the floods in England.
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The Impatient Israeli Political Left

Israel should reject Amos Yadlin's desperate, perilous and illogical proposals for unilateral withdrawal -- which only teach the Palestinians not to compromise on any issue. Unilateral Israeli withdrawals won’t bring security or peace.
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Sad Henry Siegman

No amount of Palestinian malfeasance or Iranian threat has ever really bothered Siegman. Israel is always the bad guy. This week he asininely argued that settlements are the “only rationale for Iranian hostility towards Israel,” and that Israeli withdrawal to the 1967 lines “would remove the threat” of the Iranian bomb.
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On Yitzhak Shamir, Settlements, and U.S. Policy Restraints

The reflections of the late, great Yitzhak Shamir on the nexus between Iraq, Israeli settlement policy and relations with President George H.W. Bush are fascinating in the context of current Prime Minister Netanyahu's policy dilemmas regarding Iran, settlements, and relations with President Obama.
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