RAMALLAH, Feb 21 (JMCC) Once again, even Americans can not stand up to a small group of settlers, who show - more often than not - that they have the last word on what takes place in the West Bank. This time, a small group of settlers insisted, and succeeded, to squash a plan for building a hospital for Palestinian children at Oush Grab (the Crow's Nest) east of Bethlehem...
This is how it has worked in the territories since 1967. The dynamic was similar in Hebron, Sebastia, and the illegal outposts: the settlers establish facts on the ground, apply pressure, threaten violence, and the IDF and the Israeli government give in. The ones who decided this time to give the IDF another military mission and erect a military outpost that will require protection, infrastructures and supplies, the ones who decided that again Israel would look cruel and inhumane, by preventing the Palestinians even from building a hospital, and the ones who decided it would be the government of Israel that would destroy a project in which its closest friend, the U.S., decided to invest money and energy - are a handful of extremist settlers, who know just how to apply pressure and dictate Israel's policy...
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