The
internal friction within Israeli society is immense. This strife grows with each day. In the
coming months the battle over the illegal outposts by apartheid Israeli
settlers will intensify as Supreme Court deadlines to dismantle various
outposts will become due. Pitted against
each other are the Chief Apartheid Benjamin Netanyahu, the apartheid settlers
and various officials in the government and Knesset. This battle is but one of many internal
struggles that is destroying Israel and one in which I will express my thoughts.
( © Copyright, Fadi Zanayed. Publication or distribution of this material is allowed provided its content is not altered and the source and its author are cited.)
According
to Wikepedia, an Israeli outpost is a Jewish community built in the West Bank (excluding
Jerusalem) that was constructed between 1991 and 2004 without the authorization
of the Apartheid Israeli government. (Wikepedia
did not use the term Apartheid to refer to Israel, I, however, use the term
Apartheid Israel at every opportunity—because that is what Israel is—an Apartheid
State.) While Wikepedia excluded the
outposts around Jerusalem, Palestinians, of course, include them as containing
illegal outposts and settlements. These
outposts and settlements are built on privately owned Palestinian land.
The
difference between an outpost and a settlement is really insignificant to
Palestinians. While outposts are
considered illegal by Israeli law as they are not authorized by Apartheid
Israeli governments, settlements are authorized although also illegal under international
law. Outposts are a prelude to settlements.
Outposts start off with a few families who live in caravans as they
await infrastructure and financial support from Apartheid Israel and
sympathetic individuals and communities both inside Israel and abroad, usually from
the United States Jewish community.
There
are over 120 illegal outposts dotting the West Bank. Palestinian land owners upon which these
outposts have been built have, with the help of organization Peace Now,
petitioned the Apartheid Israeli Supreme Court to enforce an order to dismantle
the illegal outposts. The Supreme Court
has ordered the Apartheid Israeli government of Chief Apartheid Netanyahu to
remove several outposts, some of whose deadlines are coming up in the next
several months.
The
illegal outpost called Migron is set to be dismantled by March 31, 2012. It is located southeast of Ramallah and northwest
of Jerusalem. Chief Apartheid Netanyahu
has proposed a compromise to the apartheid Migron settlers in which he requested
them to voluntarily evacuate the outpost and receive in return support to
establish a community on nearby state land. Whether that “state land” is part
of land Palestinians claim to be part of East Jerusalem upon which they want to
establish the capital of Palestine is not clear.
The
apartheid settlers of Migron have rejected the proposal and demanded of the
Chief Apartheid to authorize the outpost by legislation. Of course, the authorization by the Apartheid
Israeli Knesset would only make it legal within Israeli law but still illegal
under international law. Any evacuation
of Migron, the apartheid settler’s claim, will cost the Chief Apartheid his
job.
Several
Apartheid Israeli officials including the Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin, want to
legislate a solution with a compensation payment to the Palestinian land
owners. The problem with this “compromise” is that the land is not and has
never been for sale.
Additionally, under International law, specifically the Fourth Geneva
convention, Apartheid Israel has no legal jurisdiction to appropriate occupational
land. Israel is a signatory to the Fourth Geneva
Convention and therefore is bond by its mandate. Thus any action taken by the
Apartheid Israeli Knesset is null and void as to any Palestinian land. Israel argues that the Palestinian Territory
is not encompassed within the said convention but this argument is so ludicrous
that it makes a mockery of the convention itself.
Other
illegal outposts are scheduled to be dismantled in the coming months. The following illegal outposts around
Ramallah, Palestine are scheduled to be dismantled:
Dreinoff Quarter (direcltly northeast) April, 2012
Jabel Artis
(northeast) May,
2012 partially
Gival Assaf (just south) July
1, 2012
Amona
(further northeast) End
of 2012
While
these outposts are under orders to be dismantled, there are over 100 other
outposts whose fates are not determined.
In fact, there are many other illegal outposts that the Apartheid
Israeli government is trying to make into settlements despite the fact that the
entire world has stated that they are obstacles to peace.
Apartheid
Israeli governments purposefully delay action in pending outpost demolition cases
in order to encourage more illegal construction. That is the conclusion of a Yesh Din report
which was released in November, 2011. “The
report, which looked at 16 court cases, charged that the state’s failure to
raze unauthorized settler homes and its initial steps to retroactively legalize
them encourages such illegal building activity.” [1]
When
it comes to demolishing of Palestinian homes and buildings, however, the Apartheid
Israel Army is quick to bring in its US
made Caterpillar D9 armed bulldozers to do its treacherous job. Such demolitions
are used to collectively punish Palestinian families for actions that they did
not personally commit and to steal Palestinian land for annexation to build the
Apartheid Wall or expand illegal settlements.
While
Chief Apartheid Netanyahu is looking for a compromise with the illegal outpost
residents, his current position to dismantle the outposts will have little meaning. Nevertheless, Chief Apartheid Netanyahu will spin
this gesture as a confidence building measure towards the Palestinians. What will be lost in this gesture is the fact
that at the same time the Chief Apartheid will be moving to turn other outposts
into settlements. The Chief Apartheid cannot appease the
Palestinians and the settlers at the same time.
The
battle within Apartheid Israeli society on this issue will be played out
throughout the coming months. It will
tear Israel apart.
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[1] “’Stat’s
failure to act encourages illegal contruction,’” Tovah Lazaroff, October 11,
2011, Jerusalem Post http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=241251
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