alya писал(а): Тем временем, на территориях израильтяне развивали инфраструктуру, строили дороги,провели электричество (да-да), канализацию, школы, больницы, открыли 6(!) университетов, короче обживали как умели.
Народ с территорий стал ездить на работу в израильские города, денюжку зарабатывал. По современным, привезенным израильтянами технологиям стал землю возделывать, пpодавая овощи в Израиль. Уровень жизни там быстро повышался и уже был на порядки выше, чем у их братьев в Иордании/Сирии/Египте. A Ramalla вообще после Бейрута считался Самым светским арабским городом. Банки, дискотеки и даже спортивные сооружения, столь редкие в арабских странах. Короче зажили лучше. А сытость и благополучие редко живут в одном доме с ненавистью. Я пишу это не со слов ТВ репортажей или газетных статей. Я этих людей ЗНАЮ ЛИЧНО!
Jimmy Carter писал(а): We drove to Ramallah to consult with the leaders of the Central Election Commission and then met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas… He pointed out that the people of Palestine now had few opportunities for gainful employment or for contact with either Israel or the outside world, that the Palestinian economy was in shambles, and that Olmert was threatening to withhold about $55 million per month in taxes and customs receipts that were collected on behalf of the Palestinians… He reminded me that there had been no opportunity for a Palestinian leader to participate in peace talks for the past five years, as the Israelis confiscated more and more land in the West Bank and imposed increasingly severe restrictions on his people… Abbas said that despite the conduct of exemplary democratic elections, the Palestinians had never had an opportunity to forge a viable government. Their economic system had been forced back into the preindustrial age ant their territory broken into ever-smaller fragments… It is obvious that the Palestinians will be left with no territory in which to establish a viable state, but completely enclosed within the barrier and the occupied Jordan River valley.
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One of the vulnerabilities of Israel and a potential cause of violence is the holding of prisoners… International human rights organizations estimate that since 1967 more than 630,000 Palestinians (about 20 percent of the total population) in the occupied territories have been detained at some time by the Israelis… Between the ages of twelve and fourteen, children can be sentenced for a period of up to six months, and after the age of fourteen Palestinian children are tried as adults, a violation of international law. In addition to time in jail, the pretrial periods can be quite lengthy. “Administrative detention” is indefinitely renewable under military regulations. Confessions extracted through torture are admissible in Israeli courts.
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Some showed us the wreckage of their former homes, which had been demolished by Israeli bulldozers and dynamite, with claims by Israel that they had been built too near Israeli settlements, on property needed by the Israeli government, or that some member of the family was a security threat. In assessing these claims, the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem explained that, on average, twelve innocent families lost their homes for every person accused of participation in attacks against Israelis.
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Rosalynn visited the largest hospital in Gaza, and the doctors told her that they had great difficulty providing transportation for critically ill patients. They showed her a row of ambulances that had been contributed by a European nation and said that they couldn’t be used. He claimed that Israeli officials refused to issue license plates because the chassis were twelve inches too long.
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Many Palestinians emphasized that they were deprived of their basic human rights. They could not assemble peacefully, travel without restrictions, or own property without fear of its being confiscated by a multitude of legal ruses.
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Most persistent case of abuse was in Hebron, where the biblical patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are buried. About 450 extremely militant Jews have moved into the heart of the ancient part of the city, protected by several thousand of Israeli troops. Heavily armed, these settlers attempt to drive the Palestinians away from the holy sites… deliberately creating physical confrontations. When this occurs, the troops impose long curfews on the 150,000 Palestinian citizens of Hebron, prohibiting them from leaving their own homes to go to school or shops or to participate in the normal life of an urban community. The Palestinians are convinced that some Israeli political leaders were trying though harassment to force a much broader exodus of Muslims and Christians from the occupied territories.
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Their most anguished complaints were about many thousands of ancient olive trees that were cut down by the Israelis. Access to water was a persistent issue. Each Israeli settler uses five times as much water as a Palestinian neighbour, who must pay four times as much per gallon. They showed us photographs of Israeli swimming pools adjacent to Palestinian villages where drinking water had to by hauled in on tanker trucks and dispensed by the bucketful. Most of the hilltop settlements are on small areas of land, so untreated sewage is discharged into the surrounding fields and villages.
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Teachers and parents maintained that their schools were frequently closed, educators arrested, bookstores padlocked, library books censored, and students left on the streets or at home for extended periods of time without jobs.
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One of their most bitter grievances was that foreign aid from Arab countries and even funds sent by the American government for humanitarian purposes were intercepted by the authorities and used for the benefit of the Israelis, including the construction of settlements in Palestinian communities.
Сейчас от империализма только амбиции остались. С тем , что раньше было не сравнить. Но есть желание это все вернуть взад. Ну и амбиции спать спокойно не дают.