{"id":103006,"date":"2017-12-04T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=103006"},"modified":"2017-12-03T13:18:09","modified_gmt":"2017-12-03T13:18:09","slug":"israels-settlements-50-years-of-land-theft-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/12\/israels-settlements-50-years-of-land-theft-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel&#8217;s Settlements: 50 Years of Land Theft Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>Fifty years ago, the UN Security Council passed Resolution 242. The resolution is used as a framework for implementing the two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. But since its adoption in 1967, Israel has violated the resolution by entrenching its occupation of the Palestinian territories through illegal settlements.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><em>600,000 &#8211; 750,000 Illegal settlers in the occupied Palestinian territories<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>150 Settlements<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>119 Outposts<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>42% of West Bank land controlled by settlements<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>86% of East Jerusalem for Israeli state and settler use<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>The majority of settlements have been built either entirely or partially on private Palestinian property.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>****************************<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/palestine-israel-wall.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-103007\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/palestine-israel-wall-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/palestine-israel-wall-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/palestine-israel-wall-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/palestine-israel-wall-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/palestine-israel-wall.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>21 Nov 2017 &#8211; <\/em>To the casual visitor or tourist driving through the occupied West Bank or Jerusalem, Israeli settlements may appear as just another set of houses on a hill.<\/p>\n<p>The middle-class suburban style townhouses, built fast and locked in a grid of uniform units, stand like fortified compounds, in direct contrast to the sprawling limestone Palestinian homes below.<\/p>\n<p>Settlement homes, mostly constructed of cement with a cosmetic limestone cladding, tend to fashion a similar look: American-style villas topped by red-tiled roofs and surrounded by lush, neatly trimmed green lawns.<\/p>\n<p>The largest settlement, Modi&#8217;in Illit, houses more than 64,000 Israeli Jews in the occupied West Bank. The mega-settlement has its own mayor, as well as schools, shopping malls and medical centres. Some settlements even have their own universities.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_103008\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/partition-un-palestine-israel-map.gif\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-103008\" class=\"wp-image-103008\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/partition-un-palestine-israel-map.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"528\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-103008\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: PalestineRemembered.com<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong>What happened in 1948?<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/interactive.aljazeera.com\/aje\/2017\/50-years-illegal-settlements\/index.html?utm_source=Al+Jazeera+English+Newsletter+%7C+Weekly&amp;utm_campaign=9526c45436-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_13&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_e427298a68-9526c45436-225648289\" >To continue reading and see photos, graphs, statistics, maps please Go to Original \u2013 aljazeera.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifty years ago, the UN Security Council passed Resolution 242. The resolution is used as a framework for implementing the two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. But since its adoption in 1967, Israel has violated the resolution by entrenching its occupation of the Palestinian territories through illegal settlements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":103007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-palestine-israel-gaza-genocide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}