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– Yes to settlements: without them there will be no occupation and no peace either.

Feb 3, 2017
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Former Knesset member Einat Wilf says: “Yes to the occupation, no to the settlements”. She wants Israel to draw a border on the West Bank and let the Jewish settlements east of the border sail in its meadow lake.

At the same time, she wants to retain military control over the entire West Bank until a Palestinian leadership emerges that accepts that Israel must remain a Jewish state.

Wilf’s proposal is rejected by the prominent Israeli academic Martin Sherman .

For what if a Palestinian partner for peace never shows up, even though Israel has pulled the settlements behind a border that includes a few percent of the West Bank on the Israeli side?

In that case, the further military occupation east of the border could be combated by Palestinian guerrilla attacks. An increasing number of Israeli soldiers killed will result in internal pressure to “Bring our soldiers home” from “foreign land”. At the same time, it will increase international resistance. A military withdrawal will then be forced forward, Sherman believes.

breakthrough-moment/' target='_blank'>It will be a copy of the pressure to leave southern Lebanon in 2000. When Israeli forces are forced to withdraw, the West Bank will become a stepping stone to a war against Israel as southern Lebanon has become (despite UN forces in the area to prevent this). Bombs and rocket ramps pose a new and much greater threat in the West Bank than in southern Lebanon, as there is a very short distance to Israel’s main transport routes, vital infrastructure and the most densely populated residential areas along the entire coast.

But what if – against expectations – can enter into a peace agreement with a compromising Palestinian leadership? So what guarantees does Israel have for the agreement being complied with? Management may change their mind or be exposed to pressure. It can be overthrown with both an armed coup and an election. It can be manipulated and supported by foreign powers that want to maintain armed pressure against Israel.

In both scenarios, Israel sits back again, without security controls in Judea and Samaria, facing an enemy regime that sits and looks down on the metropolitan area of ​​Tel Aviv from the high back of Samaria.

Sherman asks: – What do the [Israelis] who advocate unilateral withdrawal propose? What is their “plan B”? “Protective Edge” [operation against Hamas, summer 2014] on steroids? – that is, a very powerful and deadly war.

Settlements can force a compromise

Sherman is particularly outraged at Wilf’s willingness to abandon the Ariel settlement block and to stop all settlement support east of a drawn border line. Who believes that the Palestinians will compromise if Israel has already stopped construction in settlements and has given up the claim to most of the West Bank? he asks wondering.

The core of Zionism has always been to make Jews living under a foreign rule live under Jewish sovereignty – not to leave Jews living under a Jewish rule to live under a foreign rule – and not at all a decidedly hostile one. manage! But that’s exactly what Wilf supports, Sherman claims.

– Does Wilf really claim that Zionist principles can only be secured by establishing (furthermore) a homophobic, misogynistic tyranny with a Muslim majority, which will be characterized by gender discrimination, persecution of homosexuals, religious intolerance and the suppression of political opposition? asks Sherman. Does her type of Zionism support the deprivation of Jews and the basis of life for no other reason than to open up the possibility of the tyranny of such a Muslim majority, which is almost guaranteed to become a base for even more Islamic terror? he concludes.

Notes, sources, and references (with links)

Originally published on February 3, 2017 in Norwegian. In Danish by Inger Irene Hansen, April 2018.

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