It's not security - it's land, stupid!
You [just] can't explain the major elements of the occupation by security.You can't explain 200 settlements by security.
Israel did not go out and build [Malia Domine] for security reasons and they never claimed to.
You can't explain the highway systems.
You can't explain the policy of house demolitions.
You can't explain land expropriation.
You can't explain the closure the way it's done. Most of [it] is internal - within the West Bank and within Gaza - not between them and israel.
And you can't explain the route of the wall by security.
Security simply does not explain these things.
Something else is going on.
That something else is called a LAND-GRAB.
"Everyone has to move, run and grab as many hilltops as they can to enlarge the settlements because everything we take now will stay ours... everything we don't grab will go to them."
--Ariel Sharon, AFP, Nov. 12, 1998
For almost 60 years, israelis have been stealing Palestinian land, demolishing their homes, uprooting their trees and killing their children.
And for as many years, they've been telling Americans that it's for security.
Well, this video - complete with footage of settlers burning down homes and soldiers taking chainsaws to olive trees - ought to convince you once and for all that israelis are NEITHER interested in peace, NOR are they doing any of this for security.
israelis want LAND.
israelis want WATER.
israelis want it ALL.
And they'll STOP AT NOTHING to get it.
Yeah, let's get real for a second. If one of these bastards ever tried to chop off one of my olive trees, I'd grab his freakin' chainsaw and chop his freakin' head off. Olive trees are sacred, and no less precious than these people's very lives, who depend on them to live. Now, I know exactly who oughta have their little "trees" chopped off. And you can CHOP THAT !
All the way from the East bank of the Nile to the West bank of the Euphrates.
"By the rivers of Babylon, where we sat down..."
Bony M