Freezing Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria diverts attention away from the core cause of the conflict. Moreover, it constitutes an obstacle to peace by reflecting submission to pressure, thus fueling further pressure, radicalizing Arab demands, intensifying Arab terrorism and eroding Israel’s posture of deterrence, while the only peace that is possible is deterrence-driven peace.
...Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered to give away all Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria in October 2000. Abbas and Arafat responded with an unprecedented wave of suicide bombings...The September 2005 uprooting of 25 Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria and Gaza induced an unprecedented barrage of missiles hitting Jewish settlements in pre-1967 Israel.
If the 350,000 Jews who live among 1.6 million Arabs in Judea and Samaria constitute an obstacle to peace, are the 1.5 million Arabs living among six million Jews inside pre-1967 Israel an insurmountable obstacle to peace?
If Jewish construction in Judea and Samaria should be frozen, lest it prejudge the outcome of negotiations, then Arab construction in Judea and Samaria should be frozen as well, unless one wishes to prejudge the outcome of negotiations.
If the uprooting of Jewish communities advances peace, why would the uprooting of Arab communities undermine peace?
The uprooting of Arab communities would be immoral; so, too, would be the uprooting of Jewish communities.
...The most recent internationally recognized sovereign over Judea and Samaria was the 1922 British Mandate, which defined Judea and Samaria as part of the Jewish national homeland. Article 6 of that mandate acknowledges the right of Jews to settle in Judea and Samaria. Judge Stephen Schwebel, former president of the International Court of Justice, determined that Israel's presence in Judea and Samaria was rooted in self-defense and therefore did not constitute "occupation." Eugene Rostow, former dean of Yale Law School, former U.S. undersecretary of state and co-author of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, asserted that this resolution entitled Jews to settle in Judea and Samaria. The Oslo Accords do not prohibit the construction of Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria...
...Peaceful coexistence and the determination to uproot Jewish or Arab communities constitute an oxymoron. The concepts of “durable peace” and "Judenrein areas" contradict each other...Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria are not the root cause of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. They are the roots of 4,000-year-old Jewish religious and national aspirations. They constitute the crux of Israel’s national security, and their land provides 40 percent of Israel’s water supply...Freezing Jewish construction in Judea and Samaria will not enhance peace, it will enhance appeasement, thus undermining the cause of peace and advancing the cause of war.
Reject any idea of "freezing".
No moratorium on construction.
And certainly no destruction of Jewish homes.
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