Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: Arabs Believe Israel Just Attacked Egypt [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)It endangers those lives by keeping the tensions high.
Without the settlement expansion, the Palestinian leaders would be in talks with Israel at this point. Keeping the expansion going deprives the Israeli government of any moral right to even ask Palestinians to negotiate. Anything that makes it harder to start negotiations is going to put lives at risk. That isn't brain surgery.
There's no justification at all for settlement expansion. It serves no positive purpose. The settlements are big enough. They don't need to keep going until East Jerusalem is Arabrein(which is the only reason settlements are being expanded there now, since there's no other need to expand them there). All settlement expansion does is to empower the extreme right-wing in Israeli politics, a part of the political spectrum that already has unjust and totally negative influence in the current Israeli government. Why encourage the hawks and the arrogant?
No East Jerusalem Palestinians alive today bear any responsibility for what the JORDANIAN authorities did between 1948 and 1967. Only the Jordanians were to blame for that, and all of the Jordanians who were responsible are dead now. So the vindictive displacement of East Jerusalem Palestinians needs to stop.