Obama Admin! Consider CUTTING-OFF Israeli-Welfare!!!

[Mr. Shaman]

Hell...they don't even like each-other!!!​

"The problem is, even before Israel invaded Gaza, a growing number of Israelis and Palestinians had concluded that peace between them was no longer possible, that history had passed it by. For peace to have a chance, Israel would have to withdraw from the West Bank, which would then become the Palestinian state.

It’s known as the "two-state" solution. But, while negotiations have been going on for 15 years, hundreds of thousands of Jewish settlers have moved in to occupy the West Bank. Palestinians say they can't have a state with Israeli settlers all over it, which the settlers say is precisely the idea.

Daniella Weiss moved from Israel to the West Bank 33 years ago. She has been the mayor of a large settlement.

"I think that settlements prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state in the land of Israel. This is the goal. And this is the reality," Weiss told 60 Minutes correspondent Bob Simon.

One house for example is the highest house on the highest hill overlooking the town of Nablus. 60 Minutes learned that Israeli soldiers often corral the four families who live there and take over the house to monitor movement down below.

Simon and the 60 Minutes team went to an apartment owned by a Mr. Nassif. That morning, Israeli soldiers had apparently entered the apartment, without notice, and remained there when Simon knocked on the door.

"We cannot speak with you, there are soldiers," Nassif told Simon. "We are in prison here."

Asked what was happening, Nassif says, "They are keeping us here and the soldiers are upstairs, we cannot move. We cannot speak with you."

Nassif said he couldn't leave the house and didn't know how long he'd have to stay in place. Asked if they were paying him any money, he told Simon, "You are kidding?"

Abdul Nassif, a bank manager said he had to get to his bank to open the safe, but one of the soldiers wouldn't let him go. He told 60 Minutes whenever the soldiers come they wake everybody up, and herd them into a kitchen for hours while soldiers sleep in their beds. They can't leave or use the phone, or let 60 Minutes in.

Despite the army tearing down a structure, the settlers began rebuilding it on the same day. "We will have the upper hand," Weiss vowed.

"But the army will tear it down again," Simon pointed out.

"And we will rebuild it," Weiss said. "The experience shows that the world belongs to those who are stubborn, and we are very stubborn."

Stubborn, she says, because they were ordered to populate this land by no less an authority than God. "This is the mission of our generation and I want to emphasis the most important point is to this," Weiss said, picking up some soil, "to hold strong to the soil of the Holy Land."

 

[Andy]

Interesting. If I'm reading this right, the Israeli Soldiers are bull dozing Jewish settlements in Gaza, which Israel captured and owns from the prior war. Nevertheless, the Jew immigrants are rebuilding the settlements faster than the military is knocking them down. I admire determination like that.

Here they are in the middle of hostile people, being attacked by Arabs, and bulldozed by their own government, yet are survivors willing to overcome all obstacles to protect the place they call home. This opposed to Americans who cry and squeal when anything happens, and go running to government to fix all their ills.

Also, it seems odd that although the Arab girl claimed there were soldier in the home preventing them from talking to the press, yet she was talked to the press about the soldiers who were stopping them from doing so....

Anyone else think the claim is a bit suspicious? Note: The reporters and photographers never actually saw any soldiers...

...but we know they must have been there because the Arab girl said so, and we all know how incredibly trust worthy people who strap bombs to their children are....