June 21, 2005

Act of Settlement?

According to the Lebanese Daily Star, the route of the wall around Jerusalem is not a security measure but an act of settlement; no doubt securing the hereditary principle for some time to come.
The route of the barrier being completed around Jerusalem reflects primarily the policy of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. The essence of this policy is an attempt to determine the final borders of the state of Israel by means of an act of settlement disguised as a security move, and based on the argument that there is no Palestinian "partner" for a substantial political peace process.
Of course this isn't simply about Jewish settlement but also about the removal of the Palestinians.
The government assessed that some of the 90,000 Palestinians entrapped with their 14 villages between the central barrier and the deep fence, and separated from many of their lands, would seek their fortunes elsewhere - much in the same way chosen by thousands of residents of imprisoned Qalqilya; the remaining Palestinians, meanwhile, would be annexed to Israel. To the south of Jerusalem the path of the barrier was planned south of the Etzion Bloc and east of road 60 and Efrata - condemning 17,000 Palestinians in five imprisoned villages to a similar fate.
So under the two state solution, where does the other state go?

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