Palestinians angered by settlers' road plans

[Resistance]

I'd be angered too if racist freaks driven by religious fanaticism were digging up my backyard to build a road

http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/reuters08-01-082114.asp?reg=MIDEAST

ARTAS, West Bank, Aug. 1 — Palestinian farmer Khalil Khalawi could hardly contain his agitation on Friday as he surveyed the freshly dug earth and stones at the bottom of his fields on a rocky West Bank hillside.

Armed Jewish settlers have quietly started digging a road that cuts around the hills of Bethlehem, despite being forced to stop at least once this week by the Israeli army.
Palestinians fear they want to link two settlements on either side of the city, Efrat and the Jerusalem suburb of Har Homa, as a territorial fait accompli before a Palestinian state is established in the West Bank and Gaza Strip under a U.S.-backed ''road map'' to peace.

''It will be our end if they build this road. We'll be cut off,'' Khalawi said in his fields near the village of Artas, just outside Bethlehem, where he grows grapes, olives and vegetables.

Officials at Efrat were not immediately available for comment. But Shaul Goldstein, deputy chairman of the YESHA council which represents settlers, said Jews had a God-given right to build on biblical land in the West Bank.
''This land is ours. It is part of the history of the land of Israel. Our settlements are legitimate. We have a right to live in this land according to our birthright,'' he said.

[Resistance]

1. notice how

these religious psychopaths don't even appeal to any sort of morality or justice - they openly admit they are stealing land from native Arabs because they think God gave it to them.

And the US continues to backs the entire thing, unconditionally.

[damnraddem]

2. God gave them the right to steal land, destroy economies, and murder ...

those who try to stop them. These scum are as bad as any Crusaders or Conquistadors. They need to be stopped and their settlements dismantled before they involve the entire world in war.

[newyorican]

3. hmm...

Appeasing militaristic expansionism....where have I heard that before?

[tinnypriv]

4. WTF? Is bypass road 60 not enough?

You can take a jolly jaunt on that route right from Qiryat Arba pretty much all the way to Har Homa (stopping to reload at Efrat, of course).

More to the point, they really need to keep lunatics like Goldstein away from the microphone. You don't want those U.S. citizens to get agitated - after all they're only paying for it. :eyes:

[tinnypriv]

5. Oh yeah: Reuters?

Har Homa is a settlement, not a "suburb". Jackasses.

[jos]

6. Another example of how the "road map" is a joke

All the demands are one-sides, on the Palestinians. The Israelis can continue with expanding the illegal settlements and building roads. It is nothing more than a recipe for more violence.