Tornado Alley (PROG)

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The fact illegal settlement on stolen Palestinian land is integral to the mission of Zionist Israel to anyone looking is as obvious as night moving into day. Or, day moving into night would be more appropriate in considering the long term prospects of apartheid Israel as it stands today.

"For settlers, obstructing Palestinian statehood is part of the mission, Yehuda Shaul, a leading Israeli expert on settlements, told me. He noted that back in 1980, Matityahu Drobles, who was then head of the World Zionist Organization’s settlements department, stated his goal bluntly in a broad plan. “Being cut off by Jewish settlements, the minority [Arab] population will find it difficult to form a territorial and political continuity,” he wrote at the time. “The best and most effective way of removing every shadow of a doubt about our intention to hold on to Judea and Samaria forever is by speeding up the settlement momentum in these territories.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/12/16/west-bank-settlers-violence-peace/ "

See also - [...] The 94 Percent Solution
A Matrix of Control
Jeff Halper In: 216 (Fall 2000)

Only a decade after the fall of apartheid in South Africa, ?after we all thought we had seen the end of that hateful ?system, we are witnessing the emergence of another apartheid-style regime, that of Israel over the incipient Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza and parts of Jerusalem. This, at least, seems the likely outcome of the “peace process” begun in Oslo and continued, if haltingly, at the July Camp David summit. Whether a Palestinian state actually emerges from the Oslo process or Israel’s occupation becomes permanent, the essential elements of apartheid — exclusivity, inequality, separation, control, dependency, violations of human rights and suffering — are likely to de?ne the relationship between Israel and the Occupied Territories/Palestine. For many, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak’s offer at Camp David of 94 percent (or so) of the West Bank sounds more than generous, and Yasser Arafat appears “inflexible,” “unreasonable” and even “irresponsible” for not accepting it. Leaving aside the numerous other issues complicating the negotiations between Barak and Arafat, let us consider here the question of territory.

Sovereign and contiguous territory is, of course, a prerequisite for a viable Palestinian state, and those within the Palestinian Authority (PA) who measure successful negotiations in terms of territory might be inclined to accept the Camp David proposal. But the question should be who will actually control the PA lands after the 94 percent solution floated at Camp David. (Some reports even pegged the ?gure at 95 percent.) Since 1967 Israel has laid a matrix of control over the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza. Because the matrix operates by control and not by conquest, it enables Israel to offer a generous 94 percent of the West Bank, creating the illusion of a just and viable settlement. Understanding how the matrix works is critical for comprehending the Oslo process as a whole. Focusing on the political process while ignoring the emerging realities on the ground is a sure recipe for a Palestinian bantustan.

The Matrix of Control

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The municipal boundaries of Jerusalem were intended to secure Israeli domination over the “united” city in the ?rst decades of the occupation, but as Israel’s settlement presence grew and the need to extend its de facto control over larger areas of the West Bank became apparent after Oslo, control over the strategic Jerusalem region took on greater urgency. In 1995 the Israeli government adopted a master plan for a “Greater Jerusalem” whose “outer ring” of settlements — Har Adar, Givat Ze’ev, New Givon, Kiryat Sefer, Tel Zion and the settlements to the east of Ramallah, Ma’ale Adumim, Israeli building in Ra’s al-‘Amud, Efrat, the Etzion bloc and Beitar Illit — will virtually encircle the city. The outer ring’s population will grow to 250,000 in the next decade.

“Metropolitan” Jerusalem covers an even greater area. Its boundaries, incorporating a full 40 percent of the West Bank (440 square kilometers), stretch from Beit Shemesh in the west through Kiryat Sefer until and including Ramallah, then extend southeast through Ma’aleh Adumim almost to the Jordan River, there turning southwest to encompass Beit Sahour, Bethlehem, Efrat and the Etzion bloc, then heading west again through Beitar Illit and Tsur Hadassah to Beit Shemesh. In many ways metropolitan Jerusalem is the Occupation. Within its limits are found 75 percent of the West Bank settlers and the major centers of Israeli construction.

[...]

[INSERT: To today, from the right-wing the Times Of Israel,
Pointing to Hamas’s ‘little state,’ Netanyahu touts his role blocking 2-state solution
Prime minister reiterates rejection of PA taking control of Gaza after war, hinting that US
plan is an ‘illusion’ and claiming he may be able to bring Washington around
By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff 17 December 2023, 1:25 am 21 ]
https://www.timesofisrael.com/pointing-to-hamass-little-state-netanyahu-touts-role-blocking-2-state-solution/

[...]

The issue in the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, then, is not simply territory — it revolves around questions of control, viability and justice. A Palestinian state carved into small, disconnected enclaves, surrounded and indeed truncated by massive Israeli settlement blocs, subject to Israeli military and economic closures, unable to offer justice to its dispersed people and without its most sacred symbols of religion and identity, can hardly be called a viable state. “Peace” may be imposed, but unless it is just it will not be lasting. The term “apartheid” above is intended to highlight those elements of an imposed peace that will lead in the end not to true self-determination for the Palestinian people, but to their con?nement in a number of isolated and impoverished bantustans completely at Israel’s mercy. We must be able to evaluate a pending “peace agreement” for what it is: a genuine peace between equals, or a cover for occupation under another name.

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And don't forget Ariel Sharon's pastrami sandwich quote:

"There Is a Jewish Hope for Palestinian Liberation. It Must Survive.
"Omar and Tlaib Are Condemned in the US for Saying What Prominent Israelis Are Saying
"Supporting Palestinian rights is antisemitic because Israel wants it to be"""
[...]
[ Insert: And so it was done.
WASHINGTON: Winston S. Churchill III, grandson of the famed British prime minister, recalled last October at the National Press Club here a telling encounter he had had in 1973 with the hawkish Ariel Sharon, now the Israeli prime minister, about Zionist objectives. “What is to become of the Palestinians?” Churchill asked. “We’ll make a pastrami sandwich of them,” Sharon said. Churchill responded, “What?” “Yes, we’ll insert a strip of Jewish settlements in between the Palestinians, and then another strip of Jewish settlements right across the West Bank, so that in 25 years’ time, neither the United Nations nor the United States, nobody, will be able to tear it apart.”
http://www.mafhoum.com/press4/116P51.htm
Again, in 1998 shortly before being elected prime minister, Sharon wrote: “Everyone has to move, run and grab as many hilltops as they can to enlarge the settlements because everything we take now will stay ours … Everything we don’t grab will go to them.”
https://www.bangordailynews.com/2010/06/13/opinion/israels-pastrami-sandwich-policy/ ]
P - Americans and Israeli Jews have the luxury of ignoring these harsh realities. Palestinians do not. Indeed, the commander of Hamas’s military wing cited .. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/how-secretive-hamas-commander-masterminded-attack-israel-2023-10-10/ .. attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank in justifying its barbarism last weekend.
P - Just as Black South Africans resisted apartheid, Palestinians resist a system that has earned the same designation from the world’s leading human rights organizations...
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Those of Sharon's with Droubles's

"For settlers, obstructing Palestinian statehood is part of the mission, Yehuda Shaul, a leading Israeli expert on settlements, told me. He noted that back in 1980, Matityahu Drobles, who was then head of the World Zionist Organization’s settlements department, stated his goal bluntly in a broad plan. “Being cut off by Jewish settlements, the minority [Arab] population will find it difficult to form a territorial and political continuity,” he wrote at the time. “The best and most effective way of removing every shadow of a doubt about our intention to hold on to Judea and Samaria forever is by speeding up the settlement momentum in these territories.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/12/16/west-bank-settlers-violence-peace/ "

are an indisputably revealing triple decker. Unpalatable to every reasonably objective viewer.

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