Does Israel have the right to build new housing in its sovereign territory? Does Israel ahve the right to build new housing in non-sovereign territory which is not legally part of any country?
Please think about those questions as you read this excerpt from David Rosenberg’s article at israelnationalnews.com:
The Civil Administration Higher Planning Committee is slated to meet next week and give final approval to nearly 4,000 new housing units across Judea and Samaria, including the first new construction in the Jewish community in Hevron in some four decades.
The new wave of construction, totaling 3,829 homes, includes building in communities outside of the so-called “major settlement blocs”, a significant shift from the limits imposed on projects approved during the Obama administration.
According to a government official who spoke with Yediot Ahronot on Sunday, next week’s planned approval for the projects signals the end of the Obama-era condemnations of Israeli housing projects.
The official added that Israel has established an unofficial understanding with the Trump administration regarding construction in Judea and Samaria…
As you may be aware, Israel has been condemned by the United Nations – and, during President Obama’s administration, the United States – for daring to build residential housing for Jews in its own capital city of Jerusalem.
Not surprisingly, therefore, Israel’s construction in so-called “Palestinian Territories” was condemned as well.
But what are “Palestinian Territories”?
Are they sovereign land of the state of Palestine? Nope. They are not.
And the one and only reason they are not is that, from 1947 right up to the present, Palestinian Arabs have rejected any offer of a sovereign state, no matter how generous that offer has been.
The truth, then and now, is that Palestinian Arabs do not want a state coexisting with Israel, they want Israel in its entirety as well. Therefore, to accept any offer – thus to say “here is our border and here is your border, so we have a state and you have a state” is a non-starter.
Given this intransigence, why should Israel voluntarily cede this land to Palestinian Arabs? How many times do they have to reject it before the land becomes available?
Evidently, the Trump administration either agrees with this position or, at any rate, is not so much against it that the USA will condemn such construction if it takes place.
So be it.
If Palestinian Arabs don’t like this turn of events, they have no one to blame but themselves.
