Showing posts with label Settlements Are 1.1% Of West Bank. Show all posts
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Friday, December 09, 2011

Palestinian Negotiator Saeb Erekat: Israeli Settlements Are Built on 1.1% of the West Bank

Hey, if you can't trust Saeb Erekat--the Palestinian Negotiator--who can you trust?

Israeli Settlements Are Built on 1.1% of the West Bank:"Erekat stated furthermore that despite Israel’s continual policy of “occupation and settlement building,” an aerial photograph provided by European sources shows that settlements have been built on approximately 1.1% of the West Bank, thus legitimizing the Palestinian demand for a withdrawal to borders based on the June 4, 1967 borders."

This comes from Haaretz--and leave it to Haaretz to leave this point to the last paragraph of the article, without comment.

So Evelyn Gordon asks an obvious question: