Yesterday one of CNNs headlines was about Israeli soldiers killing a Palestinian. It was part of a larger story aimed at promoting the “Palestinian” narrative of events.
My daughter lives near the site of the incident. Here’s what she said really happened.
The story starts about six months ago. That’s when a group of religious extremists asked for permission to build a new “outpost” very near her village. Neither her village nor the Israeli government approved. Extremist groups like this give the rest of us living over that imaginary green line a bad name. new “settlers” My daughter said they brought in a few pre-fabricated trailer homes and even tried to tap into the existing water and electricity lines (at the expense of the residents). There was even an attempt to register some children from the new group in the locally ru child care. (That seems a little far-fetched. What orthodox parent would want his child attending a non-religious kindergarten?). The new “settlers now have engaged in “confrontations” with local Bedouins (who have lived peacefully alongside the older residents for over 40 years!). That made the news for CNN. My daughter and her neighbors are furious with the “settlers”, bit CNN tars them all with the same brush.
Just a little more historical background; That green line was an armistice cease-fire line agreed between Israel and Jordan in 1949, with the stipulation that a permanent border would be determined through direct negotiations between the parties. When Jordan abandoned the West Bank it had previously annexed, the obligations were inherited by the Palestinian Authority (created under the Oslo Accords, and intended to lead to an independent Palestinian state, agreed to by Israel). The direct negotiations’ for achieving this are stalled because the Palestinian Authority insists upon returning “Arab Refugees” to their 1949 homes, wherever they may have been (and other claims that Israel rejects as being outside the framework of defining permanent borders). The Arab claims can be succinctly summed up in the currently popular slogan “Palestine will be free, from the river to the sea”.
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