PA moves to ban Palestinians from working in settlements

If the PA wishes this, than sure, it may have implications on Palestinians so the question becomes who pays for the drawbacks? Who pays for those who will not have work now? How will they eat? On goods from Settlements, great boycott them, but again, if it is that the settlement products were inferrior goods and now people can't afford the more expensive subsitutes who pays? This is simple grade 10 Economics, Fayyad, the Economist, knows better than anyone, what the impact of his decision will be. All that is asked is that if this does cause a negative impact, i.e. a rise in the cost of living, Fayyad-PA pay for it? If this will raise the standard of living, create a local economy for Palestinian products and not have a negative impact on the worst off in the WB, than Kol Ha Kavod, good on Fayyad, he will have taken more steps towards a working state than Arafat and Abbas probably ever took (I mean lets be honest both are kinda Fat, maybe not Texan fat, but fat)

Why did you Run Runaway? you can email me your answer, alwayslearning@live.ca for a person who talks such a big game, it is really shocking to see you hide away. You had balls earlier, where have they gone now my friend? Google, it makes things easy to find, a simple search of Labhras Haaretz and the date will find it. Eagerly awaiting your Bullshit filled reply alwayslearning@live.ca Eli

Or maybe you didn't know. Israel still controls the borders, and everything that goes in or out of the West Bank.

This not very clever what you say, can Palestinian authority supply them jobs to support they family by having a job? why did they work for Jews? obviously there is no other jobs and they have to live, as for the markets obviously the demand for good quality products is demanded in WB Palestine and it comes from settlements, why the Pal cant supply this to they own ppl, and no worries they can ban all they wont, hehehe there is other markets that will gladly take it at Pals loss.

Especially when you mention the WEST BANK. Wake up buddy, in Israel and the Palestinian territories JEws were less than 5 percent of the population at the turn of the 20th century. As hard as you try to twist facts, the REALITY is that the Zionists came as colonizers to Mandated Palestine.

Who says the West Bank is your land? The entire world including the United States does not recognize Israeli annexation of East Jerusalem, nor do they recognize the West Bank as part of Israel. You know if you truly believe the Palestinians don't exist (although the Arabs count 1 to 1 to Jews in Israel and the occupied territories), then you should not complain when "hardline" Arabs or Moslems claim Israel doesn't exist or doesn't deserve to exist. You won't allow the Palestinians to peacefully protest with arrest threats. Simply Israel wishes the Palestinians disappeared, but that will never happen.

Except to add that Israel has been in direct violation of the ceasefire mandated by the UNSC ever since 1967.

You mean that wall that goes off into internationally recognized Palestinian land, which is blatantly illegal, not to mention highly unethical? But then again, a lot of Israel's actions have been illegal and unethical. Why would this be any different?

"self destruct buttons are being pressed !" And we all know a racist like you would love that.

I think most of you here miss the point. What is neede is to remove the so-called settlers ("colonists", in Latin languages, is more appropriate) and let the local Palestinian people replace them and run the jobs.

Wecan2 Israel has never had set borders they have constantly evoled. In 1947 the UN proposed giving the jewish state 51% of British mandate Palestine. In 1948 the arabs invaded, in 1949 when Israel won the war it was left with 78%, it annexed the extra 27% + west Jerusalem which it had also captured & originally not given to it by the UN and the arab state never came into existence. In 1967 Israel was attacked by Jordan, Syria & Egypt and Israel won capturing Judea & Samaria, Gaza, Golan, Sinai and east Jerusalem. It formerly annexed the Golan & east Jerusalem the rest of the captured land it used then in 1979 it gave up Sinai. So Israel has never had fixed borders, even the UN which talks about the green ling being Israels border legally doesn't evan consider the 78% of Palestine to be anything but a ceasefire line not a soverigen national border. So as you see Israel has always had evolving border not set ones. Colin Everybody with ISRAELI CITIZENSHIP can vote

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and the skilled labor will have well paid work years to come. It would get these people self respect, economy and brotherhood.

ANNEX IV Protocol on Economic Relations between the Government of the State of Israel and the P.L.O., representing the Palestinian people Paris, April 29, 1994 of the Gaza Jericho Agreement: www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Peace+Process/Guide+to+the+Peace+Process/Gaza-Jericho+Agreement+Annex+IV+-+Economic+Protoco.htm The Arabs continue to violate every treaty they have ever signed and then invent clauses that don't exist.

If PA stop Arab workers from working there then they should let us leave to return to Jordan where we'll find jobs there.

Not too smart move on the part of PA Preventing arabs workers to have jobs that would feed their families would be a crime, again on the PA's part. Ask any Arab working on any settlement if they are not happy first. But in any case, that would encourage Jewish company to employ brave Jewish people to do the job themselves. But this article shows that PA does not want peace and is racist.

endure humiliation at the hands of his enemy. True. Illegal aliens and workers are universal. Legislating who they work for is not reasonable, nor is it collaboration. Palestinians working for Jews is not a bad thing. It's bread on the table. Perhaps the PA will offer better jobs? If they do, I'm all for it. Salaam/Shalom

" "Palestine" doesn`t exist (because they have gone to war with us rather than live with us in peace), but Israel does. It`s our land. I also wouldn`t hire the terrorists. " Please tell me you didn't learn this stuff from you mama....

go bow to your queen. want to learn something... come to ben gurion airport. i will pick you and give you an education. or arew you too young or a coward... probably both. still in grade school?

Israel has never declred borders the 1948 were armastice lines and since there were no agreements between Israel and the Arabs, permanent borders may be changed to increase or decrease territory upon signing of a peace treaty

When the Arabs rejected the 1947 borders and went to war all borders became became open for revosion. If countries are not allowed to keep land by conquest and change its demographics, then please tell US. to get out of TEXAS, NEW MEXICO, it also has no right to the whole Louisian area purchased from Napoleon when ha conquered it from Spain. Next Russia, Poland should get out of territories captured from Germany. How many years must a territory become legitimate after conquest, if never then the Arabs must get out of Palestine because they conquered it in a war of agression which they started. There is not one country in the world that is not occupying conquered land from someone else. China occupying Tybet, Iran,Iraq,Turkey occupying Kurdistan. etc,etc.

Legaly it canot be considered occupied, this territory was never indipendent,it was ruled by Jordan who took control in 1948 and no nation besides Britain recognized this occupation by Jordan.After 1967 Jordan gave up all claim to this territory, Israel was in possession and Israel has as much claim to the land as anybody else. The fact that the populaton wants indipendents and their own nation is a diffrent issue. As far as your suggestion that your THAT YOUR TAXES PUT FOOD ON MY TABLE I think you are suggesting I'm Israeli I'm not. I'm not even Jewish and I don't need you to help me put food on my table. World wide I have over 2600 employees and I'm responsible for putting food on their and their family table. Some of those employees are in the US.

Building the settlements is as bad as selling your soul.

after you get your unwanted illegal derriers out of the occupied territories. But we sure wont build one more block for the enemy. That is what the Palestinians need to be telling the occupiers. Europe needs to finance a social wefare system for the Palestinians and boycott Israel totally and build up the Palestinian economy. Israeli contraband on europes shelves wont go very far.

It is logical to ban them from working in settlements.The problem is that the PA is not able to create jobs for their people,and poverty leaves the people no choice.Don't expect Israel to create jobs for your people.

That's a good measure. Palestinians should support settlements neither by working there, nor by buying their products. Let's bring Israeli settlers back home to israel.

"Israel has NO legal rights in Palestine" Poor dummings. He still hasn't figured out that it's the same people fighting over the same land they've been fighting over for the last 90 years. Israel came out of Palestine, a region which was home to Jews and Arabs, and the civil war hasn't ended yet. Suddenly, in 1948, according to dummings, the Jews on the other side of the declared border lost all their rights, and that's simply that. Such a fool that dummings.

"Israel declared its borders in 1948. In case you care to check. The west Bank was NOT included. In case you didn't check, a few things have happened since 1948. For example, Jordan attacked Israel, captured the West Bank, ethnically cleansed all the Jews from the West Bank, and attacked Israel again 19 years later. Does that have any bearing on the issues in your mind?

this decision will make the WB-Pals miserable. Unemployed they will become frustrated and frustrated they will become violent and social problems will increase. Work is necessary for a person*s mental health. Therefore I really don*t find this PA*s decision smart. Sad to see the PA-politicians don*t think of the good of their own people. I hope the WB will not become another Gaza, where the unemployment rate is 80%.

Israel has NO legal rights in Palestine, x-military. The West Bank was not part of the territory awarded to Israel by the UN. It does not have sovereignty there, so it cannot make laws, acquire land, settle Jewish people there, take the water, dispossess Palestinians from their homes and land - all of these are directly contrary to Geneva Convention 4 and are therefore illegal. It is an occupying army only and must leave when hostilities cease, which is ant time in the last three years, "There has never been a reecognized border" Sorry, it's crystal clear on the UN's map. What Israel was given in 1947 is the only land it has claim to or sovereignty over. "Israel has a right to claim parts of the territories by conquest in a defensive war" There is no such provision in international law. It is legally PROHIBITED to acquire land by force. There is no exception for 'defensive' wars, you dreamed that bit. Israel has not a legal leg to stand on in its Eretz Israel settler enterprise.

It is right for Palestinians not to work for the enemy---why should they ---. Why is it that Jews demand the right to have dignity, but they deny Palestinians theirs. Hypocrites.

my guess is that this falls under the "incitement" category. Whatever, it should have been implemented decades ago!

The only losers here will be the 20,000 - 30,000 palestinians who work in the settlements who will suddenly find themselves out of work and unable to feed their families & pay the rent. Within a week the settlers will hire foreign laborers who will gladly do the same job for the same price and they have no interest in politics just their jobs. Its easy for Abbas & the other very rich members of the PA to put people out of work but he hasn't suggested any alternative sources of employment. Its also going to hurt the PA itself because if people don't have any money they can't pay taxes & the PA relies on tax money. Some members of the Fatah top brass own things like cement factories which sell cement to the settlements, will they give up multi million dollar contracts? When all these people find themselves unemployed its not Israel they will be blaming its going to be Abbas & the PA who are forcing them to quit their jobs.

They shouldnt be aiding the Settlers and helping them make a profit so that they can continue stealing more Palestinian land. The Palestinians are the ones that get the tax breaks on exports. The only thing is that Israel keeps out all the potential Palestinian investors by denying them entry to Palestine. Hopefully the UN will force a change and then they can get some money rolling in. It will be hard at first. The Israelis know they have them up against a rock and a hard place but this is a good time to do this. They have a lot of support from other countries and people now. Israel wont be able to mess them up as they did in the past.

X-Military does not understand that as the occupaying power under international law,Israel is responsible for the well being of the occupied. Also it is funny that you are attacking the Palestinians for hand outs given to people under occupation with severe resriction ontheir daily lives while MY TAX DOLLARS PUT FOOD ON YOUR TABLE. Look in the mirror EX-Military.

party over guys i hope pals saved money to build there own land up

Robbing your already impoverished people will really make Israel think twice about its policies. Works all the time...

'"Palestine" doesn`t exist (because they have gone to war with us rather than live with us in peace), but Israel does. It`s our land.' Then I'm confused. Israel is a democracy, right? So how come nearly half the people born in what is 'Israel's land' don't have the right to vote? Go ahead. Explain to me how you can have your cake and eat it too.

They should have done that in 1967. They should stop importing goods from Israel, especially the non-essential ones, and develop their own economy.

they have a state to build, they can create employment that way.

Both these measures will work to remove any viable arguments against boycotting and/or taxing all Israeli goods originating in the West Bank that might exist in other countries.

In case you care to check. The west Bank was NOT included.

with the Arabs in it back into Gaza. You greedy land grabbing people just want to take more and more of Israel land. You've already tooken just about all of Israel. All whats left now is just a very small sliver. Go back home be happy, work hard, develop your own peaceful industries like Israel has and then you can exist in peace, you will have jobs awaiting for your children. But as it is you have so much hate in your hearts you forgot how to live, all you strive for each day is to kill someone, then to kill someone the next day, and the next day. What kind of a life is that?

The higher the better to keep the arab palestinians out of israel

There shouldnt be no West Bank Whats it doing in Israel land? Was this Israel land (the West Bank) aquired by some deceptive scheme? Sounds like Syria and Gaza is using the same method today, it worked once do it again. Why dont they go pick on somebody their own size like Iran. They would have reason to. By the time Iran gets through there will be no more Gaza or Syria.

Yes! leave them to bang their bowls in the dust and screaming that someone owes them a living.

Chapter One (Hamas): pretend that Israel being interested in the preservation of ancient Jewish sites is somehow an affront to Islam. Chapter Two (PA): take away the jobs that support many family-rather-than-terror-focused Palestinians who give an honest day's work for an honest day's pay, and instead let them get onto the PA's payroll, bankrolled by international charity. Ensure to do this before a stable economy has been set up in PA controlled areas paying better wages than the Israelis pay. Braindrain guaranteed, intifada secured, dream of Palestinian National Homeland up in smoke for another generation.

makes perfect sense from a long term perspective - many countries are starting to label (effectively banning) products of illegal jewish settlements - about time Palestinians and arabs did the same.

it is palestine and you need to get used to it and get out of it....now

I am so impressed with this intelligent, moral man and wish him nothing but success in his quest to de-legitimize the occupation. The occupation is becoming less viable as time goes by, and the day will come when it just won't be worth the effort anymore. Until that day arrives, the Palestinians should continue their non-violent attrition full speed ahead! I only hope that Israel doesn't "eliminate" Fayyad, like it did some of his predecessors, though I have faith that they wouldn't dare to touch this man (even if they secretly wish him dead).

Are the Palestinians saying that Jews will not be allowed to live in the future state of Palestine? 20% of Israel is Arab so why this ridiculous policy? This is the main source of income for many Palestinian families. They should be encouraging the building of homes (you can call them settlements if you want to) in the future Palestinian State and just let it be known that these people will NOT be living in Israel. As an Israeli, I would totally support that. They should have understood this when they decided to move there in the first place - that they might one day be living in another state. But so what? If they want to live where it is cheaper to build or if they want to live on the land of their ancestors - SO WHAT??? Why prevent them from living there and paying taxes to the Palestinian Authority??? Think of the economic impact before making stupid moves like this.

"After all, I could only imagine how my government would react if the Canadians started to build settlements on our side of the border." That's the thing, there's been a border established between the U.S. and Canada. When was a border established in the territories? Just because Jordan captured the West Bank and East Jerusalem, then kicked out all the Jews and signed an armistice agreement doesn't create a border.

In the 1980's so many Palestinians were selling there property to the Jewish settler's that Arafat passed a law forbidding Arabs from selling their property to Jews, the penalty, Death. The Jews were offering and paying 200%-300% over the value of the property. So $125,000 house would be bought by the Jews for $375,000. The Arabs would then leave the country with their family and have plenty of money to move to the U.S., Britain, France etc.and start life over in style. This mass exodus alarmed the Pal leadership so the hell with property rights, and they passed the law. Now here we go again, in their infinite wisdom the Pal leadership will pass another law that harms their own people by increasing unemployment. Brilliant! Plus they can scream about higher unemployment as a PR move to falsely stigmatize Israel.Win, Win hooray for the Pals.

The settlements may not be legal however, they are not illegal either. There has never been a reecognized border, therefore Israel has a right to claim parts of the territories by conquest in a defensive war,where the Palestinians were the agressor.As far as the new law forbidding Palestinians from working in the settlements Israel should forbid all Palestinian workers to enter Israel and any Palestinian goods to be kept out of Israel. Also no foreign goods to enter Palestinian territories through Israel without paying duty. I'm sure the Palestinian Authority would love 50%+ unemployment and shortage of goods in their market. I guess they'll have to go baging for more handouts. Instead of creating more work and integrating the economy to create a viable base for an independent Palestine it's like I said previously, Palestinians don't want their own country, they want to destroy Israel no matter how much they must suffer.

came about \? israel builds settlements on israels territory there is no palestine land !!

More jobs for Jews.

When its about the daily bread, the enmity normally ends. Working and earning money together with personal contact is a great thread to the supporters of eternal enmity. The workers could get accustomed to the idea to live side beside with Israelis and even drop the wish for a separate state in exchange to full Israeli citizenship. Goods for 500 Mio $ normally means 10 % value added tax, so at least 50 Mio for PA in cash. Does he really mean to exchange 50 Mio $ income for 2 Mio $ he has to spend every year? What a great business man! EU and US should drop its financial support for the PA, at least by this 50 Mio $ amount. PA does not seem to have any needs to earn their own money. They have a pleasant life without, sponsored by EU and US, which think peace can simply be bought by sending hundreds of Millions to PA every year. The only thing that happened is that PA got accustomed to this situation and does not move a finger to economically develop the WJL.

Settlers and build illegal settlements on confiscated Palestinian land.Ironic you say. Well , what choice do they have. Unemployment, mouths to feed .No alternative work. Natural springs had dried up by Israel diverting water tot eh settlements. yes Israel is making the desert bloom. Green Settlements at what expense?? No water for the Palestininas to drink, bathe or cook. No water to irrigate fields.Unemployment under a brutal occupation, so they work in construction jobs for the settlers, biuilding settlements they cannot even spend the night in... Very sad ...

A perfect solution for ending unemployment..Jews will have to learn to work with their hands..and build the country at the same time

self destruct buttons are being pressed !

Canada and the US are 2 countries with a border. "Palestine" doesn't exist (because they have gone to war with us rather than live with us in peace), but Israel does. It's our land. I also wouldn't hire the terrorists.

If pa arabs don't work in Israel or in so called settlements ( they include ALL ISRAELI TOWNS CITIES ETC) then they have no business in those areas. Further then Israel certainly has no obligation to them for any economic situation.

it is treason and should be stopped. Europe can offer money to save Palestinians dignity while we get Israel in their place---"A Bi National State". bye bye yishai and co---bon voyage.

No mor ePals working in West Bank or Israel. So no more taxes to be transferred to the PAL authority. FANTASTIC!

Israel can bring workers from all over and it does. It is the small people of Palestine who work for their daily bread, just bread.The politicians who declare this stupidity have their cake, the cream on top and strawberry on top of the cream. It is stupid mean and cruel. It seems that again the small people will pay the price, as always. Talking about the international left, shame shame shame.

Taking away work and offering no alterantive. How else is it possible to demonstrate utter contempt for people. Adding insult to injury PA calls these people 'Our people'. Well Israel has to do hiering Tailandee, Romanians to do jobs that got to be done. PA will have to do explanations to 'their' people on why are they better off without work than with

Very smart move on the part of Palestinian Authority. If you want to force withdrawal of funds provided by various companies to the settlements, there is no better way then to remove the market for those products. If the WB citizens won't buy the product, there is no sense to invest money in the factories being built in the settlements. Also, without this income, settlers will be more prone to abandoning the settlements or creating new ones. If you wish to force them out of WB, hit them where it hurts the most: their wallets.

... it has always seemed a source of deep humiliation that Pals worked on settlements, the source of their woes... ... kol-ha-kavod that the WB Pals have now come to their senses, even if belatedly... ... had the Gazan Pals acted accordingly, there would never have been that make-believe flowering of settlements in Gaza, that eventuallly led to such painful disengagement and removal...

I imagine that will be the response of the average Palestinian employed in the settlements.

I will take Jewish workers or foreign, non-Arab workers any day. We cannot support our enemies in any manner. Let them eat their qassams.

This seems like a perfectly reasonable. After all, I could only imagine how my government would react if the Canadians started to build settlements on our side of the border.