Within the last few days, there have been dramatic developments in the Palestinian struggle for liberation, therefore it is impossible to capture the significance of what has happened within a short 20-minute summary. This month, we hope you can spare 48 minutes to view Jeff Halper’s engaging update as he speaks from Jerusalem.
All those involved in the Palestinian struggle for liberation must understand that the issues are complex and we must have the analysis and understanding at hand to help create a political programme that is relevant and what the Palestinians need.
Strategies must be identified that will monitor and then fight back against Trump’s Peace Plan in Gaza which is nothing more than “colonization for profit” where Trump’s organisation, Arab and European real estate people and Israel make the money and keep control. With the coastline turned over to tourism, Palestinians will be relegated to restricted areas in the “back of Gaza” near the border with Israel.
Israel’s “Gazafication” of the West Bank is spreading from the north of the West Bank where it is breaking Palestinian resistance. More than 40,000 Palestinians have already been displaced, and 50 shepherding communities have disappeared to make room for 40 new settler outposts. Recently, Israel carried out a major military operation in Hebron.
To get round the law as defined in the Fourth Geneva Convention, this week the Israeli cabinet decided to allow its civil administration that governs the West Bank to use its military government to open the West Bank to the real estate market that will allow settlers to purchase Palestinian land. In addition, Israel will take over further Palestinian land through the guise of archaeology and environmental controls, and more is planned even within Areas A and B and as Israel takes over religious sites within the Hebron and Bethlehem municipalities.
In the update, Jeff displays a map from Israel’s Ministry of Defence that shows its plans to leave Palestinians with even less than10% of Palestine in an apartheid state.
But it is not over yet. Jeff concludes with suggestions about ways to address what is happening on the ground. We all need to be doing more than what we are already doing.