i want you to know right up front that i bear no malice towards israeli/jewish settlements, nor the people who live in them; and i have no doubt that there are positive aspects about them and that most of the people in them are good people.
however, no amount of time time spent in one would ever change my views regarding where they are built. bottom line is that israel never should have opened up land that was recognized by all involved as "palestinian land", to settlement by its citizens. the crises faced by the settlers today would not exist were it not for a policy that was a mistake to begin with, and continues even as we discuss it.
no amount of good in the world can correct a wrong; until the wrong itself is undone. behind every settlement built in palestinian territory, there are countless wrongs; and countless wrongs are commited on a daily basis in order to maintain them and to isolate them from the people on whose land they are built.
i take NO joy at the thought of the hardship and difficulty faced by the settlers who stand to be uprooted and removed from their homes and settlements. but for all their positive aspects for the jewish people who reside in them; their existence is based on a policy that is wrong, and i take even less joy at the prospect of that wrong continuing any longer.
with my regards. |
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