De Britse toneelschrijver Harold Pinter stelde in zijn voordracht toen hij in 2005 de Nobelprijs voor de Literatuur uitgereikt kreeg, over de misdaden van het Westen:"It never happened. Nothing ever happened. Even while it was happening it wasn’t happening. It didn’t matter. It was of no interest."
In een half jaar is het aantal joodse kolonisten op de Westelijke Jordaanoever drie keer zo hard gegroeid als het nationale gemiddelde. In Nederland blijven we mechanisch spreken over "het vredesproces". En verzwijgen we de feiten, omdat niemand ze kan verdedigen.
Settler numbers rise at almost 3 times nat’l average
Central Bureau of Statistics figures show West Bank Jewish population at 303,900 in June 2010, up 7,200 in six months.
The growth of the settler population slowed slightly in the first five months of 2010, but the numbers still rose at almost three times the national average, according to Central Bureau of Statistics data released this week. This despite the government’s efforts to dramatically curb construction in settlements.
The bulk of the growth in the first five months of 2010 – 50.4% – came in the three largest settlements – Modi’in Illit, Betar Illit and Ma’aleh Adumim.
(Jerusalem Post, 29 oktober 2010)
Palestinian olive trees burn after being set ablaze by Israeli settlers from the Yitzhar settlement on Thursday June 19 2008, in the West Bank village of Burin.
Kolonisten in Hebron
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