Recently, Israel has made a very controversial decision to
resume settlement building in the El Zone. Some agree with this decision and
some disagree. Personally, I disagree with the decision to resume settlement building
in the El Zone. Israel plans to build 3,000 housing units in East Jerusalem and
the West Bank, many of them in the large West Bank settlement of Ma'ale Adumim.
Long-term plans call for the eventual construction of 5,000 units in the area
meaning that the decision would make peace negotiations more difficult which is
frowned upon by certain diplomats and in my opinion is a big "NO". As
well, the settlements are illegal and would slice the West Bank in two and cut
it off from the proposed Palestinian capitol of East Jerusalem. Also, a home of
a Palestinian family was torn down because it was blocking the construction of
Israel building the settlement in the El Zone. All of this conflict is because
of settlement building. In my opinion it is defiantly not worth all the hassle
and controversy.
This again is a sign that things in the middle east are unstable. Israel shouldn't just claim land when people who they are currently enemies with are living there. This further fuels the hatred between the two of them and at this rate we could be seeing a full fledged war and that's the last thing the middle east needs with the way Syria is right now. I just really would hope the countries in the middle east would just lay low for a while and put their differences aside until Syria settles down.
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