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Cohen - and every liberal columnist in the world, plus the leaders of the EU and the US - are so sure that Israel’s steady expansion of settlements is the major problem in the region that they should be able to answer a simple question:
How much new land has been taken from Palestinians since the Clinton parameters in Taba in 2000?
You can answer in dunams or acres.
Everyone is so sure that Israel is expanding the settlements beyond the point of no return, but nobody is putting out any numbers in terms of land that has been given to Jewish Israelis.
Because it is minuscule.
The amount of land taken up by the settlements was less than 2% in 1993 and it remains less than 2% today, as of the latest information I can find. There are essentially no new facts on the ground that make a two-state solution any more difficult today than it was in 2000.
Now, I can tell you what has changed since the 2000 peace plan was rejected by Palestinians.
Palestinians started a terror war that killed thousands, using suicide bombing, shootings and other means. They raised a generation of children to hate Israel, teaching them that eventually and inevitably Israel will disappear. They encouraged knife attacks against Jewish grandmothers. Israel withdrew from Gaza and was rewarded with a terror statelet that shot thousands and thousands of rockets and mortars to civilian areas in Israel itself.
THIS.
To make two amendments for accuracy:
1) Israeli population (you mentioned land area) in Judea/Samaria (“West Bank”) is around 2%. Yup. That area the media won’t stop talking about or condemning Israel for.
2) “…has been taken from Palestinians”? It was not taken from them. Much of where Jews have built communities in J/S is on land that was completely vacant.
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