U.S. is even more implicated in Israeli settlement project than we thought
The Israeli colonies are an American problem in a
whole new way. Nearly one out of six settlers in the West Bank is an
American. Haaretz broke the story. Oxford scholar Sara Yael Hirschhorn says Americans are starkly overrepresented among West Bank settlers:
whole new way. Nearly one out of six settlers in the West Bank is an
American. Haaretz broke the story. Oxford scholar Sara Yael Hirschhorn says Americans are starkly overrepresented among West Bank settlers:
Roughly 60,000 American Jews live in
West Bank settlements, where they account for 15 percent of the settler
population, according to figures revealed Thursday by an Oxford
University scholar and expert on this population.
Israeli settlement watchdog Peace Now
said that the new figures revealed that the settlement enterprise in the
West Bank was not only an internal issue but “an international
problem.”“Unfortunately, while the Obama administration has
been persistently vocal against settlement developments, some 60,000
American citizens are taking an active part in an attempt to make the
two state solution impossible,” says Anat Ben Nun, Peace Now’s director
of development and external relations.
The study leaves out all the settlers in East Jerusalem: 200,000 of them three years ago, per the United Nations.
And remember that the settlement movement is funded not just by the Israeli government but tax-deductible donations from American Zionists. An issue the US media has refused to deal with.
