Monday, January 18, 2010

New UN Aggression

This report was summarized thus by Ha-Ha-Haretz:

A report released by the United Nations last year says settlers angered over the destruction of outposts could exact revenge on 250,000 Palestinians in the West Bank.

The report, by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Occupied Palestinian Territory, claims settlers may employ the so-called price tag policy, by which they exact a "price" from Palestinians in response to terror attacks or Israel Defense Force actions to evacuate unauthorized outposts, placing Palestinians from 83 villages in harm's way...

According to the report, if Israel takes significant action against the outposts, around 250,000 Palestinians in 83 West Bank communities will be "highly or moderately vulnerable" to settler violence. Of these, 75,900 people concentrated in 22 communities - six in the northern West Bank, three in the center and 13 in the south - are considered highly vulnerable.

The report also specifies risky junctions and road segments. These include the roads surrounding Nablus that are used by both Israelis and Palestinians; the Wadi Kana road; the Qalqilyah-Nablus road, which passes through the Karnei Shomron settlement; the eastern Gush Etzion road; the road near Bat Ayin, and the main road to the south Hebron hills.

In addition, the report identifies a number of settlements it says pose a particular risk to nearby Palestinian communities: Havat Gilad, Kedumim, Itamar, Yitzhar, Ma'aleh Levona, Shilo, Adei Ad, Nokdim, Bat Ayin, Neguhot, Kiryat Arba, Beit Haggai, Karmel and Sussia


Funny thing is that the report even quotes Yesha publications, as in this footnote:

for example, Roi Sharon, Amir Rappaport and Amit Cohen, “The Wild West Bank, No Man’s Land,” 10. Ma’ariv, p. B8, 8 August 2008. See also, Hagit Rothenberg “Decision makers will think twice next time”, BeSheva, Issue 29, June 2008; “Mutual responsibility as the key to victory”, Kdumeida [regular factsheet issued by the Local Council of the Kedumim settlement], 28 June 2008, p. 11. Both items were cited and attached to Yesh Din, “Settler terror infrastructure in the West Bank”, 2 June 2009.

Of course, it's a NGO [that stands for no-good] that provides the material - a new line of coordination and cooperation between Israel's far-left network and the UN.

One of the report's recommendations could and should be applied to the PA:

Adopting all necessary measures to ensure that there is no impunity for crimes committed by Israeli settlers against Palestinian civilians;

except, of course, the other way around.

Oh, and the sole picture is of a male Jewish resident, from the rear, with a rifle slug over his shoulder.

But there are nice maps and charts and demographic data on Arab residents.

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