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It's time for a diagnosis: Israel's settlement disease is terminal
Now it's official: the settlements are a punishment. A collective one, of the sort considered a war crime under international law.
We should be grateful to the Netanyahu government for its
straightforwardness. It determined this week that the settlements are a
punishment – from now on, it’s official.
We should also ask the same government to order the cessation of
all investigations, real and fabricated, of “price tag” attacks, because
then the nationalization of roughly 4,000 dunams of land belonging
to five Palestinian villages, in response to the murder of the three
teenagers, is a price tag that is much heavier (and a greater crime)
than all the defamatory graffiti, burned mosques and slashed tires. It
is also a clear case of collective punishment, of the sort that is
considered a war crime under international law.
So leave the investigations of trifling incidents alone. Leave the shrieks over the appropriations alone too; they will not change anything. The battle has been decided. The settlers have won. The settlements have accomplished their goal. The two-state solution is dead. Anyone who does not believe that should go to Gush Etzion.
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