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The United Nations office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported that settlers developed 40 springs as tourist sites, deployed picnic tables and benches and given them Hebrew names. They are generating employment and revenue for the settlements and promote or advertise settlements as a fun place. The Palestinians are kept away from such sites by armed settlers. Palestinians have limited access to 46 other springs where settlers moved in and threatened to take control. All the springs are located in an area — 60 per cent of the West Bank — designated as ―C‖ under the Oslo Agreements, which remains under Israeli military control. ―Despite the decline in their yield, springs have remained the single largest water source for irrigation and a significant source for watering livestock,‖ the U.N. report said, adding that some also provided water for domestic consumption in areas not connected to pipelines. ―The loss of access to springs and adjacent land reduced the income of affected farmers, who either stop cultivating the land or face a reduction in the productivity of their crops,‖ the report said. ―The main methods used by settlers to that end have been intimidation and threats, and the erection of fences around the targeted areas,‖ it added. ―This phenomenon comes in the context of Israel‘s longstanding policy of settling its civilian population in the occupied Palestinian territory, in violation of international humanitarian law.‖ Israel is also playing up a ―problem‖ facing the government after the country‘s supreme court rejected its request for a postponement of the dismantling of a large West Bank settler enclave, Migron, until late 2015. It is a hyped-up issue that offers Netanyahu another opportunity to tell the world about the ―difficulties‖ facing world Jews seeking to live in peace and safety. The figures on settlement spending during 2011 were revealed in a report produced by Israel‘s Page 45
Central Bureau of Statistics for the U.S. administration, to enable it to deduct the annual settlement expenditure from U.S. loan guarantees to Israel. In 2003, Israel stopped granting tax breaks to citizens seeking to move to the West Bank and pledged to the U.S. that it was calling off such benefits. However, the government continues to offer free education and health services to settlers, including those who live in the so-called illegal outposts — enclaves built without state permission — and has also connected them to the electricity and water services. The Israeli actions clearly establish that the state is seeking only to consolidate its occupation of the Palestinian territories, instead of ending it. The Palestinians should not be expected to accept the Israeli actions and succumb to pressure to restart negotiations. If anyone is serious about peace in Palestine, he or she should start by exerting pressure on Israel to accept international law as the basis for a solution. That is not happening and is unlikely to happen. And Israel is using the vacuum to perpetuate its occupation of the Palestinian territories. ―Consolidating an occupation‖, 05/08/2012, online at: http://english.alarabiya.net/views/2012/08/05/230447.html BACK TO TOP Page 46
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