Quote (Goomshill @ Nov 6 2023 11:13pm)
To give an example, here's a picture of Ma'ale Adumim today, a settlement in Area C of the West Bank about 4 miles east of Jerusalem, smack in the middle of the Judean desert
https://i.imgur.com/iZo7bd8.pngIt was mostly unoccupied throughout history, then between 1945 and 1967 some Bedouins resettled there to use as grazing, and the Palestinian landowners under Jordan lost their control of the land in the Six Day War, and the Israelis started construction on settlements in the 70s and made it into a city in the 90s. The Israelis maintain that the land they used to build it was not registered in anyones name and contained no private property, while Palestinians say it expropriated land from historical villages, with Abu Dis being about two miles southwest. But either way, it was clearly an empty stretch of desert. Eventually as both Abu Dis and Ma'ale Adumim both expanded, they now border each other with the closest line of Palestinian and Israeli houses about a thousand feet from each other.
Arguing over settling being legal or illegal and any other nonsense premised in international law to which no parties are subject, is the same kind of farce as geopolitical moralizing arguments, except even less grounded in reality.
Palestinians have as much legal right to the land in the West Bank as Israel gives them, no more, no less. Israel took it in the six day war, that's the geopolitical reality. The only applicable laws to settlement construction are the ones Israel sets on itself.
step 1, start a religious war
step 2, attempt another holocaust
step 3, lose despite calling all your big brothers
step 4, complain about the consequences
step 5, be mad when jews turn wasteland into something better
step 6, claim the whole thing was stolen from you
the palestinian way