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Article: Settle for settlements, or peace?(OPINIONS)(Viewpoint essay)
- Article from:
- The Jewish Advocate (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 10, 2009
- Author:
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Pretty much everywhere in the world, Israel's legitimacy is accepted, but its post-1967 expansion not. The Palestinians not only lost their homes and their country 1948, but have seen what remains of their meager territory encroached upon by Israel for the purpose of building settlements.
Much, if not most, of the land was taken illegally and without proper compensation. Today, Israeli settlers live extremely comfortable, government-subsidized lives, while most Palestinians do not even have enough food to feed their families and are harassed and sometimes terrorized by these same settlers.
This disjunction explains why few uninvolved observers accept the ...