Palestinians lack strong strategy to face Israeli settlements
Palestinian movements on the diplomatic level have so far done little to stop Israel’s settlement project, which continues to expand unabated.
RAMALLAH, West Bank — On Sept. 16, Haaretz published the Israeli plan to deport Palestinian Bedouins from the E1 area of occupied Jerusalem, and move them to a town that would be named Nuwema Hill, north of Jericho.
Around 12,500 Palestinians are going to be affected by this project, which has stirred the ire of the Palestinians due to the grave repercussions they would have to endure, especially in Jerusalem and its surroundings.
This project comes within a series of Israeli plans for the E1 area, which aims to take over 12,000 acres of land located between Jerusalem and the Dead Sea. This will isolate the city from its surroundings and separate the southern West Bank from the north and center, which is considered to be a nail in the coffin of the two-state solution.
Ahmed Rwaidy, in charge of the Jerusalem file in the Palestinian Authority (PA), told Al-Monitor, “Targeting Bedouins in Jerusalem has political, geographic and demographic dimensions, and aims to empty the land to build settlements.”
